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SUMMARY:Tuesday Afternoon Book Discussion
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Tuesday\, June 16th\, 2PM: Happy Land\, by
  Dolen Perkins-Valdez</p>\n<p>A woman learns the astonishing truth of her 
 family's ties to a real-life American kingdom in this transporting and riv
 eting new novel from the New York Times bestselling\, NAACP Award-winning 
 author of Take My Hand. In the hills of Appalachia\, there once existed a 
 land ruled by a king and a queen. Inspired by distant memories of African 
 kingdoms\, a community of formerly enslaved men and women grasped freedom 
 and started lives on mountain land that they owned. They worked hard\, liv
 ed well\, and loved there. For a time the kingdom thrived...and then it di
 sappeared. Present Day. Nikki hasn't seen her grandmother in years\, due t
 o a mysterious estrangement inherited from her mother. So when the elder c
 alls out of the blue with an urgent request for Nikki to visit her in the 
 hills of western North Carolina\, Nikki hesitates only for a moment. After
  years of silence in her family\, she's determined to get answers while sh
 e still can. But instead of answers about the recent past\, Mother Rita te
 lls Nikki a shocking story about her great-great-great-grandmother Queen L
 uella and the very land they are standing on. Land that Mother Rita says m
 ust be protected. The more Nikki learns about the Kingdom of the Happy Lan
 d and the lives of those who dwelled in the ruins she finds in the woods-w
 ho are buried beneath stone grave markers-the more she understands that so
 metimes\, atonement for the previous generations' mistakes falls squarely 
 on the shoulders of the descendants. And it's up to her to make things rig
 ht.</p>\n<p>Tuesday\, August 18th\, 2PM:&nbsp\; <em><a href="https://disco
 ver.cuyahogalibrary.org/GroupedWork/4d994d99-6211-badf-1431-469e7175fa36-e
 ng/Home?searchId=36754181&amp\;recordIndex=1&amp\;page=1&amp\;searchSource
 =local&amp\;referred=resultIndex">Free Lunch</a></em>\, by Rex Ogle</p>\n<
 p>A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on t
 he free lunch program is timely\, heartbreaking\, and true. Free Lunch is 
 the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby br
 other often went hungry\, wore secondhand clothes\, and were short of scho
 ol supplies\, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in 
 the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce
  it every day in the school lunch line\, Rex's is a compelling story of a 
 more profound hunger -- that of a child for his parents' love and care. Co
 mpulsively readable\, beautifully crafted\, and authentically told with th
 e voice and point of view of a 6th-grade kid\, Free Lunch is a remarkable 
 debut by a gifted storyteller.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>** A meeting link will be 
 emailed to registered participants approximately one hour prior to the sta
 rt of the meeting.&nbsp\; Staff will be available for help with connecting
  to Zoom and technical issued beginning 15 minutes prior to the program.&n
 bsp\; You will need a device with audio and/or video and an internet conne
 ction to join.</p>\n<p>If you have any questions\, please call the Chagrin
  Falls Branch at (440)247-3556.</p>\nhttps://cuyahoga.libnet.info/event/16
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