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How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger | Conversation Starters When he was a boy, Dr. Michael Greger saw his grandmother recover from an end-stage heart disease. Her doctors could not do anything about her anymore, but when she changed her diet and lifestyle as a last recourse, she gained back...

How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 by Joanna Faber | Conversation Starters Parents often ask what to do with a kid who won't brush her teeth, who avoids his vegetables, who screams out what she wants. Or how to deal with the kid who goes...

What Happened by Hillary Clinton | Conversation Starters What Happened is a new memoir from presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In What Happened, Hillary Clinton finally shares with the public her thoughts and emotions during a controversial presidential election that ended in her defeat...

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette nous présente trois livres qui, à leur manière, reflètent une partie d'elle même.

The Boston Girl: by Anita Diamant | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: The Boston Girl is a simple and sweet tale of a Jewish girl who grows up in the early years of the 20th century. The narrative is told through the voice of an 85-year-old woman who is recounting the days of...

Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal by Anthony William | Conversation Starters Thyroid-related diseases are not exactly what doctors think they are. Ailments like Hashimoto’s and Graves are all traced to a malfunctioning thyroid, but according...

Nella letteratura inglese per l’infanzia di epoca vittoriana, si usa il nonsense per suscitare il riso nei piccoli lettori, che sono quasi sempre i figli delle famiglie abbienti. L’eufonia alogica della tradizione orale presente nei nursery rhymes ricompare nei limerick basati sullo schema rigido...

El Misterio de El guardián entre el centeno, de James Morcan y Lance Morcan Descubriendo los misterios que rodean al clásico de J.D. Salinger. “El Misterio de El guardián entre el Centeno saca a la luz los misterios de la famosa novela de 1951 “El guardián entre el Centeno”,...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds...

Acclaimed author Rick Bass decided to thank all of his writing heroes in person, one meal at a time, in this "rich smorgasbord of a memoir . . . a soul-nourishing, road-burning act of tribute" (New York Times Book Review)****. "Exuberant . . . A classic . . . This is a rich bounty...

The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred. Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick...

Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Defense.

In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas...

In a brilliant, nuanced and wholly original collection of essays, the novelist and critic Colm Tóibín explores the relationships of writers to their families and their work. From Jane Austen’s aunts to Tennessee Williams’s mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can...