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August, Slow Thyself Down!
August is one of those months that I wish would just slooooow down. Seriously. While many around the country are back in the school routine, we still are clinging to lazy days in the northeast. On our sites we can see the shift back to “schedules” and “routines” by early August. July is the only month of the year where there are no schools in session, giving it a very light feeling. By August, no matter how old you are, those back-to-school vibes are building. In the back of my head, I can hear the school buses revving up.
I heard from a few readers who have seen the movie adaptation of THE GLASS CASTLE. Woody Harrelson’s performance is getting great marks. If you have seen it, shoot me a note and let me know what you think. An air-conditioned movie theater could be the perfect location for an outing for your book group.
Here’s our latest update…
Fiona Davis’ debut novel, THE DOLLHOUSE, looked at the history of New York City's glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women from the perspective of characters from two different time periods. She does the same with her latest novel, THE ADDRESS, which is this month’s “What Your Book Group Reading?” contest book. Here, the setting shifts to The Dakota, the iconic luxury apartment building in New York City. One hundred years apart, in 1884 and 1985, Sara Smythe and Bailey Camden are both tempted by and struggle against the excess of their respective ages, and take refuge and solace in The Dakota. But what Bailey discovers in its basement could turn everything she thought she knew about her grandfather, famed architect Theodore Camden --- and the woman who killed him --- on its head. The Dakota is one of my favorite New York City buildings; when it was built on 72nd Street, it was in a rural part of the city. I know, imagine that!
Three groups will have the chance to win 12 copies of THE ADDRESS. To enter, please fill out the form on this page by Tuesday, September 12th at noon ET. Be sure to check out the discussion guide, our review on Bookreporter.com, an author Q&A and my Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary. By the way, if you have not read THE DOLLHOUSE, you may want to read that as well. It would be fun for a group to explore both books and talk about Fiona’s style!
In July’s “What’s Your Book Group Reading?” contest, here are the five books mentioned most frequently as titles that our book groups read: HILLBILLY ELEGY: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance, SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult, LILAC GIRLS by Martha Hall Kelly, A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman, and THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware. Later in this newsletter, you can see the Top 15, which includes a book I am just crazy about and have talked about a lot in previous newsletters: BENEATH A SCARLET SKY by Mark Sullivan, which is in the number 7 slot.
One of our readers, Mary Beth, wrote to share her enthusiasm for Mark’s book and THE ALICE NETWORK by Kate Quinn, which was last month’s “What’s Your Book Group Reading?” contest book: “I just finished THE ALICE NETWORK. It is fabulous. Thank you for mentioning it. I had read BENEATH A SCARLET SKY and told my friends about it. Now they are enjoying it. But I can't wait to tell them about THE ALICE NETWORK. I could not put it down. And when I had to put it down, I couldn't stop thinking about it. And to think these stories are true (mostly)!” We love it when our readers react this way to a book!
With this in mind, please answer our poll question: When you read a book that you think would be perfect for your book group’s discussion, what do you do? You can either select one or more of the options we’ve provided, or submit an answer of your own. We’ll share the results of the poll in our first September newsletter. We already know what Mary Beth does!
And as I was writing this newsletter, we got news that BENEATH A SCARLET SKY is being made into a movie starring Tom Holland. It's fun to get news like that. Also, I think I may have failed to share that the movie adaptation of THE NIGHTINGALE is slated to be released in August of next year. There are lots of good things happening with books we love.
We also heard from Karen, whose group won copies of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE for her Stewart Manor Homemakers Book Club: “Wow! Thank you so much! This is wonderful. We will definitely post our thoughts about the book as soon as we can. We really appreciate this opportunity! Thanks again.”
We have four new featured guides to tell you about this month. First up is MRS. FLETCHER, a new novel from Tom Perrotta, who has written such bestsellers as THE LEFTOVERS and LITTLE CHILDREN. Eve Fletcher is a 46-year-old divorcee who one night receives a text message from an anonymous number that says, “U R my MILF!” Months pass, and Eve still can’t stop thinking about that mysterious message. She becomes a frequent visitor of the website MILFateria.com, which features the erotic exploits of ordinary, middle-aged women like herself. Meanwhile, Eve’s son Brendan, who has just started his freshman year in college, learns that his new campus isn’t nearly as welcoming to his hard-partying lifestyle as he had anticipated. Both Eve and Brendan will find themselves involved in morally fraught situations that come to a head one fateful night in November. Click here for the guide and here for our review on Bookreporter.com.
Next up is THE LAST TUDOR, the latest installment in Philippa Gregory’s Plantagenet and Tudor series of novels. Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king’s half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner’s block, where Jane transformed her father’s greedy power-grab into tragic martyrdom. Meanwhile, Jane’s sister, Katherine, faces imprisonment in the Tower when her pregnancy betrays her secret marriage. What will happen when the youngest Grey sister, Mary --- the last Tudor --- defies her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Queen Elizabeth? Be sure to check out the guide, our review on Bookreporter.com, and a Q&A with Philippa.
Our third featured guide is for WATCH ME DISAPPEAR, Janelle Brown’s third family drama following ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING and THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE. It’s been a year since Billie Flanagan went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. Her husband and teenage daughter have been coping with Billie’s death the best they can: Jonathan drinks as he works on a loving memoir about his marriage; Olive grows remote, from both her father and her friends at the all-girls school she attends. But then Olive starts having strange visions of her mother, still alive. Jonathan worries about Olive’s emotional stability, until he starts unearthing secrets from Billie’s past that bring into question everything he thought he understood about his wife. Together, Olive and Jonathan embark on a quest for the truth. Click here for the guide and here for our review on Bookreporter.com.
Finally, we’re featuring the guide for THE MARRIAGE PACT by Michelle Richmond, which poses the intriguing question: How far is too far when it comes to protecting your marriage? Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple, and their life together holds endless possibilities. After receiving an enticing wedding gift from one of Alice’s prominent clients, they decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact. The goal of The Pact seems simple: to keep marriages happy and intact. But the young lovers will soon discover that for adherents to The Pact, membership is for life. And The Pact will go to any lengths to enforce that rule. This gripping psychological thriller is a Bets On pick; see my commentary here, along with the guide, our Bookreporter.com review and our interview with the author.
We’ve updated our New in Paperback and Reading Roundup features for August, and don’t miss out on your chance to win some fabulous hardcovers and audiobooks in our ongoing Word of Mouth and Sounding Off on Audio contests on Bookreporter.com. Also, our Bookreporter.com Summer Reading giveaways will be wrapping up shortly; the last contest will be announced on Thursday, August 24th at noon ET. Scroll further down the newsletter for more details on all of these features and contests.
For those of you who enjoy live events, the Hachette Book Group has announced the details for their annual Book Club Brunch, which this year will be held on Saturday, October 21st from 10am to 3pm at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. The admission is $50, and includes various panel discussions (featuring such authors as Emma Donoghue, Liza Mundy, Betsy Carter and Brendan Mathews), a light lunch, and a tote bag with selected free books. Click here for more info and to purchase your tickets.
The author lineup for the Morristown Festival of Books on October 13th and 14th has been announced. I am going to be moderating two panels on October 14th.
Also, for those planning ahead, I once again will be at the Miami Book Fair the weekend of November 18th and 19th doing a presentation of Hot Book Club titles. The timing for this is still to be locked down; I will keep you posted. For those who think about traveling with their book group for a bookish weekend, this event provides an excellent venue for seeing a number of authors and talking books with other readers.
We’ll be back to you with our next newsletter next week, before we take our end-of-summer annual break.
Read on, and here’s to a great book group discussion.
Carol Fitzgerald ([email protected])
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"What's Your Book Group Reading This Month?" Contest:
Enter to Win 12 Copies of
THE ADDRESS by Fiona Davis for Your Group
Each month, we ask book groups to share the titles they are reading that month and rate them. From all entries, three winners will be selected, and each will win 12 copies of that month’s prize book for their group. Note: To be eligible to win, let us know the title of the book that YOUR book group is CURRENTLY reading, NOT the title we are giving away.
This month's prize book is THE ADDRESS by Fiona Davis, a compelling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota --- New York City’s most famous residence. To enter, please fill out the form on this page by Tuesday, September 12th at noon ET.
THE ADDRESS by Fiona Davis (Historical Fiction)
After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she’d make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is suddenly awash in possibility --- no mean feat for a servant in 1884. The opportunity to move to America, where a person can rise above one’s station. The opportunity to be the female manager of The Dakota, which promises to be the greatest apartment house in the world. And the opportunity to see more of Theo, who understands Sara like no one else...and is living in The Dakota with his wife and three young children.
In 1985, Bailey Camden is desperate for new opportunities. Fresh out of rehab, the former party girl and interior designer is homeless, jobless and penniless. Two generations ago, Bailey’s grandfather was the ward of famed architect Theodore Camden. But the absence of a genetic connection means Bailey won’t see a dime of the Camden family’s substantial estate. Instead, her “cousin” Melinda --- Camden’s biological great-granddaughter --- will inherit almost everything. So when Melinda offers to let Bailey oversee the renovation of her lavish Dakota apartment, Bailey jumps at the chance, despite her dislike of Melinda’s vision. The renovation will take away all the character and history of the apartment Theodore Camden himself lived in...and died in, after suffering multiple stab wounds by a madwoman named Sara Smythe, a former Dakota employee who had previously spent seven months in an insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island.
One hundred years apart, Sara and Bailey are both tempted by and struggle against the golden excess of their respective ages --- for Sara, the opulence of a world ruled by the Astors and Vanderbilts; for Bailey, the free-flowing drinks and cocaine in the nightclubs of New York City --- and take refuge and solace in the Upper West Side’s gilded fortress. But a building with a history as rich --- and often tragic --- as The Dakota’s can’t hold its secrets forever, and what Bailey discovers in its basement could turn everything she thought she knew about Theodore Camden --- and the woman who killed him --- on its head.
- Click here for the reading group guide.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read an interview with Fiona Davis.
- Click here to read Carol's Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary.
Click here to enter the contest.
New Featured Guide: MRS. FLETCHER by Tom Perrotta
MRS. FLETCHER by Tom Perrotta (Fiction)
Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A 46-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the mysterious sender tells Eve, “U R my MILF!” Over the months that follow, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her all-too-placid life --- serving as Executive Director of the local senior center by day and taking a community college course on Gender and Society at night --- Eve can’t curtail her own interest in a porn website called MILFateria.com, which features the erotic exploits of ordinary, middle-aged women like herself. Before long, Eve’s online fixations begin to spill over into real life, revealing new romantic possibilities that threaten to upend her quiet suburban existence.
Meanwhile, miles away at the state college, Eve’s son Brendan --- a jock and aspiring frat boy --- discovers that his new campus isn’t nearly as welcoming to his hard-partying lifestyle as he had imagined. Only a few weeks into his freshman year, Brendan is floundering in a college environment that challenges his white-dude privilege and shames him for his outmoded, chauvinistic ideas of sex. As the New England autumn turns cold, both mother and son find themselves enmeshed in morally fraught situations that come to a head on one fateful November night.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here for the featured guide.
New Featured Guide: THE LAST TUDOR
by Philippa Gregory
THE LAST TUDOR by Philippa Gregory (Historical Fiction)
Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king’s half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner’s block, where Jane transformed her father’s greedy power-grab into tragic martyrdom.
“Learn you to die” was the advice Jane wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and fall in love. But she is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a Tudor son. When Katherine’s pregnancy betrays her secret marriage, she faces imprisonment in the Tower, only yards from her sister’s scaffold.
“Farewell, my sister,” writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth’s suspicious glare. After seeing her sisters defy the queen, Mary is acutely aware of her own danger, but determined to command her own life. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving cousin, Queen Elizabeth?
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read an interview with Philippa Gregory.
Click here for the featured guide.
New Featured Guide: WATCH ME DISAPPEAR
by Janelle Brown
WATCH ME DISAPPEAR by Janelle Brown (Mystery/Thriller)
It’s been a year since Billie Flanagan --- a Berkeley mom with an enviable life --- went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. Her body was never found, just a shattered cell phone and a solitary hiking boot. Her husband and teenage daughter have been coping with Billie’s death the best they can: Jonathan drinks as he works on a loving memoir about his marriage; Olive grows remote, from both her father and her friends at the all-girls school she attends.
But then Olive starts having strange visions of her mother, still alive. Jonathan worries about Olive’s emotional stability, until he starts unearthing secrets from Billie’s past that bring into question everything he thought he understood about his wife. Who was the woman he knew as Billie Flanagan?
Together, Olive and Jonathan embark on a quest for the truth --- about Billie, but also about themselves, learning, in the process, about all the ways that love can distort what we choose to see. Janelle Brown’s insights into the dynamics of intimate relationships will make you question the stories you tell yourself about the people you love, while her nervy storytelling will keep you guessing until the very last page.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here for the featured guide.
New Featured Guide: THE MARRIAGE PACT
by Michelle Richmond
A Bookreporter.com Bets On Title
THE MARRIAGE PACT by Michelle Richmond (Psychological Thriller)
Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known rock band, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is a partner in an up-and-coming psychology practice. Their life together holds endless possibilities. After receiving an enticing wedding gift from one of Alice’s prominent clients, they decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact.
The goal of The Pact seems simple: to keep marriages happy and intact. And most of its rules make sense. Always answer the phone when your spouse calls. Exchange thoughtful gifts monthly. Plan a trip together once per quarter...
Never mention The Pact to anyone.
Alice and Jake are initially seduced by the glamorous parties, the sense of community, their widening social circle of like-minded couples.
And then one of them breaks the rules.
The young lovers are about to discover that for adherents to The Pact, membership, like marriage, is for life. And The Pact will go to any lengths to enforce that rule.
For Jake and Alice, the marriage of their dreams is about to become their worst nightmare.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read our interview with Michelle Richmond.
- Click here to read Carol's Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary.
Click here for the featured guide.
August's Reading Roundup: Top Picks from
Indie Next, LibraryReads, Target and Costco
Each month, we share top book picks from Indie Next and LibraryReads, as well as the Target Book Club title and Pennie's Pick for Costco.
This month's Indie Next titles include HOME FIRE by Kamila Shamsie, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences; Augustus Rose’s THE READYMADE THIEF, a novel of puzzles, conspiracies, secret societies, urban exploration, art history and a singular, indomitable heroine; and THE TALENTED RIBKINS by Ladee Hubbard, a big-hearted debut novel about race, class, politics, and the unique gifts that, while they may cause some problems from time to time, bind a family together.
Library Reads is spotlighting THE BURNING GIRL by Clarie Messud, a bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends; MORNINGSTAR: Growing Up with Books, a memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from beloved and bestselling author Ann Hood; and Gabrielle Zevin’s new book for adults, YOUNG JANE YOUNG, a smart, funny and moving novel about what it means to be a woman of any age.
Click here for the complete roundup.
Our Most Popular Book Group Selections for July’s
"What's Your Book Group Reading This Month?" Contest
Featured Guide: THE LYING GAME by Ruth Ware
A Bookreporter.com Bets On Title
THE LYING GAME by Ruth Ware (Psychological Thriller)
On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister...
The next morning, three women in and around London --- Fatima, Thea and Isabel ---receive the text they had always hoped would NEVER come, from the fourth in their formerly inseparable clique, Kate, that says only, “I need you.”
The four girls were best friends at Salten, a second-rate boarding school set near the cliffs of the English Channel. Each different in their own way, the four became inseparable and were notorious for playing the Lying Game, telling lies at every turn to both fellow boarders and faculty, with varying states of serious and flippant nature that were disturbing enough to ensure that everyone steered clear of them. The myriad and complicated rules of the game are strict: no lying to each other --- ever. Bail on the lie when it becomes clear it is about to be found out. But their little game had consequences, and the girls were all expelled in their final year of school under mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of the school’s eccentric art teacher, Ambrose (who also happens to be Kate’s father).
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read an interview with Ruth Ware.
- Click here to read Carol's Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary.
Click here for the featured guide.
Featured Guide: THE BOOKSHOP AT WATER'S END
by Patti Callahan Henry
THE BOOKSHOP AT WATER'S END by Patti Callahan Henry (Fiction)
Bonny Blankenship’s most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend, Lainey McKay. Amid the sand dunes and oak trees draped with Spanish moss, they swam and wished for happy-ever-afters, then escaped to the local bookshop to read and whisper in the glorious cool silence. Until the night that changed everything, the night that Lainey’s mother disappeared.
Now, in her early 50s, Bonny is desperate to clear her head after a tragic mistake threatens her career as an emergency room doctor, and her marriage crumbles around her. With her troubled teenage daughter, Piper, in tow, she goes back to the beloved river house, where she is soon joined by Lainey and her two young children. During lazy summer days and magical nights, they reunite with bookshop owner Mimi, who is tangled with the past and its mysteries. As the three women cling to a fragile peace, buried secrets and long-ago loves return like the tide.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to visit Patti Callahan Henry's website.
Click here for the featured guide.
August’s New in Paperback Roundups
on Bookreporter.com
August’s roundup of New in Paperback fiction titles includes FAITHFUL by Alice Hoffman, a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself; THIS WAS A MAN, the seventh and final volume in Jeffrey Archer’s Clifton Chronicles, which brings the epic saga of the Clifton family’s love, loss and ambition to a stunning conclusion; THE BOOK THAT MATTERS MOST, an enthralling novel from Ann Hood about love, loss, secrets, friendship and the healing power of literature; and KAROLINA'S TWINS by Ronald H. Balson, a saga inspired by the true events of a Holocaust survivor’s quest to return to Poland and fulfill a promise.
Among our nonfiction highlights are OUR REVOLUTION, in which Bernie Sanders shares his personal experiences from the 2016 campaign trail, recounting the details of his historic primary fight and the people who made it possible; A LIFE IN PARTS, a poignant, funny and inspiring memoir --- both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion and craft --- from Bryan Cranston, the beloved star of "Breaking Bad"; INCARCERATION NATIONS, in which Baz Dreisinger goes behind bars in nine countries to investigate the current conditions in prisons worldwide; and ROGUE HEROES by Ben Macintyre, the incredible untold story of World War II's greatest secret fighting force.
See what's New in Paperback for the weeks of
July 31st, August 7th, August 14th, August 21st and August 28th.
Bookreporter.com's Summer Reading
Contests and Feature
Summer is here! At Bookreporter.com, this means it's time for us to share some great summer book picks with our Summer Reading Contests and Feature. We are hosting a series of 24-hour contests for these titles on select days through August 24th, so you will have to check the site each day to see the featured prize book and enter to win. We also are sending a special newsletter to announce the day's title, which you can sign up for here.
Click here to read all the contest details.
See the prize books that were awarded in May, June and July,
and that will be awarded in August.
Enter Our Ongoing Bookreporter.com Contests:
"Word of Mouth" and "Sounding Off on Audio"
Word of Mouth Contest:
Tell Us What You're Reading --- and You Can Win Two Books!
Tell us about the books you’ve finished reading with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars. During the contest period from August 4th to August 18th at noon ET, three lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win a copy of THE GOOD DAUGHTER by Karin Slaughter and A STRANGER IN THE HOUSE by Shari Lapena.
To make sure other readers will be able to find the books you write about, please include the full title and correct author names (your entry must include these to be eligible to win). For rules and guidelines, click here.
Click here to enter the contest.
Please note: A new Word of Mouth contest will be up
on Friday, August 18th at noon ET.
Sounding Off on Audio Contest:
Tell Us What You're Listening to --- and You Can Win Two Audiobooks!
Tell us about the audiobooks you’ve finished listening to with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for both the performance and the content. During the contest period from August 1st to September 6th at noon ET, two lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win the audio versions of Wendy Walker's EMMA IN THE NIGHT, read by Therese Plummer and Julia Whelan, and Louise Penny's GLASS HOUSES, read by Robert Bathurst.
To make sure other readers will be able to find the audiobook, please include the full title and correct author names (your entry must include these to be eligible to win). For complete rules and guidelines, click here.
Click here to enter the contest.
The following guides are now available on ReadingGroupGuides.com:
THE ADDRESS by Fiona Davis (Historical Fiction)
Fiona Davis, author of THE DOLLHOUSE, returns with a compelling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota, New York City’s most famous residence.
THE BOOKSHOP AT WATER'S END by Patti Callahan Henry (Fiction)
The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it.
THE LAST TUDOR by Philippa Gregory (Historical Fiction)
The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.
THE LYING GAME by Ruth Ware (Psychological Thriller)
Three women receive a text from the fourth member of their former boarding school clique that reads, simply, “I need you” --- and they fear their lives will never be the same.
THE MARRIAGE PACT by Michelle Richmond (Psychological Thriller)
In this relentlessly paced novel of psychological suspense, New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond crafts an intense and shocking tale that asks: How far would you go to protect your marriage?
MRS. FLETCHER by Tom Perrotta (Fiction)
Sharp, witty and provocative, MRS. FLETCHER is a timeless examination of sexuality, identity, parenthood, and the big clarifying mistakes people can make when they’re no longer sure of who they are or where they belong.
THE UNQUIET DAUGHTER by Danielle Flood (Memoir)
A journalist seeks the truth behind her parents’ tangled affair that inspired Graham Greene’s THE QUIET AMERICAN after a youth of privilege, estrangement and cruelty.
WATCH ME DISAPPEAR by Janelle Brown (Mystery/Thriller)
The disappearance of a beautiful, charismatic mother leaves her family to piece together her secrets in this propulsive novel for fans of BIG LITTLE LIES --- from the bestselling author of ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING.
Please note that this title, for which we already had the guide when it released in hardcover, is now available in paperback:
FORTY AUTUMNS: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner (Memoir)
A former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family --- of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than 40 years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This Month's Poll: Suggesting Titles for Your Book Group
When you read a book that you think would be perfect for your book group’s discussion, which of the following do you do? Please check all that apply.
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I immediately email my book group to let them know about the book.
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I make a note and mention it at my next book group meeting.
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I save it on a list for when my book group makes its selections.
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Our book group has an online page, and I share it there.
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I usually forget to share it with other book group members.
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Other (Please specify)
Click here to vote in the poll by Tuesday, September 12th at noon ET.
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