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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...
22) Summary of Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding its Purloined B
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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,...
23) 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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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber: Conversation Starters
Bullshit jobs are spiritually and morally corrosive and make people extremely unhappy. If people are denied meaningful jobs that enable them to somehow contribute something to the world, they become mad or deeply miserable. They hold jobs that have no real usefulness except to justify careers. These jobs won't be missed if they suddenly disappear in the workplace. How do you deal with...
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Calypso by David Sedaris: Conversation Starters
American comedian and author David Sedaris releases his latest book Calypso. Sedaris writes a new collection of humorous stories on mortality and middle age. Sedaris starts with his purchase of a new beach property in Carolina. His new property is on Carolina coast and he names it his vacation home Sea Section. He had visions of relaxing afternoons with a refreshing drink under the warm Carolina sun....
28) 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,...
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Clock Dance: A Novel by Anne Tyler: Conversation Starters
Clock Dance, the latest book from author Anne Tyler, follows the life of Willa Drake. The story shows snapshots of her life, starting at age 11 with her mother walking out of her life. At the age of 21, Willa is proposed to by her college boyfriend, Derek. By age 41, Willa is a widow as a result of an accident. All of these events are defining moments in Willa's life that lead to her to the...
30) Summary of Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for
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Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer by Margalit Fox: Conversation Starters
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is widely known for his creating the most famous detective in the world. There are volumes of biographies dedicated to him but none has told the remarkable story of how he became a detective on an actual murder case. In Conan Doyle for the Defense,...
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze: Conversation Starters
"Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World" was written by Adam Tooze, an award-winning economic historian. In it, the author deconstructs the economic crisis of 2008 (and the ten years that came after) and explains how this global event directly impacted countries worldwide until today. In America and Europe, the crisis caused governments...
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Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat by Chrissy Teigen: Conversation Starters
Swimsuit model Chrissy Teigen's favorite place in the house is the kitchen, which has to be "completely open and social." Her heart is in the kitchen and thinks it should be the heart of any home. "I am not lying when I tell you I can hang out in the kitchen for twelve hours straight without stopping," she says. And when she is cooking, "I am in the moment....
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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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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Conversation Starters
There is no single way to be a feminist. There are many ways to be one, however, and novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie suggests we explore many ways in how women can be equal to men. Adichie is asked by a friend from their home country of Nigeria on how to raise her baby daughter to become a feminist. Adichie gives her 15 suggestions, which...
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Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party by Dinesh D'Souza: Conversation Starters
The progressive narrative of American history highlights the horrors of racism and the sins of white supremacists. This narrative points to the American South and the Republicans led by Trump as the enemies of the state. Dinesh D'Souza asks the question: What if this narrative is not true at all? What if Americans have been believing...
36) Summary of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
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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...
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Desolation Mountain: A Novel by William Kent Krueger: Conversation Starters
Cork O'Connor has a hunch his family is going to be harmed soon if he does not stop his personal investigations. A plane crashes within the vicinity of Desolation Mountain in Aurora, Minnesota. Former sheriff O'Connor learns that a senator died in the crash, just before he was to attend an important town meeting. O'Connor and his son Stephen sense foul play. Their Native American...
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Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell: Conversation Starters
Thomas Sowell's bestselling book Discrimination and Disparities is his empirical examination of how the economic disparities and other disparities arise. Different outcomes like economic and others have a big difference depending on the individuals, their groups or their nations. Many explanations about the differences have been offered by many scholars and thinkers. Some of them...
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy: Conversation Starters
Dopesick by Beth Macy takes a look at the central point of the opioid crisis in the United States. Opioid addiction has been a struggle for Americans for over twenty years. Macy takes the reader through the history of the opioid addiction crisis. She tells the stories of Americans whose lives have been greatly affected by prescription painkillers....
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones: Conversation Starters
Author Sam Quinones published the book Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic in 2015. Quinones writes about the shocking and explosive account of addiction in America. It was 1929 in Portsmouth, Ohio. A company built a community swimming pool that was the size of a football field. It became the heart of the community. They named it Dreamland....
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