This year marks the 41st Annual Heights Heritage Home and Garden Tour, which began all the way back in 1977. Every year it is presented and organized by Heights Community Congress. Residents can now take a tour through past years of the Home and Garden Tour on Ohio Memory via the Heights Libraries website, where […]
The imagination of Kevin Wilson is a weird and wonderful place. In his latest collection of short stories, Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine, vividly drawn characters and arresting, sometimes outlandish situations combine to make it hard to put down. In the title story, a self absorbed musician comes home to live with his mother when his band’s […]
After a record breaking heat wave earlier this week that closed many schools, (that never happened in my day!) it finally feels as though Fall might be just around the corner. So after you grab that pumpkin spice latte and an apple fritter at Patterson’s why not cozy up with some great tv shows that […]
The book is Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen. The series is Six Tudor Queens, and if you are up on your English history, you will know that this is the third in the series. The period is the reign of King Henry the VIII. The author is Alison Weir, who writes history AND historical fiction. […]
Local author, playwright, and journalist Christopher Johnston recently sat down with us to discuss his new book, Shattering Silences: Strategies to Prevent Sexual Assault, Heal Survivors, and Bring Assailants to Justice. As part of our ongoing Cedar-Coventry author series, Christopher will soon discuss his new book in conversation with poet Terri Witek, author of The […]
Sarah Haywood’s debut novel, The Cactus, is a perfect mashup of the books Eleanor Oliphant and The Rosie Project. Her character, Susan Green, is an independent, professional woman who has ordered her life so that every second and event is accounted for; she rarely (never) deviates or changes her mind about things. But, then, as in the […]
It’s been a tough year for literature, with authors like Philip Roth and Tom Wolfe passing away recently. But the Fantasy/Sci-Fi community has been hit particularly hard, with many notable figures dying this year. So, in their memory, here is my quick guide for what to read by these authors if you’re hearing about them […]
Shadow and sunshine: here are two (two!!) new historical mystery series launches, both taking place around the turn of the twentieth century. One is on the darker side and deals with larger social questions beyond the actual mystery; the other is about as light and frolicsome as you can get. Well, you know, aside from […]
Nina is a real estate agent who mostly shows upscale properties in the hills around LA. The opening story in Lydia Millet’s newest book of interconnected short stories, Fight No More has her showing a house to a man whom she supposes is an African dictator flanked by two bodyguards, her wariness fueled by office gossip. […]
In 1979, childhood resident and local reporter Marion H. Kelly and the Friends of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library published a volume of library history called More Than Just Books: A History of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library. This 92 page volume dealt with the history of the library since its founding in […]
