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Police accuse bank robbery suspect of gobbling up note (with dashcam video)
Dad accused of forcing son into field, killing him
Man found dead in North Akron home is identified
Victim of beating in Kent last week is declared dead at Akron hospital
Coventry man killed in crash at I-77 ramp
Browns' roster nearly devoid of consistent players
NFL star Chris Spielman's wife loses cancer battle
College student mistaken for deer, shot to death
Blogs:
Pets:
Cat-loving chihuahua suckles seven abandoned kittens
The Heldenfiles:
Friday Night Notebook
Patrick McManamon:
For your Saturday entertainment …
Akron Zips:
Hitchens leads Zips in second-half comeback
Tribe Matters:
Seven players added to Tribe’s 40-man roster
Cleveland Browns:
Holmgren expresses interest in Browns position
Kent State Sports:
Kent State blown out in second half, loses to Temple 47-13
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Gameblog: Cavs vs. Philadelphia 76ers
Buckeye Blogging:
OSU – Michigan college football rivals meet in Baghdad
Varsity Letters:
Four area football teams play tonight
All Da King's Men:
Headed For Disaster
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Will Health Care Reform Pass?
Akron Law Café:
Health Care Financing Reform: (69) The Brookings Institute Study on "Bending the Curve" – Four General Strategies
See Jane Style:
Vintage Chic
Car Chase:
TIME TO GET YOUR COLLECTOR CARS WINTERIZED
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Silverdome Potentially SOLD!
Ohio Travels with Betty:
George is looking for a Thanksgiving buffet in Akron.
Sound Check:
Steely Dan Plays "The Royal Scam" at E.J. Thomas Hall
HRLite House:
Colloquium at University of Akron
Akron Gamer:
Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
Published on Sunday, May 24, 2009
Fiction
1. Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris. Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.
2. The 8th Confession, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate a pair of killings.
3. Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk. Terrorists from a totalitarian country enter the Midwest disguised as exchange students in this satire.
4. First Family, David Baldacci. Former Secret Service agents, now PIs, search for a child abducted from a party at Camp David.
5. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith. The 10th novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
Nonfiction
1. Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin. A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.
2. Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox. Fox's last 10 years, since he retired from Spin City; his struggles with Parkinson's disease and his work as an activist through his foundation.
3. Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards. Dealing with life's challenges, including cancer and her husband's infidelity.
4. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent — from the author of Blink and The Tipping Point.5. The Girls from Ames, Jeffrey Zaslow. An enduring friendship among a group of Midwestern women.
Advice, how-to, miscellaneous
1. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey with Denene Millner. Relationship tips from the comedian and host of The Steve Harvey Morning Show.
2. The G-Free Diet, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Advice for living without gluten, from a television host who suffers from celiac disease.
3. Master Your Metabolism, Jillian Michaels with Mariska van Aalst. A plan for removing toxins and rebalancing hormones to lose weight, by a trainer and coach from The Biggest Loser on NBC.
4. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. Thoughts on the importance of ''seizing every moment'' from Pausch, a professor who died of pancreatic cancer at age 47.
5. 10-10-10, Suzy Welch. Evaluating decisions based on how they will affect your life in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years. Paperback nonfiction
1. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
2. Audition, Barbara Walters. A personal and professional memoir.
3. Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. The harrowing story of a Navy Seals operation in Afghanistan.
4. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan. A manifesto urges us to ''Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.''
5. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert. A writer's yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia.
Kids' paperbacks
1. Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and ''Three Cups of Tea,'' Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth. A school grows in Pakistan. (Ages 4 to 8)
2. Explorer Extraordinaire!, Jane O'Connor. Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Fancy Nancy meets the outdoors in the finest tradition of the great explorers. (Ages 4 to 7)
3. Gallop!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. Animals seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8)
4. Llama Llama Misses Mama, written and illustrated by Anna Dewdney. A little creature goes to preschool.(Ages 2 or older)
5. The Curious Garden, written and illustrated by Peter Brown. A boy named Liam nurtures a straggly garden to vivid fruition.(Ages 4 to 8)
— New York Times
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