<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><div fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BCLS to host international best-selling author Miles Harvey</strong></div><div fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px;" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-family: arial;" style="font-family: arial; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: border-box;">BAY COUNTY, MI--The Bay County Library System is excited to host international best-selling author Miles Harvey via Zoom on Wednesday, June 2 at 7:00 pm. Miles will talk about his acclaimed book, <em fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch</em>, which was selected as a Michigan Notable Book and <em fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;" style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times Book Review</em> Editors' Choice pick in 2020.</span></span><span fr-original-style="font-family: arial;" style="font-family: arial; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></div><div fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px;" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-family: arial;" style="font-family: arial; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px;" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-family: arial;" style="font-family: arial; box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></span></span></div><div fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px;" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-family: arial;" style="font-family: arial; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px;" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-family: arial;" style="font-family: arial; box-sizing: border-box;">Described as "<span fr-original-style="line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white;" style="line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white; box-sizing: border-box;">[A] rollicking story, ripe for a Hollywood treatment</span>" by <em fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vanity Fair, </em>and a tale that will "<span fr-original-style="line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white;" style="line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white; box-sizing: border-box;">astonish and delight fans of American history" by </span><em fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white;" style="line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white; box-sizing: border-box;">Publishers Weekly</span></em><span fr-original-style="line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white;" style="line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white; box-sizing: border-box;">,</span><em fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white;" style="line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </strong></span></em></span></span><span fr-original-style="fon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