<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b><font size="4">Virtual History Book Club: The Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian</font></b><div><b><font size="4">Wednesday August 31 at 7 pm</font></b></div><div><b><font size="4">Via Zoom</font></b></div><div><b><font size="4"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font size="4">The author will be joining us!</font></b></div><div><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-history-book-club-the-hour-of-the-witch-by-chris-bohjalian-tickets-153440764457"><br></a></div><div><b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-history-book-club-the-hour-of-the-witch-by-chris-bohjalian-tickets-153440764457">Register here to receive the login information</a></b></div><div><b><font size="4"><br></font></b></div><div><div class="gmail-g-cell gmail-g-cell-1-1 gmail-g-cell-md-7-12 gmail-g-cell--no-gutters gmail-l-lg-pad-right-6" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;width:560px;box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;vertical-align:top;letter-spacing:0.5px;font-size:0.933333rem;line-height:1.25rem;color:rgb(57,54,79);font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-g-group gmail-l-mar-bot-6 gmail-l-sm-mar-bot-4" style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;font-size:0px;letter-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail-structured-content gmail-g-cell gmail-g-cell-10-12 gmail-g-cell-md-1-1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 15px;width:560px;box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;vertical-align:top;letter-spacing:0.5px;font-size:0.933333rem;line-height:1.25rem"><h2 class="gmail-text-body-large gmail-hide-small" style="padding:0px;font-size:1.2rem;line-height:1.5rem;letter-spacing:0.25px">About this event</h2><div class="gmail-has-user-generated-content" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-structured-content-rich-text gmail-structured-content__module gmail-l-align-left gmail-l-mar-vert-6 gmail-l-sm-mar-vert-4 gmail-text-body-medium" style="margin:30px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.933333rem;line-height:1.25rem"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(111,114,135);font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem">'Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary--a woman who harbors secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen hypocrisy of so many men in the colony--soon becomes herself the object of suspicion and rumor. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs and simples dies, and when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from her home, Mary must fight to not only escape her marriage, but also the gallows. A twisting, tightly plotted novel of historical suspense from one of our greatest storytellers, Hour of the Witch is a timely and terrifying story of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch hunt"  </p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(111,114,135);font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem"><br></p></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-g-group" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0px;letter-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail-g-cell gmail-g-cell-10-12 gmail-g-cell-md-12-12" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 15px;width:560px;box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;vertical-align:top;letter-spacing:0.5px;font-size:0.933333rem;line-height:1.25rem"><div class="gmail-listing-info__footer gmail-clrfix" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-share-wrapper gmail-l-sm-mar-bot-4" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;float:left"><div id="gmail-listings-root__share-event" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="eds-l-mar-top-2 eds-text--left" style="margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="eds-l-pad-right-1" style="padding-right:4px"><span class="eds-icon-button eds-icon-button--neutral" style="display:inline-block"><button class="eds-btn--button eds-btn--none eds-btn--icon-only" type="button" style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:8px;overflow:visible;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-align:left;border-radius:40px;height:40px;width:40px"><div class="gmail-g-group gmail-l-lg-mar-bot-6 gmail-l-md-mar-bot-4 gmail-l-pad-bot-6" style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px 0px 30px;font-size:0px;letter-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail-g-cell gmail-g-cell-10-12 gmail-g-cell-md-12-12" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 15px;w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