QUARTERLY SUMMER 2018 | VOL. 61 NO. 3

Collecting, Preserving, and Celebrating Ohio Literature Summer 2018 | 1 Contents QUARTERLY SUMMER 2018

features BOARD OF TRUSTEES EX-OFFICIO Karen Waldbillig Kasich, Columbus 4 A Treasure House in Columbus: ELECTED Theatre History at the Lawrence President: Daniel Shuey, Westerville Vice-President: John Sullivan, Plain City & Lee Secretary: Geoffrey Smith, Columbus Treasurer: Jay Yurkiw, Columbus Ohio Literary Landmarks Gillian Berchowitz, Athens 8 2018 Ohioana Book Award Finalists Rudine Sims Bishop, Columbus Helen F. Bolte, Columbus Katie Brandt, Columbus Lisa Evans, Johnstown Book Reviews Bryan Loar, Columbus Mary Heather Munger, Perrysburg Louise Musser, Delaware 10 Nonfiction Claudia Plumley, Dublin Cynthia Puckett, Columbus 13 Fiction David Siders, Cincinnati Yolanda Danyi Szuch, Perrysburg 14 Poetry Jacquelyn L. Vaughan, Dublin 16 Young Adult APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR OF OHIO Carl Denbow, Ph.D., Athens Carol Garner, Mount Vernon 18 Middle Grade H.C. "Buck" Niehoff, Cincinnati

19 Children’s TRUSTEES EMERITUS Francis Ott Allen, Cincinnati Christina Butler, Ph.D., Columbus Books and Events James Hughes, Ph.D., Dayton George Knepper, Ph.D., Stow Robert Webner, Columbus 20 Book List OHIOANA STAFF 29 Coming Soon Executive Director...... David Weaver Office Manager...... Kathryn Powers Library Specialist...... Courtney Brown Program Coordinator...... Morgan Peters Editor...... Leslie Birdwell Shortlidge Co-Editor...... Stephanie Michaels

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2 | Ohioana Quarterly From the Director

Dear Friends,

“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.”

Those words, spoken by the fictional defense attorney Henry Drummond in the play Inherit the Wind, are also inscribed on the gravestone of one of its two Ohio authors, Elyria's Robert E. Lee. This year marks the centennial of Lee's birth, and in the cover story of this issue we visit the theatre institute at the Ohio State University named for him and his collaborator, Cleveland's Jerome Lawrence, as the latest in our series of Ohio's Literary Landmarks.

I know firsthand of the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute because TRI – as it’s often called – was a great resource for me when I began working twenty years ago on what ultimately would become the book Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy. Elzy, an Ohio State graduate and pioneer African American soprano, created the role of Serena in George Gershwin's immortal folk opera Porgy and Bess in 1935. As it happened, the press agent was a man named Robert Wachsman. His personal papers, photos, and clippings about that 1935 production, housed as part of the Lawrence and Lee collection, were the starting point for my research.

The Wachsman papers are just one small part of what is the richest and most extensive collection of theatre materials to be found anywhere outside New York City. And it is not only the collections, but TRI's programming and events that make it truly an Ohio Literary Landmark. Our special thanks to TRI's Nena Couch and Beth Kattelman for their invaluable help and assistance in preparing the article.

In addition to the cover story, you'll find a list of great books perfect for summer reading. Among them are the thirty finalists for the 77th annual Ohioana Book Awards, which we announced in May. The winners will be On the Cover announced in July, and you'll meet them in the fall issue of the Playwrights Jerome Lawrence Quarterly. and Robert E. Lee at a 1955 rehearsal for Inherit the Wind. Until then, have a wonderful summer – one we hope is filled with Turn the page to read more good times and good books! about the Theatre Research Institute named for them at The Ohio State University. (Photo: Ohioana Library Collection)

David Weaver Executive Director

Summer 2018 | 3 A Treasure House in Columbus: Theatre History at the Lawrence and Lee Ohio Literary Landmarks

by Bryan Loar

The Ohio State University Jerome Lawrence and Robert Czech theatre designs outside the Czech Republic; E. Lee Theatre Research Institute (TRI) is an incredible one of the largest collections of burlesque materials resource for students, faculty, and the public. The institute anywhere; the Bebe Miller Collection from the award- supports its constituents “in journeys of discovery winning dancer and company; several collections on the famous French mime, Marcel Marceau; and the Marthe that lead to new knowledge, scholarship, and creative Armbruster Scenic Studio Collection with vintage works through exploration and deep engagement with scenic drops from what was considered the second extraordinary performing arts resources.” Housing world- largest provider of stage scenery in the country. renowned special collections, the institute is a treasured literary landmark. At the heart of TRI is the personal collection of its two remarkable namesakes. In 1986, the Theatre Research Institute was renamed to honor celebrated, Ohio-born A Collection Sought Worldwide playwrights Jerome Lawrence (1915-2004), himself an Ohio State alumnus, and Robert E. Lee (1918- Established in 1951, the original collection contains 1994). Together, the men created enduring works of microfilm in addition to bibliographies culled from 100 American theatre, including Inherit the Wind, The Night European museums and libraries. Founding Director Thoreau Spent in Jail, Auntie Mame, and its musical John McDowell created an unparalleled survey of transformation, Mame. Their collection, which includes theatre history of 450,000 frame microfilm archives. original scripts, correspondence, and publicity materials, The microfilm provides a glimpse into rare costume and scene designs, documents, playbills, and posters with a focus on the Western world.

Over the years, thanks to several key contributors and families, TRI has acquired extraordinary primary sources including manuscript collections, theatre and dance company archives, costumes, painted drops, scene and costume design scrapbooks, scripts, and models reconstructing important theatrical and technical devices. Rounding out the collection are clippings of reviews, articles, books, brochures, journals, photographs, posters, and programs.

TRI highlights include 1952-1956 Porgy and Bess materials with Maya Angelou, Cab Calloway, George Gershwin, and more; the largest collection of original Elsie Janis, ca. 1915 (Library of Congress)

4 | Ohioana Quarterly documents the extraordinary writing partnership that her debut at the Southern Theatre, entertaining Ohio began with Jerry Lawrence and Bob Lee's very first governor and then President William McKinley, meeting in a New York coffee shop in 1941 and lasted supervising production for Paramount on Parade, until Lee's death more than 50 years later. entertaining World War I troops in France, and becoming a charter member of the American Society Bob Lee's wife, actress Janet of Composers, Authors, and Waldo Lee, was a star in her own Publishers (ASCAP). Highlights right in an unusual medium: of her work and other details are voicing characters for some featured in TRI’s rich archive of television's most beloved of imagery. cartoons. Millions knew her distinct voice as Judy Jetson, Penelope Pitstop, and Josie in Curtiss Show Prints: Josie and the Pussycats. Waldo At the Crossroads Lee died at age 97 in 2016. Materials related to her career, The Curtis Show Print recently donated to TRI by her Collection includes an amazing family, are a rich addition to the array of posters, job tickets, legacy of Lawrence and Lee at ledgers, correspondence, and The Ohio State University. more than 1,200 printing blocks. The collection came into being Researchers worldwide have thanks to the generosity of sought out TRI’s collections, former Curtiss Show Print including TRI Visiting Research owner, the late Nyle Stateler. Fellowship Recipient Mervyn Heard from England. Closer In the early twentieth century, to home in Central Ohio, TRI Ohio was an important has augmented the learning intersection for touring experience for thousands of circus, theater, and minstrel students and faculty. companies. After starting in 1905 under Bill Curtiss, Curtiss Show Print moved to “Do I Come from Ohio? Continental, Ohio, to capitalize By Damn Yes!” on the junction of two major railroad lines. In 1956, Nyle Elsie Janis (1889-1956) was Curtiss Show Print Collection, The Ohio State Stateler and two partners a child actor, vaudevillian, bought the business after University, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee songwriter, performer, director, Curtiss’ death. A few years author, and poet. Her craft Theatre Research Institute. later Stateler became the sole took her across the globe, but owner. Stateler had joined Columbus, Ohio, was always home in her heart. Curtiss Show Print shortly after graduating high school in 1941 and ran the company, using much of the original In collaboration with the Laura M. Mueller British equipment, until 2013. and American Theatre and Film Collections, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and several The collection’s prints are a primary source for important individual contributors, TRI created the 2003 scholarship. Ohio State’s Department of Theatre exhibit, “Some Sort of Somebody”: Ohioan Elsie Janis on successfully used the prints in a course on American the Stage and in the Trenches. While the physical exhibit culture and popular entertainment, and Ohio State’s is no longer showing, an online exhibit continues to Department of Design brought print manager Jim foster exploration and discovery. Sherraden of the famous Hatch Show Print company of Nashville, Tennessee, in for a special lecture using The online exhibit delivers greater understanding of several pieces from the collection. Janis and her career. Biographical highlights include

Summer 2018 | 5 Angels in America; Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune chief theatre critic and Ohio State alumnus; Yanci Bukovec, former stage partner to legendary French mime, Marcel Marceau; and several others.

In the fall of 2018, American actor, director, and screenwriter Theodore “Ted” Lange will visit. Possibly best known for his role as bartender, Isaac Washington, in the 1970s TV series The Love Boat, Lange has also directed popular television shows and written more than twenty plays. His one-man show, Behind the Mask – An The reading room at the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Evening with Paul Laurence Dunbar, played to sold-out Theatre Research Institute. audiences at The Ohio State University and San Jose State University. Lange has donated more than 100 boxes of posters, photographs, scripts, production files, Programs Encourage Discovery & Creation correspondence, and audio-visual materials to TRI.

By celebrating excellence, hosting guest lecturers, and Research Awards providing research awards, the institute inspires further TRI’s awards help to create new knowledge, scholarship, research and new works. and creative works. The institute awards up to $3,000 through the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Margo Jones Award Research Institute Research Award and another $3,000 The Margo Jones Medal annually honors “that citizen- through the Irwin and Jane Spector Research Award. of-the-theatre who has demonstrated a significant While the latter focuses on TRI’s holdings on Dalcroze impact, understanding, and affirmation of the craft Eurhythmics, a particular approach to music education of playwriting, with a lifetime commitment to the using rhythmic movement and other techniques, the TRI encouragement of the living theatre everywhere.” Research Award supports research in the performing arts. Two TRI Research Award highlights include Bianca Margo Jones (1912-1955) revolutionized American Sams and Dr. Mervyn Heard. theatre through her own company and consequently launched the American professional regional theatre Bianca Sams is an actor, writer, producer, and movement. She championed burgeoning playwrights and graduate of New York University’s Tisch School and new plays, including Tennessee Williams's Summer and Ohio University’s Master of Fine Arts program in Smoke and Lawrence and Lee's Inherit the Wind. playwriting. While studying at Ohio University, she worked closely with TRI and their rich Porgy and Bess In April 2018, playwright Paula Vogel became the latest special collections. The important collections focus on medal recipient. Vogel has written on themes of sexual the Robert Breen-Blevins Davis production of Porgy abuse, terminal illness, prostitution, and troubled and Bess that toured from 1952-56 in the United States, veterans. Her latest play, Indecent, premiered in 2017. Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin The play explores Jewish identity, immigration, and America. Materials include photos of Maya Angelou, self-censorship, and it was born out of concerns over the Cab Calloway, and many more, as well as Director Robert rise of hate speech and anti-immigration rhetoric. Vogel Breen’s papers. By studying this rich archive, Bianca has also been praised for her strong commitment to Sams created her own full-length play, Just Porgy, which nurturing new playwrights. examines the racism and segregation actors and creative teams faced in the 1950s. Based on her research, Sams Lectures also publicly lectured on “Using ‘Found Stories’ TRI’s lecture series invites leading figures in theatre to as Inspiration.” share their experiences and wisdom. Lecturers come from all areas of theatre, including playwrights, critics, The late British author and magic lantern scholar, Dr. directors, costume and lighting designers, and more, Mervyn Heard, was also an accomplished lanternist who and each is connected with the collection or university. performed around the world, including the Royal Opera Notable lecturers include Tony Kushner, playwright of House and the Tate Britain. In 2013, Dr. Heard must

6 | Ohioana Quarterly have loved being immersed in hand-painted sceneries and pose lantern slides within TRI’s Joel E. Rubin Collection. Named after Dr. Joel Rubin, a respected specialist in theatre lighting, planning, and equipment, the collection contains photographs, sales catalogs, brochures, microfilm, calendars, and glass slides. Dr. Rubin was executive vice president for more than twenty years at Kiegl Brothers Lighting, a company made famous for their innovations in the 1930s. Dr. Heard’s research led directly to an article published in Theatre Design and Technology, a publication of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. The article centered on TRI’s pose plastique glass slide collection, one of the largest in the world.

Just Scratching the Surface

The special collections at the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute represent the depth of human creativity while contextualizing American and world history. Many of the individual collections within the institute shed light on topics both broad and narrow, and are abundant enough to deserve their own book. Researchers have ample material to explore contemporary gender identity, pop culture, and the Harlem Renaissance’s centennial for many years to come. But you don’t need to be part of Ohio State or a professional scholar to visit. As part of a land- grant university with a mission to create knowledge to improve the well-being of Ohio and beyond, TRI encourages you to reach out, plan a visit, and see for yourself. You will be amazed.

Special thanks to Ohio State Head of Special Collections Nena Couch and Curator Beth Kattelman. Their knowledge of TRI, appreciation of donors, and excitement over connecting TRI with a broad community are truly inspiring.

The Ohio State University. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute. Joel E. Rubin Collection. Glass magic lantern slides. Hand-painted Kliegl Bros. "pose" slides. JOR.3.1.11. Slide A28 (top); JOR.3.1.35. Slide A84 (middle); JOR.3.1.39. Slide B3 (bottom).

Summer 2018 | 7 2018 Ohioana Book Award Finalists

For lovers of reading, no summer is complete without Three authors are finalists for their debut books, while delving into some great books, and here are thirty that eight are past Ohioana Award winners. One finalist is the should definitely be on your list: the 2018 Ohioana Book son of the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who received Award finalists! the very first Ohioana Award in 1942.

First given in 1942, the Ohioana Book Awards are the We’ll announce the juried book award winners in July, second oldest state literary prizes in the nation and hon- and also the winner of the third annual Readers’ Choice or outstanding books in six categories by Ohio authors or Award, selected in an online poll in June. The awards about Ohio subjects. will be presented at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on Thursday, October 18. You’ll be reading more about all The year's finalists include a Pulitzer Prize and National the winners m the fall issue of the Ohioana Quarterly! Book Award winner; a winner of the Newbery Medal; recipients of Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships; a final- The finalists are: ist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; winners of the IPPY, Massachusetts Book, Lambda Literary, and Spur Awards; and two recipients of the Cleveland Arts Prize.

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Jeffrey Ford Ruth Emmie Lang Celeste Ng Robert Olmstead Thrity Umrigar NONFICTION

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Bob Batchelor Gene Logsdon Brad Ricca Deanne Stillman

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Brian Alexander Jonathan Blunk Ron Chernow Robert W. Merry James Reston Jr.

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Ruth Awad Kathy Fagan Sarah Rose Nordgren Allison Pitinii Davis Maggie Smith JUVENILE LITERATURE

Drew Daywalt Mary Kay Carson Sally Derby Adam Rex Shawn Dougherty Cynthia Rylant MIDDLE GRADE/YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Tamara Bundy Erin McCahan Margaret Rogerson Julie K. Rubini Tricia Springstubb

Summer 2018 | 9 Book Reviews

NONFICTION Eisenhower’s modern Interstate system came into play. These pictures of cars, old tourist spots, charming Gerkin, Cindy L. Marking the Miles bridges, and now-changed cityscapes never get old. It’s especially fun to look for familiar streets and byways Along the National Road Through Ohio: and compare the images from the past with what we can A Survey of Old Stone Mile Markers on see now. Ohio’s National Road. Muskingum Valley Archaeological Survey (Zanesville, OH) And Ms. Gerkin’s sharp eyes have spotted the old stone markers that shared the photographer’s frame when 2015. PB $45.00. the original pictures were taken. The road markers are Have you ever wanted to travel humble; nothing that anyone would have noticed at the back in time? To see the rise and time. But there they stand in the photos, like a forgotten swell of the landscape as it was relative in a family portrait; short ghosts standing rather than it is now, dominated sentinel on pathways we still travel. by housing developments, This detailed book considers design and material as well shopping outlets, and strip malls? as the reconstruction and placement of new markers to Of course, we have convenience continue to honor the heritage. now when we drive – and speed. People make fifty-mile round- REVIEWED BY Leslie Birdwell Shortlidge, Ohioana Quarterly editor trip commutes every day and think nothing of it. But back when distances were marked by great stone monoliths, Leeke, Jim. From the Dugouts to the crossing the miles was a bit more of an undertaking. Trenches: Baseball During the Great War. University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE) 2017. You can travel back in time in Ohio with Cindy L. HB $32.95. Gerkin’s comprehensive listing of the stone mile markers on the old National Road, known variously over The first active major league the years as State Route 1 or Route 40, but nowadays as baseball player to enlist in the the thing left behind by I-70. army for World War I was Henry Gowdy, from Columbus, Ohio, who More than a catalogue, Marking the Miles is a journey you can hold in your hands, east to west. It’s also a played for the Boston Braves. His tribute to the skilled artisans and civic-minded baseball feats paled in comparison Ohioans of days past who worked to make to the act that turned him into an transportation possible. instant war hero. That’s just one of the stories in From the Dugouts to Our Ohio marking system began in Cumberland, the Trenches: Baseball During the Maryland, at a spot now commemorated by a Zero Mile Great War by Jim Leeke, who has Marker – a tall stone obelisk that sits across the street deeply researched an overlooked from the original point from which all subsequent miles area of baseball history. were measured. And that’s why the markers all bore the name CUMBERLAND on the top as a point of reference, Leeke has written other books on the sport, weaving followed by the number of miles away from that point. baseball into the history of our times. America was at war with Germany and its war-partners during 1917- Ms. Gerkin has collected and reproduced a bounty of old 1919, years that were very disruptive to professional post cards that illustrate the road long before President baseball, as well as the rest of the country.

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He takes us through the war years, month after month Some owners of huge plants began their own baseball as the magnates – as those professionally rich men who leagues, such as the Steel League, hoping to get owned the ball clubs were called – struggled to appear ballplayers to come and play for them, theoretically patriotic even as most were reluctant to urge their offering them jobs that didn’t conflict with their players to enlist, as they wanted to keep playing a quality baseball orientation. team that people would pay to see. At the beginning of the war, many players felt it their responsibility to In May of 1918, the military brass passed a new draft fight for their country. The nation cheered for these resolution that stated that all able-bodied men must special ballplayers who were in the first wave of “work or fight,” as it became known. It was aimed enlistees, before the draft was instituted. The American particularly at street bums, racetrack regulars, pool hall League responded to the crisis and demonstrated their habitués, and other men not gainfully employed, but patriotism by having each team sponsor military drills who were healthy enough to work or fight. As baseball for their players, so that the athletes would be ready for players were in a “non-essential” business, they became a possible call-to-duty. The public loved it, donating subject to the draft. heavily by buying Liberty Bonds. Baseball owners were worried that if their players were Leeke describes the stunts and gimmicks performed subject to this new edict, their teams would be gutted, before games to get the crowd to donate, though one for most players were over 21 and under 31 and in good effort turned tragic when a biplane was hired to swoop physical condition. The leagues hoped for a baseball down 500 feet over the stands and drop baseballs exemption, but failed to receive it after drawn-out, attached to Liberty Bond posters. Unfortunately, two contentious deliberations. Teams lost the majority of baseballs caught in the controls and caused the plane to their players to the war plants or uniforms, thus diluting crash nearby. This book is full of small details that flesh the quality of the games. out the big story of baseball’s efforts to be both patriotic The previously strong minor league system of baseball and financially viable. was in far worse condition. Leeke is adept at describing Clark Griffith, the owner/manager of the Washington the travails each club faced and the consequences to the Senators, shipped tons of baseball equipment to bases leagues. At all levels of the minors, teams collapsed and in France, having raised much of the cost with a Bats leagues shut down for lack of players, as well as lack of and Ball Fund collected during major league games. The public support. first load of bats, balls, and gloves sank to the bottom of Crowds dwindled as people working in war-support the Atlantic when the ship was torpedoed by a German industries had less leisure time, and those fans of minor submarine. But Griffith persisted, sending another huge league teams began attending the industrial league shipment of equipment to the boys “over there.” games, whose teams had seduced some good players Soldiers were urged to play ball while overseas, an away from the minors, offering a better game than the activity promoted by military leaders and the YMCA remaining depleted minor league teams. to give the soldiers a recreational outlet from the war. This book sports an index and period black and white Eventually baseball became so popular among military photos. It also features a love of and a fascination with personnel that at one time thirty teams – composed baseball. Combined with a strong sense of placing mostly of rear-echelon players – were outfitted by baseball in American history, it’s an interesting read. Griffiths’ Bat and Ball Fund to encourage participation. Eight teams in England played in the successful and REVIEWED BY George Cowmeadow Bauman, bookseller emeritus wildly popular Anglo-American Baseball League, all composed of military personnel.

But as the war deepened, the effects were felt back home. Badly needed were men in two areas: soldiering overseas or working in domestic industrial plants that supported the war effort.

Summer 2018 | 11 BOOK REVIEWS | NONFICTION

Olszewski, Edward J. Claes Oldenburg temporary rejection, 4) the relocation, 5) the reworking and Coosje van Bruggen, Cleveland’s of the meaning, and 6) the eventual acceptance. Shortly after the contract was signed, Sohio was Free Stamp. bought by British Petroleum (BP) which resulted in a Ohio University Press (Athens, OH) 2017. HB $69.95. reorganization of executives, some of whom were not in agreement with the project. After much controversy, If you’ve seen the oversized the project was turned over to the city of Cleveland and rubber stamp sculpture, Free the public. Stamp, in Cleveland, Ohio, and wondered how it came to be, When Free Stamp moved to the public sector, it was you will enjoy reading Edward met with harsh judgement and criticism. In Cleveland, Olszewski’s Claes Oldenburg as is many American cities during this era, outdoor art and Coosje van Bruggen, “appeared” in town squares without a public voice in Cleveland’s Free Stamp. The the process or the outcome. Once the public was given author is emeritus professor a voice on this project, they exercised it! This section of of art history at Case Western the book is particularly enlightening, as it explores how Reserve University in Cleveland, the controversy of the Free Stamp sculpture typifies Ohio. While the goal of Olszewski’s book is to educate the dilemma of “artistic freedom” in a public space, and enlighten the reader about the importance of the especially across a global landscape. The sculptors’ sculpture and the long process involved in bringing this choice to use the word “FREE” on the stamp contains work to the public, it is a remarkably concise and well- multiple references and contributed to the controversy. written book. Since the sculpture sits near City Hall, some see it as a statement of government “rubber stamping” business- Olszewski traces the history of the Free Stamp government ventures. Others say it is the first thing an sculpture, turning the story into a fascinating read. immigrant sees after leaving City Hall, reinforcing the It not only provides a background into the artists, the notion of “freedom.” During a symposium in Cleveland, genre of Pop Art and public works, it delves into the the artists were tasked with defending the choice of the debates that surrounded the acceptance and installation word as well as the choice of the object itself. of the sculpture. For a public work of art to be accepted, it needs to Beginning with the original contract in 1985, the conform to community standards. Often the community internationally known artists and the Sohio Oil needs to be brought along in the process so that Company entered into an agreement to build a sculpture they reach a common understanding or needs to be outside their new headquarters at the Public Square educated about the artists’ intent and meaning. Over in downtown Cleveland. It was neither a complicated time, the Cleveland community has come to reach this project nor technically difficult to build. Getting the understanding and the controversy has melted away. contract involved little discussion, very few sketches and models, and yet, ironically, it became one of the Claes Oldenburg is known for his earlier works, the artists’ most controversial projects and took the longest soft sculptures, which can be found in many of the amount of time to complete. It was eventually built world’s finest museums. But he is best known for his in 1992. It moved from the Public Square downtown numerous installations in public spaces. He has a public to Willard Park, near City Hall. It began as a private, sculpture in nearly every important city in the world. corporate sponsored commission and ended as a public Today, Cleveland’s Free Stamp sculpture is considered art project. The design of the sculpture changed from an among Oldenburg’s finest works. It seems probable that upright generic rubber stamp to one that is tipped, tilted Olszewski’s book will elevate Cleveland’s sculpture to an on its side, displaying the word “FREE.” even higher place of recognition in the world of art. Olszewski’s book covers the phases that marked REVIEWED BY Peg Barga, Ohio educator and artist these controversies and changes. He explains 1) the commission, 2) the artistic collaboration, 3) the

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Westin Art Gallery (Alice F. and Harris K. a distinctive Ohio-based artist who is finding his place Westin). Signature Scheurer: The Art of among the more notable American artists and especially among those from Ohio. Michael Scheurer. The Avery Group at Shapco Printing Inc. (Minneapolis, REVIEWED BY Peg Barga, Ohio educator and artist MN) 2017. Artist Michael Scheurer has FICTION long been a Cincinnati favorite, though his work throughout his Strawser, Jessica. Not career has been shown in galleries and held in private collections That I Could Tell. from the Midwest to California St. Martin’s Press (New York, NY) to Sydney, Australia. The book, 2018. HC $26.99. Signature Scheurer: The Art of Michael Scheurer, serves as Monday morning dawns with a guide to understanding the blue skies and nice weather and, breadth and depth of his work after a ‘girls only’ neighborhood as presented by the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, gathering, one of the women, Ohio. The book is a monograph of the retrospective Kristin, is missing. She’s not just exhibit curated by the Westin Art Gallery and held in the missing but gone, disappeared Aronoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati from April 28 without a trace, taking her life and children with her. through June 18, 2017. Thus begins Jessica Strawser’s second book, Not That I Could Tell. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Michael Scheurer studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in his youth The hunt is on for Kristin and her twins after her soon- and earned his undergraduate degree from Xavier to-be ex realizes she’s gone. No one can remember the University. Later, he earned a degree in textile design at tail end of the party except that they were drinking a the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. lot and woke to a miserable, rainy, Ohio Sunday. The During these years, he lived in Manhattan, worked in the neighborhood is alerted and the women of the two Soho area, and acquired a life-long interest in antiques closest houses, Izzy and, most especially, Clara, spend and art. While developing his career as a collage artist the rest of the book trying to piece together the clues and lithographer, he also became a collector and and their knowledge of Kristin. connoisseur of antique textiles, exotic woven carpets, The police put in a good effort, questioning everyone, and modern and contemporary art. digging into lives, and cataloging the habits and actions Based in Cincinnati, he has produced art for many years of neighbors, particularly the almost-ex, Paul, who’s and continues to amaze and enchant his fans with highly moved back into Kristin’s house. imaginative and surreal collages and assemblages. His The plot is convoluted, and Kristin’s actions are unclear. work, at times, contains direct reflections of art history Almost every chapter begins with an italicized section and is always strongly grounded in pure design. He that appears to be Kristin’s ruminations, comments, often incorporates found objects that clearly illustrate diary, or… it’s not clear. Suffice it to say, Kristin is only the influence of the Surrealists on his work. His a character we hear being talked about; she isn’t there. compositions and surface textural qualities reflect the On the other hand, Clara and Izzy are the two most vocal sensibilities of the Cubists. and prominent characters who seek answers. Clara is As an avid collector of such unique objects as posters, particularly vigilant. The neighbors keep a better eye vintage beads, and cultural artifacts, he often embeds on one another and neighborhood happenings. Paul’s these elements within his compositions, elevating them continued presence is noticed by all, and they begin to to positions of honor within his work. Mr. Scheurer is wonder if he made his wife and children disappear.

Summer 2018 | 13 BOOK REVIEWS | FICTION & POETRY

While the plot was like her first book,Almost Missed Yocum uses his years as an investigative reporter for You, the tension in this one is better and the mystery the Columbus Dispatch to build plausibility into his more intense. tales of murder. He sets the stories in the small, dying towns along the Ohio River, places where he grew up I liked the fact that you really weren't certain if Kristin and had boyhood adventures. When Yocum talks about and her children were dead or had just disappeared. In his books, he also tells tales of life in small towns where fact, you don't know until the very, very end. The story everyone knows one another and where excelling high otherwise is about neighbors, friendship, and trust. school sports is the way to get out. By the way, most REVIEWED BY Miriam Kahn, Librarian of his characters play sports and talk about their best passes, pitches, and runs, even as grizzled old men.

Yocum, Robin. A Welcome Murder. Yocum brings small-town life in a rust-belt city to life. Seventh Street Books (Amherst, NY) 2017. PB $15.95. Told from five different first person perspectives, you can hear each character speak as they “jump” off the Columbus, Ohio author Robin page. As the plot twists and turns, you'll find yourself Yocum has another hit on his entangled in deception, misdirection, and disbelief. The hands. This penultimate book ending will surprise you, as any good mystery should. released last year features Johnny Earl, former high school baseball Look for Yocum's current book, A Perfect Shot, the last star, who suffers from poor luck book in this trilogy that began with A Brilliant Death. after his ill-fated baseball career. REVIEWED BY Miriam Kahn, Librarian After suffering an injured knee during his stint in professional baseball, Johnny Earl turns to the “get rich quick scheme” of POETRY selling cocaine. Of course, he gets caught. Earl serves seven years in prison then returns to Andrews, Nin. Miss August. Steubenville, Ohio. He plans to dig up his money stash, Cavankerry Press (Fort Lee, NJ) 2017. PB $16.00. then beat it to points unknown. Of course, his plans go nowhere as one thing after another happens. Two contemporary poetry books come to mind when I think of First, Rayce Daubner, an FBI informant, is murdered, solid thematic concepts – stories and Earl is picked up for questioning; then his crazy in verse that have sucked me cellmate, who is a white supremacist, turns up to take in, kept me on the edge of my Earl’s money. Nothing seems to go right for Earl. seat, or been real page turners: Intertwined in Earl’s tale are four other characters: Jeffrey Harrison’sIncomplete Sheriff Francis Roberson, his wife, Allison, Matthew Knowledge (Four Way Books, Vincent “Smoochie” Xenakis, and his wife Dena Marie 2006) and Martha Silano’s Blue Conchek Androski Xenakis. Dena Marie is madly in love Positive (Steel Toe Books, 2006). with Johnny Earl and has few social boundaries when it Harrison explores, among many comes to men. emotions, a human helplessness when reckoning with a brother’s suicide. I only truly The five characters tell this tale, weaving back and appreciate Part One of the book when I enter the forth between the past and the murder of Daubner. It’s a anguish of Part Two. I feel the same with Silano. I enter toss-up as to who has the best motive for murdering the the book as a clueless male with no idea, embarrassingly, lying, nasty, blackmailing, abusive Daubner. Yocum sets what blue positive could be referring to and continue to up this mystery so readers will scratch their heads and lean forward with jaw dropped until finally, in the end, wonder who did it. And the answer isn’t clear even at the I’m able to regain a greater sense of empathy. end because everyone has a motive to murder the guy.

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That’s why I read poetry – the genre that can surprise The other masterstroke is the architecture of her work. me or pull an emotion right out of my chest and at the Within poems, like “Caleb Johnson’s Grandfather,” lines same time force me to reckon with who I am. are slowly placed to build a structure of anticipation. The early poems themselves, from sections one and Cue Miss August’s entrance. Nin Andrews, again, has two, rely on each other, building a foundation that encouraged me to be a better man. In a social climate supports the wonder that is the last three sections of of #MeToo, as a white male, I feel awkward entering Miss August. Andrews not only cares about the brick, the conversations. I fear the notion that whatever I say but she seems to be conscious of the mortar – the spaces might be the wrong thing to say, might be the privileged between words, the spaces between lines, and the spaces white male thing to say. Andrews has been able to sit me between poems. Everything counts and every detail down, twice, and with a smile say, “just listen – all you lives in relationship with one another. Andrews is a poet have to do right now is listen, really listen.” with an interest in God, and her greatest curiosity to Andrews follows up her award-winning book, Why God understand God is her own acceptance as Nin Andrews Is a Woman, with another contemporary masterpiece. the book creator. Not only does Andrews prove herself a modern master The story’s secrets and darkness continue to expose of prose poems, but she does so by writing from the themselves, from “Them Parties” through “Sara Jane’s first-person perspectives of three complex characters: Swimsuit,” “Tadpoles,” and “Life after Death.” By the May Dee, Gil, and Sarah Jane. Descriptions of these end I felt I had listened, and I felt I had listened well. characters are usually necessary from reviewer to The pain of the American black experience. The pain potential reader. Here, I refrain. The mystery and of the American women’s experience. The pain of the evolution of these three Southerners growing and American LGBTQ experience. struggling through the 1950s and 1960s is the adventure, joy, and horror of reading Miss August. To label Miss August is authentic and it doesn’t flinch. Miss Andrews’s creation would be to cheapen the reading August can do what elections and political parties and experience. Nonetheless, the detail, voice, and reserved the current American landscape seem to fail at doing anguish of the three characters create an instant – to educate us about the marginalized; to exalt empathy. connection and an accessibility to the Southern world I REVIEWED BY J. M. Green, writer and librarian, haven’t felt since I was a kid reading Truman Capote. Xavier University The first masterstroke I noticed from Andrews’s writing was her, what I referred to in my head, one-line zingers. Bentley, Roy. Walking with Eve in the As I fell into a meditation of wonderful dialogue and the Loved City. innocent rhythms of storytelling, Andrews would warn University of Arkansas Press (Fayetteville, AR) 2018. me that I should prepare for the darkness ahead. Mae PB $17.95. Dee narrated “The Day You [Gil] Was Born” and as I connect to the miraculous visual of a child’s birth, Mae If ever “heaven on earth” served Dee says, “I thinks to myself, That baby done changed as a controlling metaphor for a his mind. He gone on back to God. Just like them other poetry collection, Walking with babies done.” In the next poem “My Story,” Gil describes Eve in the Loved City is that his dull days with “My pony, Annabel, that I didn’t ride.” collection. Along with being one In “Meeting Sarah Jane,” Gil introduces his father and of the best poetry collection titles when Gil says, “My father always made children and of 2018, Roy Bentley’s latest book colored folks sit in the back seat,” I wasn’t surprised. is a testament to heaven and Of course, racism will be a theme. A few lines later Gil earth co-existing simultaneously says, “he was always trying to make me play with boys or “...this unknown buried in the and calling me a sissy.” This turn, for me, was not so known,” as fellow Appalachian obvious and that’s when I had to know how this story poet Irene McKinney refers to it. ends. These “zingers” aren’t forced – they are organic interruptions in the middle of deep meditations.

Summer 2018 | 15 BOOK REVIEWS | POETRY & YOUNG ADULT

From the very first, the poems bring together the YOUNG ADULT sacred and the profane: a dove lands in Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant’s hand at a concert; a seductive Eve “[holds] the keys to the kingdom” in the book’s title Hager, Krysten Lindsay. Dating the poem; a suspended Florida State quarterback insists It Guy. that he’s God; among many other instances throughout Clean Reads, 2017. PB $17.99. the book. But more than juxtaposing the sacred and profane, the poems accomplish a task that Bentley aptly Oh, the world is fraught with both describes near the end of “God Shows Up in Iowa”: friends who are true and faithful and those who will do everything ….There’s a word— to undermine your happiness that word is godding—for elevating the everyday to the and life. Dating the It Guy proves status of divine. that some things never change, And maybe that’s what I’m doing…. particularly in the love and friendship stage of life. Finding There’s no “maybe” about it. In fact, one of Bentley’s your “right” partner and friends most noticeable gifts, as the book’s flap copy points out, is always exciting and scary at the is “using the power of narrative…to highlight how people same time, and that’s what Emme matter”—itself a form of “godding.” and Brendon must come to realize.

Readers of the Dayton, Ohio, native’s previous Emme's “right” guy is Brendon, the IT guy for her high collections—Boy in a Boat, Any One Man, The Trouble school. She's a sophomore, he's a senior. She has a lot on with a Short Horse in Montana, and Starlight Taxi—will her mind, including a grandma whose health is failing recognize many of the people and places in Walking and a grandpa whose dementia is getting worse. He's with Eve in the Loved City: Bentley’s ancestors; Dayton’s the senator's son, handsome, of course, and has girls Comanche Drive; Sonny and Bobby Osborne; Roy’s Shell fawning and falling all over him. Through thick and thin, Station; Jupiter, Florida; and Fleming-Neon, Kentucky. good days and some pretty tough experiences, Emme All are elevated through the loving crucible of memory and Brendon must learn how to communicate and trust. and language to divine status. Can they stay together???

And if heaven and earth share the same real estate in Emme has more than Brendon on her plate. She’s shaky Bentley’s poems, so, too, do the dead and the living. on trust since her last boyfriend was also dating his ex They intermingle in the memory, in the body, and on at the same time. Top that off with two girlfriends, one the page—or sometimes mystically switch places, as in trustworthy and one who loves to play mind games. “Black Radio”: “Maybe we’re dead and the trespass of Emme has some male friends who are genuine friends living rises like so much smoke.” and just want to be there for her. As if Emme wasn’t Roy Bentley’s carefully crafted but accessible poems are stressed out enough, her grandma has a stroke. It’s a convincing proof that all poetry may be posthumous, in tight-knit family that’s supportive and loving through all that a poem attempts to embody the unknown—another the emotional stress. What Emme needs is a boyfriend word for death. Bentley carries that one step further in she can trust who is also caring and thoughtful. “Astonished Man,” which reckons with a soul becoming Brendon, the senator’s son, takes on a lot of visible as it passes from this realm to the next. The last responsibilities, and he’s always in the spotlight. He’s lines of this poem could stand as a perfect definition hooked on Emme yet pulled in many directions, as he’s for both poetry and the act of creation: the “fact/of that overcommitted at school and with his father’s career. display forcing eyes to open, at least one/truth given a Can he make time for Emme? Why does he spend so context it lacked until that instant.” much time with his ex-girlfriend? Of course, there’s Walking with Eve in the Loved City is just such a display. drama in Brendon’s life, too, but it plays a lesser role in this tale. REVIEWED BY Kate Fox, poet and writer

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Hager takes her time with this tale, letting the Revolt, which is the fourth book in the Resistance series, characters work out their emotions and their trust is mesmerizing. I haven’t read the first three books issues. It’s an emotional book about life, life for dating in the series, but I was still able to understand the teens, and about family. There's a lot of teenage angst plot of the fourth book because of the flashbacks that but maybe that's normal angst when you meet the the author included. It is well-written, with amazing “right” guy. Hager’s writing pulls you into the story and descriptions. Sometimes it was poignant, and other the characters. Readers of any age will relate to stressful times it was exuberant. Because of off-color language, relationships, love, loss, and friendship. I would recommend this book to older readers who are allowed to watch PG-13 movies, but overall, it was While the genre is romance (no sex), the secondary extremely enjoyable. themes are trust, family, and relationships. This book is perfect for teens. REVIEWED BY Isabella McIntyre, Ms. Kessler’s Class, Form IV, Columbus School for Girls REVIEWED BY Miriam Kahn, Librarian McCahan, Erin. The Lake Effect. Lawson, Tracy. Revolt: Book Four in the Dial Books (New York, NY) 2017. HC $17.99. Resistance Series. DysCovered Publishing, 2017. PB $12.95. It’s the summer after Briggs Henry’s senior year of high In the future, a corrupted scientist school, and he’s landed a job has created a company called the near one of his favorite places OCSD that is so powerful even in the world – the shore of Lake the government has a hard time Michigan. The job is being a changing it. Madalyn Davis, the live-in personal assistant for the owner and creator of the OCSD, elderly Mrs. Bozhitch, or Mrs. has made it her personal mission B for short. Briggs imagines a to get everybody linked. A link is summer full of enjoying the lake a tracking device that she created water, summer sun, and Mrs. B’s for children, but she also wants extravagant, waterfront Victorian to use it on adults. The opposing mansion. What Briggs comes to realize when he starts side is called the Resistance. Will is that Mrs. B is not like the other senior citizens he’s the Resistance be able to stop the link, or will everybody used to – especially not like his stuffy Grandma Ruth. have to live under the control of the OCSD? Soon enough, Briggs is escorting Mrs. B to a seemingly endless series of funerals, helping her find the perfect As the story begins, Carreen Catcher is under the paint color for her upstairs bedrooms, and discovering impression that her former love, Tom Bailey, is the just how much he genuinely enjoys her company. Briggs enemy. Carreen has just escaped from being tortured by gets more than he bargained for outside of his job, too, the OCSD. Atari is with Carreen and Tom, but is hiding while he navigates issues with his family at home, the knowledge that he can control the link. Jaycee is and grows closer to Mrs. B’s mysterious and beautiful with a resistance member named Lara, who is a friend neighbor Abigail. of Jaycee’s mom, so Jaycee convinces Lara to tell her where her mother is. Lara tells her and says that Jaycee The Lake Effect is an enjoyable read from start to finish. will be able to meet her in the morning. After Jaycee It’s full of charm, wit, and unexpected sweetness. Briggs meets her mother, she still wants to see more of her. So, is a young man who has been focused on wealth and even after Lara’s warning, Jaycee visits her mother, but stability ever since weathering his parent’s financial she gets caught by a marshal and ends up getting linked. troubles while he was in middle school. He is always Tom is earning Careen’s trust and is beginning to realize finding a new job or hobby to occupy his time and help that Atari is evil. When they confront Atari about it, he him get ahead in life. But as Briggs’ love of the lakeshore shoots Tom and activates the link. implies, there’s a part of him that really enjoys the simpler things in life, as well. With the help of Abigail,

Summer 2018 | 17 BOOK REVIEWS | YOUNG ADULT, MIDDLE GRADE & CHILDREN'S

Mrs. B, and a collection of lively friends that Briggs Overall In Over Their Heads is a great book. I would makes at the shore, he starts to realize there might be recommend it to ages eight and up, and to anyone who more to life than having a high earning potential. loves science-fiction.

The Lake Effect really shines when it comes to REVIEWED BY Colleen Hernon, Form IV, Columbus School for Girls characterization. Many of the book’s best moments come when Briggs is conversing with the spunky Mrs. B, or his independent and seemingly hardened Grandmother Libenson, Terri. Invisible Emmie. Ruth. The focus of the story – that happiness and value Balzer & Bray (New York, NY) 2017. PB $10.99. come from places and situations you don’t expect – is realistically and wonderfully crafted. Briggs’ journey It was the best of times, it was the of self-discovery is a believable one and is a lot of fun to worst of times – at least for two follow. Familial relationships, as well as friendship and polar-opposite girls at Lakefront blossoming romance, are handled very tenderly, in a way Middle School. Katie is the most that many readers will be able to identify with. The Lake popular girl in seventh grade, Effect is a wonderful, feel-good read, perfect to take along with great looks, perfect grades, for a day on the beach. and a personality that wins over everyone she meets. She’s also REVIEWED BY Morgan Peters, Ohioana everything that shy, quiet Emmie program coordinator wants to be. For Emmie, middle school is a miserable tongue-tying, stomach-knotting experience, MIDDLE GRADE where she’d rather disappear into the floor than be called on to answer a math question in class. But everything Haddix, Margaret Peterson. In Over changes for both girls when a humiliating note written Their Heads. by Emmie ends up in the wrong hands. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (New York, NY) To her utter horror, Emmie finds herself the center 2017. PB $7.99. of attention, with no textbook big enough to hide her embarrassment behind. Meanwhile, Katie starts slipping Our class read In Over Their Heads, out of the spotlight and discovers what life is like on the by Margaret Peterson Haddix, and sidelines. Will their worlds ever return to normal, or is we loved it. My favorite character this shift just what each girl needed all along? has to be Erin. She is fierce, and I liked when she pretended to be a Invisible Emmie is the debut graphic novel by Terri robot so she wouldn’t get caught. Libenson, creator of the award-winning, internationally Some people got confused about syndicated comic strip, The Pajama Diaries. Equal switching points of view, and parts hilarious and gut-wrenching, the novel is told others didn’t, since each chapter from the dual-perspective of Emmie and Katie. would be from someone else’s point Libenson’s illustrations and words work wonderfully of view. To give the reader clues, together, making the novel a charming, quick-paced Haddix labeled the chapters by the read. By literally seeing each narrator’s world on the characters’ names. pages – Katie’s bright and colorful life, in contrast to Emmie’s sparse, dull existence – readers find themselves Sometimes we would stop reading at a cliffhanger and sympathizing with both girls. Libenson keeps the plot wanted to read on. For example, when Jackson, a robot, fresh with a big twist at the end, making readers want got caught in the snow trying to save another robot, we to go back and read the novel over again. With so much didn’t know if he would survive the severe cold and snow. care and wit put into every page, readers will surely find something new to uncover on the second – and third, and fourth! – readings.

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With a fun, authentic voice, delightful illustrations, and a heart-warming story, Invisible Emmie is the perfect novel for those finding their way through middle school or revisiting those bittersweet years in their memory.

REVIEWED BY Kathryn Powers, Ohioana office manager

CHILDREN’S

Yolen, Jane, and Rebecca Kai Dotlich. Illustrations by Angela Matteson. Grumbles from the Town – Mother Goose Voices with a Twist. Word Song (Honesdale, PA) 2016. HC $17.95.

Grumbles from the Town – Mother Goose Voices with a Twist, by Jane Yolen and Rebecca Kai Dotlich and illustrated by Angela Matteson, is a fun twist on the classic nursery rhymes that most children learn when they are younger. Some of these rhymes are really well known, like “Humpty Dumpty” and “Little Miss Muffet.” Others are not well known, such as “I Am the Sock” and “Little Bird from a Branch.”

These rhymes can be witty, strange, and delightful. For example, in “Three Blind Mice,” the mice explain to the readers that they were not blind, but “near of sight and wore thick glasses day and night.” They retell their story, and they tell the readers that they can rewrite their own story to change the ending and be safe, which the mice do to save themselves from the carving knife.

The original version of each of these nursery rhymes is included in the back of this picture book. Also included is a description about the true meaning of the original nursery rhymes. It is a fun way to learn about the history behind these rhymes.

We would recommend Grumbles from the Town – Mother Goose Voices with a Twist for all ages. It is a fun read.

REVIEWED BY Carys Webb, Scarlett Katz, Alicia Lonser, and Lola Lewin, Form IV, Columbus School for Girls

Summer 2018 | 19 Book List

The following books were added to eight wonders – architecture, Cenetary Methodist Church. 150 Ohioana's collection between March art, commerce, food, customs, Years: Methodism in Granville, and May, 2018. Look for them at your geography, history, and people. The 1810-1960. Cenetary Methodist local library or bookstore! Cincinnati Music Hall stands as Church (Granville, OH) 1960. an architectural masterpiece. The PB $10.00. Red Stockings made history as the A pamphlet published for the Nonfiction first professional baseball team. 150th anniversary of the Cenetary Remnants of marine fossils from the Methodist Church in Granville. Ordovician period remind residents Bard, Ella Mae, ed. Celebrating 100 that the city was once under water. Cenetary Methodist Church. Years: The Methodist Parsonage, Limitless local varieties of goetta (a 1905-2005. Cenetary Methodist Cenetary United Methodist Church (Granville, OH) 2005. German breakfast sausage) range Church: 1810-2010. Cenetary PB $10.00. from family recipes to trendy café Methodist Church (Granville, OH) A pamphlet published by the dishes. And the city birthed such 2010. PB $10.00. Cenetary Methodist Church in trailblazers as track and field star A pamphlet published by the Granville, Ohio, commemorating the DeHart Hubbard, the first African Cenetary Methodist Church in 100th anniversary of the parsonage. American to win an Olympic gold Granville, Ohio, celebrating the medal in an individual event. 200th anniversary of the church. Batchelor, Bob. Stan Lee: The Brehm, Victoria. Cenetary Methodist Church. Man Behind Marvel. Rowman & White Squall: Littlefield (Lanham, MD) 2017. Sailing the Great Lakes. Wayne Cenetary United Methodist HC $22.95. State University Press (Detroit, MI) Church: Two Centuries of The Amazing Spider-Man. The 2018. PB $29.95. Methodist Ministers in Granville, Incredible Hulk. The Invincible From the Native American water OH. Cenetary Methodist Church Iron Man. These are just a few of monster that raised canoe-killing (Granville, OH) 2017. HC $10.00. the iconic superheroes to emerge storms to thousand-foot cargo A history of the ministers who from the mind of Stan Lee. From ships, the Great Lakes have inspired have served the Cenetary United the mean streets of Depression-era autobiography, folksong, poetry, Methodist Church in Granville, New York City to recipient of the and fiction about some of the most Ohio, over its 200 years. National Medal of Arts, Lee’s life beautiful, most dangerous waters has been almost as remarkable as in the world. In the words of the Cenetary Methodist Church. The the thrilling adventures he spun men and women who lived through Circles of Cenetary. Cenetary for decades. Candid, authoritative, them, here are the dangers and Methodist Church (Granville, OH) and utterly absorbing, this is a triumphs, the ghosts and mysteries, 2007. PB $10.00. biography of a man who dreamed of the daredevil risks and losses that A pamphlet published by the one day writing the Great American span the worlds of Native journeys, Cenetary Methodist Church in Novel, but ended up doing so much wars on the lakes, early canoe Granville, Ohio, celebrating the more – changing American culture travel, schooner work, yacht racing, women and women's groups who by creating new worlds that have steamer travel, and the great bulk have served the church throughout entertained generations of readers. carriers. Their accounts are edited its history. with introductions and technical Beckman, Wendy. Illus. by Alison explanations, illustrated with Cenetary Methodist Church. photographs and drawings, and Ranieri. 8 Wonders of Cincinnati. A History of Methodism in History Press (Charleston, SC) 2017. accompanied by notes and a glossary Granville: 1810-2000. Cenetary PB $21.99. of sailing terms. Methodist Church (Granville, OH) Wendy Beckman and illustrator 2000. PB $10.00. Allison Ranieri celebrate the city's A compilation of pamphlets

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published by the Cenetary Methodist company of a menagerie of ponies, Fitrakis, Bob, Harvey Wasserman, Church in Granville, Ohio, cats, dogs, lizards, rabbits, a macaw, and Gerry Bello. Corporate Vote celebrating the history of the church. snakes, and guinea pigs. Theodore Theft & the Future of American Roosevelt for Nature Lovers is a Democracy: Expanded and Revised Dabakis, Melissa. A Sisterhood collection of delightful anecdotes – to Include the 2012 Presidential of Sculptors: American Artists including the famous story about the Election. Columbus Institute for in Nineteenth-Century Rome. “Teddy” bear – that reveal the Bull Contemporary Journalism (CICJ) Pennsylvania State University Press Moose’s ongoing fascination with Books (Columbus, OH) 2013. (University Park, PA) 2014. the natural world. PB $19.95. PB $29.95. A compilation of writings from the Between 1850 and 1876, a Dawson, Virginia P. To Search and investigative website freepress.org community of talented women to Serve: A History of the First that sheds light on the role of private sought creative refuge in Rome and Unitarian Church of Cleveland, partisan for-profit corporations developed successful professional 1867-2017. First Unitarian Church that are now programming the careers as sculptors. Some of of Cleveland (Cleveland, OH) 2017. software and providing the hardware these women have become well PB $20.00. for U.S. elections. This volume is known in art-historical circles: As part of their 150th Anniversary revised and updated from the earlier Harriet Hosmer, Edmonia Lewis, celebration in 2017, First Unitarian book, Will the GOP Steal America's Anne Whitney, and Vinnie Ream. Church of Cleveland commissioned 2012 Election? and includes new The reputations of others have a book documenting the church’s revelations on Mitt Romney's remained, until now, buried in the past. Written by historian Virginia ties to the Hart Intercivic voting historical record: Emma Stebbins, P. Dawson, To Search and to Serve machine company, the secret Margaret Foley, Sarah Fisher is an 85-page history not only of software patches installed on voting Ames, and Louisa Lander. At its First Unitarian, but of Unitarian tabulators in Ohio just prior to the core, A Sisterhood of Sculptors is Universalism in Cleveland. 2012 presidential election, and the concerned with the gendered nature reasons behind Karl Rove's bizarre of creativity and expatriation. As Fitrakis, Bob, and Harvey 2012 election night meltdown on an interdisciplinary examination of Wasserman. As Goes Ohio: Election Fox TV. femininity and creativity, this book Theft Since 2004. Columbus provides models for viewing and Institute for Contemporary Fitrakis, Bob. The Fitrakis interpreting nineteenth-century Journalism (CICJ) Books Files: Cops, Cover-Ups, & sculpture and for analyzing the (Columbus, OH) 2008. PB $19.95. Corruption. Columbus Institute for gendered status of the profession. As goes Ohio, so goes our Contemporary Journalism (CICJ) nation politically. This book is Books (Columbus, OH) 2009. Dawidziak, Mark. Theodore a compilation of investigative PB $15.00. Roosevelt for Nature Lovers: reports from Ohio's leading online Investigative reporter Bob Fitrakis Adventures with America's investigative newspaper – freepress. exposes the corruption that law Great Outdoorsman. Lyons Press org. Award-winning journalists Bob enforcement officials and politicians (Guilford, CT) 2017. HC $17.95. Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman cover up, tying many of Ohio's In addition to being a politician, testified before Congress on the leading figures to scandals. frontiersman, and rancher, Theodore evidence of election fraud and theft Roosevelt was an enthusiastic following the 2004 presidential Fitrakis, Bob. The Fitrakis Files: hunter who fought passionately for election. For the first time, their Free Byrd & Other Cries for conservation. He played a significant post-election online investigative Justice. Columbus Alive Publishing role in setting aside land for the reports are in print. Revelations (Columbus, OH) 2003. PB $15.00. national parks. He participated in regarding the CIA’s connection to Bob Fitrakis' investigation of the expeditions to benefit the New York “computer voting,” the criminal execution of John William Byrd Jr., Museum of Natural History and the destruction of voting records, and convicted of a crime he insisted he Smithsonian, and while in the White the bizarre world of Ohio politics is did not commit. House, his children enjoyed the gathered here.

Summer 2018 | 21 BOOK LIST | NONFICTION

Fitrakis, Bob. The Fitrakis Files: Elections: Updated "Trump" Gubernatorial Debates of 1859 A Schoolhouse Divided. Columbus Edition of Strip & Flip Selection presents transcripts of and Alive Publishing (Columbus, OH) of 2016. Columbus Institute for newspaper reports on the series of 2003. PB $15.00. Contemporary Journalism (CICJ) debates between Ohio's Republican Award-winning investigative Books (Columbus, OH) 2017. and Democratic candidates for reporter and watchdog Bob Fitrakis PB $19.95. governor on the eve of the Civil sinks his teeth into the inequalities Even the conservatives called the War. Includes an introduction on of public education. first edition ofThe Strip and Flip the candidates and the issues and Selection of 2016 a must-read. an epilogue on the outcome and Fitrakis, Bob. The Fitrakis Files: This new edition adds additional subsequent debates in Ohio. Spooks, Nukes, & Nazis. Columbus essays including post-2016 election Alive Publishing (Columbus, OH) information concerning Jill Stein's Hague, Richard. Earnest 2003. PB $15.00. historic recount of the key three Occupations: Teaching, Writing, In classic muckraking tradition, Bob states with suspicious numbers Gardening, & Other Local Work. Fitrakis chews apart government in the general election. The book Bottom Dog Press (Huron, OH) incompetence and corruption, also includes new commentary and 2018. PB $18.00. spooky CIA shenanigans, and the analysis on U.S. elections, Russian A memoir by noted poet Richard KKK, to name just a few. A collection hacking, and the Trump presidency. Hague, expressed in a series of for anyone who believes they're not essays exploring the humans, likely to hear the whole truth from Foster, Joni. When Normal Blew animals, places, and occupations "official" sources. Up: The Story of the People Who that make up a community. Died and the People Who Lived On. Fitrakis, Bob. The Fitrakis Files: Red Raku Press (Circleville, OH) Herbert, Jeffrey G.Index of Star Wars, Weather Mods, & Full 2017. PB $14.00. Hamilton County, Ohio Reported Spectrum Dominance. Columbus In 1967, in the small town of Court Records, 1870-1879. Institute for Contemporary Circleville, Ohio, a man walked into Hamilton County Chapter of Journalism (CICJ) Books an old-fashioned drug store on a the Ohio Genealogical Society (Columbus, OH) 2005. PB $15.00. busy Saturday and laid a smoking (Cincinnati, OH) 2018. PB $39.00. In this collection of investigative package on the pharmacy counter in This index contains the names reports, Fitrakis exposes the U.S. the back. He shouted for everyone of individuals in more than Military's plans for "full spectrum to leave, he had a bomb. The store 28,250 court cases reported in dominance," the race to militarize owner grabbed the package and the Cincinnati Enquirer between space, and efforts to use nature as a ran down the back hallway. Fifty 1870 and 1879. Many of the records weapon of mass destruction. years later, Joni Foster, who was housed in the Hamilton County nine at the time and daughter to courthouse were destroyed by a riot Fitrakis, Bob. The Idea of the pharmacist who died, began and subsequent fire in March 1884. Democratic Socialism in America a quest to find out in detail who This index attempts to recreate as and the Decline of the Socialist these people were and what exactly many court cases as possible from Party. Columbus Institute for happened. The story is a tragedy, a daily summaries reported in this Contemporary Journalism (CICJ) history lesson on the slow, painful local newspaper, which can provide Books (Columbus, OH) 2007. emancipation of women, and valuable information to the family PB $14.95. ultimately a loving tribute to the history researcher. Investigative journalist Bob Fitrakis' families trying to live normal lives. perspective on democratic socialism Herbert, Jeffrey G.Hamilton in America. Gold, David M., ed. Slavery and County, Ohio Roman Catholic Scandal: The Ohio Gubernatorial Baptism Records Early – 1849. Fitrakis, Bob, and Harvey Debates of 1859. Marielle Press Hamilton County Chapter of Wasserman. The Strip & Flip (Bexley, OH) 2018. PB $19.99. the Ohio Genealogical Society Disaster of America's Stolen Slavery and Scandal: The Ohio (Cincinnati, OH) 2018. PB $29.00.

22 | Ohioana Quarterly BOOK LIST | NONFICTION Book List This index contains the names of Convicted and sentenced to fifteen Holy Roman Emperor, and The more than 17,500 Roman Catholic months at the federal correctional Carolingian Renaissance. baptisms recorded in Cincinnati facility in Danbury, Connecticut, and Hamilton County, Ohio, prior the well-heeled Smith College McCoy, David. Christopher Gist. to January 1850. The sources for alumna is now inmate #11187–424 Spare Change Press (Massillon, OH) this work are the microfilm copies – one of the millions of people who 2017. PB $8.99. of baptismal registers that were disappear “down the rabbit hole” of In American colonial history, kept by individual parish churches the American penal system. From no individual did more to bring and are stored at the Archives of the her first strip search to her final about the early expansion west Archdiocese of Cincinnati. release, Kerman learns to navigate of the Appalachian Mountains this strange world with its strictly into the Ohio Country than did Hodson, Jan, Janice Huwe, and enforced codes of behavior and Christopher Gist. In his fifty-four Linda Phillips, eds. Growing Up in arbitrary rules. She meets women years, Christopher Gist was first Athens: A Collection of Memories. from all walks of life, who surprise a merchant and business man in Orange Frazer Press (Wilmington, her with small tokens of generosity, Baltimore, Maryland. He then OH) 2017. HC $46.73. hard words of wisdom, and simple became a Maryland Ranger, a Spanning 100 years, this hardcover acts of acceptance. Inspiration for surveyor, trapper, and trader. In premium book is full of photos and the multi-award-winning TV show. 1750, Gist went to work for the Ohio recollections of Athenians who Company of Virginia and made two speak of the era before cars to the Lanese, Laura, Janet Shailer, and trans-Appalachian explorations. present decade. In the voices of Kelli Milligan Stammen. Images In 1753 he accompanied George people who grew up here, Growing of Modern America: Grove City. Washington to the French Fort, Up in Athens brings you the essence Arcadia (Charleston, SC) 2015. LeBoeuf (Waterford, PA). This of this one small town nestled in the PB $22.99. chapbook tells Gist's story. hills of Southeastern Ohio. Carved out of Ohio's wilderness in 1852, the village of Grove City McCoy, David. The Kent State Johnston, Christopher. Shattering welcomed industrious laborers, University Shootings and What Silences: Strategies to Prevent farmers, and German immigrants. Came Before. Spare Change Press Sexual Assault, Heal Survivors, The arrival of the railroad and the (Massillon, OH) 2017. PB $8.99. and Bring Assailants to Justice. interurban brought commuters A short, informative book about the Skyhorse Publishing (New York, willing to travel from Grove City shootings at Kent State University NY) 2018. HC $24.99. into Columbus. The 1960s saw the on May 4, 1970, based on available Every two minutes someone in construction of Interstates 71 and government public documents. the U.S. is sexually assaulted, 270, which spurred the community's and each year there are nearly growth. Though its population has McCoy, David. 100 Plus Ways 300,000 victims of sexual assault. surpassed 37,000 residents, Grove to Protect Your Privacy. Spare But victims are no longer silent, City has retained its small-town Change Press (Massillon, OH) 2017. and new practices by police, appeal while offering residents and PB $8.99. prosecutors, nurses, and rape crisis visitors a revitalized town center, a This small primer contains a list of professionals are resulting in more major arts festival, and the "world's simple things to start doing, some compassionate treatment of victims largest" alumni softball tournament. pitfalls to avoid, suggestions on how and more aggressive prosecution of to protect your privacy, and several perpetrators. This is the first book to McCoy, David. Charlemagne: online steps to take. cover these new approaches. Volumes 1 – 4. Spare Change Press (Massillon, OH) 2017. PB $9.99. Rama, Priya. Migraine Visions: Kerman, Piper. Orange Is the New This text contains the condensed Transforming Pain into Beauty. Black: My Year in a Women's chapbooks Carolingian Dynasty Rise Pocamug Press (Mayslick, KY) 2017. Prison. Spiegel & Grau (New York, to Power and the Saxon War, The HC $44.95. NY) 2011. PB $16.00. Daily Lives of Peasants, Becoming Artist Priya Rama suffers from

Summer 2018 | 23 BOOK LIST | NONFICTION AND FICTION

debilitating migraines. She paints Vance, J. D. Hillbilly Elegy: A motorbike riders, philosophically her migraine visions, turning them Memoir of a Family and Culture musing tweens, and so much into works of art, transforming her in Crisis. HarperCollins (New York, more. The stories in this dynamic, pain into beauty. Each painting is a NY) 2016. HC $27.99. bilingual prose-art collection touch snapshot from within the migraine. From a former marine and Yale Law on romance, family, migration and Here are 50 full-color reproductions School graduate, a powerful account expulsion, and everyday life in all its of Priya’s paintings, spanning the of growing up in a poor Rust Belt zany configurations. years 2016–2017. town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s Betts, Matt. The Boogeyman's Porter, Sherolyn. Reflections white working class. Hillbilly Elegy Intern. Dog Star Books (Bowie, MD) from the Sunroom: A Journey is an analysis of a culture in crisis. J. 2017. PB $15.95. of Spiritual Discovery. Zander D. Vance tells the true story of what Not everyone lands their dream job. (Livonia, MI) 2017. PB $16.95. a social, regional, and class decline Take Abe: He’s bottomed out as an The voice of the Creator is all around feels like when you were born with it Imaginary Friend and has to find a us. He speaks to us through His hung around your neck. new job before his bosses assign him living and active Word, which is full a truly crappy one. Just as he’s about of riches and truth, awaiting our Wanczyk, David. Beep: Inside the to resign himself to a life of making discovery. He also speaks to us in the Unseen World of Baseball for toys in a workshop, he’s given a whisper of the wind, and the sparkle the Blind. Ohio University Press/ reprieve – of sorts. Now he has the of the misty morning dew. Join Swallow Press (Athens, OH) 2018. opportunity to be the first policeman Sherolyn in her search for intimate HC $26.95. on the Hill and solve an impossible relationship with the Creator…her In Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates murder. For assistance he ropes in quest for hidden treasure. the sport of blind baseball to show his career counselor, a Bigfoot, and us a remarkable version of America’s his best friend, a Boogeyman. Dream Sung, Hou-mei. Masterpieces favorite pastime. With balls tricked job? Dream on. of Japanese Art. Cincinnati Art out to squeal three times per second Museum (Cincinnati, OH) 2014. and bases that buzz, baseball Betts, Matt. Shadow Beneath the PB $25.50. for the blind is both innovative Waves. Severed Press (Hobart, This is the first complete study and intense. And when the best Tasmania) 2018. PB $12.95. and reappraisal of a remarkable beep baseball team in America, A group of treasure-hunters hits collection at the Cincinnati Art the Austin Blackhawks, takes on the high seas, chasing a tip from Museum. It features a wealth its international rival, Taiwan a mysterious source. If it’s true, it of artifacts, including paintings Homerun, no one’s thinking about could be their biggest score yet – and ceramics, metal objects and disability. What we find are athletes literally – a massive robot the size weaponry, screens, masks, cloisonné playing their hearts out for of a skyscraper lost since the last enamel, lacquer ware, ivory a championship. war, worth a sizable reward and carvings, kimonos, and dolls, the bragging rights. But in trying to the majority dating from the Edo period raise the Cudgel, the crew of the (1615–1868) to the end of the Meiji fiction Adamant accidentally unleashes a Period in 1912. In addition to an beast trapped by the battle machine Aldama, Frederick Luis. Long important introduction by Hou-mei years ago. Can a handful of eccentric Stories Cut Short: Fictions from Sung, curator of Asian art, there are sailors resurrect the gigantic robot in the Borderlands. University of contributions by two leading guest time to stop the creature’s assault? Arizona Press (Tuscon, AZ) 2017. authors from Japan, professor Keiko PB $19.95. Nakamachi and professor Masahiko Clemens, Judy. Beyond the Grave: Xbox videogamer cholo cyberpunks. Aizawa, who study the collection's A Grim Reaper Mystery. Poisoned Infants who read before they talk. painted screens. Pen Press (Scottsdale, AZ) 2018. Vatos locos, romancing abuelos, PB $15.95. border crossers and border Casey Maldonado is haunted by the smugglers, drug kingpins, Latina

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deaths of her husband and young a leisurely field trip to a wildlife Hogsett, Annie. Murder to the son. She hopes traveling through sanctuary turns deadly, leaving Metal: A Somebody's Bound to rural Idaho will offer peace. Instead, Claire to question whether the Wind Up Dead Mystery. Poisoned she fights off three drunken locals death was an accident, suicide – or Pen Press (Scottsdale, AZ) 2018. before escaping to a quiet town something far more sinister. PB $15.95. where she wants to heal from her Ten months ago Allie Harper – injuries and constant sorrow. Her Henson, Michael. Maggie Boylan. smart, feisty, too broke to get her car traveling companion, invisible to Ohio University Press/Swallow fixed – rescued Thomas Bennington all but Casey, is Death, wearing Press (Athens, OH) 2018. PB $18.95. III – a hot, blind, college professor a series of disguises and offering Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an – in a crosswalk in her dicey commentary on her difficulties. epidemic of prescription opiate Cleveland neighborhood. When Unfortunately, the village of abuse, Henson’s linked collection Allie saved Tom and his groceries Armstrong carries its own darkness. tells of a woman’s search for her own from traffic, she unwittingly peculiar kind of redemption, and retrieved his winning $550 million Ellis, Mary. Hiding in Plain Sight. brings the novel-in-stories form to MondoMegaJackpot ticket. The Severn House (London, UK) 2018. new heights. Maggie Boylan is an payout steers the two of them into a HC $28.99. addict, thief, liar, and hustler. But she wild dash from romance to mayhem On the run from a troubled past, Kate is also a woman of deep compassion and multiple murders. Nothing's Weller changes her name and takes and resilience. The stories follow changed. Sure, Allie and Tom now a case in Charleston, South Carolina, Maggie as she spirals through her reside in a rented nine-thousand- where she can hide in plain sight. addictive process, through the court square-foot lakeside mansion with Kate sets about trying to locate her system and treatment, and into a a sky-lit shower and breathtakingly adopted client’s natural siblings, only shaky new beginning. high-thread-count sheets. True, to find more questions than answers Otis Johnson, Allie's deliverer from when she eventually tracks down Hieber, Leanna Renee. The Eterna last summer's would-be-kidnapper, a long-lost sister. Meanwhile, her Solution: The Eterna Files #3. Tor is now their live-in bodyguard and new landlord won’t stop sticking his (New York, NY) 2017. HC $28.99. gourmet chef. Yes, Allie's dream of nose into her case. As far as Kate’s It’s 1882 and two government creating the T&A Detective Agency concerned, Eric Manfredi should divisions of paranormal to solve "mysteries of the heart" focus on whatever competitor is bent investigators have completed a most by using Tom's money, Otis's P.I. on ruining his family business. But harrowing task – stopping a demonic credentials, and Allie's intrepid... when petty vandalism turns lethal, nobleman from taking over the intrepidness... now has its first case. and Eric’s father is arrested for British Parliament. Now the motley That's when the real trouble kicks in. murder, Kate is determined to prove crew must race across the ocean to his innocence. protect Manhattan from evil forces. McLain, Paula. Love and Ruin. American Clara Templeton’s psychic Ballantine Books (New York, NY) Harper, Karen. Shallow Grave: A powers have grown exponentially, 2018. HC $28.00. South Shores Novel. MIRA Books but she worries that defeating the In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 2018. sinister forces arrayed against them Martha Gellhorn travels alone to HC $26.99. will cost her her life. Londoner Madrid to report on the atrocities of It’s been four months since forensic Harold Spire, once a Scotland Yard the Spanish Civil War and becomes psychologist Claire Britten last detective, has had just about enough drawn to the stories of ordinary crossed paths with danger. Finally of the occult, though he has seen his people caught in the devastating feeling she can catch her breath, team’s supernatural powers at work. conflict. It’s the adventure she’s together with her partner, criminal Together, the American Eterna been looking for and her chance to lawyer Nick Markwood, Claire has Commission and the British Omega prove herself a worthy journalist in settled into a new role, volunteering Department hope to save New York a field dominated by men. But she with a support group for children City without destroying themselves. also finds herself unexpectedly – and stressed by domestic violence. But uncontrollably – falling in love with

Summer 2018 | 25 BOOK LIST | FICTION AND POETRY

Ernest Hemingway, a man on his Ohio University Press/Swallow POETRY way to becoming a legend. Press (Athens, OH) 2018. HC $26.95. Chew, Abby. A Bear Approaches It’s a violent encounter that private from the Sky: Poems. Word Works Strawser, Jessica. Almost Missed investigator Andy Hayes could (Washington, DC) 2018. PB $17.00. You. St. Martin's Press (New York, have done without. One minute he’s Poems that pull the reader into a NY) 2017. HC $25.99. finishing up some grocery shopping family saga that becomes archetypal After strangers Finn and Violet ahead of a custody visit with his in its preoccupation with loneliness. have a flirtation on a Florida beach sons. The next, he must come to The poems also generate connection but fail to learn each other's names, the rescue of a Somali-American to our shared life on this planet and Finn posts a message on an online mother and her young children as our many diverse and struggling "missed connections" page – but anti-immigrant bullies torment families of origin. Violet is not the one who answers them. Grateful for his intervention, the message. Six years later, Finn the Somali community hires Andy Demaree, Darren C. A Fire Without and Violet are back in Florida with to find a missing teenager who Light. Nixes Mate Books (Allston, their three-year-old son, Bear. When vanished without a trace and is now MA) 2017. PB $9.95. Violet returns to their hotel room to accused of plotting a terror attack in These prose poems chronicle a find Finn and Bear missing, she must his adopted hometown of Columbus. speaker who is trying to come to re-examine everything she thought Soon Andy is fending off FBI agents terms with the social and cultural she knew about her husband, their and dueling with a mysterious foe implications of the 2016 election. friends, and their life together. with links to the white supremacist movement. As he draws ever closer Kendig, Diane. The Places We Find Umrigar, Thrity. Everybody's Son. to the truth behind Mohamed’s Ourselves. Finishing Line Press Harper Perennial (New York, NY) disappearance, Hayes stumbles onto (Georgetown, KY) 2009. PB $12.00. 2017. PB $15.99. a conspiracy that could put hundreds Weary? Lost? Drowning in the Ten-year-old Anton has been locked of lives in danger, including those of diverted current of what you thought in an apartment for seven days, his own two boys. was going to be your life? "You can without air conditioning or a fan make other pathways," Kendig tells during a heat wave. He shatters a Yocum, Robin. A Perfect Shot. us. These strong and steady poems window, climbs out, and is covered Seventh Street Books (Amherst, NY) show us how. in blood when the police find him. 2018. PB $15.95. Juanita, his mother, is discovered in Nicholas "Duke" Ducheski is the Kendig, Diane. Prison Terms. Main a crack house. She never meant to most important man in the eastern St. Rag Publishing (Charlotte, NC) leave, but her drug dealer kept her Ohio steel town of Mingo Junction. 2017. PB $12.00. high – and captive. Anton is placed Nearly two decades after he made Prison Terms is a collection of poems with child services while Juanita the winning shot in the state that reflects poet Diane Kendig's goes to jail. Desperate to have a child championship basketball game, he eighteen years leading creative in the house again after the death remains much adored and the focal writing workshops in medium of his teenage son, Judge David point of community pride. Now security prisons. Coleman uses his power to keep his approaching forty, Duke decides new foster son, Anton. Anton rises to parlay his local popularity into a Moreno, Maria Paz. From the Other within the establishment. But when successful restaurant. But no sooner Shore (Desde La Otra Orilla). he discovers the truth about his life, does he get his restaurant up and Valparaiso USA (Clayton, GA) 2018. this man of the law must come to running than disaster strikes. One PB $14.95. terms with the moral complexities of day, "Little Tony" DeMarco, his In the words of writer Julia Otxoa, crimes committed by the people he brother-in-law and a known mob "From the luminous Arabic, Greek, loves most. enforcer, comes into the restaurant and Mediterranean legacies, María and murders Duke's oldest friend. Paz Moreno creates a new poetry in Welsh-Huggins, Andrew. The Third Now Duke faces the hardest decision response to current times, builds Brother: An Andy Hayes Mystery. of his life.

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new bridges that help us understand Bishop, Jenn. 14 Hollow Road. Landers, Melissa. Starfall: A losses and treasures, establishing Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY) Starflight Novel. Hyperion (New other trajectories to grow in both 2017. HC $16.99. York, NY) 2017. HC $17.99. interrogation and hope." The night of the sixth-grade dance is When Princess Cassia Rose fled her supposed to be perfect for Maddie: home world of Eturia to escape an Spires, Elizabeth. A Memory of her crush, Avery, will ask her to arranged marriage, she had no idea the Future: Poems. W.W. Norton & dance. But Avery asks someone her sudden departure would spark Company (New York, NY) 2018. else to dance instead – and then a war. Now after two years hiding as HC $26.95. the power goes out. A a tornado a ship hand, she is finally returning In A Memory of the Future, critically has ripped through the other side to her beloved home – captured by acclaimed poet Elizabeth Spires of town, destroying both Maddie's bounty hunters and returned to reflects on selfhood and the search and Avery's homes. Kind neighbors account for her crimes. Her only for a core identity. Inspired by open up their home to Maddie's and solace is that the Banshee crew the tradition of poetic interest Avery's families, which both excites managed to evade capture, including in Zen, Spires explores the noisy and horrifies Maddie. Sharing the Kane Arric, her best friend... with space of the mind, interrogating same house… with Avery? For the occasional benefits. Meanwhile, the necessary divide between the entire summer? While it buys her Kane and the rest of the crew of the social persona that navigates the some time to prove that Avery made Banshee plan a desperate rescue world and the artist’s secret self. the wrong choice at the dance, it also mission. But when they arrive on With vivid, careful attention to the means he'll be there to witness her Eturia, Cassia has claimed her minute details of everyday moments, morning breath and her annoying birthright as Eturia's queen and A Memory of the Future observes, little brother. At the dance, all she has inherited a war-torn planet questions, and meditates on the wanted was to be more grown-up. simmering with rebellion. When ordinary, attempting to make sense Now that she has no choice, is she the outer realm is threatened by the of the boundaries of existence. really ready for it? Zhang mafia, Cassia, Kane, and the Banshee crew uncover a conspiracy Dean, Mark. M. Illus. by Kelly that endangers the entire universe. YOUNG ADULT & Lincoln. Adventures of Coal & middle grade Andy: Charlie the Catfish. Monday Landers, Melissa. United: An Creek Publishing (Buchtel, OH) Alienated Novel. EverAfter Berne, Emma Carlson. The Lady's 2017. HC $16.95. Romance (New York, NY) 2016. Slipper: A Melody Mystery. Coal Coalson and Andy Anderson HC $17.99. American Girl Beforever (Middleton, are two cousins setting out on After thwarting a deadly coup and WI) 2017. PB $9.99. the riverside adventure of their saving the alliance between their Melody Ellison is impressed by her lives! The ornery ten- and eight- worlds, Cara and Aelyx have finally sophisticated new friend, Leah Roth, year-olds have swallowed their earned a break. Their tiny island but she wishes her cousin Val would PawPaw's fishing "tail" hook, colony is everything they dreamed stop being so standoffish about Leah! line, and sinker, about Charlie, a it would be – days spent gathering Melody meets Leah's grandfather, legendary GIGANTIC catfish. This shells on the beach and nights in Dr. Roth, a botanist who escaped yellow-finned catfish is "as Big as a each other’s arms. But the vacation the Nazis and brought a rare and house and as long as a tree." And as is short-lived.The treaty between valuable Lady's Slipper orchid with the story goes, has "eaten bicycles, Earth and L’eihr has awakened him to America. When Melody's own a helmet, and many a shoe." The an ancient force that threatens to grandfather becomes a suspect in mischievous boys spend a hot destroy them all. As tensions build to a burglary, Melody turns to Val and summer's day creating a tale of their a full-scale war, Aelyx and Cara must Leah for help. Yet Leah seems to be own, exploring the river from above fight harder than ever – not just for hiding something, something to do and below the surface in pursuit of their future, but for the survival of with her grandfather, that could hurt the catch of a lifetime. both their worlds. all of them. Can Melody catch the orchid thief before it's too late?

Summer 2018 | 27 BOOK LIST | YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE AND CHILDREN'S

Lord, Emery. When We Collided. her smarty-pants little brother. resulted in what he called minimal Bloomsbury (New York, NY) 2016. Truthfully, though, she’d rather just realism and the style that would HC $17.99. blend in with the plants at the family become easily recognized as Charley Seventeen year-old Jonah Daniels business, Doc Reindeer’s Exotic Harper’s. Art fans and nature lovers has lived in Verona Cove, California, Plant Wonderland. She does have around the world fell in love with his whole life, and only one thing one friend, Q, and he’s the best one Harper’s paintings, which often has ever changed: his father used ever – but he’s moving away, leaving featured bright colors and intriguing to be alive, and now he is not. Zoe to fend for herself, and she nature subjects. How did the farm With a mother lost in a deep bout doesn’t know what she’ll do without boy who didn’t know a single artist of depression, Jonah and his five him. That is until a tall astronomer become one of America’s most siblings struggle to keep up their from Madagascar comes to the recognized midcentury modern home and the restaurant their nursery looking for a baobab tree. painters? The answer is simple. dad left behind. But at the start He did it by counting the wings. of summer, a second change rolls Count the Wings is the first book for in: Vivi Alexander, the new girl in CHILDREN’S middle-grade readers about Harper’s town. Charming and unfiltered, life and work. Author Houts worked Daywalt, Drew. Illus. by Adam she refuses to be held down by the closely with the Harper estate to Rex. The Legend of Rock, Paper, medicine she's told should make her include full-color illustrations, Scissors. Balzer + Bray (New York, feel better. After meeting Jonah, she plentiful supplemental materials, NY) 2017. HC $17.99. slides into the Daniels' household and discussion questions that will From acclaimed, bestselling creators seamlessly, winning over each intrigue and engage young readers. Drew Daywalt, author of The Day sibling with her imagination and the Crayons Quit and The Day the gameness. But it's not long before Manso, Susana Madinabeitaia. Illus. Crayons Came Home, and Adam Rex, Vivi's zest for life begins to falter. by Emily Hanako Momohara. In author-illustrator of Frankenstein Soon her adventurousness becomes Autumn… En Otono. Blue Manatee Makes a Sandwich, comes a laugh- all-out danger-seeking. Press (Cincinnati, OH) 2017. Board out-loud hilarious picture book Book $7.99. about the epic tale of the classic Nelson, Marilyn. American Ace. Dial Vibrant photographs paired with text game, Rock, Paper, Scissors. Books (New York, NY) 2016. in both English and Spanish follow HC $17.99. one little girl as she personifies all of Genshaft, Carole Miller. Aminah's Connor’s grandmother leaves his her favorite things about the season: World: An Activity Book and dad a letter when she dies, and the leaves falling, wind blowing, and Children's Guide About Artist letter’s confession shakes their tight- more. Welcome the autumn season Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson. knit Italian-American family: the and build language skills with this Columbus Museum of Art man who raised Connor’s dad is not bilingual board book. (Columbus, OH) 2017. HC $24.95. his birth father. But the only clues to An activity book and children's this birth father’s identity are a class Manso, Susana Madinabeitaia. guide about Columbus artist Aminah ring and a pair of pilot’s wings. And Illus. by Emily Hanako Momohara. Brenda Lynn Robinson. so Connor takes it upon himself to In Spring… En Primavera. Blue investigate – a pursuit that becomes Manatee Press (Cincinnati, OH) Houts, Michelle. Count the Wings: even more pressing when Connor’s 2017. Board Book $7.99. The Life and Art of Charley father is hospitalized after a stroke. In this bilingual board book, a joyful Harper. OU Press (Athens, OH) little boy celebrates all of his favorite 2018. PB $16.95. Woods, Brenda. Zoe in Wonderland. things about spring, from seeds When you look at a bird, do you see Puffin Books (New York, NY) 2016. growing to splashing in puddles. feathers and a beak? Or do you see PB $8.99. Vibrant photographs paired with circles and triangles? Artist Charley Zoe Reindeer considers herself text in both English and Spanish Harper spent his life reducing “just Zoe” – never measuring up make for an engaging read-aloud that subjects to their simplest forms, to her too-perfect older sister or kids will enjoy year round. their basic lines and shapes. This

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Manso, Susana Madinabeitaia. Illus. Sims, Stacy. Illus. by Sharareh by Emily Hanako Momohara. In Khosravani. Baby Loves to Wiggle Summer… En Verano. Blue Manatee Wiggle. Blue Manatee Press Press (Cincinnati, OH) 2018. Board (Cincinnati, OH) 2017. Board Book $7.99. Book $7.99. Welcome longer days and warmer Bouncy text and bright illustrations weather with this bilingual board prompt little ones to wiggle toes, clap book. There are so many fun things hands, and reach up to touch the sky, to do in the summertime: swimming, all the while noticing the movement playing baseball, going to the beach. of their bodies. Written by a mind- What do you like about summer? body educator and illustrated by an Vibrant photographs and text in award-winning artist, Baby Loves to both English and Spanish make In Wiggle Wiggle will have babies and Summer… En Verano the perfect toddlers moving in no time. book for summertime... or any time.

Coming Soon Thurber House Summer Cleveland Book Week Literary Picnics September 22–29, 2018 July 25 – August 22, 2018 Cleveland Thurber House, Columbus The third annual literary celebration The thirty-third summer season of presents events at venues throughout outdoor picnics continues with Jessica the city, including the 2018 Anisfield- Strawser (July 25), Dan Gearino Wolf Book Awards ceremony on (August 8), and Michael Henson September 27 at Playhouse Square. (August 22). For more information and For more information, visit www. tickets, visit the Thurber House website clevelandfoundation.org/news/ at www.thurberhouse.org. book-week/.

Ohioana Book Club Ohioana Book Awards August 15, 2018 October 18, 2018 10:00 a.m. – noon 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Ohioana Library, Columbus Ohio Statehouse Atrium, Columbus

The book for August is Dreamland by Join us as we celebrate the winners of Sam Quinones. If you would like to the 2018 Ohioana Book Awards. The attend, please e-mail us at ohioana@ event begins at 6 p.m. with a reception ohioana.org. followed by the awards presentations Do you have a literary event you'd and book signing. Tickets go on sale in like to list in the next edition of September. For more information, visit the Ohioana Quarterly? Contact us www.ohioana.org. at [email protected].

Summer 2018 | 29 Thank You!

The Ohioana Library wouldn’t be the unique organization it is without our many generous supporters. Listed below are those who have given from March 1, 2018 through May 31, 2018. Special thanks to Governor John Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly for the state's ongoing support. $10,000 and above Elizabeth Salt Brian Stettner Greater Columbus Arts Council Kathleen Simon Johnathan Sullivan Honda of America Mfg., Inc. Nora Slifer Genevieve Szuba The Reinberger Foundation Kate Sniderman Twentieth Century Club Melody Snure Doreen Uhas-Sauer $5,000 – 9,999 Vicki Stoddard Douglas Unsold The Book Loft of German Village Hope Taft Jacquelyn Vaughan Mary Vance Ed White $1,000 – 2,499 Wednesday Literary Club Bostwick & Linda Wyman Helen Bolte Jay Yurkiw Nationwide Children's Hospital $50 – 99 Vernon Pack Weldon Abels $25 – 49 PNC Bank Jinny Berten June Berkley Yolanda Danyi Szuch Ben Bloom Shirley Brooks-Jones Margaret Wong & Associates Heather Brake Kathleen Burgess Melissa Cain Elizabeth Cleveland $500 – 999 Amy Colgan Joyce Dyer Anonymous Laurie Connor Mary Ellis Katherine Brandt Beth Rigel Daugherty Lucille Erb Randy & Nancy Cooper Rene Delane Carol Guzzo Ronald Stuckey Diane Fink Karen Harper Alice Finley International Women's Writing $250 – 499 Deb Fletcher Guild Dareth Gerlach Rosalie Frazier Fred & Jerri Lawrence Constance McMillan Marsha Friend J. Patrick Lewis David & Aina Weaver Betty Goodridge David Maslekoff Daniel Hall Vicki Newell $100 – 249 Ann Hanning Janet Rether Rudine Sims Bishop Miriam Kahn Patricia Sargeant-Matthews Ann Bowers Barbara Kienzle Barbara Seeberger Herbert Brown Wayne Lawson Mary Van Tassel Mary Citino Joseph Link Martha Kay Wise Ruth Deacon Bryan Loar Woman's Literary Club Christopher Duckworth Lisa Maggard Barbara Estevez John Miller In-Kind Lisa Evans Linda Miller CD102.5FM Megan Gilligan Monday Creek Publishing Dispatch Media Group Lynnette Halstead Eliot Parker Patricia Herban Lee Ann Parsons In Memory of Barbara Meister James M. Hughes Claudia Plumley Christina Butler Rosemary Joyce Cynthia Puckett Ann Bowers Carol Loranger Sandra Quick Kate Fox Beverly McDonald Dan Shuey Linda Ruth Hengst Mary Heather Munger David Siders David & Aina Weaver Louise Musser Geoffrey Smith Buck Niehoff Lorie Staffan

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I am so proud of Ohioana for these reasons!

1. I am inordinately proud of being around during the first Ohioana Book Festival in 2007 when we had one book, ten authors, and maybe 300 or so guests. Linda Hengst had just hired me as the Ohioana Quarterly’s editor, so I had to jump in with both feet. I had no idea what I was doing, of course. 2. I’m crazy-proud of all the fine writers and illustrators, past and present, who are part of a living collection that is unique in the nation. 3. I’m also crazy-proud of my book reviewers and Quarterly contributors! 4. I’m proud of the times I’ve told people about a book’s Ohio connection. 5. I’m proud of eighty-nine years’ worth of dedicated staffers, interns, volunteers, and board members who keep this unique organization going. I’m proud of the state representatives who know and care very much about what we do. Ohioana editor Leslie Birdwell Shortlidge 6. I’m proud of our school, staff, and public outreach. 7. I’m proud of the gang I used to work with and the gang I work with now, and I’m proud of our Ohioana friends who have passed on.

We are family, folks. And I hope we keep reaching out and into the future to make our family even bigger, an Ohioana family that continues to preserve the legacy of Ohio writers and their work.

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