G. 3,2011
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U NC-TV’s North Carolina
Bookwateh begins a new
season on Friday, August
5, at 9:30 p.m., and Sun
day, August 7, at 5 p.m.
My editors let me share with
you my reading suggestions.
They know that the suggestions
parallel exactly upcoming Book-
watch shows.
Because earlier columns have
already discussed several books
on the list, some descriptions
will be short.
The new series opens with
one of North Carolina’s most
respected authors, UNC-Greens-
boro’s Michael Parker. He dis
cusses The Watery Part Of The
World, an imaginative story that
blends coastal history and leg
ends with race and other com
plexities to make a gripping and
lovely story (Aug. 5, 7).
In Aerotropolis: The Way
We’ll Live Next, John D. Karsar-
da, director of the Frank Hawk
ins Kenan Institute of Private
Enterprise at UNC-Chapel Hill,
explains why efficient, well-
designed airports attract eco
nomic development and will be
the central cities of the future.
He discusses the challenges and
opportunities that face North
Carolina’s major airports (Aug.
12,14).
Can a retired professor of re
ligious studies write a success-
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BOOKWATCH
D. G. MARTIN
ful science fiction novel? David
Halperin’s Journal of a UFO
Investigator, proves that UFOs,
science fiction, and religion can
come together to make compel
ling fiction in a most unusual
way (Aug. 19, 21).
Sara Foster’s Southern Kitch
en: Soulful, Traditional, Sea
sonal will be the first of several
food-related books featured on
Bookwateh this season. Foster,
who once worked with Martha
Stewart, generously shares fa
vorite recipes from her family
and from her market (Aug. 26,
28).
Best-selling author Steve
Berry’s many visits to eastern
North Carolina led him to set
much of his newest adventure
novel. The Jefferson Key, in and
around the town of Bath, where
fictional modern-day pirates live
in palatial estates (Sept. 2,4).
Rosecrans Baldwin’s first
novel You Lost Me There is set
in Maine, and Baldwin has only
recently settled in North Caro
lina. But when the book was
named one of National Public
Radio’s Best Books of 2010, a
Best Book of Summer 2010 by
Time and Entertainment Week
ly, and a New York Times Book
Review Editors’ Choice, I knew
Bookwateh viewers would want
to learn about Baldwin and his
highly praised book (Sept. 9,11)
Watauga County native Sheri
Castle’s The New Southern Gar
den Cookbook: Enjoying the
Best from Homegrown Gardens,
Farmers’ Markets, Roadside
Stands, and CSA Farm Boxes is
a guide to finding the best sea
sonal foods in our region. She
organizes her recipes into about
40 chapters, each featuring a dif
ferent vegetables or fruit (Sept.
16,18)
Where do you get these sea
sonal foods? Diane Daniel’s
Farm Fresh North Carolina:
The Go-To Guide to Great Farm
ers’ Markets, Farm Stands,
Farms, Apple Orchards, U-Picks,
Kids’ Activities, Lodging, Din
ing, Choose-and-Cut Christmas
Trees, Vineyards and Wineries,
and More. Durham’s Daniel’s
great travel writing skills de
scribe where doors are open for
us to learn how the best North
Carolina foods are grown and
raised (Sept. 23,25)
Marjorie Hudson’s Acciden
tal Birds of the Carolinas: Sto-
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“North Carolina Bookwateh,”
which airs Fridays at 9:30 p.m.
and Sundays at 5 p.m. For more
information or to view prior pro
grams visit the Web page at www.
unctv.org/ncbookwatch/.
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Butterfly’s Child by former
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gela Davis-Gardner, is a sequel
to Puccini’s opera.
It answers fictionally the
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she committed suicide when her
American lover came back to
Japan with his American wife?”
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