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Billie Holiday celebration at the library
The Durham County Library will present a celebration of singer Billie Holiday today at 3 p
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Rogoff to sign books at UNC CHAPEL HILL -- Leonard Rogoff will be at the Bull's Head Bookshop Thursday at 3:30 p
Rogoff to sign books at UNC CHAPEL HILL — Leonard Rogoff will be at the Bull’s Head Bookshop Thursday at 3:30 p
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Search for pitcher makes a good read
“High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time” By Tim Wendel (Da Capo Press, $25, 268 pages) BY MALCOLM RITTER A...
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Blair curses, brown rages in damning political portrait
As a British general election nears, London newspapers are serving up juicy morsels from a scabrous new book on politics
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thegirlwhochasedthemoo.JPG Another magical, sweet treat by Allen
Asheville author Sarah Addison Allen sprinkles her novels with a little magic, a little food and a lot of good storytelling. The featured food was apples in her first novel, “Garden Spells,” then ...
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'On the Road' viewpoints converge in film
In the 1962 novel “Big Sur,” Jack Kerouac chronicles his unsuccessful attempt to find respite and solitude in poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s cabin in Bixby Canyon in Big Sur. In th...
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Kerouac to be celebrated in exhibit
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) is best known as the author of “On the Road,” “The Dharma Bums” and other novels that chronicled the lives of the postwar poets and writers known a...
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This Friday, March 5, 2010, photo shows University of New Hampshire history professor Ellen Fitzpatrick, author of "Letters to Jackie: Condolences From A Grieving Nation," in Newton, Mass. Condolence letters are published for first time
CONCORD , N.H. — Among the 1.5 million condolence letters sent to President John F. Kennedy’s widow after his assassination in 1963 were more than two dozen from Jane Dryden, a dogged...
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Book_Rev.JPG Baseball's unwritten rules are revealed
Major League Baseball is a complex, intricate game with a thick rule book that covers everything from balks and bunts to force plays and foul tips.
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Student takes 2nd at recitation
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