The Big Bang Symphony: A Novel of Antarctica.
By Lucy Jane Bledsoe ’79. Terrace Books, 2010. The story of three women—a geologist, a composer and a cook—who unexpectedly find love and friendship in Antarctica. Continue reading »
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Thereby Hangs a Tail: A Chet and Bernie Mystery.
By Spencer Quinn (Peter Abrahams ’68). Atria Books, 2010. Canine narrator Chet and his human companion Bernie set out to solve a celebrity dog-napping. Continue reading »
Carry a Chicken in Your Lap: Or Whatever It Takes to Globalize Your Business
By R. William Ayres ’91 et al. St. Martin’s Press, 2009. How U.S. businesses seeking to go global can choose and educate the right people to send overseas. … Continue reading »
Feeding the Soul of the City
With Executive Editor Michael Curtin ’86. DC Central Kitchen, 2008. Recipes and vignettes from the staff, students, volunteers, partners and friends of the DC Central Kitchen, an organization working to combat hunger and create opportunities in the nation’s capital. Continue reading »
Buck and Jed
By William Evans ’56. AuthorHouse, 2008. The story of two orphans raised on different sides of the racial divide in the Old West. … Continue reading »
Hilljack: A Clash of Cultures
By William Evans ’56. BookSurge Publishing, 2008. A young boy deprived of his childhood in Appalachia grows up to face a new set of challenges as a big-city doctor. Continue reading »
Dial H for Hitchcock: A Cece Caruso Mystery
By Susan Kandel ’83. Harper Paperbacks, 2009. The latest installment of the Caruso series, in which the biographer and part-time sleuth finds she is a suspect in the middle of a real-life murder mystery. … Continue reading »
Girard College—A Living History
By Elizabeth Laurent ’80 et al. Oakley Publishing Co., 2009. The history of a private boarding school founded in 1848 in Philadelphia that serves academically capable students from families with limited financial resources, each headed by a single parent or guardian. Continue reading »
Le Colonel Chabert
Annotated by Stuart McClintock ’74. European Masterpieces, 2009. An English translation of Honoré de Balzac’s classic tale about a French military hero who must recover his personal life after the Napoleonic Wars. Continue reading »
Swedish Blood: A Peter Frost Mystery
By John Amiard (John Oberteuffer ’62). Edson Press, 2009. Boston investigative reporter Peter Frost travels to Stockholm to solve a mystery surrounding his family and finds his life threatened by a gang of neo-Nazis. … Continue reading »
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