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Smithies have made their mark in literature. This list is by no means exhaustive, and many alums also have previous publications. If you have a book coming out soon and would like it to appear on the WordSmith list, please fill out our online form.
2021
Fiction
A Mother’s Promise
K.D. Alden (Karen Potter Moser ’89)
Forever, January 2021
The Women of Chateau Lafayette
Stephanie Dray ’93
Berkley Books, March 2021
Nonfiction
The Empathetic Workplace: 5 Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma On the Job
Katharine Manning ’96
HarperCollins Leadership, February 2021
Nothing Happened: A History
Susan A. Crane ’85
Stanford University Press, January 2021
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis
Melissa J. Homestead ’85
Oxford University Press, March 2021
Nonfiction (continued)
Visions from My Travels: African Birds
Marian Herz ’75
Blurb, January 2021
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
Jess Zimmerman (Jess Henig Zimmerman ’01)
Beacon Press, March 2021
Poetry
Viable: Poems and Apologies
Chloe Yelena Miller ’98
Lily Poetry Review Books, February 2021
Children/Young Adult
I Do Not Like Yolanda
Zoey Abbott ’96
Tundra Books, March 2021
Middletown
Sarah Moon ’04
Levine Querido, April 2021
2020
Fiction
The Circus Rose
Betsy Cornwell ’10
Clarion Books, June 2020
The Fog Ladies: Family Matters
Susan McCormick (Susan Jacobs McCormick ’84)
The Wild Rose Press, October 2020
The Fox Demon’s Kiss
Keri Moore ’09
Tethys Night Sky Publishing, November 2020
Friends and Strangers
J. Courtney Sullivan ’03
Knopf, June 2020
Full Bloom: A Novel of Food, Family, and Freaking Out
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Story Plant, June 2020
Kickoff: A Lainie Lovett Mystery
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Judith Arnold, January 2020
Known By Heart: Collected Stories
Ellen Prentiss Campbell (Ellen Campbell Pskowski ’75)
Apprentice House Press, May 2020
The Paris Affair: A Theresa Schurman Mystery
Susanne Dunlap ’76
Susanne Dunlap, September 2020
Paris Never Leaves You
Ellen Feldman ’63
St. Martin’s Griffin, August 2020
Perfectly Famous
Emily Liebert (Emily Einhorn Liebert ’98)
Gallery Books, June 2020
Promises at Indigo Bay
Ellyn Oaksmith ’85
Bookouture, October 2020
Snowed Under
Mary Feliz (Mary Cooper Feliz ’80)
Lyrical Press, June 2020
Summer in Gettysburg
Evelyn Landane (Amy Allen Woodis ’75)
Evelyn Landane, June 2020
Nonfiction
American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation
Kirsten Fischer ’85
University of Pennsylvania Press, December 2020
Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir
Colin Dayan ’71
Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2020
Behind the Times: Virginia Woolf in Late-Victorian Contexts
Mary Jean Corbett ’84
Cornell University Press, November 2020
The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Marc Zvi Brettler
HarperOne, October 2020
(Con)textos femeninos: Antología de escritoras españolas
Elizabeth Smith Rousselle (Elizabeth Smith Widerquist '91) and Erika M. Sutherland, eds.
Peter Lang, June 2020
The Death of Idealism: Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps
Meghan Elizabeth Kallman ’05
Columbia University Press, April 2020
Dispute System Design: Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict
Lisa Blomgren Amsler ’76, Janet K. Martinez and Stephanie E. Smith
Stanford University Press, June 2020
Dr. Anne Good Health at Hand: Your Own Lifelong Way to Eat, Exercise and Meditate
Anne Seifert, MA ’65
Varnes Publishers, August 2020
Eldercare as Art and Ministry
Irene V. Jackson-Brown, MAT ’70
Church Publishing Company, October 2020
Eugène-Louis Charvot
Susan M. Gallo ’76
GILES, January 2020
Exploring the Role of the School Principal in Predominantly White Middle Schools: School Leadership to Promote Multicultural Understanding
Jacquelynne Anne Boivin (Jacquelynne Chase Boivin ’14)
Routledge, November 2020
Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something Like Grace
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ’53
HarperOne, April 2020
The Hothouse Flower: Nurturing Women in the Victorian Conservatory
Margaret Flanders Darby ’67
Edward Everett Root Publishers, September 2020
How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life
Susan D’Agostino, MAT ’98
Oxford University Press, May 2020
Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians
Amy-Jill Levine ’78
HarperCollins, March 2020
The Ladies’ Village Improvement Society Cookbook: Eating and Entertaining in East Hampton
Florence Fabricant (Florence Gertner Fabricant ’58)
Rizzoli, April 2020
Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution
Sarah L. Swedberg ’88
Lexington Books, December 2020
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals
Katja M. Guenther ’97
Stanford University Press, August 2020
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood
Christa Parravani ’99
Henry Holt and Co., November 2020
Mademoiselle de Malepeire
Fanny Reybaud; translated by Barbara Basbanes Richter ’03
Bancroft Press, October 2020
The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews
Ross Shepard Kraemer ’70
Oxford University Press, March 2020
Modern Artifacts
Michelle Elligott ’93 and Tod Lippy
Esopus Books, June 2020
Nonfiction (continued)
My Separate Worlds: Daughter of the Holocaust and Evangelical Christianity
Ingrid Alpern (Ingrid Yollick Alpern ’69)
Ingrid Alpern, June 2020
My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora
Katherine Whitney and Leila Emery ’02, eds.
University of Texas Press, March 2020
My Trans Parent: A User Guide for When Your Parent Transitions
Heather Bryant ’00
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, May 2020
On the Rocks: A Storyteller’s Memoir
Jane Hughes Gignoux ’52
iUniverse, January 2020
Picturing Resistance: Moments and Movements of Social Change from the 1950s to Today
Melanie Hastings Light ’80 and Ken Light
Ted Speed Press, October 2020
Queering Italian Media
Sole Anatrone ’04 and Julia Heim, eds.
Lexington Books, January 2020
Retirement by Design: A Guided Workbook for Creating a Happy and Purposeful Future
Ida O. Abbott (Ida Offenbach Abbott ’69)
Ulysses Press, March 2020
The Routledge Guidebook to Paine’s Rights of Man
Frances Anne Chiu ’85
Routledge, April 2020
The Sensing Body in the Visual Arts: Making and Experiencing Sculpture
Rosalyn Driscoll ’67
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, September 2020
Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner’s Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven
Amy-Jill Levine ’78
Abingdon Press, August 2020
Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842
Susan E. Schopp ’71
Hong Kong University Press, November 2020
Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French
Eliza Zingesser ’05
Cornell University Press, March 2020
Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide
Charlynn Small and Mazella Fuller, MSW ’95, eds.
Routledge, July 2020
Ultimate Puppy Training for Kids: A Step-by-Step Guide for Exercises and Tricks
Mark Van Wye, MFA ’01
Rockridge Press, June 2020
Unpacked: An Old Soul’s Guide to the Art of Relocation
Christine Kraft (Christine Fallon Kraft ’88)
Independently published, October 2020
The Vegucated Family Table: Irresistible Vegan Recipes and Proven Tips for Feeding Plant-Powered Babies, Toddlers, and Kids
Marisa Miller Wolfson ’98 and Laura Delhauer
Ten Speed Press, August 2020
Visions from My Travels: Ethiopia
Marian Herz ’75
Blurb, November 2020
Visions from My Travels: Penguins
Marian Herz ’75
Blurb, November 2020
Visions from My Travels: People
Marian Herz ’75
Blurb, December 2020
Wood Gaylor and American Modernism, 1913–1936
Andrea Rosen ’09
Fleming Museum of Art, January 2020
Young Mongols: Forging Democracy in the Wild, Wild East
Aubrey Menarndt ’08
Penguin Random House SEA, March 2020
Poetry
Awakening
Stephanie Shafran ’72
Daffodil Press, April 2020
Land’s End
Gail Mazur (Gail Beckwith Mazur ’59)
The University of Chicago Press, September 2020
Write It!: 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire
Jessica Jacobs ’02 and Nickole Brown
Spruce Books, October 2020
Children/Young Adult
Cub
Cynthia L. Copeland ’82
Algonquin Young Readers, January 2020
Fighting Words
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley ’89
Dial Books, August 2020
The Magnificent Makers #1: How to Test a Friendship
Theanne Griffith ’08; illustrated by Reggie Brown
Random House Children’s Books, May 2020
The Magnificent Makers #2: Brain Trouble
Theanne Griffith ’08; illustrated by Reggie Brown
Random House Children’s Books, May 2020
The Magnificent Makers #3: Riding Sound Waves
Theanne Griffith ’08; illustrated by Reggie Brown
Random House Children’s Books, September 2020
Over the Moon
James Proimos; illustrated by Zoey Abbott ’96
Chronicle Books, March 2020
Protecting You… Protecting Me
Susan Poage and Dina Rosen (Dina Bloom Rosen ’88); illustrated by Benjamin Chew and Dina Rosen (Dina Bloom Rosen ’88)
Independently published, June 2020
This Is What I Know About Art
Kimberly Drew ’12; illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
Penguin Random House, June 2020
What Ruth the Cat Knows
Kathryn Mishkin '09
BookBaby, November 2020
Wherever I Go
Mary Wagley Copp ’80; illustrated by Munir D. Mohammed
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, April 2020
Who Was Ida B. Wells?
Sarah Fabiny ’83; illustrated by Ted Hammond
Penguin Workshop, June 2020
2019
Fiction
Cliff Hanger
Mary Feliz (Mary Cooper Feliz ’80)
Lyrical Underground, July 2019
The Codebook Murders
Leslie Nagel (Leslie Simms Nagel ’83)
Random House, May 2019
Copper and Goldie: 13 Tails of Mystery and Suspense in Hawaii
Rosemary Mild (Rosemary Pollack Mild ’57) and Larry Mild
Magic Island Literary Works, August 2019
The Emancipation of Emily Rosenbloom
Elinor Gale ’62
Blue Light Press, August 2019
The Fog Ladies
Susan McCormick (Susan Jacobs McCormick ’84)
The Wild Rose Press, October 2019
The Line Between
Tosca Lee ’92
Howard Books, January 2019
Listen to the Wind
Susanne Dunlap ’76
Bellastoria Press, April 2019
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
Sylvia Plath ’55
Harper Perennial, January 2019
The Nine: A Novel
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg ’87
She Writes Press, August 2019
A Single Light
Tosca Lee ’92
Howard Books, September 2019
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern ’00
Doubleday, November 2019
Thorn
Anna Burke ’12
Bywater Books, January 2019
The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus
Alanna McFall ’12
Atthis Arts, June 2019
Nonfiction
Actualize! A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating the Life You Want
Jessica S. Gifford, MSW ’00
CreateSpace, May 2019
Against My Father’s Will: A Memoir
Jane Morgan Barry ’68
Back Shore Publishing, November 2019
Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug
Leandra Ruth Zarnow ’01
Harvard University Press, November 2019
The Bouvier Affair: A True Story
Alexandra Bregman ’10
Ingram, April 2019
Brain Candy: A Memoir
Deirdre Timmons (Deirdre Allen Timmons ’88)
Deirdre Timmons, February 2019
Celibacy, a Love Story: Memoir of a Catholic Priest’s Daughter
Mimi Bull (Mimi Foyette Bull ’58)
Bauhan Publishing, September 2019
Central Park’s Adventure-Style Playgrounds: Renewal of a Midcentury Legacy
Marie Warsh ’97
LSU Press, November 2019
The Coffeehouse Resistance: Brewing Hope in Desperate Times
Sarina Prabasi ’95
Green Writers Press, April 2019
The Color of My Mind: Mental Health Narratives from People of Color
Dior Vargas ’09
Reclamation Press, November 2019
Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch
Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey ’97 and Galin Tihanov, eds.
Camden House, April 2019
Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness
Katharine Esty (Katharine Cole Esty ’56)
Skyhorse Publishing, September 2019
Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist
Renée C. Fox ’49
Anthem Press, November 2019
The Fourth String: A Memoir of Sensei and Me
Janet Pocorobba ’89
Stone Bridge Press, March 2019
Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India
Natasha Behl ’04
Oxford University Press, August 2019
Genetic Consultations in the Newborn
Robin D. Clark ’75 and Cynthia J. Curry
Oxford University Press, February 2019
Good Queen Anne: Appraising the Life and Reign of the Last Stuart Monarch
Judith Lissauer Cromwell ’57
McFarland, April 2019
How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat
Farah Pandith ’90
Custom House, March 2019
Nonfiction (continued)
Hunger: A Memoir
Marian Del Vecchio (Marian Seidner Del Vecchio ’57)
Leap Year Press, February 2019
I Never Called It Rape—Updated Edition: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape
Robin Warshaw; preface by Gloria Steinem ’56
Harper Perennial, February 2019
Incredible Vegan Ice Cream: Decadent, All-Natural Flavors Made with Coconut Milk
Deena Jalal ’02
Page Street Publishing Co., June 2019
Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Introduction by Helen Rosner ’04
Melville House, March 2019
Medical Parenting: How to Navigate Health, Wellness and the Medical System with Your Child
Jacqueline Jones ’80
Morgan James Publishing, November 2019
Pickin’ Cotton on the Way to Church: The Life and Work of Father Boniface Hardin, OSB
Nancy Van Note Chism, MA ’71
Indiana Historical Society Press, July 2019
A Pocket Guide to Clinical Midwifery: The Efficient Midwife, Second Edition
Lauren A. Dutton ’04, Jessica E. Densmore ’00 and Meredith B. Turner
Jones & Bartlett Learning, May 2019
Pretty Posies, Powerful Healing: An Herbal Primer
Maria Antonia Viteri; illustrated by Louise Jones McPhillips ’76 et al.
Birmingham Historical Society, October 2019
Puppy Training in 7 Easy Steps: Everything You Need to Know to Raise the Perfect Dog
Mark Van Wye, MFA ’01
Rockridge Press, April 2019
Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine
Laurie Powers AC ’00
McFarland Books, September 2019
Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Susan A. Lord, MSW ’79, ed.
Routledge, March 2019
Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support
Damon M. Constantinides, Shannon L. Sennott, MSW ’08, and Davis Chandler
Routledge, March 2019
Surprised by Self: Escaping the Cultural Cocoon in Favor of Fluttering and Flying Free
Rosalie Allen Taylor (Rosalie Taylor Howlett ’46) CreateSpace, October 2019
Three Sheets to the Wind: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions
Cynthia Barrett ’78
Lyons Press, May 2019
The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion
Gloria Steinem ’56
Random House, October 2019
Wading Right In: Discovering the Nature of Wetlands
Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth ’87
University of Chicago Press, August 2019
Your White Coat is Waiting: Vital Advice for Pre-Meds
Kirsten E. Kirby ’02 and William M. Kirby
Kirby Career Advising, May 2019
Poetry
The Heart’s Necessities: Life in Poetry
Jane Tyson Clement ’39 with Becca Stevens
Plough Publishing House, April 2019
Pentimento
Alysse Kathleen McCanna ’07
Gold Line Press, March 2019
Take Me With You, Wherever You’re Going
Jessica Jacobs ’02
Four Way Books, March 2019
Children/Young Adult
The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
Natascha Biebow ’93; illustrated by Steven Salerno
HMH Books for Young Readers, March 2019
The Little Green Girl
Lisa Anchin ’04
Dial Books for Young Readers, April 2019
Sky Without Stars
Jessica Brody ’01 and Joanne Rendell
Simon Pulse, March 2019
The Sun Shines Everywhere
Mary Ann Hoberman (Mary Ann Freedman Hoberman ’51); illustrated by Luciano Lozano
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, March 2019
Who Is My Neighbor?
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; illustrated by Denise Turu
Flyaway Books, January 2019
Who’s Hiding In This Book?: Meet 10 Famous Authors
Sheila Cordner ’03; illustrated by Daniel Fiore
Pierce Press / Daytripper Books, November 2019
2018
Fiction
The Advice Column Murders: The Oakwood Mystery Series
Leslie Nagel (Leslie Simms Nagel ’83)
Penguin Random House; April 2018
Compass Rose
Anna Burke ’12
Bywater Books; July 2018
Consumed
J. R. Ward (Jessica Bird ’91)
Gallery Books; October 2018
Disorderly Conduct: A Maggie McDonald Mystery
Mary Feliz (Mary Cooper Feliz ’80)
Lyrical Underground; July 2018
The Heart of an Artichoke: A Tale of Betrayal
Katie Butterworth (Katharine Macomber Butterworth 1922)
Saugus Books; April 2018
Honolulu Heat: Between the Mountains and the Great Sea
Rosemary Mild (Rosemary Pollack Mild ’57) and Larry Mild
Magic Island Literary Works; August 2018
Idyll Hands: A Thomas Lynch Novel
Stephanie Gayle ’97
Seventh Street Books; September 2018
Kick the Bucket: A Lainie Lovett Mystery
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Bellastoria Press; February 2018
Kickdown
Rebecca Clarren ’97
Arcade Publishing; September 2018
Landslide
Melissa Leet (Melissa Chamberlain Leet '86)
Antrim House; March 2018
Love and Sabotage
Martha Tolles ’43 (Martha Gregory Tolles ’43)
Speaking Volumes; November 2018
Rescue Me: The Magic Jukebox, Book Eight
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Amazon Digital Services; May 2018
Sleeping With the Monster
Anya Martin ’85
Lethe Press; November 2018
The Universe Between Us
Jane C. Esther (Jess Wallis ’05)
Bold Strokes Books; January 2018
Where Do They All Come From?
Patty Friedmann ’68
Sartoris Literary Group; May 2018
Wicked and the Wallflower: The Bareknuckle Bastards Book I
Sarah MacLean (Sarah Trabucchi ’00)
Avon Books; June 2018
Nonfiction
After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet
Julie Dobrow ’81
W. W. Norton & Company; October 2018
Bitterroot: The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis
Patricia Tyson Stroud (Patricia Peterson McCurdy ’55)
University of Pennsylvania Press; March 2018
A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days that Mobilized America
Susan Dunn ’66
Yale University Press; April 2018
Booze & Vinyl: A Spirited Guide to Great Music and Mixed Drinks
André Darlington and Tenaya Darlington ’94
Running Press; April 2018
Breaking Glass—Broken Barriers: Voyage of an Entrepreneurial Spirit: A Memoir
Joyce Verplank Hatton ’54
Archway Publishing; September 2018
Calgary through the Eyes of Writers
Shaun Hunter ’84
Rocky Mountain Books; November 2018
Chaplain: The World War II Letters of Army Air Corp Chaplain Paschal Dupuy Fowlkes
Rives Fowlkes Carroll ’65, ed.
Politics and Prose; May 2018
Chimerism: A Clinical Guide
Kayla Sheets ’00
Springer; June 2018
Counseling for Artists, Performers, and Other Creative Individuals: A Guide for Clinicians
Olga E. Gonithellis ’06
Routledge; May 2018
The Crusade for Forgotten Souls: Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946–1954
Susan Bartlett Foote ’67
University of Minnesota Press; April 2018
Descent into Love: My Journey with Mom through Dementia
Ellie Schellhammer Goldberg ’71
Kindle Direct Publishing; November 2018
Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner, Revised
Claire Watson Garcia ’67
Watson-Guptill; July 2018
Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner’s Guide to Holy Week
Amy-Jill Levine ’78
Abingdon Press; December 2018
Ethics, Politics, and Whistleblowing in Engineering
Nicholas Sakellariou and Rania Milleron ’92, eds.
CRC Press; October 2018
An Extra Mile: A Story of Embracing God’s Call
Sharon Garlough Brown ’91
InterVarsity Press; February 2018
Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World
Saadia Zahidi ’02
Nation Books; January 2018
Follow the Leader: Believe in Yourself. Craft Your Future
Stephanie Mickle ’94
13th & Joan; July 2018
Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way: Cooking with Tall Woman
Charlotte J. Frisbie (Charlotte Johnson Frisbie ’62)
University of New Mexico Press; April 2018
Food Wisdom for Women: Aging With Energy, Vitality, Health
Donna P. Feldman (Donna Psiaki Feldman ’73)
CreateSpace; March 2018
48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains
Cheryl Suchors ’72
She Writes Press; September 2018
Four Weeks to Wellness: Evidence-Based Exercises to Cultivate Health and Happiness in Your Life
Jessica S. Gifford, MSW ’00
CreateSpace; March 2018
From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945
Anne E. Parsons ’00
The University of North Carolina Press; October 2018
Glorious Mountain Days: The 1902 Hike That Helped Save the White Mountains
Allison W. Bell ’79 and Maida Goodwin ’83
Bondcliff Books; December 2018
Godspeed: A Memoir
Casey Legler ’07
Atria Books; July 2018
The Gospel of Luke (New Cambridge Bible Commentary)
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Ben Witherington III
Cambridge University Press; June 2018
The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960–1993
Lori A. Paige ’87
McFarland Publishing; August 2018
A Gut Feeling: Conquer Your Sweet Tooth by Tuning Into Your Microbiome
Heather Anne Wise ’08
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; September 2018
The Hidden Life of Life: A Walk Through the Reaches of Time
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ’53
Penn State Press; March 2018
Nonfiction (continued)
How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry
Erno Munkácsi; edited by Nina Munk ’88
McGill-Queen’s University Press; October 2018
How It Happened: The 2016 Presidential Campaign in Jest and Verse
Erika S. Fine ’77
Poet Pundit Press; January 2018
How to Become a Voice Over Artist: Spiritual Keys to Success
Hillary Hawkins
Hillary Hawkins Production; May 2018
Jam Session: A Fruit-Preserving Handbook
Joyce Goldstein (Joyce Esersky Goldstein ’56)
Lorena Jones Books; June 2018
Living Beneath the Colorado Peaks: The Story of Knapp Ranch
Sarah Chase Shaw ’90
The Knapp Press; September 2018
Lunar Flower Priestess: Ritual Magic & Healing Wisdom for the Sacred Feminine Spirit
Hannah Corbett ’00
BookBaby; April 2018
Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence
Wendy R. Sherman ’71
PublicAffairs; September 2018
100 Days, 100 Books: Courage and Community in Books for Young People
Elizabeth (Rusty) True Browder ’66
Printed on Paige; January 2018
Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions
Christine Caldwell and Lucia Bennett Leighton ’12, eds.
North Atlantic Books; March 2018
Pop Art and Popular Music: Jukebox Modernism
Melissa L. Mednicov ’02
Routledge; June 2018
Ray Johnson: Selective Inheritance
Kate Dempsey Martineau ’04
University of California Press; June 2018
Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia
J. L. Cassaniti (Julia Cassaniti '99)
Cornell University Press; April 2018
René d’Harnoncourt and the Art of Installation
Michelle Elligott ’93
The Museum of Modern Art; October 2018
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing You’ll Ever Need
Jessica Brody ’01
Ten Speed Press; October 2018
Saving Sin City: William Travers Jerome, Stanford White, and the Original Crime of the Century
Mary Cummings (Mary Johnson Cummings ’61)
Pegasus Books; May 2018
Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal in New York City
Michele H. Bogart ’74
Reaktion Books; July 2018
A Smolny Album: Glimpses into Life at the Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens
Nancy Kovaleff Baker ’69, ed.
Academic Studies Press; December 2018
Soul Dog: A Journey into the Spiritual Life of Animals
Elena Mannes ’65
Bear & Company; November 2018
Tales from an Uncertain World: What Other Assorted Disasters Can Teach Us About Climate Change
L. S. Gardiner (Lisa Gardiner ’95)
University Of Iowa Press; March 2018
Tango Lessons
Meghan Flaherty ’05
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; June 2018
You Can Have It!: More Than 125 Decadent Diabetes-Friendly Recipes
Devin Alexander (Devin Simone Alexander ’93)
American Diabetes Association; March 2018
Poetry
A Collection of Poetry
Wan Kyun Rha Kim ’60; illustrated by Clemente Orozco Farias
Impronta Casa Editora; 2018
Compass Roads: Poems About the Pioneer Valley
Jane Yolen ’60, ed.
Levellers Press; 2018
Eating Sardines at Midnight
Linda Chivian Levitz ’60
Daniel & Daniel Publishers; March 2018
The Eyes Have It
Anne Harding Woodworth ’65
Turning Point; February 2018
Fragments of You
Hannah Rousselot ’14
Kelsay Books; December 2018
How It Happens
Joyce E. Young ’75
Nomadic Press; September 2018
If Trash Could Talk: Poems, Stories, and Musings
Jacquelyn A. Ottman ’77
CreateSpace; May 2018
Memory & Complicity: Poems
Eve Hoffman (Eve Parker Hoffman ’64)
Mercer University Press; May 2018
Children/Young Adult
Better You Than Me
Jessica Brody ’01
Delacorte Press; November 2018
Dr. Coo and the Pigeon Protest
Sarah Hampson ’79; illustrated by Kass Reich
Kids Can Press; April 2018
Finn’s Feather
Rachel Noble; illustrated by Zoey Abbott Wagner ’96
Enchanted Lion Books; May 2018
The Forest Queen
Betsy Cornwell ’10
Clarion Books; August 2018
The Geography of Lost Things
Jessica Brody ’01
Simon Pulse; October 2018
Granny Can’t Remember Me: A Children’s Book About Alzheimer’s
Susan McCormick (Susan Jacobs McCormick ’84); illustrated by Timur Deberdeev
Carroll Press; September 2018
It Should Have Been You
Lynn Slaughter ’69
Page Street Kids; January 2018
Lifeboat 12
Susan Hood ’76
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; September 2018
The Marvelous Mustard Seed
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; illustrated by Margaux Meganck
Flyaway Books; April 2018
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
Susan Hood ’76
HarperCollins; January 2018
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins (Marietta Harvey Collins ’79, MSW ’83) and Ann Hazzard; illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
Magination Press; April 2018
The Thank You Book
Mary Lyn Ray ’68; illustrated by Stephanie Graegin
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers; September 2018
The Turtle Ship
Helena Ku Rhee; illustrated by Colleen Kong-Savage ’94
Shen’s Books; June 2018
2017
Fiction
The Battle for the Black Fen
Annis Pratt (Annis Vilas Pratt ’58)
Moon Willow Press
Chasing Nirvana
Ellyn Oaksmith ’85
CreateSpace
The Chosen: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
J. R. Ward (Jessica Bird ’91)
Ballantine Books
Court of Twilight
Mareth Griffith ’06
Parvus Press
The Day of the Duchess (Scandal & Scoundrel, Book 3)
Sarah MacLean (Sarah Trabucchi ’00)
Avon Books
Dead Storage: A Maggie McDonald Mystery
Mary Feliz (Mary Cooper Feliz ’80)
Lyrical Underground
Devil’s Cut: A Bourbon Kings Novel
J. R. Ward (Jessica Bird ’91)
Ballantine Books
Dropkick: A Lainie Lovett Mystery
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Clio Books
Eden
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg ’87
She Writes Press
I Brake for Moose and Other Stories
Geeta Kothari ’84
Braddock Avenue Books
Idyll Fears: A Thomas Lynch Novel
Stephanie Gayle ’97
Seventh Street Books
Kickback: A Lainie Lovett Mystery
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Clio Books
Less Than a Year
Peggy Thomas (Margaret Standish Thomas ’64)
Stablegate
The Moral Quandary of Heels
Kathleen Helen Levey ’82
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
On Anzio Beach
Elizabeth Alexander ’78
Ravenna Press
An Organized Panic
Patty Friedmann ’68
Old Stone Press
The Right Kind of Rogue (Playful Brides, Book 8)
Valerie Bowman ’96
St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Saints for All Occasions
J. Courtney Sullivan ’03
Knopf
Scheduled to Death: A Maggie McDonald Mystery
Mary Feliz (Mary Cooper Feliz ’80)
Lyrical Underground
Skating on the Vertical
Jan English Leary ’72
Fomite
Still Kicking: A Lainie Lovett Mystery
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Clio Books
To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts
Caitlin Hamilton Summie ’90
Fomite
The Velveteen Daughter
Laurel Davis Huber ’73
She Writes Press
Wild Nights: A Novel
Ruth Wolff ’53
Xlibris
Will You Ever Change?
Aurélie Valognes; translated from the French by Wendeline A. Hardenberg (Wendy Hardenberg ’05)
AmazonCrossing
Nonfiction
Aging with Wisdom: Reflections, Stories and Teachings
Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle ’59
Monkfish Book Publishing
The Art of the Sponge: A Handbook for Hosts and Houseguests
Christina Griffin (Christina O’Dunne Griffin ’66)
CreateSpace
Authoritarian Legality: Law, Workers and the State in Contemporary China
Mary Gallagher ’91
Cambridge University Press
Butterfly Politics
Catharine A. MacKinnon ’69
Belknap Press
Creative Collaborations through Inclusive Theatre and Community Based Learning: Students in Transition
Lisa A. Kramer ’90 and Judy Freedman Fask MEd ’81
Palgrave Macmillan
Dig Where You Are: How One Person’s Efforts Can Save a Life, Empower a Community and Create Meaningful Change in the World
Nan Alexander Doyal ’85
Casper Press
Discovery
Robert Hatfield Ellsworth; edited by Julia Meech ’63 and Jane Oliver
Japanese Art Society of America
Do You Feel as Old as You Are? Conversations with my Granddaughter
Anne Simpson (Anne Dodge Simpson ’57)
Huff Publishing Associates
Drink: A Four Year Survival Guide
Amanda Orr ’90
MaGu Publishing
Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive
Dorie Clark ’97
Harvard Business Review Press
Feminist Views from Somewhere: Post-Jungian Themes in Feminist Theory
Leslie Gardner (Leslie Gardner Pantucci ’70) and Frances Gray, eds.
Routledge
Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Stalled Gender Revolution
Alison Dahl Crossley ’02
NYU Press
Friendship Matters: Memoir, Life Lessons, Laughter
Sanda Neshin Bernstein ’69 and Wendy Satin Rapaport
CreateSpace
A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning
Cathy Curtis (Cathy Schwartz Curtis ’72)
Oxford University Press
A History of Medicine in 50 Discoveries
Marguerite Vigliani ’70 and Gale Eaton ’69
Tilbury House Publishers
Honor the Past: A History of the First Congregational Church of Greenwich, 1965–2015
Pat Fulkerson Larrabee ’66
Blurb
How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities
Japonica Brown-Saracino ’99
University of Chicago Press
Immaculate Assumptions: All the Stuff You Heard About the Bible That Isn’t True
Cornelia Scott Cree ’57
BookBaby
The Jewish Annotated New Testament: Second Edition
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds.
Oxford University Press
Julia Morgan’s Berkeley City Club: The Story of a Building
Sarah Gill ’59
Sarah Gill
Libertarianism: Pro and Con
George R. Ingham MSW ’89
CreateSpace
Nonfiction (continued)
Life Among the Scorpions: Memoirs of a Woman in Indian Politics
Jaya Jaitly (Jaya Chettur Jaitly ’63)
Rupa
The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race
Neda Maghbouleh ’04
Stanford University Press
Making the Mark: Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting
Miroslava Prazak ’79
Ohio University Press
Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774–1839
Elisabeth A. Fraser ’84
Penn State University Press
Memories and Miracles: Stories and Reflections on Russians from an American Missionary
Mary Theresa Webb (Terry Williams Webb ’54)
CreateSpace
Messages from God: An Illuminated Devotional
Kathleen Schwab (Kathleen Feeley Schwab ’89); photography by Therese Kay ’91
Vervanté
Modern Jewish Baker: Challah, Babka, Bagels & More
Shannon Sarna (Shannon Goldberg Sarna ’04)
Countryman Press
The Monastery and the Microscope: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality
Wendy Hasenkamp, ed., with Janna R. White ’07
Yale University Press
Monologues and Duologues from the Plays of Ruth Wolff
Ruth Wolff ’53
Xlibris
Mysterious Builder of Seattle Landmarks: Searching for My Father
Paula Pederson (Paula Holden Palmer ’55)
VIE Communication
Ottman & Company: One Daughter Remembers
Jacquelyn A. Ottman ’77
CreateSpace
Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference
Vivian R. Pollak (Vivian Rogosa Pollak ’59)
University of Pennsylvania Press
Portland Cooks: Recipes from the City’s Best Restaurants and Bars
Danielle Centoni ’97
Figure 1 Publishing
Really Important Stuff My Cat Has Taught Me
Cynthia L. Copeland ’82
Workman
Renoir: An Intimate Biography
Barbara Ehrlich White ’58
Thames & Hudson
Rock & Roll at Any Age: A Rebellious Look at Life, Health & Spiritual Wisdom from the Sassy Sage
Joan Lubar (Joan Lubar-Alvarez ’64)
Love Your Life Publishing
Sharing Books, Talking Science: Exploring Scientific Concepts with Children’s Literature
Valerie Bang-Jensen (Valerie Fischer Bang-Jensen ’77) and Mark Lubkowitz
Heinemann
Sport of a Lifetime: Enduring Personal Stories From Tennis
Judy Aydelott (Judy Agor Aydelott ’63)
New Chapter Press
Startups Demystified: Founders Share Strategies, Secrets, and Lessons Learned
Barbara Hou ’03
CoffeeCupPress
The Stories of Science: Integrating Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening into Science Instruction, 6–12
Janet MacNeil, Mark Goldner and Melissa London ’91
Heinemann
Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ’53; forward by Vicki Constantine Croke
Chelsea Green Publishing
Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan
Patricia Bernstein (Patricia Hoffman Bernstein ’66)
Texas A&M University Press
Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies
Ann Hornaday ’82
Basic Books
The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention
Abigail T. Brooks ’93
New York University Press
Trigger Warnings: History, Theory, Context
Emily J. M. Knox ’98, ed.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Where to Find Peace & Quiet in London
Elizabeth von Pier (Elizabeth Yanginski von Pier ’66)
CreateSpace
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Kory Stamper (Kory Behny Stamper ’96)
Pantheon
The World Is Your Oracle: Divinatory Practices for Tapping Your Inner Wisdom and Getting the Answers You Need
Nancy Vedder-Shults ’69
Fair Winds Press
Poetry
Air-breathing Life
Abigail Warren (Abigail Warren Dolinger AC ’86)
Finishing Line Press
Before the Vote After
Jane Yolen '60
Levellers Press
Bird Flying through the Banquet
Judy Kronenfeld (Judy Zahler Kronenfeld ’64)
FutureCycle Press
Bottles and Bones
Ayesha Chatterjee (Ayesha Bhattacharjee Chatterjee ’91)
Bayeux Arts
chasing dragonflies: I grow tired of waiting
Yvonne Garrett ’85 and Mary Ellen Sanger
CreateSpace
Glory Bush and Green Banana
Pamela Harrison (Pamela Harrison McCullough ’68)
Turning Point Books
In Praise of Flesh: New and Selected Poems
Sally Anderson Kitt Chappell ’50
CreateSpace
Mansour: Speaking the Language of Life & Love
Bonita LloydNettles ’75
CreateSpace
Ninety-Nine Names of the Beloved: Intimations of the Beauty and Power of the Divine
Camille Hamilton Adams Helminski ’73
Sweet Lady Press
Children/Young Adult
Daring to Dig: Adventures of Women in American Paleontology
Beth Stricker; illustrated by Alana McGillis ’15
Paleontological Research Institution
Double Take! A New Look at Opposites
Susan Hood (Susan Hood Kueffner ’76); illustrated by Jay Fleck
Candlewick Studio
Goodnight, Mr. Clutterbuck
Mauri Kunnas; translated from the Finnish by Jill Timbers ’76
Elsewhere Editions
I Will Love You
Alyssa Satin Capucilli; illustrated by Lisa Anchin ’04
Cartwheel Books
Sparrow
Sarah Moon ’04
Arthur A. Levine Books
Twindergarten
Nikki Ehrlich; illustrated by Zoey Abbott Wagner ’96
HarperCollins
Who Counts?: 100 Sheep, 10 Coins, and 2 Sons
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; illustrated by Margaux Meganck
Westminster John Knox Press
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