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Kent State defeats Rochester College, 63-44
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OSU – Michigan college football rivals meet in Baghdad
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Four area football teams play tonight
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Will Health Care Reform Pass?
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Health Care Financing Reform: (70) Savings in Medicare Advantage
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TIME TO GET YOUR COLLECTOR CARS WINTERIZED
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Faye Dunaway to be Evicted?
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Monique asks how to get tickets for the Polar Express.
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Steely Dan Plays "The Royal Scam" at E.J. Thomas Hall
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Personal Rant – You are All Wrong About Jobs, or the Lack of Jobs, Being the Reason People Do Not Live in NEO
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Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
Published on Sunday, Aug 03, 2008
Uniontown author Wilson Brown has a novel for golf fans. The Madding Game begins in 1983, as a trick-shot hustler named J.E. David meets an English golf columnist who's looking for a story. The two get together and reminisce about a young phenom who shot an incredible game in 1939 and disappeared. It's kind of like The Natural.
The story flashes back to that summer of 1939, when Jed Roberts accepts a sponsorship deal from wealthy Chalmers Winslow. He also accepts the attention of Winslow's pampered daughter, Audrena. Jed's future as a star the likes of Palmer and Nicklaus seems secure. What happened to cause him to drop from sight? The twist ending will engage even those who know nothing about golf, though an interest in the sport will help (terms like ''brassie'' may send some to the dictionary).
The Madding Game (250 pages, softcover) costs $20 from http://www.trafford.com. Brown is retired from the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman.
A birthday party gone wrong
The Dream of Dante O'Shea, by Akron author D.A. D'Aurelio, is a suspense novel about a pair of Cleveland Musketeers basketball players who run afoul of violent gamblers. Dante and his wife, Lisa, and his teammate Robbie Dulik and his wife, Alise, are an inseparable quartet.
While Lisa plans a birthday party for Dante, Robbie is supposed to ''kidnap'' him for the day to set up the surprise. But there's a real kidnapping. The city of Cleveland goes into panic mode, the FBI goes into rescue mode; the reader follows Dante's ordeal as he is held for ransom.
There is an inspirational tone to Dante's story, and a twist ending. The Dream of Dante O'Shea (252 pages, softcover) costs $18.95 from http://www.publishamerica.com.
Book chronicles KSU sports
Kent State University Athletics is a new entry in Arcadia Publishing's Images of Sports series. Staffers Cara Gilgenbach, who administers the university's library archives, and Theresa Walton, an assistant professor in the School of Exercise, Leisure and Sport, chose and captioned the photos to reflect almost 100 years of athletics, from middy-bloused women playing half-court basketball to Mid-American Conference championships.
The editors make sure to include less prominent sports, such as horseshoes and field hockey, and track the evolution of the university's mascots from 1923's Silver Foxes to the current golden eagle mascot, Flash. The 127-page softcover costs $19.99; the publisher's Web site is http://www.arcadiapublishing.com.
Good, bad times with the Tribe
Sports publisher Triumph Books has a new series called The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly, and Cleveland Plain Dealer sports reporter Mary Schmitt Boyer was tapped to write the Cleveland Indians installment. It's full of anecdotes, good (the grace of Andre Thornton), bad (Albert Belle's attitude) and ugly (the 1974 Beer Night Riot), plus trivia questions, charts and lists. The 174-page hardcover costs $19.95, and there are similar books for the Reds, Pirates and Tigers. Visit http://www.triumphbooks.com.
Footnotes
• Members of the Akron Manuscript Club will sign their books Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Countryside Farmers' Market, 6050 Riverview Road, Peninsula.
• Wendy Murray will sign A Mended and Broken Heart: The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Learned Owl, 204 N. Main St., Hudson.
• J. Eric King will sign Byron Carmichael Book One: The Human Corpse Trade at 1 p.m. Saturday at Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Legacy Village in Lyndhurst.
— 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.
Uniontown author Wilson Brown has a novel for golf fans. The Madding Game begins in 1983, as a trick-shot hustler named J.E. David meets an English golf columnist who's looking for a story. The two get together and reminisce about a young phenom who shot an incredible game in 1939 and disappeared. It's kind of like The Natural.
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