Hudson author Dr. Thomas Daniel will be at The Learned Owl Book Shop on Saturday, January 13th, from 1 to 3 p.m. He will be signing his newest book, “Escape Through the Andes”, his first work of fiction.  It is a “high altitude, high stakes chase through Bolivia and Peru”, featuring Dr. Paul Morgan, an academic physician from Cleveland, and his involvement in a mission to help Bolivian physician and spy Gonzalo Mamani flee from the Bolivian law.

Kent State University graduate Laura Critchfield, writing as L. A. McGinnis, will be at The Learned Owl Book Shop on Saturday, January 27, from 1 to 3 p.m.  She will be signing her paranormal romance novel "Shadow of Ghosts".  "Logan grew up knowing life wasn't really a fairy tale. Her world was dark, unfair, even cruel. While other little girls dreamed of castles in the air, Logan wished for just one place to call home.

Local author Irv Korman returns to The Learned Owl Book Shop to add to the Holiday Walk festivities on Sunday, December 3rd, from 12-5.  

He will be signing his Christmas book, "Citytown Christmas Conundrum", and his two memoirs, "I Was Jerry Lewis' Bodyguard for 10 Minutes" and "I Was Jackie Mason's Chauffeur for 10 Minutes".  Korman's most recent book is a collection of kids' quotes from his 30 years as a teacher in the Akron Public School System, entitled "Antuan Was Hear". 

Local author Bill Rapp will be at The Learned Owl Book Shop on Saturday, December 9th, from 1 to 3 p.m. He will be signing his new mystery "The Hapsburg Variation".  In 1955, as the Allies prepare to sign the State Treaty granting Vienna its independence, CIA Deputy Chief of Station Karl Baier becomes enmeshed in the case of a murdered Austrian aristocrat. Then his wife Sabine is kidnapped, and he suspects a connection. The stakes rise along with the danger as his investigation takes him from Vienna to Berlin, London, Scotland, and finally Budapest.

Garrett M. Graff will discuss his latest book, Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself---While the Rest of Us Die, which focuses on the history of the U.S. government’s Doomsday plans spanning from the Cold War to today. Graff will shed light on the secret history of Raven Rock, a 650-acre compound, and the multibillion-dollar Continuity of Government (COG) program designed to protect top government officials in case of catastrophe.