On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, HLAA-TC Book Club met on Zoom to discuss the nonfiction book “The Invention of Miracles: language, power and Alexander Graham Bell’s quest to end Deafness” By Katie Booth. And author Katie Booth joined us for an engaging and insightful conversation on the man who has been mentioned many times in […]
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HLAA-TC May book club met on Zoom on Tuesday, May 26th to discuss the novel “All The Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr. Below is a summary with links related to our discussion. Plot Summary (from author’s website): “Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History
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HLAA-TC Book Club met on Monday, April 27, 2026 to discuss the memoir “Losing Music” By John Cotter and we welcomed author John Cotter. The next book and book club will be Tuesday May 26th 5pm Western/7pm Central/8pm Eastern and the book is the novel “All The Light We Cannot See” By Anthony Doerr. ZOOM
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Urgent: HLAATC EMERGENCY Meeting – Please plan to attend Saturday, April 18 APRIL 18TH MEETING AGENDA: 9:30: Check in, light refreshments. 9:45: Introductions Discussion about the future of HLAA-TC. Bring your concerns, questions, and suggestions about how the chapter could better serve our members. 10:30: Presentation (see below for details). 11:30: Pizza and drinks (FREE)
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February’s book was “Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism” by Elsa Sjunneson Media links related to Elsa Sjunneson Her website Her Instagram A video clip featuring Elsa Sjunneson on the PBS series “American Masters” from, Season 35, Episode 11 ‘Becoming Helen Keller.’ (It runs 7 minutes and 48 seconds and is captioned.)
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After a delay (we usually like to announce all the book in at least January), HLAA-TC Book Club is happy to announce that ALL of the books from NOW until December 2026 have been placed on our Book Club Page on our Website with brief synopses for each book. Below is a chart that shows
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Next Book and Book Club: February book: Memoir “Being Seen: One DeafBlind woman’s fight to end ableism” By Elsa Sjunneson. BARD #: DB 105634. Tuesday, February 24, 2026 5pm Western/ 7pm Central/ 8pm Eastern Time. On Zoom with Captions. Free and open to all. Register for the Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Rkc5vJ5nTRmBlo7qW3rs5g Summary of January Book Club: Author Will Leitch is not disabled
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While HLAA-TC meetings are on pause for the remainder of 2025, we wanted to highlight some helpful information already at our fingertips on our HLAA-TC Website on the Resources Page. Today we are highlighting the “Links on Government Help and Resources (MN)”. These links have been compiled through the years and oftentimes have been provided
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Book club had its November meeting on November 18th and we are skipping December so we won’t meet again until January 2026. On November 18th the book club had Claudia Marseille (author of “But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found In A Hearing World”) and Rachel Zemach (author of “The Butterfly Cage”) for our
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Thank you to those who were able to donate to HLAA-TC for Give To The Max Day. Our Donation page will remain up and taking donations for a while. If you’d like to share about our organization instead of donating, here are some quick links and information: Website | Book Club Page | Newsletter |
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