Mountain Regional Library to host author Mary Turner

The public is invited to a book signing by first time local author Mary Turner at Mountain Regional Library in Young Harris on Saturday, February 9, from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Miss Turner is a former airline and foreign service employee. She will be discussing her newly published book "God Doesn't Need a Passport; But the Rest of Us Do!"

From Azerbaijan to Zaire, Miss Turner writes about people and places most have never heard of. In a series of travel vignettes that includes humor, pathos, information, and high drama, she shares the lives of those she met along the way. "Along the way" is the over fifty countries she has been to, through or lived in.

What began strictly as travel, in the normal way one thinks of travel, shifted to include a journey of spiritual growth. "God Doesn't Need a Passport; But The Rest of Us Do!" is the result of this unexpected combination.

From the joyous "egg man" in Azerbaijan, to a young man in the overheated school gymnasium in Botswana, she discovered that learning how to live in this world is half the fun and half the battle. She has laughed, cried, smelled, listened, touched, and walked with the people she writes about. All of the stories are true as lived by the author.

"God Doesn't Need a Passport; But The Rest of Us Do!" consists of twenty chapters, each of which is about a country, an activity, or an event. Miss Turner writes about politics and religion in India, paints a vivid picture of the Azerbaijani people who live in that remote country, and includes a purely personal view of her visit in El Salvador. Some of the stories she relates are funny, and some are poignant, but all capture the world as it really is.

The Mountain Regional Library invites you to meet with this new local author.