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Friends of the Selby Public Library invites you to their monthly book presentation and discussion. This monthCharlotte Thompson, Librarian and popular leader of Selby’s Cirque D'Book will present the enticing story of Marie Curie, Obsessive Genius-The Inner World of Marie Curie. This is a peek behind the myth, gathered through private letters between Marie and her daughters. Prepare to be intrigued by such facts as the night light next to Marie’s bed was a sample of radium. We will learn about the denial for a University position because she was a woman and we will learn that hospitals had no idea that radium might be useful.