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Elena Ferrante, author of The Lying Life of Adults

Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape.

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The Four Winds (Audiobook) by Kristin Hannah

Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work, and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli --- like so many of her neighbors --- must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life.

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Win 12 Copies of THIS TIME NEXT YEAR WE'LL BE LAUGHING by Jacqueline Winspear 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.

Our latest prize book is THIS TIME NEXT YEAR WE'LL BE LAUGHING, a deeply personal memoir of Jacqueline Winspear's Kentish childhood and her family’s resilience in the face of war and privation. To enter, please fill out the form below by Wednesday, February 3rd at noon ET.
 

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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