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Shotgun Essie among characters in local author’s book
SANFORD — With a name like Shotgun Essie, Sanford resident LaVerne Thornton’s grandmother was not a woman to be messed with.
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BOOK REVIEW: Raleigh author’s take on angels living among us
Throughout the centuries angels have come to mean many things to many people. From brief descriptions in the Bible to cheesy portrayals in books and movies, people have preconceived notions of wha...
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BOOK REVIEW: Learning to be happy in the present tense
“The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.” (Harper, 2009, 292 pages. $25.99. By Gret...
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BOOK REVIEW: Author captures concept of grace once again
Inspired. That is the only word I can use to describe the way I felt after reading Francine Rivers for the first time. I was in high school and at that point I had never read anything that impacte...
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BOOK REVIEW: Seeds of the housing bust sewn by policy
“The Housing Boom and Bust” (Basic Books, 2009, 184 pages, $31.95, by Thomas Sowell) “The Housing Boom and Bust” is the history of a failed government policy, the cynical actions of community deve...
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