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Book Notes: April 2023

Kelly McGilvery

Poetry & Soul Colors On Thursday, April 13 from 7-10pm, poet Kay Renee and The Truth Gallery present Poetry & Soul Colors, an evening of...

Book Notes March 2023

TCP Staff

Northwest Ohio Teen Book Festival in Rossford

Tanner Wertz

Second annual festival showcases authors Organized by JustWrite Ohio partnering with Gathering Volumes in Perrysburg, the second Northwest Ohio Teen Book Festival will be held...

Love Jones Redux: Spoken Word with a Twist

Kelly McGilvery

Since its founding in fall 2021, the private club, TolHouse, has been finding its bearings. Lucille’s, the on-premises jazz club, has been a welcome...

Book Notes: February 2023

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Ode to the Zip Code 2023

Digital Media

The Art of Seeing People

Sean Nestor

“Violence has a girlfriend, and that girlfriend is poverty – and they get along pretty well.” So says David Bush, the new Commissioner for...

Look then Read: Joel Lipman

Kelly McGilvery

Look Then Read: Big Sheets, an exhibition of enlarged versions of visual poems and collages by Joel Lipman, 2022 University of Toledo Department of...

Broken Pencils: Toledo author debuts new novels

Emily Day

Victoria Arendt has lived in Montenegro, San Francisco, Atlanta and Washington D.C., yet she’s always been called back to her native Toledo. She describes...

Book Notes – August 2022

Jeff McGinnis

Bring a salad to the library Share a delicious summer salad with the community and sample a variety of others— all created from recipes found at the...

Remembering Sunday Afternoons: Ohio-born author shares stories of tragedy, love and divorce

Nolan Cramer

Ben Ewell grew up on a small farm near Brighton, Ohio, 45 miles southwest of Cleveland in Lorain County. One of five children, with...

Book Notes – July 2022

Jeff McGinnis

Library group examines Black authors As with many facets of our society, the contributions of African Americans are all too often minimized and overshadowed in literature. The Toledo...

Book Notes – June 2022

Jeff McGinnis

The Hour is at hand Telling the dramatic tale of the battle to see the 19th Amendment approved in Tennessee— the last state needed to officially...

Book Notes – May 2022

Jeff McGinnis

Beauty shining like the Sun Inspired by the story of a real-life Persian princess, Anita Amirrrezvani’s acclaimed novel Equal of the Sun tells of a...

Good Choices Create Compelling Rift: Toledo woven throughout Nathan Elias’ first novel

Julie Pompa

Can a futuristic story drawing from the lifestyle and allure of its Southern California setting have a “419” vibe? It turns out that yes,...

Gathering Volumes: A Bookstore For Everyone Denise Phillips goes from IT to independent bookstore owner, and thrives during the pandemic

Callie Feyen

From IT to Books Denise Phillips had no interest in owning and running an independent bookstore. However, after moving from Chicago to Ohio, she wanted...

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