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SUMMARY:Director's Book Club (Online): A Marriage at Sea
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for an intimate conversation with Director of Broward 
 County Libraries\, Allison Grubbs\, on interesting titles!.\nhttps://browa
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p style="text-align: justify\;"><strong>THE 
 RUNAWAY&nbsp\;NEW YORK TIMES&nbsp\;BESTSELLER &amp\; ONE OF BARACK OBAMA&r
 squo\;S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025</strong></p>\n<p style="text-align: justify
 \;"><strong>A&nbsp\;NEW YORK TIMES&nbsp\;TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025</strong></p>\
 n<p style="text-align: justify\;"><strong>ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 B
 Y NPR\,&nbsp\;VOGUE\, TIME MAGAZINE\, THE NEW YORKER\, AND MORE</strong></
 p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;"><strong>&ldquo\;This is nonfiction th
 at reads like fiction &ndash\; the best kind. Elmhirst&rsquo\;s retelling 
 is a triumph\, second only to the seemingly impossible feat of Maurice and
  Maralyn themselves. You won&rsquo\;t be able to put it down.&rdquo\;&nbsp
 \;&ndash\; USA Today</strong></p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;"><stron
 g>&ldquo\;Remarkable&hellip\; I found myself\, alternately\, holding my br
 eath as I read at top speed\, wandering rooms in search of someone to read
  aloud to\, and placing the book facedown\, arrested by quiet statements t
 hat left me reeling with their depth.&rdquo\;&nbsp\;&ndash\; The New York 
 Times</strong></p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;"><strong>&ldquo\;Such 
 an emotionally vivid portrait of a couple in isolation that I was shocked 
 it wasn&rsquo\;t fiction. How could a writer get so deeply into the minds 
 of two real people in such extraordinary circumstances? &hellip\; So brill
 iantly depicted.&rdquo\;&nbsp\;&ndash\; Elle</strong></p>\n<p style="text-
 align: justify\;"><strong>&ldquo\;A beautiful meditation on endurance\, co
 dependence\, and the power of love. A dazzling book.&rdquo\; &ndash\; Patr
 ick Radden Keefe</strong></p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;"><strong>&l
 dquo\;An enthralling\, engrossing story of survival and the resilience of 
 the human spirit.&rdquo\; &mdash\;Bill Bryson</strong></p>\n<p style="text
 -align: justify\;"><strong>An instant&nbsp\;New York Times&nbsp\;bestselle
 r\, this is the electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at s
 ea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession\, survival\, and partnership stretche
 d to its limits.</strong></p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">Maurice an
 d Maralyn make an odd couple. He&rsquo\;s a loner\, awkward and obsessive\
 ; she&rsquo\;s charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasti
 ng their lives. And they dream &ndash\; as we all dream &ndash\; of runnin
 g away from it all. What if they quit their jobs\, sold their house\, boug
 ht a boat\, and sailed away?</p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">Most of
  us begin and end with the daydream. But in June 1972\, Maurice and Maraly
 n set sail. For nearly a year all went well\, until deep in the Pacific\, 
 a breaching whale knocked a hole in their boat and it sank beneath the wav
 es.</p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">What ensues is a jaw-dropping fi
 ght to survive in the wild ocean\, with little hope of rescue. Alone toget
 her for months in a tiny rubber raft\, starving and exhausted\, Maurice an
 d Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay alive but ways to get along\,
  as their inner demons emerge and their marriage is put to the greatest of
  tests. Although they could run away from the world\, they can&rsquo\;t ru
 n away from themselves.</p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">Taut\, propu
 lsive\, and dazzling\,&nbsp\;A Marriage at Sea&nbsp\;pairs an adrenaline-f
 ueled high seas adventure with a gutting love story that asks why we love 
 difficult people\, and who we become under the most extreme conditions ima
 ginable.</p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><strong>A Service of the Bro
 ward County Board of County Comissioners.</strong></p>\nhttps://broward.li
 bnet.info/event/16747376
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