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Article: MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES PARTICIPATING IN 'ONE MARYLAND ONE BOOK' PROGRAM; LOCAL PROGRAMS HELD IN OCTOBER

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October 8, 2009
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ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 7 -- Montgomery County issued the following press release:

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) is participating in the second annual "One Maryland One Book" (OMOB) statewide reading program designed to encourage the shared experience of reading and discussing the same pre-selected book.

The work chosen for 2009 is James McBride's "Song Yet Sung," set on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the 1850s. It is an intricate, gripping tale of escaped slaves, free blacks and slave catchers. The protagonist is an enslaved woman called The Dreamer, whose gift for visions of the future quickly reaches mythic proportions after she escapes from a local plantation. McBride, a former ...

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