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I have always agreed with the somewhat popular sentiment that, in order to produce decent fiction, one has to rely on a strong villain to dictate the action. Nothing gets a plot moving like some unanswered atrocities being committed by a swarthy baddie. Most importantly, when the opposing force of evil is persuasive, cunning and seemingly insurmountable, “any ole dog” will do for a hero.
Longtime county grocer brings food to Ohatchee with help from federal grant
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Accountant, attorney: Judge Laird not responsible for most of delinquent taxes
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They say everything’s bigger in Texas — the hair, the belt buckles, the drama. Edwina Perkins-Martin and Debbie Sue Overstreet, the hairdressing diva duo known as the Domestic Equalizers, have all three and then some.
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Few birds have gone extinct faster than the Labrador Duck. Anas labradoria (the duck's original scientific name) was first spotted by Europeans in eastern Canada in 1792. Less than one hundred years later, the duck was extinct. In 1875, hunters shot the last known Labrador Duck at its wintering grounds on Long Island, N.Y.
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The majority of Alexander McCall Smith's previous novels have been mere installments in various sagas, including the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. This time around, however, Smith seems to have crafted a novel that truly stands on its own.
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David Malouf is surely Australia's greatest living writer. It's been over a decade since The Conversations at Curlew Creek, his last novel, stunned the reader at every turn in its attempts to understand the barren Australian landscape. The characters of that novel are subtly channeled in Ransom, a shorter and equally humane novel that traverses a decidedly different landscape.
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Some people are born with natural talents and abilities. We hear about young children excelling in calculus, dance and piano. Olympic athletes often have been practicing and competing in their respective sports from a very young age. Nicola Keegan's novel, Swimming, is such a tale — it's the story of a Kansas-born Catholic girl who learned to swim at the ripe age of nine months.
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For a month I lugged around the 1,074-page monstrosity that was Stephen King's latest novel, Under the Dome. And with the turning of each page, I desperately hoped that the next sentence, this character's plight or that plot development would make the entire exercise worthwhile.
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The fractured concept of writing a historical novel, especially a biographical one, is often plagued by two major pitfalls. However, in the case of Madison Smartt Bell's Devil's Dream, the life of the man in question is a subject of such ambiguity that a delicate balance of fact and fiction is well within reach.
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Women in Hats, the second literary offering of writer Judy Sheehan, is a story of the often-tumultuous relationship between mother and daughter — and mother and bottle.
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