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 Henry
Adams
Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American
Artist
Oxford University Press, 2005, $40
"This no-holds barred deconstruction of an American icon will both outrage
and intrigue readers as it sparks debate not only about Eakins but also
about the symbols between art and life."
--Booklist
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 Justine
Alessi and M.E. McMillan
Rebirth of the Oracle: Tarot for the Modern World
Ozark Mountain Publishing, 2005, $15
Primer for modern tarot readers and clients, Rebirth of the Oracle
brings tarot interpretation into the 21st century. It demystifies
the process of card reading and is written in language and with explanations
anyone can understand. |
 Susanne
M. Alexander
Pure Gold: Encouraging Character Qualities in Marriage
Marriage Transformation, 2005, $15.95
Imagine your marriage filled with character qualities such as trustworthiness,
loyalty, and truthfulness. Pure Gold: Encouraging Character Qualities
in Marriage guides you to the heart of marriage — understanding,
practicing, and encouraging one another’s character qualities. As
an expert on character and relationships, Susanne M. Alexander is passionate
about empowering people to create happy, lasting, spiritually-based marriages.
She is a trained marriage educator, journalist, and president of Marriage
Transformation LLC. She and husband Craig A. Farnsworth facilitate marriage
preparation and marriage enrichment workshops internationally. |
 Mark
Barnes
The League
DNA Press, 2005, $19.95
It is a game that 15 million people play for fun. But the men
in Wall Street's newest league are changing the rules. The game is
no longer just about football. It's about power and an unimaginable amount
of money. One man will stop at nothing to win. A detective
will do anything to bring down a killer, and someone will battle both,
to gain the power, protect the money, and save The League. |
 Kathy
Dawson
Cleveland Couples
Gray and Company, 2003, $24.95
Every successful marriage has a story worth sharing. This book shares
40 inspiring stories of couples who have dedicated themselves to making
their marriage thrive right here in Northeast Ohio. Each is a real-life
romance. They may not all read like a Harlequin novel, but they deliver
a message far stronger because they’re real stories of real people, just
like us, who have dealt with and overcome many of the same challenges,
issues, and plain old-fashioned problems all couples face. Some are
powerful. Some are simple. Each is a touching look at a pair of people
who have found their own way to build a life together. |
 D.
L. Edwards
Sweet Dreams
iUniverse, 2005, $16.95
The last thing Megan Montgomery wants to do is go to the police and
tell them she's having horrible nightmares again that just happen to be
coming true. Cleveland women are being murdered and an anonymous
phone call is Detective David Stork's only lead. |
 Thomas
Sayers Ellis
The Maverick Room
Graywolf Press, 2005, paperback, 121 pages, $14.00
"The book's five sections are directionally named for areas of Washington,
D.C. ("NW"; "SE"; etc.), plus a dividing middle section named, like the
book, for a major D.C. go-go music club of the mid '80s. The poems have
a first book's trying-everything-out range, including updates of '60s taunts
("Africa disagrees/ with subject-verb agreement") and confessionals ("My
father was an enormous man.../ His eyes were the worst kind/ Of jury -
deliberate, distant, hard") as well as encomia to favorite musicians (Bootsy
Collins, Sugar Bear) and family members. But unlike most debuts, they have
a fully realized line and neologistic voice, one that, along with the city
that frames them, makes it all cohere beautifully."
--Publisher's Weekly
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 Stephen
G. Esrati
Comrades, Avenge Us
Commonwealth Publications, 1995, $5.99
Comrades, Avenge Us is a historical WWII novel about a failed
OSS mission into Yugoslavia and the German war crimes against Allied prisoners
of war. Self-published and largely undistributed, it has gained a
word-of-mouth following from vets, historians and fiction readers who praise
its gripping plot, charismatic characters, and eye-opening narrative of
the war. Read the international raves on Amazon. |
 Kelly
Ferjutz
Windsong
Forest Hill Publishing, 2005, $15
Historical romance on the Great Lakes! On Mackinac Island, Michigan
in the mid-1800's, whites and Indians lived in mutual distrust...but two
people saw the promise of love in each other's eyes. Their cultures were
as different as night and day, but their hearts were as one—and they would
defy tribe and family to embrace the blazing desire that bound them forever... |
 Robert
Finn
Exploring Classical Music: A Pleasant Journey for
Novice and Expert
Superior Books, 2000, $14.95
This book aims to demystify the world of classical music for the interested
layman-listener through chapters on great composers and discussions of
topics that may trouble people just getting interested in the classics. |
 Nina
Gibans
Creative Essence: Cleveland's Sense of Place
Kent State University Press, 2005, $29.95
Arising out of the Cleveland Artists Foundation’s Dialogue Series, a
22-hour-long collection of forums held in cultural institutions and broadcast
on National Public Radio, Creative Essence examines regional culture through
an exploration of the distinguished contributions Cleveland has made to
the visual arts and architecture. The Dialogue Series brought together
a variety of people in the visual arts community to discuss the development
of the region’s creative life and environment, whether it be through architecture
and city planning or through the industrial and fine arts. They shared
their views and knowledge about how regionalism has long influenced artistic
productivity. Their exchanges and ideas for the future are provocative
and thoughtful. |
 Mona
Golden
It's Not Sarah's Fault
Trafford, 2005, $16.95
The story is about a little girl named Sarah who is being inappropriately
touched by her father. A policeman comes to her school to discuss
the issues of child sexual abuse. Sarah find the courage to tell
her favorite teacher after hearing about a similar incident that happened
to another child. |
 Nicole
Hunter
Waiting for the World to End
iUniverse, 2004, $16.95
2 people, 2 decisions, 2 secrets — and one child they
both love — in a story of choices and faith in contemporary
middle America. |
 Bonnie
Jacobson, editor
Cleveland in Prose and Poetry
PWLGC, 2005, $15.75
A new anthology from The Poets’ & Writers’ League of Greater Cleveland.
Including work from: Maggie Anderson, Barbara Tanner Angell, Gail Ghetia
Bellamy, George Bilgere, Betty Ann Blakeslee, Jared Carter, Dan Chaon,
Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Lee Chilcote, David Citino, George E. Condon,
Helen Conkling, Hart Crane, Randy Cunningham, Katie Daley, Michael DeCapite,
Raymond DeCapite, Charles Dickens, John Donoghue, Cyril A. Dostal, Iris
Jamahl Dunkle, Dick Feagler, John Gabel, Nina Freedlander Gibans, Jeremy
Gilman, Herbert Gold, Rita Grabowski, Mary Grimm, Susan Grimm, Michael
Heaton, Meredith Holmes, Langston Hughes, Bonnie Jacobson, Helen Keller,
Karen Kovacik, Mark Kuhar, d.a. levy, Eugene Marten, Robert McDonough,
Ray McNiece, Robert Miltner, Thylias Moss, Kristin Ohlson, Mary O'Malley,
Frank Paino, Harvey Pekar, Lynn Powell, Rosemary Prosen, Mary Quade, Les
Roberts, Don Robertson, Linda Robiner, Jerry Roscoe, Michael Ruhlman, Mary
Doria Russell, Timothy Russell, Michael Salinger, Ruth Schwartz, Megan
Senthil, Michael Sepesy, Larry Smith, Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Spano, Amy
Sparks, Rick Stansberger, John Stickney, S. Andrew Swann, Daniel Thompson,
Leonard Trawick, F. Keith Wahle, Cindy Washabaugh, Mark Weber, Mary Weems,
Vickie Williams-Morris, Sarah Willis and Mark Winegardner. |
 Angela
Johnson
A Sweet Smell of Roses
Simon & Schuster, 2005, $16.95
Angela Johnson is an award-winning author of over forty children's books,
including teen novels and children's picture books. A recipient of
a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003, her book awards include the American Library
Association's Printz Award and the Coretta Scott King Award. Her
latest picture book, A Sweet Smell of Roses, features two
young girls who participate in a civil rights march. |
 Richard
Karberg
Towering Treasure: A Landmark Turns 75 (Cleveland
Landmarks Press, $18.50),
Euclid Avenue - Cleveland's Sophisticated Lady(Cleveland
Landmarks Press, $16.50),
The Silver Grille (Cleveland Landmarks
Press, $16.95)
The Higbee Company and the Silver Grille (Cleveland
Landmarks Press, $16.95).
Joseph Motto: A Jazz Age Journey From Cleveland
to Florence (Cleveland Artists Foundation, 2005, $20) |
 Janet
Kiuvila
The Gamma Girls of Chagrin Falls
Cats Ink, 2003, $10
Meet Lillie and Rose, two 4th grade girls in Chagrin Falls who meet
by accident. They quickly learn the hierarchy of girls.
There are the Alpha Girls who are the bossy leaders. They try to control
the others: telling them what to do, what to wear, how to think, and who
to be friends with. The Betas are the girls who follow the Alpha
and do what they tell them to do. And then there are the Gammas,
the girls who think for themselves, aren't mean, and solve problems creatively
instead of aggressively. Lillie and Rose discover they are the Gamma
Girls of Chagrin Falls, and the fun begins! |
 Chris
Lambert
How Mr. Jingeling Saved Christmas
Traditions Alive, 2000, $7.95
Mr. Jingeling, the Keeper of the Keys, is a Cleveland legend from the
heyday of Halle Brothers Department Store in downtown Cleveland.
Created in 1956, Mr. Jingeling made appearances at Halle's and on television
for almost 30 years. This small picture book was created to keep
the tradition alive. |
 Roy
Larick
Euclid Creek
Arcadia Publishing, 2005, $19.99
Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series has just released Euclid
Creek. The book has 207 images of this Cleveland East Side watershed, some
more than 200 years old. Chapters illustrate how transportation advances
have transformed the creek’s varied natural landscapes. Among Arcadia’s
3,000 local history titles, Euclid Creek is the first to focus on a watershed. |
 Miriam
R. Levin
Defining Women’s Scientific Enterprise
University Press of New England, 2005, $26
Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science: an important
new look at how gender, religion, pedagogy, and geography help shape women’s
scientific work. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, 2005! |
 Darryl
E. McCullough
Perfectly Sane
AuthorHouse, 2005, $19.75
This book, which is two books in one, revisits the author's life growing
up in the greater Cleveland area. The first book, Perfectly Sane,
covers many youthful events in his life. The second book Definitely
Insane, covers the more adult events in his life. All thoughts
and emotions are expressed in short stories, poetry, artwork and some political
essays. There is even a relationship game near the end of the book
for people who are dating. |
 Anne
S. McFarland
A Farm in the Firelands of Ohio
Next Friend Press, 2004, $19.95
First-person memories of Ohio farm life in the late 1800's, discussing
holidays, peddlers, tramps, boyhood inventions for easing farm work and
description of farm machinery of the day. |
 Carol
Poh Miller, introduction
Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them
by Harriet L. Keeler, 1900
Kent State University Press, 2005, $22.95
An 1870 graduate of Oberlin College, Harriet L. Keeler (1844-1921) devoted
her career to service as a teacher and administrator in the Cleveland public
schools. But it was as an amateur naturalist that she did her most
distinctive work, preparing authoritative and literate field guides to
native flora. This handsome facsimile reproduction of Our Native
Trees and How to Identify Them, first published by Charles Scribner's
Sons in 1900, resurrects Keeler for a new generation. Profusely illustrated
and with a biographical introduction that illuminates Keeler's life and
accomplishments, Our Native Trees will help readers identify and
better appreciate the indigenous trees of the Eastern United States and
Canada. |
 Erin
O'Brien
Harvey & Eck
Zumaya Publications, 2005, $14.99
Harvey and Eck takes a funny, irreverent look at pregnancy through
the eyes of motorcycle-riding Harvey, the thirty-something mom-to-be who
forges an unlikely friendship with Eck, a librarian whose life is as predictable
as a ticking metronome. As Harvey’s belly blossoms, Eck grows in
his own vicarious way. A cover-to-cover read that is sexy, sophisticated
and tender. |
 Patrick
O’Donnell
The Knights Next Door
iUniverse, 2004, $21.95
Have you heard of the Society for Creative Anachronism or been to a
RenFair? Ever wonder about the people who make this cult a reality?
Travel back in time to the Current Middle Ages, a re-created world of knights
in shining armor, lords and ladies, artisans and minstrels with one foot
in history, the other in today. Medieval costumes and arms will also
be on display. |
 Kristin
Ohlson
Stalking the Divine
Plume, 2004, $14
In this award-winning memoir, a Cleveland woman attends Christmas Mass
at an old city church in downtown Cleveland seeking holiday cheer and comfort
in the trappings of a faith she abandoned more than 30 years ago.
Instead, she finds a tiny threadbare congregation and a nearly forgotten
group of aging, cloistered, contemplative nuns with a mission to pray day
and night for the sorrows of the world. Thus begins a three-year
dialogue between the nuns and Kristin Ohlson, who struggles to understand
how these women gave up the world--and continue to do so joyfully--for
their faith. Ultimately, Ohlson finds that talking to the nuns becomes
a way of opening herself up to the possibility of the sacred--which is,
in its way, an answered prayer. |
 Brad
Paterson
The Requisited Soul
iUniverse, 2005, $8.95
The King of Jesus is brought back to life through the air of Deoxyribonucleic
Acid from the “finding” of the crucifixion nail that ended his life 2000
years ago. Many perils arise in the daily life of Jesus (Bob) and his friends
as they try to find sanctuary across the seas in America. When revelations
of Bob’s past and his special powers are related to him, the book takes
on a whole host of new adventures that take the reader to a climatic ending.
But as you will read, the end is just a truthful turn to what is only a
new beginning. |
 M.
LaVora Perry
Successful Self-Publishing
Forest Hills Publishing, 2005, $13
Successful Self-Publishing--
From Children's Author to Independent Publisher, A Simple Guide for
New and Not So New Authors |
 J.
Everett Prewitt
Snake Walkers
Northland Publishing Company, 2005, $24.95
Traumatized as a child after witnessing a hanging, the first black reporter
at a southern newspaper, attempts to solve the mysterious abandonment of
a small town and the disappearance of fourteen townspeople. |
 William
Price
Shadow Travels
AmErica House, 1998, $24.95
Leaving the Russian Tank corps, Wasilly spies for the West while a courier,
bodyguard and chauffeur for Chinese Warlords. Drawing upon his martial
arts skills and ability to speak many languages, he beats the odds. He
continues to meet friends who are constantly changing sides in an era of
upheaval in China before the Second World War... |
 Michelle
"Shelly" Rankins
I Am One Blessed Poet
Pear 5 Publishing, 2005, $10
A collection of sassy, sexy, yet spiritual poems about womanhood, relationships,
intimacy, family, and general life observations. |
 R.J.
Stracensky
Healing Images Healing Words
Strang Communications, 2005, $19.99
A book of poems, prayers and meditations, featuring photographs from
Cleveland and the surrounding area as well as photographs from various
parts of the world. |
 Roy
A. Thornton
The Apostle
Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC, 2005, $19.95
“The inside-out feeling started to fade, the nausea subsided and
my vision slowly began to swim back into focus. What I expected to see
was my old kitchen table. The table I’d eaten breakfast at every morning
for the first eighteen years of my life. . .the same chrome-rimmed, fifties-style
table with the laminate top which I’d been sitting at since John had dropped
me off at home twenty minutes earlier.” |
 Jeff
Traylor
The Epictetus Club: Lessons from the Walls
Papillon Press, 2005, $18.95
The book is set in the Ohio Pen ("the walls") and follows a group of
inmates who meet weekly to study the teachings of the Greek philosopher
Epictetus, a former slave during the Roman Empire. Epictetus used the experience
to make himself wiser and stronger instead of bitter and angry. The men
of the club are led by a lifer named Zeno, a former professional boxer
who compares thinking skills to boxing skills, pointing out that our opponent
is always our own thoughts and attitudes. He teaches the men the ABCs of
Inner Boxing, where one identifies the attacking thought, blocks it, and
counterpunches it. Zeno also guides the men through the Ten Rounds to Freedom.
The walls of the pen are literal for the inmates, but also represent our
own limited thinking and comfort zones. |
 Jo
Jo Weaver
Conviction In Cuyahoga County
House of Jabez, 2004, $14.95
Unjustly accused of the murder of a night watchman in 1927, Joseph Weaver
suffered a trial riddled with greed and corruption that sentenced him to
death in an electric chair. Decades later, his daughter tries to document
the evidence, and the saga of the legal system that allowed this to happen. |
 Vern
A. Westfall
The Many Faces of Creation
iUniverse, 2005, $18.95
An examination of the many myths, religious accounts and cosmological
explanations of creation and their relationships to cultural core belief
systems. The book is a mix of prose and poetry. An excellent
book for author readings and/or discussion groups. |
 Donald
B. Willis
The Secret of Lightning Ridge
Anubis Publishing, 2005, 11.95
In this long awaited sequel to Mystery of the Waterloo Bagpipes, Donald
B. Willis transports us back to the small, rural village of Fairvale, Ohio.
It's 1959 and Jamie Murdoch and his friends are hot on the trail of a legendary
treasure purportedly buried by a detachment of French soldiers two hundred
years earlier. Unaware that a powerful, evil force has returned to town,
Jamie once again finds himself in a brutal life or death struggle with
a former adversary whose sole existence is motivated by one driving passion
that when unleashed results in an unforgettable climax, both shocking and
gruesome. |
 Sarah
Willis
The Sound of Us
Berkeley, 2005, $23.95
Alice Marlowe accepts her life the way it is. She is single, in her
late forties, lives with a cat named Sampson, and has imaginary conversations
with her dead twin brother. As a sign language interpreter for the deaf,
she is used to standing between people, facilitating their conversations
with each other. But then a late night phone call brings a beautiful, scared
six-year-old girl into her life. And seeing herself through a child's eyes
for the first time, she discovers that love is a universal language. |
 Leslie
Yerkes
They Just Don't Get It
Berrett-Konler, 2005, $19.95
A business parable about changing resistance into understanding.
The book provides the reader with insights into how to become a better
communicator and motivator. |
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