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Let's Talk About It

January 18, 2012

Kehinde by Buchi Emeccheta

Series: Opening Windows: Women's Stories from Different Cultures

Location and Time: South Thomaston Public Library, South Thomaston (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Grant Funded Program

January 18, 2012

Portland Ovations

Warriors Don't Cry

Location and Time: Hannaford Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland Campus, 10:00 a.m.

Humanities Partner

January 20, 2012

Center for Global Humanities

Local and Global: Notes from the Frontlines of the Climate Fight with Bill McKibben

Location and Time: Westbrook Performing Arts Center, Westbrook Middle School, 6:00 p.m.

New Books, New Readers

January 23, 2012

Site: York

Series: Home

This Session: Where is Home? The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

An Angel for Solomon Singer by Cynthia Rylant

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

Let's Talk About It

January 24, 2012

The Tree by John Fowles

Series: Entering Nature: Contemporary Views of the Human Self in the Natural World

Location and Time: Long Lake Public Library, St. Agatha, 6:00 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Let's Talk About It

January 24, 2012

A Maine Hamlet by Lura Beam

Series: The Mirror of Maine: The Maine Community in Myth and Reality

Location and Time: Albion Public Library, Albion, 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Humanities Partner

January 30, 2012

Center for Global Humanities

Ars Americana, Ars Politica: Of Democracy and Its Deficits with Peter Swirski

Location and Time: WCHP Lecture Hall, Portland Campus, 6:00 p.m.

Let's Talk About It

January 31, 2012

March by Geraldine Brooks

Series: Making Sense of the Civil War

Location and Time: Windham Public Library, Windham, 6:15 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

New Books, New Readers

February 1, 2012

Site: Farmington

Series: Why Read?

This Session: Beating the Odds Ruby's Wish by Shirin Yim Bridges

Tomás and the Library Lady by Pat Mora

Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller

Let's Talk About It

February 7, 2012

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Series: Making a Difference: How Love and Duty Change Lives

Location and Time: Henry D. Moore Library, Steuben, 4:00 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Let's Talk About It

February 13, 2012

We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinison Rich

Series: Defining Wilderness, Defining Maine

Location and Time: Hobbs Memorial Library, Lovell, 1:00 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

New Books, New Readers

February 13, 2012

Site: Greenville

Series: Giving

This Session: What Happens When We Give? The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles

Let's Talk About It

February 15, 2012

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

Series: Opening Windows: Women's Stories from Different Cultures

Location and Time: South Thomaston Public Library, South Thomaston (the program is free, pre-registration required)

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February 21, 2012

Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas

Series: Entering Nature: Contemporary Views of the Human Self in the Natural World