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61) Wonton terror
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Language
English
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Description
"Lana Lee is all smiles when the first evening of Cleveland's Asian Night Market kicks off the summer. The weekly festival is always good for business, packed with locals and tourists, and this year, some stiff new food-truck competition. Wonton on Wheels, run by old friends of Lana's parents, promises to have customers lining up for their delicately wrapped delights--until the truck blows up at evening's end. Lana's boyfriend, Detective Adam Trudeau,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Erin Hosier and her family belonged to a strict evangelical church in Bainbridge, Ohio, for the first fourteen years of her life. But Erin was a rebel of the eighties who dyed her hair with cherry Kool-Aid while loudly defending liberal causes. Behind closed doors, she and her family were "five mentally ill people at different stages of development, screaming and flailing hysterically like hyenas." At the heart of the family was her father, Jack,...
Author
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
On May 6, 2013, a young woman kicked out the front door of a house in a working-class Cleveland neighbourhood and screamed for help. She and her six-year-old daughter ran to a neighbour's house, dialed 911, and told the operator, 'Help me, I'm Amanda Berry. I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years. And I'm here. I'm free now.' So began one of the most remarkable criminal stories of recent times, for it was soon discovered that Berry...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
For centuries, luxury textiles were symbols of status, wealth and power at Islamic imperial courts from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, setting standards for beauty and fueling prosperous, urban economies. This book offers an unparalleled examination of Islamic luxury textiles, drawn from the Cleveland Museum of Art's exemplary collection as well as from museums on four continents. Leading scholar Louise W. Mackie offers a generous overview of the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
1st edition.
Language
English
Description
"What to do in Cleveland now that it's gone from "The Mistake on the Lake" to "Believe Land" From polka bands to popcorn balls, the more recently bumbling Browns to the thankfully no- longer- burning river, Michael Murphy shares his Cleveland. Raised in The Land, Murphy returns to see that the quirky character of his hometown is no longer mocked, but celebrated (mostly). The city, where high cuisine used to be Manners Big Boy or the Woolworth's lunch...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Rich Paul grew up in a Cleveland that hadn't won a sports championship in decades. He and his siblings lived with their mother, who struggled with addiction, in a one-bedroom apartment in the poverty-stricken Glenville neighborhood. Young Rich dreamed ofbecoming a star athlete but realized quickly that his small stature would make it nearly impossible. A serious child with a mind for detail, he went to private school and then college at his shop-owner...
69) Fütchi perf
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Fütchi Perf ('fyooCHee purf') is an album of speculative vignettes set against the shared backdrop of a better, happier Cleveland, Ohio."--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Center Point large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however, Jill was lucky enough to snag one of the few librarian gigs left in her home state of Ohio. The catch? The job was behind bars as the prison librarian at a...
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