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Great job, jay! Thanks for giving this thought .<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On May 13, 2023, at 4:00 PM, Jay Kearney <jaykearney401@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">There are at this point four books that have been suggested as the next for our group to read. Each comes with the possibility of the author attending a meeting with us, either in person or via Zoom:
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<li><b>The Auburn Conference </b>by Tom Piazza (recommended by David Berger). Per David, well written and moves along, at only 200 pages. "It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has
managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn Writers\u2019 Conference for a public
discussion about the future of the nation"</li><li><b>A Speck in the Sea </b>by John Aldridge and Anthony Sosinski<b> </b>(recommended by Harold). "On the night of July 24, 2013, John is thrown off the back of his boat - the Anna Mary, while his partner Anthony is sleeping. This is a story of perseverance
and survival."<br>
</li><li><b>Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore\u2019s Deadliest Gang Leader
</b>by Mark Bowden (per Nino). "In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang
members in prison."<br>
</li><li><b>Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice after Hurricane Katrina</b> by Jared Fishman and Joseph Hooper (per Fred). "Fire on the Levee tells the story of a young idealistic prosecutor determined to bring the truth to
light. The case would lead to major reforms in the New Orleans Police Department and ultimately change our understanding of race, policing and justice in post-Katrina New Orleans and beyond."</li></ol>
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<div>We can address all this either at our meeting on Sunday or on our next Zoom. In addition, we should discuss what the primary criteria in choosing books to read should be. Is it either 1) having an author at the meeting, or 2) the quality, interest and
timeliness of a book? Or do we alternate on that question? Food for thought, discussion and debate, Jay</div>
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