By Bernie Kosar with Craig Stout ’70. Cleveland Landmarks Press, September 2017. With the help of Craig Stout, Bernie Kosar relates how he overcame a variety of challenges both during and after his college and professional football career. Continue reading »
By Karen Shepard. Tin House Books, September 2017. Available on Amazon. Kiss Me Someone is inhabited by women who walk the line between various states: adolescence and adulthood, stability and uncertainty, selfishness and compassion. They navigate the obstacles that come with mixed-race identity and instabilities in… Continue reading »
By Michelle Cuevas ’04. Dial Books, September 2017. Available on Amazon. When eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez shows up at NASA to request that her recording be included in Carl Sagan’s Golden Record, something unexpected happens: A black hole follows her home, and sets out to live in her house… Continue reading »
By Michelle Cuevas ’04. Dial Books, September 2017. Available on Amazon. Smoot the shadow has been living a yawn-filled life for years. His boy never laughs and never leaps, so Smoot never does either… until the day he pops free, and decides to hit… Continue reading »
By Bob Mitchell ’66. Skyhorse Publishing, January 2018. Available on Amazon. Time for a Heart-to-Heart is eclectic in tone—at times philosophical, poetic, poignant, uplifting, confessional, hysterically funny, and nostalgic. But most of all, it is an inspiring story of the triumph of hope and the… Continue reading »
By Caragh O’Brien ’84. Roaring Brook Press, August 2017. Available on Amazon. Driven by fear when Dean Berg kidnaps her family, Rosie Sinclair strikes out across the country to rescue them. When an elusive trail leads her to Grisly Valley, the contaminated ruin of a horror… Continue reading »
By Mark Roche ’78. University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. Available on Amazon. In Realizing the Distinctive University: Vision and Values, Strategy and Culture, Mark Roche changes the terms of the debate about American higher education. A former dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the… Continue reading »
By Edward Larson ’74. Yale University Press, 2017. Available on Amazon. Throughout history, scientific discovery has clashed with religious dogma, creating conflict, controversy, and sometimes violent dispute. In this enlightening and accessible volume, distinguished historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edward Larson and Michael Ruse, philosopher of science and Gifford… Continue reading »
By James C. Scott ’58. Yale University Press, August 2017. Available on Amazon. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans,… Continue reading »
By John Clayton ’85. Pegasus Books, August 2017. Available on Amazon. An evocative blend of history and nature writing that tells the story of Yellowstone’s evolving significance in American culture through the stories of ten iconic figures. Yellowstone is America’s premier national park. Today is often a byword… Continue reading »
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