| Loganberry News July 2023 
Loganberry News July 2023 It’s road trip season, where are you going this summer? Check out our in-store displays of dream destinations, off-beat tra  | It’s road trip season, where are you going this summer? Check out our in-store displays of dream destinations, off-beat travel guides, and car games. Bonus: travel guides are on sale! In the ever-continuing Readers Rights campaign, join us on Sunday, July 16th at noon as MoveOn.org holds a press conference with their Banned Bookmobile. They'll be speaking to activists, local representatives, and the press, while also passing out free copies of banned and censored books. Ask yourself: what frightens you? And find a book to shed some light on the subject. I hope you enjoy a little R&R this summer, that is, Reading and Relaxation. | Katharine Beutner: Killingly: A Novel
Wednesday, July 12, 7pm
~in-store~
Join Katharine Beutner -- Cleveland Heights resident, Wooster College professor & Edmund White Award–winning author -- for a reading and signing of this page-turning novel of dark academia, family trauma, and the risks faced by women who dared to pursue unconventional paths at the end of the 19th century. Killingly is based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897--a haunting novel of intrigue, longing, and terror-- Massachusetts, 1897: Bertha Mellish, “the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl” is missing. As a search team dredges the pond where Bertha might have drowned, her panicked father and sister arrive desperate to find some clue to her fate or state of mind. Bertha’s best friend, Agnes, a scholarly loner studying medicine is unhelpfully tightlipped. As secrets from Agnes’s and Bertha’s lives come to light, so do the competing agendas driving each person who is searching for Bertha. | C.W. Goodyear: President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
Thursday, July 13, 7pm
~in-store~
Join us to celebrate the first comprehensive biography of President Garfield to publish in decades with author and historian C.W. Goodyear. C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union war hero and founder of the first Department of Education; Supreme Court attorney and abolitionist preacher; mathematician and canalman; crooked election-fixer and clean-government champion; Congressional chieftain and gentleman-farmer; the last president to be born in a log cabin; the second to be assassinated. James Abram Garfield was all these things and more. C.W. Goodyear was born in Louisiana in 1993. He moved between Australia and the U.K. while growing up, before returning to the U.S. to attend Yale University. He graduated in 2016 with a degree in Global Affairs, then moved to Washington, DC. | Local Voices James Renner: Little, Crazy Children
Sunday, July 2, 1pm
~in-store~
Join local author James Renner for a talk on his fascinating new Shaker Heights-set true crime book, Little, Crazy Children. September 1990, Shaker Heights, OH: sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett, a poetry lover and member of a church youth group, was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend, when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy’s home. With a fresh perspective and painstaking research culled from police files, court records, transcripts, uncollected evidence, and new interviews, James Renner reconstructs the events leading up to and following that heartbreaking night. | Author Alley Nonfiction & Poetry
Saturday, July 8, 12-4:30pm
~Second Saturdays, June-September~
Join us for Author Alley, our annual local author book fair, taking place on the second Saturdays of each month, June through September. Come celebrate the writers in our midst, mingle with the literati of The Land, support the authors who are our neighbors, and enjoy savings the more you buy--an Author Alley exclusive!* On July 8th, we have a full house—I mean, Alley— of nonfiction writers assembled at noon, plus a Poetry Open Mic starting at 1:00. On August 12, we will feature Fiction writers!
Click here for this summer's full Author Alley schedule. *buy 3 save $1; buy 4 save $2; buy 5 save $3, etc. ($5 max.) | Berry Good Books Shirley Hazzard: The Great Fire
July 1-30, 2023
~online~ Our next installment of Berry Good Books online discussion on bookclubs.com is now live! Read the book at your own pace and drop into the online conversation as you hit major points you want to discuss. The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction, an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. Join the discussion here! We will rotate between three genres: Contemporary Fiction, Classic Literature, and History. It's an experiment! Join us!
Up next:
August: The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
September: The Bright Ages by Matthew Gabriele & David M. Perry | Queer Book Club Zeyn Joukhadar: The Thirty Names of Night
Thursday, July 20, 7pm
~in-store and online~
Queer Book Club meets bi-monthly on the third Thursday of the month in rotation with For the Thrill of Lit, both in-store and via Zoom. All are welcome to join the discussion! July's pick is The Thirty Names of Night, a novel about a young Syrian American trans man and his family. Three generations of the protagonist's family have been haunted by a mysterious species of bird, and now his ornithologist mother dies in a suspicious fire. During his investigation into his family’s history, he figures out who he is and comes to choose his new name. Click here to buy a copy of the book for 10% off. Join us in-store or on Zoom. Up next:
August 17 - For the Thrill of Lit: Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara. | Annex Gallery Tracy Zakraysek
June 6-July 30, 2023
Opening reception on Thursday, July 6, 6-8pm
~monthly~
Join us for the opening of our July art exhibition, featuring the work of local artist Tracy Zakraysek! | Save the Date! Books, Bites, & Beats
Saturday, July 22, 10am - 5pm
Loganberry will be joining other independent Ohio bookstores and vendors in Akron for this amazing event. We will have a small inventory to sell there, and hope to see you among those on the dance floor and at the food trucks! The store will be open for our regular hours on the 22nd as well. | Christmas in July - 20 Years at 13015 Larchmere! Tuesday, July 25th, 10am-6pm
Join us for a Christmas in July celebration for our 20th year in this location! Sure, we'll have some Christmas swag for sale, but we'll also have some bestsellers from 2003 and refreshments and fun... maybe we'll bring out the Wheel of Fortune.
Loganberry Books began in November 1994, and after 2 expansions, we moved down the street to this old Studebaker showroom on July 25, 2003. We've been growing ever since and look forward to celebrating with you! | Broadsides & Ephemera Featured Reader: Dick Davis
Thursday, July 27, 7pm
Dick Davis, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, retired in 2012 from the Ohio State University where he was Professor of Persian and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. His award-winning translations from Persian include Vis and Ramin, Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz, and numerous others. Born in Portsmouth, he read English Literature at Cambridge and subsequently spent eight years in Iran (where he met and married Afkham Darbandi, with whom he translated Attar’s The Conference of the Birds), before completing a PhD in Medieval Persian Literature at Manchester. His academic career has included teaching posts at the Universities of Tehran, Durham, Newcastle and California. | On Sale This Month During the month of July, we'll feature Adventure, Travel, and Americana (anthologies & state-by-state) at 20% off! It's our nod to the wanderlust and traveling urge of summer, our favorite Road Trip time of year! | Collectible Books for Any Budget! Our Collectibles book recommendation is Wild America by Roger Tory Peterson: Wild America is the chronicle of naturalist Roger Tory Peterson's 30,000-mile journey around North America. Accompanied by his British colleague, Peterson explores the wild side of the continent. This first edition is signed by Peterson. Browse our ever-expanding collectible listings here, or email wendy@logan.com for a personalized suggestion for any budget! | Great Gifts Totes are a great purchase to store your books while you head out to the beach, summer camp, vacation, or your local pool! Come in to find your perfect beach reads bag, a great book, and a fun bookmark to save your place as you jump into the water this summer. | Used Book Buying Mondays and Fridays are our buying days, but please call us before you come in. As usual, we offer cash or 20% more in store credit for used and collectible books that we deem saleable, and you'll need to take away any we decline to purchase. You can find more details about our buying procedures here. We look forward to seeing your treasures! | Bulk Order Discounts Does your church, synagogue, school, book club, or company need to order 10 or more copies of a book for a group read or special event? Order from Loganberry and receive a discount! We can even deliver to your location free of charge! Contact elisabeth@logan.com for more details! | Click any title below to purchase a book for mailing or in-store pickup! | Harriett recommends Infinite Cities by Rebecca Solnit: These three atlases (San Francisco, New Orleans and New York) feature essays, gorgeous maps, and idiosyncratic details of the long natural histories, peoples, industries, landscapes, and cultures that have occupied these lands. There's a huge list of writers, artists, cartographers and historians involved in this decade-long project, and sharing the long sub-title for the San Francisco Atlas may be the easiest way to communicate the depth and quirkiness without actually flipping through the pages in person (which you totally should do): Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas of Principal Landmarks and Treasures of the Region, Including Butterfly Species, Queer Sites, Murders, Coffee, Water, Power, Contingent Identities, Social Types, Libraries, Early-Morning Bars, The Lost Labor Landscape of 1960, and the Monumental Monterey Cypresses of San Francisco; Of Indigenous Place Names, Women Environmentalists, Toxins, Food Sites, Right-Wing Organizations, World War II Shipyards, Zen Buddhist Centers, Salmon Migration, and Musical Histories of the Bay Area; with Details of Cultural Geographies of the Mission District, the Fillmore's Culture Wars and Metamorphoses, the Racial Discourses of United Nations Plaza, the South of Market World the Redevelopment Devoured, and the Other Significant Phenomena, Vanished and Extant. | Cat recommends The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See: "This is the heart-shattering, incredible story of a small Korean island with a matrifocal society, spanning from the time of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s, to WWII Japanese and then American occupation, continuing through time to modern-day life. Across all decades, the book's main character travels to various countries on a continuous quest to provide for her family, risking her life to dive into water and harvest sea life." | Devon recommends Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson: "This is a crafty blend of travel memoir, American Dream-chasing, and journalism, with a splash of fiction for effect. This is arguably Hunter S. Thompson’s most famous book, having influenced writers across multiple generations. Thompson takes us on a drug-infused journey to L.A. all the while commentating on the prevalent anti-drug culture of the 1960s. This book led to the coining of the term ‘Gonzo Journalism’, aptly named for Doctor Gonzo, from the story." | Freddy recommends A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway: "Not a fan of Hemingway? This memoir of a young Hemingway in Paris takes you on a tour of long-ago Paris, its cafes and his group of fellow expat cronies of the Lost Generation. Hemingway was a great wine connoisseur so pour yourself a glass of wine and enjoy the 1920's in Paris." | Sarah recommends Endurance by Alfred Lansing: "I love adventure to hard-to-get-to, cold places that I will never go to (but love to read about), and there are so many I could recommend, but this is one of my favorites. Shackleton and his crew get caught in the ice in Antarctica, and things get worse from there- very, very worse. But they endure, and all live, so there is a good ending, along with a nail-biting story." | Wendy recommends Go as a River by Shelley Read: "This is the debut novel by Shelley Read and tells the story of a young woman who flees her abusive family for the mountains of Colorado where, alone in the wilderness, she faces heartbreaking choices as her small town is set to be purposely flooded by the government in the name of progress." | Thanks for reading,
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