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**The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult | 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...

Grant by Ron Chernow | Conversation Starters Grant by Ron Chernow is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's latest biography. Grant is the story of Ulysses S. Grant. Chernow hopes that he will dispel the way Grant is commonly seen – as a loser, a failure, and an alcoholic – through his biography....

The Female Persuasion: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer | Conversation Starters College freshman Greer Kadetsky is sexually assaulted when she attends a party inside campus. Along with other women victims, she attempts to have her assailant punished by school authorities but the school takes the offense...

**The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck | 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...

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon | Conversation Starters Natasha has 24 hours to prevent her and her family’s deportation to Jamaica. Daniel bumps into her several times on his way to a Yale interview in obedience to his Korean parents’ wish for him to take medicine. He thinks the...

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin | 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 Silent Sister: A Novel by Diane Chamberlain | 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...

**1984 by George Orwell | 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...

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A God in Ruins: by Kate Atkinson | Conversation Starters 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 has died in World War II. However,...

**The Burgess Boys: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout | Conversation Starters ** **In the fast-paced city of New York, Jim and Bob Burgess have carved a new world for themselves far from the childhood ghosts created among the Maine countryside. Bob works in Legal Aide, while Jim is an up-and-coming...

Brotherhood in Death by J. D. Robb | 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...

The Wife Between Us: A Novel by Greer Hendricks | Conversation Starters Vanessa, formerly the wife of the rich and handsome Richard, is reduced to serving wealthy women who used to be her friends. She has become a salesgirl at Saks Avenue. Adding insult to injury, her ex is now planning to...

**Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by de Grasse Tyson, Neil | 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...