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Blogs:
Pets:
Not 101 Dalmations…but close!
The Heldenfiles:
Friday Notebook
Patrick McManamon:
For your perusal
Akron Zips:
The morning after
Tribe Matters:
Tribe makes roster moves
Cleveland Browns:
Lewis doesn't like boycott
Kent State Sports:
Kent State falls to Akron, 20-28
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Gameblog: Cavs at Knicks
Buckeye Blogging:
Weekly ‘B’ Deck Report – New Mexico St.
Varsity Letters:
Wrestling, bowling teams prepare for season
All Da King's Men:
If It Looks Like Islamic Terrorism…
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Dems Message To Women: Don't Enjoy The Sex
Akron Law Café:
Health Care Financing Reform: (62) The Stupak Amendment
See Jane Style:
Muffle Your Muffler
Car Chase:
Perfect Weather for an Autumn Drive
Let's Talk Real Estate:
RUMORS: Downtown Restaurant Explosion
Ohio Travels with Betty:
Jack is looking for a trip to Southern Ohio the week of November 16.
Sound Check:
The Black Keys to perform benefit concert at Musica on November 27
HRLite House:
Personal Rant – Why People Do Not Live in Northeast Ohio
Akron Gamer:
New 'Call of Duty' could set entertainment record
Published on Sunday, May 31, 2009
Fiction
1. Wicked Prey, John Sandford. The Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport deals with mayhem occasioned by the Republican convention.
2. Cemetery Dance, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast investigates the murder of a Times reporter.
3. Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris. Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther.
4. The 8th Confession, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate a pair of killings.
5. First Family, David Baldacci. Former Secret Service agents, now PIs, search for a child abducted from a party at Camp David.
Nonfiction
1. Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards. Dealing with life's challenges, including cancer and her husband's infidelity.
2. Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin. A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.
3. 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.
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. 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.
3. 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.
4. The G-Free Diet, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Advice for living without gluten, from a television host who suffers from celiac disease.
5. When Everything Changes, Change Everything, Neale Donald Walsch. ''Change'' does not have to equal ''crisis.''
Paperback nonfiction
1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer. A journalist meets the island's old Nazi-resisters.
2. The Shack, William P. Young. A man whose daughter was abducted receives an invitation to an isolated shack, apparently from God.
3. Vision in White, Nora Roberts. A wedding photographer finds romance with the brother of a bride-to-be; Book 1 in the Bride Quartet series.
4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. The classic story, retold with ''ultraviolent zombie mayhem.''
5. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown. A scholar tries to save the Vatican from the machinations of an underground society.
Kids' chapter books
1. Wings, Aprilynne Pike. Home schooling meets supernatural romance, with cellular-level scientific surprises. (Ages 12 or older)
2. The Awakening, Kelley Armstrong. A genetically altered, ghost-seeing girl juggles complicated adolescent trials. (Ages 12 or older)
3. Twilight: Director's Notebook, Catherine Hardwicke. The making of Twilight, the movie. (Ages 9 to 12)
4. Miles to Go, Miley Cyrus. The life of Miley Cyrus. (Ages 9 to 12)
5. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Dave McKean. To avoid a killer, a boy takes up residence in a cemetery. (Ages 10 or older)
— New York Times
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