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About: The book is all about growing up in extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. The novel is published in 1960 by Harper Lee and is widely read in high schools and middle schools in the United States. Despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality, the novel is renowned for its warmth and humour. The title "To Kill A Mocking Bird" refers to a local belief, introduced early in the novel and referred to again later, that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Harper Lee is subtly implying that the townspeople are responsible for killing Tom Robinson, and was doing so was not only unjust and immortal but sinful. Summary: The Story covers a span of 3 years, during which main characters undergo significant changes. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus in the fictitious town Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a small, close-knit town, and every family has its social station depending on where they live, who...

About: A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afgan-American author Khalid Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a "mother-daughter story" in contrast to The Kite Runner, which he considers a "father-son story". Summary: This book is set in Afganistan from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Mariam, a young girl in the 1960s, grows up outside Herat, a small city in Afganistan. Mariam has complicated feelings about her parents: She lives with her spiteful and stubborn mother, Nana; while her father Jalil, a successful businessman, visits Mariam - his only illegitimate child - once a week. Mariam resents her limited place in Jalil's life; she wants to live with him, his 3 wives and her half-siblings in Herat. Mariam walks Herat and finds Jalil's house but he doesn't let her in, so she sleeps on the street. The next Morning, Jalil's chauffeur drives Mar...