On Thursday, October 18, at 7:00 p.m. The Friends of the Seaside Library will host Lois Leveen author of The Secrets of Mary Browser. The event will take place in the Community Room and there will be book sales and signings presented by Beach Books.

Based on a remarkable true story, The Secrets of Mary Browser is an inspiring tale of one daring womans willingness to sacrifice her own freedom to change the course of history.

All her life Mary has been a slave in Richmond Virginia. The plantation owners daughter decides to send Mary to Philadelphia to be educated but she must leave everything she knows for a chance at freedom. Life in the North brings new friendships and a far different education than Mary ever expected one that leads her into the heart of the abolition movement. With the nation heading toward war she poses as a slave in the Confederate White House, in order to spy on President Jefferson Davis and give much needed information to the Union command.

Award-winning author Lois Leveens work has appeared in the New York Times, on NPR, and in literary journals and anthologies. A former faculty member at UCLA and Reed College, she lives in Portland, Oregon.

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