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Title Author Class Year Publication Genre Publication Year Sort ascending Role(s)
The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal Joan V. Flores Ph.D. '10 2010 2023 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
Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York Dr. David N. Gellman (Dave) '88 1988 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
SceneWriting: The Missing Manual for Screenwriters Mr. Christopher H. Perry (Chris) '92 1992 2022 Alumni, Parent/Guardian, Parent/Guardian
Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World Mr. Mark A. Vanhoenacker '96 1996 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Midflight Poetry 2022
Garden of Eloquence Dr. Eric P. Henry '72 1972 2022 Alumni
A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor Ms. Emilie G. Flamme '20 2020 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Pan Am Ferry Tales: A World War II Aviation Memoir Mr. Peter H. Schmitt '80 1980 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Orphans of Canland Mr. Daniel M. Vitale '15 2015 2022 Alumni
Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It Non-Fiction 2022
When Giants Ruled the Sky: The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship Mr. John J. Geoghegan III '79 1979 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Lost and Found Richard H. Rodman M.D. '77 1977 Fiction 2022 Alumni, Parent/Guardian, Parent/Guardian
Seeing the Unseen: Beyond Prejudices, Paradigms, and Party Lines The Reverend Mark M. Beckwith '73 1973 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
Awakenings: American Jewish Transformations in Identity, Leadership, and Belonging Rabbi Joshua M. Stanton (Josh) '08 2008 Non-Fiction 2022 Alumni
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven Mr. Nathaniel I. Miller '01 2001 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