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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear: Conversation Starters
Learn how to be 1% more day by day. Break unwanted habits and stick to ones that help you become a better person. Your usual failures when adopting new habits will be avoided. You can override your lack of willpower and motivation and develop inner strength and belief in yourself. Learn how to introduce new habits in your life even if you...
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Joy's Simple Food Remedies: Tasty Cures for Whatever's Ailing You by Joy Bauer MS RDN CDN Conversation Starters
Joy Bauer says food basically serves as nourishment. But food also serves as a healing factor. A bowl of chicken soup has been shown in scientific studies to help alleviate cold symptoms. Blueberries can improve brain functions, ginger can remedy body pains, and cocoa powder can help maintain normal blood pressure. This book provides food...
3) Summary of Destined for War Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?: Conversation Starters
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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? by Graham Allison: Conversation Starters
China has arrived as a superpower and America seems to have a hard time grasping this reality. The US and China have to learn the skill to make adjustments to this global power shift. The law of Thucydides's Trap says that "when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, violence is the likeliest result." History shows that this situation...
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures by America Ferrera Conversation Starters
Liza Koshy liked being racially ambiguous. Forever the ethnically mysterious little brown girl. She describes her culturally assorted friends "not as a melting pot but a salad bowl who were "tossed haphazardly together" and created a delicious dish with each culture contributing a "special flavor or texture." Actress Issa Rae tells her story about growing...
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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered by Lysa TerKeurst Conversation Starters
The New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst is revealing her heart in the midst of shattering circumstances. In her new book It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered, TerKeurst shows her readers how they can live with assurance even when...
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Lethal White: A Cormoran Strike Novel by Robert Galbraith: Conversation Starters
The apparently deranged Billy Knight visits detective Cormoran Strike in his office and tells him he saw a child murdered and buried beneath the ground wrapped in a pink blanket. Soon, the minister of culture, Jasper Chiswell, asks Strike's services to look into two men who are blackmailing him but does not want to tell Strike what the blackmail is all about. It turns...
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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan: Conversation Starters
Geopolitics was a central factor in the global politics of the early 20th century but was relegated to the sides when political theorists paid more attention to economics, ideology, and technology. As the world advances into the 21st century, geopolitics will continue to play a major factor in the success of...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom: Conversation Starters
Morrie's name in Hebrew means "my teacher." In college, sportswriter Mitch Albom looked up to Morrie as his mentor and promised to stay in touch after graduation. He went on to become a successful journalist, winning awards and recognition along the way. For the second time, as Morrie comes close to dying, he is once again a mentor to Albom,...
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg: Conversation Starters
A memoir and a manual for policymakers, this book is Mayor Pete Buttigieg's story of his successful efforts to revive a failing Midwest city. He provides insights on how to manage an American city and how this can be applied to the whole country, sharing how he goes about a typical day in a mayor's office. The author tells a beguiling...
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I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt Conversation Starters
The first words that Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank, "the Irishman" Sheeran were "I heard you paint houses." In their language, to paint a house is to murder someone. The painting is done through the blood that will splatter on the floors and walls of a house. In the course of almost five years of recorded interviews...
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Transcription: A Novel Transcription: A Novel by Kate Atkinson: Conversation Starters
In the 1940s, women clandestinely worked to transcribe five thousand recordings every week at the BBC's basement rooms. Juliet Armstrong was one of them. In 1950, when she achieves the position of BBC producer, she sees Godfrey Toby, otherwise known as John Hazeldine, with whom she worked within an operation during the war. Toby pretended to be a Nazi agent and...
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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly: Conversation Starters
Anger is a useful instrument if used consciously and intentionally. It is a signal for the injustice that happens and initiates change. If anger is controlled and belittled by culture and society, it will limit women's power, preventing them from becoming fully human. Author Soraya Chemaly advises women to hold on to their anger instead of letting it go. There are...
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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson: Conversation Starters
Jordan Peterson urges his readers to wake up to a new way of existence and to look back to the past to do this. It is every individual's responsibility to follow the teaching of the old story of rescuing one's dead father from the world of the dead. Not doing this would result in chaos. Mythologies of ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Judea are studied...
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Nine Lives: My time as the MI6's top spy inside al-Qaeda by Aimen Dean Conversation Starters
He is first drawn into religious studies group as a teenager in Saudi Arabia. He soon becomes a member of al-Qaeda and is interviewed by the leader himself, Osama bin Laden himself. In Darunta, he joins the efforts to manufacture of biological and chemical weapons. He meets other top-ranking Islamic militants including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the planner...
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The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy: Conversation Starters
The "Symphony of Swat" was a show bigger than other circuses that ever toured the country. Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy recounts the tour that brought baseball legend Babe Ruth closer to his fans around America. In September 1927, Babe Ruth hit his record-breaking 60th home run and started his three-week barnstorming travels across America. Touring with...
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How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 by Joanna Faber: Conversation Starters
Parents often ask what to do with a kid who won't brush her teeth, who avoids his vegetables, who screams out what she wants. Or how to deal with the kid who goes overeager in exploring the supermarket, who disarranges books in the library, or who treats the baby as a toy doll. Small children are truculent, ferocious, foolhardy,...
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The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right by Max Boot: Conversation Starters
When Trump declared that Mexican immigrants are rapists and that he will be running for president, Max Boot thought he was witnessing America turn into the dystopian story that science fiction wrote about. A historian who has studied the presidencies of respected Republicans like Roosevelt, Lincoln, and Reagan, he couldn't believe how conservatives could support...
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency by Dan Abrams: Conversation Starters
Abraham Lincoln was the lead defense counsel in the trial State of Illinois vs. Peachy Quinn Harrison. Harrison was accused of murder after stabbing and killing Greek Crafton just outside the town of Springfield. The victim was his trainee in his law office while the accused was the son of a dear friend a political supporter. The trial,...
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.by Brené Brown Conversation Starters
It is ironic that society is not investing in the development of hearts and minds of leaders while people are trying to figure out what people can do that machines and artificial intelligence cannot. Brene Brown says human beings have the skills that robots don't have and these are empathy, courage, and connection. How can leaders become more daring...
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Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins: Conversation Starters
David Goggin's childhood was a nightmare and was thus destined for failure. Battling against the odds, he transformed himself into the person he wanted to be through self-discipline, hard work, and mental toughness. He went on to become one of the world's most outstanding endurance athletes, a Navy SEAL, and a U.S. Armed Forces icon. He is "The Fittest (Real)...