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Tuesday Evening Book ClubJanuary 2017
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Next Meeting: February, 28th 6:30PM Library Conference Room
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Writing My Wrongs : Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
by Shaka Senghor
A former prisoner, TED mentor and criminal justice reform advocate traces his coming of age at the height of Detroit's crack epidemic and his 19 years in prison before he was motivated to help at-risk youth and raise awareness about the vulnerabilities of America's system of mass incarceration.
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March 21st @ 6:30 PM The Invoice : a novel by Jonas KarlssonA hilarious, profound, and achingly true-to-life, Jonas Karlsson’s new novel explores the true nature of happiness through the eyes of hero you won’t soon forget. A passionate film buff, our hero’s life revolves around his part-time job at a video store, the company of a few precious friends, and a daily routine that more often than not concludes with pizza and movie in his treasured small space in Stockholm. When he receives an astronomical invoice from a random national bureaucratic agency, everything will tumble into madness as he calls the hotline night and day to find out why he is the recipient of the largest bill in the entire country. By the author of The Room.
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April 18th @ 6:30 PM A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer’s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was climbing in the Himalayas when war broke out in Europe. He was imprisoned by the British in India but succeeded in escaping and fled to Tibet. Settling in Lhasa, the Forbidden City, where he became a friend and tutor to the Dalai Lama, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years gaining a more profound understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans than any Westerner before him.
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