LITERARY IGNITION
                                       firing astonishment
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OLIVE, AGAIN by Elizabeth Strout SUMMARY ARRIVED Jack Kennison drives to Portland, Maine to buy groceries in order to avoid running into...

GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell SUMMARY It is the spring of 1861. Scarlett O’Hara, a pretty Southern belle, lives on Tara, a...

BIRD BOX by Josh Malerman SUMMARY Josh Malerman's novel "Bird Box" begins with Malorie inspecting her stomach. She and her sister Shannon...

MEMOIRS OF GEISHA by Arthur Golden SUMMARY In 1929, the nine-year-old Chiyo Sakamoto lives with her ailing mother, emotionally withdrawn...

THE WATER DANCER by Ta-Nehesi Coates SUMMARY In Part I, Hiram is a slave on the estate of Lockless in Virgina. He has a power called...

CONTEMPORARY AND POPULAR EMERGENT LITERATURE This course focuses on critical issues in contemporary and popular emergent world literature...

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by: Agatha Christie SUMMARY Eight people, all strangers to each other, are invited to Indian Island, off the...

THE WALKING DEAD: COMPENDIUM ONE by: Robert Kirkman SUMMARY The story/graphic novel begins with deputy sheriff Rick Grimes and his best...

LITTLE WOMEN by: Louisa May Alcott SUMMARY Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother, Marmee, in...

HARRY POTTER AND SORCERER'S STONE by: J.K. Rowling SUMMARY Mr. Dursley, a well-off Englishman, notices strange happenings on his way to...