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Winners of the Rose Post Creative Nonfiction competition
CULLOWHEE—For the second year in a row, NCWN members swept first, second, and third place in the Rose ...
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Rowan Public Library to host Bright Star Theatre production
SALISBURY – Every year, Rowan Public Library hosts a special Bright Star Theatre production to celebrate Black History ...
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Friends of Rowan Public Library opening Second Saturday Bookshop
By Deirdre Parker Smith deirdre.smith@salisburypost.com The Friends of Rowan Public Library are going into business — sort of. ...
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Six authors coming to South Main Book Co. Saturday
By Deirdre Parker Smith deirdre.smith@salisburypost.com Six authors will be at South Main Book Company on Saturday to sign ...
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Rowan Public Library offers free and fun programs for teens
By Sydney Smith Rowan Public Library Keeping teenagers preoccupied with meaningful activities can often feel like a challenge. ...
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Bestsellers (2-27-20)
Rowan bestsellers South Main Book Co. 1. The Unwilling, by John Hart (preorders). 2. Everybody was Happy, by ...
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Lenoir-Rhyne’s Visiting Writers Series continues with Min Jin Lee
HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Visiting Writers Series continues with Min Jin Lee on March 5, 2020 at 7 ...
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M.J. Simms-Maddox featured at Writers Night Out
M.J. Simms-Maddox, Ph.D., author of “The Priscilla Series” will be the featured presenter at the North Carolina Writers’ ...
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Tonight’s Bright Star Theatre performance rescheduled to March 10
Bright Star Touring Theatre performance of “Let It Shine: The American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968” at Rowan Public ...
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You matter to the 2020 Census
By Paulette Stiles Rowan Public Library With all the sound and fury coming out of Washington, it is ...
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Bestsellers (2-23-20)
Rowan bestsellers South Main Book Co. 1. The Unwilling, by John Hart (preorders). 2. Fearless and Determined, by ...
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NC Literary Hall of Fame to induct five
SOUTHERN PINES — Five writers — a beloved poet, novelist, scholar and literary citizen; the author of a ...
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How a house unmade and made a family
“The Dutch House,’ by Ann Patchett, HarperCollins. 2019, 352 pp. By Deirdre Parker Smith deirdre.smith@salisburypost.com “The Dutch House” ...
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Bestsellers (2-13-20)
Rowan bestsellers South Main Book Co. 1. Everybody was Happy, by Hap Roberts. 2. The Unwilling, by John ...
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Historical fiction: time travel without the jet lag
By Abby Hardison Rowan Public Library Successful historical fiction authors deeply research the time periods they write about, ...
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Bestsellers (2-6-20)
Rowan bestsellers South Main Book Co. 1.In a Jar, by Deborah Marcero. 2. A Very Stable Genius, by ...
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NC Writers’ Network Spring Conference April 18
GREENSBORO — North Carolina Writers’ Network, which turns 35 this year, will host its 2020 Spring Conference on ...
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Rowan Public Library encourages you to look all around
By Paul Birkhead Rowan Public Library As I was walking through the stacks of Rowan Public Library recently, ...
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Journalist to be author at Brady Symposium
Staff Report SALISBURY — The 34th Annual Brady Author’s Symposium on March 19 will feature author Salley McAden ...
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Discover more stories of the past at library’s History Room
By Gretchen Beilfuss Witt Rowan Public Library The Edith M. Clark History room has some new additions which ...
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Bestsellers (1-30-20)
Rowan bestsellers South Main Book Co. 1. American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins. 2. Everybody was Happy, by Hap ...
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Library resources can unlock how to use new ‘toys’
By Amanda Bosch Rowan Public Library If you are like me and you got a Christmas gift that ...
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Wild fiction and fascinating non-fiction this week
By Deirdre Parker Smith deirdre.smith@salisburypost.com The book that everyone is talking about this month is “American Dirt,” by ...
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Bestsellers (1-23-20)
Rowan bestsellers South Main Book Co. 1.Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine, by Beth Porter. 2. Everybody was Happy, by Hap ...
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Library card lends itself to travelers
By Brooke K. Taylor Rowan Public Library Want to take a trip, but don’t have the money right ...
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Imagination, love and hope fill ‘The Starless Sea’
“The Starless Sea,” by Erin Morgenstern. Doubleday Books. 2019. 512 pp. By Deirdre Parker Smith deirdre.smith@salisburypost.com Erin Morgenstern’s ...
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Bestsellers (1-16-20)
Rowan bestsellers 1.Tell Me a Story, by Cassandra King Conroy. 2.The Guardians, by John Grisham. 3. Wilmington’s Lie, ...
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Pastor launching new book on finding success
Jody Almond, senior pastor of Transformation Church in Salisbury, has published a book, “Going All In: Finding Success ...
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