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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean: Conversation Starters
James McGill Buchanan was an economics professor at George Mason University who died in 2013. He was a Nobel Prize winner whose political ideas could very well be the primary cause behind the political divisiveness that the United States is going through. His teachings directed America's billionaires to adopt an agenda that...
2) Summary of How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousn
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan Conversation Starters
New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan writes a brilliant book about his own life-changing psychedelic experiences. How to Change Your Mind: What The New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence is...
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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant: Conversation Starters
Adam Grant, the bestselling author of Originals, gives us a revolutionary look at the reasons why our interactions with others lead to success. Grants talk about how we need to stop focusing on what drives us to success individually, like passion, talent, luck, and hard work, and start paying attention to how we interact with others, our approach to work and...
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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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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...
7) Summary of Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-W
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Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord by Andrew Hogan: Conversation Starters
Former DEA Agent Andrew Hogan and author Douglas Century publish their first book Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most Wanted Drug-Lord. Hogan and his partner Brady were two of the several agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration who caught El Chapo...
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The Girl Before: A Novel by JP Delaney: Conversation Starters
One Folgate Street is a beautiful, minimalist house built by its obsessive architect and owner, Edward Monkford. A girl named Emma used to live in the house, but she is now dead. Jane now lives in the same house and is attracted to Edward, but discovers that she and Emma are physically identical, and the girl before was similarly involved with Edward. Jane suspects there are secrets hidden...
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse: Conversation Starters
In November 2012, a fire burned down an abandoned house in Accomack County, Virginia. This turned out to be just the start of a series of fires that threatened the community for five straight months. After 86 fires, lovers Charlie Smith and Tonya Harding were caught as arsonists. Award-winning Washington Post writer Monica Hesse tells the story of their...
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The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics by Salena Zito: Conversation Starters
The swing voters who were key to Donald Trump's unexpected win in the 2016 elections
have been hiding in plain sight. Their votes caused the greatest upset in the recent history of American elections. Often branded as racists and anti-immigrants, these voters cannot be limited to any particular category in education level, income bracket,...
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Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People by Bob Goff: Conversation Starters
Bob Goff teaches that people who become love are the ones who see beauty in others despite their strangeness, or their creepiness. Every time he starts to shield himself from creepy people by being opinionated, he hears God whispering to him" "Why are you so afraid?" Goff shares how he found friends, how failure taught him lessons,...
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In 1925, the State of Tennessee enacted a law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools, specifically, that man came from apes. The law was immediately challenged by the ACLU and pitted two famous lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, a religious Fundamentalist and one-time presidential candidate, in a bruising contest. The case became famous, known as the Monkey Trial.
In this fictional trial, a high school teacher...
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The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand: Conversation Starters
The Perfect Couple, the newest novel from "Queen of the Summer Beach Read," Elin Hilderbrand, is the author's first murder mystery novel. In The Perfect Couple, Hilderbrand takes readers back to Nantucket. This time the "Wedding of the Century" will be taking place between the wealthy Benjamin Winbury and Celeste Otis, who worked at the Bronx Zoo. Unfortunately, when a body is discovered...
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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...
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St Albans is a city steeped in history, a place of former martyrs, Roman legions, battles, bloodshed... and ghosts. Here the paranormal history of this remarkable area is brought vividly to life in the first dedicated guide to its unique haunted heritage that presents true encounters with the world of the strange and the unseen. Paranormal historian Paul Adams opens case files both ancient and modern to compile a chilling collection of supernatural...
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson: Conversation Starters
"Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High" is a communication and self-help book written by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler. In it, the authors explain different techniques on how to remain calm during a conversation and obtain the desired results. The book includes a six-minute technique to prepare...
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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...
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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...
19) Summary of Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade Conversation Starters
Boston-based journalist Rachel Slade writes about the fate of the container ship El Faro in her book Into The Raging Sea. This happened on October 1, 2015. Inspite of the vessel's satellite communications, navigation system, and weather forecasting, El Faro got swallowed into the Bermuda Triangle when Hurricane Joaquin's fury...
20) Summary of Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding & Correcting Common Dog Problem
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Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding & Correcting Common Dog Problems by Cesar Millan: Conversation Starters
The Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan published his book Cesar's Way in 2007. In this book, Millan helps you to see the world through the eyes of your furry best friend. This book will eliminate your dog's problem behaviors for good. His formula for a happy, contented and balanced dog is simple. In order, they are exercise, discipline,...