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January 1, 2014 - February 5, 2014

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Win 12 copies of THE AVIATOR’S WIFE by Melanie Benjamin for your group!

Win 12 copies of
THE AVIATOR’S WIFE
by Melanie Benjamin
for your group!

Shannon Powers

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What's Your Book Group Reading This Month?

Win 12 copies of
THE AVIATOR’S WIFE
by Melanie Benjamin

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Amanda Assenza

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Short Story Collections (Also: We Love You, Alice Munro)

We're certainly not short on love for short stories over here at 20SomethingReads.com. So we were super excited when we found out that Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature last week. Munro --- who writes mainly about female protagonists and small-town dramas --- is a gracious and deserving winner, and her triumph inspired us to put together a bookshelf of some of our favorite short story collections.

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Andrew Grant

Andrew Grant is the author of RUN, FALSE POSITIVE, FALSE FRIEND, FALSE WITNESS, INVISIBLE and TOO CLOSE TO HOME. He was born in Birmingham, England. He attended the University of Sheffield, where he studied English literature and drama. He ran a small independent theater company, and subsequently worked in the telecommunications industry for 15 years. Grant and his wife, the novelist Tasha Alexander, live on a wildlife preserve in Wyoming.

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Quinn Colter

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Ronald H. Balson, author of Once We Were Brothers

Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, the Butcher of Zamosc. Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser, Solomon, encourages attorney Catherine Lockhart to bring Rosenzweig to justice, revealing that the true Piatek was abandoned as a child and raised by Solomon's own family, only to betray them during the Nazi occupation. But has Solomon accused the right man?

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Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

In 1923, 15-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave.

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