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Written by Danny Bernstein
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Saturday, 24 February 2007 19:00 |
Hiking the Carolina MountainsAuthor: Danny Bernstein
Publisher: Milestone Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-889596-19-8
$19.95  "A valuable, informative -- and needed -- addition to any hiker's library."
-Leonard Adkins, author of Walking the Blue Ridge
The mountains of western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina are a hiker's paradise -- rich with human history, and home to some of the greatest biological diversity in the world. Hikers here are treated to thousands of miles of trails offering fantastic views, stunning wildflower and fall foliage displays, and gigantic trees in old-growth forests. Danny Bernstein's Hiking the Carolina Mountains recommends 57 day hikes, ranging from 2 to 13 miles in length, with destinations including the waterfalls of Dupont State Forest, the Blue Ridge Parkway's beautiful Craggy Gardens, the ruins of George Vanderbilt's palatial Buck Spring hunting lodge on Mt. Pisgah, and the summit of Cold Mountain. Bernstein takes hikers beyond the most well-known hikes in the region. Hiking the Carolinas is the first hiking guidebook to include Dupont State Forest, Panthertown Valley near Cashiers, and Green River Game Lands near Hendersonville in North Carolina, and also lists eight hikes in upstate South Carolina, an area largely undocumented in other guidebooks. Each hike description includes everything you need to know to get out on the trail: maps and detailed directions, mileage and elevation gain, trail highlights, fees and hiking regulations, and even films and novels related to each hike location. Danielle "Danny" Bernstein has been hiking all her life. An Appalachian Trail end-to-ender and a contributor to The Charlotte Observer, Smoky Mountain Living, Blue Ridge Country, and Blue Ridge Outdoors, she leads hikes in the Carolina mountains and writes about the outdoors from her home in Asheville, NC. For more information, go to www.hikertohiker.com. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 14:21 |
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Written by Emily Buehler
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Saturday, 24 February 2007 19:00 |
Bread Science Author: Emily Buehler
Publisher: Two Blue Books, Carrboro, NC
ISBN: 0-9778068-0-4
$20
 Bread Science covers the entire bread-making process in detail, including both the practical aspects and the chemistry and biology occurring in the dough.
Learn how to use preferments to increase the flavor of your bread; create and maintain your own sourdough starter; mix a well-balanced dough and knead it to perfection; give your dough additional strength with a folding technique; shape smooth, symmetric boules, batards, and baguettes; and modify your oven to make it better for baking bread. In addition, learn about the details of fermentation, yeast, gluten, gas retention, and many other aspects of dough science. With over 250 photos and illustrations, Bread Science makes bread-making approachable and fun. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 25 February 2008 18:13 |
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Written by Pamela King Cable
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Saturday, 24 February 2007 19:00 |
Southern Fried Women by Pamela King Cable
Publisher: Spotlight Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0-9768469-3-4
$14.95  "If you don't find yourself devouring this delicious book of stories, by Pamela King Cable, then you are not a Southern Fried Woman (or Man). After laughing and crying your way through this collection, you will eagerly await new offerings from this talented writer!"
-Cassandra King, author of Making Waves, The Sunday Wife, The Same Sweet Girls
A history of bigotry in a local diner is uncovered in Pigment of my Imagination, as the owner defends two young women and their right to be served; Vernell Paskins, Mobile Home Queen, is a woman who lives in the land of the doublewides and works at the interstate flea market; Cry finds a pregnant woman lost, alone, broken down on a deserted road, and in labor; an unexplained stranger arrives in town after a womens prayer group hears angels sing during a violent coal mine strike in Coal Dust On My Feet; in Punkin Head, one woman struggles with the decision to keep her unborn baby, as her husbands employera popular televangelistis opposed to having children; in The Homestead, a dead woman reveals that death is not the end of existence; a single mother discovers why her young son despises their one-Sunday-a-month guest in Old Time Religion; two Pentecostal young ladies escape and become Beach Babies shedding their cotton dusters for bathing suits, makeup, and getting their fortunes told at Carolina Beach; and grief shows up 30 years after a woman forgets her best friend in No Time For Laura. These are the stories in this collection that examine sometimes seriously and at other times with humor themes of forgiveness, death, love, discovery, racial conflict, faith, tragedy, innocence, destiny, guilt, and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. Set in various locations and periods in the South, the stories present realistic characters in common situations facing questions of meaning, purpose, and the existence of God in their lives. Southern Fried Women is a compelling collection from a powerful new voice in fiction. For more information, visit www.southernfriedwomen.com. |
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Hat's Off!
Hats Off! to Mark Havlik, who won First Place for Fiction in the 2013 Pamlico Writers Competition for "What Lies Beyond Those Hills." His piece will appear in an upcoming all-literary issue of Washington The Magazine. |
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