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A Simple Plan

A Simple Plan
  • Author(s): Scott Smith
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

Late afternoon, on December 31st, Hank, his brother, and a friend accidentally discover a wrecked plane. Inside they find the dead pilot, together with a sack containing four million dollars. The dilemma – they “should” notify the authorities…..but instead...

When We Were Strangers

When We Were Strangers
  • Author(s): Pamela Schoenewaldt
  • Location(s): Abruzzo, Cleveland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s onwards

Irma Vitale is a young woman in Abruzzo, her Mother dead, her father an alcoholic and she takes the opportunity to sail for America. This is the story of emigration to a new land and what awaits her and...

Not That I Could Tell

Not That I Could Tell
  • Author(s): Jessica Strawser
  • Location(s): Yellow Springs
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Drinks in hand, a group of neighbourhood women gather around a fire pit to enjoy a rare child-less Saturday night. Giddy with freedom, they drink too much, share secrets they wish, perhaps, they hadn’t, and enjoy getting to know...

Omensetter’s Luck

Omensetter’s Luck
  • Author(s): William H Gass
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter’s Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town...

A Deadly Inside Scoop

A Deadly Inside Scoop
  • Author(s): Abby Collette
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family’s ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she’s going back to basics. Wyn is renovating Crewse Creamery to restore its former glory, and filling the menu with...

A Shoot in Cleveland

A Shoot in Cleveland
  • Author(s): Les Roberts
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Hollywood producer Sidney Friedman has chosen Cleveland as the location for his new hope-to-be-blockbuster film, Street Games. The “shoot” is just getting underway, and the film’s star is the movie industry’s most notorious bad boy, Darren Anderson. Friedman hires...

Absolutely Normal Chaos

Absolutely Normal Chaos
  • Author(s): Sharon Creech
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

So. Here it is. My summer journal. As you can see, I got a little carried away. The problem is this, though. I don’t want you to read it. I really mean it. I just wanted you to know...

At the Edge of the Orchard

At the Edge of the Orchard
  • Author(s): Tracy Chevalier
  • Location(s): California, Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800s

In the inhospitable Black Swamp of Ohio, the Goodenough family are barely scratching out a living. Life there is harsh, tempered only by the apples they grow for eating and for the cider that dulls their pain. Hot-headed Sadie...

Beloved

Beloved
  • Author(s): Toni Morrison
  • Location(s): Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Cenury

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is...

Charmed By Charlie

Charmed By Charlie
  • Author(s): Amanda Uhl
  • Location(s): Cleveland
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

PAINT, PROMOTIONS & PERFECTION Creative genius Charlie Solanger has it all: good looks, money, intelligence, charm. And when he swoops in to save Reynolds Paint Company with a brilliant marketing campaign, he has all the ladies in the office...

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