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SUMMARY:Author Sadeqa Johnson
LOCATION:South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch\nSouth Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Join us when author Sadeqa Johnson visits to discuss her lates
 t novel\, <i>Keeper of Lost Children</i>..\nhttps://cuyahoga.libnet.info/e
 vent/15027635
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Registration for this event is&nbsp\;<stro
 ng>FREE</strong>.&nbsp\;VIP&nbsp\;tickets are also available for purchase.
 </p>\n<p><strong>Each VIP ticket ($30+fees) includes:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n
 <li>A copy of&nbsp\;<em><strong>Keeper of Lost Children</strong></em></li>
 \n<li>VIP seating at the event</li>\n<li>Signing line priority</li>\n<li>A
  donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation</li>\n</ul>\n<p
 ><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sadeqa-johnson-vip-ticket-tickets-1
 962633108460?aff=oddtdtcreator"><strong>CLICK HERE</strong></a>&nbsp\;to p
 urchase VIP tickets</p>\n<hr />\n<p><em>About the author:</em></p>\n<p><st
 rong>Sadeqa Johnson</strong> is the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling au
 thor of five novels. Her most recent novel\, <em>The House of Eve</em>\, w
 as an instant <em>New York Times</em> bestseller\, Reese&rsquo\;s Book Clu
 b selection\, NAACP Image Award nominee\, Goodreads Choice Award finalist 
 and Target Book Club pick. Her previous novel\, <em>Yellow Wife</em>\, was
  the Library of Virginia&rsquo\;s Literary People&rsquo\;s Choice Award wi
 nner\, Goodreads Choice Award finalist\, Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy 
 finalist\, BCALA Literary Award honoree and a Barnes &amp\; Noble Book Clu
 b selection. Originally from Philadelphia\, Sadeqa currently lives near Ri
 chmond\, Virginia. For more information\, go to <a href="http://www.Sadeqa
 .net">www.Sadeqa.net</a> and on Instagram @SadeqaSays.</p>\n<p><br />In <e
 m><strong>Keeper of Lost Children</strong></em>\, Ethel Gathers\, the prou
 d wife of an American Officer\, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s
 . After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race
  children of German women and Black American GI&rsquo\;s\, Ethel feels com
 pelled to help find these children homes.</p>\n<p>Philadelphia born Ozzie 
 Phillips volunteers for the recently desegregated army in 1948\, eager to 
 make his mark in the world. While serving in Manheim\, Germany\, he meets 
 a local woman\, Jelka\, and the two embark on a relationship that will imp
 act their lives forever.</p>\n<p>In 1965 Maryland\, Sophia Clark is given 
 an opportunity to attend a prestigious all white boarding school and escap
 e her heartless parents. While at the school\, she discovers a secret that
  upends her world and sends her on a quest to unravel her own identity.</p
 >\n<p>Toggling between the lives of these three individuals\,&nbsp\;Keeper
  of Lost Children&nbsp\;explores how one woman&rsquo\;s vision will change
  the course of countless lives\, and demonstrates that love in its myriad 
 of forms&mdash\;familial\, parental\, and forbidden\, even love of self&md
 ash\;can be transcendent.</p>\n<hr />\n<h3><strong>FAQs</strong></h3>\n<p>
 <br /><em><strong>Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy
  of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.</strong></em></p>\n<p><strong>NO REFU
 NDS.&nbsp\;</strong>If you are unable to attend the event\, please contact
 &nbsp\;<a href="mailto:events@cuyahogalibrary.org">events@cuyahogalibrary.
 org</a>&nbsp\;to claim the book(s) included with your ticket purchase and 
 schedule pick up from the CCPL branch of your choice. Books not claimed wi
 thin 7 days of the event will be donated to the Library.</p>\n<p><strong>Q
 uestions?</strong>&nbsp\;Email us at&nbsp\;<a href="mailto:events@cuyahoga
 library.org">events@cuyahogalibrary.org</a>.</p>\nhttps://cuyahoga.libnet.
 info/event/15027635
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