Lakewood Public Library Main Library

On October 6, 1977, a long and bloody mob war ended in Cleveland when Irish gangster Daniel J. “Danny” Greene’s life ended in a horrific car bombing. A longtime crime writer and author of [the book] will present the story of how the Cleveland Mafia's last victory would be their last.

Biologist Daniel Weiland will be your guide on a lecture, slide and video tour of one earth’s most vital regions. Both the Amazon Rainforest and Andes Cloud Forest continue to be assaulted primarily through slash-and-burn farming and oil drilling.

Cleveland-based author Kaylee Downing explores how people form beliefs in modern society and how much of our thinking is shaped by what we’re exposed to rather than what we arrive at independently. Drawing from her book Socrates Isn’t Dead, she examines how modern discourse influences the way ideas are adopted, reinforced, or dismissed.