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Irish Sports Pages
#13 in the Milan Jacovich series where Milan finds a dead con man connected to the IRA.
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They Died Crawling
The first in a series of incredible but true stores of Cleveland crime and disaster.
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Omar!
A look inside the locker room of the Indians teams of the late 1990s, from one of the best shortstops ever to play the game.
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Lake Effect
#5 in the Milan Jacovich series where Milan takes a job as a bodyguard, but finds murder instead.
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Our Tribe
Terry Pluto's personal story of a son, a father, and a baseball team.
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Charlise Lyles, author of Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?

Charlise Lyles

Charlise Lyles was born in Cleveland in 1959. She is an alumna of the A Better Chance program and a 1981 graduate of Smith College. A 1990 recipient of an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, she has worked as a reporter for the Virginian--Pilot and the Ledger-Star newspapers in Norfolk, Virginia and the Dayton Daily News. Lyles is the recipient of three awards from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. She is the co-founding editor of Catalyst Cleveland now Catalyst Ohio magazine. After ten years, she left the publication to pursue other ventures in educational equity, and creative writing. Lyles was also a Fellow in the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at the John Glenn School at The Ohio State University. Catalyst has also received three awards from The Ohio Society for Professional Journalists and is a winner of a 2007 Clarion Award from the Association of Women in Communication.

Books by Charlise Lyles

Clevland books: Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? by Charlise Lyles
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
From the Projects to Prep School: A Memoir
by Charlise Lyles

NEW updated, softcover edition . . . A memoir of race and education, this is the story of a girl who grew up and out of the Cleveland projects in the 1960s and '70s. While growing up in Clevelan  . . . [Read More]