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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The Maryland Library for the Blind hosts a book club on the second Saturday of each month. All the books selected are available from NLS. They can be down loaded from the BARD web site or requested from LBPH. Below you will see the month and day, the LBPH staff member appointed to facilitate discussion, the book, the author and the NLS identification number for the book. The DB, RC, BR or LP indicates the type of media available. As you will see, some selections are available in all media while others are not. I hope to see more of you at these meetings and believe that if NFB members regularly attend, in time we can have a major voice in determining what is read for future meetings. There are instances where books chosen are expected to be completed by NLS but as of this time are not. IN such cases you will see that the number is to be announced and in one case, the books name is to be announced. The book club is from 12:00 to 1:30 always following the Technology User Group meetings run by Jerry Price that are from 10:00 to 11:30. All should feel free to attend both though also attendance at both is certainly not necessary. Tyson fogle oversees planning for the book club so if you have questions or comments regarding these selections, feel free to contact him or me. He strives to have a mix of fiction and nonfiction, modern and classic and so forth. Book club can be stimulating but for that, we need interested folks to participate and lend their energies to it!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>JANUARY 8 Jim McCarthy – The Lazarus Project, by Alexander Hemon, DB/RC068580 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>FEBRUARY 12 Wilhelmina Hargrave, The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, DB/RC062431, BR017409, LP013936<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MARCH 12 Tyson Fogel – Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, DB/RC022745, BR018655<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> APRIL 9 Lori Guenthner – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson, DB/RC070760, BR018827, LP014322<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> MAY 14 JM – The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver, DB/RC070208 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>JUNE 11 Molyne Honor – Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, DB/RC071329<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>JULY 9 Wilhelmina Hargrave – The Other Wes Moore, by Wes Moore, Book Number To Be Announced once available<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AUGUST 13 Molyne Honor – Growing Up Laughing, by Marlo Thomas, Book Number To Be Announced <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SEPTEMBER 10 TF – Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog), Jerome K. Jerome DB/RC066776, LP004918<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OCTOBER 8 LG – One Maryland, One Book Selection, To Be Announced (every year, libraries throughout Maryland read a one Maryland, one book selection that is determined by a state humanities council, I think.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>NOVEMBER 12 Tyson Fogel – Butcher’s Crossing, by John Edward Williams, DB/RC066407<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>DECEMBER 10 Lori Guenthner – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, DB/RC070661<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>