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Suzy Barile was named a first-place winner in the NC Press Club's annual Communications Contest.

Debra Madaris Efird has a creative travel piece in The Carolinas Today magazine, Summer/Fall 2010 issue.  Entitled "Awakening on Bay Street," it describes the special charms of Southport living.
Click here for article: www.thecarolinastoday.com/archives/tctsf2010

Wallace Wade: Championship Years at Alabama and Duke
by Lewis Bowling
2006, Carolina Academic Press
354 pp, $25.00 
ISBN-10: 1-59460-231-X
ISBN: 978-1-59460-231-3
LCCN 2006028235

Wallace Wade is without question one of the greatest college football coaches in the history of the game. He won three national championships at Alabama and took Duke to two Rose Bowls. His Alabama team won what is considered to be the most important victory in the history of southern football, when they defeated Washington in the 1926 Rose Bowl. He is the man who established the tradition of outstanding football at Alabama, and also is credited with bringing big-time college football to the state of North Carolina with his powerhouse Duke teams of the 1930s and 1940s. This biography chronicles the life of Wallace Wade's life in football, and also his participation in two world wars and his time as commissioner of the Southern Conference.

Author Lewis Bowling teaches in the Physical Education Departments at North Carolina Central University and Duke University. He has authored eight books, and writes columns for the Durham Herald Sun and the Oxford Public Ledger. Lewis is also a staff writer for Go Duke Magazine and contributes articles to Bama Magazine. He has had articles published in various magazines and journals. Lewis recently taught a sport coaching class in Bangkok, Thailand. Lewis is an avid reader of biographies and histories, with his favorite subjects being Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman, college football, and the history of exercise and fitness.

“Wallace Wade, Alabama's first 'Bear' three decades before Bear Bryant, is one of the most important and least known figures in the history of college football.  Lewis Bowling's biography brings him out of the shadows for the first time and puts clothes on a ghost.  This book should have enormous appeal to the fans of Duke, Alabama, and every  other school where college football is a tradition.” Allen Barra, author of The Last Coach: A Life of Paul “Bear” Bryant

“The narrative is enlivened with numerous quotes from Wade and contemporary sources.  Wade's decision to leave a championship program at Alabama for the challenge of building the football program at Duke is particularly well documented and fascinating.... Summing up: Recommended.” CHOICE Magazine

Friendly Fear Notebook
by Lee Anne McClymont
Paperback: 132 pages
Publisher: Lulu.com (June 30, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0557425727
ISBN-13: 978-0557425723
Price: $14.95
Website: www.friendlyfearnotebook.com
Author's webpage: http://weread.com/authors/ireadhome/101716361
To order: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=25915416
Also available at Purple Crow Bookshop in Hillsborough


Learn how to build a healthy relationship with fear. No matter what you may be confronting in your life - health issues, financial stresses, family dramas, or any of a host of other seemingly insurmountable problems - chances are that fear is a constant refrain. Friendly Fear Notebook offers a fresh, proven approach to dealing with fear that will change your life; make fear your ally.

McClymont is no stranger to fear herself.  At 39, after working for 17 years as a medical administrator at Cornell University, the married mother of a young daughter, was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She changed her life completely, leaving her job and home in Manhattan to settle on a nine acre farm in Hillsborough.
Boston born Lee Anne McClymont believes that her book is different
than most self-help books because she has written this "as a workbook so that the reader can play an active role in figuring out their own fears and how to work with them."  McClymont gives workshops on facing your fears in North Carolina and also writes a column about fear forThe News of Orange County.

Unfinished Projects
poems by Alice Osborn
ISBN: 978-1-59948-270-5, 44 pages
$10
Order from website: http://www.mainstreetrag.com/AOsborn.html

Alice Osborn convincingly shows us how a narrative poet can expertly craft in rich detail and with the occasional dry wit scenes of family tranquility against the contrasting darkness of a suicidal mother whose "love and loathing" she cannot "patch" like silver aircraft skin and, as a child, whose "hand she never holds." But especially poignant, in a different vein, is the poem "Challenger 7," in which the tragedy, both national and personal, is elevated to a cosmic/spiritual domain where the Pleiades mourn the tragedy in the astronauts' own "living room!" There are many scenes in this most intimate collection that will live long with the reader.

--David T. Manning

How easy and pleasing to sink down into the settings of Alice Osborn's narrative poems. From childhood to motherhood, sights and sounds of relationships, kitchens, children, varied male characters, a French mother-every poem a surprise menu item as she mixes commonplace with complexity. Often, her poems tantalize with the suggestions of more to come in detailing a relationship or situation. There is honesty in all these poems, an affinity that readers can appreciate and associate within their own realms of life experiences.

--Sara Claytor

Reading the first poems in this collection, you note how Alice Osborn collects precise facts, then applies imagination and technique to give them newer, stronger meaning. When she deals with the daily-standing in the K-Mart Line, remembering azaleas, wearing a blue wool coat-nothing seems merely daily. Everything from sipping coffee (" the nectar / without a god to call your own") to Myrtle Beach (": the land of hemp necklaces, tongue piercings... Marilyn blonde hair,") becomes new again in her often wry, always honest vision.

--Sally Buckner

Born in Washington D.C. the winter after Watergate to a French mother and a civil servant father, Alice Osborn came of age in Charleston and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In the Lowcountry she learned how to hoist a spinnaker, stop a shoplifter and complete two marathons. She is a graduate of Virginia Tech and North Carolina State who served as an ROTC cadet, waitress, retail manager and high school teacher. Osborn uses all of her experiences now as an instigator of writing happenings and as a creative writing teacher to students ages 9-90. Her work appears in Raleigh's News and Observer, The Pedestal Magazine, and in numerous journals and anthologies. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and two children. Website: www.aliceosborn.com.