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It's About the Gray Area: Michael Grant's "HERO"

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It's About the Choice of Evil: Michael Grant's "VILLAIN"

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It's About Choosing To Become A Monster: Michael Grant's "MONSTER"

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It's About Light and Its Revelations: Michael Grant's "LIGHT"

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It's About Giving It Up To Fear: Michael Grant's "FEAR"

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It's About Giving Yourself a Chance: Ryan Beatty's "Sweet Fortune"

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It's About Exploring the Grace of Ryan Beatty's "Sweet Fortune"

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It's About Bugs, Supernatural Death Coughs, and Murder: Michael Grant's "PLAGUE"

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It's About Deserving Another Chance: Adib Khorram's "Darius the Great Deserves Better"

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It's About Darius' Need For Identity: Adib Khorram's "Darius The Great Is Not Okay"

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It's About Purpose In A Lie: Michael Grant's “LIES"

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It's About Turning 30 and Learning About Curry Baker's "Obsession"

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It's About Starvation and Exhaustion: Michael Grant's "Hunger"

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It's About Many Identities of Queerness and Projection: Zak Salih's "Let's Get Back to the Party"

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It's About Surviving In A New Era: Michael Grant's "Gone"

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"It's About Being A Voice for Change": Michael Scott's "The Enchantress"

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It's About The Benefits of Betrayal: Michael Scott's "The Warlock"

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It's About Making a Sacrifice of Coatlicue: Michael Scott's "The Necromancer"

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It's About The Feminine Mystique: Michael Scott's "The Sorceress"

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It's About A Trip To Frahhnsss: Michael Scott's "The Magician"

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It's About The Purpose of a Name: Michael Scott's "The Alchemyst"

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It's About "The Devil Wears Prada 2"

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It's About Being At The End of My Rope: D.J. MacHale's "The Soldiers of Halla"

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It's About Cosmic Fascism: D.J. MacHale's "Raven Rise"

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It's About Putting Yourself First: D.J. MacHale's "The Pilgrims of Rayne"

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It's About Games, Games, Games!: D.J. MacHale's "The Quillan Games"

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It's About The Privileges of Water: D.J. MacHale's "The Rivers of Zadaa"

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It's About a New World and Bigger Problems: D.J. MacHale's "Black Water"

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It's About Reality Versus Truth: D.J. MacHale's "The Reality Bug"

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It's About What We Can't Change: D.J. MacHale's "The Never War"

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It's About Life, Death, the Universe, and Everything In-Between: Tracy K. Smith's "Life On Mars"

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It's About Life Where You Stand: Tracy K. Smith's "Life On Mars"

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It's About Manufactured Drama: D.J. MacHale's "The Lost City of Faar"

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It's About Conversations on Race: Mashama Bailey and John O. Moriano's "Black, White, and the Grey"

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It's About Holding The Right People Accountable: D.J. MacHale's "The Merchant of Death"

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It's About Keeping A Record of History: Kamala Harris' "107 Days"

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It's About Choosing The Relationship of Your Dreams: Rachel Reid's "The Long Game"

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It's About Getting That Recap on "Heated Rivalry" before "The Long Game"

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It's About The History of a Life: Bob the Drag Queen's "Harriet Tubman: Live In Concert"

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It's About Doing What You Believe Is Right: Rachel Reid's "Role Model"

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It's About Not Letting Your 40s Get In The Way: Rachel Reid's "Common Goal"

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It's About Not Needing Permission To Change Your Life: Rachel Reid's "Tough Guy"

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It's About Getting What You Want In Love: Rachel Reid's "Heated Rivalry"

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It's About Being Gay Still Being Revolutionary: Rachel Reid's "Game Changer"

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It's About Romance At The End of the Year: Nathan Burgoine's "Faux Ho Ho"

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It's A Christmas Special: "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "How The Grinch Stole Christmas"

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It's Surprisingly About Childhood Innocence Again!: E.T.A. Hoffman's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"

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It's About The Difference Between Book and Movie: 1994's "Little Women"

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It's About Womanhood for Girls: Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"

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It's About Me Adopting Kevin McAllister: "Home Alone"

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It's About Corporatizing Christmas: Sara Raasch's "The Nightmare Before Kissmas

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Happy Holidays! Phineas and Ferb's "Christmas Vacation Special"

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It's About The Power of Sacrifice: O' Henry's "The Gift of the Magi"

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It's About Cyborgs and Baseball: Lincoln Michael's "The Body Scout"

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It's About a Life of Choice: Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange"

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It's About Unknowing What You Don't Know: Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness"

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It's About the Spirit of Racism: Rivers Solomon's "An Unkindness of Ghosts"

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It's About Halloween: DCOM's "Halloweentown 2: Kalabar's Revenge"

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It's About The Terror of Man: Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

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It's About "SCREAM"! DUH!

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It's About Historical Tragedies: Stephen Graham Jones' "The Only Good Indians"

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It's About The Pun of Parody: "Scary Movie"

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It's About A Haunting of the Spirit: Toni Morrison's "Beloved"

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It's About Getting a Fourth: Cult Classics' "The Craft"

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It's About Becoming a God: Scott Hawkins' "The Library at Mount Char"

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It's About The Magic of Childhood: DCOM "Halloweentown"

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It's About The Easy Way Out: Agustina Bazterrica's "Tender Is The Flesh"

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It's About Love By No Other Name: Alice Hoffman's "Practical Magic"

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It's About Boyhood Being Disgusting: Justin Torres' "We The Animals"

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It's About The Growing Pains of Adolescence: Jamaica Kincaid's "Annie John"

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It's About The Difference between Eduction and Schooling: John Taylor Gratto's "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling"

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It's About Giving Regrets A Voice: Matt Mendez's "Barely Missing Everything"

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It's About the Purpose of Moving: V.E. Schwab's "A Darker Shade of Magic"

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It's About Getting Up and Starting Over: Nick Burd's "The Vast Fields of Ordinary"

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It's About Traveling Down A Road and Back Again: Alex Sanchez's "Rainbow Road"

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It's About My Birthday: Alex Sanchez's "Rainbow High"

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It's About Reflecting On The Self: Alex Sanchez's "Rainbow Boys"

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It's About Believing In Something: Neil Gaiman and STARZ's "American Gods"

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It's About Me Becoming Into A Physicist: Cixin Liu and Netflix's "The Three-Body Problem"

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It's About Subjugating Women in Every Way: Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"

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It's About Leaving A Mark: Octavia Butler's "Kindred"

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It's About Living Enough to Cry About It: Victor Brombert's "Musings on Mortality"

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It's About Reliving Memories: Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go"

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It's About the Difference Between Looking and Seeing: Jeff Vandermeer's "Annihilation"

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It's About Listening to Nature: Katie Holten's "The Language of Trees"

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It's About Becoming Something Else: Frank Herbert's "Children of Dune"

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It's About Revisiting the Past: Frank Herbert's "Dune Messiah"

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It's About Giving Up A Role: Frank Herbert's "Dune Messiah"

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It's About Following Your Actions: Frank Herbert's "Dune"

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It's About Figuring How To Live: Bryan Washington's "LOT: Stories"

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It's About Communicating Those Feelings: Jay Coles' "Things We Couldn't Say"

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It's About Preparing Humanity: Octavia Butler's "Dawn"

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It's About Retelling Old Stories: Bolu Babalola's "Love in Color"

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It's About Knowing The Names: Faith Harper's "Unf*ck Your Boundaries"

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It's About Doing What's Necessary: Ben Aldridge's "How to be Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable"

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It's About Assuming Control: Pierce Brown's "Red Rising"

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It's About Already Living: Josh Cohen's "How To Live. What To Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature"

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It's About Actually Talking About the Book: Oliver Burkeman's "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals"

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It's About Not Minding What Happens: Oliver Burkeman's "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals"

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It's About Christmas Day!: Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" Part 4

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