<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hello everyone i am writing to tell you about the next two books that we will be reading. The March meeting will be on Monday March 25th and we will be reading Funny Farm. The next meeting will be in April at the state convention with more details to come but the book we are reading for April is the country of the blind.<div><h4 style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background: white;"><br></h4><h4 style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB108537" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); font-size: 13.5pt;">Funny farm: my unexpected life with 600 rescue animals </span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); font-size: 13.5pt;">DB108537</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h4><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">Zaleski, Laurie </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">Reading time: 8 hours, 13 minutes.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">Erin Moon</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br><br><span style="background: white;">Biography</span><br><span style="background: white;">Animals and Wildlife</span><br><br><span style="background: white;">"An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre </span></span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">farm</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues--horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs--when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother's dream her own. In 2001, she established the </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">Funny</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">Farm</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie's mission to save abused and neglected animals. </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">Funny</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">Farm</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> is Laurie's story: of promises kept, dreams fulfilled, and animals lost and found. It's the story of Annie McNulty, who fled a nightmarish marriage with few skills, no money and no resources, dragging three kids behind her, and accumulating hundreds of cast-off animals on the way. And lastly, it's the story of the brave, incredible, and adorable animals that were rescued. Although there are some sad parts (as life always is), there are lots of laughs." -- Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br><br></span><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/book/srch/DB108537" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">Download </span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">Funny farm: my unexpected life with 600 rescue animals </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">DB108537</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><h4 style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB115575" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The country of the blind: a memoir at the end of sight </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">DB115575</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h4><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">Leland, Andrew </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">Reading time: 7 hours, 51 minutes.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">Andrew Leland</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br><br><span style="background: white;">Biography </span></span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> Persons with Disabilities</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br><span style="background: white;">Biography</span><br><span style="background: white;">Disability</span><br><br><span style="background: white;">"We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in </span></span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> liminal state </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> soon-to-be </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">blind</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">blind</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">ness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began to degrade from </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> outside in, such that he now sees </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> world as if through a narrow tube. Soon—but without knowing exactly when—he will likely have no vision left. Full </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> apprehension but also dogged curiosity, Leland embarks on a sweeping exploration </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> state </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> being that awaits him: not only </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> physical experience </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">blind</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">ness but also its language, politics, and customs. He negotiates his changing relationships with his wife and son, and with his own sense </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> self, as he moves from his mainstream, “typical” life to one with a disability. Part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">The</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">Country</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">Blind</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> represents Leland’s determination not to merely survive this transition but to grow from it—to seek out and revel in that which makes </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">blind</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">ness enlightening. Thought-provoking and brimming with warmth and humor, </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">The</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">Country</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">Blind</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> is a deeply personal and intellectually exhilarating tour </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> a way </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> being that most </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: red; background: white;">of</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"> us have never paused to consider—and from which we have much to learn." -- Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br><br></span><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/book/srch/DB115575" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><b style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">Download </span></b><b style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">The country of the blind: a memoir at the end of sight </span></b><b style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">DB115575</span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></p><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone 12 Pro Max</div></div></body></html>