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Reverberations of a Stroke: A Memoir

Nov. 6, 2019

by Karl Gustafson (APMath, Fin'58) (Springer International Publishing, 65 pages; 2019) Buy the Book In the early morning hours of Feb. 1, 2016, Karl Gustafson became instinctively aware that something catastrophic was happening inside him. A severe headache that had persisted for days had taken a sudden turn for the...

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Learn to Walk, Try to Fly

Oct. 25, 2019

by Troy Rappold (Comm'90) (Credo House Publishers, 2019; 158 pages) Buy the Book From Chapter 1 "Over the years I have come to appreciate the metaphors of walking and flying to describe the journey of faith, and I wrote this book using these metaphors to explain what happens when we...

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Running Across America

Oct. 18, 2019

by Dave Whatever and Nancy Feehrer (MEdu'92) (Nomad Press, 32 pages; 2019) Buy the Book As a teenager, Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray heard a news story about a person biking across the United States. “What a great idea!” he thought. “But instead of a bike, I’ll use my...

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Dream Big

Oct. 18, 2019

by Dave McGillivray and Nancy Feehrer (MEdu'92) (Nomad Press, 32 pages; 2019) Buy the Book Have you ever had a dream? How did you make that dream come true? Dave McGillivray, race director of the Boston Marathon, had a dream when he was a kid—to be a star athlete. There...

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Coyote Nights

Sept. 6, 2019

by Debra Elaine Medina (Jour'79) (Page Publishing, 344 pages; 2019) Buy the Book Matt Shaw trudged into his future: job, marriage, homeownership, expensive acquisitions. In spite of his growing indifference, it seemed too late to turn back. Then Hannah crashed his Halloween party, and before long, nothing else mattered.

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Lone Twin: A True Story of Loss and Found

Aug. 20, 2019

by Laurel Richardson (PhDSoc'62) (Brill/Sense, 140 pages; 2019) Buy the Book On her death bed, Laurel Richardson’s sister whispers a deep family secret to her. Those whispered words send the famed sociologist and author on a personal exploration of a lifetime. Lone Twin: A True Story of Loss and Found...

Becoming Transnational Youth Workers

Aug. 15, 2019

by Isabel Martinez (MEdu'02) (Rutgers University Press, 278 pages; 2019) Buy the Book Becoming Transnational Youth Workers contests mainstream notions of adolescence with its study of a previously under-documented cross-section of Mexican immigrant youth. Preceding the latest wave of Central American children and teenagers now fleeing violence in their homelands,...

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NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified)

Aug. 7, 2019

by Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman (MEngl'92) (Futurepoem Books, 160 pages; 2019) Buy the Book NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) is a journey of two writers who become lovers who become parents of a special needs daughter. Their experience fumbling toward understanding reveals a medical establishment strangely at odds with...

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The Question is Why?

July 5, 2019

By Eric Steven Zimmer (Vantage Point Press, 347 Pages; 2019) Buy the Book Stanford M. Adelstein (CivEngr, Fin'55) led his family’s heavy construction and real estate firm, the Northwestern Engineering Company, for decades. He took two undergraduate degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder in the early 1950s. During his...

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All The Way to Just About There

July 1, 2019

by Sandra S. McRae (MEngl'90) (FutureCycle Press, 98 pages; 2019) Buy the Book In poems shaped by nature, news stories, and the sine wave of motherhood, Sandra S. McRae shows us the miracles embedded in the everyday. She zooms in on mountain flora, then trains a telescopic eye on the...

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