Events
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Start: 3:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
This month's book is My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolt Taylor | 8
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| 10
Start: 7:15 pm
End: 9:00 pm
This month's book is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | 11
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Princess Zindaba Nyirenda
Ta-Lakata: The Tears of Africa
Granddaughter of the Tumbaka tribe chief Mphamba of Lundazi in Zambia, Princess Zindaba “Zindie” Nyirenda was raised in an elite and privileged environment during Zambia’s economic boom years. As a young woman, Zindie relocated to the United States, and then watched in horror as life in her homeland rapidly disintegrated under economic devastation and the influx of AIDS/HIV. Unwilling to sit on the sidelines, Zindie founded a non-profit organization to equip and empower local leaders in remote areas and neglected villages of Africa. Today Princess Zindie is a graduate student at Roosevelt University and was keynote speaker at the 2007 World AIDS Day conference in Illinois.
| 12
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Sarah Blake
The Postmistress
Two women, an American postmistress in Franklin, Massachusetts, and a British radio journalist, are entrusted to deliver information to the newlywed wife of an American doctor in London at the dawn of WWII. For different reasons both decide not to do so, each betraying her solemn commitment to deliver news. A new novel with extraordinary relevance to the way we live now, that is less a war novel than an examination of how people cope with the knowledge of unspeakable inhumanity in the world as they go about their daily lives. Booklist, in a starred review, predicted that “Blake’s emotional saga of conscience and genocide is poised to become a bestseller of the highest echelon.” | 13
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