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1) Summary of Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Po
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Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg: Conversation Starters
Two-time New York Times bestselling author Jonah Goldberg his newest book Suicide of the West: How The Rebirth Of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy. Goldberg makes a case that only once in the last 250,000 years have humans found...
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Murder and ghosts go hand-in-hand and vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adorned the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This chilling collection of true-crime tales dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day all feature some element of the paranormal. Gathered from across the UK, cases include the discovery of a body by a spiritualist medium, a murder solved by a dream...
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A Simple Favor: A Novel by Darcey Bell: Conversation Starters
Stephanie's friend Emily is missing and she is worried. She is doing Emily a favor by looking after her son Nicky, but it has been days and Emily has not shown up. Stephanie thinks she knows everything about her friend but as she starts to uncover secrets, she thinks she could be entirely wrong. Is Emily truly the person she knows? And is Emily's husband Sean a trustworthy husband? Do they...
4) Summary of House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
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House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia by Craig Unger: Conversation Starters
The Trump presidency is the culmination of Russian president Vladimir Putin's secret work. Putin and his oligarchs spent many years burrowing into the foundation of American democracy. The Cold War never really ended but evolved into a different phase. The book reveals the hidden alliance between Americans and the Russian Mafia....
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Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness by Rick Hanson: Conversation Starters
Resilience is one of the most difficult virtues to come by in an ever-changing world. It's vital that your mind will grow strengths like resilience for your well-being to be intact whatever life throws at you. True resilience is not just about surviving terrible conditions. Resilience is one thing you need everyday as you function in your...
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Things That Matter, by Charles Krauthammer, contains the best of Krauthammer's articles that he has written about politics and government. Filled to the brim with wit, intelligence and erudition, readers can finally have all of his works gathered in one book. Included with his articles are his musings on everything from Woody Allen to Halley's Comet to give light comedy amongst his passionate essays.
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A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul: Conversation Starters
First published in 1961, the novel A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul became the first defining work of his career. This story is about a man named Mohun Biswas. He works hard and strives for success but most of the time, he fails. In his forty-six years, Biswas has been fighting hard to achieve freedom and independence. He moves from one residence to another after the death of his...
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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power by Kate Andersen Brower: Conversation Starters
The vice presidency has been described by John Nance Garner as "not worth a bucket of warm piss." For men who have previously occupied powerful political positions before becoming subservient to the president, being vice president is a thankless job. In this book, accounts of how vice presidents have been maneuvering for more important...
9) Summary of No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Devel
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No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel: Conversation Starters
In the New York Times, bestselling book No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Dr. Dan Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson tackle the ultimate parenting challenge. Siegel and Bryson highlight the link between how a parent reacts to misbehavior and...
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When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger: Conversation Starters
When Life Gives You Lululemons is the third sequel in The Devil Wears Prada series by Lauren Weisberger. In When Life Gives You Lululemons, the former senior assistant to Miranda Priestly, Emily Charlton, is the main character. Emily is now working for herself as an image consultant. While Emily has been very successful in this career, she is worried that she is getting too...
11) Summary of Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financia
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Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial MORE by Joe Dominguez: Conversation Starters
Your Money or Your Life was originally published by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin in 1992. Since its original publication, it has been updated for the year 2018, with an added forward by Mr. Money Mustache. Your Money or Your Life teaches people how to change the relationship they currently have with money. Through...
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The Leavers: A Novel by Lisa Ko: Conversation Starters
Eleven-year-old Deming and his mother Polly are reunited after Deming arrives from China where Polly sent him when he was a baby to be cared for by his grandfather. Polly promises Deming they won't be separated again, but one morning, Polly leaves for the nail salon where she works and never comes home. Ten years pass and Deming is now named Daniel Wilkinson. Feeling the pain of abandonment all...
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The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel Kushner Conversation Starters
From Rachel Kushner, bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba, comes another compelling novel The Mars Room. Kushner tells the story of Romy Hall as she begins her life sentences at California's Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. She was severed from her young son Jackson to be penalized with her second life sentence. Her new home is now with thousands of women...
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Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL's Guide by Brandon Webb: Conversation Starters
Former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb writes Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL's Guide. In this simple yet powerful book, Webb teams up with writer John David Mann to share the five-step guide in mastering your fear an transforming your life. According to Webb, the key is not to fight fear but to harness it. In this process, fear becomes the secret weapon that brings victory in most dangerous...
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Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind by Ann Coulter: Conversation Starters
Members of the "Resistance" - professors, politicians, judges, comedians, journalists, "Twitter pundits", Hollywood stars, including the famous Oprah-- are shaking in fear because they think Trump is another Hitler. Conservative writer Anne Coulter says these critics who believe that democracy is in peril are actually the ones who are endangering...
16) Summary of Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst Presiden
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Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson: Conversation Starters
Rick Wilson uses his dark humor and biting analysis to examine the absurdity of American politics under Trump's administration. The author exposes the damage Trump has done to the country, to the conservative movement, and to the Republican Party. Wilson also alerts his own party of the political disaster that leaves...
17) Summary of Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Lo
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Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love by Amir Levine: Conversation Starters
Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine write the breakthrough book on the science of love.
In his book Attached, Levin teams up with psychologist Rachel S.F. Heller to explain the most advanced relationship science to date — the attachment theory and how it can help us find love and sustain it for the long haul....
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee: Conversation Starters
Korean-American writer Min Jin Lee published her bestselling novel Pachinko in 2017. This story follows the life of one Korean family through four generations. Their story begins in the early 1900s with their matriarch Sunja. Sunja was once the prized daughter of their family. They weren't wealthy but they had pride and Sunja's unplanned pregnancy is shameful to them. Sunja became more heartbroken when...
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas: Conversation Starters
This 2018, former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas publishes his book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. This book is a groundbreaking investigation of the collective efforts of global elites to "change the world." According to Giridharadas, these efforts are really stemmed from the desire to preserve the status...
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News of the World by Paulette Jiles Conversation Starters
A Brief Look Inside:
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
bring us beneath the surface of the page
and invite us into the world that lives on.
These questions can be used to create hours of conversation:
Foster...