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The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappered: by Jonas Jonasson | 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...

The Happiness Project: by Gretchen Rubin | Conversation Starters The idea for her happiness project began after Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany on a city bus. She realized that her life was quickly passing by, so she spent the next year of her life discovering the truth behind the ideas, scientific...

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini | Conversation Starters **Limited Time Offer: $3.99 ($4.99) ** *And the Mountains Echoed *is a book about war and its long-term, widely-felt effects. It shows how circumstances  can affect  the lives of people who are unaware of how their...

Defending Jacob: by William Landay | Conversation Starters Did he, or didn’t he? This is the simple premise for the psychological legal thriller, Defending Jacob.  Jacob is the 14-year-old  son of the district attorney, and he is accused of murdering a classmate. At first, it is hard to...

Orphan Train: by Christina Baker Kline| 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...

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: All the Light We Cannot See, the second novel from Anthony Doerr, takes place during  World War II.  It tells the story of a young, blind girl living in Paris with her father. The pair must escape...

The Rosie Project: by Graeme Simsion | Conversation Starters Graeme Simsion's first fiction novel, The Rosie Project, introduces readers to Don Tillman,  a man who is living with Asperger's Syndrome  in Australia. Don is a genetics professor who is trying to find the perfect woman  through...

Go Set a Watchman: A Novel by Harper Lee | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: HARPER LEE, THE ENDEARED AUTHOR OF TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD,  did not publish another book after her popular novel became a huge success.  Until now, Lee has kept silent and out of the public...

The Girl in the Spider's Web: by David Lagercrantz | 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...

Being Mortal: by Atul Gawande | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: Being Mortal, Atul Gawande's latest medical book, tackles the difficult task of talking about topics of mortality and death. Gawande presents readers with his own experiences observing people in end-of-life...

Radiant Angel: by Nelson DeMille | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: Nelson DeMille continues the John Corey series with a bit of a twist—instead of focusing on Arab terrorists, John Corey is surveilling Russian terrorists in Radiant Angel, the seventh book in the series....

A Man Called Ove: by Fredrik Backman | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: There is a man who has lost all hope in life. He has been brought up to do the right thing but has never been able to show much emotion. After the death of his beloved wife, Ove has no reason to live....

H Is for Hawk: by Helen Macdonald | 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...

Americanah: by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Conversation Starters   A Brief Look Inside: Americanah, speaking of race issues in the United States, through the eyes of the protagonist, Ifemelu. It also shows some insight into the problems of immigrants and racial issues in the United...