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The Nightingale: by Kristin Hannah 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:...
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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...
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Me Before You: by Jojo Moyes 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: • Foster...
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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 of the city of...
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What She Left Behind: by Ellen Marie Wiseman Conversation Starters. The history of mental illness is a dreary and shocking one. Even today we have little understanding of many types of mental illnesses, and some of them have yet to be diagnosed, let alone cured. However, the past of mental asylums in different parts of the world leaves much to be desired. What She Left Behind explores this past in detail, and especially what it meant to be a woman...
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Britt-Marie Was Here: by Fredrik Backman Conversation Starters Limited Time Offer: $3.99 A Brief Look Inside: Britt-Marie Was Here, written by Fredrik Backman, tells the touching story of an elderly woman and the little village of Borg, who are both changed forever by each other. Britt-Marie dislikes messes, is always punctual, and loves to offer "helpful suggestions" to everyone she meets. At the age of sixty-three, Britt-Marie decides it's time...
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The Last Anniversary: by Liane Moriarty Conversation Starters. When Sophie receives a visit from her ex-boyfriend, Thomas, she is rather nervous. But it turns out that she has been left a house in his Aunt Connie's will. Sophie is thrilled because the house was located on Scribble Gum Island, the site of the Baby Munro Mystery. She moves to the island to live in her new home and makes friends with the Doughty family and the residents of the island....
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Circling the Sun: by Paula McLain Conversation Starters. Circling the Sun, the fictional biography of Beryl Markham, showcases life in Africa among the white immigrants, the changing roles for women, and the daring new technological advances made in the world of flying and airplanes. It is also a story about Kenya, horse breeding, and a woman who broke various barriers in her world. Most of all, it is a story about the unrequited love between Beryl...
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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: by Gabrielle Zevin 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...
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"Euphoria explores the love lives and careers of three anthropologists. Nell Stone and Schuyler Fenwick are married. Andrew Bankson meets them on their journey and helps them explore one of the tribes that he knew from his travels. The three become very close and develop a famous anthropological tool together that they call “The Grid.” However, the book ends on a poignant note with themes of death, cultural appropriation, separation, and loneliness....
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Creativity Inc.: by Ed Catmull Conversation Starters. Ed Catmull, President of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, shares his perspective on creativity and business in his first book, Creativity, Inc. This is the first book to show the inner workings of Pixar Animation as well. In this book, Catmull discusses leadership concepts such as The Braintrust, The Ugly Baby and The Hungry Beast, and The Unmade Future. In Catmull's words, Creativity,...
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats: by Jan-Philipp Sendker Conversation Starters. Julia is baffled by her father's mysterious disappearance from his life in New York City-until the day she finds a love letter that he had written to a Burmese woman. Desperate for answers, she puts everything on hold and heads to a small village in Burma looking for this mysterious woman from her father's past. On her journey, Julia learns about her father's secret past,...
33) The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fi
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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...
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Orphan Train: by Christina Baker Kline 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:...
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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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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...
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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,...
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The Secret History: by Donna Tartt Conversation Starters. The Secret History, Donna Tartt's first novel, tells the story of social class, murder, and guilt. Richard, an unhappy young man living in California, relocates to Vermont to study at Hampden College. He hopes to continue his Greek studies. However, the Classics course he wants to take is highly selective; only the most impressive students are able to find their way in. If he is going to enter...
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Conversation Starters. A Brief Look Inside:All the Light We Cannot See, the second novel from Anthony Doerr, takes place during World War II. It tells the story of a young, blind girl living in Paris with her father. The pair must escape as the War nears Paris, but not without taking the precious, and highly sought after, Sea of Flames. Marie-Laure and her father travel to Saint-Malo to live with Uncle...
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Gone Girl, the latest novel from Gillian Flynn, tells a story of lies, manipulation, and revenge. The story follows Nick and Amy, a couple who are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. The pair falls on hard times when they both lose their jobs. They must move from their home in New York City to Nick's hometown of North Carthage, Missouri to live with his mother. Suddenly, on the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy mysteriously...