The Big Read

Coming February 2009


The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest.

See Reading Group Guides, the online community for reading groups for a sample discussion guide for Water for Elephants
Click here for the review written by Richard Wright in The New Republic, August 1940
Book Discussions (tentative schedule):
Main Branch—Abingdon
  • Tuesday, Feb 17, 7 PM
  • Weds, Feb 25, 1 PM
  • Wednesday, July 9, 7 PM
  • Glade Spring Branch Tuesday, Feb 24, 7 PM
  • Mendota Branch Weds, March 11, 6 PM
  • Damascus Branch Thurs, March 26,
    7 PM
  • Hayters Gap Branch Thurs, March 5, 7 PM
  

The "Great Depression"

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