Paul Adams: 560 books

The Flight Attendant: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian | Conversation Starters How can one night change the course of your life? This is the premise of Chris Bohjalian’s newest suspense novel The Flight Attendant. Bohjalian tells the story of one carefree flight attendant whose lifestyle of adventure...

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley: Conversation Starters Fascism is on the rise and we ought to see the patterns of fascist politics and resist it. Fascist tactics create divisions among people which lead to a weak society that will easily succumb to proposals...

Desolation Mountain: A Novel by William Kent Krueger: Conversation Starters Cork O’Connor has a hunch his family is going to be harmed soon if he does not stop his personal investigations. A plane crashes within the vicinity of Desolation Mountain in Aurora, Minnesota. Former sheriff O’Connor...

Radiant Angel by Nelson DeMille | 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...

No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel: Conversation Starters In the New York Times, bestselling book No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Dr. Dan...

The Clean 20: 20 Foods, 20 Days, Total Transformation by Ian K. Smith | Conversation Starters New York Times bestselling author Dr. Ian K. Smith writes the ultimate guide to clean eating. In The Clean 20, he writes the benefits of clean eating and how to implement it in everyday living. According...

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace: A Novel by Patty Yumi Cottrell | Conversation Starters In “Sorry to Disrupt the Peace”, readers are introduced to an unusual narrator and a touching story of family and grief. The narrator, Helen Moran, takes a trip to Milwaukee after being told that her adoptive...

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade | Conversation Starters Boston-based journalist Rachel Slade writes about the fate of the container ship El Faro in her book Into The Raging Sea. This happened on October 1, 2015. In spite...

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder | Conversation Starters In Timothy Snyder’s book, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” he uses his profession of historian to highlight how American society is turning into one run by the system...

My Absolute Darling: A Novel by Gabriel Tallent | Conversation Starters My Absolute Darling, the debut novel of Gabriel Tallent, is the story of a 14-year-old girl who likes to wander the wilderness in Northern California where she is dealing with a life of social isolation after the death...

The Next Person You Meet in Heaven: The Sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom: Conversation Starters Annie was an eight-year-old girl whose life was saved by Eddie, a mechanic who was working at the amusement park. In this sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven,...

**Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger | 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...

**The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury | 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...

**The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson | 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...