{"id":2223,"date":"2011-09-02T10:40:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T10:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/lines\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2013-09-13T19:17:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T19:17:38","slug":"missed-the-kamkwamba-author-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2011\/09\/02\/missed-the-kamkwamba-author-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed the Kamkwamba visit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you missed the hype, UTC was honored this week to have <a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2011\/08\/update-utc-community-book-club-author-visits-campus\/\">author William Kamkwamba visit campus<\/a> to speak about his book, <em>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind<\/em>. The book, which tells the story of Kamkwamba building a windmill to supply his Malawi village with electricity, was chosen for UTC&#8217;s inaugural First Year Reading Program.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t snag a free copy, no worries! You can check out a copy for three hours to read in the library &#8211; just ask at the Circulation desk. Or you can order a copy from another library (for free!) through <a href=\"https:\/\/utc.illiad.oclc.org\/illiad\/logon.html\">Interlibrary Loan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for more stories of inspirational people? Check out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utc.worldcat.org\/oclc\/190850795\">A long way gone: Memoirs of a boy soldier<\/a> by Ishmael Beah<a href=\"http:\/\/utc.worldcat.org\/oclc\/2830050767987\"><br \/>\nReading Lolita in Tehran<\/a> by Azar Nafisi<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/utc.worldcat.org\/oclc\/2830052824764\">Madam secretary: A memoir<\/a> by Madeleine Albright<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/utc.worldcat.org\/oclc\/2830000283465\">The story of my life<\/a> by Helen Keller<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/utc.worldcat.org\/oclc\/2830028410345\">Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass<\/a> by Frederick Douglass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you missed the hype, UTC was honored this week to have author William Kamkwamba visit campus to speak about his book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. 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