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2009

Contact: Ginger Hobbs Lever
Director Marketing & Community Relations
The University of New Hampshire Manchester
400 Commercial Street
Manchester, NH 03101
Phone: (603) 641-4122
Fax: (603) 641-4192
E-Mail: ginger.lever@unh.edu
www.unhm.unh.edu

UNH Manchester Books In The Mill Series

Spring 2009: Time Travel

Manchester, NH – The public is invited to join UNH Manchester librarians and book group guest leaders for the spring 2009 Books in the Mills Series. The theme this spring is time travel. The monthly discussions will be held in the Library mezzanine conference room beginning at 6:30 PM beginning Thursday February 5. For more information, please call the UNH Manchester Library at 603-641-4173.

Thursday, February 5: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Niffenegger’s bittersweet, romantic story is the tale of a man with “Chrono Displacement Disorder” and the woman who loves him. Henry De Tamble is an unwilling time traveler who is taken from one moment of his life to another without warning. His wife Clare must learn to persevere through the separations wrought by his journeys.

Thursday, March 5: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
In the time-traveling near future, historians are able to journey to the past “incognito” to study ancient civilizations in person. A brilliant young scholar is granted permission to visit England in the plague- and war-ridden 14^th Century, only to become stranded in a village confronting the Black Death. Willis’ sci-fi/historical novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, science fiction’s highest honors.

Thursday, April 2: Kindred by Octavia Butler
A 20^th-century African-American woman finds herself whisked from her San Francisco home to a plantation in the Antebellum South, where she must save the life of her white slave-holding ancestor. Butler’s classic science fiction work is a haunting exploration of race, family, and the dark truths of the American past.

Thursday, May 7: The Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinson
What if you could change history by traveling back in time to save the life of one man? What if that man did not want to be saved? In this inventive blend of sci-fi, history, and philosophy, a graduate student returns to ancient Athens to prevent Socrates from drinking the cup of hemlock. Along the way, she meets many famous figures from Greek antiquity.

UNH Manchester, UNH’s urban campus in Manchester’s historic millyard, hosts a variety of programs including films, lectures and more. All events are free and open to the public. For more information or special accommodations, contact the Marketing and Community Relations Office at 603-641-4167 or learn more at www.unhm.unh.edu.

UNH Manchester, UNH's urban campus, offers liberal arts and applied majors in business, science, and technology, all with an urban focus. UNH Manchester is UNH. Learn more at www.unhm.unh.edu.

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