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1) Summary of Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Po
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Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg: Conversation Starters
Two-time New York Times bestselling author Jonah Goldberg his newest book Suicide of the West: How The Rebirth Of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy. Goldberg makes a case that only once in the last 250,000 years have humans found...
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Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss: Conversation Starters
The book Never Split The Difference is written by Chris Voss. He is a former international hostage investigator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Prior to joining the FBI, Voss was part of the Kansas City police force. He has witnessed crimes after crimes in the city. After this stint, he began his career in the FBI. His job as a hostage...
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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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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas: Conversation Starters
This 2018, former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas publishes his book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. This book is a groundbreaking investigation of the collective efforts of global elites to "change the world." According to Giridharadas, these efforts are really stemmed from the desire to preserve the status...
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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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Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind by Ann Coulter: Conversation Starters
Members of the "Resistance" - professors, politicians, judges, comedians, journalists, "Twitter pundits", Hollywood stars, including the famous Oprah-- are shaking in fear because they think Trump is another Hitler. Conservative writer Anne Coulter says these critics who believe that democracy is in peril are actually the ones who are endangering...
7) Summary of Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-W
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Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord by Andrew Hogan: Conversation Starters
Former DEA Agent Andrew Hogan and author Douglas Century publish their first book Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most Wanted Drug-Lord. Hogan and his partner Brady were two of the several agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration who caught El Chapo...
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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...
9) Summary of Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Lo
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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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The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics by Salena Zito: Conversation Starters
The swing voters who were key to Donald Trump's unexpected win in the 2016 elections
have been hiding in plain sight. Their votes caused the greatest upset in the recent history of American elections. Often branded as racists and anti-immigrants, these voters cannot be limited to any particular category in education level, income bracket,...
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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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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant: Conversation Starters
Adam Grant, the bestselling author of Originals, gives us a revolutionary look at the reasons why our interactions with others lead to success. Grants talk about how we need to stop focusing on what drives us to success individually, like passion, talent, luck, and hard work, and start paying attention to how we interact with others, our approach to work and...
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The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand: Conversation Starters
The Perfect Couple, the newest novel from "Queen of the Summer Beach Read," Elin Hilderbrand, is the author's first murder mystery novel. In The Perfect Couple, Hilderbrand takes readers back to Nantucket. This time the "Wedding of the Century" will be taking place between the wealthy Benjamin Winbury and Celeste Otis, who worked at the Bronx Zoo. Unfortunately, when a body is discovered...
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Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People by Bob Goff: Conversation Starters
Bob Goff teaches that people who become love are the ones who see beauty in others despite their strangeness, or their creepiness. Every time he starts to shield himself from creepy people by being opinionated, he hears God whispering to him" "Why are you so afraid?" Goff shares how he found friends, how failure taught him lessons,...
15) Summary of How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousn
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan Conversation Starters
New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan writes a brilliant book about his own life-changing psychedelic experiences. How to Change Your Mind: What The New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence is...
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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...
17) Summary of Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst Presiden
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Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson: Conversation Starters
Rick Wilson uses his dark humor and biting analysis to examine the absurdity of American politics under Trump's administration. The author exposes the damage Trump has done to the country, to the conservative movement, and to the Republican Party. Wilson also alerts his own party of the political disaster that leaves...
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Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward: Conversation Starters
President Donald Trump has exhibited paranoia in response to the investigation regarding his suspected collusion with Russia, causing confusion and disarray among White House staff. He is overly suspicious and therefore lacks the focus to attend to his presidential duties. Fear minutely and intimately describes the events and incidents happening between Trump and the White House...
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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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There There: A novel by Tommy Orange: Conversation Starters
There There is the New York Times bestselling book of author Tommy Orange. This groundbreaking book poses the question, "What does it really mean to be an Indian? A native American? American Indian?" There There follows a unique case of teenagers and elders who ask this question in light of the complexity of the modern world. Orange's characters live in the urban Oakland, California. This...
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