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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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Love Rules: How to Find a Real Relationship in a Digital World by Joanna Coles: Conversation Starters
Junk Love — that's how Joanna Coles described the fast, available, convenient, attractive and tasty version of love nowadays. Junk Love leaves you hungry for more and it takes much willpower to resist it. Junk love is widely available nowadays through social media and online dating sites. They are like supermarkets for relationships and just like...
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Enemy of the State by Vince Flynn Conversation Starters
Enemy of the State, by Kyle Mills, is the latest chapter about CIA member, Mitch Rapp. President Alexander gets word that a member of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family is giving money to ISIS. President Alexander enlists the help of Mitch Rapp. Rapp is the only man the president knows he can trust to do this job. However, sending a message to Saudi Arabia will be tricky because of a secret deal...
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown: Conversation Starters
I'm Still Here, Austin Brown's debut is an eye-opening book about how some people in the United States still struggle for acceptance. Brown's book shows her own journey to find self-worth amongst gilded diversity mission statements in various organizations for both her gender and her skin color.
I'm Still Here by Austin Brown has been praised...
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Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desire; The Respect He Desperately Needs by Emerson Eggerichs: Conversation Starters
Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desire; The Respect He Desperately Needs was first published in 2004. In this book, author Dr. Emerson Eggerichs shares the 'single greatest secret to a successful marriage.' Psychological studies confirm it. The Bible has said it long ago. Now, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs cracks the code that makes it...
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This little gem of a book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about ghosts and all things that go bump in the night. Within this volume are such chapters as haunted houses, roads, woods and byways, phantom animals, royal ghosts, poltergeists and haunted objects, while not forgotten are spooky séances and time-slip ghosts, as well as some of the famous ghost-hunters themselves, including Harry...
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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...
28) 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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The Plant Paradox by Dr. Steven Gundry Conversation Starters
The Plant Paradox by Dr. Steven Gundry is a new health and diet book. Dr. Gundry has found that the protein lectin is similar to gluten in that it can do major damage to the body. Lectins are found in a number of foods including wheat, fruits, vegetables, dairy foods, nuts, and beans. The lectins help the plants by protecting them from predators. Humans would also be considered a predator...
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Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback by Newt Gingrich: Conversation Starters
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich writes another New York Times bestselling book entitled Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback. Nobody has the experience and insight that Gingrich has towards the American nation. In 1980, he helped President Ronald Reagan in his campaign to "Make America Great Again." He wrote the Contract...
31) Summary of The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed Wha
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The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone: Conversation Starters
The Food Explorer, Daniel Stone's latest book, goes over the fascinating tale of David Fairchild, the man responsible for bringing thousands of diverse crops to America in the late nineteenth century. Food and plants from all over the world made its way to American soil through this daring man from pomegranates...
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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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Go Set a Watchman: A Novel by Harper Lee: Conversation Starters
Go Set a Watchman is a novel that discusses race in the American context. A grown-up Scout (Jean Louise) returns to her hometown in Alabama and confronts a growing unease about how it has irretrievably changed over the years. A partially disabled father, whom she adored, turns out to be handicapped in more ways than one. When Jean Louise has to confront the fact that all the people she...
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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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Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum: Conversation Starters
In "Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic", author David Frum explains why he believes President Trump is threatening our most valuable institutions, and why even the most demanding media is not acknowledging it. Frum unravels the ways in which Trump and his administration are quietly but steadily —and maybe irrevocably- hurting the principles...
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I Can Only Imagine: A Memoir by Bart Miller: Conversation Starters
I Can Only Imagine: A Memoir, by Bart Millard, shows the pain, spark of faith, redemption, and healing that is behind the biggest Christian song in history. Bart Millard shows readers his life with his previously abusive father and how his father found God in an intimate telling within his memoir. I Can Only Imagine: A Memoir, by Bart Millard, became an instant bestseller the moment...
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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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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton: Conversation Starters
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, Anthony Hinton's debut memoir, tells a tale of a young man being sentenced to death row due to a mistaken identity. Anthony's hope lived on despite the darkness around him, creating a memorable and uplifting moment for all of us to think about. The Sun Does Shine, by Anthony Ray Hinton,...
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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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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....