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The Kids Are All Right, by Amanda, Liz, Dan and Diana Welch. 2010 Alex Award. A very neat, very honest story, told from the perspectives of four siblings. They are orphaned after their father dies in a mysterious car accident and their mother dies of cancer a few short years later. They each have their [...]
The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel. 2010 Alex Award. The author, a journalist, spent several months with the infantry soldiers 2-16, the Rangers, as they fought in the surge in 2007. It reads like an in-depth – very, very in-depth– magazine feature. It covers a lot of angles, from the soldiers in Baghdad to the [...]
William E. Cornell Jr. of Twinsburg recently published “Tales of a Great Lakes Sailor.” Cornell grew up near the shores of Lake Erie. He received a Master’s degree in geography from Kent State University in 1967. He pursued a brief career in the field of education followed by a permanent career in corporate real estate. [...]
Author Jacqueline Woodson will visit the Cuyahoga County Public Library’s administrative building, 2111 Snow Road, on May 19 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. All of her books have won numerous awards including the Newbery Honor Award for After Tupac & D Foster, Feathers and Show Way; the Coretta Scott King Award for Miracle’s Boys and the Coretta Scott King Honor Award [...]
The Children’s Museum of Cleveland is hosting a Fancy Nancy Girls Night Out on May 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. Families will work together to decorate flower pots and plant a flower, participate in a cooking demo, make lip gloss and feathery boas, and listen to story times Registration is required; call [...]
The Largely Literary Theater Company will present a program of folk tales at the Books for Africa Library Project’s annual fundraising dinner. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 15, in the St. Bernard Church Social Hall. The church is in downtown Akron, at the intersection of Broadway and State Streets. Parking is available at [...]
On May 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. author Yolanda Kondonassis will be at the Learned Owl Book Shop (204 N. Main St, Hudson) with her new book, Our House Is Round: A Kid’s Book about Why Protecting the Earth Matters. Children are invited to join in an earth-friendly take-home craft, enjoy a snack and hear [...]
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I attended a very interesting and enlightening panel discussion last night at the Twinsburg Library. The three panelists included Liz Murphy from the Learned Owl Book Shop in Hudson, Donald Hassler, professor at Kent State University, and Ed Rossman, author and librarian at Shaker Heights Public Library. Some of the insights shared: • E-books, [...]
The Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation and Cleveland Magazine welcome author Jhumpa Lahiri to the Ohio Theatre (1511 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland) on May 11 at 7:30 p.m. Lahiri will speak as part of The William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage 2009-10 series. Oliver will discuss her work and take questions from the audience. To purchase tickets for the show, [...]