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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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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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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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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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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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Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara: Conversation Starters
After many years of observing and participating in the legal system, making efforts to improve on it, and prosecuting those who try to defy it, US Attorney Preet Bharara writes a book about his legal work. He asserts that as American citizens, people must work to protect the rule of law. They also need to accept the flaws inherent...
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Sue Johnson: Conversation Starters
Her parents deeply loved each other but could not overcome their differences and eventually got divorced. Then she studied psychology and counseling and eventually made the realization that love and marriage are more about emotional bonding rather than rational bargains.
Hold Me Tight is hailed by the New York Times and Time magazine as a highly effective...
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: Conversation Starters
Santiago grows up in the Andalusian mountains shepherding his flock. One night he dreams of seeing treasures in a far-away place he had never been to, the Egyptian pyramids. He leaves his flock, travels, and meets people who become messengers of spiritual truths. As if by magic, he soon meets an alchemist who becomes his teacher. Santiago tells his teacher that he is afraid that he will suffer,...
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John Gottman: Conversation Starters
A marriage can be saved if both partners remember and cherish their earlier happier days and why they fell in love with each other. But when they both have rewritten their history and communication has become impossible, the marriage will eventually fail. The determining factor in whether wives feel...
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro: Conversation Starters
Author Dani Shapiro discovers that she is not the biological daughter of her father. The life she thought she completely knew crumbled all of a sudden. She had relentlessly examined her life in the four memoirs she has written in the past and is shocked to realize that her life mission to know the truth about herself is still beyond her grasp. This book...
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Mr. Trump's Wild Ride: The Thrills, Chills, Screams, and Occasional Blackouts of an Extraordinary Presidency by Major Garrett: Conversation Starters
Donald Trump's worldview is shaped by TV and his judgment and reactions are reinforced by it. TV is Trump and Trump is TV. In the issues involving tax cuts, judicial appointments, immigration restrictions, and foreign policy, the president has created chaos. He ignores memos and fails to inform his...
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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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The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time by Alex Korb: Conversation Starters
There's nothing wrong with your brain, just like there's nothing wrong with the air in Oklahoma - despite the devastating tornadoes. The depressed person has not damaged goods but the brain is wired differently. It is a result of poor communication between two systems in the brain. A downward spiral is caused by...
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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)...
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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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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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Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans by Ben Shapiro: Conversation Starters
Strategies used by the left to bully conservatives are myriad. They cite race issues, raise issues about class differences, and highlight topics about sexism. They use every possible means to demonize the other side to keep them quiet. Then they act as if such threatening actions are justified because they believe that conservatives are...
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How Bernie Won: Inside the Revolution, That's Taking Back Our Country-and Where We Go from Here by Jeff Weaver: Conversation Starters
Bernie Sanders overcame big challenges and earned the respect and admiration of many when he ran the presidential race. He won the race. He ignited a movement that inspired millions of Americans. His presidential campaign manager explains how the 2016 race showed the conflict that was happening within the Democratic...
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