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336 Fayetteville St
Raleigh, NC 27601
(inside the Wake County Office Building)
Monday - Friday
8:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday & Sunday
Closed
LIBRARY STAFF:
Katie Knight
Eric Smith
Christie Starnes
(919) 856-6868
TELEPHONE REFERENCE
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Reading Allowed
Storytime for adults
Katie reads short stories, essays and book chapters out loud!
For more information:
Katie Knight (856-6865) katie.knight@co.wake.nc.us
Time: every second Wednesday, 2-3 p.m.
Place:Electronic
Information Center, Downtown Raleigh Library
Sir Walter Book Club
This book club is for residents of the Sir Walter Apartments.
Please call the library for more information!
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Downtown Raleigh
Library EXPRESS June 2009
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Greetings!
Thank you to everyone for continuing to visit the Downtown Raleigh Express Branch on Fayetteville Street. Our book checkouts have reached an all-time high. Thank you for letting us know that reading is so important to you!
Adult Summer Reading - Starts June 1
The
Adult Summer Reading Program returns with a theme that encourages fun
and games while reading. Pick up one of six different cards with games
on one side and staff suggestions on the other - all summer long!
Collect them all as different lists come out every two weeks. Plus,
play "book bing" by reading different types of books, and enter your
name in our drawing for a chance to win fun prizes at the end of the
summer.
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Wake County Career Development Summit
On June 9, Wake County and Wake Tech and JobLink are hosting a Career Development Summit at Wake Tech main campus.
Wake
County Public Libraries will have a resource table available to let
folks know how they can receive assistance for certain employment tools
at their local libraries.
Join us from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm in the Student Services Conference
Center. This is a free event and a great opportunity to development
your career development skills.
Sponsors include: Southern
Regional Center, JobLink Career Centers,
Capital Area Workforce Development Board,
Wake Tech and Partners.
For more information, please call your Downtown Library at 856-6898, or visit http://www.wakegov.com/humanservices/economic/employment/default.htm
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Classics Book Club
Every Third Tuesday at Morning Times
Tuesday, June 16 @ 7:00 PM
The
Portrait of a Lady by Henry
James
The masterpiece of the first phase of
James's career, this novel is a study of Isabel Archer, a young
American
woman of great promise who
travels to Europe and becomes a victim of her own provincialism. It
offers a shrewd appraisal of the American character and embodies the
national myth of freedom and equality hedged with historical
blindness and
pride.
Though James drew from both real and
fictional people in portraying Isabel, she possesses her own
identity, having grown, as James later wrote in his preface to the
novel, from his "conception of a certain young woman affronting her
destiny."
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Downtown Raleigh Readers
Every Fourth Monday at Morning Times
Monday, June 22 @ 7:00 PM
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Library Journal Review: /* Starred Review */
Díaz's remarkable debut novel tells the story of a lonely outsider with
zest rather than pathos. Oscar grows up in a Dominican neighborhood in
Paterson, NJ, as an overweight, homely lover of sf and fantasy. Reading
such books and trying to emulate them in his own writing provide
Oscar's only pleasure. What he really wants is love, but his romantic
overtures are constantly rejected. The author balances Oscar's story
with glances at the history of the Dominican Republic, focusing on the
Rafael Trujillo dictatorship and its effect on Oscar's family. Díaz
masterfully shifts between Oscar and his sister, mother, and
grandfather to give this intimate character study an epic scale,
showing that an individual life is the product of family history.
Jonathan Davis's sensitive reading captures the romantic quest of the
hero and the tragedy of life under Trujillo, and Staci Snell ably reads
the alternating chapters dealing with Oscar's sister and mother. Also
included is Drown , a collection of stories by Díaz. Highly recommended for all collections. [This book is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.-Ed.]-Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr. --Michael Adams (Reviewed February 15, 2008) (Library Journal, vol 133, issue 3, p142) SOURCE: NOVELIST |
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Once Upon a Thursday...
Monthly storytime at Marbles Kids Museum
Join WCPL Downtown Library's own, Ms. Katie Knight
Every third Thursday
Come visit us, call, or email for more information!
Stop by the library to see our growing
collection of children's books...
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