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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our December book for the book club is the Handmaid’s tale.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Nancy has agreed to lead the discussion.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Questions will be sent closer to December 6.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We will use our usual Zoom account.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John<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"><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></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Atwood, Margaret </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Reading
 time: 10 hours, 48 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Laura Giannarelli </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">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"><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">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> future, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> 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">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> 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">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">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">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> president,
 machine-gunned </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> Congress
 and forced </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> 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">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> 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">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> ranks
 of </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white">Handmaids</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> and are assigned
 to </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> Commanders of </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;background:white">the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> Faithful,
 whose wives are barren. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1986.</span><o:p></o:p></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">I found Questions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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