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Murder and ghosts go hand-in-hand and vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adorned the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This chilling collection of true-crime tales dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day all feature some element of the paranormal. Gathered from across the UK, cases include the discovery of a body by a spiritualist medium, a murder solved by a dream...
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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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From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir by Beck Dorey-Stein: Conversation Starters
In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was looking for a job in DC. She found a post on Craigslist that landed her a job as one of the stenographers in the Oval Office of Barack Obama. Six years later, she writes about her story in her book From the Corner of the Oval Office: One Woman's True Story of Her Accidental Career in the Obama White House. This memoir is a behind-the-scenes...
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The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith: Conversation Starters
The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy" is a memoir by ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the eighth of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald. In her book, she looks back at a time long ago when she and her siblings (including future President John F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy...
5) Summary of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermin
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The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather Mac Donald: Conversation Starters
American universities are in crisis for undermining humanistic values that further cause divisions among its citizens. The ideologies against racism and sexism are promoted on college campuses as professors overlook Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and American history in favor of identity politics and ideology....
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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...
7) Summary of Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking
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Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits by Reese Witherspoon: Conversation Starters
Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon publishes her first book Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits. She invites you into her world in a southern style. She infuses the style she grew up with into her parties and traditions. She loves all...
8) Summary of The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destr
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The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy the Trump Agenda by Jason Chaffetz: Conversation Starters
Former Congressman Jason Chaffetz has written the book The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy the Trump Agenda. This book is set to hit bookshelves on September 18. In this book, he explains how America has ended up with a government system that is...
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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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I Love Capitalism!: An American Story by Ken Langone Conversation Starters
American billionaire co-founder Ken Langone writes his memoir I Love Capitalism! He tells the story of how he reached the American Dream. He came from a hungry kid to a corporate giant whose net worth is beyond his wildest dreams. Ken Lagone is a former director of the New York Stock Exchange and the co-founder of Home Depot. In I Love Capitalism!, Langone says that capitalism...
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Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely by Lysa TerKeurst: Conversation Starters
In the New York Times bestselling book Uninvited, Lysa TerKeurst shares about rejection. She personally struggled with rejection from an incredibly painful childhood when she was abandoned by her father up to an insecure adulthood when she perceived she was being judged by a perfect woman. TerKeurst leans in to explore the truth about rejection...
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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson: Conversation Starters
Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson vividly recounts his experiences with the most notorious motorcycle gang in California — Hell's Angels. Back in the mid-1960s, Thompson lived for almost two years with the controversial Angels. They cycle up and down the California coast, they revel in their clan's anarchic spirit and as their name befits, they raise hell....
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Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL's Guide by Brandon Webb: Conversation Starters
Former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb writes Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL's Guide. In this simple yet powerful book, Webb teams up with writer John David Mann to share the five-step guide in mastering your fear an transforming your life. According to Webb, the key is not to fight fear but to harness it. In this process, fear becomes the secret weapon that brings victory in most dangerous...
14) Summary of Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade Conversation Starters
Boston-based journalist Rachel Slade writes about the fate of the container ship El Faro in her book Into The Raging Sea. This happened on October 1, 2015. Inspite of the vessel's satellite communications, navigation system, and weather forecasting, El Faro got swallowed into the Bermuda Triangle when Hurricane Joaquin's fury...
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The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel Kushner Conversation Starters
From Rachel Kushner, bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba, comes another compelling novel The Mars Room. Kushner tells the story of Romy Hall as she begins her life sentences at California's Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. She was severed from her young son Jackson to be penalized with her second life sentence. Her new home is now with thousands of women...
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee: Conversation Starters
Korean-American writer Min Jin Lee published her bestselling novel Pachinko in 2017. This story follows the life of one Korean family through four generations. Their story begins in the early 1900s with their matriarch Sunja. Sunja was once the prized daughter of their family. They weren't wealthy but they had pride and Sunja's unplanned pregnancy is shameful to them. Sunja became more heartbroken when...
17) 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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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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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...
20) 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...