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Brown Bag Talking Book Discussion
May 14 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Brown Bag Talking Book Discussion
The group discusses two audiobooks each month. Listen to all, one, or even none… everyone is welcome!
Meet in person or join in remotely.
To join remotely by phone, please Call: 267-807-9601 and use Access Code: 965803, or join virtually by visiting bit.ly/TCLbtbcall
Titles are voted on 3 months in advance. This month’s titles:
Fright Night by Miriam Toews
DB 105332
6 hours, 22 minutes. Humor, General.
Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, has to be homeschooled by her grandmother after she is expelled. Grandma gives her the task of writing to Swiv’s absent father about life in the household during the last trimester of the pregnancy. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.
Framed: Astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions by John Grisham
DB 124686
13 hours, 58 minutes. True Crime, Social Sciences, U.S. History
“In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the injustice faced by the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and the corrupt court system that can make them so hard to reverse.”– Goodreads. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
New attendees: Please call the library or click on the covers above to place copies on hold. Or current BTB members can use the Talking Book Order Form to have copies sent on cartridge.