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                                      is being held on Monday, October
                                      21, 2019<br>
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                                      <b>Ti</b></span><b><span
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                                            style="font-family:
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                                            online at 12 a.m. Tuesday,
                                            September 3, 2019<br>
                                            at <a
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                                          by phone at 9 a.m. at
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                                      font-size: 12px;">Authors will be
                                      available to sign purchased books
                                      after the luncheon. Book sales
                                      support grants. Please purchase
                                      your books at the luncheon!  There
                                      will be a limited number of books
                                      for sale.</span><br>
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                                      <span>11:00 am - Book Sale Room
                                        Opens</span><br>
                                      11:45 am - Luncheon Doors Open<br>
                                      <span>12:00 pm - Lunch is Served</span><br>
                                      <span>1:00 pm - Authors Begin to
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                                        <h3>Deborah Blum</h3>
                                        <span style="font-family:
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                                          Website:</span><br>
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                                        <strong>Deborah Blum, </strong>Director
                                        of the Knight Science Journalism
                                        program at the Massachusetts
                                        Institute of Technology, is the
                                        Pulitzer Prize-winning
                                        author of two best-selling
                                        books, including “The Poisoner's
                                        Handbook” and her newest, “The
                                        Poison Squad.” The latter  is
                                        the dramatic true story of how
                                        food was made safe in the United
                                        States and the heroes, led by
                                        Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, 
                                        who fought for change at  the
                                        end of the 19<sup>th</sup>
                                        Century when food was often
                                        dangerous to eat and even
                                        lethal. Deborah has also been a
                                        columnist for The New York Times
                                        and a blogger for Wired.</td>
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                                          <h3>Bridgett Davis</h3>
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                                            Website:</span><br>
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                                              style="font-family:
                                              helvetica; font-size:
                                              12px;">https://bridgettdavis.com</span></a><br>
                                          <p style="margin: 0px;
                                            padding: 0px;"><strong>Bridgett
                                              Davis </strong>is the
                                            author of <strong>“</strong>The
                                            World According to Fannie
                                            Davis: My Mother’s Life in
                                            the Detroit Numbers,” an
                                            unusual memoir of how
                                            low-stakes gambling helped
                                            fuel -- and fund --  racial
                                            justice work in Detroit.  
                                            While it tells how her
                                            mother ran a successful
                                            illegal numbers operation
                                            when Bridgett was young, it
                                            is also about the African
                                            American strivers of
                                            Detroit, the evolution of
                                            her own family history and a
                                            tale of female empowerment
                                            as well as a love letter to
                                            her mother. Born and raised
                                            in Detroit, Bridgett is also
                                            the author of two novels,
                                            “Into the Go-Slow” and
                                            “Shifting Through Neutral.”</p>
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                                        <h3>Susan Isaacs</h3>
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                                            style="font-family:
                                            helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span>Official
                                              Website:</span><br>
                                            <a
href="http://engage.vendini.com/f/a/LsOoi7ekqKB9vSq284lKbA~~/AAKLSgA~/RgRfa1VlP0UBNUR1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3VzYW5pc2FhY3MuY29tP2NhbXBhaWduSUQ9MzQzODI3JnBhdHJvbklEPTEwMDkwODI0NjUmbGlua051bT02Jm1lbWJlcklEPWM3MWU5ZjNiZDdlM2IwNTE5NDI4NzUxMDhiMWQ4MWU0VwNzcGNCCgAmZdCIXbmNeFdSFHR1cmdlb250QGxpYmNvb3AubmV0WAQAAAAA"
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                                        <p style="margin: 0px; padding:
                                          0px;"><strong>Susan Isaacs</strong> is
                                          the best-selling author of 14
                                          novels, including
                                          “Compromising Positions,”
                                          “Shining Through,” “After All
                                          These Years,” and “As Husbands
                                          Go.” Her new novel, “Takes One
                                          to Know One,” is a twisty
                                          mystery thriller. It features
                                          a retired FBI agent turned
                                          Long Island housewife who taps
                                          into her investigative past
                                          when she begins to suspect
                                          that her neighbor is harboring
                                          criminal secrets. Susan is a
                                          former editor of Seventeen, a
                                          freelance political
                                          speechwriter, chairman of the
                                          board of Poets & Writers
                                          and a past president of
                                          Mystery Writers of America.</p>
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                                        <h3>James Poniewozik</h3>
                                        <span style="font-family:
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                                            style="font-family:
                                            helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span>Official
                                              Website:</span><br>
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                                        <p style="margin: 0px; padding:
                                          0px;" align="left"><b>James
                                            Poniewozik, </b>the chief
                                          television critic of the New
                                          York Times, is the author of
                                          "Audience of One: Donald
                                          Trump, Television and the
                                          Fracturing of America."  His
                                          eye-opening book traces the
                                          history of TV and mass media
                                          from the simpler times of the
                                          1980s to its powerful
                                          worldwide presence today, and
                                          tells the almost unbelievable
                                          story of how a "volcanic,
                                          anti-hero" billionaire merged
                                          with the medium to become our
                                          45th president.  Originally
                                          from Monroe, James attended
                                          the University of Michigan. 
                                          He went on to write about TV
                                          for Time magazine for 16 years
                                          and has contributed to
                                          publications like Fortune,
                                          Salon and Rolling Stone.</p>
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                                      DIRECTIONS</b><br>
                                    The luncheon will be held at the
                                    Burton Manor, located at:</span><br>
                                  <br>
                                  <span style="font-family: helvetica;
                                    font-size: 14px;">27777 Schoolcraft
                                    Road</span><br>
                                  <span style="font-family: helvetica;
                                    font-size: 14px;">Livonia, MI, 48150<br>
                                    (between Middlebelt & Inkster
                                    off I-96)<br>
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      <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">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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