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Join
reference staff members, Pam McRae and Alan Samry, as we discuss, A
Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, by Tony
Horwitz.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Board Room (upstairs)
Everyone is Welcome |
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BOOK REVIEW/LECTURE SERIES
TUESDAYS * 10:30 A.M.
December 6, 2011 - April 24, 2012
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January 24 |
Dean Mosher - Review of
Theodore Roosevelt's 'History of the United States', edited
by Daniel Ruddy |
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January 31 |
Mary Jane
Skinner - Review of How to Breathe Underwater, by
Julie Orringer |
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February 7
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Brian Chew - Review of
Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863-The Tide Turns at
Gettysburg, by Glenn W. LaFantasie |
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February 14 |
Janice Charles -
Review of Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff |
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February 21 |
MARDI GRAS - NO BOOK
REVIEW |
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February 28 |
Jim Ellis - Review of
The Other Side of Oz: An Autobiography, by Buddy Ebsen |
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March 6 |
Pam McRae - Review of
Caleb's Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks |
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March 13 |
Robert Day - Talking about
his book, The Strong Current: Book One: Attaugee |
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March 20 |
Jay Qualey - Review of
Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most
Intriguing Dedications, by Marlene Wagman-Geller |
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March 27 |
Suzanne Barnhill - "Louisa
and the Alcotts in Fact and Fiction" |
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April 3 |
Brenda Huchingson -
"Florence Chandler Maybrick: 'Wicked Woman' of Old Mobile" |
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April 10 |
Charles McInnis - "Sherwood
Anderson and Friends: From Fairhope to Hemingway and
Faulkner" |
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April 17 |
John Hafner - "The
Literature of Sports: The Boys of Summer, by Roger
Kahn, and Paper Lion, by George Plimpton" |
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April 24 |
Gretchen Schapker - Review
of A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan |
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THE WRITTEN WORD
January 29 - October 28, 2012
Last Sunday of every month @ 3:00 pm (except May) |
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January 29th |
Jim
Walther: The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, by Walter Mosley |
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February 26th |
Art
White: American Salvage: Stories, by Bonnie Jo Campbell |
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March 25th |
Nancy
Donnerly: Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood
with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour, by Lynne Olson |
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April 29th |
Mary
McBride: Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays,
edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson |
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June 24th |
Patricia
Meyers: The Paris Wife: A Novel, by Paula McLain |
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July 29th |
Jay
Sharpe: Coming Through Slaughter, by Michael Ondaatje |
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August 26th |
Sue
Samry: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie
Ford |
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September 30th |
Anne
Morris: The Art of Fielding: A Novel, by Chad Harbach |
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October 28th |
Susan
Daniel: The Weird Sisters, by Eleanor Brown |
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