The South Bend Tribune interviews Gary Sosniecki, author of The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband.
“The story has lots of drama – two bad marriages, philandering, jealousy, a fire and an unusual murder weapon – a potato masher. Albin was originally from Elkhart, the murder occurred in Mishawaka and the trial […]
Don’t miss this podcast featuring Candice Shy Hooper, author of the award-winning Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War—for Better and for Worse on the History Author Show.
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Created in celebration of the Ohioana Book Awards’ 75th anniversary, the Readers’ Choice Award lets readers choose their favorite Ohio book from among the award finalists selected by our judges. The book receiving the most votes, cast by readers, will be chosen as the winner and honored at the awards ceremony on October 15th.
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Ordained Servant Online reviews The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot by Janice Brown.
“In explaining how these authors’ [Sayers, Eliot, and Lewis] texts are drenched in biblical imagery, Brown is at her best,”—Ordained Servant Online
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Don’t miss this extended excerpt of Norm N. Nite and Tom Feran’s The House That Rock Built: How it Took Time, Money, Music Moguls, Corporate Types, Politicians, Media, Artists, and Fans to Bring the Rock Hall to Cleveland.
“The book, told from radio personality Nite’s perspective with former Plain Dealer reporter and editor Feran, draws on […]
Congratulations to Howard Ruffner author of Moments of Truth: A Photographer’s Experience of Kent State 1970 for being selected as a finalist in the 2020 Ohioana Book Awards, About Ohio category. The book is an important and visually arresting book that examines the past to understand & look to the future.
“This wonderful collection is just […]
Section420: Talkin’ Yankees hosts Dr. Lincoln Mitchell, author of Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues.
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Great news! Kent State University Press books have won two 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY).
Congratulations to George R. Dekle Sr. for winning the Silver Award for Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts in the US Northeast Best Regional Non-Fiction category and Jason Prufer who won the Gold Award for Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized […]
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Catch Thomas Flagel as he discusses his book War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion on the PA Books Podcast.
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“‘In nursing, if you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen,’ Jeanne Bryner said.
The retired Newton Falls nurse, who spent much of her career working in the emergency room at then-Trumbull Memorial Hospital, took her documenting one step further, turning her experiences into poems, short stories, plays and nonfiction work. Her work even can be found […]
