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Inglenook Book Club April Meeting

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Inglenook Book Club held the April meeting at Lakeside Senior Living Community in McKenzie on April 13. Hostesses were Carolyn Moore and Mary Newman. They served delicious coconut/orange cake along with Easter chocolates.

President Carolyn Moore called the meeting to order. The Pledge of Allegiance, Club Aim and Motto were recited by all.

Roll call and the reading of March minutes were given by the recording secretary and approved as read. Treasurer Donna Ward gave the treasurers report, and it was approved.

Happy Birthday was sung by all for our April birthday gal, Pedie Petersen.

Sunshine Committee Chair Sheila Rogers was absent so Suzanne Howell distributed birthday/get well cards. She also had two names of ladies inquiring to become members.

In unfinished business President Moore stated 23 packs of markers, 20 packs pencils, 8 packs index cards, and Clorox wipes were collected and taken to the school in March.

New business was brought forward, where Carolyn Potts mentioned the club give a monetary donation to the McKenzie Memorial Library. Motion was made and approved by all present.

The program was given by Shirley Martin, who spoke to us about author Anna Lee Huber, who is a USA Today Bestselling Author, Daphne award-winning author of the Lady Darby Mysteries, Gothic Myths series, and the anthology The Deadly Hours. Huber is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. Ms. Huber was born and raised in a small town in Ohio, where from a young age her imagination was boundless. She spent summers playing Star Wars with her four brothers and one sister, wearing her mother’s old night gowns, snow boots, and using plastic bats for light-sabers. She had dreams of becoming a rock star, more along the lines on Amy Grant than Britney Spears, so she attended college in Music City USA-Nashville. This is where she met her husband while she was acting in a school production of Our Town. They wed shortly before she graduated from Lipscomb.

Ms. Huber, whose love for writing fiction, now pens her best selling Lady Darby historical mystery series for Berkley Publishing, the Verity Kent historical mystery series for Kensington Publishing, the Gothic Myths series for Brightstone Media, and is also part of The Deadly Hours anthology with fellow authors Susanna Kearsley, C.S. Harris, and Christine Trent, published by Sourcebooks.

Ms. Huber resides in Indiana with her husband and two young daughters, and a trouble-making tabby cat named Pita. When not hard at work on her next novel, she enjoys reading, singing, traveling, and spending time with her family.

Booked were passed to members with the next book passing date of April 27.

Our next meeting will be on May 11 at 3pm at Lakeside Senior Living. Items to bring for the school May meeting will be scissors. Our hostesses will be Carolyn Goodwin and Elaine Williams. Zia Locke will present program for Sandi McMahen.

Benediction was recited by all and the meeting was adjourned. Everyone made it home safely before the storms came into McKenzie.

Members present: Victoria Ard, Carolyn Goodwin, Jean Hollomon, Suzanne Howell, Geneva Johnson, Gayron Lyles, Gail Mack, Shirley Martin, Carolyn Moore, Beverly Mueller, Mary Newman, Pedie Petersen, Carolyn Potts, Marilynn Putman, Suzanne Russell, Genia Sherwood, Sally Sutton, Donna Ward, and Elaine Williams.