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Borley Rectory in Essex, built in 1862, should have been an ordinary Victorian clergyman's house. However, just a year after its construction, unexplained footsteps were heard within the house, and from 1900 until it burned down in 1939 numerous paranormal phenomena, including phantom coaches and shattering windows, were observed. In 1929 the house was investigated by the Daily Mail and paranormal researcher Harry Price, and it was he who called it...
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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...
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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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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball by Sam Anderson: Conversation Starters
Oklahoma City is a place "born from chaos" and one of the "great weirdo cities of the world." Oklahoma's basketball team Thunder is likened to the city's wild ambition and energy. Author Sam Anderson mixes historical writing with sports journalism, urban tales and studies, memoirs of idiosyncratic personalities,...
5) Summary of How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousn
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan Conversation Starters
New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan writes a brilliant book about his own life-changing psychedelic experiences. How to Change Your Mind: What The New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence is...
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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant: Conversation Starters
Adam Grant, the bestselling author of Originals, gives us a revolutionary look at the reasons why our interactions with others lead to success. Grants talk about how we need to stop focusing on what drives us to success individually, like passion, talent, luck, and hard work, and start paying attention to how we interact with others, our approach to work and...
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse: Conversation Starters
In November 2012, a fire burned down an abandoned house in Accomack County, Virginia. This turned out to be just the start of a series of fires that threatened the community for five straight months. After 86 fires, lovers Charlie Smith and Tonya Harding were caught as arsonists. Award-winning Washington Post writer Monica Hesse tells the story of their...
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson: Conversation Starters
"Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High" is a communication and self-help book written by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler. In it, the authors explain different techniques on how to remain calm during a conversation and obtain the desired results. The book includes a six-minute technique to prepare...
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The Girl Before: A Novel by JP Delaney: Conversation Starters
One Folgate Street is a beautiful, minimalist house built by its obsessive architect and owner, Edward Monkford. A girl named Emma used to live in the house, but she is now dead. Jane now lives in the same house and is attracted to Edward, but discovers that she and Emma are physically identical, and the girl before was similarly involved with Edward. Jane suspects there are secrets hidden...
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News of the World by Paulette Jiles 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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St Albans is a city steeped in history, a place of former martyrs, Roman legions, battles, bloodshed... and ghosts. Here the paranormal history of this remarkable area is brought vividly to life in the first dedicated guide to its unique haunted heritage that presents true encounters with the world of the strange and the unseen. Paranormal historian Paul Adams opens case files both ancient and modern to compile a chilling collection of supernatural...
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The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump by Gregg Jarrett: Conversation Starters
In The Russia Hoax, Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals the real story behind the 2016 election. There were state collaborators Barack Obama's Justice Department and FBI authorities that worked improperly to help elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump. Their plans failed and these same people now pursue false...
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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham: Conversation StartersBenjamin Graham is considered the twentieth century's greatest investment guru, having inspired many investors worldwide on the proper way to financial wisdom. His student, the financial genius Warren Buffet, says that Graham's principles "remain sound...and better understood in the wake of financial storms that demolished flimsier intellectual...
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All We Ever Wanted: A Novel by Emily Giffin: Conversation Starters
Nina takes pride that she and her wealthy husband raised their son Finch as a good man. Having grown up in a small town without the affluence she now enjoys, she is living the life others could only dream of. But when her Princeton-bound son gets embroiled in a photo incident showing a semi-nude high school girl, she suddenly gives her perfect life a reassessment. Is she truly married...
15) Summary of House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
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House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia by Craig Unger: Conversation Starters
The Trump presidency is the culmination of Russian president Vladimir Putin's secret work. Putin and his oligarchs spent many years burrowing into the foundation of American democracy. The Cold War never really ended but evolved into a different phase. The book reveals the hidden alliance between Americans and the Russian Mafia....
16) Summary of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Gen
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff: Conversation Starters
Campuses are now troubled because of three terrible ideas: 1) What doesn't kill you makes you weaker; 2) Always trust your feelings; and 3) Life is a battle between good people and evil people. These ideas are woven into the way the youth are raised through childhood and how they are educated. This...
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han: Conversation Starters
Without her knowledge, Lara Jean Song Covey's love letters get sent to the five boys she likes. She has long kept these letters in a box under her bed, confident that only she knows about these letters' existence. But the letters are out now and she finds herself in an embarrassing yet exciting situation. With sister Margot off to Scotland for college, Lara Jean's relations with...
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Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence by James R. Clapper: Conversation Starters
In Facts and Fears, James R. Clapper uncovers the details about his work as a White House intelligence adviser, from the dangers of cyber attacks to the truth about Russia's part in the election of President Trump to his own relationships with President Obama and the Congress. He recounts his efforts to debunk the idea that our private lives are being...
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A Simple Favor: A Novel by Darcey Bell: Conversation Starters
Stephanie's friend Emily is missing and she is worried. She is doing Emily a favor by looking after her son Nicky, but it has been days and Emily has not shown up. Stephanie thinks she knows everything about her friend but as she starts to uncover secrets, she thinks she could be entirely wrong. Is Emily truly the person she knows? And is Emily's husband Sean a trustworthy husband? Do they...
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The Leavers: A Novel by Lisa Ko: Conversation Starters
Eleven-year-old Deming and his mother Polly are reunited after Deming arrives from China where Polly sent him when he was a baby to be cared for by his grandfather. Polly promises Deming they won't be separated again, but one morning, Polly leaves for the nail salon where she works and never comes home. Ten years pass and Deming is now named Daniel Wilkinson. Feeling the pain of abandonment all...