Cold Creek

By Jay Nelson ’70, Xlibris, 2012. A novel of love and competition among close friends, set against the darkening background of the Vietnam War. Continue reading »

Little Black Breastfeeding Book

By Jacqueline Lois (Jacqueline Strachan Meadows ’75), Xlibris, 2012. A small reference book that arms women—particularly black women—with the emotional tools they will need to nurse their babies through the first year of life. Continue reading »

Diplomatic Gardens of Washington

By Giles Kelly ’49. Photography by Ann Stevens. Schiffer Books, 2012. Kelly and Stevens take a behind-the-scenes look at the gardens at various Washington, D.C., embassies, connecting their landscapes with political and cultural histories. Continue reading »

Natural Selections

Joseph Campana ’96, University of Iowa Press, 2012. Winner of the 2011 Iowa Poetry Prize, this collection of lyric poetry attends to the ways in which we are marked by place and pays homage to the Midwest as a state of mind. Continue reading »

Lin Emery

By Philip F. Palmedo ’56, Hudson Hills Press, 2012. For nearly 60 years, Lin Emery has been crafting elegant, kinetic sculptures found in public spaces around the world. Palmedo provides a concise and comprehensive account of the artist’s progression and relates it to the tradition to which… Continue reading »

Rewired

By Camille Preston ’93, AIM Leadership, LLC, 2011. Arguing that the overuse of technology is damaging our professional and personal lives, Preston—who founded AIM Leadership, a personal development and coaching firm, in 2005—offers skills and strategies to balance our goals, manage our commitments, and focus our… Continue reading »

Woman, Man, and God in Modern Islam

By Theodore Friend ’53. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2012. Friend, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and former president of Swarthmore College, set out alone across Asia and the Middle East to understand firsthand the lived experiences of women in Indonesia, Pakistan,… Continue reading »