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Our slate of virtual book club meetings, including the newly selected January date, are:</div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Saturday, December 9@ 1:30pm (Reminder - We are not having the usual Sligo Creek Chapter meeting that day, so try the book club instead!
Just reply back to me to RSVP if you are not already a regular book club attendee and would like to join us). The book we will discuss on Dec. 9 is " I am Malala" (details are below, and there is even a shorter version of the book you can easily read in a
few days!)</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our January book club will be meeting on Sunday, January 21 @ 2:30pm. The book is "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" (book
details are also below). </span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you and best holiday wishes - Jeff Baer</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> book details section:</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> December book: "I am Malala". There are two versions of the book with near identical names, both available on BARD! While the two versions
are similar, there are some important differences. It will be fine for our purposes if you read either version, so you can choose the version best suited to you. Good Reads description excerpt for both versions:</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought
for her right to an education... When she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken
her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize."</span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Version 1 (the original version, contains more details on Malala's parents’ anguish and uncertainty, and more details on the geopolitical
setting and the backstories of Malala's parents. BARD # DB77454 </span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Title: "I am Malala, the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban". By: Malala Yousafzai with co-author: Christina
Lamb </span></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Duration = approximately 10 hours.</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Version 2 ( The "Young Readers Edition") Jeff unknowingly listened to this version! It's still great. BARD #
DB 79878 </span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Title: "I am Malala, how one girl stood up for education and changed the world".
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By: Malala Yousafzai with co-author:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Patricia
McCormick,</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Duration = approximately 5 hours.</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our January book club selection: "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers"</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Author: Jesse Q. Sutanto</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Duration: 10 hours 44 minutes</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">DB# 113039 (also available via Amazon's Audible subscription service)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Good Reads description:</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet
(AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet).</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing
she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth."</span></div>
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