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The Retired Members Round Table (RMRT) shall exist to develop programs of particular interest to retired persons from all types of libraries and all forms of library services, including formal opportunities for continued involvement and learning; a variety of leadership training and opportunities for mentoring; lifelong professional involvement and networking; and active engagement in the American Library Association and the profession of librarianship.

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RMRT Book Club Books - Biographies - January 20th

  • 1.  RMRT Book Club Books - Biographies - January 20th

    Posted Jan 30, 2023 12:10 PM
    Good morning everyone,

    Ann Marie and I compiled the list of books discussed in yesterday's book club. Please feel free to correct as you see fit. I tried to make sure the spelling was correct on all the information below, especially the author information. I do not have the author for the Cary Grant Biography because there were a lot and I didn't know which one was recommended. Nancy, could you please let us know the full title of that book and the author?

    Thanks every, that was really fun!

    Spare - Prince Harry
    Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor - Anne Edwards
    Maus: A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman
    Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience - Kristin Downey
    Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
    Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints - Daneen Akers 
    The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
    Gender Queer: A Memoir. Maia Kobabe and Phoebe Kobabe
    I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted - Jennifer Finney Boylan
    No Ordinary Time - Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Honorable mention 
    Jimmy Buffet: A Pirate at Fifty - Jimmy Buffet
    Cary Grant - (I didn't know which one it was)
    Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope - Patrick Dylan


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    Lisa Kippur
    She/Her/Hers
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