Events Calendar
In This Section
Most Read Stories
Police accuse bank robbery suspect of gobbling up note (with dashcam video)
Victim of beating in Kent last week is declared dead at Akron hospital
Dad accused of forcing son into field, killing him
Can DNA tests free ex-Akron captain?
Man found dead in North Akron home is identified
Browns' roster nearly devoid of consistent players
Does it work? Test team returns to try out new products advertised on television
Coventry man killed in crash at I-77 ramp
Blogs:
Pets:
Cat-loving chihuahua suckles seven abandoned kittens
The Heldenfiles:
Friday Night Notebook
Patrick McManamon:
Browns vs. Lions live …
Akron Zips:
Akron trounces Howard to reach .500
Tribe Matters:
Seven players added to Tribe’s 40-man roster
Cleveland Browns:
Robiskie, Harrison inactive
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:
The Sunday Sanity Challenge
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:
A Random Rant on Testing
Akron Gamer:
Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
Published on Sunday, Jun 21, 2009
Fiction
1. Skin Trade, Laurell K. Hamilton. Investigating some killings in Las Vegas, the vampire hunter Anita Blake must contend with the power of the weretigers.
2. Medusa, Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos. In the eighth NUMA Files novel, Kurt Austin and his team confront a rare jellyfish, a Chinese crime syndicate and a deadly virus.
3. The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly. A Los Angeles Times reporter tracks a devious killer.
4. Shanghai Girls, Lisa See. Two Chinese sisters in the 1930s are sold as wives to men from California, and leave their war-torn country to join them.
5. Matters of the Heart, Danielle Steel. A New York photographer falls in love with a sociopathic novelist who lures her to his isolated Irish estate.
Nonfiction
1. Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin. A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.
2. 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.3. Horse Soldiers, Doug Stanton. A small group of Special Forces soldiers fought the Taliban on horseback shortly after 9/11.
4. Renegade, Richard Wolffe. The rise of Barack Obama, based on the author's coverage of the campaign and on a dozen interviews.
5. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Bill O'Reilly. The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.
Advice, how-to, miscellaneous
1. Excuses Begone!, Wayne W. Dyer. How to throw out old excuses and embrace new ways of thinking to achieve happiness.
2. 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.
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. 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.
5. The G-Free Diet, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Advice for living without gluten, from a television host who has celiac disease.
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. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris. Humor essays on middle age, mortality and giving up smoking.
3. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan. A manifesto urges us to ''Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.''
4. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Tucker Max. Life as a self-absorbed, drunken womanizer.
5. Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg. This ''alternative history'' of American liberalism finds its roots in classical fascism.
Kids' chapter books
1. Twilight: Director's Notebook, Catherine Hardwicke. The making of Twilight, the movie. (Ages 9 to 12)
2. 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)
3. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins. In a dystopian future, a girl fights for survival on live TV. (Ages 12 or older)
4. Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher. Before committing suicide a girl records and sends explanatory audiotapes to 13 people. (Ages 14 or older)
5. Wings, Aprilynne Pike. Home schooling meets supernatural romance, with cellular-level scientific surprises. (Ages 12 or older)
— New York Times
Get the full article here.
Comments
Click here to post your comments
