<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="">Hello Michlib-l,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Please join us at 7:00 PM, Monday, October 7th as we welcome Michigan author John Wukovits for a discussion of his book Lost at Sea: Eddie Rickenbacker's Twenty-Four Days Adrift on the Pacific Ocean- A World War II Tale of Courage and Faith.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">While
conducting a government mission during WWII, famed aviator and race car driver
Eddie Rickenbacker's, along with seven companions, B-17 was forced to crash
land on the ocean’s surface hundreds of miles from land. Join local author John
Wukovits for their tale of courage and faith while adrift for 24 days with
little fresh water or food on the Pacific. </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="">John is a military expert and an authority on the Pacific
Theater of World War II. He has written numerous books including Hell from the
Heavens, which is currently being adapted into a feature film, and his latest
Lost at Sea: Eddie Rickenbacker's Twenty-Four Days Adrift on the Pacific--A
World War II Tale of Courage and Faith.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;outline:none"><font color="#444444" face="verdana, sans-serif">Event is in person. Register is required. Tap <a href="https://www.baldwinlib.org/calendar/#/events/cMZMHlatUC/instances/45f37GUd1v/">here</a> to register.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"> </p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">H<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">ope to see you there!</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Mick Howey, MLIS</font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Adult Services Librarian II</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Baldwin Public Library</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">300 West Merrill Street</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Birmingham, MI 48009</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">(248) 554-4649</font></div></div></div></div></div></div>