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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Lara Love Hardin 
LOCATION:Duluth Branch\nDuluth Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Author Lara Love Hardin discusses her book "The Many Lives of 
 Mama Love\," the March Oprah Book Club Pick. .\nhttps://gwinnettpl.libnet.
 info/event/10672276
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>OPRAH&rsquo\;S MARCH BOOK CLUB PICK - <em>
 The Many Lives of Mama Love</em> is a heartbreaking and tender journey fro
 m shame to redemption\, despite a system that makes it almost impossible f
 or us to move beyond the worst thing we have ever done.</p>\n<p>New York T
 imes bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mo
 m to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a
  highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing\, no-holds-barred memoir.
 </p>\n<p><strong>Please register at: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e
 /the-gwinnett-county-public-library-presents-an-evening-w-lara-love-hardin
 -tickets-885881594697?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-
 gwinnett-county-public-library-presents-an-evening-w-lara-love-hardin-tick
 ets-885881594697?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<hr />\n<p><e
 m><strong>Lara Love Hardin</strong></em> is a literary agent\, author\, pr
 ison reform advocate\, and president of True Literary. She has an MFA in c
 reative writing and is a four-time New York Times bestselling collaborativ
 e writer\, including the #1 New York Times bestseller <em>Designing Your L
 ife</em>\, and 2018 Oprah Book Club pick\, <em>The Sun Does Shine</em>\, w
 hich she co-authored with Anthony Ray Hinton about his 30 years as an inno
 cent man on Alabama&rsquo\;s death row. In 2019\, she won a Christopher Aw
 ard for her work &ldquo\;affirming the highest values of the human spirit\
 ,&rdquo\; nominated for an NAACP Image Award\, and short-listed for the Da
 yton Literary Peace Prize. Lara is also the co-founder of The Gemma Projec
 t\, a gender-responsive organization serving incarcerated and formerly inc
 arcerated women with integrity and compassion. Love Hardin lives in La Sel
 va Beach\, California\, with her husband\, Sam. She has four children\, tw
 o stepchildren\, five dogs\, three cats\, twenty-one chickens\, and four d
 ucks.</p>\n<p><span style="color: #999999\;"><em>Presented by Adult Servic
 es</em></span></p>\nhttps://gwinnettpl.libnet.info/event/10672276
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