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Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks for 2020

 

DECEMBER 2020

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RGG Speed Dating November Event

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December 17, 2020

Remembering John le Carré, Master of the Spy Novel

By Roz Shea
John le Carré catapulted to fame in 1963 following the publication of THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, which was promptly turned into a hit movie starring one of Hollywood’s leading actors, Richard Burton, as British spy Alec Leamas. 

John Hart

John Hart is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, most recently THE HUSH. His next book, THE UNWILLING, goes on sale in February 2021. The only author in history to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel consecutively, John has also won the Barry Award, the SIBA Award for Fiction, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into 30 languages and can be found in more than 70 countries.

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Sharon Virts

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Deborah Goodrich Royce

Deborah Goodrich Royce’s first novel, FINDING MRS. FORD, debuted in 2019 to rave reviews. She divides her time between the Northeast and Florida, where she writes, reads, watches lots of movies, and spends time with her family.

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Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

Liese O’Halloran Schwarz, a former emergency medicine doctor, published her first novel, NEAR CANAAN, while still in medical school. She is also the author of the acclaimed novel THE POSSIBLE WORLD and the forthcoming WHAT COULD BE SAVED. She currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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December 11, 2020

I am always looking for innovative ways that book groups come together. Yesterday morning, the yarn designer Miss Babs announced that their 2021 Book Club was kicking off. They noted, “We've enjoyed reading and knitting along for the past 2 years. We'd like to invite you to join us for another year in the Miss Babs Book Club. We have chosen 3 works of fiction for 2021 that will spark your imagination and keep you guessing. Our designers and our dyeing will be inspired by the book selections. The projects will be shawls and wraps. The yarn weights included in the club will range from heavy lace to DK, and Babs will dye an original and club-exclusive colorway for each shipment. 2021's designers are Rose Beck, Michael Harrigan and Tiziana Sammuri."

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Sophie Cousens, author of This Time Next Year

Minnie Cooper knows two things with certainty: her New Year's birthday is unlucky, and it's all because of Quinn Hamilton, a man she's never met. Their mothers gave birth to them at the same hospital just after midnight on New Year's Day, but Quinn was given the cash prize for being the first baby born in London in 1990 --- and the name Minnie was meant to have, as well. When Minnie unexpectedly runs into Quinn on their mutual 30th birthday, she sees only more evidence that fortune has continued to favor him. But if Quinn and Minnie are from different worlds, why do they keep bumping into each other? And why is it that each fraught encounter leaves them both wanting more?

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KJ Dell’Antonia, author of The Chicken Sisters

In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state --- and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long. No one feels the impact more than 35-year-old widow Amanda Moore, who grew up working for her mom at Mimi's before scandalously marrying Frank Pogociello and changing sides to work at Frannie's. Tired of being caught in the middle, Amanda sends an SOS to “Food Wars,” the reality TV restaurant competition that promises $100,000 to the winner. But in doing so, she launches both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire.

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