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Published on Sunday, Jul 20, 2008
J.B. Solomon Editions of Alliance is making a rock-star move by offering its first poetry collection as a free electronic download.
Beginning Monday, readers can visit http://www.lulu.com/jbsolomon to read In the Hardship and the Hoping: Poems of Northeast Ohio, the work of 19 current and former area residents who responded to a call for submissions.
The diversity of the contributors is as broad as the styles of the poems. Senior citizen Ruth Ann Sundberg of Alliance entered Just a Little Acorn, a sentimental rhyme about an all-grown-up oak tree; Jordan McNeil, who will be a sophomore at Marlington High School, wrote Look, an entreaty for the reader to see a person with a disability as someone with feelings, a ''caring heart'' and a ''brilliant mind.'' Kent State University alumnus Greg Ruffing added the photographs.
In the Hardship and the Hoping (the title comes from a line in In the Beginning by Canton native Katy Ganz) also can be ordered at cost from the publisher's Web site. A reading is planned for August in Alliance.
Footnotes
• Today is a Hobo Day in Peninsula, and at Deep Lock Quarry Metro Park, 5779 Riverview Road, Dandi Daley Mackall will sign her storybook, Rudy Rides the Rails, about a young hobo from Akron. Hudson's Learned Owl Book Shop is bringing the books. At 2:30 p.m., those who come dressed like a hobo may be named king or queen of the hobo jungle. In the hobo tradition, bring a can of soup or canned vegetables for the pot.
• Photographer Ian Adams and editor Mary Alice Mairose will sign Our First Family's Home: The Ohio Governor's Residence and Heritage Garden on Tuesday at Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Legacy Village in Lyndhurst. The annotated pictorial tells the story of the 1925 Jacobean Revival mansion that has housed Ohio's governors since 1957; Mairose is its curator. On Thursday, North Carolina author Lori Johnson will sign After the Dance, the story of a pharmacist whose romance with a neighbor goes awry when her ex shows up. Both appearances are at 7 p.m. Johnson also will sign After the Dance at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Warrensville branch of Cuyahoga County Public Library, 22035 Clarkwood Parkway, Warrensville.
• Wooster novelist Bob Adamov will visit the Learned Owl Book Shop, 204 N. Main Street, Hudson, as this week's Friday Fresh Voices guest. From 7 to 8 p.m., he will sign The Other Side of Hell, fifth in his Emerson Moore mystery series, which recently won an honorable mention in the fiction category of the New York Book Festival.
From noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Hudson resident Stephen Beirne, 17, whose novel November Reign was published by Harper Collins when he made a wish through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, will sign his book at a reception at the Learned Owl. Read more about him on Page E1. — Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal
Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 or lsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com. Event notices should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
J.B. Solomon Editions of Alliance is making a rock-star move by offering its first poetry collection as a free electronic download.
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