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NC Bookwatch Returns in Prime Time by D.G. MARTIN “We knew you wouldn’t give it up.” That is what some of my friends said when I told them that, after announcing my retirement last year, I recently signed up to do one more season of UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch I guess they were right. Happily, we have a wonderful new season. Beginning this week I will be introducing you to another group of North Carolina books and authors, who will share their wisdom and insights with us. In addition to the Sunday at 5 p.m. showings, the new series will air Fridays at 9:30 p.m. First up is Lee Smith, a favorite writer for many North Carolinians. She will tell us about some of 14 of stories in her newest book, Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger. Smith’s enthusiasm for her stories and characters and her generous willingness to share her writing experiences always make for a great conversation. (Friday, Sept. 10 at 9:30 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 12 at 5 p.m.) John Claude Bemis, a former middle school teacher who grew up in eastern North Carolina reading and listening to mystery and trickster stories, writes imaginative stories inspired by the John Brown legend. He will tell us about how that interest and some hard work turned into a contract with a major publisher. We will also talk about his first of a three-book series, The Nine Pound Hammer. (Friday, Sept. 17 at 9:30 p.m. with the Sunday broadcast preempted in connec- tion with UNC-TV’s fundraising schedule) North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River (more than 50,000 people). Because of their long- standing, and so far unsuccessful, effort to gain full recognition from the U.S. Government, they are often in the news. Thus, UNC-Chapel Hill Assistant Professor of History Malinda Maynor Lowery’s new book, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation, will be timely for many years. Lowery, a Lumbee herself, will share her special perspectives on Bookwatch. (Sept. 24, 26) With hurricane season coming down on our coast again, Greensboro native Nic Brown’s first book Flood Markers is a fictional reminder of how, on Sept. 21, 1989, Hugo Hurricane Hugo changed so many of our lives. (Oct. 1,3) If hurricanes don’t scare you, what about lightning? In Michele Young-Stone’s new novel, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, lightning sometimes strikes twice. It first hits eight-year-old Becca Burke one day in Chapel Hill, and things are never the same for her. (Oct. 8,10) Charlotte native Andrew Park’s new book, Between a Church and a Hard Place: One Faith-Free Father’s Struggle to Understand What it Means to be Religious (or Not) describes a non-believer’s quest to understand the power of religion in his region and in his family. (Oct. 15,17) Kathy Reichs’s Spider Bones is the 13th in Reichs’s best-selling Temperance Brennan series. Like Reichs, her fictional character, Brennan, is a forensic anthropologist who is the model for the Bones TV series. Reich will talk about her overlapping careers as professor at UNC-Charlotte, researcher, crime investigator, and author. (Oct. 22, 24) Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina by Leonard Rogoff follows the history of Jews in our state beginning with Sir Walter Raleigh’s efforts to establish a colony on Roanoke Island, when Joachim Gantz, a Jewish metal- lurgist, explored the area’s potential for mining in 1585. We will ask Rogoff to share with us the sweep of North Carolina’s history as it over- lapped with and was influenced by the experiences of Jewish people. (Oct. 29, 31) In summary, I am glad to be back and I hope you will tune in and share the fun. D.G. MARTIN, Columnist COMMENTS? 484-6200 ext. 222 or editor@upandcomingweekly.com Voted Best Shopping Center THANK YOU FAYETTEVILLE from: African Braids Belk Hardee’s/Boddie Noell Branch Banking & Trust California Nails Castle Uniforms Clippers Salon The Dancer Fabulous Finds Consignment, Inc. For Women Only/VIP Fitness Kathy’s Shoe Shop Kirby Sales & Services Kristina’s Boutique The Mill End Store Paul Mitchell, The School Precision Tune Pretige $2.59 Cleaners Red Wing Shoes Rejoice! Performing Arts Studio Sally Beauty Supply School Tools Spirit’s Tally & Tally Tallywood Optometric 22 UCW SEPTEMBER 15-21, 2010 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM