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A Punahou English teacher and a veteran literary scholar didn't live to see the publication of their ambitious historical ...

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The best-selling author based “The Notebook” and other heart-tugging novels in New Bern, where he lives. But what makes the ...

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.