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My Brilliant Friend: by Elena Ferrante | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo live in the same neighborhood and go to the same school, but their paths in life quickly diverge after middle school when Lila drops out. However, they manage to hang on to their...

When I’m Gone by Emily Bleeker | Conversation Starters Luke’s wife Natalie dies of cancer and prearranges that letters mysteriously delivered to his house to help him get over her death. The letters give comfort and encouragement as Luke becomes a solo parent to their three children. But...

The Silent Sisters: 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 Starters is peppered...

The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West by Malcolm W. Nance | Conversation Starters American author Malcolm Nance is a former United States Navy senior petty officer. His bestselling books include Defeating ISIS: Who They Are,...

The Common Good by Robert B. Reich | Conversation Starters Robert B. Reich has worked for three US Presidents and witnessed how cynicism and distrust toward American government, media, banks, corporations, police and religious institutions have steadily grown over the past 50 years. He thinks...

RIVISTE - Isolata su un lontano pianeta un'antica colonia terrestre deve fronteggiare una minaccia che credeva scongiurata per sempre. Milleseicento anni erano passati da quando l'astronave "Vanguard" era atterrata su quel pianeta. La colonia umana che si era insediata aveva dovuto...

Italian Sword&Sorcery. La via italiana all’heroic fantasy è un saggio di Francesco La Manno, curato da Annarita Guarnieri, che ha l’obiettivo di delineare i confini dello sword and sorcery, particolare sottogenere del fantasy nato quasi un secolo or sono dalla penna di Robert E. Howard che...

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith | Conversation Starters The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is the latest book by award-winning Australian author Dominic Smith. Linking three lives, on three continents, over a period of three centuries, a rare Dutch painting from the 17th century...

It’s Not Yet Dark by Simon Fitzmaurice | Conversation Starters It’s Not Yet Dark, a memoir written by Simon Fitzmaurice, who was a young writer and filmmaker when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Given only four years to live, he did not want to accept that death sentence, so...

A collection of essays and reviews on subjects as diverse as The Catcher In The Rye, The Great Philosophers, Brian Clough and Conan the Barbarian. 

Addicted to Outrage: How Thinking Like a Recovering Addict Can Heal the Country by Glenn Beck | Conversation Starters An outrage incident happened in 1856 when South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks beat up Republican Senator Charles Sumner with his gold head cane. Brooks hated Sumner's...

Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker | Conversation Starters Sisters Emma and Cass disappear from home late one night. The police find Emma’s car at a nearby beach, her shoes floating on the water. Signs of Cass are not found. After three years, Cass, now 18, suddenly appears at her mother’s...

10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse: by JJ Smith | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPERthan the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,and the characters and its world still live on.Conversation Starters is peppered...

Enemy of the State by Vince Flynn | Conversation Starters Enemy of the State, by Kyle Mills, is the latest chapter about CIA member, Mitch Rapp. President Alexander gets word that a member of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family is giving money to ISIS. President Alexander enlists the help of Mitch...