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The Happiness Project: by Gretchen Rubin | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: 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...

I Am Malala: by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: I Am Malala is the autobiography of Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for education and women’s rights. The book starts with a description of the attack on her life, then goes right back...

Euphoria: by Lily King | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: 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...

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden: by Jonas Jonasson | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden follows the life of Nombeko Mayeki, a young, black girl living in a poor village in South Africa during the apartheid. Nombeko's life ends up...

The Life We Bury: by Allen Eskens | 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...

And the Mountains Echoed: by Khaled Hosseini | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: And the Mountains Echoed is a book about war and its long-term, widely-felt effects. It shows how circumstances can affect the lives of people who are unaware of how their lives and futures...

The Boys in the Boat: by Daniel James Brown | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is an inspiring true story written by Daniel James Brown and published by Penguin in June 2013. The...

A God in Ruins: by Kate Atkinson | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson is the companion novel to her popular book Life After Life. A God in Ruins focuses on Teddy, the little brother of Ursula from Life After Life. In Life After Life, Teddy...

The Aviator's Wife: by Melanie Benjamin | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: 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...

Ordinary Grace: by William Kent Krueger | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: When Frank Drum’s family moves to New Bremen, they have no idea what heartbreak lies in the future for them. In the summer of 1961, the town sees five deaths, one of them being a member of the Drum...

Modern Romance: by Aziz Ansari | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: Romance and dating have come a long way over the years. What was taboo has become the norm and vice versa. Sometimes we feel we have come a long way from the previous generations, but have we? This is...

The Girls of Atomic City: by Denise Kiernan | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: 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....

The Astronaut Wives Club: by Lily Koppel | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: The Astronaut Wives Club, Lily Koppel's latest nonfiction book, tells the stories of the wives of the astronauts who were part of the space program during the space race of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s....

10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse: by JJ Smith | 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....