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color:black;font-weight:bold'>The </span></font></b><b><font size=4
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color:black;font-weight:bold'>Cape Cod</span></font></b><b><font size=4
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color:black;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=black
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font-weight:bold'>Museum</span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=black
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font-weight:bold'> of Natural History in Brewster</span></font></b></p>
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size=4 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Presents</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><font
size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>Bestselling Author Sena Jeter Naslund</span></font></b></p>
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bold'>Friday, August 7, at </span></font></b><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>7:00 pm</span></font></b></p>
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color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: </span></font></b><b><font color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>July 16, 2009</span></font></b></p>
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color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Contact: Julie O’Neil
508-896-3867 or </span></font></b><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><u><font
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href="mailto:adminsupprt@ccmnh.org">adminsupport@ccmnh.org</a></span></font></u></b></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial'>Bestselling author Sena
Jeter Naslund will be reading from her work at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural
History in Brewster on Friday, August 7, at 7:00 pm. Member: $3.00, Non-member:
$5.00. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial'>Joining the ranks
of books designated as “Modern Classics,” her novel <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Ahab’s Wife</span></i> has just been reissued
in a deluxe paperback edition by Perennial Press. Set on </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Nantucket</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> and the high seas, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Ahab’s Wife</span></i> was selected as a
Notable Book by the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>New York Times,
Publishers’ Weekly,</span></i> and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Time</span></i>
magazine. Naslund’s reading will be followed by a discussion of her
writing process, an informal reception and book signing. This event is Ms. Naslund’s
only </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Cape Cod</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> appearance.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial'>Sena Naslund is
also the author of national bestselling novels <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Four
Spirits</span></i>, set in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil
Rights era; and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Abundance: A Novel of Marie
Antoinette</span></i>. She is Writer in Residence and Distinguished Teaching
Professor at the </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>University</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> of </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Louisville</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>, as well as Program Director of the </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Spalding</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>University</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> brief-residency MFA in Writing and former Kentucky
Poet Laureate.</span></font></p>
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style='font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'> of Natural History,</span></font></b></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>508-896-3867, Ext. 133.</span></font></b></p>
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