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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Big Library (e)Read is here - March 17-31

Join OverDrive's Big Library Read 
 featuring
Shakespeare Saved My Life:  
Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
by Laura Bates
(find out more about this title below)
 
This eBook is available for free immediate download - no holds, no waitlists - on your library eBook account.  (Not signed up for library eBooks?  Contact the library)

Visit the OverDrive Download Centre before March 31 
(that's when the Big Library Read ends!)
 
Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
While He Was Breaking Out of Prison, She Was Trying to Break In. 
Shakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided to teach Shakespeare in a place the bard had never been before — supermax solitary confinement. In this unwelcoming place, surrounded by inmates known as the worst of the worst, is Larry Newton. A convicted murderer with several escape attempts under his belt and a brilliantly agile mind on his shoulders, Larry was trying to break out of prison at the same time Laura was fighting to get her program started behind bars.
Thus begins the most unlikely of friendships, one bonded by Shakespeare and lasting years—a friendship that, in the end, would save more than one life.



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