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Influential Big Star member Alex Chilton dies
Safety board to weigh requiring condoms in porn
Akron ready to rock for good cause
'Bounty Hunter’ should stay a fugitive from moviegoers
‘Repo Men’ about as entertaining as burst appendix
More than a dozen Ohio films at festival
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Iraq veteran dies after shooting near UA stadium
Theft, fraud allegations leave family in turmoil
Intoxicated, suicidal educator apprehended after chilling drive in park
Teen accused of drinking, dancing topless in club
Area Marine shot in Afghanistan dies
Akron police investigate two stabbings
Barberton man hit by vehicle after fight dies
Portage County woman, 19, gets jail time for having sexual contact with boy, 11
Blogs:
Akron Docs in Haiti:
Almost home
First Bell - On Education:
Strange, sad story from Canton
Pets:
Humane Society poised to move into new, bigger space
The Heldenfiles:
"Invictus" DVD/Blu-ray May 18
Akron Zips:
Looking back on the season
Tribe Matters:
Carmona sharp in win over Reds
Cleveland Browns:
Delhomme the kind of mentor Browns need
Balanced Ledger:
How times have changed?
Kent State Sports:
Kent State beats Tulsa in NIT; Will face Illinois on ESPNU
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Highlights from Wednesday’s Cavs-Pacers Game
Buckeye Blogging:
Bucks High Seed – Turner High Praise
Varsity Letters:
Report: Boston College offers Smith
All Da King's Men:
ObamaCare To Reduce Premiums By 3000% ?
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Why Republicans Are Acting So Crazy
Akron Law Café:
Does Capitalism Inspire "Moral Flexibility"?
Car Chase:
2010 CONCOURS SEASON IS UPON US
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Deals in Miami?!.
Sound Check:
Willie Nelson & Family coming to the Akron Civic Theatre May 11
See Jane Style:
Who Wore What – The Oscars
HRLite House:
Horses of Courses
Akron Gamer:
PlayStation's Move ups the interaction, fidelity
Published on Sunday, Jun 28, 2009
Fiction
1. Relentless, Dean Koontz. A writer is pursued by a sociopathic critic.
2. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, Katherine Howe. A graduate student is caught up in her research on a healer accused of witchcraft in Salem.
3. The Bourne Deception, Eric Van Lustbader. Robert Ludlum's character Jason Bourne helps to avert a possible world war.
4. The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly. A Los Angeles Times reporter tracks a devious killer.
5. 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.
Nonfiction
1. Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin. A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.
2. Horse Soldiers, Doug Stanton. A small group of Special Forces soldiers fought the Taliban on horseback shortly after 9/11.
3. 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.4. Renegade, Richard Wolffe. The rise of Barack Obama, based on the author's coverage of the campaign and on a dozen interviews.
5. Prairie Tale, Melissa Gilbert. Overcoming substance abuse and bad relationships, by the star of Little House on the Prairie.
Advice, how-to, miscellaneous
1. Divine Soul Songs, Zhi Gang Sha. Spiritual self-healing, with an emphasis on the practical.
2. Excuses Begone!, Wayne W. Dyer. How to throw out old excuses and embrace new ways of thinking to achieve happiness.
3. 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.
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. 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. Trade paper fiction
1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. 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. My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult. A girl sues her parents after learning they want her to donate a kidney to her sibling.
4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. The classic story, retold with ''ultraviolent zombie mayhem.''
5. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout. A seventh-grade math teacher is the link in 13 stories set on the Maine coast; a 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner.
Kids' paperbacks
1. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak. A girl saves books from Nazi burning and shares them with a Jewish man in hiding. (Ages 14 and up)
2. Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen. Loss and change crack a girl's cynicism. (Ages 12 and up)
3. The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart, illustrated by Carson Ellis. Gifted kids on a mission. (Ages 9 to 12)
4. Evermore, Alyson Noel. Immortals in school. (Ages 12 and up)
5. Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. A former climber builds schools in Pakistani and Afghan villages. (Ages 9 to 12)
— New York Times
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