The Twisted Thread by Charlotte Bacon ’83
The Twisted Thread by Charlotte Bacon ’83 Voice, June 2011 When beautiful but aloof Claire Harkness is found dead in her dorm room one spring morning, prestigious Armitage Academy is shaken to its core. Everyone connected to the school, and to Claire, finds their lives upended, from the local police detective who has a personal history with the academy, to the various faculty and staff whose lives are immersed in the daily rituals associated with it. Everyone wants to know how Claire died, at whose hands, and more importantly, where the baby...
read moreGuerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career
Guerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career by Jay Conrad Levinson and Andrew Neitlich ’83 Morgan James Publishing, April 2011 Guerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career is an honest, practical and hard-hitting guide for career success in perpetually uncertain times. It provides a road map to advance your career and prosper without being blindsided by overnight industry collapses, potential layoffs, economic shocks, corporate scandals, international competition or technological disruptions. The authors provide a new perspective on what it...
read moreA Living Man from Africa by Roger S. Levine ’90
A Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa by Roger S. Levine ’90 Yale University Press, December 2010 Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in the eastern Cape region of South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change—one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped...
read moreHow Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills ’81
How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills ’81 Schwartz & Wade, July 2010 Rocket is a lovable dog that enjoys chasing leaves, chewing sticks and taking naps. One day, his sleep is interrupted by a bird, who assigns him to be her first student. Rocket wants no part of her lessons, but the bird is determined to teach him to read. She hangs the letters of the alphabet for Rocket to see, and begins to read a story aloud, sure to pique his interest. Overcome by curiosity, Rocket becomes a willing pupil, and over time learns to spell out the...
read moreRust or Go Missing by Lily Brown ’99
Rust or Go Missing by Lily Brown ’99 Cleveland State University Poetry Center, November 2010 “Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, ‘I think the plastics / and sink them’ then ‘Where is the sand / man hiding the dirt.’ These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.” —Rae Armantrout Lily Brown holds degrees from Harvard University and Saint Mary’s College of California. She has published poems in...
read moreSecond Skin by Sally Bliumis-Dunn ’77
Second Skin by Sally Bliumis-Dunn ’77 Wind Publications, October 2010 “In Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s Second Skin, she explores the DNA of family connections with delicacy touched by a quiet though formidable strength. Bliumis-Dunn is building something mysterious and beautiful, as she talks through the language of things. There is a fearlessness in the way she allows herself to fall into the vastness of vulnerability. In Second Skin, the wonder and perils of the natural world mirror the emotional terrain we all navigate with those we...
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In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took It Down by Stanley Reed and Alison Fitzgerald ’87 Bloomberg Press, January 2011 In 2005, 15 workers were killed when BP’s Texas City Refi nery exploded. In 2006, corroded pipes owned by BP led to an oil spill in Alaska. In 2010, 11 men drilling for BP were killed in the blowout of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. Is it possible that the implosion of BP’s oil well on April 10, 2010, could have been avoided? In In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took It Down, Stanley Reed—a...
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