When I think of December, I think of love in its purest form. That type of love is hardly recognizable in our society today, and yet it is the essence of Christmas. The very love that is the foundation for this season’s celebration is not a love we often opt to imitate these days.
Our basic [...]

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What genre are you serving up this holiday season? Are you opening with a mixture of “greens”
drizzled with a honey of a golf story and following it with a hot bowl of something mysterious that will surprise everyone when they’re finished — kind of give them something to stew about?
One should always include a [...]

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Northeast Ohio is blessed with many talented writers of both fiction and nonfiction. Local books often are about a subject that is near and dear to the hearts of those on our Christmas lists.

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With the furor of what exactly is a safe gift choice for children, isn’t it nice that there are so many books available in all age groups? Here’s a look at a few.

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Everyone knows someone who is always nose-deep in a novel — they usually keep a book by their bedside and by their favorite armchair. This holiday season these die-hard readers just might go on overload, such is the abundant selection.
For the mystery enthusiasts, the current No. 1 bestseller in hardcover fiction is “Double Cross” by [...]

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Nonfiction books are out in droves. Political books and books by politicians are of course, numerous — we do have an election coming up. However, non-political books are waging their own war of sorts for that No. 1 spot on the bestseller lists.

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Medina native and New York Times bestselling author Donna VanLiere has once again graced the holiday season with a new book in her Christmas Hope series.
As with the first three books, “The Christmas Promise” (St. Martin’s Press; $14.95), gives readers a sense of belonging from start to finish, such is the strength of the [...]

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Maybe you’ve only seen the 1983 movie “A Christmas Story” once or twice. Or maybe you’ve watched it more times than you can count — after all, it’s on for 24 hours straight every Christmas on cable TV.
But to see the characters come to life at the Cleveland Play House, you’re much better off if [...]

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Nicholas Baker of Medina and Dimitri Georgiadis of Wadsworth star in Magical Theatre Company’ professional production of “A Christmas Story.”
Baker, an 11-year-old sixth-grade student at Granger Middle school, returns as young Ralphie on his hilarious quest for the Holy Grail of Christmas presents. Ralphie’s nemesis — Scut Farcus, the bully with yellow eyes — is [...]

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MEDINA TWP. — It takes water and sunlight to make a tree grow, but strong roots to make it thrive.
At Kall Christmas Tree Farm, you are likely to be greeted in the parking lot by a Kall, shown the selection of trees by a Kall, have your tree carried to your car by a Kall, [...]

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