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Vampire author Anne Rice set to release video book
Quicken Loans Arena likely to restore water fountains
Louis Gossett Jr. diagnosed with prostate cancer
'Witness for the Prosecution' keeps audiences guessing
Actor Gary Coleman pleads guilty in Utah court
Rich Heldenfels: 'Past Life' is unbelievable
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Man robbed at Tallmadge Avenue eatery
Four teens restrain man, take items from his Akron home
Police: Ohio girl dies after fall into snow bank
Another winter punch heading toward Ohio
Complaints against officer keep coming
Cuyahoga Falls residents come home to find burning couch on balcony
Blogs:
First Bell - On Education:
No City of Akron basketball tonight
Pets:
Pet telethon re-airs
The Heldenfiles:
Chipmunks "Squeakquel" on DVD/BD March 30
Akron Zips:
Late surge gives Zips ugly road win
Tribe Matters:
Blogmail response on Hafner
Cleveland Browns:
Stallworth's contract terminated
Balanced Ledger:
QB in Browns future: another mock draft
Kent State Sports:
KSU Notes – February 9
Cleveland Cavaliers:
NBA Power Rankings from Around the Internet
Buckeye Blogging:
Buckeyes grab 18 players on signing day
Varsity Letters:
Garfield at Buchtel basketball
All Da King's Men:
Palin At The Tea Party Convention
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Republican Pre-Conditions
Akron Law Café:
Citizens United v. F.E.C. (Part 4): Kennedy's and O'Connor's Basic Approaches to Constitutional Decisionmaking – Top Down and Bottom Up
Car Chase:
Collector Car Hobby Loses One of the Best—Jim Roll
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Decisions Decisions: Credit Cards or Your Mortgage?
Ohio Travels with Betty:
Loucile is looking for a Lake Erie getaway in June for three kids, ages 1, 3, and 5.
Sound Check:
Talk of the Town – Top entertainment picks for the weekend
HRLite House:
Track HR Research
Akron Gamer:
'Tecmo Bowl' recreation of Super Bowl XLIV
See Jane Style:
Do IT this week: Layering
Published on Sunday, Jul 26, 2009
Fiction
1. Black Hills, Nora Roberts. A South Dakota wildlife biologist and an ex-cop, childhood sweethearts, reunite to pursue a serial killer.
2. Swimsuit, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. A former cop, now a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, investigates the disappearance of a supermodel from a Hawaii hotel.
3. Finger Lickin' Fifteen, Janet Evanovich. The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum hunts a celebrity chef's killer.
4. The Devil's Punchbowl, Greg Iles. The mayor of Natchez, Miss., pursues a killer who opposes his attempt to clean up riverboat gambling.
5. The Apostle, Brad Thor. Scot Harvath, a Homeland Security superagent, is asked to free an al-Qaida mastermind from a Pakistani prison as part of a ransom deal.
Nonfiction
1. 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.
2. Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin. A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.
3. Catastrophe, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. Stopping President Barack Obama before he transforms America into a socialist state and destroys the health-care system.
4. Horse Soldiers, Doug Stanton. A small group of Special Forces soldiers fought the Taliban on horseback shortly after 9/11.
5. The End of Overeating, David A. Kessler. How eating sugar, fat and salt affects our minds and bodies and encourages overindulgence.
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 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.
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. Excuses Begone!, Wayne W. Dyer. How to throw out old excuses and embrace new ways of thinking to achieve happiness.
5. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne. The law of attraction as a key to getting what you want.
Mass-market 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. Tailspin, Catherine Coulter. The FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock swoop in to help a colleague when his plane crashes in the Appalachian Mountains.
3. Hidden Currents, Christine Feehan. The youngest of the telepathic Drake sisters disappears while on her way back home.
4. Fearless Fourteen, Janet Evanovich. Stephanie Plum and her boyfriend get involved when his cousin's bank robbery goes bad.
5. What Happens in London, Julia Quinn. A young woman spies on her intriguing neighbor, an employee of the War Office, and is herself spied on in return.
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. Gallop! written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. Animals seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8)
3. Tea Parties, Jane O'Connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Extended pinkies at Fancy Nancy's. (Ages 4 to 7)
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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