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SUMMARY:Monthly Book Club 
LOCATION:Palm Springs North Branch\nPalm Springs North Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special Monthly Book Club event with local autho
 r Anita Mitchell as she shares how a post-retirement blog entry evolved in
 to her book "God Took My Arms but He Gave Me THIS GIFT: The Story of Abbas
  Karimi\, PLY." Discover the inspiring story of champion swimmer Abbas Kar
 imi\, an Afghan refugee born without arms who became a two-time silver med
 alist in the 2024 Paris Paralympic games. For more information\, please co
 ntact the branch at 305-820-8564 or padronc@mdpls.org. Ages 18 yrs.+.\nhtt
 ps://mdpls.libnet.info/event/15063829
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>\n<p>Anita M
 itchell&nbsp\;collects people stories\, much the same way people collect s
 hoes or baseball cards or Lladro porcelain figurines. During her 26 years 
 at WSVN7\, she had the front-row seat to people&rsquo\;s stories\, and it 
 was there she learned about the extraordinariness of the ordinary...and th
 e ordinariness of the extraordinary. Since retiring from television news\,
  she served on the Board of Directors of Different Brains\, a charitable f
 oundation that supports neurodiverse adults. She also serves on the Board 
 of Directors of the Broward County Sports Hall of Fame. They honor residen
 ts who have set unique standards of excellence through sports.</p>\n<p>Ms.
  Mitchell has a Communications/English BA from Michigan State University a
 nd was part of the Journalism master&rsquo\;s program at Florida Internati
 onal University.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Since 2004\, she has swam competitively wi
 th our local Swim Fort Lauderdale Masters Swim Team (SFTL). She has a box 
 full of ribbons and medals from swim meets. In both 2013 and 2017 she was 
 a Team USA member for the Maccabi Games in Netanya\, Israel. So how are th
 e writing and the swimming\, the neurodiverse and honoring local sports fi
 gures connected? In her&nbsp\;heart she knows that they are.</p>\nhttps://
 mdpls.libnet.info/event/15063829
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