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1) Summary of Joy's Simple Food Remedies: Tasty Cures for Whatever's Ailing You: Conversation Starters
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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...
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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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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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Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence by Alex Berenson Conversation Starters
Tell your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence is an eye-opening report from former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson. In this book. Berenson reveals the undeniable link between marijuana use and mental illness. He reveals the epidemic of violence that is caused by drug use. The media has ignored and...
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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...
8) Summary of Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
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Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist: Conversation Starters
A collection of essays revealing Shauna Niequist's deeply moving reflections on very personal issues like motherhood, faith, and marriage, she says these are her sources of support and purpose. But they also become causes of stress and anxiety. She thinks being able to balance these two aspects of her life is a good way...
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DIRTY, LAZY, KETO: Getting Started: How I Lost 140 Pounds by Stephanie Laska: Conversation Starters
Stephanie Laska was a size 26 and weighed almost 300 pounds. Classified as obese III on the BMI scale, she couldn't find clothes that have her size. Seatbelts didn't fit her either. Her diets didn't work and was about to give up dieting altogether when she came across the keto diet. "In my opinion, there are way too many rules and expectations about...
10) Summary of Drive
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink Conversation Starters
The common belief that most people have is that the best motivation for anyone is the carrot-and-stick approach of offering rewards like money. The bestselling author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others Daniel H. Pink says that this is a big mistake. In his bestselling book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,...
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The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony Conversation Starters
The Virtue of Nationalism is written by one of the leading conservative thinkers in our world today — Yoram Hazony. In his book, he argues that the only realistic guard of liberty in today's world in the nationalist order. He says that nationalism is the real issue of our age. Hazony cites the politics behind Donald Trump's "America First" to the rise of the right in European nations...
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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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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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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Conversation Starters
The state called flow is the key to deeply satisfying experiences in life. It is a state of consciousness that creates total involvement, creativity, and full enjoyment. The author explains the conditions for flow to happen. Eight elements are identified.
Csikszentmihalyi is known for his expertise on the autotelic personality,...
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Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller's "Witch Hunt" by Jerome R. Corsi: Conversation Starters
For two months in the latter part of 2018, Corsi faced the investigators who were intent on finding evidence that President Donald Trump is guilty of treason. Corsi writes how he was confined in a conference room without windows with his interviewers grilling him "hours upon hours" to get the information they want. Corsi compares...
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The Home for Unwanted Girls: The heart-wrenching, gripping story of a mother-daughter bond that could not be broken, inspired by true events by Joanna Goodman: Conversation Starters
Fifteen-year-old Maggie is the daughter of a poor French woman and a middle-class Englishman in post-war Quebec. She falls in love with a poor French boy, Gabriel Phenix, who lives in the next farm but her father looks down on the relationship. She becomes pregnant...
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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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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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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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