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Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel is the author of THE VEINS OF THE OCEAN, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; IT'S NOT LOVE, IT'S JUST PARIS, winner of the International Latino Book Award; and VIDA, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards, New York Times Notable Book, and winner of Colombia’s national book award, the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Jeanine Cummins Event

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Bookaccino Event on January 13th

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Bookaccino Book Group Event on January 21st

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November 12, 2020

This year, as Thanksgiving rolls around, we are giving thanks to our readers who are in book groups. We know this year has been super challenging for book group discussions, but we are seeing increased traffic on our site, leading us to believe that more people are trying to connect with their groups in new ways. We hear over and over again that people are reading more than ever for escape --- and then finding connection with fellow booklovers. Thank you for making the time for reading…and book discussion!

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RGG Share Your Favorite Book Group Titles of 2020

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Becky Cooper, author of We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death. Forty years later, a curious undergrad named Becky Cooper will hear the first whispers of the story --- a tale of gender inequality in academia, a “cowboy culture” among empowered male elites, the silencing effect of institutions, and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims.

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Susie Yang, author of White Ivy

Raised outside of Boston, Ivy Lin’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen --- and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy’s mother discovers her trespasses, Ivy is sent to China, and her dream instantly evaporates. Years later, Ivy is back in Boston and bumps into Sylvia Speyer, Gideon’s sister. Just as she is about to have everything she’s ever wanted, a ghost from Ivy’s past resurfaces, threatening the nearly perfect life she’s worked so hard to build.

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Rachel Joyce, author of Miss Benson’s Beetle

It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life. One day, she reaches her breaking point and sets out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist --- the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she advertises for an assistant to accompany her, the woman she ends up with is the last person she had in mind. Fun-loving Enid Pretty seems to attract trouble wherever she goes. But together these two British women find themselves drawn into a cross-ocean adventure that exceeds all expectations and delivers something neither of them expected to find: the transformative power of friendship.

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Editorial Content for The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street

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The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street

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The Christmas spirit is overtaking Tradd Street with a vengeance in this festive fifth novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Karen White.

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The Christmas spirit is overtaking Tradd Street with a vengeance in this festive fifth novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Karen White.

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The Christmas spirit is overtaking Tradd Street with a vengeance in this festive fifth novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Karen White.

Melanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy --- after all, it’s only the second Christmas she and her husband, Jack, will celebrate with their twin toddlers. But the ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the garden of her historic Tradd Street home has been a huge millstone, both financially and aesthetically. Local students are thrilled by the possibility of unearthing more Colonial-era artifacts at the cistern, but Melanie is concerned by the ghosts connected to it that have suddenly invaded her life and her house --- and at least one of them is definitely not filled with holiday cheer.

And these relics aren’t the only precious artifacts for which people are searching. A past adversary is convinced there is a long-lost Revolutionary War treasure buried somewhere on the property Melanie inherited --- untold riches rumored to have been brought over from France by the Marquis de Lafayette himself and intended to help the Colonial war effort. It’s a treasure literally fit for a king, and there have been whispers throughout history that many have already killed --- and died --- for it. And now someone will stop at nothing to possess it --- even if it means destroying everything Melanie and Jack hold dear.