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    The Storyteller of Casablanca, by Fiona Valpy

    Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe passage to America. Life here is as intense as the sun, every sight, smell and sound overwhelming to the senses in a city filled with extraordinary characters. It’s a world away from the trouble back home—and Josie loves it.

    Seventy years later, another new arrival in the intoxicating port city, Zoe, is struggling—with her marriage, her baby daughter and her new life as an expat in an unfamiliar place. But when she discovers a small wooden box and a diary from the 1940s beneath the floorboards of her daughter’s bedroom, Zoe enters the inner world of young Josie, who once looked out on the same view of the Atlantic Ocean, but who knew a very different Casablanca.

  • Come walk along the Eno River. Kids and dogs welcome.

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    No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir, by Jane Ferguson

    From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war—from The Troubles to the fall of Kabul. Jane Ferguson has covered nearly every war front and humanitarian crisis of our time. She reported from Yemen as protests grew into the Arab Spring; she secured rare access to rebel-held Syria, where foreign journalists were banned, to cover its civil war. When the Taliban claimed Kabul in 2021, she was one of the last Western journalists to remain at the airport as thousands of Afghans, including some of her colleagues, struggled to evacuate. Living with sectarian violence was nothing new to Ferguson.

    As a child in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and ‘90s, The Troubles meant bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace.Ferguson’s bold debut chronicles her unlikely journey from bright, inquisitive child to intrepid war correspondent. With an open-hearted humanity, we rarely see in conflict stories, No Ordinary Assignment shows what it means to build an authentic career against the odds. 

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    The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

    The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When “Willie” Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. 

     A mesmerizingly beautiful novel based on real events, The House of Doors traces the fault lines of race, gender, sexuality, and power under empire, and dives deep into the complicated nature of love and friendship in its shadow.

  • NCPCA is going to the zoo! Come join us and bring your kids and family.

  • Book Discussion and Potluck in Chinese Style see more

    1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir, by Weiwei Ai

    Hailed as "an eloquent and seemingly unsilenceable voice of freedom" by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process.

    Once an intimate of Mao Zedong and the nation's most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei's father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as "Little Siberia," where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol. With candor and wit, he details his return to China and his rise from artistic unknown to art world superstar and international human rights activist--and how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime.

  • Come meet the next recipients of the 2024 Peace Prize. Details coming soon.

  • Come join NCPCA as we take a tour of Freedom Park in Raleigh with Reggie and Celeste Hodges/ RPCVs of Sierra Leone. Stay tuned for more details including lunch plans.

  • Goorsha restaurant (Ethiopian)

    910 W. Main St. (Brightleaf Square)

    parking lots and garages nearby

     

    RSVP required. Email:  [email protected]

    15 total seats

    Deadline: April 21

     

    If questions, address to Debbie or Lyn at email address provided above, not personal email.

  • We will be discussing A Hero for the PeopleStories of the Brazilian Backlands written by RPCV Arthur Powers.  This short story collection of fiction reflects the author's life in Brazil "organizing subsistence farmers and rural workers' unions". 
    At 7 we will Zoom with the author for Q&As. RSVP to Debbie .

  • Details coming. Where, when and who

  • Tobacco Road Sports Cafe & Brewery

    505 W Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA

    3 hours free parking in the deck behind the restaurant. Just get a ticket from the hostest

  • Tobacco Road Sports Cafe & Brewery

    505 W Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA

    3 hours free parking behind the restaurant in the deck

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