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. >> hello, everyone and welcome to the 2021 virtual gaithersburg book festival. i'm ryan spiegel, , a proud memr of the gaithersburg city council, and your host for this presentation. before we get started i would like to ask you to support this presentations authors by purchasing their books from our bookseller partner politics and prose, one of america's premier independent bookstores. you will find purchase links in the presentation description. given all that we've been through over the past or it is so important to support local jobs and the local economy. i also want to extend a big thank you to our 2021 featured sponsor, the david and michael blairk family foundation, for their generous support. okay, let's get started. today's a literary presentation features historical novels by two best-selling authors in which women are themselves on theud line. the's invisible woman by erika gripping historical novel based on theik remarkable true story of world war ii heroine virginia hall, and how in the depths of war, she would defy the odds to help liberate and na

macbook tvs coverage of the virtual gaithersburg book festival in maryland continues now than author discussion on the role of women during world war ii. >> hello everyone and welcome to the 2021 virtual gaithersburg book festival. i am writing a proud member of the gaither's city council and your host for this presentation. before we get started i like to ask you to support this presentations authors by purchasing their books from our bookseller partner politics and prose. one of america's premier independent bookstores. you will find purchased links in the presentation description comic given all we been through through the past year it is so important to support local jobs in the local economy. i also into extended big thank you to our 2021 featured sponsor the david and michael blair family foundation for their generous support. okay let's get started today's literary presentation features historical novels by two best-selling authors in which women put themselves on the line. the invisible woman by erica roebuck is a gripping historical novel based on the remarkable true story o

. >> hello, everyone and welcome to the 2021 virtual gaithersburg book festival.yan spiegel, , a proud memr of the gaithersburg city council, and your host for this presentation. before we get started i would like to ask you to support this presentations authors by purchasing their books from our bookseller partner politics and prose, one of america's

. >> welcome to the 2021 virtual gaithersburg festival. i'm still kaminski, phil kominski and i'm excited to be your host. before we get started i'd ask that you please consider sponsoring tonight's author by purchasing his book from our bookseller partner y politics and prose. don't find the purchase link in thepresentation . if youconsider the hardships we've been through over the past year the choice to support local and independent businesses has rarely been more necessary . thank you. we would also like to extend a big thank you to our 2021 author, the david and michael blair family foundation for their wealth of generous support . and here we go. today it is our utmost pleasure to have with us world renowned theoretical physicist , professor michio kaku, author of many wonderful books but here to speak on his most recent masterpiece, the new york times that seller "the god equation: the quest for a theory of everything". today's physicists are on an epic adventure to combine isaac newton's laws of gravity and motion with the more rec

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democrats, republicans, independents, this is vincent in gaithersburg, maryland. >> good morning. the reduction inflation act immediately they changed it to climate change. there is no reduction information. there is no reduction act of inflation. that was changed. all the media changed to climate change because there is no such thing as that act. that was not signed into law. host: i'm a little confused. this is what the house is voting tomorrow, three major pillars of this include 340 billion dollars i believe is the number when it comes to climate change initiatives. $370 billion. the health care provisions in that and then changes in tax policy as well. so that's what's moving this week is that what you want to talk about? i thing we lost the collar. this is milton and philadelphia. >> good morning and thank you for taking my call. i'd like to praise president biden. look at the mass he inherited when he came in to the white house and look at it right now. the inflation is starting to stabilize. prices are starting to go down slowly. some people are still hurting. gas prices a

host: lily in gaithersburg, maryland. good morning. caller: thanks for taking my call.i agree with a lot of callers . and the media, the left, has not been fair, and they have played dirty. i agree that a lot of the policies trump did during his administration, i think you did a great job to. but at this point, i think he has some fatal flaws in the his temperament, personality, that is going to not be great for the country if he is elected again. i do not think any man can change at that age, and i can see from what he has been doing after he left office that he is kind of like still trying to put his own personal interest in front of the party or the country. so that is what i don't like. host: what is an example of that? caller: for instance, i just finished reading bill barr's book. i had a lot of thoughts that i already had and they were reinforced by the book. for instance, the georgia senator election after 2020. he is constantly putting the candidates, pushing them, regardless of whether they could win in the general election. that is also one indicator which i