ohio

Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.

Presents more than seventy-five accounts of encounters with ghosts in Ohio.

In 1836, the Sawyers leave Massachusetts to travel to the Ohio River valley for the beginning of a new life.

Presents information about the state of Ohio and its nickname, motto, and emblems.

Sarah Kauffman, having seen the barns on which she painted murals of old-fashioned quilt squares burn down one by one, serves as a guide to arson investigator Nate MacKenzie and wonders if the destruction has been caused by her pridefulness, and, as Nate searches for clues, the people of Home Valley are forced to question their beliefs and join together to protect their future.

Traces the lives of two African-American heroines from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, to their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.

Sula Peace returns to her hometown of Medallion, Ohio, in 1937 after a decade away, bringing danger and controversy into the life of her childhood friend Nel--now a conventional housewife--with whom she shares a dark secret.

In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.

Professor Michael Branden, Pastor Caleb Troyer, and Sheriff Bruce Robertson attempt to penetrate the secrecy of the Old Order Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, in order to recover a ten-year-old boy who has been kidnapped by his outcast father.