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Summary and Analysis of Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment

Summary and Analysis of Alexander Hamilton

Summary and Analysis of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

Summary and Analysis of The Alchemist

Summary and Analysis of The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

Summary and Analysis of The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Summary and Analysis of Fatal Vision

Summary and Analysis of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

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Summary and Analysis of Slaughterhouse-Five

Summary and Analysis of The Underground Railroad

Summary and Analysis of Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three

Summary and Analysis of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Summary and Analysis of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Summary and Analysis of Benjamin Franklin

Summary and Analysis of Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

Summary and Analysis of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Summary and Analysis of Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History

Summary and Analysis of Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Summary and Analysis of Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

Summary and Analysis of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Summary and Analysis of Brave New World

Summary and Analysis of It Can't Happen Here

Summary and Analysis of Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

Summary and Analysis of 1984

Summary and Analysis of Thank You for Your Service

Summary and Analysis of Profiles in Courage

Summary and Analysis of First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

Summary and Analysis of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Summary and Analysis of Their Eyes Were Watching God

Summary and Analysis of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

Summary and Analysis of The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

Summary and Analysis of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

Summary and Analysis of The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World

Summary and Analysis of American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

Summary and Analysis of The Great Gatsby

Summary and Analysis of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Summary and Analysis of How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Summary and Analysis of The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

Summary and Analysis of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Summary and Analysis of The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

Summary and Analysis of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Summary and Analysis of The Executioner's Song

Summary and Analysis of Thinking, Fast and Slow

Summary and Analysis of Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal

Summary and Analysis of The Things They Carried

Summary and Analysis of A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Summary and Analysis of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Summary and Analysis of The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Summary and Analysis of Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

Summary and Analysis of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Summary and Analysis of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Summary and Analysis of The Sympathizer

Summary and Analysis of All the Light We Cannot See

Summary and Analysis of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals 1

Summary and Analysis of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

Summary and Analysis of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Summary and Analysis of The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

Summary and Analysis of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World

Summary and Analysis of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

Summary and Analysis of The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

Summary and Analysis of Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

Summary and Analysis of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Summary and Analysis of the Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Summary and Analysis of The Gene: An Intimate History

Summary and Analysis of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Summary and Analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird

Summary and Analysis of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don't

Summary and Analysis of Invisible Man

Summary and Analysis of In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

Summary and Analysis of Beloved

Summary and Analysis of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Summary and Analysis of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Summary and Analysis of Love Warrior: A Memoir

Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning

Summary and Analysis of Escape from Alcatraz: The True Crime Classic

Summary and Analysis of Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

Summary and Analysis of You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Summary and Analysis of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story

Summary and Analysis of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Summary and Analysis of Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

Summary and Analysis of Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

Summary and Analysis of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Summary and Analysis of Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho

Summary and Analysis of Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

Summary and Analysis of Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Summary and Analysis of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Summary and Analysis of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Summary and Analysis of Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

Summary and Analysis of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

Summary and Analysis of Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto

Summary and Analysis of The Alienist

Summary and Analysis of The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World

Summary and Analysis of The Industries of the Future

Summary and Analysis of The Romanovs: 1613–1918

Summary and Analysis of Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

Summary and Analysis of Between the World and Me

Summary and Analysis of The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Summary and Analysis of The Kite Runner

Summary and Analysis of Outliers: The Story of Success

Summary and Analysis of The Wright Brothers

Summary and Analysis of Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial

Summary and Analysis of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Summary and Analysis of Americanah

Summary and Analysis of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Summary and Analysis of The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution

Summary and Analysis of The Handmaid's Tale

Summary and Analysis of The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy

Summary and Analysis of Missoula

Summary and Analysis of The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For?

Summary and Analysis of Night

Summary and Analysis of Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Summary and Analysis of Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery

Summary and Analysis of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Summary and Analysis of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Summary and Analysis of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Summary and Analysis of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Summary and Analysis of The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class

Summary and Analysis of The Case Against Sugar

Summary and Analysis of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Summary and Analysis of Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

Summary and Analysis of Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

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