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Mary Louise Ruehr is a books columnist for The Portager. Her One for the Books column previously appeared in the Record-Courier, where she was an editor.

Image of a book cover depicting a black woman in a blue dress and a bonnet walking away, holding a bunch of sunflowers with the title Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly

Review: ‘Sunflower Sisters’ Revisits the Civil War

May 19, 2021

Image of the cover of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun: a light yellow hand with a small cartoon sun in it

One for the Books: With ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a Nobel Laureate is still going strong

March 29, 2021

image of a teal book cover with old photographs stacked at its border. The book is titled The Daughters of Erietown: A Novel by Connie Schultz

Connie Schultz sets her first novel in Northeast Ohio

July 30, 2020

Image of the cover of the book The Paris Library

One for the Books: Libraries aren’t just for reading

April 23, 2021

Image of a book cover featuring an illustration of soldiers on the left side with guns firing toward the words: "Four dead in Ohio"

In Kent State, an epic rendering of the massacre and its prologue

October 20, 2020

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Review: ‘Sunflower Sisters’ Revisits the Civil War

One for the Books: With ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a Nobel Laureate is still going strong

Connie Schultz sets her first novel in Northeast Ohio

One for the Books: Libraries aren’t just for reading

In Kent State, an epic rendering of the massacre and its prologue