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73nd Luncheon -- October 20 , 2008 Tickets will be on sale beginning Sept. 8, 2008 |
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Book & Author Tickets (734) 397-0999 ext. 154 |
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Michael Connolly |
A longtime journalist who specialized in crime and disaster, Connelly has turned his experience into more than a dozen best-selling mystery novels that have won numerous awards and been translated into 35 languages. His new book is "The Brass Verdict." | |
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Richard Paul Evans |
Since his first book "The Christmas Box" became a world-wide publishing sensation, Evans has gone on to write 10 more inspirational novels that have sold more than 13 million copies. His uplifting new book is titled "Grace." | |
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Margaret Maron |
Born and bred on a hard-scrabble North Carolina tobacco farm, Maron's highly acclaimed new mystery novel "Death's Half Acre" is a mellow and down-home tale of crime and social change as the modern world of malls and Starbucks collides with the old ways of rural Carolina. | |
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Helene Cooper |
A former New York Times reporter and a descendant of two Liberian dynasties, Cooper's "The House at Sugar Beach" is her moving memoir about growing up in Liberia during that country's civil war and coming back as an adult to face difficult truths. | |
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Anne Ford |
Ford, the daughter of Henry Ford II, raised a child with learning disabilities and wrote about it in the 2003 memoir "Laughing Allegra." Her new book, "On their Own," offers hope and insight to parents of the learning disabled who want their children to be independent.
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