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Summer Book Show

Monday, July 8, 2013

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Dee Perry welcomes local book experts to discuss this summer's best reads.

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Books discussed on today’s show

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Joyland by Stephen King
America’s Obsessives by Joshua Kendall
I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman
Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner
You Cannoli Die Once by Shelley Costa
Baseball as a Road to God by John Sexton
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
Facing the Wave by Gretel Ehrlich
Bad Monkey by Carl Hiassen
Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion by Allen Guelzo
Inferno by Dan Brown
The English Girl by Daniel Silva
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls
Snapper by Brian Kimberling
The Son by Philipp Meyer
Cooked by Michael Pollan
The Best They Could Be: The Cleveland Indians 1916-1920 by Scott Longert
Hit by Pitch: Ray Chapman, Carl Mays and the Fatal Fastball by Molly Lawless
A Delicate Truth by John le Carre
Win, Place or Die by Les Roberts
Mayhem at the Orient Express by Kylie Logan
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Guests

Robert Ethington, Pop Culture Manager Akron Library

Wendy Bartlett, Collection Manager Cuyahoga County Public Library

Suzanne DeGatetano, Owner Macs Books

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Special thanks to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano.

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