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Altered Landscapes: North Carolina
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Salt By Isabel Zuber
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Garden Spells By Sarah Addison
Allen
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If You Want Me to Stay By Michael Parker
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Blood Done Sign My Name By Timothy Tyson
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Plant Life By Pamela Duncan
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Picturing America: Land of Opportunity
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Ragtime By E. L. Doctorow
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All the King's Men By Robert Penn
Warren
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend By Laura
Hillenbrand
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Noon Wine By Katherine Anne
Porter
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Dreaming in Cuban By Cristina Garcia
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Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Series |
Discovering the Literary South; The Louis
D. Rubin, Jr. Series
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Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage
By Robert Morgan |
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A Virtuous Woman By Kaye Gibbons
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The Jew Store By Stella Suberman
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Clover By Dori Sanders
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The Coal Tattoo By Silas House
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“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” -Ralph Ellison |
20th Century African American Literature
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Family By J. California Cooper |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain By James Baldwin |
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The Color Purple By Alice Walker |
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Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison |
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Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine By Bebe Moore Campbell |
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional ... |
Affirming Aging
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January 11, 2010: The Memory of Old Jack By
Wendell Berry |
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January 25, 2010: Having Our Say By Sarah and
Elizabeth Delaney, and Amy Hearth |
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February 8, 2010: Water for Elephants By Sara
Gruen |
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February 22, 2010: The Stone Angel By Margaret
Laurence |
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March 8, 2010: Crossing to Safety By Wallace
Stegner |
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Beyond the Battlefield: Alternative Views
Of War
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September 14, 2009:
March By Geraldine Brooks
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September 28, 2009: All
Quiet on the Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque
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October 12, 2009: The
Reader By Bernhard Schlink
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November 2, 2009: The
Coldest War By Jim Brady
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November 16, 2009: The
Things They Carried By Tim O’Brien
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Law & Literature: The Eva R. Rubin Series
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September 22, 2008: Billy Budd
By Herman Melville |
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October 6, 2008: The Tragedy of
Pudd’nhead Wilson By Mark Twain |
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October 20, 2008: A Lesson Before
Dying By Ernest Gaines |
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November 3, 2008: Snow Falling on
Cedars By David Guterson |
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November 17, 2008:
The Emperor of Ocean Park By Stephen Carter |
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Imagining the Future:
Scientific Revelations in Fiction
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January 14, 2008:
The World Set Free by H.G. Wells |
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January 28, 2008:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley |
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February 11, 2008:
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov |
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February 25, 2008:
The Space Merchants by Frederick Pohl and C.M.
Kornbluth |
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March 10, 2008:
Greenhouse Summer by Norman Spinrad |
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Journeys Across Time |
Journeys Across Time and Place: Mapping
Southern Identities
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September 10, 2007:
Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason |
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September 24, 2007:
The Known World by Edward P. Jones |
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October 8, 2007:
Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys |
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October 22, 2007:
Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan |
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November 5, 2007:
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison |
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"Working:
Making a Living, Making a Life,
Work and Its Rewards
In America"
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January 29, 2007:
Growing Up, by Russell Baker |
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February 12, 2007:
Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller |
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February 26, 2007:
The Professor’s House, by Willa Cather |
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March 12, 2007:
Working, by Studs Terkel |
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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"
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Sept. 11, 2006: This House of Sky
by Ivan Doig |
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Sept. 25, 2006: Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry & Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams |
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Oct. 9, 2006: Ordinary People by
Judith Guest |
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Oct. 23, 2006: "The Stone Boy" by Gina
Berriault, "A&P" by John Updike & "The Five-Forty-Eight" by John Cheever |
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Nov. 6, 2006: During the Reign of the
Queen of Persia by Joan Chase |
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"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.
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January 23,
2006: A Tree Accurst by Daniel Patterson & Bobby McMillon,
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February 6,
2006: Somerset Homecoming by Dorothy Spruill Redford
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February 20,
2006: Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphrey |
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March 20, 2006:
Uncommon Clay by Margaret Maron |
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One Vision, Many Voices: Latino
Literature in the United States
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September 12, 2005: In the Time of the
Butterflies by Julia Alvarez |
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September 26, 2005: How the Garcia
Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez |
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October 10, 2005: Dreaming in Cuban
by Christina Garcia |
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October 24, 2005: The Crystal Frontier
by Carlos Fuentes |
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November 7, 2005: When I Was Puerto
Rican by Esmeralda Santiago |
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What America Reads: Myth Making in Popular
Fiction
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January 24, 2005: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Scholar:
Seodial Deena, PhD, East Carolina University
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February 7, 2005: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Scholar: Bes
Spangler, PhD, Peace College
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February 21, 2005: Shane by Jack Schaefer, Scholar: Joseph Gomez, PhD,
North Carolina State University
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March 7, 2005: From here to Eternity by James Jones, Scholar: Jim
Burkhead, MA, Pitt Community College
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March 21, 2005: A Tan and Sandy Silence by John D. MacDonald, Scholar:
Michelle Manning, MAT, MFA, UNC-Wilmington
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Tar Heel Fiction: A Second Look
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September 20, 2004: Raney
by Clyde Edgerton with scholar Marie Farr, PhD, East Carolina University |
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October 4, 2004: Oral
History by Lee Smith with scholar Thomas Lisk, PhD, North Carolina
State University |
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October 18, 2004: A
Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan with scholar K. O. Boansi, PhD,
Elizabeth City State University |
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November 15, 2004: I am
one of you forever by Fred Chappell with scholar Joseph Gomez, PhD,
North Carolina State University |
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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
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February 9th, 2004: Classic
Fairy Tales by Iona & Peter Opie with Scholar C. W. Sullivan,
PhD, East Carolina University.
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February 23rd,
2004: Little
Women by Louisa May Alcott with Scholar Kathleen Berkeley,
PhD, UNC Wilmington.
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March 8th, 2004:
The Secret
Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett with Scholar Jim Burkhead,
MA, Pitt Community College.
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March 22nd, 2004:
Charlotte's
Web by E. B. White & Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
with Scholar Amy Tilly, MA, Carteret Community College.
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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
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September 8, 2003: Legacy of
Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia Nelson
Limerick. Scholar: David LaVere, PhD, UNC Wilmington.
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September 22, 203: Angle of
Repose by Wallace Stegner. Scholar: Amy Tilly, MA, Professional writer.
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October 6, 2003: Reservation
Blues by Sherman Alexie. Scholar: Bill DiNome, MFA, UNC Wilmington.
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October 20, 2003: Last Refuge:
The Environmental Showdown in the American West by Jim Robbins. Scholar:
Quincy Newell, MA, UNC Chapel Hill.
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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 |
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