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SUMMARY:By the Book: Linda Lear
DESCRIPTION:In 1962\, Rachel Carson the acclaimed author of prize-winning books on the sea\, touched off a national debate on the proper use of pesticides with the publication of Silent Spring. Her message was extremely controversial.  In 2018\, her conviction that human behavior can impact the whole biota adversely\, and her challenge to scientific\, corporate and government responsibility are central to the our national debate on the future of all life. \nJoin the Library Society as we host author and academic\, Linda Lear\, as she dives into the impact of Rachel Carson and her works. This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nLinda Lear\, biographer and historian\, is a graduate of Connecticut College\,\nreceived her MA from Columbia University and holds a Ph.D. in History from George\nWashington University. She was Research Professor of Environmental History at\nGeorge Washington University and Senior Research Scholar in History at the University\nof Maryland\, Baltimore County. She has been writing biography full time for almost 20\nyears. She is the author of the acclaimed biography of Rachel Carson\, Rachel Carson:\nWitness for Nature\, and numerous academic and popular articles on Carson\, as well as\nthe introductions to all of Carson’s published works\, including the centennial edition of\nSilent Spring. Lear’s biography of Carson was awarded the prize for the best book on\n“Women in Science” by the History of Science Society. It was also a New York Times\nBook of the Year. Her biography has been translated into eight languages. Lear was\nthe recipient of a Beinecke Fellowship at Yale University and served as a Smithsonian\nInstitution Senior Fellow in Washington for eight years. \nDr Lear’s biography of the famous artist and children’s writer\, Beatrix Potter: A\nLife in Nature\, was published jointly in 2007 by Allen Lane for Penguin Inc. UK and St.\nMartin’s Press in the US. It was chosen as “Book of the Week” by BBC4 Radio and\nread during Christmas week 2006. It was awarded the Lakeland Book of the Year prize\nfor 2007 and the Bookends Prize for Biography. Delta Kappa Gamma\, the national\nwomen’s sorority\, awarded Linda their literary prize and achievement award in 2008.\nIn 2008\, Lear was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by\nChatham University – Rachel Carson’s alma mater – for her work on women and the\nenvironment. She served as a Trustee at her alma mater\, Connecticut College\, from\n2004 to 2012\, and in 2008 she established The Linda Lear Center for Special\nCollections and Archives where her papers on Carson and Potter are open for research.\nShe serves on the Board of the Freedom to Write Fund\, and reviews for the Washington\nIndependent Review of Books\, and the Rachel Carson Council. \nLinda lives in Bethesda\, Maryland and Charleston\, South Carolina with her\nhusband and three Norfolk terriers\, and is active in animal rescue and conservation\norganizations\, and the Catesby Commemorative Trust.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/by-the-book-linda-lear/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: A.J. Finn
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society is beyond lucky to host the author A.J. Finn as he tours promoting his best-selling debut novel The Woman in the Window. Tickets are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nIntricate\, atmospheric\, and utterly spellbinding\, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW is one of the most eagerly anticipated literary debuts of the decade—a Rear Window expertly and thrillingly re-imagined for our time\, with comparisons being drawn to major publishing events like Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. \nThe most widely acquired novel of all time prior to publication\, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (William Morrow; January 2\, 2018) has been sold in 38 territories around the world\, and Fox 2000\, the makers of Life of Pi and Hidden Figures\, preempted the film rights\, with Oscar winner Scott Rudin producing and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts writing the script. \nWhat’s behind all the excitement?  A gripping psychological thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she has witnessed a horrible crime in a neighboring house\, combined with one of the most appealing and intelligent heroines in recent fiction\, laced with stunning turnarounds\, and brimming with allusions to classic suspense films.  And who’s the writer behind it?  A top young book editor who studied mystery and suspense fiction at Oxford University\, who now publishes the work of Agatha Christie\, and whose own writing is crafted in homage to the classics from Hitchcock and Highsmith. \nAt its heart\, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW is a compulsively readable thriller that will captivate a vast audience.  Served up in 100 bite-sized chapters\, its propulsive narrative is spring-loaded with startling twists and red herrings.  Designed to adjust the reader to the rhythms of a life spent in a stringently controlled environment\, it then explosively disrupts that life before drawing to its shocking\, unsettling\, and profoundly satisfying conclusion. \nYet Finn’s first book also offers the reader a richer and more complex experience than most suspense fiction\, as one might expect from a writer immersed in mystery books since childhood—who also happens to have focused on suspense fiction as both a scholar and a publishing professional.  Finn’s story is informed as well by personal experience battling incorrectly diagnosed bipolar disorder for more than fifteen years. \nAbout A.J. Finn: \nA. J. Finn is the author of The Woman in the Window\, the most widely acquired debut novel of all time\, with rights sold in 38 languages around the world. On its publication in January 2018\, the book became the first debut novel in twelve years — and only the third ever — to debut at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list\, where it remained for an entire month. The novel is currently in its eighth week on the list. \nThe film adaptation of The Woman in the Window is currently in development at Fox\, which bought the rights in a seven-figure deal. The movie will be produced by Oscar winner Scott Rudin\, of The Social Network and The Grand Budapest Hotel\, and written by Tracy Letts\, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of August: Osage County. \nA. J. delivered the valedictory address at his graduation from Duke\, and then enrolled at Oxford\, where he spent five years in the Master’s and PhD programs in literature. For a decade he was a book editor and publisher in London and New York\, working with authors including J. K. Rowling\, Tina Fey\, Nelson DeMille\, Rafael Nadal\, and Patricia Cornwell\, as well as the Agatha Christie estate. \nHe lives in New York City and is currently at work on his second novel.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-a-j-finn/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Stephen Kurkjian
DESCRIPTION:The Charleston Library Society welcomes Stephen Kurkjian\, critically-acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter\, as he speaks about his recent art heist thriller\, Master Thieves. \nTickets are $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, please call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nThe story of the biggest theft in art history– Master Thieves\nIt is a case defined by superlatives – the largest art theft in history\, carrying the world’s largest reward offer\, longer on the FBI’s list of biggest unsolved art crimes than any other save one. Two men disguised as Boston Police officers trick their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after midnight\, tie up the two night watchmen and make off with an estimated half billion dollars worth of artwork including three works by Rembrandt and a Vermeer masterpiece. \nNow 25 years after the theft\, Stephen Kurkjian who was the principal reporter on the case for The Boston Globe for years\, has written a gripping account of the still-unsolved heist of a quarter century ago. In Master Thieves Kurkjian reveals how the two criminal gangs battling for control of the Boston under-world knew of the museum’s poor security and that one had a motive to pull off the theft – to fashion an exchange that would result in the release of its leader from federal prison. \n\nA Boston native\, Stephen Kurkjian spent nearly 40 years as an editor and reporter for The Boston Globe before retiring in 2007. During his career\, he shared in three Pulitzer Prizes and won more than 20 regional and national reporting awards. \nEducated in the Boston public schools\, Kurkjian graduated from Boston Latin School in 1962. He majored in English Literature at Boston University and earned his law degree from Suffolk University Law School in 1970. \nKurkjian was a founding member of The Globe’s investigative Spotlight Team\, and its editor for 1979-1986. In 1986\, he was named chief of The Globe’s Washington Bureau and for six years oversaw the work of the paper’s 10 reporters in Washington. In addition\, while at the bureau he covered the Supreme Court\, the Justice Department and the Bush White House during the first war in Iraq. \nReturning to Boston in the early 1990s\, he completed numerous investigative projects from The Globe newsroom including the clergy abuse scandal inside the Boston Archdiocese; the devastating fire at a Rhode Island nightclub that took the lives of 100 people and the recovery of a Cezanne still life that was stolen from a Berkshires home in 1978 and later auctioned for $29 million. \nHis 2005 article of the theft of 13 pieces of artwork from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is regarded as the most complete account of the still-unsolved crime. His book\, Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off The World’s Greatest Art Heist\, was published to critical acclaim in 2015.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-stephen-kurkjian/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: David Rawle
DESCRIPTION:David Rawle makes you think. And he inspires you to listen. From a life well lived\, well traveled\, well read\, David has distilled to complex and the complicated question of “What Matters” into a thought-provoking and delightful talk with observations that are at once personal and universal. You will recognize and relate to what he will share with us\, and perhaps like me\, you will wonder why you didn’t say it as well as he. \nKnown to so many Charlestonians\, David Rawle has contributed to the economic and social well-being of our great city for almost four decades. He is a man of endless curiosity who revels in the joy of discovery. With clarity and compassion\, he will share his considerable wisdom with us as only a full-on participant in life can do. \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nDavid Rawle is the retired founder and chairman of Rawle Murdy\, a marketing/communications firm that served national and international clients under his leadership.  As a long-time friend and advisor to former Mayor Joe Riley\, he was closely involved in numerous Charleston challenges and initiatives including Downtown Revitalization\, Hurricane Hugo Relief\, Base Closure\, and the successful effort to remove the Confederate flag from atop the State House.  He was responsible for the positioning and marketing of Spoleto Festival USA\, Kiawah Island\, Daniel Island and the South Carolina Aquarium.  He represented the State Development Board and the State Ports Authority.  His in-state board service included the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce\, Spoleto Festival USA\, the Medical University of South Carolina Foundation\, the College of Charleston Foundation\, and WINGS for Kids.  Charleston Magazine named him one of ’10 Icons of Life in the Lowcountry.’ A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School\, he has written two books: What Matters and Places.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-david-rawle/
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SUMMARY:JCC WOW: Pauline Sokol Nakios- Pivots
DESCRIPTION:The Charleston Jewish Community Center Without Walls (JCC WOW) is hosting\, “Pauline Sokol Nakios\, Pivots” as part of its 2018 season roster of programs in coordination with the new Lexus Charleston Fashion Week off-site community events throughout the city. \nDesigner and well-known former Charlestonian\, Pauline Sokol Nakios will discuss the\n“pivots” in her life: balancing a fast-paced fashion career\, home\, husband and children. Andrea Serrano\, Charleston’s fashion blogger and stylist\, will moderate. \nAdmission to attend this event is $10. To purchase tickets visit: www.charlestonjcc.org/paulinenakios. For questions or more information\, contact Marylyn Haspel via email at: marylynh@charlestonjcc.org or telephone (703) 927-8665. \nPauline Sokol Nakios is known for her collection Lilla P\, which is sold across North America and the UK. Her second brand\, Leo & Sage is a modern collection of highly curated knits and ready-to- wear with a strong emphasis on luxury fabrications and architectural silhouettes. Nakios is back for a second year to judge the Charleston Fashion Week ® Emerging Designer Competition and mentor top designers while managing her day-\nto-day responsibilities.\nAndrea Serrano is a freelance wardrobe stylist and producer on fashion and commercial productions. Her style blog\, Charleston Shop Curator\, launched in March 2013\, and focuses on local designers and boutiques.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/jcc-wow-pauline-sokol-nakios-pivots/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Larrie D. Ferreiro
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we host Pulitzer Prize finalist\, Larrie D. Ferreiro as he discusses his most recent book\, Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It. This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. \n Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History – Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution 2016 Book of the Year Award \nThe remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution’s success depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain\, and places the Revolution in the context of the global strategic interests of those nations in their fight against England. \nIn this groundbreaking\, revisionist history\, Larrie Ferreiro shows that at the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the colonists had little chance\, if any\, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy\, little in the way of artillery\, and a militia bereft even of gunpowder. In his detailed accounts Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and financial support of the French and Spanish\, the American cause would never have succeeded. France and Spain provided close to the equivalent of $30 billion and 90 percent of all guns used by the Americans\, and they sent soldiers and sailors by the thousands to fight and die alongside the Americans\, as well as around the world. \nFerreiro adds to the historical records the names of French and Spanish diplomats\, merchants\, soldiers\, and sailors whose contribution is at last given recognition. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation\, Brothers at Arms reveals the birth of the American nation as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-larrie-d-ferreiro/
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad Paperback Tour
DESCRIPTION:Charleston Library Society presents Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Colson Whitehead at the Charleston Music Hall! \nThe Library Society is excited to host award-winning and best-selling author Colson Whitehead as he celebrates the paperback tour of The Underground Railroad.  \nColson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad\, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review\, as well as The Noble Hustle\, Zone One\, Sag Harbor\, The Intuitionist\, John Henry Days\, Apex Hides the Hurt\, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City. \nEvery ticket comes with a signed paperback copy of Whitehead’s bestselling The Underground Railroad. \nTickets are ONLY available through the Charleston Music Hall. To purchase tickets\, call 843-853-2252or click here.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/colson-whitehead-the-underground-railroad-paperback-tour/
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: Mostly Baroque- A Dramatic Evening
DESCRIPTION:Mostly Baroque- A Dramatic Evening of Music \nThe Baroque period is making its return to the halls of the Library Society. Join us for this special performance featuring Volodymyr Vynytsky\, Natalia Khoma and Yuriy Bekker as they present music from the great classical masters of the Baroque period. Dramatic lighting\, grandeur musical pieces\, and a glass of wine or two will make this evening one not to miss. This evening concert has a specialty price of $35. To purchase tickets call 843-723-9912 or click here.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-mostly-baroque-a-dramatic-evening/
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