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Title Author Class Year Publication Genre Publication Year Role(s)
Pipeline to the Pros: How D3, Small-College Nobodies Rose to Rule the NBA Mr. Benjamin A. Kaplan (Ben) '09 2009 Non-Fiction 2024 Alumni
White Elephant Technology: 50 Crazy Inventions That Should Never Have Been Built and What We Can Learn From Them Mr. John J. Geoghegan III '79 1979 Non-Fiction 2024 Alumni
The Oracle Ari Juels Ph.D. '91 1991 Fiction 2024 Alumni
The Human Difference Michael Robbins M.D. '55 1955 Non-Fiction 2023 Alumni
What Makes Humans Unique Michael Robbins M.D. '55 1955 Non-Fiction 2023 Alumni
Traveling On Michael Robbins M.D. '55 1955 Poetry 2023 Alumni
Education Lead(her)ship: Advancing Women in K–12 Ms. Jennie M. Weiner '00 2000 Non-Fiction 2023 Alumni
The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal Joan V. Flores Ph.D. '10 2010 2023 Alumni
Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America's Most Popular Drink Defined a Region Dr. Rebekah E. Pite (Beka) '95 1995 Non-Fiction 2023 Alumni
37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination Ms. Sharon E. Boschert (Sherry) '78 1978 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It Mr. Colin S. Diver '65 1965 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni, Others
That Is Not Your Mind!: Zen Reflections on the Surangama Sutra Dr. Robert L. Rosenbaum '73 1973 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Wildseed Witch Ms. Marti A. Dumas '98 1998 Fiction 2022 Alumni
Liberty's Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York Dr. David N. Gellman (Dave) '88 1988 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Seven Sublimes Dr. David E. Nye '68 1968 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Alzheimer's Canyon 2022
Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York Dr. David N. Gellman (Dave) '88 1988 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Caroline Mr. Adrian Spratt '76 1976 Fiction 2022 Alumni
The Lioness: A Novel Mr. Chris Bohjalian '82 1982 Fiction 2022 Alumni, Others
Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom Mr. Andrew Z. Nagorski (Andy) '69 1969 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni, Parent/Guardian, Parent/Guardian
The Bartender's Cure: A Novel Ms. Wesley A. Straton '11 2011 Fiction 2022 Alumni
Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet Non-Fiction 2022
The Paradise Notebooks: 90 Miles Across the Sierra Nevada Dr. Richard J. Nevle (Rich) '87 1987 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Modernist Circumnavigations: Around the World in Jules Verne's Wake Dr. Kevin A. Riordan '01 2001 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Lost and Found Richard H. Rodman M.D. '77 1977 2022 Alumni, Parent/Guardian, Parent/Guardian