Cary Talks Lectures Events

Wednesday, May 30 6:30p
West Regional Library, Cary
In 1942, German U-boats sank or damaged hundreds of U.S. ships, and killed thousands, off our Outer Banks.

Sunday, June 24 3:00p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Maureen Lee, Sissieretta Jones, "The Greatest Singer of Her Race", 1868-1933. This is a biography of the highly successful, classically trained soprano.

Tuesday, June 5 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., visits with Freeman: A Novel. At the end of the Civil War, an escaped slave walks across the ravaged South in search of his lost wife.

Wednesday, June 27 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Author of Kinfolks and Washed in the Blood, LISA ALTHER, Blood Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance.

Tuesday, June 19 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
JAY LEUTZE, Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail.

Tuesday, June 12 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Contributors SHIRLETTE AMMONS, JACKIE SHELTON GREEN, AJUBA JOY, LENARD MOORE, Home is Where: An Anthology of African-American Poetry from the Carolinas.

Thursday, May 31 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs. A rising young economist at Berkeley argues that where you live will soon determine how successful you are, and explains how this new geography benefits centers of inn

Thursday, June 21 7:30p
Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett, The Cost of Hope: A Memoir. A moving and beautifully written memoir—a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett’s que

Tuesday, June 19 8:00a
McKimmon Conference Center, Raleigh
Hospice of Wake County, Alzheimers North Carolina & Guiding Lights present The Triangle Caregivers Conference Tues, 6-19-12 at McKimmon Center in Raleigh and Tues, 6-26-12 at Durham Convention Center.