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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! |
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"Let's Talk About It!"
Discussion Series at Carteret County Public Library |
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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
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January 14, 2013 |
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March 11, 2013 |
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Free
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Altered Landscapes:
North Carolina |
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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
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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. |
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Book List & Discussion Schedule |
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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.
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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.…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Program Sponsors |
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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. |
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Friends of Carteret County Public Library provide matching funds for
the “Let’s Talk About It” book series. |
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