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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal by Jen Waite: Conversation Starters
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing is a memoir by Jen Waite. It is a story of betrayal, manipulation, and moving on. When Waite is faced with the reality that her husband, and father of their infant daughter, is not who she thought she was, she must find a way to put her life back together. Waite retells every scene where she was being lied to and manipulated...
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi: Conversation Starters
Maame gives birth on the same night that she escapes her tribal captors, leaving her baby daughter behind. Effia grows up not knowing about her bloodline and is forced to marry an Englishman who manages the slave trade in the Gold Coast. Meanwhile, Maame marries another man from her own village and bears another daughter. Like her first daughter Effia, her second daughter Esi is separated from her through...
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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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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari: Conversation Starters
Praised for his innovative view of current issues, Yuval Noah Harari continues to use his probing intellect to understand the future state of the planet and of humanity in his latest book. Can we still demand privacy rights in the future? The nature of work and the workforce will be altered in the advent of robotics-are we prepared for this reality? Terrorism will evolve...
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A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas: Conversation Starters
This 2018, Sarah J. Maas releases A Court of Frost and Starlight, a companion tale to the New York Times bestselling series A Court of Thorns and Roses. Set several months after the conclusion of A Court of Wings and Ruin, Feyre, Rhys and their companions are rebuilding Velaris and the Night Court. Winter Solstice is coming. It is Feyre's first as High Lady. In spite of the festive...
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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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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...
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Expanded Edition: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment by Steve Harvey: Conversation Starters
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment is a #1 New York Times bestselling book from television host and new relationship guru, Steve Harvey. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is an indispensable self-help book that...
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All We Ever Wanted: A Novel by Emily Giffin: Conversation Starters
Nina takes pride that she and her wealthy husband raised their son Finch as a good man. Having grown up in a small town without the affluence she now enjoys, she is living the life others could only dream of. But when her Princeton-bound son gets embroiled in a photo incident showing a semi-nude high school girl, she suddenly gives her perfect life a reassessment. Is she truly married...
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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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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Conversation Starters
The Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb released his bestselling book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder in 2012. This book is part of the Incerto series. Taleb investigates the phenomena of uncertainty, luck, opacity, human error, probability, risk and decision-making in a world we humans barely understand. Human bones get stronger when subjected...
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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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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou: Conversation Starters
Elizabeth Holmes is touted as the next Steve Jobs of Silicon Valley, a fast-rising entrepreneur who convinced big-name investors to support her company Theranos valued at $9 billion. The youngest female CEO who has reached billionaire status, nothing could stop her. But something is wrong with her much-vaunted product and Wall Street Journal reporter...
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston Conversation Starters
Zora Neale Hurston, the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, tells another compelling story of the horror and injustices of slavery. Hurston opens our eyes to the story of Cudjo in Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo. Cudjo is one of the men aboard the last Black Cargo ship to arrive in the United States. He is one of the last-known...
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Beartown: A Novel by Fredrik Backman: Conversation Starters
Beartown is a town just about to be condemned to insignificance. Its economy has been stagnant for years and people are slowly leaving for better opportunities outside. It has one more chance to redeem itself though. Its junior hockey team has made it to the semifinals. Victory for the team means more jobs and economic opportunities for the town. But Kevin, its 17-year-old star player is...
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Believe It: My Journey of Success, Failure, and Overcoming the Odds by Nick Foles: Conversation Starters
Nick Foles was born into his identity as a football player when his father placed a football in his small hands when he was a baby. He is known, among many other names, as a backup, a word that he does not like. He likes playing supporting roles in his teams but being called backup still does not agree with him. But it was Foles the backup player...
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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball by Sam Anderson: Conversation Starters
Oklahoma City is a place "born from chaos" and one of the "great weirdo cities of the world." Oklahoma's basketball team Thunder is likened to the city's wild ambition and energy. Author Sam Anderson mixes historical writing with sports journalism, urban tales and studies, memoirs of idiosyncratic personalities,...
18) Summary of Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance
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Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope by Wendy Holden: Conversation Starters
Born Survivors, the latest book from author Wendy Holden, takes place in World War II. Anka, Priska, and Rachel were three Jewish women during The Holocaust. The three women and their husbands were taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Their husbands were killed right away. The three women, who were pregnant,...
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Born Trump: Inside America's First Family by Emily Jane Fox: Conversation Starters
Donald J. Trump is a billionaire businessman who is now America's incumbent president. According to Vanity Fair writer Emily Jane Fox, to truly know the man who is now the forty-fifth president of the United States, you must know his five children and son-in-law. Their stories provide the keys that unlock the mystery behind the man. In her book Born Trump, Fox shares...
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Bring Me Back: A Novel by B. A. Paris: Conversation Starters
Ten years ago, Layla and Finn went on vacation. During a stop at a service station, Layla went missing, never to be seen again. Now, Finn is engaged to her sister, Ellen. They came close because of their shared pain over Layla's disappearance and now they want to be together. But Finn suspects there is more to Ellen that what meets the eye, and, after he starts receiving strange messages...
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