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Mystery writer Les Roberts will speak and autograph copies of his new book, The Cleveland Creep, on Saturday July 23, 2011 from 1-2 pm at Borders Books & Music; 335 Howe Avenue in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. The event is free and open to the public. The Cleveland Creep (hardcover / $24.95 / 264 pages) is the [...]
Largely Literary Theater Company co-founders Sara Showman and Mark Dawidziak will present a spirited program of ghost stories at the Books for Africa Library Project’s annual fundraising dinner. The event begins at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 16, in the St. Bernard Church Social Hall. The church is in downtown Akron, at the intersection of Broadway [...]
Kim Howdyshell of Cuyahoga Falls will have a booksigning July 9 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Berean Christian Store, 143 Rothrock Road # A, in Copley. Howdyshell will be available to sign copies of her Christian Life book, Becoming Wives Who Please God: Our Goal, Our Aim, Our Desire.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tales from the Road by Neil Zurcher Gray & Co. Publishers $14.95 www.grayco.com Thousands of people recall Neil Zurcher as “The Travelin’ Man” or “Mr. One Tank Trip,” but his Cleveland television career goes back much further than his “One Tank Trips” segments. For 40 years, he appeared on WJW Channel 8 — now Fox [...]
Becoming Wives Who Please God by Kim and Cindy Howdyshell $31.99 Tate Publishing www.tatepublishing.com Cuyahoga Falls resident Kim Howdyshell, along with Cindy Howdyshell recently published “Becoming Wives Who Please God.” “As I walked down the aisle, I had all sorts of ideas about marriage,” Kim said. “Like many, I created a perfect picture of married [...]
Clevelanders are like your worst soppy girlfriend. Even after years of heartbreak, disappointment and ridicule, despite four decades without a championship, we still carry a torch for our beloved Browns. Terry Pluto’s latest book, Things I’ve Learned from Watching the Browns, asks why. Thousands of readers responded to the veteran sportswriter with stories of why they keep [...]
In the summers of 1936 and 1937 the Great Lakes Exposition was presented in Cleveland, along the Lake Erie shore just north of the downtown business area. At the time, Cleveland was America’s sixth largest city. The Exposition was scheduled to commemorate the centennial of Cleveland’s incorporation and was conceived as a way to energize [...]