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Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin

January 2010

A confession here. In my literary memories, I had forgotten that Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym for Charles Dodgson, and it also had slipped my mind that the Alice in ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND had been fashioned after a real little girl named Alice.

Barbara Delinsky, author of Not My Daughter

Barbara Delinsky explores the bonds between mothers and daughters in this topical, explosive novel as a high school principal struggles with the news that her daughter and friends are pregnant.

Jeffery Deaver, author of Watchlist: A Serial Thriller

From International Thriller Writers comes WATCHLIST: two powerful novellas featuring the same thrilling cast of characters in one major suspenseful package.

January 2010

Happy New Year! For ReadingGroupGuides.com this is going to be a special year as we will be celebrating our 10-year anniversary in May.

As we start the new year, I wondered if I could ask you to forward this newsletter to any friends who are in book clubs who you think might enjoy it. Consider it our “annual newsletter drive” to kick off the year/decade and a chance for you to “jumpstart” another book club into learning more about books of interest to them. Thanks in advance for this.

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On average, what percentage of your book group typically comes to a meeting?

January 1, 2010, 534 voters

Gregory Funaro, author of The Sculptor

Dr. Catherine Hildebrant, professor of art history at Brown University, is trying to get her life back on track. Known in academic circles not only as one of the world’s foremost scholars on Michelangelo, she is also the author of a controversial book on his sculptures.

Ken Wheaton, author of The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival

Father Steve Sibille has come home to the bayou to take charge of St. Pete’s church. Among his challenges are teenybopper altar girls, insomnia-curing confessions, and alarmingly alluring congregant Vicky Carrier.

Mary Burton, author of Dying Scream

Mary Burton takes readers down the horrific path of an affluent family’s dark past where well-hidden secrets unveil a series of grisly crimes, forcing a widow and a detective to explore a twisted, forbidden love that someone will kill for, again and again.

Are you giving books as gifts this holiday season? Are you hoping to receive books as gifts this holiday season?

December 1, 2009, 258 voters