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The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim and Kevin Behr: Conversation Starters
IT manager Bill Palmer is tasked to handle the over-budgeted and way delayed Phoenix Project. His company needs the Project to help revive its failing fortunes. He has to fix the Project in 90 days or risk losing it to an external IT team. Fortunately, Erik an IT and management expert comes to Bill's rescue. As Bill struggles...
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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes: Conversation Starters
The World As It Is: A Memoir of The Obama White House is written by former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes. He served in the White House for nearly ten years. He started as a speechwriter, then he became the deputy national security advisor and finally an aide to the President of the United States. In The World As It Is, Rhodes writes the story...
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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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Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump: Conversation Starters
Before he became President of the United States, Donald Trump was the famed real estate businessman who built the Trump Tower and the Grand Hyatt Hotel, as well as businesses in sports, gaming, and entertainment. In this book, he tells his childhood story as a boy growing up in Jamaica Estates, Queens. It relates how he started in Brooklyn and then moved to Manhattan to build The...
25) Summary of The Plot to Destroy Trump: How the Deep State Fabricated the Russian Dossier to Subvert t
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The Plot to Destroy Trump: How the Deep State Fabricated the Russian Dossier to Subvert the President by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch: Conversation Starters
The Deep State is out to discredit President Donald Trump. Author Theodore Roosevelt Malloch writes about Christopher Steele, the former British agent who gets paid to dig information about the Republicans running for the office of US president. Steele concocted a 30-page report about Trump's business...
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EQ Applied: The Real-World Guide to Emotional Intelligence by Justin Bariso: Conversation Starters
EQ Applied: The Real-World Guide to Emotional Intelligence is the debut book of author Justin Bariso. The whole world now lives in the age of social media. People are plagued with constant distraction. With this comes social media attacks, rampant corruption, among others. A high EQ or emotional intelligence quotient is needed more than ever. Justin...
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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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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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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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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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Being Mortal: by Atul Gawande Conversation Starters Being Mortal, Atul Gawande's latest medical book, tackles the difficult task of talking about topics of mortality and death. Gawande presents readers with his own experiences observing people in end-of-life care. He shows readers what end-of-life care is like in nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living homes, and hospice. He shows readers the downfall of a medical system that is solely focused on...
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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...
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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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The Aviator's Wife: by Melanie Benjamin Conversation Starters. The Aviator's Wife is the fictional biography of Anne Morrow, wife of Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator. Anne's father was a diplomat stationed in Mexico and had invited Charles to spend Christmas with them to further Mexican — American relations. This is when Anne met her future husband. He proposes to her out of the blue, and she accepts. Anne quickly learns how to fly from Charles...
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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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