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"Love You More Than You Know: Mother's Stories About Sending Their Sons and Daughters to War"

Edited by Janie Reinart and Mary Anne Meyer.

$14.95 / paperback / 240 pages

Gray and Co. Publishers

www.grayco.com

One mother describes sleeping in her office by her computer so she wouldn't miss any e-mail correspondence from her son.

Another mother relates how she started a support group for families of military personnel and making patriotic bracelets to keep herself from dwelling and worrying over her own son's tour of duty in Iraq.

A third mother tells how she took up running to relieve her stress when her son was serving. When her son returned home, they ran a marathon together, and her son gave both of them T-shirts printed with "Team Fawley -- Like Mother, Like Son."

Still another mother describes her reactions when her daughter tells her that she has joined the army.

"Love You More Than You Know" are the stories of 45 Northeast Ohio mothers, who write about their experiences and feelings when they find out their children left are leaving for Iraq or Afghanistan. The women include paralegals, teachers, grandmothers, police dispatchers and many other occupations.

The stories were gathered and edited by Janie Reinart and Mary Anne Meyer.

Cleveland Ethnic Eats, eighth edition

By Laura Taxel

$14.95 / paperback / 264 pages

Gray and Co. Publishers

www.grayco.com

Local foodies rejoice: Laura Taxel has updated her "Cleveland Ethnic Eats" book. The 8th edition's listings have all been updated and includes 58 new listings, giving a total of 356 listings, representing more than 60 different countries. The listings, which include both restaurants and markets ranging from Cleveland to Canal Fulton, are organized by ethniticty, with further index breakdowns by location and name. The listings generally contain the name, address, phone number, hours and a cost guide, along with a brief description.

Adviser Secrets: How to Become a Top Performer

By Dennis Sommer

$27.95/236 pages

www.advisersecrets.com

Stow resident Dennis Sommer, CEO of Executive Business Advisors, recently published "Adviser Secrets: How to Become a Top Performer." Sommer said this book is intended for business owners, consultants, sales and service professionals who serve clients on a daily basis. "The tips and techniques in this book will help you become a master communicator and top performer in your profession," he said.

According to Sommer, in today's fast paced changing business world, professionals must work smarter than ever to improve their performance. What worked in the past doesn't work today. Technical mastery of your vocation will only take you as far as an "average" performer.

In his book, the author introduces his approach called the "Adviser Success Model" and walks the reader step-by-step through 13 of the most important communication skills used by top performers.

The First Battle of the New Civil War: Revenge of the Ghost Wolf

By Jim West

$19.95/176 pages

PublishAmerica

www.publishamerica.com

Jim West of Cuyahoga Falls recently published "The First Battle of the New Civil War: Revenge of the Ghost Wolf" through PublishAmerica.

According to information sent by the publishing company, the book centers on Lisianna Rockefeller, the wife of a congressman and a popular journalist. She becomes enmeshed with a group known as the Consolidated Citizens Corp, commonly known as the CCC, and a man known only as X, who is involved in smuggling people out of Crooked County that are on the list of suspected persons.

West is a career broadcaster who spent the majority of his life in California as a program director and music director at several of California's most popular radio stations. An entertaining morning host for seven years, West headed east and a gig at WMMS-Cleveland

Eat, Drink

and Be Mindful

By Susan Albers

$19.95/200 pages

New Harbinger

Publications

www.eatingmindfully.com

Susan Albers, a clinical psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital and a 1993 graduate of Stow-Munroe Falls High School, published her book, "Eat, Drink and Be Mindful" earlier this year. Albers has published other books along this theme: "Mindful Eating 101" and "Eating Mindfully."

This book aims to be tool for dealing with the problem of mindless overeating. The author currently uses this workbook with clients in her Mindful Eating support groups. The book is a collection of more than 70 worksheets she has created. The workbook is organized around the seven skills of mindful-eater-awareness: observing, being in-the-moment, acceptance, letting go, non-judgment, and mindfulness of the environment. Each worksheet is one to two pages. This concise, easy-to-use guide is for introducing people to mindful eating. More advanced mindful eaters love the journal format. It is also a tool for therapists to use with their clients.

For details on this book or her other work, visit Albers' Web site at http://www.eatingmindfully.com

Voluntary Chaos

By Joan Jackson

$21.99/568 pages

BookSurge

www.booksurge.com

Joan Jackson, who lives for a part of the year in Silver Lake, recently published "Voluntary Chaos." Jackson describes the book's theme and plot:

In 1979 in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, Sylvia Beekman is unsatisfied with her life, which she thinks of as a "yuppie cliche." She finds herself more and more unhappy with her 10-year marriage with Tom, her college sweetheart, but feels torn between whether to stay married or divorce because of their children. Unable to reconcile her duty bound commitment to the husband she's outgrown and her devotion to her two young children, she wrestles for years with the moral dilemma to stay married or divorce. As Mt. St. Helens erupts nearby, she connects to her own long dormancy of discontent and rushes into action, filing for divorce, returning to teaching and continuing her affair with another man.

Jackson was raised in Ohio, taught French, and managed a French Tahitian export company in Oregon. Now a free-lance writer, she has published several magazine articles, written a collection of short stories, and is currently working on her second novel, "Just In Time."

She and her husband live in West Los Angeles as well as part-time in Silver Lake.

300 Sensational Soups

By Carla Snyder and Meredith Deeds

$24.95/384 pages

Robert Rose

Hudson resident Carla Snyder has been cooking up books on recipes, along with co-author Meredith Deeds. Their most recent concoction, "300 Sensational Soups," was highlighted in December by Sarah Moulton on Good Morning America as one of her favorite 10 cookbooks for 2008.

According to information provided by Snyder, the two authors also have combined their talents and culinary expertise to create "The Mixer Bible" and "The Mixer Bible Second Edition," the James Beard nominated "The Big Book of Appetizers" and "The Take-Out Menu Cookbook: How to cook IN the food you love to order OUT." Due out this fall is "New Flavors for Seafood," a Williams Sonoma cookbook and in 2010 "The Little Black Dress Cookbook: 200 simple to spectacular recipes for your culinary closet."

Books may be purchased at The Learned Owl in Hudson, and through such outlets as Amazon and Barnes and Noble.