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​The Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons From the World's Happiest People by Dan Buettner | Book Summary | Readtrepreneur (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book, but an unofficial summary.) If you know a recipe for happiness existed, would you read it? As the author himself described it,...

How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky | Conversation Starters The death of democracy is heralded by demagogues. It happens when people don’t expect it. But could this happen in America where democracy is at its strongest? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have strong...

​A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn | Book Summary | Readtrepreneur (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book but an unofficial summary.) What's real, what's fake? Who's to be blamed? Who's the hero and who's the victim? Have you ever wondered how USA was built from the...

The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations by John McCain | Conversation Starters In his latest memoir, The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations Senator John McCain contemplates his life, his career and his connection...

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...

ABOUT THE BOOK “If I were to distill one main lesson from the research described in this book, it is that we are pawns in a game whose forces we largely fail to comprehend.” Dan Ariely’s book Predictably Irrational introduces the public to a new economic discipline that punches...

ABOUT THE BOOK I should be grateful that I had a ringside seat to the monstrous scenario Ted Bundy acted out as...the “glamour boy of homicide”... I am not grateful. I would rather I’d never had a book of my own, much less twenty-nine and that Ted’s victims had lived...If only I had...

This is a Summary of the New York Times Bestseller of F*ck Feelings One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems | Summary The only self-help book you’ll ever need, from a psychiatrist and his comedy writer daughter, who will help you put aside your unrealistic...

ABOUT THE BOOK The history of the United States has been described at various times as exceptionally noble, exceptionally democratic and exceptionally bloody. Modern historians have moved to reconcile these opposing factors in U.S. History, triggering a wholesale re-examination of American...

ABOUT THE BOOK First Things First by Stephen R Covey is New York Times Bestseller time management guide developed using Covey's principles of value-driven decision making originally set forth in the blockbuster The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The title of the book comes from the...

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston | Digest & Review The Hot Zone is a novel written by Richard Preston that is based on the outbreak of the Ebola virus in the 1980s. It happened at a medical research facility that housed monkeys in Reston, Virginia. Author Richard Preston also writes about...

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking | Book Summary | Readtrepreneur (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book, but an unofficial summary.) Time is an extremely complex subject that has given birth to countless interesting questions and Stephen Hawkings answers a lot of them. A Brief...

**The Sandcastle Girls: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian | 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...

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