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Woman lay dead in bed for months despite visits
Chiropractor charged with health-care fraud
Lockdown smells like teen dispirit
Prade asks high court for new DNA testing
Two people shot near Summit Lake
Cattle truck overturns on Akron highway
Police: Bengals' Henry dies day after dispute
Cavs winning, but something missing
Boy, 4, caught with beer, stolen gifts
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Pets:
County executive cancels fundraiser for Heaven Can Wait
The Heldenfiles:
Tech Stuff: BD, 3D News
Patrick McManamon:
Yet one more idle Browns thought
Akron Zips:
Porter staying put
Tribe Matters:
Strength coach leaving Tribe
Cleveland Browns:
Vrabel brags on Rob Ryan
Kent State Sports:
KSU Notes – December 16
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Gameblog: Cavs vs. New Jersey Nets
Buckeye Blogging:
Bucks Meet Ducks for Rose Bowl Crown
Varsity Letters:
Report: RB to visit Akron
All Da King's Men:
Spend This, You *!!%$##!ers
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Kill The Bill
Akron Law Café:
May Congress Regulate the Loudness of Television Commercials?
See Jane Style:
Do IT this week: Layering
Car Chase:
The AM Gizmo—The Perfect Gift for Collector Car Drivers
Let's Talk Real Estate:
All I want for Christmas…..
Ohio Travels with Betty:
Sharon wants to know if the Christmas Story House is open all year.
Sound Check:
On the Town – Top entertainment picks for the weekend
HRLite House:
Genetic Discrimination
Akron Gamer:
Trailer: 'UFC 2010 Undisputed'
Published on Sunday, Jul 05, 2009
Fiction
1. Knockout, Catherine Coulter. Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock — FBI agents as well as husband and wife — try to protect a 7-year-old with psychic powers from her exploitive criminal uncle.
2. The Bourne Deception, Eric Van Lustbader. Robert Ludlum's character Jason Bourne helps to avert a possible world war.
3. The Angel's Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. A Barcelona writer accepts a sinister commission.
4. Relentless, Dean Koontz. A writer is pursued by a sociopathic critic.
5. 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.
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. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Bill O'Reilly. The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.
5. Renegade, Richard Wolffe. The rise of Barack Obama, based on the author's coverage of the campaign and on a dozen interviews.
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. Divine Soul Songs, Zhi Gang Sha. Spiritual self-healing, with an emphasis on the practical.
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. My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult. A girl sues her parents after learning they want her to donate a kidney to her sibling.
2. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris. Sookie Stackhouse falls in love with a bad-boy vampire.
3. Sail, James Patterson and Howard Roughan. A sailing vacation turns into a disaster.
4. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris. A vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to find one of his missing companions.
5. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown. A scholar tries to save the Vatican from the machinations of an underground society.
Kids' picture books
1. Goldilicious, written and illustrated by Victoria Kann. A girl who loves pink and purple turns to gold. (Ages 5 to 8)
2. 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)
3. Gallop! written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. Animals seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8) 4. 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)
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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