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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600;mso-ligatures:none">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600;mso-ligatures:none">Here are the first four books for our 2023-2024 book club.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600;mso-ligatures:none">Also, let’s meet in person at our home on October 4. We will send out a menu for ordering. Of course if you want to meet on Zoom we can accommodate that.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600;mso-ligatures:none">See books below.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600;mso-ligatures:none">October 4, 2023 Patty<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB43180"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt">The notebook</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> DB43180</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Sparks</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">,
Nicholas </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Reading time: 5 hours, 41 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Robert Sams </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">A
production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Romance</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">An elderly man reads from a </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">notebook</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> to
his wife, who has Alzheimer's disease. Gradually he unfolds </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> story
of a couple who fell in love </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> summer
after high school and were reunited </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">by</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> a
fluke fourteen years later. But will his wife recognize her own story? Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1996.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB73300"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt">Thunder dog: the true story of a blind man, his
guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">DB73300</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Hingson, Michael; Flory, Susy </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Reading
time: 7 hours, 19 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Peter Ganim </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">A
production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Biography of Persons with Disabilities</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Disability</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Animals and Wildlife</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Michael Hingson, an executive who worked in the North Tower of the World Trade Center, recounts his escape after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Hingson, blind since birth, describes what he and his guide </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">dog</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> Roselle
experienced as she led him down seventy-eight flights of stairs to safety. 2011.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">December 6, 2023 Nancy<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB24695"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt">The handmaid's tale</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> DB24695</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Atwood, Margaret </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Reading
time: 10 hours, 48 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Laura Giannarelli </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">A
production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Science Fiction</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Bestsellers</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Set in </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> future, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> United
States of America is now </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> Republic
of Gilead, a fundamentalist Christian </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">ocracy
that arose after fanatics shot </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> president,
machine-gunned </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> Congress
and forced </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> army
to declare a state of emergency. To reverse </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> declining
birthrate, women are forcibly recruited into </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> ranks
of </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Handmaids</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> and
are assigned to </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> Commanders
of </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> Faithful,
whose wives are barren. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1986.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">I found Questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB112330"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt">Beauty in the broken places: a memoir of love,
faith, and resilience </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">DB112330</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Pataki</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">, </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Allison</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">;
Woodruff, Lee </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Reading time: 6 hours, 51 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Allison</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Pataki</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">;
David Levy; Lee Woodruff</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Biography</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Health and Medicine</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">"Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Allison</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Pataki</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> turned
to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave—a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident—had suffered a rare and life-threatening stroke.
Next thing </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Allison</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> knew,
she was sitting alone in the ER in Fargo, North Dakota, waiting to hear if her husband would survive the night. When Dave woke up, though seemingly strong and outwardly intact, he could not carry memories from hour to hour, much less from one day to the next. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Allison</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> lost
the Dave she knew and loved when he lost consciousness on the plane. Within a few months, she found herself caring for both a newborn and a sick husband, sifting through endless hospital bills and insurance paperwork, and struggling with the fear of what was
to come. As a way to make sense of the pain and chaos of their new reality, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Allison</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> started
to write daily letters to Dave. Not only would she work to make sense of the unfathomable experiences unfolding around her, but her letters would provide Dave with the memories he could not make on his own. She was writing to preserve their past, protect their
present, and fight for their future. Those letters became the foundation for this beautiful, intimate memoir. And in the process, she fell in love with her husband all over again. This is a manifesto for living, an ultimately uplifting story about the transformative
power of faith and resilience. It's a tale of a husband's turbulent road to recovery, the shifting nature of marriage, and the struggle of loving through pain and finding joy in the broken places." -- Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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