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<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Genevak, Sans Serif"><span style="line-height:22px">Friends of Rochambeau Library Annual Meeting</span></font><br>
<font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Genevak, Sans Serif"><span style="line-height:22px">(<a href="http://www.friendsofrochambeau.org">www.friendsofrochambeau.org</a>)</span></font></strong></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif';line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
The officers and board of the Friends of Rochambeau Library invite you to join us at our annual meeting. Not a Friends member yet? Join at the meeting.</p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif';line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<strong>When:</strong> Monday June 4, 2012 @ 7:30pm<br><strong>Where:</strong> Meeting in the Community Room in the basement, 708 Hope Street, Providence RI<br><b>Cost:</b> Free<br><strong>Agenda:</strong> We will also be welcoming our new board members and voting on a change to the organization’s by-laws.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Featured speaker:</strong><font color="#333333" style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:22px"> </font><font style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:22px">Ann Hood</font><font face="Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Genevak, Sans Serif"><span style="line-height:22px">, </span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif';font-size:13px;line-height:22px">best selling author of both fiction and non-fiction. (</font><span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:22px"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Genevak, Sans Serif"><a href="http://www.annhood.us">www.annhood.us</a>)</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif'"><i>Ann Hood was born in West Warwick, Rhode Island. She grew up with stories of her father’s travels around the world during his 20 years in the Navy. These stories inspired her to become a flight attendant for TWA after receiving her BA in English from the University of Rhode Island. She lived in Boston and St. Louis before moving to New York City, where she attended graduate school at NYU in American Literature.</i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><i><span style="line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif'">During a furlough from TWA, she worked at the Spring Street Bookstore in Soho </span><span style="line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif'">and slung ribs at Tony Roma’s while writing her first novel, SOMEWHERE OFF THE COAST OF MAINE. Soon, she was publishing essays and short stories in The Washington Post, Mademoiselle, Redbook, Story, and many other magazines. At various times over the years, she has had regular columns in Self, Glamour, New Woman, and Parenting.</span></i></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif'"><i>Most recently, she is the author of the bestselling novel, THE KNITTING CIRCLE, and the memoir, COMFORT: A JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF, which was named one of the top ten non fiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her other novels include: WAITING TO VANISH (Bantam, 1988), THREE-LEGGED HORSE (Bantam, 1989), SOMETHING BLUE (Bantam, 1991), PLACES TO STAY THE NIGHT (Doubleday, 1993), THE PROPERTIES OF WATER (Doubleday, 1995), and RUBY (Picador, 1998). She has also written a memoir, DO NOT GO GENTLE: MY SEARCH FOR MIRACLES IN A CYNICAL TIME (Picador, 1999); a book on the craft of writing, CREATING CHARACTER EMOTIONS (Story Press, 1998); and a collection of short stories, AN ORNITHOLOGIST’S GUIDE TO LIFE (Norton, 2004).</i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif'"><i>Her essays and short stories have appeared in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE NEW YORK TIMES, LADIES HOME JOURNAL, MORE, TIN HOUSE, PLOUGHSHARES, and THE PARIS REVIEW. Ann has won a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. She now lives in Providence, RI with her husband and their children.</i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Tahoma,Genevak,'Sans Serif'"><i>Her new novel, THE RED THREAD, will be published in May 2010 by WW Norton.</i></span></p>
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