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The Director’s Chair ...... 1 2015 Ohioana Book Festival...... 1 Celebrating Black History Month...3 New Books ...... 4 Coming Soon ...... 9

Connecting Readers and Ohio Writers February 2015

2015 Ohioana Book Festival The Director’s Chair

Featured Authors Announced! Dear Friends,

The Ohioana Library is pleased to announce the featured authors for the Mother Nature’s most famous 2015 Ohioana Book Festival! These ten authors will be joined by more weathermen—Punxatawney Phil than 100 other Ohio writers; see page 9 for more information. in Pennsylvania and Ohio’s own Buckeye Chuck in Marion—did not David Baker (Granville) agree when they poked their heads Poet David Baker teaches at Denison University and is the out of their holes on February 2. poetry editor for the Kenyon Review. His latest collection Phil saw six more weeks of winter of poems, Scavenger Loop, will be introduced at the 2015 ahead, while Chuck predicted an Ohioana Book Festival. early spring.

Whichever groundhog turns out Jeffrey Ebbeler (Cincinnati) to be right, Ohioana has its sights Jeffrey Ebbeler has illustrated more than forty picture firmly set on spring. As I shared books, and is both the author and illustrator of his newest with you last month, exciting book, Click! Ebbeler is also creating the artwork for the changes are in store for this year’s official 2015 Ohioana Book Festival poster. Ohioana Book Festival as we move to a new date and a new venue. The Ann Hagedorn (Ripley) ninth annual festival will take place Ann Hagedorn has written for the Wall Street Journal and Saturday, April 25, at the Sheraton New York Daily News and is the author of five critically Columbus on Capitol Square. acclaimed books, including the Ohioana Award-winning Beyond the River and Savage Peace. Her latest book is The Our cover story introduces you Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security. to our ten featured authors. They (Photo by Jeanie Wulfkuhle) will be joined by more than 100 additional authors we’ll announce Michelle Houts (Rockford) in next month’s newsletter. It will be Michelle Houts graduated from The Ohio State University the largest number of authors we’ve and was a special education teacher before becoming a ever had for the festival. We’ll also writer of books for young readers. Her most recent work be sharing some wonderful news is Kammie on First, a middle grade biography of baseball about the festival programming— player Dottie Kamenshek, who served as the model for the stay tuned! Geena Davis character in the film A League of Their Own. 1 Gene Logsdon (Upper Sandusky) Also in this issue you’ll find Gene Logsdon, a self-described “contrary farmer,” is the some suggested readings for author of more than twenty books and is one of America’s Black History Month. Ohio has most influential conservationists. His most recent book is been home to some of the great- Gene Everlasting: A Contrary Farmer’s Thoughts on Living est African American authors in Forever. (Photo by Ben Barnes) history, from early pioneers like Charles Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Celeste Ng (Shaker Heights) Dunbar to Nobel Prize laureate Toni Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh and Shaker Heights in Morrison and recent National Book a family of scientists. Ng’s debut novel, Everything I Never Award winner Jacqueline Woodson. Told You, was a New York Times bestseller, a New York These and many other writers have Times Notable Book for 2014, and Amazon’s Best Book of brought honor and distinction not 2014. (Photo ©Kevin Day Photography) only to themselves but to Ohio.

Edith Pattou (Columbus) We also have listed books recently Edith Pattou is the author of three award-winning fantasy added to our collection (December novels for young adults as well as the New York Times was a HUGE month for new bestselling picture book Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden. Pattou’s arrivals!) and a calendar of coming newest book is Ghosting, a contemporary novel for young events, including the Poetry adults told in free verse. Out Loud state finals. This is the tenth anniversary for this unique Mike Resnick (Cincinnati) recitation competition, and I am Science fiction writer Mike Resnick holds a record privileged to serve once again thirty-six Hugo Award nominations, including five wins. as master of ceremonies for the Resnick has written sixty-four novels, over 250 short preliminary rounds on March 7. stories, two screenplays, and has edited forty anthologies. His most recent book is The Fortress in Orion. Until next month—here’s hoping Buckeye Chuck was right! Yolonda Tonette Sanders (Columbus) Yolonda Tonette Sanders was born in Sandusky and worked as a researcher for the State of Ohio until she David E. Weaver turned to writing full-time in 2004. Sanders is the author of Executive Director five novels, including Day of Atonement, the latest book in her series featuring fictional detective Troy Evans. Sanders also teaches workshops for beginning writers.

Thrity Umrigar (Cleveland Heights) Thrity Umrigar was born in India and immigrated to the U.S. in 1981 to attend The Ohio State University. Umrigar has written for the Washington Post and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. She has won numerous awards, including the Cleveland Arts Prize and the American Library Association’s Lambda Literary Award for her novel The World We Found. Her seventh and most recent novel is The Story Hour. (Photo ©Robert Muller 2009)

2 Celebrating Black History Month

In celebration of Black History Month, we’re highlighting select books for young people by and about Ohioans that reflect African American experiences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Children’s & Middle Grade Cheng, Andrea. Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet. Lee & Low Books (New York, NY) 2013. HC $17.95. Sometime before 1818, an enslaved young man named Dave was brought to South Carlina’s pottery district, and soon became an expert potter. He also learned to read and write at a time when doing so was punishable by death, and bravely began signing his pieces and adding short poems that reflected his daily life. In simple, powerful verse, Cheng shares his extraordinary story of creative inspiration and courage.

Lewis, J. Patrick. Harlem Hellfighters. Creative Editions (Mankato, MN) 2014. HC $18.99. The 369th Infantry Regiment was known as the “Harlem Hellfighters” due to their ferocity in battle. However, they were equally well known for the regimental band that, under the leadership of James Reese Europe, took the sounds of jazz, blues, and ragtime overseas. This book tells the regiment’s story from training in the deep South and battle in France to their homecoming and Europe’s untimely death in 1919.

Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown Girl Dreaming. Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Young Readers (New York, NY) 2014. HC $16.99. In this collection of free-verse poems, Ohio native Woodson describes what it was like growing up alternately in South Carolina and New York during the 1960s and 1970s. The poems not only describe her feelings of being only “halfway home” in each place, but also share her joy as she discovered writing. Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and the 2015 Coretta Scott King Book Award.

Woodson, Jacqueline. This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration. Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Young Readers (New York, NY) 2013. HC $16.99. This fictional story follows one family that was part of the Great Migration of more than six million African Americans who moved north in search of a better life between the early 1900s and 1970. The titular rope, initially found under a tree in South Carolina, becomes an integral part of the family’s story as it secures their belongings during the move to New York City, initiates a game of jump rope in a new neighborhood, and eventually makes its way back to the little girl who found it, now a grandmother. This Is the Rope is a 2015-2016 Choose to Read Ohio selection.

Young Adult Lewis, J. Patrick and George Ella Lyon. Voices from the March on Washington. Wordsong/Highlights (Honesdale, PA) 2014. HC $15.95. The 1963 March on Washington is described in verse through the eyes of six fictional characters, each with their own reason for attending.

Mitchell, Don. The Freedom Summer Murders. Scholastic Press (New York, NY) 2014. HC $18.99. In June of 1964, a group of volunteers gathered at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, to receive training as part of the Freedom Summer voter registration effort in Mississippi. The murder of three of these volunteers-James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner-became one of the key events of the civil rights movement and led to a forty-one-year search for justice.

3 Hall, Sheryl Smart. Warren G. dramatic rise in “nones”—people NEW BOOKS Harding & the Marion Daily who claim no affiliation with The following books were added to Star: How Newspapering Shaped organized religion, but who are Ohioana’s collection in December. a President. The History Press often nonetheless spiritual. Based Look for them at your local library (Charleston, SC) 2014. PB $19.99. on observation and nearly 100 or bookstore! Ohioan Warren G. Harding spent in-depth interviews, this book nearly four decades as a newspa- explores the views and beliefs of the Nonfiction perman before becoming president. spiritual but not religious. Doane, Randal. Stealing All This book traces Harding’s time at Transmissions: A Secret History the Marion Daily Star and explores Meyers, David et al. Kahiki Supper of The Clash. PM Press (Oakland, how his experiences there shaped Club: A Polynesian Paradise in CA) 2014. PB $15.95. his approach to the presidency. Columbus. American Palate/The This first American history of The History Press (Charleston, SC) Clash not only documents their rise Hoster, Jay. Early Wall Street 1830- 2014. PB $19.99. in the 1970s New York punk scene, 1940: Images of America. Arcadia In 1961, Bill Sapp and Lee Henry but also explores free-form radio, Publishing (Charleston, SC) 2014. opened the Kahiki Supper Club in rock journalism, and the relation- PB $21.99. Columbus with the goal of building ship between music and the written The extensive images in this book a nice Polynesian restaurant. What word. show the evolution of New York’s they created was a celebration of financial district from the early tiki culture with giant Easter Island Elder, D. Rose. Why the Amish nineteenth century through the heads spouting flames, indoor Sing: Songs of Solidarity and Great Depression, and capture not grass huts, and a rainforest with Identity. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press only changing architecture, but also simulated thunderstorms. This (Baltimore, MD) 2014. HC $39.95. changing times. book not only traces the restaurant’s Although singing permeates Amish history until its eventual closing in life, it has been largely unexplored Jones, Richard O. Cincinnati’s 2000, but also includes recipes for by outsiders until now. Author Savage Seamstress: The Shocking some of the club’s signature dishes Elder studied Amish groups in Edythe Klumpp Murder Scandal. and drinks. Wayne and Holmes Counties, Ohio The History Press (Charleston, SC) (the largest concentration of Amish 2014. PB $19.99. Miller, Robert Earnest. World War in the world), using first-hand In the fall of 1958, the charred II Cincinnati: From the Front Lines observation and interviews to learn remains of Cincinnati resident to the Home Front. The History about the role of song in Amish Louise Bergen were discovered. Press (Charleston, SC) 2014. PB history and culture. When Edythe Klumpp (the $19.99. mistress of Bergen’s estranged With text and photographs, Miller Gaffney, Timothy R. The Dayton husband) failed a lie detector test, traces Cincinnati’s evolution from Flight Factory: The Wright Brothers she confessed to the crime and was a “parochial metropolis” at the & the Birth of Aviation. The sentenced to death—despite the start of World War II through food History Press (Charleston, SC) fact that her confession did not fit rationing, air raid drills, and war 2014. PB $19.99. the evidence. The story was a media bond rallies to emerge a changed Author and former aerospace sensation. In this book, author city by the war’s end. journalist Gaffney tells the story Jones separates fact from rumor to of the Wright brothers from a tell the true story of the murder. Oller, John. American Queen: hometown perspective, from The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase their Dayton, Ohio childhoods to Mercadante, Linda A. Belief Sprague, Civil War “Belle of the the establishment of the Dayton Without Borders: Inside the Minds North” and Gilded Age Woman of Aviation Heritage National Historic of the Spiritual but Not Religious. Scandal. Da Capo Press (Boston, Park. Oxford Univ. Press (Oxford, UK) MA) 2014. HC $25.99. 2014. HC $29.95. Kate Chase Sprague, daughter The past two decades have seen a of Abraham Lincoln’s treasury

4 secretary and wife of Rhode Island’s Taxel, Barney, and Laura Taxel. The In this book Zola traces the history handsome and wealthy governor, Lake View Cemetery: Photographs of this relationship using primary was one of the most powerful from Cleveland’s Historic source documents and explores the women in Washington during Landmark. Ringtaw Books/Univ. role American Jews have played in the Civil War. However, an affair of Akron Press (Akron, OH) 2014. preserving Lincoln’s memory for with a married senator ruined her HC $62.95. the nation. reputation and cost her a marriage Photographer Barney Taxel and a fortune. This biography captures both the natural and documents the charisma and human-made beauty of Cleveland’s Fiction ambition of one of the nineteenth Lake View Cemetery in color and Adams, Deanna R. Scoundrels & century’s most interesting women. black-and-white photographs. Dreamers. Soul Mate Publishing (New York, NY) 2014. PB $13.99. Pond, Connie. Follow the Blue Thomas, Don, and Mike Bartell. In this sequel to Peggy Sue Got Blazes: A Guide to Hiking Ohio’s Orbit of Discovery: The All-Ohio Pregnant, rock singer Charlee Buckeye Trail (Second Edition). Space Shuttle Mission. Ringtaw Cambell and her husband are Ohio Univ. Press (Athens, OH) Books/Univ. of Akron Press devastated when their newborn son 2014. PB $26.95. (Akron, OH) 2014. HC $24.95. is kidnapped from the hospital. As The Buckeye Trail, marked by Continuing the tradition of John the years pass, Charlee loses hope distinctive blue blazes on trees Glenn and Neil Armstrong, that she will ever see him again. and signposts along the way, runs Cleveland native Don Thomas However, the boy is close; can through more than 40 of Ohio’s 88 worked hard to achieve his goal Charlee find him as she struggles to counties. The chapters within this of becoming an astronaut. In balance family and fame? guide focus on 100-mile sections 1995 he became part of the “All- of the trail and feature three self- Ohio” mission of the space shuttle Bog, Justin. Hark: A Christmas guided hikes for each section. Discovery. In this book Thomas Collection. Booktrope Editions shares the story of that mission, (Seattle, WA) 2014. PB $10.95. Sego, Bill J. Universal Logic: What from a pre-launch woodpecker This collection of six short stories is the true meaning of life? Native encounter to its landing at Kennedy explores the full range of emotions Ink Press/Ink Smith Publishing Space Center. surrounding the holiday season, (Monrovia, CA) 2014. PB $17.99. from loss and regret to forgiveness “What is the meaning of life?” Zipp, Jean. Windows: Letters to and hope. is one of the most fundamental Ayla. Pinyon Publishing (Montrose, questions humans ask themselves. CO) 2014. PB $17.00. Brown, Duffy. Geared for the In this volume Sego combines These letters from the author to her Grave: A Cycle Path Mystery. philosophical, scientific, great-granddaughter document Berkley Prime Crime (New York, metaphysical, paranormal, and not only her own northern Ohio NY) 2014. PB $7.99. religious insights to explore the childhood, but also a life that has Hoping for a promotion, Evie question. spanned most of the twentieth Bloomfield travels to Mackinac century. Island to help her boss’s father, Snyder, Lucy A. Shooting Yourself Rudy, while he recovers from a in the Head for Fun and Profit: Zola, Gary Phillip. We Called broken leg. When Rudy becomes A Writer’s Survival Guide. Post Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and the prime suspect in a murder, Evie Mortem Press (Cincinnati, OH) American Jewry: A Documentary must clear his name and find the 2014. PB $16.00. History. Southern Illinois Univ. real killer. With a good dose of sharp humor, Press (Carbondale, IL) 2014. HC Snyder walks aspiring writers $49.50. Costa, Shelley. Basil Instinct. through every step of the process, Since the time of Abrahm Lincoln’s Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster from manuscript fundamentals to presidency, American Jews have (New York, NY) 2014. PB $7.99. networking and finding an agent to identified with Lincoln and even When a secret society of female promoting the finished product. considered him one of their own. chefs tries to convince Eve 5 Angelotta’s grandmother to join Helms, Rhonda. Scratch. To meet his deadline and get out their ranks, Eve recruits her cousin Kensington (New York, NY) 2014. unscathed, he’ll have to navigate Landon and friend Joe Beck to find PB $9.95. through witches, demons, the out what’s going on. When Eve’s Since a night that ended in undead—and power tools. own sous chef is found dead with violence, college senior Casey is the society’s tattoo on her wrist, Eve reserved, practical, and determined McFawn, Monica. Bright Shards of ratchets up the investigation before to never again trust the wrong Someplace Else. Univ. of Georgia Nonna becomes the next victim. person. Daniel is the exact opposite: Press (Athens, GA) 2014. HC open, charming, and determined to $24.95. Durkee, R.C. Rum Run. Moonshine break through the walls that Casey The eleven stories in this Flannery Cove Publishing (Abbeville, SC) has put up. Can he convince her to O’Connor Award winner explore 2014. PB $14.95. take a chance? the consequences of misunder- In 1928, Rusty loses both his standing, including how it can deckhand job and his charter boat Lawson, Tracy. Counteract. change one’s view of the world. business. In order to support his Buddhapuss Ink (Edison, NJ) 2014. family, he takes a job with the PB $15.95. Pauwels, C.L. Forty & Out. Deadly Trapani family running illegal Twenty years from now, the Office Writes Publishing (Marble Hill, alcohol from Canada. Although of Civilian Safety and Defense has MO) 2014. PB $14.95. Rusty realizes he is jeopardizing his protected the public from terrorism New homicide detective Veronica marriage and his life, getting out by controlling nearly every aspect Jadzinski is determined to stop a is nearly impossible; he’ll have to of civilian life. Now they are serial killer who is targeting single re-examine not only his principles, offering an antidote against possible women on their fortieth birthday. but his understanding of good and chemical weapons—but what is When the killer targets her sister, evil as well. the price, and who are the real Jadz must heal an old wrong to terrorists? protect those she loves. Flanders, Julie. Polar Day. Ink Smith Publishing (Monrovia, CA) Mackrory, KaraLynne. Haunting Rigney, Mark. Check-Out Time: 2015. PB $15.50. Mr. Darcy: A Spirited Courtship. A Renner & Quist Adventure. In Fairbanks, Alaska, detective Meryton Press (Oysterville, WA) Samhain Publishing (Cincinnati, Danny Fitzpatrick is still recovering 2014. PB $12.95. OH) 2014. PB $15.00. from his near-fatal encounter This spirited adaptation of Pride When Reverend Renner answers with vampire Aleksei Nechayev. and Prejudice takes place following an invitation sent from the long- However, when someone who can the gentlemen’s departure from demolished and ghost-filled Neil conjure fire out of thin air starts Netherfield. After a carriage House hotel, he discovers that burning people alive, Nechayev accident, Elizabeth finds her spirit checking out will be much harder may be the only one who can point transported to Darcy’s London than checking in. Even with the Danny toward the killer. home, where Darcy believes she help of his friend and investigative is a hallucination. Somehow the partner Dale Quist, it will take Glinski, Robert. The Friendship of two must learn to trust and love everything he has to put this hotel Criminals. Minotaur/Macmillan in order to return Elizabeth to her out of business once and for all. (New York, NY) 2015. PB $25.99. body…before it’s too late. When the new leader of Selcer, David M. Muscles, Music Philadelphia’s Italian mob threatens Matulich, Josef. Camp Arcanum. and Murder. Cozy Cat Press Port Richmond’s Polish crime boss, Post Mortem Press (Cincinnati, (Aurora, IL) 2013. PB $14.95. the city’s criminal factions teeter OH) 2014. PB $16.00. Columbus attorney Winston on the brink of war. Glinski’s debut Contractor Marc Sindri has come Barchrist is juggling two high- novel explores the relationships to Arcanum, Ohio, to build a profile cases: his best friend is among criminals that make a Renaissance fair in just seven accused of murdering a Belgian “family.” months. He soon finds himself in bodybuilder during a local a web of magic and conspiracies. competition, and the daughter of

6 a Russian symphony conductor Turner, TJ. Lincoln’s Bodyguard: Lardner, Ted. We Practice for It. has hired him to find out who shot A Novel. Oceanview Publishing Tupelo Press (North Adams, MA) her father during a performance. (Longboat Key, FL) 2015. PB 2014. PB $11.95. As Barchrist investigates, the two $26.95. Many of the poems in this col- cases become intertwined, leading In this revisionist history novel, lection involve both literal and him to some closely guarded—and Abraham Lincoln’s bodyguard, figurative travel, and the revela- dangerous—secrets. Joseph Foster, saves the president’s tions that can come from exploring life and kills John Wilkes Booth seemingly mundane places and Shonkwiler, Eric. Above All Men. one fateful night in Ford’s Theater. events. Winner of the 2014 Sunken MG Press (Ann Arbor, MI) 2014. Instead of a relatively clean end Garden Chapbook Prize. PB $15.00. to the Civil War, the country falls Years from now, the country is into a lingering insurgency. Years slowly dying as crops wither from later, Foster receives a letter from Young Adult drought, oil supplies run low, Lincoln asking for help. If Foster is Drew, Julie. Run: The Tesla Effect and crime increases. When a local successful, he’ll fulfill the presiden’t Book 2. Ring of Fire Publishing child is murdered, war veteran plan, find his own long-lost (Seattle, WA) 2014. PB $13.99. David Parrish must confront his daughter, and—perhaps—restore After surviving time travel, Tesla own demons as he hunts for the peace to the nation. hopes her junior year will have killer and tries to keep his family some semblance of normalcy. together. However, the two boys in her life Poetry are being difficult, and her father Snyder, Lucy A. Soft Apocalypses. Ankney, Christopher. Hearsay. still won’t share information about Raw Dog Screaming (Bowie, MD) Washington Writers’ Publishing her mother’s death. Tesla hopes that 2014. PB $12.95. House (Washington, DC) 2014. PB by jumping back in time again she The fifteen stories in this collection $16.00. can learn what happened to her range from steampunk to science Despite the title, the poems in mother—or better yet, stop it from fiction to horror. Included is this prize-winning collection are happening at all. However, Tesla “Magdala Amygdala,” winner of based on Ankney’s own childhood quickly learns that every action has the 2013 Stoker Award for Superior experiences and the lessons learned consequences… Achievement in Short Fiction. from them. Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Palace Spieles, J.F. Echoes of an Outlaw’s Collins, Martha. Day Unto of Lies. Simon & Schuster BFYR Curse. Black Rose Writing Day: Poems. Milkweed Editions (New York, NY) 2015. PB $17.99. (Castroville, TX) 2014. PB $17.95. (Minneapolis, MN) 2014. PB Princess Desmia was raised amidst After Cam’s mother dies $16.00. palace intrigue and distrust. unexpectedly, he still sees her This volume contains six chapters, Although she and her sisters are everywhere—literally. After each with thirty or thirty-one short now ruling the kingdom as a united confiding in his close friend entries. Part diary and part medita- front, she can’t help suspecting that Maddie, his secret is revealed, tion, the passages reflect on topics trouble lurks nearby. When her and he is placed in a psychiatric ranging from seasons to national suspicions are confirmed, she must ward. Years later, 15-year-old Cam identity to love and death. find the truth and determine the tries to help Maddie when she fate of two kingdoms. begins to show signs of emotional Friebert, Stuart. Floating Heart. disturbance. As Cam confronts Pinyon Publishing (Montrose, CO) Kendall, Gillian Murray. The his memories and journeys with 2014. PB $16.00. Garden of Darkness. Ravenstone/ Maddie to the place of a local The poems in this collection are Rebellion Publishing (Oxford, UK) legend, he discovers that the dead by turns gritty, delightful, and 2014. PB $9.99. keep secrets—and those secrets are disturbing as they “take both poet After the Pest pandemic dec- about to be revealed. and reader to unexpected places.” imates the adult population, cheerleader Clare and chess nerd 7 Jem are thrown together as they Rosen, Michael J. Girls vs. Guys: for Young Readers (Boston, MA) struggle to survive. A mysterious Surprising Differences Between 2014. HC $18.99. adult voice on the radio promises the Sexes. Twenty-First Century America’s national parks not only shelter and a cure. As Clare and Books/Lerner (Minneapolis, MN) welcome more than 270 million Jem travel toward the voice with 2015. HC $33.27. visitors each year, they also contain an ever-growing group of children, Rosen uses scientific research to scientific wonders that cannot be they realize that nothing in this explore how genetics, environment, found anywhere else on the planet. new world can be trusted—except neurology, and physiology all come Author Carson and photographer perhaps friendship. together to shape behavior—and Uhlman share scientific research how that behavior differs in some- taking place in the Yellowstone, Lee, Banie. Sleep Drifter. Ink Smith times unexpected ways. Answers to Saguaro, and Great Smoky Publishing (Monrovia, CA) 2014. questions ranging from “Who has a Mountains National Parks. PB $14.99. better memory?” to “Who is more Camden is a Watcher, tasked likely to get bitten by a mosquito?” Jakubowski, Michele. Snowy Blast: with protecting humans from the will have readers rethinking the Perfectly Poppy. Picture Window Obsidians, who are sealed inside differences between the sexes. Books/Capstone (Mankato, MN) a magical realm. However, the 2014. PB $5.95. door to this realm is vulnerable. Rosen, Michael J. Place Hacking: After the first big snowfall of the Can Camden and his team keep Venturing Off Limits. Twenty- season, Poppy would rather curl the Obsidians from escaping and First Century Books/Lerner up with a good book than venture enslaving humankind? (Minneapolis, MN) 2015. HC outside. With some convincing by $33.32. her mom and her older brother, Lindsey, Julie Anne. Prophesy: “Place hacking” is the practice of Poppy discovers that playing A Calypso Novel. Lyrical Press/ entering and exploring obscure or outside can be fun. This book, Kensington (New York, NY) 2014. prohibited human-made spaces. which is part of a series for early PB $15.00. In this book Rosen takes readers readers, also includes a short Callie’s senior year of high school is around the world as he investigates vocabulary list, writing/discussion focused on swimming and a college the motives behind—and results prompts, and a list of snowy-day scholarship—until she learns that of—this extreme form of urban activities. her cute new neighbor is a Viking. exploration. Suddenly Callie finds herself in Rosen, Michael J. The Maine the middle of a love triangle and a Coon’s Haiku and Other Poems coming apocalypse that only she Middle Grade & Children’s for Cat Lovers. Candlewick Press can stop. Buettner, Gary. Dracula’s Cat: (Somerville, MA) 2015. PB $17.99. Monster Pets Book 1. Emby Kids This illustrated poetry collection Richards, Natalie D. Gone Too Far. 2014. PB $10.99. for cat lovers of all ages contains a Sourcebooks (Naperville, IL) 2015. Seventh-grader Mina is trying to haiku for each of twenty different PB $9.99. expand her pet-sitting business cat breeds. Piper can’t wait to leave her senior to save money for camp. When year—and high school cliques— she ends up watching Dracula’s Springstubb, Tricia. Cody and the behind. Then she finds a notebook cat, Belfry, she gets more than she Fountain of Happiness. Candlewick documenting the sins of her bargained for. (Who knew cats had Press (Somerville, MA) 2015. PB classmates, and its creator makes wings?) It’s a race against time— $14.99. her an offer: together they can and monsters—to find Belfry Although Cody has been eagerly make bullies and others pay for before Dracula gets home. awaiting summer vacation, it’s not their crimes. At first Piper is willing starting out as planned: her parents to avenge the wrongs done by her Carson, Mary Kay. Park Scientists: are busy with work, her brother is classmates. But when does the price Gila Monsters, Geysers, and Grizzly distracted by a girl, and camp is of justice become too high? Bears in America’s Own Backyard. cancelled. Then she meets her new Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books neighbor Spencer, who is looking 8 for his lost cat. A new friend and Stewart, Aileen. Return to Fern a found cat might be the start of a Valley: Another Collection of Short beautiful summer after all. Stories. Tate Publishing (Mustang, OK) 2014. PB $11.99. Springstubb, Tricia. Moonpenny This is the second collection of Island. Balzer + Bray/ short stories featuring Mildred and HarperCollins (New York, NY) Roberta Cornstalk and the other 2015. PB $16.99. animals of Fern Valley. Flor, her family, and her best friend Sylvie live year-round on Tyler, Tara. Broken Branch Falls. tiny Moonpenny Island, a summer Curiosity Quills Press (Reston, VA) vacation spot. At the end of one 2014. PB $14.99. particular summer, however, Sylvie Gabe, a goblin, lives in Broken moves to the mainland, Flor’s Branch Falls—a town where ogres, mother leaves to take care of Flor’s pixies, and dragons are the norm. sick grandmother, and a strange During the first football game of new girl and her father arrive on the year, Gabe and his friends pull the island to study fossils. As Flor a prank on the dragons that literally begins to help them, she learns backfires. To keep the High Council more about herself and those from shutting down not only the around her than she ever imagined. high school but the town itself, Gabe must find their hidden hand- book. Can he save the school, or will he be an outcast forever? Coming Soon

Poetry Out Loud State Finals March 7, 2015, 9:00 a.m., at the Lincoln Theatre, Columbus High school champions from across the state will compete for the chance to represent Ohio in the national POL recitation finals in Washington, D.C. The event is free and open to the public, and is presented by the Ohio Arts Council in partnership with the Ohioana Library, Thurber House, and Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library. For more information, visit www.oac.state.oh.us/events/PoetryOutLoud/.

Ohioana Hamilton County All-Star Authors April 12, 2015, 1:30–4:00 p.m., at the Main Library, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County Book lovers can connect with local authors at the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County in April. Dozens of published writers from Cincinnati and Hamilton County will chat with fans, sign books, and talk about the creative writing process during the annual Ohioana Hamilton County author recognition event from 1:30–4 p.m., Sunday, April 12, at the Main Library, 800 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202.

2015 Ohioana Book Festival April 25, 2015, 10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m., at the Sheraton Columbus on Capitol Square Enjoy panel discussions; a book fair featuring more than 100 Ohio authors; expanded children’s programming, including activities by American Girl® Columbus; food; entertainment; and more in a fun-filled day for readers of all ages. The festival is free and open to the public, with no advance registration required. For details about authors, programming, and additional community events, visit the festival website at www.ohioanabookfestival.org.

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