Appreciate you all being here. Tonight we are featuring an acclaimed journalist in new york author Janice Kaplan in her fascinating book. She will be in conversation with kelly the ceo the women spawned of central ohio and this is going to be an illuminating evening. I will tell you that right now. I want to thank our partner, and our Wonderful Community partners who have the school for girls. I will introduce janice and kelly just a moment the first just one ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers you might have read. [laughter]. So we can just hear everything. I hope many of you have visited what we mentioned. We are right in the street and we would like any of you and invite you to come and see us and him and browse. Women open for just over three years and with hosted 300 events. [applause]. Besides being a fullservice independent bookstore, we want to connect the community. Thats exactly what were doing tonight and you receive the program when he came it in order q
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Incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and paid more than john 100 now in chicago looking up at the slightest death toll means for the United States. Every day we seem to hit a new grim milestone on friday it was that the United States had crossed 500000 recorded cases of the coronavirus on saturday is that the u. S. Has now registered 20000 deaths more than any other country including italy one 3rd of those cases was from new york state alone new York New Jersey and michigan being the hardest hit of all states so far and u. S. Health Officials Say they believe the infection are going to peak on Easter Sunday this coming sunday that was originally a date when President Trump is 81 of the u. S. To come out of this shelter in place orders and want to business to be back and moving again that is no longer happening that date seems to moved to may 1st and there are a lot of Public Health officials who are skeptical even about that date but there are places here in the United States w
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Evening ill say that right now. I want to thank our venue fantastic friends and their wonderful Committee Partners and all these organizations for helping us get the word out. I want to introduce janice and kelly and just minute that i want to ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers he might have with you tonight so we can just share everything. I hope many of you have visited gramercy books. We are right down the street. We invite any of you who have not been there before to come in we have been open for just over three years and we have hosted 300 events during that period. [applause] besides being a fullservice independent bookstore we intend to connect the community with authors launching important books and thats exactly what we are doing tonight. You receive a program when he came in and i want to quickly give a shoutout to three other events that are listed there. We have eight events every month per first two legend james ride. His latest novel won the National