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—Helen Benedict, author of WOLF SEASON and THE LONELY SOLDIER

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October 29, 2020

We are looking forward to our first “Bookaccino Live” Book Group event, which I announced in the October 19th newsletter. It will take place on Thursday, November 19th at 8pm ET via Zoom. Our special guest will be Jeanine Cummins, who will discuss AMERICAN DIRT with me and 15 guests who have read the book. In the last 10 minutes of the program, we will open it up to questions from our audience. If you would like to attend the event as a participant or as an audience member, all you have to do is sign up here by Monday, November 16th at 10am ET. Our room can hold up to 500 attendees, so feel free to invite your friends and fellow book group members --- though I suggest you hurry as we are booking up quickly. If you already have signed up, there is no need to do it again.

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Author Talk: Christie Tate, author of Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

Oct 29, 2020

GROUP is November’s Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick. Here, Chicago-based writer and essayist Christie Tate details how she reluctantly chose to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers --- her psychotherapy group --- and in turn found human connection, and herself. In this interview, Tate discusses what inspired her to share her daring, exhilarating, painful and hilarious journey with the world; how her fellow group members have reacted to being featured in the book; her evolving relationship with her eccentric therapist, Dr. Rosen, and how she would encourage skeptical readers to embrace some facets of his unique approach; why she considers her memoir to be a bildungsroman; and her decision to end GROUP with a “Ten Years Later” update rather than with her wedding.

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A woman held captive finally escapes --- but can she ever really get away? GONE GIRL meets ROOM in this page-turning, #1 internationally bestselling thriller from one of Germany’s hottest new talents.

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A woman held captive finally escapes --- but can she ever really get away? GONE GIRL meets ROOM in this page-turning, #1 internationally bestselling thriller from one of Germany’s hottest new talents.

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A woman held captive finally escapes --- but can she ever really get away?

GONE GIRL meets ROOM in this page-turning, #1 internationally bestselling thriller from one of Germany’s hottest new talents.

A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare.

She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn’t their Lena.

The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn’t sharing, and Lena’s devastated father is trying to piece together details that don’t quite fit. Lena is desperate to begin again, but something tells her that her tormentor still wants to get back what belongs to him…and that she may not be able to truly escape until the whole truth about what happened in the woods finally emerges.

Twisty, suspenseful and psychologically clever, Romy Hausmann's DEAR CHILD is a captivating thriller with all the ingredients of a breakout hit.