In her exhilarating memoir, The Late Bloomer's Revolution (Hyperion, 2007), Amy Cohen '88 tells how she changed her life against all odds....more

In his latest medical thriller set in New York City, Cook devises an intricate plot revolving around a surge of drug-resistant staph infections in three specialty hospitals that...more

Bloom's critically acclaimed novel centers around a memorable heroine named Lillian Leyb, a 1920s Russian Jewish immigrant who ...more

In 2005, Perlstein, a former education writer for the Washington Post, was allowed an all-access pass for a year to Tyler Heights Elementary School in Annapolis, Md., some 32 miles from the ...more

In this entertaining and often funny essay collection, Almond shares his passionate views on a number of subjects that obsess him, including media ...more

In Hug Your People: The Proven Way to Hire, Inspire, and Recognize Your Employees and Achieve Remarkable Results (Hyperion, 2008), CEO Jack Mitchell '61 examines how personal relationships...more

Working-class South Boston in the 1970s is the setting for Map of Ireland (Scribner, 2008), a gripping coming-of-age novel by Stephanie Grant '84 about Ann Ahern, an...more

Laura M. Flynn '89 recounts the harrowing true story of growing up with a mother who was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, in Swallow the Ocean (Counterpoint Press, 2008). In this powerful memoir...more

Dan Machlin '89 has published a first book-length poetry collection, Dear Body (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007). In the title sequence, he imagines...more

Matvei Yankelevich '95 is the editor and translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook, 2007). He gave...more

In her new long poem, Unbecoming Behavior (Ugly Duckling Press, 2008), Kate Colby '96 incorporates part autobiography and part revisionist biography of...more

In Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and Its Empire, 1759 –1808 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Gabriel Paquette '99 posits a new interpretation of political reform in Spain...more

In her book Sensational Knowledge (Wesleyan University Press, 2007) ethnomusicologist and dancer Tomie Hahn PhD '97 uncovers the process and nuances of learning nihon buyo, a traditional Japanese danceform.  She...more

Casey Nelson Blake '78, a professor of history and American studies at Columbia University, has edited The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and The State (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), an essay collection that...more

In Getting It Right For Children, Dr Stephen Berman '68 (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2008) shares true stories about his patients and his work...more

In this compelling and honest memoir, Hope's Boy (Hyperion, 2008), Andrew Bridge '84 recounts his traumatic experiences living 11 years in foster care.  The author....more

In her compelling and frank memoir, Notes from Nethers (Academy Chicago Publishers, 2007), Sandra Eugster '82 remember her childhood growing up in a commune in rural Virginia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  Nethers, as the commune came to be called...more

In Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender (Oxford University Press, 2007), Ellen Feder '89, a philosophy professor at American University, suggest a new way to think about the categories of gender and race together.  Feminist and critical race theorists alike have long ....more

Jennifer Clark '95, an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, has co-written (with Susan Christopherson) the book Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy (Routledge, 2008).  Clark's book...more

Christian Prellwitz '02 has written A Guide to Bouldering in the Telluride and West End Areas (of Southwest Colorado) (Mountain World Media, 2007).  Bouldering is a form ....more