Let’s Talk About It List

Book Series

About this Series

Learn about the Jazz Age through the eyes of three American masters whose work helped immortalize the triumphs and tensions of the era.

Accommodates 30
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Jazz by Toni MorrisonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Dreamkeeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
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Using a variety of viewpoints and settings, authors investigate the hardships of the African-American experience and how, through friendship, family, love, and tradition, African Americans persevere in spite of it all.

Accommodates 20
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBrown Girl, Brownstones by Paule MarshallA Lesson Before Dying by Ernest GainesMama Day by Gloria NaylorBeloved by Toni Morrison
About this Series

Books are banned and censored for a variety of reasons—from religious to political to social. Celebrate your freedom to read by enjoying five frequently challenged and banned books from a variety of authors and time periods. Whether banned for being “sexually explicit” or for “occult themes,” these books all offer a wide scope for discussion and for enjoyment.

Accommodates 30
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Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaLady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. LawrenceI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. AnayaHarry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
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Featuring native sons and daughters of the Palmetto State, this series combines fiction and non-fiction works to create a well-rounded look at a complex people.

Donated by Chapin Memorial Library in Myrtle Beach

Accommodates 30
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Partisans and Redcoats by Walter EdgarDemark Vesey by David RobertsonThe Water is Wide by Pat ConroyThe Keeper of the House by Rebecca GodwinEdisto by Padgett Powell
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Prepare to be captivated by this survey of American Nature Writing in the 20th Century, which encompasses perspectives from a junkyard to a greenhouse and from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Wisconsin.

Accommodates 30
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A Sand County Almanac by Aldo LeopoldThe Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World by Michael PollanEcology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse RayPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
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Sometimes boisterous, sometimes grotesque, these works of Southern humor reveal insights into the Southern way of life both past and present…and are side-splittingly funny as well!

Accommodates 15
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A Collection of Classic Southern Humor II by George W. KoonGeorgia Scenes by Augusta LongstreetThe Ponder Heart by Eudora WeltyThe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom WolfeThe Hamlet by William Faulkner
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Ah, love. Who can explain this puzzling but universal feature of the human condition? These books may not explain love, but they certainly present timeless descriptions of it.

Accommodates 30
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Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesThe End of the Affair by Grahame GreeneMorgan’s Passing by Anne TylerA Mother and Two Daughters by Gail Godwin
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This collection of classic mysteries will be sure to tantalize. From hard-boiled detectives to secretaries-turned-sleuths, the protagonists of these novels may come from different backgrounds, but they all have the same purpose: to find out “who dunnit”!

Accommodates 20
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I the Jury by Mickey SpillaneBertie and the Tinman by Peter LovesayMurder at Markham by Patricia SprinkleTalking God by Tony HillermanRumpole of the Bailey by John MortimerRumpole’s Last Case by John Mortimer
About this Series

In these fascinating memoirs and biographies, women create worlds, both real and fictional. Each book is a detailed portrait of a strong, influential woman, a woman capable of changing the course of history, art, culture, or politics.

Accommodates 30
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Isabella of Castille: The First Renaissance Queen by Nancy RubinLost in Translation by Eva HoffmanLakota Woman by Mary Crow DogJazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time by Phyllis RoseFrida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera

Mixed Media Series

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No one gets through life without a few bumps and bruises; sometimes we forget that we are not alone in that pain. Hardship comes in many varieties, and the books in this series offer varied examples but present a common theme: there is hope along the way.

Accommodates 30
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The Glass Castle by by Jeannette WallsThe Glass Castle by (2017 film starring Brie Larson and Woody Harrelson)Secret Life of Bees by by Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees by (2008 film starring Jennifer Hudson and Dakota Fanning)Wonder by by R. J. PolacioWonder by  (2017 film starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson)Tuesdays with Morrie by by Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie by (1999 film starring Hank Azaria and Jack Lemmon)
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Using Steven Johnson’s bestselling book and the accompanying PBS documentary, this series explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences.

Six suggested sessions, pairing the book section with the appropriate PBS series episode:

  • “Clean”
  • “Time”
  • “Glass”
  • “Light”
  • “Cold”
  • “Sound”
Accommodates 30
Featuring
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World by by Steven JohnsonHow We Got to Now with Steven Johnson by PBS documentary (360 minutes)
About this Series

A survey of jazz culture through both time and place, this series mixes incisive fiction with sweeping film.

Accommodates 30
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Round Midnight by (1986 film starring Dexter Gordon)The Benny Goodman Story by (1955 film starring Donna Reed)Coming Through the Slaughter by by Michael OndaatjeLush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by by David HadjuSonny’s Blues by by James Baldwin (short story)
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The tricky, unstable quality of memory is poignantly captured in the works of this series, showing that what we remember may or may not accurately represent reality.

Accommodates 30
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The Glass Menagerie by by Tennessee WilliamsLemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir by by Mamie Garvin Fields and Karen FieldsThe Remains of the Day by by Kazuo IshiguroMemory and Imagination by by Patricia Hampl (essay)The Glass Menagerie by (1987 film starring Joanne Woodward)
About this Series

This mixed media series is heart-wrenching, heartwarming and terrifying in turn. These well-known titles by South Carolina authors highlight the humor and horror present in all Southerners.

Accommodates 30
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Clover by by Dori SandersDeliverance by by James DickeyThe Prince of Tides by by Pat ConroyRich in Love by by Josephine HumphreysSerena by by Ron RashClover by (1997)Deliverance by (1972 film starring John Voigt)The Prince of Tides by (1991 film starring Barbra Streisand)Rich in Love by (1992)Serena by (2014 film starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence)
About this Series

Compare three classic plays to their film adaptations.

Accommodates 30
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A Doll’s House by by Henrik IbsenA Doll’s House by (1992 film starring Juliet Stevenson)Hamlet by by William ShakespeareHamlet by (1948 film starring Laurence Olivier)The Importance of Being Earnest by by Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest by (1952 film starring Michael Denison)
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These classic Westerns, in both their literary and film varieties, capture the spirit of the American frontier and will capture anybody’s imagination.

Accommodates 30
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The Ox-Bow Incident by by Walter Van Tilburg ClarkThe Ox-Bow Incident by (1943 film starring Henry Fonda)The Virginian by by Owen WisterThe Virginian by (1946 film staring Joel McCrea)True Grit by by Charles PortisTrue Grit by (1969 film starring John Wayne)
About this Series

The female protagonists of these classic works endure hardships with patience and resolve and manage to live their lives with deep personal integrity.

Accommodates 30
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Washington Square by by Henry JamesWashington Square by (1997 film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh)Daisy Miller by by Henry JamesDaisy Miller by (1974 film starring Cybill Shepherd)The Age of Innocence by by Edith WhartonThe Age of Innocence by (1993 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis)
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Follow the protagonists of Collins, Austen and Du Maurier from the page to the screen as they navigate challenging landscapes of romance and social hierarchy in their respective worlds.

Accommodates 30
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Rebecca by by Daphne DuMaurierRebecca by (1997 Masterpiece Theatre Film with Faye Dunaway)Mansfield Park by by Jane AustenMansfield Park by (2007 Masterpiece Theatre Film with Billie Piper)The Woman In White by by Wilkie CollinsThe Woman In White by (1997 Masterpiece Theatre Film with Justine Waddell)

Film Series

About this Series

Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities that uses the power of documentary films to encourage community discussion of America’s civil rights history. NEH partnered with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to produce this series. The series contains four films.

Featuring
The Abolitionists (2012)Slavery by Another Name (2012)The Loving Story (2011)Freedom Ride (2010)
About this Series

A film survey of American presidents:

  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Harry Truman
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Richard Nixon
  • Ronald Reagan
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