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Email: mdewild@kdl.org   Twitter: @meldewild

Melissa DeWild is the Collection Development Manager at Kent District Library in Michigan, where she oversees the centralized selection for KDL's 18 branches. Melissa is currently reading Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexander.

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