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Book Discussion On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, the campus community is invited to attend the Friends of the Library book discussion on Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad by Ann Hagedorn. From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you can see five bends in the Ohio River. You can see the hills of northern Kentucky and the rooftops of Ripley’s riverfront houses. And you can see what the abolitionist John Rankin saw from his house at the top of that hill, where for nearly forty years he placed a lantern each night to guide fugitive slaves to freedom beyond the river. The event is free and open to CSU faculty, staff, and students and to the general public. Refreshments will be served. Call 216-875-9734 or email b.florjancic@csuohio.edu to reserve a seat or for more information. Find out more about upcoming Friends of the Library Book Discussions as well as the Local Book Talk with Mary Doria Russell scheduled for April 14, 2010. 
21st Annual Scholars & Artists Reception The campus community is invited to attend the 21st annual Scholars & Artists Reception on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 3:00 on the first floor of the Michael Schwartz Library. This year, the guest of honor will be Dr. Michael Schwartz, President Emeritus. The Friends will honor him in celebration and recognition of the Library’s new name. During the reception, guests can enjoy hors d’oeuvres and browse the display of recently published books, scholarly papers, art, music, web sites, and other works by Cleveland State University faculty, staff, and emeriti. Call for submissions Call 216-875-9734 for more information. 
Book Discussion Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at CPL, will lead a book discussion on Copenhagen by Michael Frayn. The Tony Award-winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. Copehagen is also Cleveland State University’s Common Reading book choice for 2009/2010. Copenhagen is available for checkout at the Michael Schwartz Library and on sale at the CSU Bookstore and on Amazon.com. The event is free and open to CSU faculty, staff, and students and to the general public. Refreshments will be served. Call 216-875-9734 or email b.florjancic@csuohio.edu to reserve a seat or for more information. Find out more about upcoming Friends of the Library Book Discussions as well as the Local Book Talk with Mary Doria Russell scheduled for April 14, 2010. Members Luncheon Dr. Michael Wells, President, Friends of the Library, invited Friends' members to a luncheon, which was followed by a lively discussion about events for the fall semester and more. Read the minutes. 
Book Discussion Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at CPL, will return to lead a book discussion on Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies. In this astoundingly funny book, Davies both lampoons academia and shows his love for it and for the wisdom it produces. On one level, Davies' novel is “about” four academics: Maria Theotoky, the brilliant, beautiful graduate student; her adviser, the ascetic Dr. Hollier; Simon Darcourt, the bon vivant priest; and Parlabane, once an outstanding scholar, now sycophant to his former classmates. Then there is the basic plot theme: Who will end up with the girl? Standard stuff. Yet the real focus here is on the spiritual and/or mystical personal explorations of the main characters (from Library Journal review). Rebel Angels is available for checkout at the Michael Schwartz Library and on sale at Amazon.com. The event is free and open to CSU faculty, staff, and students and to the general public. Refreshments will be served. Call 216-875-9734 or email b.florjancic@csuohio.edu to reserve a seat or for more information. 
Friends of the Library Local Authors Book Talk Series The Friends Local Authors Book Talk Series continues. Cleveland author Kristin Ohlson will visit CSU to discuss her experiences in Afghanistan and her New York Times bestseller book Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil (co-written with Deborah Rodriguez). There will also be a question and answer session followed by a book signing. Books will be on sale before and after the book talk courtesy of the CSU bookstore. The event is free and open to CSU faculty, staff, and students and to the general public. Refreshments will be served. Call 216-875-9734 or email b.florjancic@csuohio.edu to reserve a seat or for more information. 
Book Talk On March 4 Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at CPL, will return to lead a book discussions on Supreme Courtship by bestselling author Christopher Buckley. In this hilarious novel, the President of the United States, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, decides to get even by nominating America’s most popular TV judge to the Supreme Court.. About the book Copies of the book are on sale now at the CSU Bookstore and available for checkout at the Library. The event is free and open to CSU faculty, staff, and students and to the general public. Refreshments will be served. Call 216-875-9734 or email b.florjancic@csuohio.edu to reserve a seat or for more information. 
Book Talk Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at CPL, is back once again, this time to lead a discussion on the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction --The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz. Diaz has spun the heartbreak and loneliness of the immigrant experience into literary gold with memorable stories of marginalized outsiders caught between two cultures, never completely fitting into either one. This is the long-awaited-and thrillingly satisfying, genuinely original-first novel from the unmistakable voice behind the story collection, Drown. About the book The event is free and open to CSU faculty, staff, and students and to the general public. Refreshments will be served. Call 216-875-9734 or email b.florjancic@csuohio.edu to reserve a seat or for more information. Join Junot Diaz in his visit to the Cleveland Public Library on Sunday, October 19 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Find out more.  20th Annual Scholars & Artists Reception The campus community is invited to attend the 20th Annual Scholars and Artists Reception honoring faculty, staff, and emeriti creativity. The event, sponsored by the Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library, will be held on Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in the Special Collections room on the 3rd floor of the Library. This year’s keynote speaker/scholar is from the Nance College of Business Administration —Dr. Rajshekhar “Raj” G. Javalgi, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Research as well as Professor of Marketing and International Business. His talk is titled “Entrepreneurship Education in a Changing Global Marketplace.” During the reception, guests can enjoy hors d’oeuvres and browse the display of recently published books, scholarly papers, art, music, web sites, and other works by Cleveland State University faculty, staff, and emeriti. Submission still being accepted Call 216-875-9734 for more information. 
Book Talk Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at Cleveland Public Library and his colleague, Anastasia Diamond-Ortiz, Head of the Computer Learning Connection at CPL, will lead a discussion on Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. Ms. Diamond-Ortiz, who also worked in the CPL Popular Library and developed their Graphic Novel collection, will begin with an overview of graphic novels. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return is the continuation of her fascinating story. In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders, she continues to struggle for a sense of belonging. Persepolis 2 is as funny and poignant as its predecessor. The event is free and open to CSU faculty, staff, and students and to the general public. Refreshments will be served. Call 216-875-9734 or email b.florjancic@csuohio.edu to reserve a seat or for more information. First-year students enrolled in ASC 101 as part of the Common Reading Experience are also encouraged to attend. Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She now lives in Paris, where she is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers throughout the world, including The New Yorker and the New York Times. She is the author of several children's books, as well as the critically acclaimed and internationally best-selling memoir Persepolis, which has been translated into twelve languages, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was awarded the first Fernando Buesa Blanco Peace Prize in Spain and an Alex Award from the American Library Association. 
Book Talk Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at Cleveland Public Library, is back by popular demand to lead a Friends of the Library book discussion on a briskly original and subversively funny novella, The Uncommon Reader, by popular British writer Alan Bennett. When Queen Elizabeth II in pursuit of her runaway puppy stumbles upon a mobile library, she feels duty bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palace kitchen who frequents the library, Bennett describes the Queen's transformation as she discovers the liberating pleasures of the written word. With the dawn of her sensibility, mistaken for the onset of senility, plots are hatched by the prime minister and the queen's staff to dispatch Norman and discourage the queen's preoccupation with books. Ultimately, it is her own growing self-awareness that leads her away from reading toward writing, with astonishing results. Bennett has fun with the proper behavior and protocol at the palace, and the few instances of mild coarseness seem almost scandalous. Refreshments will be served. 
Book Talk Join Richard Fox, Head of the Popular Library at Cleveland Public Library, as he leads a book discussion about the provocative new book by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Can we really live without junk food? Kingsolver describes how her family was changed by "deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air." Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction narrative will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. Animal, Vegetable, Refreshments will be served.  Joanne Goodell 19th Annual Scholars & Artists Reception This year's keynote speaker/scholar was Joanne Goodell, Professor of Teacher Education, from the College of Education and Human Services. She discussed aspects of her own research and grant activities, "Reforming the Teaching of Mathematics and Science Education: A Personal Reflection." During the reception, guests mingled and browsed the display of more than 150 creative works of CSU faculty, staff, and emeriti including books, articles, DVDs, wall art, book chapters, poems and book reviews. 
Book Talk: Guest Speaker Richard Fox, Head of Popular Library at CPL will lead a book discussion on the title, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer Mr. Fox will focus on one of the most discussed, acclaimed, and debated novels in recent memory, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer. Through the eyes of his nine-year-old protagonist, Foer has written what is acknowledged by many as the first great novel about September 11. This event is free and open to the public. Call 216-875-9734 for more information.  Dr. David F. Forte Constitution Day Celebration Dr. William Shorrock, President, Friends of the Library will be the Master of Ceremonies at this year's Constitution Day program. There will be a presentation titled “Homer Plessy and the Living Constitution” by Dr. David F. Forte, Professor of Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, with a special introduction by President Michael Schwartz. The event is free and open to all faculty, staff, and students.  Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Critically-acclaimed author Sarah Willis will discuss her novels, Some Things that Stay, The Rehearsal, A Good Distance, and The Sound of Us. Ms. Willis will also do a book signing after the program. All four of her books will be available for purchase directly outside of RT 503 before and after her presentation. Her books are also on sale at the CSU Bookstore and available for check out at the Michael Schwartz Library. Sarah Willis’ first novel, Some Things that Stay, was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction 2000, and was awarded The Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature 2000. Some Things that Stay was made into a movie which opened in Canada in October, 2004. Joanna Scott, of The New York Times writes, "Convincing . . . memorable . . . It would be easy to describe Sarah Willis's first novel as quiet, but I'm more inclined to call Some Things that Stay quietly defiant . . . Willis has created a feisty narrator-15-year-old Tamara Anderson, who asks herself tough questions about life and refuses to accept even the most serviceable answers." Her second novel is The Rehearsal, an engaging drama about an egomaniacal director who has become dangerously out of touch with his family. The New York Times Book Review calls A Good Distance “an artfully defiant work of fiction that stubbornly hews to the unruliness of life...” and The Sound of Us gracefully explores the world of foster care through the eyes of 48-year-old Alice Marlowe, an interpreter for the deaf living a lonely life in Cleveland. Sarah also writes essays which can be found in the Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine. She is busy now writing her fifth novel. Sarah has taught creative writing classes at numerous writer’s workshops and colleges, including Hiram college, John Carroll University, The Imagination Conference at CSU, The Columbus Writers Conference, The Writer’s Center at Chautauqua, and the Maui Writer’s Retreat. Sarah was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where she still lives. Find out more about Sarah Willis at Sarah Willis Writes... Refreshments will be served at event.
Richard Fox of CPL will lead a discussion on Michael Chabon's Mysteries of Pittsburgh. This event is free and open to the public. Call 216-875-9734 to reserve a seat.
Guest speaker Tama Engelking, Associate Professor of French at Cleveland State University will give a presentation titled “The Life and Loves of the Marquis de Lafayette.” This event is free and open to the public. Call 216-875-9734 to reserve a seat. | |
Book Talk: Guest Speaker Richard Fox, Head of Popular Library at CPL will lead a book discussion on the title, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, by Michael Chabon
Marquis de Lafayette Presentation
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