…August 27 for building repairs due to water intrusion. Our team members from this location will be temporarily reassigned to other Durham County Library locations. Please visit our website www.DurhamCountyLibrary.org…

…If applicable, discuss the time period in which the book is set. Does the author provide enough background information for you to understand the events in the story? 5. What…

…is set. How well does the author convey the era? How important is the setting to the story? Is the author’s description of the landscape/community a good one? 5. Does…

…ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged…

…rigorous of intellectual underpinnings. And yet everywhere I turn, I see injustice done in the waging of it,» says March (p. 65). Do you think that March still believes the…

…novels Enemy Women, Stormy Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island, and News of the World. She lives on a ranch near San Antonio, TX. (From https://www.harpercollins.com/cr-101289/paulette-jiles) Summary: It is…

…really it comes down to how much you want to do something. If you want to do something so badly, then you have to take a bold decision» (http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=1376). It…

…from such people as the president of the University of North Carolina, poetry, invitations to commencement ceremonies, and pamphlets, among other items. Restrictions: The collection is open for research Biographical…

…photographs, clippings, papers, and personal effects of founder Gilmore Ward Bryant and his immediate family. The Southern Conservatory of Music, located in Durham, was a famed institution of music education….

…Sidney Rochelle was born in 1878 in Durham County and attended Durham’s first public graded school, located in the Wright Factory on West Main Street. He served in the Spanish-American…