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Book Notes August 2024

Faith Smith

Authors! With Marc Brown Well-known author and illustrator of the children's book Arthur the Aardvark, Marc Brown, is featured in the Authors! Series on Aug....

Lit Off The Pages: A Podcast for Book Lovers and Wine Drinkers

Audrey Blaufuss

After discovering a mutual love of reading, sisters-in-law Whitney and Cara Longoria took their book club virtual and began a podcast, Lit Off The...

Emily Zarecki’s “Golden Scars” Shares Her Cancer Journey

Kaylin Pickett

Emily Zarecki's debut memoir, Golden Scars: How the Death of My Husband Prepared Me to Battle Breast Cancer, was released this March. The memoir shares...

Book Notes July 2024

Juleanna DeShetler

The Very First Night Release Party Nicole Ryan, the author of this Taylor Swift-inspired novel, will be at Sylvania’s Finch & Fern Book Co., 5641...

Author Tracy Chevalier at Lourdes June 28

Jennifer Kellow-Fiorini

It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since author Tracy Chevalier wrote Girl with A Pearl Earring — a classic that captured the...

“The Avian Hourglass” Book Coming This August

Kaylin Pickett

This August Dzanc Books is releasing The Avian Hourglass by Lindsey Drager. The book is a surrealist novel that Drager describes as “an ode...

Book Notes June 2024

Riley Runnells

Wine & Words | Beer & Books at Six Fifths Distilling Join Gathering Volumes at Six Fifths Distilling, 120 W South Boundary St., Perrysburg, to...

The Toledo Clinic Releases a New Cookbook

Kaylin Pickett

The Toledo Clinic Cancer Centers put together a collection of over 400 recipes in their new cookbook A Spoonful of Hope. All the recipes...

Susan Montgomery Brings People Together Through Music, Children’s Books

Tanner Wertz

Rogers High School and BGSU graduate Susan Montgomery is an artist, author and musician who uses her creativity to cope with chronic pain and...

Book Notes May 2024

Riley Runnells

West Toledo’s Science Fiction & Fantasy book club The West Toledo Library hosts the May meeting of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club, featuring...

‘Creating Todd Crandell:’ A Year to Write, 57 Years to Live

Riley Runnells

The Racing for Recovery™ founder publishes his sixth book.

Way Library Used Bookstore Opens at The Gilded Exchange

Brenden Manco

The Way Public Library Foundation & Friends have partnered with The Gilded Exchange to open “The Library Vault,” Way Library’s satellite used bookstore. “The library...

Book Notes April 2024

Riley Runnells

Great Lakes Book Club Meeting Join the Great Lakes Book Club Tuesday, April 2, for a virtual lunchtime discussion group spanning a wide range of...

Toledo City Paper’s Bookstore Roundup

Curtis Deeter

Toledo is home to a variety of bookstores which afford an opportunity to escape everyday life, learn new information or fall in love with...

Gloria Steinem’s 90th Birthday Celebration at Toledo Lucas County Public Library

Leslie Anne Shore

Celebrate the feminist iconic Toledo native Gloria Steinem’s 90th birthday with a special event, A Steinem Celebration: 90 Years of Gloria, at Toledo Lucas...

Book Notes March 2024

Leslie Anne Shore

Under 200 Book Club Visit the Toledo Library, Sanger Branch, for the Under 200 Book Club. This Club meets monthly to discuss books (any theme...

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