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“The Thirteenth Summer” by Elizabeth Laing Thompson

| March 16, 2011
“The Thirteenth Summer” by Elizabeth Laing Thompson

“The Thirteenth Summer” was written by a local author, the talented Elizabeth Laing Thompson, and boy, is it an adventure. Thirteen–year–old Crystal spends the summer with her somewhat–estranged father, rock–and–roll icon Rage Waters. Crystal is funny, self–deprecating, smart, and, like any teenager, hypersensitive and easily embarrassed.   (Don’t let the cover design fool you — [...]

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Memorable Marriage Proposals

| March 15, 2011

Mary Charles Jordan of Athens already knew she and her boyfriend would be married someday. After all, her boyfriend, Keenan Howard, had asked her parents’ permission for her hand in marriage during the Christmas holidays of 2009. Mary Charles just didn’t know the time and the place Howard would formally ask her. “I kept waiting [...]

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