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    Cleveland Food Memories
    A Nostalgic Look Back at the Food We Loved, the Places We Bought It, and the People Who Made It Special
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    Cleveland On Foot
    50 hikes and walks in and around Greater Cleveland.
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    Corpse in the Cellar
    #3 in a series of incredible but true stores of Cleveland crime and disaster.
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    Cleveland Cops
    Hilarious and heartbreaking true stories told by Cleveland police officers.
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    Cleveland Local
    #8 in the Milan Jacovich series takes Milan to the Caribbean to find out who murdered a Cleveland attorney.
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    John Tidyman, author of Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart . . .

    John H. Tidyman

    John Tidyman was ordered by his father to take a touch typing class the summer before high school. Tidyman often cites that incident as the reason he became a writer. After graduating from Lakewood High School, he was drafted and fought in the Vietnam War. He returned a 19-year "buck sergeant.”

    Before he joined the Cleveland Press as a reporter, Tidyman worked as a waiter, a warehouseman, and an air freight agent. He is the author of eight books and has also written for almost every area publication.

    Books by John H. Tidyman

    Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart . . . by John Tidyman
    Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart . . .
    Tales From the Last Glory Days of Cleveland Newspapers— Told By The Men and Women Who Reported the News
    by John H. Tidyman

    It was a job unlike any other— putting out a daily newspaper for a major city. In this case, Cleveland, where reporters, photographers and editors were envied, threatened, beatified, fooled and thought to be the luckiest s.o.b.'s in town  . . . [Read More]

    Cleveland Cops by John Tidyman
    Cleveland Cops
    The Real Stories They Tell Each Other
    by John H. Tidyman

    Gritty, scary, hilarious, heartbreaking, and wild . . . these remarkable true stories will take you on the roller coaster ride that is life as a Cleveland police officer.

    These are the real stories cops trade with each other after the shift, over  . . . [Read More]