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Published on Sunday, Nov 15, 2009
After four lively entries in her Rachel Benjamin mystery series, Shaker Heights native Jennifer Sturman has entered the field of young adult fiction with And Then Everything Unraveled, the story of a California girl whose Type A tech-mogul mother disappears on an Antarctic voyage.
Delia, whose father died three years earlier in a car accident, now is to be shipped off to begin a new school year in New York, in the custody of two aunts she's never met: nonconformist Charley, who acts in avant-garde films and wants to send Delia to an alternative school, and swanky Patience, who demands that she attend an exclusive academy. Delia's classmates there include her cousins Gwyneth and Grey, whom Delia promptly dubs the Apathy Twins and who refresh themselves with water glasses full of vodka at the dinner table.
Unlike everyone else, Delia is certain her mother is still alive, and sets about to prove it, using the Internet and a fellow student's hacking skills. Distracting her is campus king Quinn Riley, who has the reputation of an indifferent slacker, but who later might be a friend in need.
As the last page ends with ''To be continued . . . '' it's apparent that Sturman plans a sequel, which is fitting because the book runs out, rather abruptly, before the story does. There's no indication if Rachel Benjamin will be back first, in a followup to The Hunt, in which she met her fiance's parents. And Then Everything Unraveled (244 pages, hardcover) costs $16.99 from The Point, a division of Scholastic.
Rubber Bowl memoir
The opening of InfoCision Stadium caused no little nostalgia about the Rubber Bowl and those Zips who played there, and provided a good opportunity for the University of Akron Press to release Our Boys in Blue and Gold: A Chronicle of Zips Football, edited by Tara Kalaz, a student in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts program at the university. Beginning in 1891, when Buchtel College beat Western Reserve (two years later, John Heisman would show up to coach), and continuing through wars and the school's changes of name, the book is a satisfying retrospective.
There are sidebars on related topics like the marching band, the ''Zippers'' and ''Zips'' nicknames and Zippy mascot, the Acme-Zip game and the Wagon Wheel rivalry with Kent State University. At 209 pages, the large-format softcover book costs $24.95. Our Boys in Blue and Gold has a foreword by Ohio State University football coach Jim Tressel, who got his first coaching job while a graduate assistant in Akron.
Events
Learned Owl Book Shop (204 N. Main St., Hudson) — Hudson resident Norma Lapierre signs her storybook Bandit: A Raccoon Tail, inspired by her own experience with an orphaned raccoon, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today.
Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland (26001 S. Woodland Road) — The 10th annual Festival of Jewish Books and Authors continues through next Sunday, including Peter Manseau, author of Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, at 1 p.m. Monday. Admission $13 for nonmembers. Some events are free and some are at other venues; see http://www.clevejcc.org for the schedule.
Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Legacy Village, Lyndhurst) — Michael Rosen signs Where Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse, 7 p.m. Tuesday; Noah St. John signs The Secret Code of Success: 7 Hidden Steps to More Wealth and Happiness, 7 p.m. Wednesday; former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee signs A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit, 4 p.m. Thursday (line numbers required).
Our Lady of the Elms (1375 W. Exchange St., Akron) — The Author! Author! series concludes with Jeffrey Zaslow (The Last Lecture), whose new book is The Girls from Ames; Jane Snow, former food editor of the Beacon Journal, with Jane Snow Cooks: Spirited Recipes and Stories; and novelist Ron Rash, whose Serena is set in Depression-era North Carolina. Lunch ($30) at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday; authors begin at 12:30 p.m.
— Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal
Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 or lsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com. Event notices should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
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