A Visit with Abraham Lincoln
Mel Maurer, a member, past president, and past Historian of the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable, performs as President Lincoln.
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Now is Not the Time to Panic
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke. Zeke is a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's unhappy house and is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is.
Cleveland Civil Rights Trail
Join Margaret Lann as she explores the local sites where history was made along the Cleveland Civil Rights Trail.
Those Empty Eyes
The novel follows Alex Armstrong, an investigator for a law firm whose work on a rape scandal at a university draws her close to her traumatic past. She was once Alexandra Quinlan and was wrongfully accused, though exonerated, of the brutal murder of her parents and brother.
Gun Crazy (1949)
Army marksman Bart Tare (John Dall) has loved guns since childhood. When he and his pals attend a carnival sideshow, Bart meets sharpshooting blonde Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins). It’s gun/love at first sight. They become a couple, but Annie takes a dim view of domestic bliss and craves money and excitement. Reluctantly, he joins […]
Love and Loss: The Short Life of Ray Chapman
Though gone over a hundred years, Ray Chapman is well remembered as a Cleveland icon. The son of a coal miner from a small Illinois town, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman lived the American dream until his untimely death at age twenty-nine. In his brief life, he reached the pinnacle of baseball success as the […]
The Girl With the Louding Voice
The Girl with the Louding Voice is a 2020 coming of age novel and the debut of Nigerian writer Abi Daré. It tells the story of a teenage Nigerian girl called Adunni who becomes a maid and struggles with many things growing up, including her limited education, poverty and the inability to speak up for herself.
The Way it is Now
Twenty years ago, Charlie’s mother went missing near the family beach shack. Now he’s back living in the shack, on disciplinary leave from his police job. Then the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a building site—and the past comes crashing in on Charlie.
Sales Mastery Essentials Made Simple
Ruth M. Farrington has generated over five billion dollars in a forty-eight-year career in retail sales. Join us for an engaging and insightful talk with the internationally recognized author of Sales Mastery Essentials Made Simple as she shares her unique journey and the powerful strategies that have led to her extraordinary success. Books will be […]
Write Now: Fiction Writing Group
Sign up for this Literary Cleveland Workshop Instructed by Johnny Caputo on the first Saturday of the month.
Brotherhood
Brotherhood is an uplifting story of loyalty amongst African American young men.
Dinner at Eight (1933)
The hours leading up to a lavish New York society dinner party reveal the hopes and heartaches of an all-star cast featuring Jean Harlow, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery and Billie Burke. Director George Cukor serves up equal helpings of comedy and drama in this 1933 pre-Code film, Dinner at Eight.