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Kristin Hannah, author of The Four Winds

Texas, 1921. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. By 1934, millions are out of work, and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa --- like so many of her neighbors --- must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves, or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.

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Emmanuel Acho, author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all 50 states. In UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK MAN, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask --- yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. With the same open-hearted generosity that has made his video series a phenomenon, Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation and “reverse racism.” In his own words, he provides a space of compassion and understanding in a discussion that can lack both.

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Win 12 Copies of THE LAST GARDEN IN ENGLAND by Julia Kelly 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 THE LAST GARDEN IN ENGLAND by Julia Kelly, a poignant and unforgettable tale of five women living across three different times whose lives are all connected by one very special garden. To enter, please fill out the form below by Wednesday, March 3rd at noon ET.
 

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January 29, 2021

Ah, my virtual life. I think it’s more exciting than my non-virtual one was! Seriously. I looked over my schedule for the next few months, and there are a number of events of interest to book groups.

At the Morristown Festival of Books @Home live virtual event author series, I will be interviewing Kristin Hannah about THE FOUR WINDS on Saturday, February 20th at 2pm ET (tickets are available here) and Nadia Owusu, the debut author of AFTERSHOCKS, at 3:30pm ET (tickets are available here). And the following day, Sunday the 21st at 2pm ET, I will be attending an event for the same festival with David Michaelis discussing ELEANOR with Bill Goldstein, who reviews books and interviews authors for NBC’s “Weekend Today in New York," and was the founding editor of the New York Times books website (tickets are available here). Then, at 3:30pm ET, there will be an event with V.E. Schwab in conversation with Dhonielle Clayton about THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LaRUE, which has become a smash success and is currently #2 on the New York Times bestseller list (tickets are available here). Dhonielle is the New York Times bestselling author of The Belles series and the co-author of the Tiny Pretty Things duology, which is now a Netflix original series.

Each session during this two-day event will feature an engaging dialogue between the author and moderator, and questions from the audience will be taken during the last portion of the interview.

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