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Mary Livermore Library
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: 910.521.6516
Fax: 910.521.6547
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Second Life Book Club
The Library Book Club provides in voice discussions of literature related to courses taught at UNCP, as well as storytelling and poetry events. All of our Book Club events will be held in our Second Life library reading room located in world at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dotoorak/220/207/401/. Unless otherwise noted, all events occur at 3 pm EST/12 pm SLT. If there is a book you would like us to consider for our Book Club, please let us know. The eBooks link in the sidebar lists a number of web sites with books freely availble in an electronic format. If you need help getting set up in Second Life, message librarian Aurora Tutti for assistance in world, email june.power@uncp.edu, or IM.
Book Club
Book Club Selections 2012-2013
September 27th – Banned Books Week stories
October 25th – Halloween reading of Beowulf
November 29th – Native American Storytelling
December 13th – Stories of Christmas from Around the World
January 31th – Readings from the short works of Tolkien
February 28th – African American Short Stories
March 15th –Celtic Fairy Tales
April 25th – The Poems of Longfellow
May 23rd – Stories of Spring
June 27th – LGBTQA Short Fiction
July 25th – Stories of American Patriots
August 29th – Childhood Favorites for Back to School
Book Club Selections 2011-2012
September 22nd – In voice reading of Dry September – William Faulkner
October 20th – In voice reading of The Raven and The Telltale Heart – Edgar Allen Poe
November 17th – In voice reading of Native American Short Stories
December 1st and 22nd – In voice reading of Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
January 19th – Discussion of the book and film – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
February 16th – In voice reading of African American Short Stories
March 15th – In voice reading of Celtic Fairy Tales
April 19th – Discussion and reading of the poems of Robert Frost
May 17th – Discussion of The Color Purple – Alice Walker
June 21st – Discussion of Love in the Time of Colera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
July 19th – Discussion of The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
August 23rd – Discussion of Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Book Club Selections 2010-2011
Frank Linderman’s Indian Why Stories available at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/LinIndi.html.
W.E.B. DuBois’ Darkwater: voices from within the veil available at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DubDark.html.
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Selected Short Stories available at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/160.
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream available at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1113.
Poetry readings
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month Fall 2010
On November 16th we hosted in voice Native American Poetry Readings. All attendees are invited to read poems by or about Native Americans. The following is a selection of some of the poems read. Click on the links below to listen.
Don Marquis - Lower New York - A Storm
storytelling
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month Fall 2010
On November 17th we hosted in voice Native American Storytelling. All attendees are invited to read short stories by or about Native Americans. The following is a selection of some of the stories read. Click on the links below to listen.
Mabel Powers - Why the Eagle Defends Americans
Louise Erdric - The Reptile Garden
Ken King - Legend of Braveheart and the Tuscarora Girl
Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2012
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