Step right up and meet the author! Whether you've read everything by this author or haven't read anything yet, it's fun to meet the person behind the words, chat a little, and get your book signed. Signed books make great gifts, too!
SAVE THE DATE - We'll host Carter Bays, Shaker Heights native and co-creator of How I Met Your Mother, for a reading of his book The Mutual Friend on Wednesday, April 5.
We have author events regularly, featuring both up-and-coming local voices and nationally known voices.
One of our flagship author events is the monthly Broadsides & Ephemera poetry event (currently occurring virtually) every 2nd Thursday. Poets and writers interested in participating in Broadsides & Ephemera should contact bookseller Elijah at elijah@logan.com.
Upcoming Book Signings, Readings & Other Author Events
"Identifiable" by Julia (JT) Tvardovskaya Signing
Sunday, March 5, 3:00PM
Julia Tvardovskaya or, affectionately, JT, is passionate about using storytelling in print, on the stage, and on the screen to facilitate impact.
JT has creatively overlapped her passions for both storytelling and making lasting global change. She is an author, a thespian both on the stage and behind the curtain, and shares her foreign relations knowledge and business acumen with globally-minded nonprofits and businesses that align with her values.
Identifiable is a science fiction novel about people ascribing to, or contradicting, narratives—their darkness,their shortcomings, as well as their capacity to love.
Winner of the 2022 Book Fest Awards; Winner of the 2022 Page Turner Best in Genre Award; Finalist of the 2022 American Fiction Awards
Peculiar Book Club: Un-Break Your Heart
Thursday, March 9, 7:00PM
Peculiar Book Club: Esteemed home of the quirky, quizzical, curious, and bizarre! Join host Brandy Schillace twice a month to meet authors, discuss books, listen to music, make cocktails, and so much more!
The March 9th event features author Florence Williams, who will discuss the science behind sadness and her book, Hearbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey.
You can purchase a copy of Heartbreak, as well as other Peculiar Book Club books, by visiting Loganberry books, calling us at (216) 795-9800, or ordering via Loganberry's dedicated Peculiar Book Club online store. Click here to find out more about Peculiar Book Club and to subscribe to upcoming events.
Broadsides & Ephemera
Thursday, March 9, 7:00PM
Tonight's featured reader is Marcus Bales!
A practitioner of meter and rhyme, Marcus Bales attempts to render formal poetry at once intriguing and accessible for the contemporary reader, and has been writing poems, often humorous and political, at a brisk pace and giving them away via social media for several years. He is the author of the poetry collection 51 Poems (2016), and lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Peculiar Book Club: Fight for Your Rights with Ordinary Equality
Thursday, March 23, 7:00PM
Peculiar Book Club: Esteemed home of the quirky, quizzical, curious, and bizarre! Join host Brandy Schillace twice a month to meet authors, discuss books, listen to music, make cocktails, and so much more!
The March 23rd event features Kate Kelly, author of Ordinary Equality, which digs into the fascinating and little-known history of the women and queer people who have helped shape the U.S. Constitution for more than 200 years. Based on Kelly’s acclaimed podcast of the same name, Ordinary Equality recounts a story that is centuries in the making.
You can purchase a copy of Ordinary Equality, as well as other Peculiar Book Club books, by visiting Loganberry books, calling us at (216) 795-9800, or ordering via Loganberry's dedicated Peculiar Book Club online store. Click here to find out more about Peculiar Book Club and to subscribe to upcoming events.
Carter Bays THE MUTUAL FRIEND Book Reading
Wednesday, April 5, 7:00PM
Shaker Heights' own Carter Bays (Co-creator of How I Met Your Mother) will be here to read from his comic novel The Mutual Friend!
He'll be joined in conversation with local novelist, Susan Petrone (The Heebie-Jeebie Girl, and others).
Fun fact: both Bays and Petrone are former winners of Dobama Theatre's Marilyn Bianchi Kids' Playwriting Festival, and a representative for Dobama will also be here!
**THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT - One ticket provides admission and a signed copy of The Mutual Friend (at a 10% discount). If you already own the book, your ticket can be exchanged for store credit.**
Get your ticket here: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/ticket-carter-bays-event-april-5-2023
"Peaches & Cream" by Alodia Thaliel Book Signing
Sunday, April 30, 1:00PM
Join local author Alodia Thaliel as she signs copies of her recent release Peaches and Cream!
Rhode and Constantine have a relationship that most people would hesitate to define, though neither of the men ever felt the need to put a label on it. They were Con the football player, and Rhode the CEO, and they were always together. The rest was too annoying to deal with. Why did it matter what they were?
But when they meet Dani, all of that changes. With her, labels start to mean a lot. They become Daddy, Master, and their shared little. Together they navigate the waters of their polycule, their families, the press, and the judgment of a world that insists they know better than them.
"Oh! Susanna" by Gary Beckley Signing
Sunday, May 7, 1:00PM
Gary Beckley is the last namesake of his family, which is traced back to Washington County, Maryland and Lovettsville, Virginia, in 1770. He was born to parents whose heritage emanates from Alsace-Lorraine, and he was reared within a small Ohio community before emigrating to New Zealand for 26 years. He's recently returned to his Ohio roots where he has become the family's historian, political scientist, and storyteller.
Oh! Susanna is a captivating account of a woman's life during Civil War era America that centers around the author's 3rd-great grandmother, Susannah, who became a powerful matriarch - full of fascinating historical details interwoven through a rich tapestry of one woman's struggle to rear her family. A compelling and thought-provoking story that is sure to stay with readers long after its conclusion.
CW Goodyear: PRESIDENT GARFIELD author talk and book event
Thursday, July 13, 7:00PM
Join us to celebrate the first comprehensive biography of president James Garfield to publish in decades with author and historian CW Goodyear. C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union war hero and founder of the first Department of Education; Supreme Court attorney and abolitionist preacher; mathematician and canalman; crooked election-fixer and clean-government champion; Congressional chieftain and gentleman-farmer; the last president to be born in a log cabin; the second to be assassinated. James Abram Garfield was all these things and more.
