Our Adult Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in Meeting Room A. Each month a different book is selected by the group.

February's book club pick is "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. Book club will meet February 7th.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By: Rebecca Skloot
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a
poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave
ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the
most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in
culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty
years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh
more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State
Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered
secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to
important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and
have been bought and sold by the billions. -Amazon. com Overview

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