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You Think It, I'll Say It, by Curtis Sittenfeld's latest book, is a collection of fictional short stories that will entertain all who read them. With humor, intrigue and quick wit, Sittenfeld turns assumptions on relationships, genders, and class on their head. This book has been praised for its quick wit and razor tongue by numerous reviewers.
2) Summary of Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding its Purloined B
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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,...
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Believe It: My Journey of Success, Failure, and Overcoming the Odds by Nick Foles: Conversation Starters
Nick Foles was born into his identity as a football player when his father placed a football in his small hands when he was a baby. He is known, among many other names, as a backup, a word that he does not like. He likes playing supporting roles in his teams but being called backup still does not agree with him. But it was Foles the backup player...
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Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss: Conversation Starters
The book Never Split The Difference is written by Chris Voss. He is a former international hostage investigator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Prior to joining the FBI, Voss was part of the Kansas City police force. He has witnessed crimes after crimes in the city. After this stint, he began his career in the FBI. His job as a hostage...
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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes: Conversation Starters
The World As It Is: A Memoir of The Obama White House is written by former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes. He served in the White House for nearly ten years. He started as a speechwriter, then he became the deputy national security advisor and finally an aide to the President of the United States. In The World As It Is, Rhodes writes the story...
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Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind by Ann Coulter: Conversation Starters
Members of the "Resistance" - professors, politicians, judges, comedians, journalists, "Twitter pundits", Hollywood stars, including the famous Oprah-- are shaking in fear because they think Trump is another Hitler. Conservative writer Anne Coulter says these critics who believe that democracy is in peril are actually the ones who are endangering...
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo: Conversation Starters
The New York Times best-selling book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism explores the reactions that white people have when their personal assumptions about race are challenged. DiAngelo observes that when their reactions are challenged, they maintain racial inequality. DiAngelo is an anti-racist educator...
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim and Kevin Behr: Conversation Starters
IT manager Bill Palmer is tasked to handle the over-budgeted and way delayed Phoenix Project. His company needs the Project to help revive its failing fortunes. He has to fix the Project in 90 days or risk losing it to an external IT team. Fortunately, Erik an IT and management expert comes to Bill's rescue. As Bill struggles...
9) Summary of Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Lo
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Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love by Amir Levine: Conversation Starters
Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine write the breakthrough book on the science of love.
In his book Attached, Levin teams up with psychologist Rachel S.F. Heller to explain the most advanced relationship science to date — the attachment theory and how it can help us find love and sustain it for the long haul....
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