These free public programs will explore the history and impact of immigration on Virginia and each respective locality, inviting a wide range of participants to take part in the dialogue.

Three Northern Virginia Community College instructors at the Loudoun campus are pursuing their professional passions with abundant success.

Philip Reid grew up a slave near Charleston, South Carolina, where he became a skilled foundry craftsman. He was purchased by Clark Mills, who owned the Clark Mills Foundry of Washington, D.C.

The Manassas campus of Northern Virginia Community College recently honored the winners of the 24th Annual Writing Contest with a ceremony featuring Laura Scott, poet and author of “Death Wishing.”

Write by the Rails, the Prince William Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club, has produced New Departures, an anthology of fiction, poetry and memoir by members of the networking group.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, David G. Coleman will discuss his book “The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

An eBook can be one of many different file types, ranging from Microsoft Office documents (*.doc) to electronic publications (*.epub) to a portable document format (*.pdf). You can view eBooks on any number of devices, like the iPhone, any phone running the Android Operating System and even your computer.

Set in the science fiction world of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000, The Horus Heresy series follows the events of the pivotal time in the fictional history of the franchise. Written by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, the First Heretic is the 16th book in the series.