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Book Review

Book Review: An Abundance of Curiosities

Across its beaches and barrier islands, estuaries and eastern marshes, North Carolina’s Coastal Plain is rich with history and natural diversity. Two biology professors combine decades of research in a guide to our wonderful wetlands.

by Georgann Eubanks
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Book Review: Coming Home

In her new cookbook-memoir, Barbara McKay shares the ups and downs of being a home chef turned TV personality in Mecklenburg County.

by Brigid Washington
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Book Review: Carolina Built

A formerly enslaved Edenton woman became a real estate mogul, breaking barriers and making a name for herself in North Carolina history. A modern-day novelist shares her story.

by Tracie Fellers
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Book Review: Now You Know It All

They aren’t heroes or villains, saints or sinners. The women of each short story in this new collection are complex, with secrets and desires much larger than the North Carolina towns in which they live.

by Belle Boggs
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Book Review: On the Way to Birdland

In this adventure-packed novel, a teenager from High Point sets out on a mission to reunite his family. Inspired by the music of his hometown hero, he journeys through fantasy and reality.

by George Huntley
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The Sum of Trifles

When author Julia Ridley Smith, the daughter of long-time Greensboro antique collectors, sifts through her late parents’ collection, she uncovers the story of her family — and of herself.

by Mary Lambeth Moore

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