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Margaret Anne Barnes, author of books examining landmark events in Southern history, has died after a long battle with emphysema. She was 80.

Book Review: You Can Run But You Can’t Hide (Read the whole post. Thank you!)

I bought this book because I know some of the people from the PD that were involved in this case. For the first time in my life, I threw a book in the trash unfinished. If you want a completely distorted view of the south – read it, because that is what you will get. [...]

The final page has been read and as I closed the book on all that which is Potter, I knew the story was finished enough for me.   Looking across the room at the two bookcases filled between the SGM and my books, I thought, ”This is the joy that JK Rowling gave to so many people – the joy [...]