Enoch Pratt Free Library, Maryland Center for the Book and Maryland first lady Katie O?Malley will kick off “One Maryland, One Book,” the first statewide community reading initiative, at 11 a.m. today at the Central Library.

The selected book is “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League,” which chronicles the journey of Cedric Jennings, a D.C. inner-city student who overcame the odds to attend Brown University.

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