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Published on Sunday, Sep 07, 2008
College of Wooster professor Roger Ramseyer has a trio of little books that express his views on life and more than 45 years in education, beginning as a teacher at John Marshall High School in Cleveland.
The ABCs of Living Happy has 26 essays; though there is one for every letter of the alphabet, Ramseyer doesn't force them into ABC order, like ''X-ercise every day.'' He deplores bullies and gossip, and gives boredom-busting suggestions like volunteering and joining clubs.
Life Is Good Most of the Time is a memoir of Ramseyer's career, including coaching track and field, and challenging assignments at several Cleveland schools. Life Skills 101 is more views on various topics, like abortion (against), competition and having fun (for).
Each book costs $10 plus postage and is available from Ramseyer, P.O. Box 636, 6346 Eby Road, Smithville, OH 44677; or call him at 330-669-2206.
Greatest games
in Browns history
One man's opinion of ''the 50 greatest games in Cleveland Browns history'' is Classic Browns, a countdown by Franklin University staffer Jonathan Knight, whose other books include Kardiac Kids, about the 1980 squad. From a 1947 game against the New York Yankees (the football Yankees), which ended in a tie, to the 2007 defeat of the Cincinnati Bengals, the highest-scoring football game ever in Cleveland, Knight includes recaps and scores. Classic Browns (201 pages, softcover) costs $16.95 from Kent State University Press.
Revised account
of Lucasville riot
Siege in Lucasville: An Insider's Account and Critical Review of Ohio's Worst Prison Riot is available in a revised edition from Rooftop Publishing. Gary Williams, a training officer at the Warren Correctional Institute, called upon the experience of Larry Dotson, a prison guard who was taken hostage during the 1993 riot in which nine inmates and one guard were killed. The 279-page softcover costs $18.95.
A desire to name
streetcar makers
Among the subsets of rail enthusiasts are those who study streetcars. Their new bible, at least for Ohioans, is Built to Move Millions: Streetcar Building in Ohio by Craig R. Semsel, a history teacher at Lakeland Community College.
In 312 pages, he describes the five major firms that built streetcars in the 1900-to-1940 heyday, explains the difference between various kinds of fare collection systems and shows, in tables, data like Relative Strength of Steel Gears and Pinions. ''Exhaustive'' is the word for this book. The hardcover costs $49.95 from Indiana University Press.
EVENTS
Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Legacy Village, Lyndhurst) — Erin McGraw, English professor at Ohio State University, author of The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, a novel about a runaway 1900s Kansas bride, 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Barnes & Noble (28801 Chagrin Blvd., Woodmere) — Brad Meltzer, author of The Book of Lies, a novel about an unsolved 1932 homicide, 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Severance Hall (11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland) — Adrian Nicole Blanc, journalist and author of Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx, is featured speaker for the fourth annual Anisfield-Wolf Lecture. 12:30 p.m. Friday.
Learned Owl Book Shop (204 N. Main St., Hudson) — Twinsburg native and Baldwin-Wallace College sophomore Marissa Lynn Jordan, author of A Faery's Tale, a fantasy for young adults. 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Borders Books & Music (3737 W. Market St., Fairlawn) — Rock & Roll Carnival, with authors Carlo Wolff (Cleveland Rock and Roll Memories), John Gorman (The Buzzard), Mike Olszewski (Radio Daze), D.X. Ferris (Slayer: Reign in Blood), David Giffels (Are We Not Men? We Are DEVO! and All The Way Home: Raising a Family in a Falling-Down House), Jonah Koslen (Telling on Myself and Jonah Koslen and Breathless 1978-1981), Marc Lee Shannon (Any Ordinary Man) and Murray Saul (Get Downs Vol. 1). Also appearing will be artist David Helton and T-shirt entrepreneur Daffy Dan. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
— 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.
College of Wooster professor Roger Ramseyer has a trio of little books that express his views on life and more than 45 years in education, beginning as a teacher at John Marshall High School in Cleveland.
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