Archive for January, 2011

06 Jan

Crazy, with the Papers To Prove It

Crazy, with the Papers To Prove It by Dan Coughlin $14.95 Gray & Company, Publishers www.grayco.com For those who love tales of Cleveland sports and  stories which have helped make the town a Mecca of athletic legend,  Dan Coughlin’s “Crazy, with the Papers to Prove It,” by Gray and Company Publishers, is the book to [...]

05 Jan

Things I’ve Learned from Watching the Browns

Things I’ve Learned from Watching the Browns by Terry Pluto and hundreds of Browns fans $14.95 Gray & Company, Publishers www.grayco.com This book is full of information that even longtime Cleveland Browns fans may not have known. When the Browns drafted the man who would become the greatest football player of all time — fullback [...]

04 Jan

This is Larry Morrow

This is Larry Morrow by Larry Morrow $19.95 Gray and Co. Publishers www.grayco.com Larry Morrow, a veteran radio personality, shares his thoughts and stories about his long career in the business. Larry hit the Cleveland airwaves in 1966 at rock ‘n’ roll powerhouse WIXY 1260 as one of the “WIXY Supermen,” who led that station [...]

03 Jan

The Last Days of Cleveland

The Last Days of Cleveland by John Stark Bellamy II $14.95 Gray and Co. Publishers www.grayco.com While John Stark Bellamy may have moved from Cleveland to Vermont, he still continues to entertain and educate with his collections of stories on Cleveland crime and disaster. The latest, “The Last Days of Cleveland,” is a must for [...]

03 Jan

My book list for 2010

If anyone is curious… I read 65 books this year. Not a record by any means, but not too shabby. I concentrated more on writing this year; I’m working on a (very) short play for a competition, a longer play and one of my goals for this year is to finish a child’s picture book [...]

02 Jan

Lily and the City of Light

Lily and the City of Light by Lindsay Bonilla $10.95 Guardian Angel Publishing www.guardianangelpublishing.com www.lindsaybonilla.blogspot.com www.worldofdiff.org Lindsay Bonilla, who attended Walsh Jesuit High School, said she came up with the idea for her recently published children’s book while in college. The idea for the story literally hit her out of the blue one day, and [...]

01 Jan

Railroad Town: Kent and the Erie Railroad

Railroad Town: Kent and the Erie Railroad by Bruce Dzeda $20.00 Kent Historical Society Press www.kentohiohistory.org Anyone who appreciates local history and is interested in trains will find this book to be a fascinating look back at a bygone era when Erie Railroad passenger and freight trains rolled through Kent every half hour. I remember [...]