Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio
Nardine Taleb is a speech-language pathologist and a writer. She worked as a prose editor at Gordon Square Review for several issues. She is the author of warda, published in 2023 by Passengers Press. […]
Join us on the Main Library front porch during the Lakewood Arts Festival and enjoy poetry readings featuring experienced poets, participants from the writing groups and even inspired festival goers. We encourage everyone […]
Jen Jones Donatelli has worked in various forms of media and entertainment for nearly 20 years. Her resume spans feature films, award shows, talk shows, sitcoms, red carpet reporting, and print/online journalism for outlets […]
This stunning slow-burn romantasy follows Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson are twelve years old when they are whisked away from the shadows of their disenfranchised mining towns to dazzling Belavere City to […]
Cousins in Crime is the true story of Alfred and Charles Polizzi. After struggling to grow up on the streets of Cleveland at the turn of the century, they became members of the Mayfield Road Mob, an Italian American gang that had […]
Jenna Martínez is a finalist for the 2025 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, a 2023–2024 Literary Cleveland Breakthrough Writing Resident, and a recipient of the 2023 Unidos Por El Arte Grant. […]
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a fantasy novel by V.E. Schwab about a French woman who makes a Faustian bargain for immortality in 1714, but is cursed to be […]
Trace the origins of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 as it made its way across several states and into Ohio, with award winning author, Mark Strecker. Workers pushed back on repeated cuts in wages and hours, unsafe working conditions and job […]
This Book Will Bury Me tells the gripping story of Jane Sharp, a college student who becomes deeply immersed in the world of true crime after the unexpected death of […]
Tiffany Graham Charkosky was eleven years old when her mother, Julie, died. Years later, she discovered the genetic mutation that took her mother had been passed down to Tiffany herself. With prose both lucid and revealing, Tiffany shares […]
Jen Jones Donatelli has worked in various forms of media and entertainment for nearly 20 years. Her resume spans feature films, award shows, talk shows, sitcoms, red carpet reporting, and print/online journalism for outlets […]
Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is just out of prison and plans the heist of a racetrack, in order to make a “killing” of over two million dollars. Clay puts together a team […]