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‘Finding Fran’ subverts expectations on romance novels | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 2 months ago“Finding Fran” by Austintown author Nancy Christie looks like a romance novel at first glance. Maybe...
Learn 'the stories behind 100 holiday hits' | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIt's only mid-October, and retailers are already beginning to pull their Halloween merchandise to...
Akron native pens 'Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl' on early days of Estée Lauder | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs they massaged "Super Rich All-Purpose Cream" into their skin, how many 1940s women knew that the...
Thrity Umrigar visits ‘The Museum of Failures’ | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA “weird combination of pity and guilt” is the essence of “The Museum of Failures,” a powerful...
Les Roberts gets confidential with ‘The C.I.’ | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoStow author Les Roberts has taken a break from his long-running Milan Jacovich detective series, but...
‘Lost Women of Mill Street’ is Civil War novel | Book Talk
Gannett via AOL· 1 month agoThere’s a lot of denial in the Civil War-era book “The Lost Women of Mill Street,” the second...
Book Talk: ‘Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio’ a grave matter
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAre all cemeteries haunted? It would seem that if one is, they all are, and that would include those in Ohio. In “Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio,” E.R. Cutright starts before Ohio’s statehood with ...
McKinley library director digs up presidential treasures | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe smallest object pictured in “Exploring the American Presidency Through 50 Historic Treasures”...
Put-in-Bay sleuth discovers global conspiracy in ‘Sawdust Joint’ | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThings always happen to Emerson Moore, and especially near water. In “Sawdust Joint,” an adventure...
Book Talk: Family secrets bared in ‘Where Wild Peaches Grow’
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA family broken by betrayal and reunited by the death of a patriarch is the stuff of many a Southern novel, and so it is with “Where Wild Peaches Grow,” a generational story by South Euclid ...