Loganberry News
March 2025 |
Here we are, rolling into March like a sheep stampede. It's my favorite month, not because of March Madness (unless you mean a Mad Hatter Tea Party) or Mardi Gras (I think every Tuesday is Fat Tuesday, but I do appreciate Pi Day). Maybe it's Pisces season that thrills me (fish that I am), or our polar opposite position to October (my favorite season). It is also time for the best show business awards, by which I mean the National Book Critics Circle Award (not the Academy Awards, silly). It's the March momentum that excites me, it's in the very name!, as the days elongate and the sun warms our spirits. Take a deep breath and remember, this is the beginning, this is spring. To paraphrase Margaret Mead, never doubt that folks can change the world, they're the only thing that ever have.
Happy Women's History Month!
-Harriett |
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39th Akron Antiquarian Book and Paper Show
Presented by the Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society (NOBS)
Join Loganberry Books and NOBS at the annual Akron Antiquarian Book and Paper Show, which brings together rare book dealers and aficionados from Ohio and beyond. More than twenty vendors will have exciting vintage book finds available for purchase. Don't miss out!
Preview: Friday, March 28, 2025, 5:00 - 8:00 PM Tickets: $25, includes two drink tickets, hors d’oeuvres, and entertainment.
Saturday, March 29, 2025, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Admission: $5.00 at the door/free for NOBS members.
Venue: The John S. Knight Center, 77 E Mill St, Akron, OH 44308 |
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Broadsides & Ephemera
Poetry Reading & Open Mic |
Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 PM ~in-store, fourth Wednesdays *new day*~ |
Welcome Stephanie Ginese, poet, winner of the 2023 Cleveland Arts Prize, and author of Unto Dogs to our March edition of Broadsides & Ephemera. The open mic will follow her feature and Q&A. Come! Enjoy Stephanie's awesome work! Share your own!
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Annex Gallery Reception: Adeline Thompson |
Thursday, March 6, 6:00 PM ~in-store, first Thursdays~ |
Exhibit on-view 3/6/25-3/30/25. Enter a world where the natural and the supernatural collide in Curious Creatures: A Fusion of Fantasy and Nature. Featuring intricate illustrations from Adeline's project Incredible Insects: The Coloring Book alongside bold, surreal paintings inspired by cult horror and fantasy. RSVP on Facebook. |
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Local Voices highlights self-published local authors, allowing them to get their literary works onto our bookshelves and into your hands. If you are a local author, you can learn more about Local Voices by clicking here. |
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Dr. Dan Ratner, Crushing Doubt Sunday, March 2, 3:00 PM ~in-store~ |
Crushing Doubt builds on the legacy of Dr. John Sarno, providing a comprehensive system to manage and eradicate pain and other related symptoms. |
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Sarah Zilkowski, Beasts of War Sunday, March 30, 3:00 PM ~in-store~ |
Judith is determined to vanquish an evil warlord. But when he's within her reach, his magnetism and alluring promises weaken her. To escape his pull and save her people from his sister plans, she'll need true love, friendship, and a little touch of fate. |
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Book Clubs & Discussion Groups |
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Toddler Storytime Wednesday, March 12, 11:00 AM ~in-store, second Wednesdays~ |
Hop on a tow-truck ride with Toad as he learns that everyone needs help sometimes, even the helpers!
For kids ages 1-4 years old, Story Time for Toddlers features classic picture books old and new, read aloud by Nanny Patricia.
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Rebel Readers Sunday, March 16, 3:00 PM ~in-store, third Sundays~ |
Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young is the true account of the author's escape from a religious cult and her determination to survive and belong in the outside world. |
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Queer Lit Thursday, March 20, 7:00 PM ~in-store and on Zoom, third Thursdays~ |
Little Fish by Casey Plett is the story of Wendy Reimer, a 30-year-old trans woman grappling with the revelation that her late grandfather, a devout Mennonite farmer, may have been transgender himself.
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Kids Comic Con Teen Party Hosted by Lake Erie Ink Friday, March 7, 6:00-9:00 PM ~Museum of Contemporary Art; registration required; $10 per ticket~ |
Teens in grades 6-12 are invited to the Kids’ Comic Con Teen Party! This fun event features a cosplay contest, trivia and games, and drawing and writing with guest artists. Loganberry Books will be on-site selling your favorite comic books and associated titles! |
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Plum City Reading Series ft. Ruth Awad, Ananda Lima, and Ben Mauk Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 7:00 PM ~in-store; registration required -- pay what you can!~ |
Literary Cleveland's Plum City Reading Series brings the country's most interesting and groundbreaking authors to Cleveland. This installment of the series features poet Ruth Awad (Outside the Joy) from Columbus, fiction writer Ananda Lima (Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil) from Chicago, and new CWRU professor and New York Times Magazine contributor Ben Mauk. |
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Sales, Spotlights, and FYIs |
Fundraiser for Boulevard Elementary |
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Saturday, March 1, all day ~in-store and online~
Enjoy a day of shopping at Loganberry Books in aid of Shaker Heights Public Schools' Boulevard Elementary! The PTO of Boulevard Elementary is raising money to bring new books into classrooms that reflect a more diverse range of cultural and life experiences, and to purchase prizes for their annual Read-A-Thon. Books requested by Boulevard Elementary teachers for use in the classroom will also be available for purchase at Loganberry. |
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Collectible Pick: Spotlight on The Womans Press |
The Womans Press was established in the early 1900's as the publishing department of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Its mission was to foster an honest dialogue on matters of interest to women, and they published books of essays, stories, and biographies. The Sanctuary currently houses eight books published by The Womans Press. |
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Extended through March 31!! Loganberry Bookmark Contest |
Do you like cats, books, purple things, cozy bookstore vibes, making art, or some combination thereof? Submit your art to Loganberry's Bookmark Design Contest! Winning entries will receive a $50 gift certificate to Loganberry Books, plus a minimum 5,000 print run of bookmarks available free to Loganberry Books customers. Click "Submit Your Art!" to view details on artwork specs. |
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Now on Sale! Used Hardcover Mysteries Lean into this gloomy Cleveland spring with an atmospheric mystery or three. Buy two used hardback mysteries, get the third one 50% off. Discount will be taken on lowest-price book; this deal is repeatable in quantities of three. |
We're Hiring! Ever daydream of working in a third space surrounded by 120,000 biblio delights? Do you crave classifying and organizing a clean, well-lighted place? Consider a job at Loganberry Books. This short call is only going out via our eNews (for now), and needs only an email of interest/intent (for now). Fill out this form to apply; no phone calls or emails please. Both part time and full time positions are available; BIPOC and LGBTQ candidates encouraged. |
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Indie Press Spotlight: CLASH Books This month's Indie Press Spotlight is on CLASH Books, a New York-based independent literary press that prides itself in challenging genre expectations. CLASH is not afraid to publish sensitive content or weird literature that bigger presses often ignore. Shop CLASH at Loganberry all March long! |
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Check out the Loganberries' favorite books with a feminist edge, in celebration of Women's History Month |
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Manhunt is a story of queerness, belonging, class-consciousness, and trans misogyny. In the world that Felker-Martin crafts, men (and anyone with an overload of testosterone) turn into absolutely feral beasts. Being trans herself, Felker-Martin focuses on three main characters who are all queer/trans, and how they are able to exist in this new world where TERFs are growing in power and testosterone means death.-Devon |
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In That Librarian, school librarian Amanda Jones takes on the good fight against a group of book banners who launched a smear campaign against her when she defended her library's collection policy. Her love of libraries and her community is proudly on display in this memoir that will provoke anger and spur action to ensure that libraries have books that represent EVERYBODY. -Wendy |
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Three friends discover that menopause has given them each a special new talent which they use to wreak vigilante justice on certain male criminals. The Change is a sharp and clever commentary as well as a great tale! -Leigh |
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The narrator of American Mermaid, Penelope, writes a strange, feminist book about a woman who was really a mermaid but "fixed, up" to be a "human" and the book becomes a best seller, and a movie. Through it all she finds her true voice. A sleeper that is both funny and wise, which is hard to pull off, but Julia Langbein does exactly that, and it is well worth the read. -Sarah |
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You know how sometimes you just want to blanket the world with a pamphlet to spread your personal philosophy? We Should All Be Feminists is small enough to do the task and simple enough not to offend anyone. With humor and universal anecdotes, Adichie resolves the age-old F-word controversy. Her long-anticipated next novel, Dream Count, publishes on March 4th. -Harriett |
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Murder at the Museum is first book in a new series featuring a 10-year-old girl who is the world's greatest detective (although she has to disguise herself as a very short middle-aged man to pull it off). Inventive wordplay, a plethora of interesting female characters, and my favorite girl detective since ... ever! Laugh out loud funny, and feminist in an elemental way. -Toni |
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Tenacioius mountain woman Ivy Rowe is the central character in Lee Smith's book, Fair and Tender Ladies. It's a novel told through Ivy's letters chronicling her life in Appalachia, full of obstacles but with perseverance and dedication to survive. -Freddy |
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It's rare that I find poetry (or literature in general) that accurately portrays the strange combination of awe, frustration, and boredom that has marked my experience of motherhood. Eruption Sequence does just that with raw, wry poems that push back against societal ideas of how mothers should act, think, or be. -Jen |
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Thanks for reading, Harriett & all the Loganberries |
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