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By D.G. Martin
Do you remember back in 1999 when the Hatteras Lighthouse was moved about 1,000 yards to escape the rising ocean?
A happy outcome was not a certainty at the beginning. Some people were sure the lighthouse was certain to collapse during the move.
Would you believe that a young girl from the Outer Banks brought together her friends to cast a spell to keep the lighthouse from falling down during the move?
It happens fictionally in a story told by the central character of the Lee Smith Award-winning debut novel by Raleigh author Heather Frese, âThe Baddest Girl on the Planet.â
If a handful of characters were transported from Anne Tyler’s Baltimore to tiny Boyne City, Michigan, they might act a bit like the ones Katherine Heiny has gathered in
Early Morning Riser. But Heiny’s gentle exploration of how we tiptoe and often stumble through the minefield of love is both fresh and consistently entertaining.
When second grade teacher Jane Wilkes meets Duncan Ryfield, they quickly fall in lust. But Jane’s attraction to Duncan, a handsome and capable woodworker who’s more skilled at starting projects than he is at finishing them, is complicated by the discovery that he is, as a friend politely puts it, “extremely . . . social” meaning he’s slept with most of the available women in this part of rural Michigan. In particular, Duncan has a puzzlingly close relationship with his ex-wife, an aggressive, opinionated real estate agent, even though it’s been many years since their divorce and her remarriage.
Take spring cleaning tactics to your bookshelves this season
In her Bibliofiles column, Donna Liquori on purging, organizing her collected tomes
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In process of organizing the books collected by Donna Liquori through the years.Photos by Donna LiquoriShow MoreShow Less
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Donna Liquori s bookshelf, which recently went through a spring cleaning purge and organization, in her Delmar home.Photos by Donna LiquoriShow MoreShow Less
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The books go everywhere with me and that is not negotiable: college dorms, apartments around Albany, an old stone carriage house in the mid-Hudson, our first house in Glenmont. Now, most of them are in the parlor in our 100-year-old place in Delmar.