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New Bern

American  

noun

  1. a city in E North Carolina.


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This is the 25th novel for Sparks, a 59-year-old divorced father of five grown children who lives by a river in New Bern, N.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Sparks returned to his home in New Bern.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

Videos from social media showed riverfront communities in North Carolina such as New Bern, Belhaven and Washington experiencing significant flooding.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023

The New Bern Sun Journal in North Carolina will go to one day a week.

From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2022

He looked up as he had looked up as a child when his father would bring the black-winged Corsair over their house in New Bern, North Carolina.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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