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We hope you enjoyed the Spring 2013 session of Let's Talk About It! Information on the next session will be posted here as soon as it is released. Happy Reading!

 
 

 
   

"Let's Talk About It!" Discussion Series at Carteret County Public Library

 

The Carteret County Public Library proudly presents the latest in this popular book discussion series. Your insights are the focus of the sessions. Our guest humanities scholars act as guides, leading discussion about how the books inform and enrich our lives. The library has limited copies of the books to loan at no charge.

Light refreshments will be served.

   
 

 

 
 

January 14, 2013

through

March 11, 2013

Meeting at

Carteret County Public Library

Program Room

 
     
 

Free & Open to the Public

 

 

Altered Landscapes: 
North Carolina

    This series features four novels and one history-based memoir, all written between 2003 and 2007. They bring a childhood perspective to bear on dangerous worlds where innocence is quickly lost. These works from the new millennium differ from those before in that they begin more starkly with recognitions of the inevitability of violence and loss.
     Darkness fills the margins. Yet as grim as life can sometimes get, hope exists where it always has, in human hearts, in strong memories, in a commitment to reach across the divide to hold another’s hand.
 
 

 

 
 

Book List & Discussion Schedule

 
 

 

 
 

1. Monday, January 14, 7 p.m.

Speaker: Lucinda MacKethan, PhD

NC State University

 

Salt

By Isabel Zuber

In a beautifully conceived and gracefully executed first novel about one woman's life in the American South at the turn of the 20th century, poet Zuber imagines a community that is still following patterns and behaviors established 100 years before.

 

   
         
 

2. Monday, January 28, 7 p.m.

Speaker: Sue Ross, PhD

UNC Chapel Hill

 

Garden Spells

By Sarah Addison Allen

In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it.…

 

   
         
 

3. Monday, February 11, 7 p.m.

Speaker:  Rebecca Godwin, PhD

Barton College

 

If You Want Me to Stay

By Michael Parker

Writing in a first person that conveys the 14-year-old protagonist's mental escape artistry, Parker explores the bonds of a family wracked by mental illness and abandonment in the 1970s rural North Carolina.

 

   
         
 

4. Monday, February 25, 7 p.m.

Speaker:  Bill DiNome, MFA

UNC Wilmington

 

Blood Done Sign My Name

By Timothy Tyson

In this outstanding personal history, Tyson, a professor of African-American studies who's white, unflinchingly examines the civil rights struggle in the South.

 

   
         
 

5. Monday, March 11, 7 p.m.

Speaker: Joe Gomez, PhD

North Carolina State University

 

Plant Life

By Pamela Duncan

Plant Life presents a compelling and moving portrait of an entire community. In this case, it is the life of a cotton mill, and three generations of women who work there—whose whole lives have been determined by the mill.

 

   
 
 

Program Sponsors

 
 

 

 
 

This project is made possible by funding from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

 

Friends of Carteret County Public Library provide matching funds for the “Let’s Talk About It” book series.

 
 
 
 
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