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Friday, July 4, 2008

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Feagler & Friends adds to your summer reading list with a look at the work of three local authors.

David Giffels: His book All the Way Home chronicles the Giffels family adventure in the ultimate fixer-upper. Giffels, a writer for the Akron Beacon Journal, sought a bigger place for his growing family. What he found was a broken-down mansion from the era of the Akron rubber barons. It challenged his limited skill as a do-it-yourselfer and helped bring his young family closer together. In that sense, it’s a gift that keeps on giving because the work is not yet finished.




Les Roberts: The former Hollywood television writer, now a greater Cleveland resident, created fictional Cleveland private eye, Milan Jacovich, who’s back for new adventure in King of the Holly Hop. Jacovich reluctantly attends his 40th high school reunion during which a former classmate is murdered. To prevent another classmate being wrongfully accused in the crime, Jacovich undertakes a search for the real killer. On the journey, he finds many of his former classmates were living lives of quiet desperation.
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Gregory G. Deegan: Quiet desperation is an apt description of long-suffering Cleveland sports fans, who haven’t seen a major professional sports championship since the Browns captured the NFL title in 1964. Other cities have trophies; Cleveland has The Drive, The Shot and the Jose Mesa meltdown. Four decades of defeat are limned in Deegan’s book Surviving the Drought. He gets into the heads of fans who’ve survived this era of ennui and constantly come back for more.

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