Salutations!
We had a rather
spectacular
turn-out for Gene's Jazz Hot CD release party (thanks in part to great
coverage
in The Free Times, The Chronicle, CoolCleveland.com, Dee
Perry's Around
Noon, and a lot of friends and fans). Aside from our fabulous
books,
we do seem to be gaining a reputation for great music and happening
parties. The CD is of course available for sale at Loganberry.
Click on the pdf icon to the
right for an easy-to-print version of this newsletter. If you want a
poster of any individual event, check out the website or click on the
image (I can dream,
can't I?). Some very smart and interesting people are joining us in
September to
share their stories. Read on, and come hear them speak!
Larchmere Sidewalk Sale
Saturday,
September 2, 11-5pm
Labor Day weekend brings out the bargains on
Larchmere Boulevard. The many shops and services who reside here will
display special sales merchandise on the sidewalks and other discounts
throughout their retail stores. Loganberry Books will be offering a 20%
off sale, as well as 50% off selected specials on the sidewalk.
We'll even have some obscure old records, magazines, posters, and
vintage dresses. Oh my, you never know what will be on the
sidewalk.... but remember this kind of sale only happens twice a year.
Exciting
recent acquisitions
- vintage magazines, including House Beautiful, Fortune,
Antiques, Saturday Evening Post, etc.
- a complete set of Will Durant's Story of Civilization
- more Heritage Press! affordable, good-looking classics
- a new Arcadia book on the Cleveland Metroparks
- some nice leather sets, including The Autobiography of
Goethe, 1881
- several Film references encyclopedias
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Book Signing
Clara
Reece Day, Breaking
the Diamond Ceiling
Saturday, September 16th, 1-3pm
Clara Reece Day is a pioneering woman executive who negotiated trade
contracts and joint ventures with the Soviet Bloc and China during the
Cold War. Her story begins in Rumania, heads to London, and then to
Cleveland, Ohio. She met Cyrus Eaton, Jr. on an airplane and was hired
to work for his Tower International, negotiating billion-dollar deals
and unprecedented international collaborations. Come hear her
anecdotes of the people she met including Nikita Krushchev, George
Cukor, Chinese VP Gu Mu, Armand Hammer, and Buckminster Fuller. “Now
in the 21st century,” says Day, “perhaps it is a good time for the new
generation to compare—through a small glimpse—what happened in my life
in the ‘bad times’ and to what extent the ‘new order’ in the world is
better or how it could be improved. The new generation has every
chance to speak up and create a better world.” Clara Reece Day will
give a short presentation, followed by Q&A and a book signing.
Privately printed in 1999, fifth edition Oberlin, Ohio,
2006. Spiral bound, 112 pages, $15
NOBS Forums
Kenneth
A. Zirm: On Reporter Confidentiality
Thursday, September 21, 7pm
Some of the nation’s leading investigative reporters have begun
appearing at bookstores across the country to discuss the dangerous
increase in efforts to force journalists to reveal their confidential
sources. Kenneth Zirm of Walter
and Haverfield LLP and Frank Lewis of the Cleveland Free Times
will
discuss the background
to this civil rights issue, and its legal ramifications. The
presentation will explain the privilege and its history, with the heart
of the presentation focusing on why this privilege should matter to the
public. Attendees will learn more background on (a) the history of the
privilege, (b) stories that could not have been told but for the use of
confidential sources, and (c) the legal bases for the privilege.
Q&A will follow.
Co-sponsored by The
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE), the Media
Law Resource
Center (MLRC),
through a grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation (MTF). Presented
as part of Northern
Ohio Bibliophilic Society (NOBS) Forums.
Book Signing
Jan
Phillips, The Art of Original Thinking
Thursday, September 28, 7pm
Want a Better Bottom Line AND a Better World? Finally! A book that
confirms what we all knew in our hearts to be true: that capitalism -
and indeed the world - can have a social conscience. The Art of
Original Thinking is a book about thought leadership. It's a book
that
doesn't hide behind the convenient catch-cries of capitalism. It's a
book that is concerned, not with what to think, but with how to think.
Most importantly, it's a book that embraces your uniqueness and your
unique potential to effect positive change through original thinking
and thought leadership. When you pick this book up, your single
challenge will be to engage in "evolutionary thinking for global good."
When you put it down, you'll wonder how you ever thought otherwise.
Greenleaf
Book Group, 2006, hardcover, $24.95
Book Signing
Les
Roberts, We'll
Always Have Cleveland
Saturday, September 30th, 1-3pm
When novelist and television producer Les
Roberts visited Cleveland in 1986, he never dreamed that he'd find
himself so completely won over by the place that he'd give up the glitz
of Hollywood and put down roots in this rustbelt city. It took only a
few weeks in Cleveland to convince Roberts that the city was a ripe
setting for his next private-eye novel. Then, a chance meeting on an
airplane led him to the inspiration for his new character: Milan
Jacovich, a tough Slovenian-American sleuth with a master's degree and
a taste for klobasa sandwiches and cold Stroh's beer. The combination
proved very successful. Thirteen Milan Jacovich novels resulted, and
with each book Roberts drew more heavily on real Cleveland places and
people for the authentic local flavor of his stories. In this memoir,
Roberts tells how he discovered the heart and soul of a city while
fictionalizing it for a series of novels. He writes about his favorite
locations and his favorite people. It will appeal to fans of the
series, fans of the city, and aspiring novelists who want to learn how
one writer took a city and made it his own through fiction.
Gray & Co., 2006, hardback, 192 pp., $24.95
Stump
the Bookseller Selection of the month
R161: Replica dollhouse
This was a children's book I read repeatedly in the late 1960's but
could have dated from earlier. A boy and girl (i believe they were
brother and sister) move in to an old mansion. I recall that they
weren't too happy about it and were bored. There was an black
housekeeper. The house had a few mysteries. One was that the
housekeeper's son had come home from war (WWII? Possibly Vietnam) and
disappeared. The children were playing/exploring the house one day and
found a dollhouse that was an exact replica of the house that they were
living in. Later on in the story, they discovered a secret trap door in
the bottom of the closet inside the dollhouse. They checked the closet
in the real house and sure enough, it also had a trap door--and when it
was opened, they found the remains of the missing Joe at the bottom of
the stairs, he'd apparently fallen. I know it's not a lot to go on,
but I loved that mystery and would love to find another copy. Thank
you!
Gaming
Girls
Thursday,
August 10, 7pm
Mexican Train, a version of dominoes, is the current game of choice for
this monthly endeavor. New players continue to join us, so the group
is merging into an identity all its own. Come on by and relax with a
fun and engaging game of chance (and skill). No previous experience
necessary.
Annex Gallery
Dawn Pierce: Before Dawn
Thursday, September 7, 6-8pm
This art show is a tribute to some master painters much enjoyed
and
admired. Like many artists, Dawn's desire to paint is driven by other
artists. Having
met Andy Warhol at a party, she recalls his words that every work of
art is not original because it can be traced back to some other image.
The work she has sold is kind of like creating a contact lens of
another artist's eye. How wonderful that these works will be hanging
somewhere besides the artist's own living room. Show continues through
October 2.
I hope to see you browsing at Loganberry soon!
peace,
Harriett
Loganberry Books
13015 Larchmere Boulevard; Shaker Heights,
Ohio 44120; 216.795.9800
Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm
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