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One Hundred Years of Solitude: by Gabriel Garcia Márquez | Conversation Starters
One Hundred Years of Solitude was released by author Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1967. One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered to be a work of magical realism that uses symbolism to represent the history and destruction of Latin American culture. The book follows the fictional Buendia family through numerous generations beginning with the establishment

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The Rosie Effect: A Novel by Graeme Simsion Conversation Starters. A Brief Look Inside:FOLLOWING the enormous success of The Rosie Project comes Graeme Simsion's latest installment in the Don Tillman series, The Rosie Effect. Main characters Don and Rosie Tillman have left their home in Australia and moved to New York City. Don is no longer working as a geneticist and has taken a teaching job. Rosie is studying at Columbia Medical School. Don and...

The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: ANDY WEIR'S THE MARTIAN begins when astronaut Mark Watney finds himself stranded on Mars after an accident with an antenna caused his fellow crew to believe he had died, and they left Mars not knowing that he was still alive. The accident caused his bio-monitor computer to break, and he is left with only The Hab, hydrazine, a generator, and potatoes to keep him alive. Watney,...

The Girls of Atomic City: by Denise Kiernan Conversation Starters. Many people are familiar with the famous image of Rosie the Riveter that circulated throughout the World War II era. In fact, today, Rosie the Riveter has become a bit of an icon for women. However, many people do not know the story of the woman behind the image. Denise Kiernan has set out to tell that story with her biographical novel, The Girls of Atomic City. The book tells the...

A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel by Anne Tyler Conversation Starters. A Spool of Blue Thread features a typical family settled for a couple of generations in a house built by their grandfather. While they appear to be happy and united to outsiders, cracks gradually develop in the unity of the family. As we probe even further, it is shown that the family never had the kind of background people thought. In short, appearances can be deceiving, and families...

The Happiness Project: by Gretchen Rubin Conversation Starters. The idea for her happiness project began after Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany on a city bus. She realized that her life was quickly passing by, so she spent the next year of her life discovering the truth behind the ideas, scientific theories, and pop-culture surrounding the topic of happiness. In her international bestseller, The Happiness Project, Rubin shares with her readers all that...

The Girl You Left Behind: by Jojo Moyes Conversation Starters. In The Girl You Left Behind, the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Me Before You, tells the story of two strong women who lived a century apart. Sophie, whose husband painted her portrait in the early 20th century, lives in France and has to make difficult decisions to ensure her husband's return from World War I. Liv is a young widow who lives in the early 21st century; her husband...

The Invention of Wings: by Sue Monk Kidd Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to bring us beneath the surface of the page and invite us into the world that lives on. These questions can be used to.. Create Hours of Conversation:...

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...

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: by Jonas Jonasson Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to bring us beneath the surface of the page and invite us into the world that lives on. These questions...