In August, we're delighted to share two novels about the power of secrets: Two long-time friends discover
their daughters are endangered by secrets meant to stay hidden in
We Are All Good People Here
, and a woman must confront the buried truths of her past at her 40th birthday party in
The Birthday Girl
. Author Mary Doria Russell's historical novel
The Women of Copper Country
depicts a strike against the world's largest copper mining company and the courageous woman who led it. A pet crow fights to save humanity in the hilarious debut novel
Hollow Kingdom
. And Elissa Altman mines the subject of mother-daughter relationships in her insightful memoir
Motherland
.
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This month's Book Club Buzz features Kristin Harmel's
The Winemaker's Wife
, a moving story set amid the champagne vineyards of northern France during the darkest days of World War II. Look for the giveaway, along with a recipe from the author, on August 26th.
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Book Club Daily
Featuring giveaways and book-inspired menu ideas from authors
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THE BIRTHDAY GIRL
Melissa de la Cruz
Dutton
Fiction / Thriller
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A woman's past comes back to haunt her on the night of her fabulous 40th birthday bash in the California desert.
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HOLLOW KINGDOM
Kira Jane Buxton
Grand Central Publishing
Fiction
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One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.
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THE WOMEN OF THE COPPER COUNTRY
Mary Doria Russell
Atria
Historical Fiction
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From the bestselling and award-winning author of
The Sparrow comes an inspiring historical novel about “America’s Joan of Arc” Annie Clements—the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world.
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MOTHERLAND
Elissa Altman
Ballantine Books
Memoir
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A middle aged, long-married, gay New England food writer is called back to Manhattan and into the fray she fled to care for her hyper-heterosexual, makeup-addicted, food-loathing, wildly eccentric octogenarian television-singer mother after she sustains a fall, in a memoir that is
Postcards From The Edge
married to
Bettyville
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WE ARE ALL GOOD PEOPLE HERE
Susan Rebecca White
Atria
Fiction
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From the author of
A Place at the Table
and
A Soft Place to Land
, an “intense, complex, and wholly immersive” (Joshilyn Jackson,
New York Times
bestselling author) multigenerational novel that explores the complex relationship between two very different women and the secrets they bequeath to their daughters.
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GalleyMatch Book Clubs Suggest
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book clubs' discussion highlights.
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Readalicious of Duvall, Washington, CLAMS (Corte Madera Literary and Munching Society) of Corte Madera, California and Hot Flashers of Antioch, California
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THE FOUNTAINS OF SILENCE
by Ruta Sepetys (Philomel Books/Penguin Young Readers, 10/19)
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K3 Skype Book Club
of Paris, Boston, and Colorado
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THE PARIS ORPHAN by Natasha Lester (Forever, 9/19)
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Asheville's (NC) Fantasy/SciFi
Books & Beer Club
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HOLLOW KINGDOM by Kira Jane Buxton (Grand Central Publishing, 8/19)
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NGE Book Club
of Hudson, Ohio
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THE WINEMAKER'S WIFE by Kristin Harmel (Gallery Books, 8/19)
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