A portrait of an Appalachia upbringing

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Wednesday, 10/01/2024

For those of you who don’t know her, Julia Nunnally Duncan is an award-winning freelance writer and author of 11 books of nonfiction, fiction and poetry who is a native of Western North Carolina whose hometown is Marion.

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The true story of a teacher who defied Hitler

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Wednesday, 20/12/2023

In 1933 Germany, headmistress Anna Essinger was ordered by the newly-elected Nazi party to fly a Nazi flag above her school.

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A church in communion with all creatures

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Wednesday, 06/12/2023

The Covid pandemic has produced many new books with many of them addressing the current situation in which we humans find ourselves and the pressing issues that we need to address.

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Rash takes care of business in ‘The Caretaker’

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Wednesday, 22/11/2023

Ron Rash’s new novel “The Caretaker” (Doubleday, 2023, 252 pgs.) is much different than his previous novels.

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