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December 04, 2024 | 12:00 pm

First Wednesday: Family Meal

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December 05, 2024 | 12:00 pm

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December 07, 2024 | 10:00 am

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January 15, 2025 | 6:30 pm

The Gloomy Girl Variety Show: An Evening with Freda Epum

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The moving image as public art : sidewalk spectators and modes of enchantment

The Black Trilogy

A field guide to American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America's domestic architecture

Turner : the extraordinary life and momentous times of J.M.W. Turner

Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau

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The lost city of Z : a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.

The Last Resort : A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

South to America : a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation

Letter to a stranger : essays to the ones who haunt us

Bluff : poems

When you see my mother, ask her to dance : poems

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You are here : poetry in the natural world

Mom in space : poems

Besaydoo : poems

The book of William : how Shakespeare's first folio conquered the world

Reading Shakespeare's sonnets : a new commentary

North by Shakespeare : a rogue scholar's quest for the truth behind the Bard's work

Shakespeare in a divided America : what his plays tell us about our past and future

Shakespeare : the world as stage

Tyrant : Shakespeare on politics

Cincinnati in the Civil War : the union's queen city

Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook

O Caledonia : a novel

Lost Cincinnati Concert Venues of the '50s and '60s : From the Surf Club to Ludlow Garage

Cincinnat's Lost Architects Joseph and Bernard Steinkamp

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