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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">We had a great book club meeting today and the group chose its next two books to discuss. We also decided to have a special meeting soon to discuss yet a third book!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">First, regarding that special meeting: So many book club members enjoyed "The Five Wishes of Mister Murray McBride" that they have already read its sequel. We will soon hold a special "spin-off" book club discussion to cover "The
Final Wish of Mr. Murray McBride" by Joe Siple. BARD/NLS info: DB#104365. Duration = 8 hours and 3 minutes. Please send me an e-mail at jabaer811@outlook.com or call me at 410-499-0143 if you have already read that book or will read it very soon, and wish
to be included in that "spin-off conversation", hopefully to happen in the next few weeks, perhaps before the end of the month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Then, we will be reading and discussing "Hollow Fires" by Samira Ahmed, BARD ID = DB108627. Duration = 10 hours and 10 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is also available via Amazon's Audible subscription service in addition to BARD/ NLS.</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Good Read Description: "A powerful, gripping Young Adult fiction novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthing hidden truths, and the undeniable power of hope. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Safiya
Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she’s learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist’s job is to find the facts and not let personal biases affect the story. But all that changes the day she finds the body of a murdered
boy.</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Jawad Ali was fourteen years old when he built a cosplay jetpack that a teacher mistook for a bomb. A jetpack that got him arrested, labeled a terrorist—and eventually killed. But he’s more than a dead
body, and more than “Bomb Boy.” He was a person with a life worth remembering.</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Driven by Jawad’s haunting voice guiding her throughout her investigation, Safiya seeks to tell the whole truth about the murdered boy and those who killed him because of their hate-based beliefs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">This gripping and powerful book uses an innovative format and lyrical prose to expose the evil that exists in front of us, and the silent complicity of the privileged who create alternative facts to bend the truth to their liking." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">I anticipate we will meet to discuss "Hollow Fires" sometime in September, or early October. Details on meeting date and time to follow, but please start reading "Hollow Fires" if you want to join that discussion!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">After Hollow Fires, we will be reading and discussing "The Restaurant", by Pamela M. Kelley. BARD/NLS info: DB#101174, Duration = 5 hours and 33 minutes. Yes, available via Amazon's Audible subscription service, in addition to
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Good Reads Description: "Three sisters. An inherited Nantucket restaurant. One year before they can sell. </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Mandy, Emma and Jill are as close as three sisters who live hundreds of miles apart
can be. They grew up together on Nantucket, but Mandy is the only one that stayed.</span></div>
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<div class="x_x_ContentPasted2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Jill lives a glamorous life in Manhattan as a co-owner of a successful executive search firm. Never married, she is in her mid-thirties and lives in a stunning, corner condo with breathtaking views
of the city and Hudson river. Everyone thinks there's something going on with her partner, Nick, because as a workaholic, she spends more time with him than anyone else. But there's never been anything but friendship between them and Nick loves being a bachelor
in NYC.</span></div>
<div class="x_x_ContentPasted2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Emma lives in Arizona and is an elementary school teacher and aspiring photographer. She met her college professor husband, Peter, in grad school and they've been married for over fifteen years. In
recent years, she's noticed that Peter has grown distant. But when he shares a surprising secret, she doesn't see it coming and her world is turned upside down.</span></div>
<div class="x_x_ContentPasted2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Mandy followed her high school boyfriend, Cory to Boston College, and after graduation, they married and Cory joined a successful hedge fund in Boston, while Mandy stayed home and had two children,
Blake and Brooke. They moved home to Nantucket when Cory opened a competing hedge fund. Now that the children are older, Mandy is eager to do more than coordinate local charity events. But Cory doesn't want her to work. He thinks it doesn't reflect well on
him and appearances are everything to Cory. Though when Mandy finds a second cell phone in his gym bag, she begins to question what is really going on.</span></div>
<div class="x_x_ContentPasted2"><span style="font-size:11pt">When their beloved grandmother, Ethel Ferguson passes peacefully in her sleep a week before her ninety-ninth birthday, she leaves them quite a surprise. In addition to her Nantucket home, they learn
that she was the silent owner of Mimi's Place, one of Nantucket's most popular year-round restaurants.</span></div>
<div class="x_x_ContentPasted2"><span style="font-size:11pt">There is of course, a catch--she left the restaurant equally to Mandy, Emma, and Jill--and also to Paul, the restaurant chef for the past fifteen years.</span></div>
<div class="x_x_ContentPasted2 elementToProof"><span style="font-size:11pt">And before they can sell, all three girls must work at the restaurant for one year--or their shares of the restaurant will go to Paul. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The same
Paul that broke one of their hearts many years ago."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt">Thank you, and I am already looking forward to our next book club call. :-)</span></div>
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