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Lines from Loganberry

By Loganberry Books

Lines from Loganberry is the official podcast of Loganberry Books. Loganberry Books plays an active role in our community. We are committed literary ambassadors of Ohio's fine authors. Every week, we will connect you to new books, feature staff picks, reveal niche stories about Loganberry, link you to local authors, ask some interesting questions about the bookish world, and check in with our friendly bookstore cat, Otis.
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Honor, with Thrity Umrigar and Paula McLain

Lines from LoganberryFeb 08, 2022

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Honor, with Thrity Umrigar and Paula McLain

Honor, with Thrity Umrigar and Paula McLain

This week, we talk to author Thrity Umrigar (@ThrityUmrigar) about her new novel Honor, in conversation with fellow authors Paula McLain, and Loganberry’s own Sarah Willis. They discuss the book’s heavy emotional and political swings as it explores the personal risks of interfaith marriage in modern-day India.

Purchase Honor from Loganberry online at: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/honor

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Feb 08, 202237:56
Footnotes, with Caseen Gaines and Aseelah Shareef

Footnotes, with Caseen Gaines and Aseelah Shareef

This week, Aseelah Shareef of Cleveland’s Karamu House Theater interviews author Caseen Gaines (@caseengaines) on his new book Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way. They discuss the story and legacy of the groundbreaking 1921 musical Shuffle Along, the first African-American Broadway hit, and exactly how the creators behind it became forgotten in the mainstream pop-consciousness.

Purchase Footnotes from Loganberry online at: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/footnotes

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Sep 30, 202152:47
Reflections on Cancer Survival, with Penny Casselman and Jackie Acho

Reflections on Cancer Survival, with Penny Casselman and Jackie Acho

This week, we are hosting interviews with cancer survivors Penny Casselman, author of How To Get A Free Boob Job, and Jacqueline Acho, author of Currency of Empathy: The Secret to Thriving in Business & Life. Local Voices manager Miesha Headen asks how their experiences with cancer changed their lives, and what being a survivor means to them.

Purchase How To Get A Free Boob Job from Loganberry online at: https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-get-a-free-boob-job-and-other-insights-from-a-breast-cancer-adventurer-9781982254735/9781982254711

Purchase Currency of Empathy from Loganberry online at: https://bookshop.org/books/currency-of-empathy/9781732436411

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Sep 22, 202147:41
Hope in Disarray, with Grace Ji-Sun Kim

Hope in Disarray, with Grace Ji-Sun Kim

On today’s episode, Local Voices manager Miesha Headen interviews Grace Ji-Sun Kim to discuss her new book, Hope in Disarray. They discuss the role faith has in the wake of the pandemic, her work towards ending the invisibility of Asian-American women, and what Christianity means to her as a person of color. All of this and more, today on Lines from Loganberry.

Loganberry  Books is spotlighting Pilgrim Press, an independent publisher located  in Cleveland and the oldest English language publishing company in the  United States. Pilgrim publishes books that nurture spiritual growth and  provoke the soul for the sake of a just world: from one of Dr. Martin  Luther King Jr.'s first books to the sermons of Otis Moss, Jr.  Purchase Hope in Disarray from Loganberry online at: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/hope-disarray-piecing-our-lives-together-faith

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Jun 09, 202143:02
Books on Pride, with Doug Henderson and Lou Barrett

Books on Pride, with Doug Henderson and Lou Barrett

On this episode of Lines from Loganberry, Local Voices manager Miesha Headen interviews Doug Henderson, author of The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Fantasy & Role Playing Club. They discuss the challenges of writing characters coming from different perspectives on queer identity, and how it all fits into the composition of a narrative. Plus, Lou Barrett of Purple Palm Press joins us to discuss the operation of an independent publisher focused on queer lives.

Purchase The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Fantasy & Role Playing Club from Loganberry online at: https://bookshop.org/books/the-cleveland-heights-lgbtq-sci-fi-and-fantasy-role-playing-club/9781609387563

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Jun 02, 202139:48
Gems from Journey Press, with Gideon Marcus, Laura Weyr, and Tom Purdom

Gems from Journey Press, with Gideon Marcus, Laura Weyr, and Tom Purdom

On this episode of Lines from Loganberry, Local Voices manager Miesha Headen interviews three Hugo Award Finalists from Journey Press: Tom Purdom (I Want the Stars), Laura Weyr (The Eighth Key), and Gideon Marcus (Kitra). They discuss their books, the history of their careers, and what it means to be an independent publisher in the science fiction space.

Purchase their books from Loganberry online at: https://bookshop.org/lists/gems-from-journey-press-lines-from-loganberry-podcast-may-16th

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May 19, 202147:12
Maggie Sullivan: How To Market Your Book on a Budget

Maggie Sullivan: How To Market Your Book on a Budget

On this episode, author Maggie Sullivan speaks to Local Voices manager Miesha Headen about her book Boss Ladies of CLE, and teaches authors how to market and promote their books on a low budget. Having years of experience helping companies with digital marketing and content creation, she comes to Lines from Loganberry to share her insight.

Boss Ladies of CLE has been featured in print media, such as Cleveland Magazine and Freshwater, and television, on WKYC, Fox8, ABC, and Spectrum News.  

Purchase Boss Ladies of CLE from Loganberry online at: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/boss-ladies-cle

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May 05, 202142:28
Why Labelle Matters, with Adele Bertei and Charlotte Morgan

Why Labelle Matters, with Adele Bertei and Charlotte Morgan

On today’s episode, Adele Bertei and musicology journalist Charlotte Morgan discuss Why Labelle Matters, a history of the musical group of Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash. They discuss the obstacles women in music face, the rise of Afrofuturism in the 1970’s, and collaborations with and influences between Black and white musicians. 

Content warning: within this episode, there is a discussion on sexual abuse. The discussion begins at 28:54 and ends at 31:18 .

Purchase Why Labelle Matters from Loganberry online at: https://bookshop.org/books/why-labelle-matters/9781477320402

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Apr 28, 202139:24
Bad Girls of The Bible with Barbara J. Essex

Bad Girls of The Bible with Barbara J. Essex

On this episode, bookseller Miranda Richmond hosts author Barbara J. Essex to discuss her book Bad Girls of The Bible. In the book, Essex reflects upon women traditionally described in the Bible in a negative sense, uncovering a relatable humanity, and new lessons to take away from their stories. All of this and more, on Lines from Loganberry.

Purchase Bad Girls of The Bible from Loganberry online at: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/bad-girls-bible-exploring-women-questionable-virtue

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Apr 13, 202136:08
Local Voices: Trying Times with Terry Gilbert and Carlo Wolff

Local Voices: Trying Times with Terry Gilbert and Carlo Wolff

On this episode, Local Voices manager Miesha Headen hosts civil rights lawyer Terry Gilbert, along with coauthor and journalist Carlo Wolff, to discuss their new book, Trying Times. In his memoir, Gilbert discusses his experience challenging preconceived notions in the legal system, and how he used his position to bring attention towards equity, both inside and out of the court.

Purchase Trying Times from Loganberry online at: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/trying-times

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Mar 24, 202142:38
Local Voices - Craft and Conversation: Elizabeth Wilcox Digs Deep into Maternal Trauma

Local Voices - Craft and Conversation: Elizabeth Wilcox Digs Deep into Maternal Trauma

On this episode, Local Voices manager Miesha Headen hosts author Elizabeth Wilcox to discuss her new book, The Long Tail of Trauma. Wilcox discusses the weight of trauma as it affected her family through five generations, focusing on how what her grandmother experienced in childhood affected her mother, and how that trauma came to affect her own life.

Purchase The Long Tail of Trauma from Loganberry online at: https://bookshop.org/books/the-long-tail-of-trauma-a-memoir/9781950584628?aid=1783&listref=local-voices

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Feb 24, 202136:43
I Dream of Popo with Illustrator Julia Kuo

I Dream of Popo with Illustrator Julia Kuo

On this episode of Lines from Loganberry, Local Voices manager MIesha Headen hosts Julia Kuo, Cleveland-based illustrator of the newly published picture book I Dream of Popo. In their discussion, Miesha and Julia discuss her career, her experience working on Popo, and how she was able to relate the work to her own lived experience as a Taiwanese-American. Following their discussion, Julia presents a talk detailing the processes behind developing a children's book, from conceptualization to publication.

Purchase I Dream of Popo from Loganberry online at: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/i-dream-popo

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Feb 17, 202132:41
Lecture Series: Handprints on Hubble with Former NASA Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan

Lecture Series: Handprints on Hubble with Former NASA Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan

On this episode of Lines from Loganberry, we feature a talk by geologist and former NASA astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space. In her new book, Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention, Kathryn details her experience working on the team that launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990. Marcy Frumker of the International Women's Air & Space Museum hosts and joins in for a brief Q&A at the end of the program.

Purchase Handprints on Hubble from Loganberry online at: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/handprints-hubble-astronauts-story-invention


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Feb 09, 202101:06:25
A Discussion with Loganberry: R. Erica Doyle and Ross Gay

A Discussion with Loganberry: R. Erica Doyle and Ross Gay

On this episode of Lines from Loganberry, we feature an interview with poets R. Erica Doyle and Ross Gay, hosted by Loganberry’s Harriett Logan, and organized together with Local Voices manager Miesha Headen. In their conversation, Doyle and Gay discuss their work, their careers, and their relationships to language.

Books mentioned by R. Erica Doyle and Ross Gay can be purchased from Loganberry Books online at the following link:

https://bookshop.org/lists/ross-gay-r-erica-doyle-praised-poetry-list-lines-of-loganberry-podcast

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Jan 19, 202152:43
Lines from Loganberry: Confronting Policing as a Segregationist Tool and Imagining an Anti-Segregationist Future with Dr. Monica Bell

Lines from Loganberry: Confronting Policing as a Segregationist Tool and Imagining an Anti-Segregationist Future with Dr. Monica Bell

In this special edition of Lines from Loganberry, we present a seminar conducted by Dr. Monica C. Bell, Associate Professor of Law & Sociology at Yale Law School. In her talk, presented as part of Loganberry’s Black Future Month, Dr. Bell discusses her research into the noncriminal functions of policing. In particular, policing’s role in reinforcing and reproducing racial residential segregation. This seminar was recorded live and remotely, on Thursday, August 6, 2020.

Dr. Monica Bell's recent article in the NYU Law Review, "Anti-Segregation Policing":

https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/NYULawReview-Volume-95-Issue-3-Bell.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3MzML7MlnzNzWKcwDC-3697KVqUzJrCszdjD-WtAJNRC24N-V_W80r2fo

Dr. Bell's recommendations for further reading:

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

https://bookshop.org/a/1783/9781469653662


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Sep 23, 202001:04:50
Lines from Loganberry: BIPOC Author Showcase with Tiffany McDaniel, author of "Betty"

Lines from Loganberry: BIPOC Author Showcase with Tiffany McDaniel, author of "Betty"

Betty can be purchased from Loganberry Books online at https://store.loganberrybooks.com/betty-novel

Betty is the second novel written by Tiffany McDaniel, a coming of age story about a girl born to a white mother and a Cherokee father in rural Ohio, and how she manages the brutal secrets of her family's past as they come to light.

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Sep 09, 202037:54
Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Beth Armstrong, "Voices from the Ape House"

Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Beth Armstrong, "Voices from the Ape House"

Voices from the Ape House can be purchased from Loganberry Books online at https://store.loganberrybooks.com/voices-ape-house

This week on the Intellect and Inspiration Series, Loganberry's Local Voices manager Miesha Headen speaks to Beth Armstrong, author of Voices from the Ape House. Beth worked with and eventually lead the department of gorilla husbandry at the at Columbus Zoo from 1982 to 1996, a period of extraordinary excellence spearheaded by Jack Hanna, when the Columbus Zoo became of the top zoos in the United States according Condé Naste Traveler and USA Today. Beth later became the Columbus Zoo’s first field conservationist, saving species around the world and supporting community-based conservation in places such as Guatemala and India. She now mentors up-and-coming primatologists, and supports indigenous conversation throughout the world.

Additional reading recommended by Beth Armstrong include:

Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey

Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott

The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett

The Memory of Running, McLarty

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Aug 19, 202046:25
A Discussion with Loganberry: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

A Discussion with Loganberry: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

**This episode originally aired as a special Lines from Loganberry Facebook Live event on June 17, 2020**

The Vanishing Half can be purchased from Loganberry Books online at https://store.loganberrybooks.com/vanishing-half


Join Loganberry's own Local Voices manager Miesha Headen, author Susan Petrone, and bookseller Margy Adams as they discuss Brit Bennett's new critically acclaimed novel, The Vanishing Half. This discussion is predominately spoiler-free of major plot points (although minor details are revealed). 

Miesha Headen is the Local Voices Manager at Loganberry Books. Local Voices is a program to promote Ohio based authors through events and marketing. Miesha is also the project manager for Beauty for Ashes, a collaborative journalism project confronting issues of healthcare disparities and black women's maternal health.

Susan Petrone is a Cleveland-based writer whose work has appeared in such diverse outlets as CoolCleveland, ESPN.com, and Glimmer Train. She is the author of the novels Throw Like a Woman, The Super Ladies, and, most recently, The Heebie-Jeebie Girl.

Margy Adams is a bookseller at Loganberry Books. She graduated from The College of Wooster in 2019 with a degree in philosophy and English, and she will soon be continuing her studies in critical race theory and decolonial thought in graduate school. Here is the link to her review of The Vanishing Half. 


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Aug 12, 202037:12
Beauty for Ashes: Chastity Strawder, "Broken for the Promise"

Beauty for Ashes: Chastity Strawder, "Broken for the Promise"

The Beauty for Ashes collaborative journalism project grew out of a desire to hear directly the voices of Black women who have suffered from the loss of a child or a mother during childbirth. We heard, recorded, and memorialized the stories of nine Black women from Cleveland. If disparities in healthcare and birth outcomes stemmed from institutional racism, then the women’s stories would assist in providing the solutions. What the Beauty for Ashes project intends to accomplish is a wedding of these women’s voices with current information to improve lives in Cuyahoga County.

In this interview, Miesha Wilson Headen and Pastor Aaron Phillips, Executive Director of Cleveland Clergy Coalition, interview Chasity Strawder on Radio One’s 1490 AM station in Cleveland. Chasity wrote a memoir entitled “Broken for the Promise” which recounts her painful pregnancy and the indifference of most of her medical providers. She discusses nearly miscarrying, intermittent homelessness with her husband, and a struggle for basic transportation.

Aug 10, 202038:32
Local Voices: Ida Finds Her Voice, an anti-racism children's picture book

Local Voices: Ida Finds Her Voice, an anti-racism children's picture book

Ida Finds Her Voice can be purchased from Loganberry Books online at https://store.loganberrybooks.com/ida-finds-her-voice

Ida Finds Her Voice is a picture book to help children and parents talk about hard topics like prejudice and intolerance written by Dr. Kate Anderson Foley and Jenifer Anderson-Smith.

Dr. Kate Anderson is the CEO of The Education Policy & Practice Group. Kate partners with local, state, and national organizations, education agencies, and various industries providing her expertise with strategic planning, asset-based education policies and practices, and consulting.  

Jenifer Anderson-Smith is  a grassroots activist engaged in community work to promote racial justice and other social causes.

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Aug 06, 202036:36
Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Dr. Todd Michney and Kathleen Crowther (Part 2)

Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Dr. Todd Michney and Kathleen Crowther (Part 2)

The Intellect and Inspiration Local Voices series seeks to engage and motivate the listener during these challenging times through the thought-provoking work of a local author. This week, Loganberry's Local Voices manager Miesha Headen interviews Dr. Todd Michney and Kathleen Crowther on the Cleveland Restoration Society's book (authored by Michney and edited in part by Crowther), The Making of Cleveland's Black Suburb in the City: Lee-Seville & Lee Harvard. This is the second episode of two that feature's Miesha's conversation with Todd, so if you missed last week's, make sure to go back and listen to the first half of their discussion. 

Kathleen H. Crowther has been Executive Director/President of the Cleveland Restoration Society (CRS) since 1987. During Ms. Crowther’s tenure, the Cleveland Restoration Society has grown dramatically into a large and influential preservation organization. The organization is particularly adept at developing partnerships that align historic preservation with economic development goals. Ms. Crowther has served in leadership capacities on the state and national levels, particularly in association with the National Trust for Historic Preservation (USA). Ms. Crowther was selected as the first local executive director to chair of the National Trust’s Statewide and Local Partners Program. She is affiliated with the National Arts Strategies organization which provides leadership development to arts’ leaders that helps them find new approaches to the toughest challenges they face. 1n 2007, she participated in an exchange with French professionals in conjunction with the Courants Program of the French-American Foundation (New York, NY). In 2010-11, she was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome.

Todd M. Michney is an Assistant Professor in the School of History and Sociology who focuses on urban history, digital history, African American history, and the history of race and ethnicity. Dr. Michney is the author of Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900-1980 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), as well as articles in the Journal of Social History, Journal of Urban History, Journal of Planning History, and Reviews in American History. His current research interests include black building tradesmen and the extent of African American access to New Deal mortgage supports. Michney has sat on the board of the Urban History Association and twice served as a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant evaluator.

You can purchase The Making of Cleveland's Black Suburb in the City: Lee-Seville & Lee Harvard here.

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Jul 08, 202039:05
Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Dr. Todd Michney and Kathleen Crowther (Part 1)

Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Dr. Todd Michney and Kathleen Crowther (Part 1)

The Intellect and Inspiration Local Voices series seeks to engage and motivate the listener during these challenging times through the thought-provoking work of a local author. This week, Loganberry's Local Voices manager Miesha Headen interviews Dr. Todd Michney and Kathleen Crowther on the Cleveland Restoration Society's book (authored by Michney and edited in part by Crowther), The Making of Cleveland's Black Suburb in the City: Lee-Seville & Lee Harvard. This is the first episode of two that feature's Miesha's conversation with Kathleen and Todd, so make sure to tune in next week for the latter half of their discussion.

Kathleen H. Crowther has been Executive Director/President of the Cleveland Restoration Society (CRS) since 1987. During Ms. Crowther’s tenure, the Cleveland Restoration Society has grown dramatically into a large and influential preservation organization. The organization is particularly adept at developing partnerships that align historic preservation with economic development goals. Ms. Crowther has served in leadership capacities on the state and national levels, particularly in association with the National Trust for Historic Preservation (USA). Ms. Crowther was selected as the first local executive director to chair of the National Trust’s Statewide and Local Partners Program. She is affiliated with the National Arts Strategies organization which provides leadership development to arts’ leaders that helps them find new approaches to the toughest challenges they face. 1n 2007, she participated in an exchange with French professionals in conjunction with the Courants Program of the French-American Foundation (New York, NY). In 2010-11, she was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome.

Todd M. Michney is an Assistant Professor in the School of History and Sociology who focuses on urban history, digital history, African American history, and the history of race and ethnicity. Dr. Michney is the author of Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900-1980 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), as well as articles in the Journal of Social History, Journal of Urban History, Journal of Planning History, and Reviews in American History. His current research interests include black building tradesmen and the extent of African American access to New Deal mortgage supports. Michney has sat on the board of the Urban History Association and twice served as a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant evaluator.

You can purchase The Making of Cleveland's Black Suburb in the City: Lee-Seville & Lee Harvard here.


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Jul 01, 202045:13
Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Ken Schneck interviews "Tinderbox" author Robert Fieseler

Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Ken Schneck interviews "Tinderbox" author Robert Fieseler

The Intellect and Inspiration Local Voices series seeks to engage and motivate the listener during these challenging times through the thought-provoking work of a local author. This week, for a special edition of the series in honor of Pride Month, Local Voices manager Miesha Headen hosts as author and professor Ken Schneck interviews journalist Robert Fieseler. 

Robert W. Fieseler is the winner of the 2020 Columbia Journalism School First Decade Award, the 2019 NLGJA (National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association) Journalist of the Year and a debut nonfiction author. He currently lives with his husband and dog in New Orleans. He graduated co-valedictorian from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a recipient of the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship and the Lynton Fellowship in Book Writing. He is the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association "Journalist of the Year" and the acclaimed debut author of Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation, winner of the Edgar Award in Best Fact Crime and the Louisiana Literary Award.

Ken Schneck is an author, radio host, and professor at Baldwin Wallace University, where he teaches courses on antiracism, ethical leadership, and creating community-based change. He authored LGBTQ Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati and Seriously . . . What am I Doing Here? Most recently, he founded "The Buckeye Flame," a new online magazine for LGBTQ+ Ohioans.


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Jun 24, 202047:37
Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Dr. Louise Prochaska

Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Dr. Louise Prochaska

The Intellect and Inspiration Local Voices series seeks to engage and motivate the listener during these challenging times through the thought-provoking work of a local author. This week, Loganberry's Local Voices manager Miesha Headen interviews Louise Prochaska, Ph.D., a 1964 graduate of Notre Dame and professor of theology and women’s studies at the College. She is also the author of “Ten Keys to a Happier Life: Unlocking the Riches in Positive Psychology, Neuroscience and Ancient Religious Wisdom.” She has uncovered ten practices based in scientific evidence and religious teachings that help students of all ages live happier, healthier lives. 

In the interactive workbook, Prochaska has distilled 20 years of study on brain activity and research of individual and social well-being and connected the science with age-old spiritual insight to create common practices that promote positive feelings. She presents the ten components in a weekly journal of reflections and activities that lead to regular routines that free people from stress and anxiety. “This just seems to touch a real nerve and a real need,” Prochaska said. “I just feel happier talking about it, too."

You can purchase "Ten Keys to a Happier Life" on Loganberry's website here: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/ten-keys-happier-life

Louise also recommends the following books which can be purchased from our affiliate page on Bookshop.org:


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Jun 17, 202034:41
Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Dr. Ankur Kalra

Local Voices: Intellect and Inspiration Series - Dr. Ankur Kalra

The Intellect and Inspiration Local Voices series seeks to engage and motivate the listener during these challenging times through the thought-provoking work by a local author. This week, Local Voices manager Miesha Headen interviews Dr. Ankur Kalra, who is an interventional cardiologist and clinical researcher at the Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital. His collection of poetry, titled "Ibadah: When love transforms into transcendence, life transforms into servitude," is a tribute to his spirituality as well as his experiences treating patients' hearts. The poems bridge feelings of heartache, loss, and beguilement to the concepts of reincarnation and transcending finite pain in order to grow. 

His collection is available at Loganberry here: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/ibadah-when-love-transforms-i.

He also recommends the following books that align with spirituality, wholeness, and gratitude: 


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Jun 10, 202045:35
Local Voices: Books, Big Hats, and Bourbon - A Celebration of Horses with Loganberry Books

Local Voices: Books, Big Hats, and Bourbon - A Celebration of Horses with Loganberry Books

**This episode originally aired as a Facebook Live event on May 2, 2020.**


Join Loganberry Books as we celebrate the beauty and strength of horses by hosting a free author talk with three horse lovers. Though the 146th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs was postponed, Loganberry Books invites fans to honor the animals and the annual tradition while staying at home and enjoying books, big hats, and bourbon with us.

All of the books are available online via Loganberry. The featured authors are:


• Dave Szalay, illustrator of “The True Story of Zippy Chippy The Little Horse That Couldn’t” https://cutt.ly/Ryd3gf0
• Betty Weibel, author of “Little Victories A True Story of the Healing Power of Horses” https://cutt.ly/eyd3jME
• Janet Wolanin Alexander, author of “At Home on a Horse in the Woods” https://cutt.ly/Fyd3hmI


Related books are also available at Loganberry:

  • "A Year at the Races - Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck" by Jane Smiley;
  • "Half Broke" by Ginger Gaffney


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Jun 05, 202047:55