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What started out as an article on avoiding colon cancer and the importance of screening turned into a small book for Sagamore Hills resident Earl Linsmaier on his many close calls with death or serious injury, and how he felt that God intervened. “Touched by the Hand of God, or Just Plain Lucky” [...]
Silver Lake resident Shelley Pearsall has penned a new book for children, “All Shook Up.” In this latest story by the award-winning author, a family crisis throws Josh Greenwood and his father together for a few months. During this time, the 13-year-old Josh discovers his unemployed father is trying to make a living as Elvis. Previous books [...]
I recently found a fun feature on the Hudson Library and Historical Society’s Web site (www.hudsonlibrary.org). If you look on the right sidebar and scroll down a bit, you will see a feature called “Mango Languages.” If you have your library card handy, you can log onto it, then start taking lessons in several different [...]
The Cuyahoga Falls library will be the scene of an all-day music festival featuring many area bands this coming Saturday. The festival, which will benefit the library, will be outside on the library grounds (in the Sutliff Room stage if it rains). Those attending can bring chairs and blankets to watch the music acts. The Benefest [...]
Fancy Nancy would love it. The Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet will be performing a dance based on this popular children’s series about the girl who loves the latest in fashion and etiquette. For more information, see your weekly Record Publishing Co. newspaper — in print or online. I also put together a video of a [...]
Twinsburg resident Robert M. Caldwell, author of “Making it Back! From a Stroke,” will give a presentation on stroke education support this Friday at the Euclid Hospital Health Center, 18901 Lakeshore Blvd., Euclid. The event is from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and is free. No reservations are required. Light refreshments will be provided. Caldwell’s book is about [...]
From The Kent State University Press, A Most Noble Enterprise (2009) by William H. Hildebrand tells the story of the “comedy, high drama, and real tragedy” of Kent State University’s first hundred years as one of Ohio’s premier public universities. Author William H. Hildebrand takes readers on a ride through Kent State University’s ten decades: from its beginning [...]
A Curse Dark As Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce. 2009 Morris Award. I really loved this story, a mix of classic fairy tale and good old-fashioned mystery. Charlotte Miller struggles to save the town’s wool processing mill — and the town of Shearing itself — after her father dies. But it seems like many things [...]
Jerk, California, by Jonathan Friesen. 2009 Schneider Family Book Award. When Sam, who has Tourette’s Syndrome, graduates from high school, he also closes a painful chapter in his life, although he doesn’t realize it at first. Same grew up, hating himself for his condition, hated by his stepfather and taunted in school. Sam is most [...]
Waiting for Normal, by Leslie Connor. 2009 Schneider Family Book Award. There were many things to like about the book. The first is the heroine, 12-year-old Addie, a sweet, insecure girl who is living with her mother, hoping for a normal life despite the mother’s personality. It’s bittersweet in thiscoming-of-age tale when Addie realizes she [...]