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The Nightingale: by Kristin Hannah 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:...
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The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel by Fannie Flagg Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: As she approaches her 60th birthday, Sookie seems to have this life thing figured out. She is married with four grown children, and her biggest concern is trying to get her overbearing mother to move into a nursing home. Then one day, Sookie learns a family secret that causes her to rethink her entire existence. Readers go on a journey across...
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And the Mountains Echoed is a book about war and its long-term, widely-felt effects. It shows how circumstances can affect the lives of people who are unaware of how their lives and futures will be shaped by events that take place far away from them. Abdullah and Pari live in a small village in Afghanistan and when food gets scarce, Pari is sold off to a wealthy woman. This leads to a chain of events that affects people in far-flung areas such as...
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Circling the Sun: by Paula McLain Conversation Starters. Circling the Sun, the fictional biography of Beryl Markham, showcases life in Africa among the white immigrants, the changing roles for women, and the daring new technological advances made in the world of flying and airplanes. It is also a story about Kenya, horse breeding, and a woman who broke various barriers in her world. Most of all, it is a story about the unrequited love between Beryl...
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The Fault in Our Stars, written by John Green, is the story of love, heartbreak, illness, loss, and death. It tells the tale of two teenagers, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, who have both been diagnosed with cancer. The two bond over a book called An Imperial Affliction and its open ending. Shortly thereafter, Hazel and Augustus are boarding a plane to visit the book's author in hopes to get an answer to the question, "What happens after...
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Go Set a Watchman: A Novel by Harper Lee Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside:HARPER LEE, THE ENDEARED AUTHOR OF TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, did not publish another book after her popular novel became a huge success. Until now, Lee has kept silent and out of the public eye. It was a surprise to many fans when it was announced that she would release a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird entitled Go Set a Watchman. Her latest installment in the "Mockingbird"...
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The Rosie Project: by Graeme Simsion Conversation Starters. Graeme Simsion's first fiction novel, The Rosie Project, introduces readers to Don Tillman, a man who is living with Asperger's Syndrome in Australia. Don is a genetics professor who is trying to find the perfect woman through The Wife Project — a questionnaire in which potential partners must meet the criteria to be deemed perfect for Don. On his search for the perfect woman, Don is introduced...
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The Last Anniversary: by Liane Moriarty Conversation Starters. When Sophie receives a visit from her ex-boyfriend, Thomas, she is rather nervous. But it turns out that she has been left a house in his Aunt Connie's will. Sophie is thrilled because the house was located on Scribble Gum Island, the site of the Baby Munro Mystery. She moves to the island to live in her new home and makes friends with the Doughty family and the residents of the island....
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats: by Jan-Philipp Sendker Conversation Starters. Julia is baffled by her father's mysterious disappearance from his life in New York City-until the day she finds a love letter that he had written to a Burmese woman. Desperate for answers, she puts everything on hold and heads to a small village in Burma looking for this mysterious woman from her father's past. On her journey, Julia learns about her father's secret past,...
11) The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: A Novel by Jonas Jonasson | Conv
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: by Jonas Jonasson 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...
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A God in Ruins: by Kate Atkinson Conversation Starters. A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson is the companion novel to her popular book Life After Life. A God in Ruins focuses on Teddy, the little brother of Ursula from Life After Life. In Life After Life, Teddy has died in World War II. However, in A God in Ruins, Teddy is still alive after the War with a wife and a daughter. During World War II, Teddy joins the Royal Air Force to escape the monotony...
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The Boston Girl: by Anita Diamant Conversation Starters. The Boston Girl is a simple and sweet tale of a Jewish girl who grows up in the early years of the 20th century. The narrative is told through the voice of an 85-year-old woman who is recounting the days of her youth to her granddaughter. Addie starts her tale with her family that migrated from Russia, and then the story is told of the gradual progress of her life over the years, during which...
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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: by Gabrielle Zevin 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...
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The Girl You Left Behind: by Jojo Moyes Conversation Starters. In The Girl You Left Behind, the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Me Before You, tells the story of two strong women who lived a century apart. Sophie, whose husband painted her portrait in the early 20th century, lives in France and has to make difficult decisions to ensure her husband's return from World War I. Liv is a young widow who lives in the early 21st century; her husband...
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Conversation Starters. A Brief Look Inside:All the Light We Cannot See, the second novel from Anthony Doerr, takes place during World War II. It tells the story of a young, blind girl living in Paris with her father. The pair must escape as the War nears Paris, but not without taking the precious, and highly sought after, Sea of Flames. Marie-Laure and her father travel to Saint-Malo to live with Uncle...
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial Modern Classics) by Harper Lee Conversation Starters. Discussing race from the viewpoint of a white family in the Deep South mired in racial politics, To Kill a Mockingbird is a bold novel that swept through the country for decades since release. The story is told by Scout, a young girl, who sees gradual changes happening around her. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer who takes up the defense of a black man,...
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The Invention of Wings: by Sue Monk Kidd 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:...
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Defending Jacob: by William Landay Conversation Starters. Did he, or didn't he? This is the simple premise for the psychological legal thriller, Defending Jacob. Jacob is the 14-year-old son of the district attorney, and he is accused of murdering a classmate. At first, it is hard to believe that such a thing is possible, but as the story progresses, information spills out about Jacob's past. His parents fight tooth and nail to get him acquitted,...
20) The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: by Jonas Jonasson | Conversation
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The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: by Jonas Jonasson 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...