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Millicent Glenn’s Last Wish

Millicent Glenn’s Last Wish
  • Author(s): Tori Whitaker
  • Location(s): Cincinnati
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three generations of women—and the love, loss, sacrifice, and secrets that can bind them forever or tear them apart. Millicent Glenn is self-sufficient and contentedly alone in the Cincinnati suburbs. As she nears her ninety-first birthday, her daughter Jane,...

Mind Waves

Mind Waves
  • Author(s): Amanda Uhl
  • Location(s): Cleveland
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If he can control her mind… Government operative David Jenkins is skilled at controlling his emotions. Feelings are lethal when your job is to infiltrate minds, erase and implant thoughts, and guard the nation’s intellectual capital. But even he...

Mr. Mercedes

Mr. Mercedes
  • Author(s): Stephen King
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. “Mr. Mercedes is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man...

No One Is Talking About This

No One Is Talking About This
  • Author(s): Patricia Lockwood
  • Location(s): Ohio, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It’s about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It’s about living in world that contains both an...

No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk

No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk
  • Author(s): Tamar Myers
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

Pennsylvania Dutch inn owner/amateur sleuth Magdalena Yoder finds out that her second cousin twice removed is truly lactose intolerant when he’s discovered dead in a tank of milk. But when she heads to Ohio for the funeral, she lands...

Ohio

Ohio
  • Author(s): Stephen Markley
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2013

The debut of a major talent; a lyrical and emotional novel set in an archetypal small town in northeastern Ohio – a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan –...

Reading Blue Devils

Reading Blue Devils
  • Author(s): Jon Bennett
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

To Hell with high school! The American education system is turned inside out when a frustrated teacher incites his students to stage an uprising. In a poor suburban community in southern Ohio, Dieter Vogel is a failing English teacher...

The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye
  • Author(s): Toni Morrison
  • Location(s): Ohio, Lorain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author’s girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola...

The Dead Will Tell

The Dead Will Tell
  • Author(s): Linda Castillo
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time—and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave. On...

The Devil All the Time

The Devil All the Time
  • Author(s): Donald Ray Pollock
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

In Knockemstiff, Ohio, war veteran Willard can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his ‘prayer log’. Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial...

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