The Learned Owl Book Shop is hosting novelist, Marc Bona, for a book signing on Saturday, October 13, from 1-3.  Mr. Bona's book is entitled, The Game Changer.  Marc Bona is an award-winning features writer for cleveland.com who previously worked in assorted editing roles for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, The Post-Tribune in Gary, Indiana; The Times Union in Albany, New York; The Detroit News, San Antonio Light and The Dallas Morning News. He lives in Akron with his wife Lynne Sherwin and their rescue pup,  Addie. 

Meet Jane Turzillo at The Learned Owl Book Shop on Sunday, September 16, from 2-4 pm for a book signing of WICKED WOMEN OF OHIO.  The Buckeye State produced its share of wicked women. Tenacious madam Clara Palmer contended with constant police raids during the 1880s and ’90s. Only her death could shut the doors of her gilded bordello in Cleveland. Failed actress Mildred Gillars left for Europe right before World War II.

Nathaniel Philbrick, New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition, will discuss his latest book, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, the thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War. 

National Book Award winning author Alice McDermott will discuss her latest novel, The Ninth Hour, the story of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.

Sandeep Jauhar, cardiologist and bestselling author of Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician, will tell the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ as profiled in his latest book, Heart: A History.