Walk in Their Dust
By Barry Lane (MA '81)
Tate Publishing, 2012
What was life really like for our pioneering ancestors as they trekked across our country in the mid-1800s? Two men can tell you. They followed those trails for over two thousand miles, walking the equivalent of a marathon nearly every day for three months!
Arrogance and Scheming in the Big Ten
By David Young ('85)
DJY Publishing, LLC 2012
"Arrogance and Scheming in the Big Ten," by David Young, exposes an intriguing chapter in the history of the Western Conference. Since Chicago's announcement to end its football program as of December 1939, rumors were rampant about potential suitors to replace the Maroons.
School Finance Elections: A Comprehesive Planning Model for Success, Second Edition
by Don Lifto, ('67)
Rowman and Littlefield, 2010
Whether it is requests for bricks and mortar or more operating money, each election type and context is unique with no guarantee that a set of campaign strategies—successful in one district—will not fail in another community.
Problem Gods: In Search of a Meaningful Deity
By James J. Garber (B.S. '58; M.D. '60)
Bauu, Institute, 2012
The concept of God has evolved over the centuries just as have humans. As our understanding of the Universe expands so too should our vision of the divine. Some view God as supernatural and immutable while others believe that God is dead, nonetheless, over time the ancient gods and today’s monotheistic God have changed from an anthropomorphic to a metaphysical (or combination) God that has been sculpted to meet our emotional and spiritual needs.
Chinoiserie
By Karen Rigby ('04)
Ahsahta Press, 2012
Winner of the 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, Chinoiserie travels through centuries – from an illuminated manuscript to New York on the eve of disaster, the Emperor’s nightingale to neon aquariums – in poems that carve wonder from ruin.
4/44/14 II (Four Years and Forty-Four Fourteeners): Nemesis
By David Lien (B.A.'90; B.S. '98)
Outskirts Press, 2011
David’s first book, 4/44/14 I (Four Years and Forty-Four Fourteeners): First Fourteeners, was published by Outskirts Press during 2010. David has also contributed articles, essays, letters, and photos to numerous periodicals, books, and newspapers, including: Everest: Surviving The Death Zone, The Firegrate Review, Trail & Timberline, Whitetales, Fur-Fish-Game, The Backcountry Journal, The Boundary Waters Journal, NewWest, Summit Daily News, The Aspen Times, Vail Daily, Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post, Colorado Springs Independent, The Durango Telegraph, Desert News, Casper Star Tribune, Anchorage Daily News, Outdoor News, Duluth News Tribune.
African American Women Chemists
By Jeannette Brown (M.S. '58)
Oxford University Press, 2011
The book contains sketches of the lives of African America women chemists from the earliest pioneers up until the late 1960's when the Civil Rights Acts were passed and greater career opportunities began to emerge. In each sketch, Brown will explore women's motivation to study the field and detail their often quite significant accomplishments.
Lucky Lyle Ortiz
By Grant Pylkas (B.A. '73; M.Ed '98)
BookBaby, 2011
All of us find ourselves compromised by circumstances beyond our control. Young Lyle Ortiz finds himself and his sisters in a situation well beyond the resources of a fourteen year old much less a teen without a support system that he can access with the reasonable expectation of an acceptable outcome. He must create a way to live with the loss of his grandfather. He must rely upon his own wit and intellect in a world that has been less than generous to him and his sisters.
Edge of Redemption
By Russell Warnberg ('67)
Tate Publishing, 2011
A spate of murders in Maine has led the governor to start a new unit to counteract it. Detective Cole Sullivan has been recruited to head the Homicide Investigation Unit (HIU).
Off the Shelf: Fall 2011
Sisterhood of War and Voyageur Skies