<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpd7111077yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">O<span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">ur book for April is </span><span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i>Blood Rites </i>by the late freethought giant Barbara Ehrenreich. </span><span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">The discussion will take place on Saturday, April 12 at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven. <font color="#cd232c" style="background-color: inherit;"><b>Note: This book discussion is scheduled for the 2nd Saturday (rather than 3rd Saturday) of the month.</b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div style="text-align: center;" dir="" data-setdir="true"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:b8d9ba1c-4a67-ac74-963e-62e6be5c4524@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em; max-width: 229px; width: 50%;" data-id="<b8d9ba1c-4a67-ac74-963e-62e6be5c4524@yahoo.com>"></div><span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><br></span></div>From Amazon:</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men?...Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place – not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experiences of predation by stronger carnivores.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><div style=""><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Brilliant in conception and rich in scope, <i>Blood Rites </i>is a monumental work that continues to transform our understanding of the greatest single threat to human life.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">"Keen and arresting...One of today's most original writers has tackled one of humankind's most intractable subjects." – <i>New York Times Book Review</i></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Hope to see you on the 12th,</div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Kevin (& Paula)</div></div></span></div></div></body></html>