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SUMMARY:Solidarity Stories: Community Led Book Discussion "What Storm\, Wh
 at Thunder"
LOCATION:Administrative Offices\n<p>Limited parking is available via the g
 arage on 39th Street and Rhode Island Avenue and additional parking can be
  found across the street in the lot next to the Bunker Hill Fire Station. 
 Parking is free for program participants and no purchase is required\, but
  participants are welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, or dinner from Mixt&r
 squo\;s vendors. For more information\, visit their website: https://mixtf
 oodhall.com.</p>
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=<p>Limited parking is avai
 lable via the garage on 39th Street and Rhode Island Avenue and additional
  parking can be found across the street in the lot next to the Bunker Hill
  Fire Station. Parking is free for program participants and no purchase is
  required\, but participants are welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, or din
 ner from Mixt&rsquo\;s vendors. For more information\, visit their website
 : https://mixtfoodhall.com.</p>;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Administrative O
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Mount Rainier Branch Library and the Prince Georgeâ
 €™s County Office of Human Rights for our monthly book club!  This mon
 th we will discuss "What Storm\, What Thunder" by Myriam J.A. Chancy. This
  book was the One Maryland\, One Book pick for 2024\, an American Book Awa
 rd Winner\, and an Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist..\nhttps://pgcmls.l
 ibnet.info/event/12285963
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><img src="https://static.libnet.info/front
 end-images/editor/pgcmls/WhatStormWhatThunder.jpg" width="350" height="542
 " alt="" style="display: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: auto\;"
  /></p>\n<p>"At the end of a long\, sweltering day\, an earthquake of 7.0 
 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti\, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning auth
 or Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the character
 s affected by the disaster&mdash\;Richard\, an expat and wealthy water-bot
 tling executive with a secret daughter\; the daughter\, Anne\, an architec
 t who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO\; a small-time
  drug trafficker\, Leopold\, who pines for a beautiful call girl\; Sonia a
 nd her business partner\, Dieudonn&eacute\;\, who are followed by a man th
 ey believe is the vodou spirit of death\; Didier\, an emigrant musician wh
 o drives a taxi in Boston\; Sara\, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her c
 hildren in an IDP camp\; her husband\, Olivier\, an accountant forced to a
 bandon the wife he loves\; their son\, Jonas\, who haunts them both\; and 
 Ma Lou\, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them al
 l.Brilliantly crafted\, fiercely imagined\, and deeply haunting\, What Sto
 rm\, What Thunder is a singular\, stunning record\, a reckoning of the hea
 rtbreaking trauma of disaster\, and&mdash\;at the same time&mdash\;an unfo
 rgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit."</p>\n<p>&mdash\;
 From Catalog.</p>\n<hr />\n<p>Borrow the book from PGCMLS:&nbsp\;<a href="
 https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp
 \;pos=3&amp\;cn=1296416">Print</a>&nbsp\;| <a href="https://catalog.pgcmls
 .info/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=2&amp\;cn=150162
 7">eBook</a> | <a href="https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.a
 spx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=1&amp\;cn=1295274">eAudiobook</a></p>\n<p>So
 lidarity Stories: Community Led Book Discussion takes place on the 3rd Tue
 sday of each month in the upstairs lounge area of miXt Food Hall in Brentw
 ood\, MD. Limited parking is available via the garage on 39th St &amp\; Rh
 ode Island Ave. Parking is free for program participants and no purchase i
 s required\, but participants are welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, or di
 nner from miXt&rsquo\;s vendors. For more information\, visit their websit
 e: <a href="https://mixtfoodhall.com">https://mixtfoodhall.com</a></p>\nht
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