Southwest Florida Reading Festival

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FORT MYERS, Fla. Libby Fischer Hellmann is a renowned author of 17 books. Her latest, War, Spies, and Bobby Sox takes you back to a time when Frank Sinatra made young women swoon, bobby sox and saddle shoes were the norm, and WWII raged across two oceans. She will be at Southwest Florida Reading Festival Saturday, March 18 but first she joined us live in the studio.

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