Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio
Oaklin Nettlewood used to be an evil cultist, until they were freed from the Enchantrix’s mind control spells. With a guilty conscience and a memory full of holes, they buy a farm in cozy Mossley’s Rest, unaware that the farm requires magic to operate, while they’ve sworn not to use their powers ever again.
Jim Sweeney’s latest book is a collection of bawdy stories from Cleveland’s colorful past. From a burning river of whiskey to the World’s Longest Striptease; from the bank robber who used a business card […]
Lakewood Public Cinema Special Programming
This film is a political drama about a fierce U.S. Senate battle over a controversial Secretary of State nominee, Robert Leffingwell. The confirmation hearings expose lies, political blackmail and hidden […]
Bleak House follows the intertwining lives of orphans Esther Summerson, Richard Carstone, and Ada Clare, who are trapped in the endless Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit. While the case drags on, Esther uncovers her identity as Lady Dedlock's illegitimate daughter, unraveling a dark web of secrets, blackmail, and tragedy.
In Five Survive by Holly Jackson, six teenagers embark on a spring break RV trip. A sniper shoots out their tires, trapping them in an isolated location. The sniper gives them eight hours to reveal a dark secret, forcing the friends into a deadly game of paranoia, betrayal, and survival.
World War II veteran Nico Garcos (Richard Conte) returns home to find that his father has been maimed, and his trucking business hijacked. The man responsible is local mobster Mike […]
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is an eco-thriller set in a remote Polish village. The elderly, eccentric protagonist, Janina, believes that persecuted local animals are enacting supernatural, murderous revenge on the town’s corrupt, hunting-obsessed men, before it is revealed that she herself committed the crimes.
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers is a cozy mystery about 60-year-old Vera Wong, a bored, lonely woman looking for a new lease on life—which comes in the form of a corpse on the floor of her tea shop. She sets out to solve the crime herself, and in the process, she meets four young people […]
Starside follows Aris, a blacksmith’s apprentice, as she enters a deadly quest to kill the gods who destroyed her village, navigating a perilous world of magic, monsters, and political intrigue.
Lakewood Public Cinema Special Programming
This film is based on the 1952 novella, Old Man and the Sea, written by the American author Ernest Hemingway. Written between December 1950 and February 1951, it was the […]
On December 5th, 1928, a secretive early meeting of the American Mafi a was to take place at Cleveland’s Hotel Statler. The Cleveland Police had other ideas and raided the […]
When European settlers first arrived in Ohio, they found a land that was 95% forested. Gardeners of today know, however, that many of our native flowers and grasses prefer to […]