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<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt">The Metro Detroit Book and Author Society<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt">Presents the 91<sup>st</sup> Author Luncheon</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt">Monday, October 16, 2017</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Burton
Manor</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">27777
Schoolcraft Road, Livonia, MI 48150 (Between Middlebelt &
Inkster off I-96)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Ticket sales begin online at 12am
Tuesday, September 5th,
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">at <a
href="http://www.bookandauthor.info">www.bookandauthor.info</a>
and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">by <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">phone at 9am</b> at
586-685-5750 x102. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Tickets
$40</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Chris
Bohjalian – The
Sleepwalker</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white">Chris
Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed
author of nineteen books, including “The Sandcastle Girls” and
“Midwives,”
which was a number one New York Times bestseller and a
selection of the Oprah
Book Club. His work has been translated into more than thirty
languages, and
three of his novels have been adapted into movies. His new
novel “The
Sleepwalker” is a spooky thriller about sex, secrets and the
mysteries of
sleep.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Claire Messud – The Burning Girl</span></b></p>
<p class="yiv1837347386msonormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white"><span
style="font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Claire
Messud is the
award-winning author of six novels, including “The Woman
Upstairs” and
“The Emperor’s Children,” which was a highly praised New York
Times
best-seller. Her critically acclaimed new book is “The
Burning
Girl,” a coming-of-age story that is being called a hypnotic
portrait of the
complexities of female friendship.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Drew Philp – A $500 House in
Detroit: Rebuilding an
Abandoned Home and an American City</span></b></p>
<p class="yiv1837347386msonormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white"><span
style="font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Drew
Philp is the
author of the memoir “A $500 House in Detroit,” the true story
of
a recent college graduate who wandered into Detroit and bought
a ruined
hulk of a once-grand house in an attempt at urban
homesteading. The
Michigan native’s story is part coming-of-age tale, part
history lesson and
part social commentary about a city battling back.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Heather Ann Thompson – Blood in the
Water</span></b></p>
<p class="yiv1837347386msonormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white"><span
style="font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Heather
Ann Thompson is a
University of Michigan historian who won the 2016 Pulitzer
Prize for her nonfiction
book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“<em><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none
windowtext 0in;padding:0in;
background:white">Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison
Uprising of 1971 and
its Legacy,</span></em><span style="background:white">”</span>
</i><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>the story of the
infamous 1971 Attica Prison
uprising in New York State and the state’s cover-up that
followed the death of
thirty-nine men. She has written extensively on mass
incarceration and its
impact on the nation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Jane Alexander – Wild Things, Wild
Places</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">Jane Alexander<b> </b></span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#222222;
background:white">is a national treasure -- a </span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Award"
target="_blank"
title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Award"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0B0080;background:white">Tony
Award</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#222222;background:white"> and
two-time </span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award"
target="_blank"
title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0B0080;background:white">Emmy Award</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#222222;background:white">-winning
actress who has
appeared in dozens of productions on Broadway, television and
movies, and has
served as Director of the National Endowment for the Arts. </span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#333333;background:white"> Alexander
won raves for
her stunning portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in two ABC
miniseries. </span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#222222;background:white">She has also
made her mark on
the natural world as a</span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:black;background:white"> trustee
of the Wildlife Conservation Society and a director of the </span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Audubon-Society"
target="_blank"
title="https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Audubon-Society"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#106596;border:none
windowtext 1.0pt;
mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Audubon
Society</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:black;background:white">. Her new book
is <span style="border:none windowtext
1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;
padding:0in">“Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of
Wildlife and Conservation
on Planet Earth</span><i>.”</i></span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">For additional
information, please visit our website at <a
href="http://www.bookandauthor.info">www.bookandauthor.info</a>
or call 586-685-5750 x102. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Mark your calendars now for the
Spring Luncheon – May 21,
2018</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
<br>
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Tammy Turgeon
Director
Sterling Heights Public Library
40255 Dodge Park
Sterling Heights, MI 48313
586-446-2640
Director
Suburban Library Cooperative
44750 Delco Blvd
Sterling Heights, MI 48313
586-685-5750</pre>
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