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Imagining the Future: Scientific Revelations in Fiction

Imagining the Future: Scientific Revelations in Fiction

January 14, 2008: The World Set Free by H.G. Wells
January 28, 2008: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
February 11, 2008: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
February 25, 2008: The Space Merchants by Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
March 10, 2008: Greenhouse Summer by Norman Spinrad
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Let's Talk About It!

Journeys Across Time and Place: Mapping Southern Identities

September 10, 2007: Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
September 24, 2007: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
October 8, 2007: Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys
October 22, 2007: Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan
November 5, 2007: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Let's Talk About It! : Working

"Working: Making a Living, Making a Life, Work and Its Rewards In America"

January 29, 2007: Growing Up, by Russell Baker
February 12, 2007: Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
February 26, 2007: The Professor’s House, by Willa Cather
March 12, 2007: Working, by Studs Terkel
March 26, 2007: Confessions of an Advertising Man, by David Ogilvy

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"Family: The Way We Were, The Way We Are: Seasons in the Contemporary American Family"

Sept. 11, 2006: This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
Sept. 25, 2006: Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry & Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Oct. 9, 2006: Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Oct. 23, 2006: "The Stone Boy" by Gina Berriault, "A&P" by John Updike & "The Five-Forty-Eight" by John Cheever
Nov. 6, 2006: During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase

How Folklife Crafts Our Literature, Lives and Communities

"How Folklife Creates Our Literature, Lives and Communities"

A pilot program sponsored by the North Carolina Folklore Society, in collaboration with North Carolina Center for the Book, and supported by a grant from the NC Humanities Council.

January 23, 2006: A Tree Accurst by Daniel Patterson & Bobby McMillon,
February 6, 2006: Somerset Homecoming by Dorothy Spruill Redford
February 20, 2006: Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphrey
March 20, 2006: Uncommon Clay by Margaret Maron

One Vision, Many Voices

One Vision, Many Voices: Latino Literature in the United States

September 12, 2005: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
September 26, 2005: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
October 10, 2005: Dreaming in Cuban by Christina Garcia
October 24, 2005: The Crystal Frontier by Carlos Fuentes
November 7, 2005: When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

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What America Reads: Myth Making in Popular Fiction

 

January 24, 2005: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Scholar: Seodial Deena, PhD, East Carolina University

February 7, 2005: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Scholar: Bes Spangler, PhD, Peace College

February 21, 2005: Shane by Jack Schaefer, Scholar: Joseph Gomez, PhD, North Carolina State University

March 7, 2005: From here to Eternity by James Jones, Scholar: Jim Burkhead, MA, Pitt Community College

March 21, 2005: A Tan and Sandy Silence by John D. MacDonald, Scholar: Michelle Manning, MAT, MFA, UNC-Wilmington

Tar Heel Fiction

Tar Heel Fiction: A Second Look
September 20, 2004: Raney by Clyde Edgerton with scholar Marie Farr, PhD, East Carolina University
October 4, 2004: Oral History by Lee Smith with scholar Thomas Lisk, PhD, North Carolina State University
October 18, 2004: A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan with scholar K. O. Boansi, PhD, Elizabeth City State University
November 15, 2004: I am one of you forever by Fred Chappell with scholar Joseph Gomez, PhD, North Carolina State University
November 29, 2004: Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle with scholar Sue Ross, PhD, NC Humanities Council
 

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NOT FOR CHILDREN ONLY: Children's Classics for Adults

February 9th, 2004: Classic Fairy Tales by Iona & Peter Opie with Scholar C. W. Sullivan, PhD, East Carolina University.

February 23rd, 2004: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott with Scholar Kathleen Berkeley, PhD, UNC Wilmington.

March 8th, 2004: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett with Scholar Jim Burkhead, MA, Pitt Community College.

March 22nd, 2004: Charlotte's Web by E. B. White & Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson with Scholar Amy Tilly, MA, Carteret Community College.

April 5th, 2004: Dragonwings by Laurence Yep & The Giver by Lois Lowry with Scholar Tom McLennan, PhD, UNC Wilmington.

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"Exploring the West" Series

September 8, 2003: Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia Nelson Limerick. Scholar: David LaVere, PhD, UNC Wilmington.

September 22, 203: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. Scholar: Amy Tilly, MA, Professional writer.

October 6, 2003: Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. Scholar: Bill DiNome, MFA, UNC Wilmington.

October 20, 2003: Last Refuge: The Environmental Showdown in the American West by Jim Robbins. Scholar: Quincy Newell, MA, UNC Chapel Hill.

November 3, 2003: On Gold Mountain: The 100-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family by Lisa See. Scholar: Kathleen C. Berkeley, PhD, UNC Wilmington.

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Mysteries: Clues to Who We Are

A Reading and Discussion Program

Carteret County Public Library

Beaufort, NC

January - March, 2003