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Pageturners: "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"

The Tesson Ferry Pageturners meet each month to discuss a different book. This month the novel of interest is a nonfiction one, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," by Rebecca Skloot. Learn about a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cells lived on long afer she died, in laboratories where they helped solve the world's medical problems.

Recommended for adults, registration requested. There will be another opportunity to discuss the book at 7 p.m.

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