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32204
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An excerpt from North Carolina author Bland Simpson’s “Two Captains from Carolina” highlights a pivotal moment for Moses Grandy, an accomplished African American mariner born in the antebellum South. Simpson describes how he brought to life the stories of two disparate captains and what their narratives mean to him.
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Coastwatch
(NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue 1, Winter 2018,
p12-17, il, por, map
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13655
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The story of the bookmobile in North Carolina is like the story of Mohammed and the mountain: many people found in inconvenient to go to the libraries, so the libraries proceeded to go to the people. They've been going in a big way. There now are 88 bookmobiles operating from one end of the state to the other.
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23125
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Robert Walker and Ali Riegel are the co-coordinators of the Buncombe County Schools Bookmobile. The mobile stops at 30 different places in the county, including community centers, camps, mobile home parks, and apartment complexes. Their goal is to reach communities that do not have easy access to the library, particularly in the summer. The mobile's collection of thousands of books targets kindergarten through sixth-grade students, but also has books for middle and high school students.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 12 Issue 6, June 2015,
p120-122, il, por
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36186
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Before the establishment of the Human Library was the Lector Book Club, with member just as willing to open up the chapters of their lives. In fact, for some, discussions about books had become superseded by conversations about real life events, whether national or personal.
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22729
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Jimmy Tomlin and Lee Smith are just two authors offering books with North Carolina related themes or settings.,
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