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SUMMARY:Susan Beckham Zurenda
LOCATION:Marion-Franklin\nMarion-Franklin
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DESCRIPTION:Author Susan Beckham Zurenda shares her novel No Way Out But T
 hrough as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month..\nhttps://columbus.li
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<h3>Authors at the Library with SUSAN BECKHAM
  ZURENDA</h3>\n<div><b data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">MARION-FRANKLIN 
 BRANCH</b></div>\n<div><b>2800 Lockbourne Rd.&nbsp\;|&nbsp\;Columbus\,&nbs
 p\;OH 43207</b></div>\n<div><b>Friday\, October 2 |&nbsp\;4:00 p.m.&nbsp\;
 </b></div>\n<p><strong>3:30 p.m.&nbsp\;</strong>| Book Sale Opens<strong><
 br /></strong><strong>4:00 p.m.</strong> | Author Talk with Susan Zurenda<
 br /><strong>4:40 p.m.&nbsp\;</strong>| Audience Q&amp\;AA<br /><strong>4<
 /strong><strong>:50 p.m.</strong> | <span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBod
 y">LSS CHOICES for Victims of Domestic Violence</span> <br /><strong>5</st
 rong><strong>:00 p.m.</strong> | Book signing</p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AU
 THOR</strong></p>\n<p><span>Susan Beckham Zurenda taught English for 33 ye
 ars on the college level and at the high school level to AP students. She 
 is the author of the Southern literary novel\, <em>Bells for Eli</em>\, th
 at received several awards including first place for Best First Book&mdash
 \;Fiction in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Her novel <em>The
  Girl From the Red Rose Motel</em> was the recipient of the 2024 Patricia 
 Winn Award in Southern Fiction and first place winner for Southeast Fictio
 n in the 2024 Independent Book Publisher Book Awards\, among others. Zuren
 da has published and won awards for her short fiction\, including the Sout
 h Carolina Fiction Prize\, twice. Susan lives in Spartanburg\, SC. </span>
 </p>\n<p><span>Learn more at <a href="http://www.susanzurenda.com">www.sus
 anzurenda.com</a>.</span></p>\n<p><img src="https://static.libnet.info/fro
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 o/frontend-images/editor/columbus/coverNWOBTfinaljpeg.jpg" alt="Book cover
  image" title="How to Survive Camping\, The Man With No Shadow" width="300
 " height="453" /><br /><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK</s
 trong></p>\n<p><span>When author Shannon Irwin meets Grace Ferrall and agr
 ees to interview the younger woman and tell the story of Grace&rsquo\;s fo
 rced child marriage and harrowing youth\, these very different women begin
  an unlikely relationship. Grace&rsquo\;s ordeal starts in Louisiana\, wit
 h an alcoholic father and a mother whose mood swings are often intolerable
 . When Grace is barely fifteen and living in Oklahoma\, her mother manipul
 ates her into marrying Rafe\, a scurrilous\, older man. Pregnant at sixtee
 n\, Grace is soon living in a truck near a river in Oregon with Rafe&rsquo
 \;s cult-like family.</span><br class="wixui-rich-text__text" /><br class=
 "wixui-rich-text__text" /><span>After years of abuse and multiple pregnanc
 ies and miscarriages\, with the help of an unlikely ally\, Grace escapes. 
 But her newfound freedom is fragile\, and she is forced to make impossible
  choices to protect herself and her two daughters. Trust builds between th
 e women as Grace shares details she has never told anyone\, while Shannon\
 , with a daughter Grace&rsquo\;s age\, and ridden with guilt about her for
 mer marriage\, reveals the dysfunction in her own life and the remorse she
  suffers.</span><br class="wixui-rich-text__text" /><br class="wixui-rich-
 text__text" /><span>A searing and compassionate exploration set in present
 -day Pawleys Island\, South Carolina\, and 1990s rural Oklahoma\,<em> No W
 ay Out but Through</em> is inspired by the real life of an ordinary woman 
 who survived extraordinary circumstances.</span></p>\n<p><strong>EVENT DET
 AILS</strong></p>\n<p>The event is free to the public but due to limited s
 eating registration is requested.</p>\n<p>Author's books will be sold on s
 ite by The Book Loft.</p>\n<p>October is Domestic Violence Awareness month
  and this event is held in partnership with <span data-olk-copy-source="Me
 ssageBody">LSS CHOICES for Victims of Domestic Violence</span>.</p>\n<p><i
  data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">LSS CHOICES for Victims of Domestic Vi
 olence provides safety\, shelter and support services for survivors of dom
 estic violence and their children. As Franklin County&rsquo\;s only domest
 ic violence shelter\, LSS CHOICES offers safe emergency shelter\, counseli
 ng\, transitional and rapid rehousing services\, community education and c
 onnections to resources that help survivors move toward safety and stabili
 ty. Using a trauma-informed\, client-centered approach\, LSS CHOICES serve
 s all survivors of domestic violence. LSS CHOICES is a program of Lutheran
  Social Services. Learn more at<span>&nbsp\;</span></i><a href="https://na
 m12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flssnetworkofhope.o
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 f you trust this link."><i>Home - LSS Choices</i></a><i>.</i></p>\n<p><i><
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