Bobcat Authors

The city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when viewed from the outside, looks just like other small cities in America, so what makes this city so unique when it comes to the arts? Told through the stories of people who bring art and creativity to every aspect of life in Lancaster, this collection of essays gives us a glimpse into what makes this...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Oct. 3, 2023

It’s eleven days after Christmas and Lucía yearns to be in lush Puerto Rico celebrating Día de los Reyes with family and friends. But this year, instead of dancing and singing in the parrandas of her Puerto Rican neighborhood, she is surrounded by cold and silence in snow-blanketed Ohio. How will she ever be able to guide the Three...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Oct. 3, 2023

Although many fun facts kids books are just big, random lists “The Great Big Book of 'Whoa! Really?'” organizes the topics and expands on the most interesting ones. Fun activities at the end of each chapter encourage kids to not just to read but to venture out and seek their own amazing facts & stories. Short quizzes test their reading...

Genre: Nonfiction
Publication Date: Sept. 19, 2023

Do you feel stuck in a rut, or like you are on an automated path to your destiny? "FEELING STUCK?" is a roadmap for personal transformation and empowerment. It brings the successful teachings of a private coaching program to a broader audience by guiding the reader through relatable examples and thought-provoking discussions...

Genre: Personal Development
Publication Date: Aug. 10, 2023

Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of colonial piracy and smuggling with "Sails, Swords, and Smugglers: A Swashbuckling Journey into Colonial America's Pirate Underworld," book 1 in a series of history books for 6th graders. A lot of the most exciting details, which get kids interested in and fascinated by their nation's formation...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: July 5, 2023

After spending over twenty years studying the science of thriving, carefully analyzing associated theories and evidenced-based practices, Dr. Trevor Petersen has drilled down to the underlying mechanism by which happiness is created. This book draws from the wisdom of the ages, contemporary psychology and neuroscience...

Genre: Self-Help
Publication Date: June 26, 2023

Embark on an exciting adventure into the vibrant world of creative writing with "Imagination Station: Your Express Track to Exciting Stories". This is no ordinary guidebook - it's a passport to boundless creativity, custom-designed for creative, ambitious 6th graders eager to craft their own captivating tales. It's also a workbook that will...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: June 16, 2023

Kate Montgomery travels to the small town of Brixton Hill to scout a new act for her father’s struggling circus. Lewis Oswald, a trainer and friend of Kate’s family, introduces her to the Shadow Dancers, three young girls who can make their shadows dance independently of their bodies. While the act would...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: June 13, 2023

A beloved member of the country music community, David “Stringbean” Akeman found nationwide fame as a cast member of Hee Haw. The 1973 murder of Stringbean and his wife forever changed Nashville’s sense of itself. Millions of others mourned not only the slain couple but the passing...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: May 23, 2023

We are all somewhere along a developmental continuum relating to issues around race. While POC should occupy the majority of space to articulate these issues, there is only so much Black people can tell White people about them. To that end, Gerdy writes specifically as one old White dude...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: May 13, 2023

Amber James seems to have it all—a thriving career in NYC, a perfect-on-paper relationship, and a need to please those around her. But when her world is turned upside down by a global pandemic, a heartbreaking loss, and a life-threatening medical crisis, she must decide if it’s worth detonating her safe life for...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: May 9, 2023

The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis that the United States ever faced. By the time it reached its low point in early 1933, the stock market had lost nearly 90 percent of its value, gross domestic product (GDP) had dropped by more than 30 percent, nearly a quarter of the nation’s workforce was...

Genre: History
Publication Date: May 1, 2023

This is the true story of two talented, young Swedish women who dared to dream of fashion success in Hollywood. In 1967, a young woman from Sweden convinced her sister to move to the US with her to start a crochet clothing business from scratch. After an early, fortuitous meeting with Vogue...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: April 21, 2023

Janice Fraser, BA '89

Jason Fraser

Eric Ries (Foreword)

Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama offers theory alongside hands-on exercises, formulas, and frameworks that can all be adapted to real-life situations in both professional and personal contexts. The world around you might constantly be in flux, but you don’t have to be. With this book, you’ll be empowered...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: April 11, 2023

In Suds Series, J. Daniel takes readers back forty years, telling a story that is part baseball history, part urban history, and part U.S. cultural history, the narrative weaving together the development of the Midwest cities of St. Louis and Milwaukee through their engagement with beer and baseball...

Genre: Sports
Publication Date: March 31, 2023

Easy-to-follow roadmap for finding your interests, discovering self and successfully navigating the journey to your career with clarity, confidence, and control by branding yourself as the only choice for hire. Dissatisfied with your job and confused about how to get started finding something else? Confused by...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: March 29, 2023

Edited by: Zoë Bossiere, PhD '22

& Erica Trabold

Lyric essayists draw on memoir, poetry, and prose to push against the arbitrary genre restrictions in creative nonfiction, opening up space not only for new forms of writing, but also new voices and a new literary canon. Editors Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold situate this anthology within the ongoing work...

Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Publication Date: March 21, 2023

Soul Tasting is Anthony Webb's third collection of poetry. All poems in the collection were written in 2022, telling the story from Anthony's perspective of what events, situations or thoughts spoke to him during the year. Over the years, Anthony learned that the more he wrote, the more of his soul was...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: March 16, 2023

Accidental millionaire Bill Bannock discovers a female golf prodigy who introduces him to her mother. Love emerges as Bill, Alice, Geraldine and Benjamin form a foursome of respect and inter-racial family dynamics. Alice becomes a champion golfer in ways that pre-date the great Tiger Woods.

Genre: Romance
Publication Date: March 15, 2023

Under the mantle of its intriguing title Mark Fleisher writes of sadness and tragedy, lightens the mood with poems about love, nature, even baseball, as well as a mirthful look at technology. Fleisher’s blend of narrative and lyric styles cuts to the heart of the matter, showing the ability to speak volumes in a...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: March 7, 2023

Scarlett Ray’s life has never been steady. Every few months, there’s a new apartment, a new job, a new boyfriend…The only constant is Daisy, her unruly shelter dog, and the man who raised Scarlett — Gramps. So when Gramps calls from the hospital, Scarlett abandons her messy life yet again, and heads...

Genre: Romance
Publication Date: Feb. 14, 2023

An ex-mob fixer must find a missing teenager and disrupt a human trafficking operation before she disappears forever. Connor Harding is the go-to man when it comes to solving problems for those who can’t go to the police. Ellie Armstrong is a seventeen-year-old living in Big Rock, Wyoming. When Ellie disappears, Zoe Armstrong...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Jan. 31, 2023

The narratives cover a forty plus years of adventures flying small airplanes, the good the bad and the frightening. As a retired aircraft mechanic an private pilot, he enjoyed mostly peaceful and uneventful flights. The author shares several harrowing experiences that had God not intervened, the stories would not have been written...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Dec. 30, 2022 

This work is a witty exploration of the eerie similarities between the assassinations of presidents Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy that have fascinated history buffs for more than half a century. From the compilation of these mysterious coincidences to the campfire story of a curse cast upon the American presidency, this account...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Dec. 23, 2022

Mike Jackson, BSED '68, PhD (Honorary) '12

Karen Jackson, BSED '69

From Vietnam to Operation Welcome Home relives Mike Jackson’s return from Vietnam, where he flew 210 missions as a forward air controller, to anti-war protests at San Francisco International. As his family subsequently moved fourteen times, experiencing the high points and sacrifices of a career military family, Mike never forgave those protesters...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Dec. 14, 2022 

Norill Haugen, a spy in the Norwegian resistance movement, has survived two years of Nazi occupation. But the arrival of Gerntz, a Nazi soldier, will change everything. Her spy ring compromised, Norill will soon find that the line between friend, foe, and family blends and shatters them all. In order to survive, Norill must...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Dec. 8, 2022

Travel writer Charlene Andre jumps on an assignment to visit Hungary soon after the fall of the Iron Curtain …and her marriage. Budapest! That most fabled of cities… but is it safe? War threatens along the border. The government is corrupt. Charlene throws her fate to the wind and makes the journey...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Dec. 5, 2022

A young woman with a questionable past... A family struggling to find common ground... A murder victim with no known enemies... This sequel to The Dark Side of the Rainbow is a haunting exploration of the long-term effects of trauma and a sizzling murder mystery with page-turning suspense.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Dec. 1, 2022

When Oliver (Olly) Appleton’s grandfather dies in a suspicious accident, his family decides to move to Littleton, Massachusetts, to care for the family estate. Once there, they discover they need to protect their land from a greedy mall developer, Henry Dalton...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Nov. 9, 2022

"Weekends and Summers with Dad" describes the various activities Aubrey and Zachary participate in with their father on the weekends and throughout the summer when at his house. Everyone's path to parenting, stepparenting, grandparenting, and uplifting...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Nov. 5, 2022

While social network analyses often demonstrate the usefulness of social media networks to affective publics and otherwise marginalized social justice groups, this book explores the domination and manipulation of social networks by more powerful political groups. Jeffrey Layne Blevins...

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: Nov. 4, 2022

Woodrow Wilson's presidential administration (1913-1921) was marked not only by America's participation in World War I, but also by numerous armed interventions by the United States in other countries. Spanning the globe, these actions included the years-long occupations of Haiti and the...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Oct. 15, 2022

Achieve more of what you want in life by learning how to negotiate more effectively. In the book, you will find: Actionable negotiating tactics you can immediately put into practice; Learn tactics from some of the most we-known negotiators in history that you too can use; Easy-to-use tactics when...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Oct. 8, 2022

In When They Tell You To Be Good, Prince Shakur takes us on a fearless journey through the non-linear landscape of his childhood as a queer, closeted kid in an immigrant family from Jamaica. Through Shakur's raw and honest portrayal of his identity as a writer, anarchist, and traveler, we witness...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Oct. 1, 2022

Joseph Antenucci Becherer, BFA '87, MFA '90

Henry Martin Luttikhuizen

In this “catalogue for an imagined exhibition,” two prominent art historians—one from the Roman Catholic tradition, one from the Protestant tradition—offer a guided tour of fifty-two sculptures of Jesus Christ from throughout the Western world. The chronological scope of the selection ranges...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: Sept. 27, 2022

Deeply rooted in respect and compassion for Appalachia and its people, these poems are both paeans to and dirges for past and present family, farmlands, factories, and coal.

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Sept. 27, 2023

Hundreds, if not thousands, of mills once dotted the hills and glades of what is now West Virginia. Though the vast majority are gone, towns all over the Mountain State bear the names of the mills that put them on the map. History buffs, nature photographers, and outdoor enthusiasts, you are invited to come...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Sept. 26, 2022

Reading The Blue Wife Poems,I think of Adam Zagajewski: “Only in the beauty created / by others is there consolation, / in the music of others and in others’ poems.” To consolation, I would add solace. I would add awe at the transformation of pain into beauty. This is what I ask for in poetry, and what...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Sept. 23, 2022

Transform movement and meditation into the powerful practice of mindful movement. Exercise can be meditation. What do you think of when you hear the word meditation? A quiet room filled with monks? An Instagram influencer? What about moving meditation? Yoga? Tai Chi? For too long, meditation in books has focused...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: Sept. 23, 2022

Storytime with Bruce Disney Underground: Dreams, Drama, and Deaths' is a collection of non-fiction stories based on real experiences, conversations, and observations by author Bruce Wolfe, a 25-year member of the Disney organization, company shareholder, and member of the Disney family. This first book...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Sept. 19, 2022

Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day. The book places in context the modern-day battles against voter suppression laws that were embedded in American history and are still underway...

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: Sept. 6, 2022

Ava explains how she goes about her everyday activities processing information with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Ava is driven, smart, fun-loving, and energetic who often feels misunderstood by her family and peers. Ava is an extraordinary girl ready to take the world by storm and...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Sept. 1, 2022

A look at the short theatrical cartoons directed by Charles M. (Chuck) Jones between 1938 and 1967. Chuck Jones worked for Warner Brothers and helped develop Bugs Bunny, as well as devising the Coyote vs. Roadrunner cartoons and Pepe Le Pew. The book also covers the cartoons Jones made for the War Department...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Aug. 16, 2022

There are moments in life when things just don't go our way. How we react to these moments can be a major step toward growth and self-discovery. Zippy The Zebra Takes The Stage teaches us not to give up when things go wrong. Sometimes, a little perseverance and help from others can be just the fix we need. In this...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Aug. 14, 2022

You Are a Filmmaker is an illustrated, interactive novel about making it big in the movie business. With over 100 different outcomes, you may become an Oscar-winning director, marry a movie star, join a cult, or get killed by a paranoid producer. There are also secret endings, celebrity cameos, and...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: June 14, 2022

An ex-mob fixer must solve the murder of a hitman’s wife and daughter before becoming the next victim. Connor Harding is the go-to man when it comes to solving problems for the underworld’s most dangerous criminals. Freddie Blasko is a violent hitman with a reputation for results. Twelve years after...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: June 7, 2022

Set in Japan during the early years of World War II, this game helps students understand the political and strategic reasons behind Japan's decision to enter the war. Taking on the roles of leading figures in Tokyo—army or navy officers, bureaucrats, and members of the Imperial Court—students are thrust into...

Genre: History
Publication Date: June 1, 2022

Lovelace recasts World War II in a new and unique fashion by placing media and public opinion at the center of battlefield decision-making. Unlike past scholarship on the media during World War II that focused on censorship, propaganda, or the adventure stories of war correspondents...

Genre: History
Publication Date: May 25, 2022

Odyssey in Progress presents the life experiences of Sandra D. Brown through various styles of poetry. "Haiku #1" and "My Odyssey" serve as the starting points of Brown's poetic memoir. She becomes incarcerated for defending her life, but pieces such as "Truth or Dare," reveal that prison...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: May 19, 2022

Drawing on a rich dairy heritage, Ohio has whipped up an ice cream industry worthy of tourism. The state has legitimate claims as the birthplace of the ice cream cone and the banana split, and the Klondike Bar and the Good Humor Man were created here. Ohio's storied legacy lives on today in the...

Genre: Travel
Publication Date: May 16, 2022

Spencer is a Vizsla dog. But some of his best friends are Labs (Labrador Retrievers, that is!). Everywhere he goes, from the beach to the country, he meets Labradors. Vizslas and Labradors are different breeds, but they're more alike than different. They both love to wrestle and fetch sticks...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: May 12, 2022

Gene Natali

Matt Kabala, BSS '01

The Missing Semester provides a short course on the essentials for making wise financial decisions and gaining financial freedom. Although designed with the recent college graduate in mind, The Missing Semester is relevant to a much wider audience. Those who bypassed college, or who...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: April 26, 2022

Trent Milliron, BBA '03

Adam Spencer, Alvion Legall, Bob Savage, David Spigelman, Gregory Marron, John Stock, Joseph Salazar, Julio Lopez, Konrad Martin, Michael Duke, Mike D. Moore, Paul Tracey, Scott Kreisberg, Stephen Cracknell, Sunil Raina

To stay one step ahead of these cybercriminals and protect your network from a data breach and ransomware, you need the right team to safeguard your network and protect your data. The cyber security experts in this book are a great start. These 16 IT services firm owners have years of...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: April 14, 2022

In his thought-provoking book "Discovering Your Excellence Within," Dr. Nick Pappas shows the world that everyone possesses an inner storehouse of amazing treasures waiting to be discovered. Now it is time to learn how to access the array of empowering, yet often dormant, abilities residing...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: April 13, 2022

Within every individual is a storehouse of amazing treasures waiting to be discovered. Dr. Nick Pappas first realized this during his professional athletic career when at times he felt challenged to the extreme. While stress can weaken performance and energy levels, it can also be motivational and...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: April 12, 2022

I am not a poet…yet, is my second collection of poetry. Yes, I have jumped down the rabbit hole of life again, to express myself through the written prose. This collection of poetry spans the years 2020-2021 when COVID, death, and fear become common companions. I have attempted to...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: April 12, 2022

This generational epic follows Virgil and his new wife, Anna, from Eastern Russia to Ohio. There, the entire family struggles through the Great Depression giving them a new life and purpose. In 1932, the immigrants' grandson, Howard Virgil Savage, enters a world of strife, poverty and...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: April 5, 2022

In 1778, war is men’s business. That doesn’t stop Anna Stone from getting involved in the fight. As the wife of a preacher-turned-soldier, a healer, and mother of three, Anna knows her place in this world. She tends to things at home while her husband and brothers fight for liberty. But when her...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: March 29, 2022

As an end-of-life doula, Nova Huston’s job—her calling, her purpose, her life—is to help terminally ill people make peace with their impending death. Unlike her business partner, who swears by her system of checklists, free-spirited Nova doesn’t shy away from difficult clients: the ones who...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: March 22, 2022

Using scriptures, answers the question, why would God love me? In light of bad choices and a poor self image, we often think that a God of love could only love the most deserving. But that is not so. He loves based on who he is.

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: March 2, 2022

Memes have been part of computer-assisted communication almost since the development of the first consumer browser (the "WorldWideWeb") in 1990. The Internet's ability to provide a public sphere for people to discuss the issues of the day and other topics of interest means that people...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Incidental Moments invites the reader to come along on a literary journey featuring poignant and powerful poems interspersed with generous helpings of humor. Mark Fleisher’s narratives weave tales spanning a broad array of subjects while his use of imagery paints pictures both abstract...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Feb. 14, 2022

Still hiding from the Equinox Agency, fallen angel turned detective Xavier Knight reluctantly agrees to find Rose McHugh, a makeup artist at Night Shade cosmetics, sister Lacy, who vanished without a trace the week before. But things get complicated when Lacy’s disappearance connects to the...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Feb. 9, 2022

A masterclass in achieving and sustaining excellence, even in the most challenging of times―from the host of The Learning Leader Show and author of Welcome to Management. Ryan Hawk has interviewed hundreds of the most productive achievers in the world on his acclaimed podcast, The Learning...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Jan. 25, 2022

Dr. George L. Lucas, MD practiced orthopedic surgery for fifty years. During that time, he treated thousands of people who were injured in a variety of ways. Orthopedic surgeons treat patients with infections, arthritis, congenital deformities, tumors, and developmental problems, but the bulk of...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: Jan. 17, 2022

In One Heart with Courage, Teri Rizvi brings a powerful, original voice to a collection of essays that shows why our dreams matter. Woven throughout her writings is a deep faith in what's possible when we open our hearts. A journalist and storyteller who has traveled widely, Rizvi...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Jan. 1, 2022

What if a stranger knew everything about you? Where you live. Who you trust. Your worst memories. Every dark secret. And what if that stranger was a murderer? For three years, journalist Jennifer Gibbs has been following a brutal serial killer who sends her clue that hint at his identity and shows...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Jan. 1, 2022

A whimsical girl, a nostalgic mom and a wise old Family Tree take a journey back in time. Molli and Me and the Family Tree reveals beloved ancestors who mysteriously appear to Molli as root vegetables and imaginative characters dangling on the trees' branches. This fanciful book will...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Nov. 24, 2021

In 1957, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned The Illinois, a mile high office building that was never built. In The Pegasus Tower, a global bank acquires the plans many decades later and erects it. Step into the perfect workplace.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Nov. 21, 2021

Would-be journalist, Ted Travis, is unemployed, homeless, and depressed--almost to the point of suicide. Discouraged ingenue Debbie Kessler is more than ready to start over for the third time in her life. Charismatic evangelist John January is convinced that a global catastrophe of biblical...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Nov. 19, 2021

Although it is the unthinkable, all people think about it at some point or have it in the back of their minds. Whatever your thoughts about skilled nursing homes are, the images are not always pleasant. Whether you are aging yourself, have aging parents, or have a disability, who will provide for you?...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: Oct. 28, 2021

Long-term Democratic dominance in the US House of Representatives gave way to a Republican electoral advantage and frequently held majority following the GOP takeover in 1994. Republicans haven’t always held the majority in recent decades, but nationalization, partisan realignment, and...

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: Oct. 26, 2021

Tina Perry often wonders how she got to this place in life. The only child of dysfunctional Holocaust concentration camp survivors, Tina learned early to have low expectations. Feeling unworthy of love or acceptance, and although she excels at almost everything, she thinks she is nothing special...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Oct. 20, 2021

The Storm that wiped out civilization five years ago killed billions across the globe, leaving only a handful of people alive. Scout is one of those few.Now on her own, she is desperate to find a cure for going Gray, the worldwide pandemic that eventually turns the living into mindless, murderous...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Oct. 19, 2021

A small-town sheriff with a panic disorder must solve a series of murders before the killer claims his fifth victim and disappears forever. Tim Burke is the sheriff of Lincoln, Ohio, a small town where nothing happens. That all changes when he finds a chilling note claiming five people will die in town. At first...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Oct. 18, 2021
 

With two horses, a dog and a used Gibson guitar a young woman set out in 1973 for a month-long adventure, following trails and back roads deep in Appalachia in southeastern Ohio. A few weeks before, Joy MillerUpton had been a journalism student at Ohio University, but now, with a BS...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Oct. 17, 2021

When Your Soul Whispers: Strategies for Leaders to Redefine Values and Move Forward After Life's Transitions provides insight to why you may struggle to change. Based on her personal and career experiences, entrepreneur, mother, and certified Reinvention Strategist, Licia...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Sept. 23, 2021

After losing her Great Grandma Rose, who lived until almost 100 years old, Latrice realized that it didn’t matter how long you lived––it mattered how well you lived. Life is about making memories, and we should choose to make good ones. This became Latrice’s mantra after she coined...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Sept. 22, 2021

Tips and Tales takes readers on the author’s life journey through interactions with spirits, spirit guides, angles, and mystical events showing how easy it is to connect with deceased relatives daily…and to live with hope...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: Sept. 15, 2021

This is the true story of a young boy living a life of extreme child abuse, identity struggles, and finding his way to survive. Set primarily in rural America, "Little Brucie" tells the story of his constant guard to save the lives of his mother and sister from his same horrors by remaining silent from the age of 6...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Sept. 14, 2021

Has your career plateaued? Do you sometimes dread starting work? Are you bogged down by frustration, tedium, loneliness, or uncertainty? There’s hope. Find Your Happy at Work, the latest book by acclaimed executive coach Beverly Jones, gives you a road map to quickly create more joy...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Sept. 1, 2021

In this series finale of historical fiction from 1864 and 1865, the spotlight shines brightest on Esther and David in the ravaged Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, while all five narrators show versions of courage, adaptation, and survival. During these closing years of the American Civil War, no...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 31, 2021

Forty years ago, a South African rugby tour in the United States became a crucial turning point for the nation’s burgeoning protests against apartheid and a test of American foreign policy. Derek Charles Catsam tells the fascinating story of the Springbok’s 1981 US tour and its impact on...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Aug. 28, 2021

Easy-to-follow roadmap for navigating the journey to college with clarity, confidence, and control (for both the parent and high schooler) Confused about how to get started with finding the right college for your high schooler? Overwhelmed with all the fragmented (and sometimes contradictory)...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: Aug. 25, 2021

High school freshman Elaine Shiver, having witnessed her mother Mildred's life of domestic oppression, resists the accepted standards forced upon women in the 1960s. She wants to walk a different path. The launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union changes Elaine's life forever. She dreams of...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 17, 2021

This book is the account of the 803rd Aviation Engineer Battalion and its deployment to the Philippines during WWII. It is a cautionary tale, detailing the failures of leadership at all levels which led to ineffective infrastructure development, and eventually, the destruction of the heavy bomber...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Aug. 11, 2021

In 1913, Henry Hamilton disappears while on a business trip, and his sister, Sorrow, travels to Tidepool, the last place Henry visited. Residents of the small, shabby oceanside town can’t meet Sorrow’s eyes when she questions them about Henry. After corpses wash up on shore looking as if they’ve...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 3, 2021

Learn to run with your team instead of chasing them as they walk out the door. Chasing Happy at Work provides a series of actionable steps leaders can take to build amazing workplaces either in office or remote.

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Aug. 1, 2021

Joanna Neff, MA '80

Pen name: Jo Deniau

2022 Somerset Awards Finalist (Chanticleer International Book Awards - CIBAs); October 2021 International Impact Award for Women's Fiction. Gillian is a brave young girl from Missouri trying to free herself from an abusive relationship with her mother. After her father’s death, she decides to face the unknown and moves to New York by herself...

Genre: Historical Fiction
Publication Date: July 28, 2021

"I wish I'd been able to read this book before becoming Governor. Mahoney's charm, wit, and wisdom-drawn from deep experience-will guide today's and tomorrow's leaders to achieve the results they desire." -Robert (Bob) Taft, Distinguished Research Associate (University of Dayton)...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: July 26, 2021

In this poetry collection, Alice-Catherine Jennings flips lines out of William Shakespeare's sonnets into the memories and reflections of daily events. A fast-paced ride through cultures, food, and political thought-all in 14 lines.

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: June 30, 2021

Phillips is the only five-time winner of the Romance Writers of America Favorite Book of the Year Award. In 2001, she was inducted into the Romance Writers Hall of Fame and in 2006 was a recipient of the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Genre: Romance
Publication Date: June 29, 2021

A sixteen-year-old girl wakes up in somebody's front yard, and cannot remember a single thing. All she knows is that she was abandoned, has a bite wound on her shoulder, and a hankering hunger for meat.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: May 15, 2021

This collection of in-depth profiles featuring Smart City CIOs, Data Protection Officers, Blockchain CEO’s, Informatics Doctors and other diverse, skilled professionals gives readers first-hand insight into what tomorrow’s jobs look like today. The hands-on experiences, subject matter...

Genre: Computers/Technology
Publication Date: May 1, 2021

Max Linder, born Gabriel Leuvielle in St. Loubes, France in 1883, started in films with the Pathe Brothers in Vincennes, just outside of Paris in 1905, making him one of the first film comedians that became world-renowned. In fact, there is evidence that Linder was the first screen celebrity...

Genre: Film Studies
Publication Date: April 19, 2021

Have you ever waited in a doctor’s office and wondered why it takes so long? In this book for children ages 3 to 8, Lucy Elizabeth Brown tells the story of waiting for the best doctor in her town. Through adorable illustrations, children learn the importance of patience and empathy at...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: April 17, 2021

The films of John Hughes (1950–2009) have enjoyed popular and critical success alike, from his first scripts in the early 1980s through to his celebrated work later in the decade and into the 1990s. While Hughes is best remembered for his stories about teenagers, such as Sixteen...

Genre: History
Publication Date: April 13, 2021

This children's book is about trying to understand the natural feelings that occur after losing someone you love. It is my hope that this book will allow children to explore their feelings and to understand that it is ok to be sad. The story will also provide children with a few skills in what to do when...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: March 24, 2021

When two strangers are linked by a mail-in DNA test, it’s an answered prayer—that is, for one half sister. For the other, it will dismantle everything she knows to be true. But as they step into the unfamiliar realm of sisterhood, the roles will reverse in ways no one could have foreseen.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: March 23, 2021

James Bond's survival of multiple myeloma since 1992 is an amazing story of tenacity, hard work and good fortune. In this book Jim shares his and his caregiver wife's, Kathleen, approaches and experiences and difficulties.

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: March 20, 2021

Zippy The Zebra Earns His Stripes is about a kind little zebra who knows that it isn't nice to make fun of others. This book shows us how to stand up for one another and be a friend to those in need. We learn that it's okay to be different...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: March 19, 2021

Women are doing it all: running companies, nurturing marriages, raising kids, volunteering on boards, and still making Pinterest-perfect cupcakes for the class party, thank you very much. But we're exhausted. We're running on hamster wheels and popping Xanax, and in our most private...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: March 8, 2021

This book is about three death row men and their experiences in living life and trying to avoid hell. Each of the three death row men's experience is viewed through a different moral lesson found in the three parables of the Christian Bible's Book of Matthew, Chapter 25. These moral lessons...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: March 7, 2021

Raindrops are falling outside, but there's still a world of color to experience! Delightful rhymes and brilliant illustrations detail how a gloomy, rainy day might not actually be so gloomy after all when you get to spend time with Mom, Brown Bear, and the colors around you. And when a "beaming...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: March 2, 2021

As families navigate the sorrow of losing a loved one, children often have their own questions, feelings and concerns. Addressing these can be challenging. Heavenly Chats simplifies the response with examples combining nature, adventure, and scripture. The interactive format allows the child to...

Genre: Children
Publication Date:  Feb. 10, 2021

In the tender, sensual, and bracing poems of a more perfect Union, Teri Ellen Cross Davis reclaims the experience of living and mothering while Black in contemporary America, centering Black women’s pleasure by wresting it away from the relentless commodification of the White gaze...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2021

Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood explores the important yet often overlooked subject of boys and boyhood in film. This collected volume features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Jan. 20, 2021

Author, Ann Miller Woodford of Andrews, North Carolina researched and wrote When All God’s Children Get Together: A Celebration of the Lives and Music of African American People in Far Western North Carolina to highlight the presence and significance of the Black community in the far western mountains near Georgia and...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Jan. 18, 2021

Fight sports may seem at odds with Christian tradition, yet modern ministries have embraced them as a means for evangelism and social outreach. While news media often sensationalize fighting sports, churches see them as a way to appeal to male congregants, presenting a peace-loving yet...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: Jan. 17, 2021

An ex-mob fixer with a price on his head must return to his New York City stomping ground to find out who wants him dead and cancel the contract before someone else cancels him. Connor Harding was the go-to man when it came to solving problems for the underworld’s most dangerous criminals. He’s smart...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Jan. 5, 2021

Forty-four-year-old Forrest Alderson isn’t at all sure of his motives for returning from self-imposed exile to Asher Heights, West Virginia, to see his hometown for the first time since he graduated from college. All he knows for certain is it’s something he has to do if he is to find out whether he...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Bruce Goldberg, BSC '71

David C. Warner

Marking Amtrak’s 50th anniversary, this all-new 256-page book presents a thorough summary of every Amtrak route since 1971, featuring detailed tables, surveying train schedules, and station stops at ten-year intervals. Also included are comprehensive lists of train names, stations...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Jan. 1, 2021

Deep in the remote mountains of Ecuador, an eccentric scientist studies ayahuasca, the most powerful psychedelic known to man. Twenty western participants are thrilled to experience the exotic spiritual tradition, all expenses paid. Then something goes wrong. As the line between...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Dec. 20, 2020

This book traces the development of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood from its audacious concept through its tenacious production to its celebrated reception, placing it within the context of cinematic parables about children to demonstrate its distinctive vision. Timothy Shary, author of numerous...

Genre: Cinema
Publication Date: Dec. 18, 2020

The American wilderness narrative, which divides nature from culture, has remained remarkably persistent despite the rise of ecological science, which emphasizes interconnection between these spheres. Wild Abandon considers how ecology's interaction with radical politics of authenticity in...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: Dec. 17, 2020

Cancer is no respecter of persons. Anyone can develop cancer, even young moms with children who need her. Mommy Has a Boo-Boo: Explaining Breast Cancer to Children by Marci Greenberg Cox, Kristen Hampshire, and Brooke Foster helps children deal with the trauma and stress of their mom having cancer...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Dec. 16, 2020

Once Upon a Word, Anthony Webb's first collection of poetry takes the reader on a poetic journey spanning four decades. The collection of poems escorts you to a time when a tootsie roll lasted a long time to today where up is down and down is around. The word evocative has been used to describe how...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Dec. 12, 2020

My name is Claire. I’m thirty-six years old. It’s September. I know what I’m doing and why I am here…for now. Ten years ago, Claire Hines lost her unborn child―and her short-term memory―following a heartrending tragedy. With notebooks, calendars, to-do lists, fractured pieces...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Dec. 1, 2020

The first ever memoir of a Chief Prosecutor of and an international war crimes tribunal , by the first American to be such since Robert H. Jackson at Nuremberg.

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: Dec. 1, 2020

Cleveland's Crown Angels (CCA) is the first fiction book from Hair! How I Grew It Host and Producer Drakeel Burns. CCA is a zany supernatural adventure rooted in her natural hair journey. It's also a little steamy. Not Fifty Shades, but there's some heat, and the book celebrates Cleveland, Drakeel's hometown. Cleveland native Adrian. S. Lane illustrated the beautiful book cover.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Nov. 28, 2020

Urbane, vain Nick Montaigne has a taste for Porsches, fifties jazz, and cinnamon chewing gum. When a beautiful Georgia coed is brutally murdered on the Appalachian Trail, detective Montaigne and his lovable but awkward partner Vern Wister are pulled into terra incognita. Montaigne...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Nov. 24, 2020

Douglas McKechnie, BA '98

Eric Merriam

A new textbook exploring selected national security law issues, focusing on the choices between liberty and security and law’s role as a tool or constraint on national security policy. Written for students who may not have prior experience studying the various areas of law that comprise national...

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: Nov. 19, 2020

Just married to his high school sweetheart, Albert "Bert" Waller is drafted into war. The year is 1965. He performs heroically in Viet Nam and returns to earn advanced degrees in science. After a brief career in industry, Bert and his spouse Nancy, work toward advanced education. Bert eventually teaches...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Oct. 15, 2020

Set against the backdrop of three major American Civil War battles at Antietam, Vicksburg, and Gettysburg, the same five narrators return to tell the stories of what happened in their communities of conscience. Members of Mennonite, Amish, and German Baptist churches choose their loyalties...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Oct. 9, 2020

This story takes place before the time covered in my series of books The First Four Hundred Years. After the end of the Roman Kingdom around five hundred years BCE, the Roman Republic came into existence and endured until the year twenty-seven BCE when it was replaced by the Roman...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Sept. 29, 2020

One of the issues facing journalists is a lack of training that focuses on creating editorial content with the changes to media platforms, economic models, and the mode of communicating with their audience. There is a lack of guidance on how to apply their storytelling style and lessons...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: Sept. 24, 2020

The Storm was a disaster of epic proportions. Billions perished and thousands of years of civilization were destroyed, gone forever beneath a hundred feet of water. Scout, Lord, and their small group of friends are some of the few still alive. Together, they have learned how to survive in...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Sept. 21, 2020

Everyone would love to have all the answers to everything that they will face in their life. Unfortunately, those answers sometimes come with bumps, bruises, and a lot of strife of passing through life on a bumpy road. Well, Life Is Simple will smooth out that road and provide you some very real...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Sept. 8, 2020

Mountaintop Moments chronicles the journey of a musician turned music educator in a series of honest, poignant, and inspiring first-person stories. At the same time, the book includes remarkable insights and how-to practical advice for those who teach music to young people and adults...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Sept. 3, 2020

The House That Rock Built: How it Took Time, Money, Music Moguls, Corporate Types, Politicians, Media, Artists, and Fans To Bring the Rock Hall To Cleveland

For 25 years, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has defined Cleveland’s image as the “Rock and Roll Capital of the World.” But while the Rock Hall has become an iconic landmark for the city of Cleveland and for fans of rock and roll around the world, it was just one missed phone call away...

Genre: Music
Publication Date: Sept. 1, 2020

Road Out of Winter

Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty—her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she’s been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn’t return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Sept. 1, 2020

If You Build it They Will Stay

Learn to build an amazing workplace by leveraging the unique talents of each generation. This book provides practical insights and real world examples for accomplish your workplace culture goals.

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Sept. 1, 2020

Tortured Logic: Why Some Americans Support the Use of Torture in Counterterrorism

Joseph Young, MA '03

Erin M. Kearns 

Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young draw upon a novel series of group experiments to understand how and why the average citizen might come to support the use of torture techniques. They find evidence that when torture is depicted as effective in the media, people are more likely to approve...

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: July 28, 2020

The Adventures of Millsport: The Story of a Visionary Sports Marketing Agency

The Adventures of Millsport charts the growth and development of one of the most highly respected sports marketing agencies in business history. Launched as a 2-person agency in 1975, Millsport grew to service and represent many of the premier US and global brand marketing leaders...

Genre: History
Publication Date: July 14, 2020

Celestial Mirror: The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II

Between 1724 and 1730, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories, called Jantar Mantars, in northern India. The four remaining observatories are an extraordinary fusion of architecture and science, combining elements of astronomy, astrology, and...

Genre: Science/Math
Publication Date: June 2, 2020

Lady Chevy: A Novel

Amy Wirkner, a high school senior in Barnesville, Ohio, is a loner, nicknamed “Chevy” for her size. She’s smart, funny, and absolutely determined to escape from her small town in the Ohio Valley, a place poisoned by fracking. She does well in school despite the cruelty of her classmates and...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: June 2, 2020

Rainbow Soup

Rainbow Soup takes place in a richly detailed world of wonder, imagination, and fantasy. It manifests the power of love, friendship, and positive thinking through Chantelle - caring and devoted granddaughter of Popper - who treks through the Rainbow to find the legendary pot of gold to...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: June 1, 2020

Confessions of an Investigative Reporter

Award-winning investigative reporter Matthew Schwartz was ordered to lie on TV in the name of sensationalism. He was arrested for trespassing on the property of a business he exposed for committing fraud. A target of one of his investigations swung a baseball bat at his head...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: May 26, 2020

Inside Pitch: Insiders Reveal How the Ill-Fated Seattle Pilots Got Played into Bankruptcy in One Year

The year 1969 ushered a new Major League Baseball team into Seattle: the Pilots. After many earlier years of successful minor league ball, the city had high hopes for a similar outcome. With plans for a new ballpark and a temperamental but hot-hitting young player named Lou Piniella in the...

Genre: History
Publication Date: May 18, 2020

What's Left Untold

Every secret has its price. Anna Clark and Lia Clay were unlikely best friends in high school, but their yin-and-yang personalities drew them together in a sister-like bond. Then during college, Lia inexplicably walked out on their friendship and disappeared, leaving Anna hurt, confused, and...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: May 11, 2020

Restorative Yoga: Relax, Restore, Re-Energize

Are you seeking balance, healing, and a calmer mind? Unlike active styles of yoga that focus on stretching and movement, restorative yoga emphasizes mindful rest by using props to support your body in complete comfort and relaxation—no flexibility required! Whether you already...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: May 5, 2020

Sharing Stories of Jesus with Children

Sharing Stories of Jesus with Children was designed to assist parents and church leaders in their ability to convey the life of Christ personally and inspirationally to youth. Rhyming short stories abbreviate the Scripture in terms a child can understand in an entertaining format. In "Fishing," she...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: May 2, 2020

Europe on the Brink, 1914: The July Crisis

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian nationalist has set off a crisis in Europe. Since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, peace had largely prevailed among the Great Powers, preserved through international conferences and a delicate balance of power. Now, however...

Genre: History
Publication Date: May 1, 2020

Restoring the World, 1945: Security and Empire at Yalta

The devastation of the Second World War is coming to an end. As victory for the Grand Alliance draws close, the leaders of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States gather at Yalta, a resort town on the Black Sea, for the most important summit meeting of the war. Can the great powers finalize their plans for a...

Genre: History
Publication Date: May 1, 2020

A Place So Deep Inside America It Can't Be Seen

Gunter-Seymour’s work provides a refuge where one’s curiosity, intelligence, and awareness of the complexities of contemporary Appalachian female culture and the struggle to hold on to “old ways” while embracing the new, take shape. The work is firmly and unapologetically attached to the poet’s home soil.

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: April 27, 2020

A Pledge with Purpose: Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality

In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell University. Despite their academic pedigrees, Callis and his fellow African American students were ostracized by the majority-white student body, and so in 1906, Callis and some of his peers started the first, intercollegiate Black...

Genre: History
Publication Date: April 14, 2020

Wascally Wabbit

"Wascally Wabbit" is a history of Bugs Bunny, starting with the "proto-Bugs" cartoons of the late Thirties and continuing on through the last theatrical Bugs Bunny short cartoon in 1964. How the various makers of Bugs Bunny cartoons (Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones...

Genre: Cinema
Publication Date: April 7, 2020

I Have the Answer

If you thought the suburbs were boring, think again. Kelly Fordon’s I Have the Answer artfully mixes the fabulist with the workaday and illuminates relationships and characters with crisp, elegant prose and dark wit. The stories in Fordon’s latest collection are disquieting, humorous, and thought-provoking...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: April 1, 2020

Tessie Castillo

Michael J. Braxton

Lyle May, AA '13, OHIO Online

Terry Robinson

George Wilkerson

Through thirty compelling essays written in the prisoners’ own words, Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row offers stories of brutal beatings inside juvenile hall, botched suicide attempts, the terror of the first night on Death Row, the pain of goodbye as a friend is led to execution, and...

Genre: History
Publication Date: March 12, 2020

Authentic voices shape this fresh look at a familiar story, the American Civil War, beginning with the rapid buildup of tension between North and South and continuing into early summer of 1862. But the narrative grip comes through the eyes of civilians, trapped in the conflicts of obedience...

Genre: History
Publication Date: March 12, 2020

The "Chanter's Reed" is the reed through which the piper births the passion, emanating from the bagpipes, the passion needed to inspire communication as global citizens. The poems strive to achieve a moral bond between races and tongues, with a vision that poetry, like all arts, will cross borders and...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: March 5, 2020

The three most important events in international motorsports frequently occur on the Sunday of the American Memorial Day holiday. These are the Grand Prix of Monaco, the Indianapolis Five Hundred, and a Six Hundred Mile race at Charlotte, North Carolina. On a Sunday in May presents...

Genre: Graphic Novel
Publication Date: Feb. 20, 2020

Using newly available archival sources, Philip Nash examines the history of the "Big Six" and how they carved out their rightful place in history. After a chapter capturing the male world of American diplomacy in the early twentieth century, the book devotes one chapter to each of the female...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Jan. 21, 2020

Sonya Keller is a terribly abused teenager who works to gain strength and skills in martial arts. She becomes the worst nightmare for the local drug dealers in her small Indiana town. But in addition to wreaking havoc on the bad guys, she becomes a generational track and field athlete earning a college...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Jan. 15, 2020

Bound, like many other strong words, finds its meaning in the perceptions of those it affects. To the Van Sheltons, it is positive and deep-rooted, defining their ties to a vast amount of land abundant in the timber, cattle, and silver that make them the wealthiest and the most powerful family...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Dec. 31, 2019

Roberta DePompei

Jean L. Blosser, BSHSS '69

Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Proactive Intervention, Third Edition presents a unique philosophy for assessing and treating children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury. The text is written for the many service providers and families who support children or adolescents with TBI...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: Dec. 31, 2019

A Guy's Guide to Throat Cancer is based on the CaringBridge journal entries Ed wrote during his battle with cancer. CaringBridge is a social media platform for people with illness to easily keep all those interested in their treatments and locations as informed as possible in an efficient way...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: Dec. 19, 2019

The Iraqi Triangle of Death, south of Baghdad, was a raging inferno of insurgent activity in August of 2006; by November 2007, attacks had been suppressed to such an extent as to return the area to near obscurity. In the intervening months, the U.S. Army 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Dec. 18, 2019

The House of Hemp and Butter begins in the twelfth century with the arrival to the eastern Baltic of German priests, traders, and knights, who conquered and converted the indigenous tribes and assumed mastery over their lands. It ends in 1710 with an account of the greatest war Livonia...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Nov. 15, 2019

A magical and lyrical fantasy about a family of farmers who live in a shimmering, frosty house in a snowy white world, where warmth of each other is all they need to be cozy and happy.

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Nov. 5, 2019

When Rozanne was a little girl she loved watching wild animals. When she grew up, she traveled to see wildlife where they lived—in the wild. ‘Rozanne Travels to Africa to Kiss a Giraffe’ covers three wildlife adventures with her engaging, full-color animal photos—from consoling a baby orphaned... 

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Oct. 18, 2019

A soul-stirring novel about the bonds between mother and child and the redemption that comes with facing the past and letting it go. Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, and―most heart-wrenching―her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Sept. 1, 2019

Briggs A. Matsko

Jeffrey R. Maas

Douglas E. Knable

Kelly L. Kennedy

Paula D. Tarpey

Paul A Gydosh, Jr., BSEE '74

Craig C. Bartlett

Philip G. Moshier

Michael McFeeley

Alex Harrison

J. Louis McCraw

Tyler R. McCraw

Derek B. Ferriera

J. Todd Anderson

Awareness, education, stewardship, and action are key themes that are found in most successful families and individuals. This book identifies many of the secrets of those who have achieved significant success in life and business, thus enabling them to make a better life for their children and...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Aug. 28, 2019

Inspirational comparisons of snowflake photographs to human behavior.

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: Aug. 23, 2019

This story begins in Tarsus about 6 BCE. It involves three families and their joys and struggles with birth, love, travel, religion, and death.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 7, 2019

Robert Lawson, BS '88

Benjamin Powell

Irreverent but honest economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell have all the data—and even more important, the firsthand global experience—to affirm that socialism fails to deliver on any of the utopian promises it makes and instead is very bad for your economic (and other) health. This is a book that...

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: July 30, 2019

In the not-so-sacred Groves of Academe, where female colleagues can be less than supportive and male colleagues downright intimidating and even devious, Kathleen Davies felt intense pressure to prove herself as an English professor. But in the beautiful local cemetery, she found a truly...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: June 28, 2019

Mountains Piled upon Mountains features nearly fifty writers from across Appalachia sharing their place-based fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. Moving beyond the tradition of transcendental nature writing, much of the work collected here engages current issues facing the region and the...

Genre: Science/Math
Publication Date: June 24, 2019

Opera on TV is a collection of experimental poetry/theory that examines the role of aesthetic practice in political subject formation, particularly for queer and trans subjects. The book addresses the role of state institutions and economic structures in making our lives intelligible — from our...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: June 21, 2019

Southeast Ohio's Hocking Hills is known for its waterfalls, recess caves, and gorges. Hocking Hills Day Hikes recommends the best hiking trails in the region. Each featured hike entry provides a trail description, trailhead directions (including GPS coordinates), a descriptive photo, and an...

Genre: Travel
Publication Date: June 17, 2019

Ashley S. Boyd

Janine J. Darragh, BSED '94, MED '99

This book illustrates how teachers can draw upon young adult literature to facilitate students’ social action. Each chapter centers on one novel that represents a contemporary topic including police brutality, women’s rights, ecojustice, and bullying. In each, authors provide pre-, during-, and after...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: June 5, 2019

In 2003, the Cubs were five outs from advancing to the World Series before things went historically awry. From 2004 through 2015, the Cubs tried, in vain, to get back to that moment. Jon Greenberg was a reporter in Chicago during this span and was there for that rollercoaster ride and the 2016...

Genre: History
Publication Date: June 4, 2019

On Christmas Eve, one of Santa's reindeer informs him that all of his reindeer have come down with the flu and will be unable to pull his sleigh that night. Santa panics and wonders how he will be able to deliver all the toys to the children this Christmas. While searching for answers, he stumbles...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: June 3, 2019

VESPER (Virtual ExtraSensory Perception Experimental Research project) leaders learn of South African 'mindreachers' born several decades ago. Rumored to have the ability to read minds over great distances, no one knows their current locations. A teacher and pilot, Ana Masterson, is...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: May 24, 2019

What fiction readers crave. The bizarre cloaked in the familiar. Testament of an Exceptional is a saga of power and intrigue set in a world only a heartbeat away. The whole world may be won if you have the right plan. And this plan is Exceptional. Plus eight short stories that take the reader...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: May 23, 2019

An unforgettable story of tenacity, running therapy, beating depression, and the companionship of a dog. The Dog Writers Association of America awarded Nita Sweeney a Maxwell Medallion for excellence in writing about the Human/Animal Bond for her memoir. Running is my therapy. Before she discovered running therapy...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: May 15, 2019

This work of Christian nonfiction draws upon the author's extensive life and spiritual learning to address issues of faith facing our society and young Christians today. The author's writing flows naturally and is filled with care and passion for both his subject matter and his readers. He is clearly a natural-born...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: May 8, 2019

Divisiveness and double standards have overrun our culture. If everyone stands up and models decency, courage, and good manners, communities and families will flourish. Stand Up is a battle cry for women to take a posture of readiness and action, determine their purpose, plan for successes...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: April 9, 2019

Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. For his site-specific...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: April 2, 2019

Boy, You Are Brilliant!

An inspirational illustrated poem for young men. This book serves as a vehicle to deliver positive affirmations to boys and to reinforce messages about empathy, being kind and knowing that it is okay to ask for help.

Genre: Children
Publication Date: April 1, 2019

Talk to Me: How to Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers and Interview Anyone Like a Pro

Interviewing is the single most important way journalists (and doctors, lawyers, social workers, teachers, human resources staff, and, really, all of us) get information. Yet to many, the perfect interview feels more like luck than skill—a rare confluence of rapport, topic, and timing. But the thing is... 

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Feb. 19, 2019

A Time To Wander

Chera Thompson, BSJ '75

NF Johnson

Take a romp through the rebellious 1970s with Kris and Lena as they reflect on the events that shaped their lives. Inspired by actual events, the story begins with the anti-war riot at Kent State and carries on through the decisions about the Pill, psychedelics, and open relationships...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Feb. 15, 2019

Forget You Know Me

Molly and Liza have always been enviably close. Even after Molly married Daniel, the couple considered Liza an honorary family member. But after Liza moved away, things grew more strained than anyone wanted to admit―in the friendship and the marriage. When Daniel goes away on...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Feb. 5, 2019

Goodbye Toothless House

In deceptively familiar language, Kelly Fordon turns the reader’s gaze just a few degrees left, to an elegiaic, apocalyptic, nearly unbearable vision of ordinary life, where everyday transgressions pare down the self to an elemental, alien form. “With words as effective and as cunningly crafted as...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Feb. 1, 2019

Art in the Moment: Life and Times of Adger Cowans

Renowned artist, photographer and native of Columbus, OH, Cowans worked with artist legends Gordon Parks, Lillian Bassman, Ben Somoroff and others, is the recipient of the John Hay Whitney Fellowship, and the Lorenzo il Magnifico Al Carriera in recognition of a distinguished career at the...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Jan. 31, 2019

Dancing Naked in Front of Dogs

This is a compelling full-length collection of poetry. It finds inspiration, beauty and resonance in the cloth of everyday American living. Many of the poems share the stories of people dealing bravely within very challenging situations. These circumstances include Down Syndrome, generational...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Dec. 24, 2018

Harmony

Little Harmony feels like he's stuck in Ohio. The rest of his llama family lives in Peru. Follow Harmony around the pasture, through the barn, and in the herd as he thinks about the place where he lives. It takes Harmony a trip around the farm to realize that Ohio is home.

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Dec. 15, 2018

Phinally!

A lot happened in baseball in 1980. After being stabbed with a penknife in Mexico during spring training, the Indians' "Super Joe" Charboneau captured Cleveland's heart--and Rookie of the Year. Nolan Ryan became baseball's first Million Dollar Man, Reggie Jackson twice found...

Genre: Sports
Publication Date: Nov. 16, 2018

Constantine

This story takes place during the third and forth centuries. Constantine's story begins in Britain where the Roman Empire had deployed a large contingent of troops. Constantine's military service took him to the eastern part of the empire where he met Helena.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Nov. 14, 2018

What happened to the post-1945 world of Never Again!? In Jews Make the Best Demons: Palestine and the Jewish Question, to be published this October by New English Review Press, Eric Rozenman examines how we got here, the danger posed not only for the Jewish state and Jews...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: Oct. 22, 2018

Love and cancer. Two words that at times, are inextricably linked to one another. Each resonates with the heart and soul beyond description and evokes the most far-reaching and deeply moving aspects of the human spirit. In A Season With Hope, love that was once feared lost is found again...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Oct. 10, 2018

For nearly 40 years, Jim Simone patrolled Cleveland's 2nd District, a drug-plagued area with one of the highest violent crime rates in the U.S. Nicknamed "Supercop," Simone generated headlines and public interest on a scale not seen since Eliot Ness searched for Cleveland's "Torso...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Oct. 2, 2018

Paul Brown’s Ghost explores the mystery surrounding the greatest ghost story in NFL history: why two once-proud franchises have been perpetually denied good fortune—as if they’re being haunted by their mutual patriarch. It examines the colorful characters and memorable moments that both...

Genre: Sports
Publication Date: Oct. 2, 2018

From rugged Appalachian ridges to verdant river valleys, this guide details fifty of the very best hiking trails in the state. Inside you'll find detailed maps, mile-by-mile trail descriptions, backpacking tips, and informative details about landmarks and natural history.

Genre: Travel
Publication Date: Oct. 1, 2018

Henry loves to go visit his Grandpa on his farm in Athens, Ohio. During this visit, Henry and Grandpa come across a pawpaw tree and decide to pick the fruit to make homemade ice cream. Henry finds out it’s fun to try new things and even learns about pawpaws along the way. If you want to learn...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Sept. 14, 2018

In this historical narrative, you will learn about God naming, blessing, and ordaining Mary before her conception to become the mother of his son, Jesus. Angels informed her parents that Mary would be more blessed than any woman born on Earth. This biography provides details about the...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Sept. 10, 2018

My first full-length poetry collection, Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light contains poems that have appeared in over 30 national poetry journals. The 56 poems are typical of what I've come to describe as my West Coast Confessional style that I developed in my early years as a poet living and writing...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Sept. 5, 2018

In this introduction to Maddie, we meet a young female monkey who has a specific fashion sense. Inspired by illustrated characters also famous for their spirit and spunk, Maddie the monkey combines one part Eloise with one part Olivia and one part Pippi, all modernized for the style of today's youth...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Sept. 1, 2018

Scott Owens, BA '84

Priscilla Campbell

Shadows Trail Them Home is an excellent and compelling novel in poetry, an important contribution to the cultural canon of American life, presented in an engaging but disturbing context. It needs to be read by a wide audience, not only those who have faced abuses as children, as the two main...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: June 3, 2018

Beauty and art have long been the bedrock of architecture and design for creating happy experiences to live and work in. In recent decades, a new field has emerged offering another tool to enhance a worker’s well-being: Positive Psychology. This book assembles key findings resulting from...

Genre: Science/Math
Publication Date: June 1, 2018

This book is an artistic exploration and journey of faith. I am coming to terms with reality and growing spirituality. Science proves there are vast laws at work in the universe, laws we barely understand. God is a mystery to me, but even though I only know a little, more will be revealed in time. This...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: May 3, 2018

In this study, Ronald R. Rodgers examines several narratives involving religion’s historical influence on the news ethic of journalism: its decades-long opposition to the Sunday newspaper as a vehicle of modernity that challenged the tradition of the Sabbath; the parallel attempt to create an...

Genre: History
Publication Date: April 30, 2018

Chris Garber, BSJ '95

Chad Dotson

Marty Brennaman (Forword)

The Big 50: Cincinnati Reds is an amazing, full-color look at the 50 men and moments that made the Reds the Reds. Experienced sportswriters Chad Dotson and Chris Garber recount the living history of the Reds, counting down from No. 50 to No. 1. Big 50: Reds brilliantly brings to life the Reds...

Genre: Sports
Publication Date: April 15, 2018

In Manhattan, during the depths of the Great Depression, Tokol Tokoloshe, a soldier of fortune, diamond thief, and rum runner, has turned vigilante along with his Amazonian-bred, blowgun- wielding sidekick Diana. Despite his crusade to combat evil, Tokol’s past catches up with him when he’s...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: April 2, 2018

Jessica Strawser, BSJ '01

When a group of neighborhood women gathers, wine in hand, around a fire pit where their backyards meet one Saturday night, most of them are just ecstatic to have discovered that their baby monitors reach that far. It’s a rare kid-free night, and they’re giddy with it. They drink too much, and...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: March 27, 2018

Folk Music in Overdrive is a reader of music scholar Ivan Tribe’s more significant published articles, revised and updated from their original publication in magazines such as Bluegrass Unlimited, Precious Memories: Journal of Gospel Music, Old Time Music, and Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional...

Genre: Music
Publication Date: March 26, 2018

Jenell Igeleke Penn

Courtney Johnson

Jill Williams, BS '92

Dorothy Sutton

Kim Swensen

Lane Vanderhule

Stepping Up! offers inspiring suggestions for ways teachers and teacher educators can stand up and speak out for students to create welcoming classroom climates for LGBTQ and gender diverse youth. Building from ten years of collaborative longitudinal inquiry, including interviews with...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: March 23, 2018

Girl, You Are Magic!

An inspirational illustrated poem for girls. This book speaks directly to girls and young women about realizing the power within. The colorful illustrations and strong poetic verses promote self-esteem and confidence in children, helping them to believe that anything is possible if they...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: March 10, 2018

My Mother’s Poetry, Writings and Musings

This is a book for all seasons that describes a mothers love of human nature and Gods creatures sometimes humorously and other times philosophically intuitive to encourage the reader to empathize and think quietly about a place, or people, often not seen.

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: March 9, 2018

Amy Rock, BGS '92, MA '05

Ryan Malhoski

ArcGIS Pro is a geographic information system for working with maps and geographic information. This book will help you create visually stunning maps that increase the legibility of the stories being mapped and introduce visual and design concepts into a traditionally scientific, data-driven...

Genre: Science/Math
Publication Date: March 8, 2018

A young boy finds that his local wetlands and all of its inhabitants are slated for destruction. In response to his findings and a secret from a resident swamp creature, he takes matters into his own hands as he searches the swamp for the one source that has the intellectual power to stop the...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: March 5, 2018

Jerry Toomer

Craig Caldwell

Dr. Steven Weitzenkorn, AB '72

Chelsea Clark

Have you ever known colleagues who the minute they stepped into the conference room, on stage, or onto the playing field, elevated the performance of everyone around them? Someone whose impact within the team could be seen in nearly everything that was said and done?...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Feb. 12, 2018

In the United States, the entanglement of sports and education has persisted for over a century. Multimillion-dollar high school football stadiums, college coaches whose salaries are many times those of their institutions’ presidents, psychological and educational tolls on student-athletes, and...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: Jan. 16, 2018

Communicating with IMPACT, by Patrick Donadio, will inspire and empower you to strive for a better version of yourselves and make a greater IMPACT when communicating, speaking, presenting, and leading others.  Communication has expanded to several channels in an age dominated by technology...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Dec. 14, 2017

Most doctors beginning their medical careers wont have the luxury of selling a practice, office building or an associated business to fund their retirements. Instead, they'll be retiring as employees of large groups or hospital systems. Making matters worse: Wages are expected to be flat for...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: Dec. 11, 2017

Using examples from personal experiences, Vincent clearly explains the twelve laws of karma and the different ways karma manifests in our lives. You’ll learn how karma can help you overcome obstacles, anticipate the future, and link unlikely but serendipitous events together for your own...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Dec. 7, 2017

This collection of documents on the Depression and New Deal is the second volume in an extended series of document collections from the Ashbrook Center that will cover major periods, themes, and institutions in American history and government. The series began with a collection on the Founding. This volume...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Dec. 7, 2017

The son of Jewish immigrants, war correspondent Cecil Brown (1907-1987) was a member of CBS' esteemed Murrow Boys. Expelled from Italy and Singapore for reporting the facts, he witnessed the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia and the war in North Africa, and survived the sinking of the British...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Dec. 5, 2017

James Friedrich and Cathedral Films: The Independent Religious Cinema of the Evangelist of Hollywood, 1939-1966 looks at the religious sub-genre of independent cinema during the classical Hollywood period through the works of one of its most accomplished pioneers. Episcopal pastor...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Dec. 1, 2017

Fugitive Resistance fighter Tommy Bailey has come out of hiding to help rescue Careen Catecher from the clutches of the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense, where she’s being held and interrogated for information about the rebel group. The OCSD is poised to launch the Cerberean Link...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Nov. 29, 2017

A song, a lady and a wish. Peter Hopkins was tired. The extra thirty pounds he carried, mostly in his midriff, made his back and his knees ache. Even his mind ached. Each step he took seemed to be a painful reminder that the “big five-0” was right around the corner and he wasn’t looking...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Nov. 25, 2017

Five-hundred years ago, sorcery began to fade from the world. As technology prevailed, combustion engines and computers replaced enchanted plows and spell books. Real magicians were hunted almost to extinction. Science became the primary system of belief, and the secrets of...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Oct. 10. 2017

Christian Heurich (1842-1945) was not only Washington D.C.'s most successful brewer, he was the world's oldest, with 90 years' experience. He walked across central Europe learning his craft, survived a shipboard cholera epidemic, recovered from malaria and worked as a roustabout on a...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Oct. 9, 2017

A Tar Heel boy joins the Confederate Army to win the heart of his true love. Soon, Private Bill Stamford sees halos around men destined to die shortly and meets a Virginia girl who titillates his heart. Hard decisions lie ahead for Bill if he survives the battlefield and camp sicknesses.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Sept. 29, 2017

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" These famous lines from The Graduate (1967) would forever link Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) to the groundbreaking film and confirm her status as a movie icon. Along with her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in the stage and film drama...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Sept. 22, 2017

Have you ever wondered about your place in the world? Had trouble figuring out your next steps? Wanted to just run away from it all? Mike Kendellen did. In the mid-1970s, just out of college and with no real plans for life, he decided to pack it all up and join the Peace Corps, moving to...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Sept. 20, 2017

This book guides the reader through an in-depth examination of Life Policy and Death Policy in the U.S. A framework for understanding life and death policy is presented using the writings of the Founders and Dietric Bonhoeffer. Theocentric phenomenology is used to apply...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: Sept. 8, 2017

When Annie Crowe travels from Seattle to a small Irish village to promote a new copper mine, her public relations career is hanging in the balance. Struggling to overcome her troubled past and a failing marriage, Annie is eager for a chance to rebuild her life. Yet when she arrives on the remote...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Sept. 1, 2017

Gus Bishop lives in a trendy downtown Austin condo. He works in computer security for a high tech Austin tech company and drives a high performance car. Yet, something is missing. Every woman he wants eludes him, and his company is under the threat of being hacked. But after an...

Genre: Science Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 24, 2017

Poetry is considered Life! A true statement for A Philosophy of Yard and an even truer one for the author who spent over thirty years of his life traveling, working and learning from the hidden truth lying in plain sight. From a glyph on a stone to the outline of an alp; from simple encounter with...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Aug. 24, 2017

Tessie Tames Her Tongue.

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Aug.17, 2017

Elijah is just nine when he loses his iron working father in a skydiving plane crash. When his father is forever buried in the family cemetery, Elijah accepts the realization that one day—already marked—he too will die. Through vivid memories of not just that fateful day but also his childhood...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 10, 2017

From the Southwest, to the Northwest to the Midwest, this book features all the best stories and recipes from food trucks across the U.S.A. Join culinary travel author Renee Casteel Cook, alongside Tiffany Harelik and Steven Shomler as they take you through an unprecedented literary food truck...

Genre: Travel
Publication Date: Aug. 1, 2017

Being Christian in the Twenty-First Century was written for those who are yearning for a faith and understanding of Christianity that is beyond literalism, dogmatism and creedal formulations -- all of which seem to be driving people away from the church. The book is well suited for individual...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: July 11, 2017

Horton H. Hobbs III

Rickard A. Olson

Elizabeth G. Winkler, BA '81, MA '89

David C. Culver

This book reveals the science and beauty of Mammoth Cave, the world's longest cave, which has played an important role in the natural sciences. It offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment of the cave, combining insights from leading experts in fields ranging from archeology and...

Genre: History
Publication Date: July 3, 2017

Tracy Lawson, BSC '88

Steve Hagaman

Jediah Hill (1793-1859) was a farmer and businessman who, around 1820, built a sawmill on the bank of the West Fork of Mill Creek near Mount Pleasant, a village situated about halfway between Cincinnati and Hamilton, Ohio. A few years later, Henry Rogers (1806-1896), soon to become...

Genre: History
Publication Date: June 16, 2017

Please continue to follow the journey of moundbuilder warrior/shaman Ahki as he continues to struggle in the end time of a great civilization. Ahki continues his journey along the Scioto and Ohio River valleys over fifteen hundred years ago. Dr. Larry Powell’s journey continues with this...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: June 9, 2017

There is nothing like this book on the market. Reading Lincoln - 3rd Edition - includes annotated reviews of over 550 books, ranging from campaign biographies written in the 1860s to works published in 2021. There is at least one selection from every decade 1850 to the present. The citations...

Genre: History
Publication Date: May 20, 2017

Chai Tea Lollipops, Honey and Sea Salt Marshmallows, Chocolate Pretzel Caramels, Cherry Cola Gumdrops—this is not your average candy, or your average candy book. Candy-maker extraordinaire Jami Curl breaks down candy making into its most precise and foolproof steps. No guess...

Genre: Cookbooks
Publication Date: April 18, 2017

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is the nation s foremost values-based youth training organization, currently reaching 2.3 million youth throughout the United States. Many prominent business and civic leaders attribute their success in life to Scouting. In this book, author Ron Taylor recalls his...

Genre: History
Publication Date: April 17, 2017

From award-winning author Trace Conger comes a ghost story that explores the fine line between what is real and what is the product of a child’s vivid imagination.  Quinn Becker doesn't believe in ghosts. Or coincidences. That changes when his five-year-old son, Drew, tells him about the "white boy" who visits him...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: April 7, 2017

Dr. George Lucas, a hand surgeon in Wichita, Kansas, grew up in Somerton in southeast Ohio, a part of the state firmly located in Appalachia. His father died when George, the eldest, was just 10, leaving his mother with three kids and another on the way. The family was poor – his mother...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: April 5, 2017

After Kim and her husband decide to quit their jobs to travel around the world, they're given a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away. The only three rules for the envelope: Don't overthink it; share your experiences; don't feel pressured to give it all away...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: April 4, 2017
 

Violet and Finn were “meant to be,” said everyone, always. They ended up together by the hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage, they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on their first vacation as a family, Violet can’t help thinking that she...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: March 28, 2017

During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near the Belgian town of Malmedy―the deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. The bloody deeds of December 17, 1944, produced the most controversial war crimes trial in American history...

Genre: History
Publication Date: March 14, 2017

What does a dream sound like? In these pages Suanne Camfield writes of the varied dreams that she has pursued over the course of her life. With captivating and eloquent stories and concepts, she guides us through what it feels like to have a stirring deep inside of us? And how God guides...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Andrew Bourelle’s novel, Heavy Metal, gives us a glimpse into the life of Danny, a teenager who seeks peace and stability after the suicide of his mother.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Feb. 7, 2017

If you're lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there's about a one-in-ten chance that you're in a labor union. And even if you’re part of that unionized 10 percent, chances are your union doesn't carry much economic or political clout. But this was not always the case, as...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Feb. 1, 2017

It was supposed to be a fresh start for eighteen-year-old Devon Grace and her father, but fate had other, darker plans. The Appalachian town of Millicent, Ohio, is poor and forgotten by the world—the perfect setting for a disgraced cop and his artistic “misfit” daughter to regroup after a tragic...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Dec. 6, 2016

This book focuses on the re-invigoration of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp persona in America from the point at which Chaplin reached the acme of his disfavor in the States, promoted by the media, through his departure from America forever in 1952, and ending with his death in Switzerland in...

Genre: Film Studies
Publication Date: Nov. 9, 2016

Was the Civil War preordained to last four years or were there reasons why neither side could land a knockout punch? From the outset, both North and South had anticipated a brief conflict but despite more than 50 bloody battles neither could force a decisive conclusion. For most of the war...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Oct. 18, 2016

Constance L. Kirker

Mary Newman, MPA '03

Edible Flowers is the fascinating history of how flowers have been used in cooking, from ancient Greek dishes to the today’s molecular gastronomy and farm-to-table restaurants. Looking at flowers’ natural qualities: their unique and beautiful appearance, their pungent fragrance, and their...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Oct. 15, 2016

What we learn from fairy tales is that things do not turn out so well for the Grimm Girl. Her pain and her losses are not hers alone, however, but remain recognizable to all women through the ages. The poems in this collection explore various challenges  -- both physical and emotional -- of...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Oct. 7, 2016

Life, Camera Action is a great book created of tips that any hostess or entertainer could utilize. Rita Fuller-Yates is a Lifestyle Expert that gives you simple ways to make entertainment at home fun, easy and full of life. This book, created of twelve short chapters, is a collection of stories and...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Sept. 29, 2016

William K. Mahony

Martha A. Strawn, MFA '70

Across the Threshold of India reveals, the story of the threshold drawings for the first time, history of how the threshold drawings evolved, what they have meant and represent in Indian and Hindu culture, and how the practice became a high form of vernacular art for religious and everyday life...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Sept. 6, 2016

Timothy Shary, MA '92

Nancy McVittie

Fade to Gray offers one of the first extended studies of the portrayal of older people in American cinema from the silent era to the present. Writing in an accessible style for both general audiences and scholars, Timothy Shary and Nancy McVittie examine social attitudes toward aging through an...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Sept. 6, 2016

Alien abduction, reincarnation, earthquake, love, death, middle age, children, the end of the world―Jon Loomis’s new collection covers a lot of ground. From the quiet and contemplative lyric voice of “The Past” and “If I Come Back” to the wild, unrepentant personae of “Jon Loomis, Inc.” and...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Sept. 1, 2016

This volume insists that feminist theory can take matter and biology seriously while also accounting for power, taking materialism as a point of departure to rethink key feminist issues. The contributors, an international group of feminist theorists, scientists and scholars, apply concepts in...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Aug. 30, 2016

Edited by: Alex Lubin &

Marwan M. Kraidy, MA '94, PHD '96

In the field of American studies, attention is shifting to the long history of U.S. engagement with the Middle East, especially in the aftermath of war in Iraq and in the context of recent Arab uprisings in protest against economic inequality, social discrimination, and political repression. Here, Alex...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Aug. 24, 2016

Starting out as a high school student who aspired to be a sports agent, Justin Hunt went on to work as a salary cap administrator in an NFL team's front office and serve as a sports agent and attorney for professional athletes and coaches. Justin learned firsthand that sports is a relationships...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Aug. 3, 2016

Late at night a maniacal killer bent on revenge, sneaks quietly into one of many Quonset Huts in a dark corner of an aging military compound. Carrying a heavy flight bag over his shoulder, he bitterly drops a lifeless body onto a cadet’s empty bunk; signaling the beginning of five weeks of...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: July 26, 2016

Finn Harding specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found. Willie Baker is a grieving father hell-bent on revenge. Thirty years after his son’s brutal slaying, Willie hires Finn to find the two men responsible. The only problem? They’re in witness protection.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: July 14, 2016

Yvonne Maffei is the founder of the hugely popular cooking blog and Islamic lifestyle website My Halal Kitchen. Her new book, My Halal Kitchen: Global Recipes, Cooking Tips, and Lifestyle Inspiration, celebrates halal cooking and shows readers how easy it can be to prepare halal meals...

Genre: Cookbooks
Publication Date: July 12, 2016

Michelle Flaum Hall

Scott Hall, MED '91

Written for both mental health and health care leaders and professionals, the book reflects the growing trend toward interprofessional practice and training in health care, as well as the growth of patient-centered and person-centered care. It reflects the mandate of the PPACA for availability...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: July 12, 2016

Katherine of Aragon and King Henry VIII were the "Kate and Will" of England in the 16th century. Young, royal and beautiful they commanded the attention of all of Europe. All they needed to do to extend their reign was to produce a male heir. In Katherine of Aragon, Alice-Catherine Jennings...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: July 11, 2016

Intersections: Poems from the Crossroads brings together the people, places, events and even occasional dream that informed Mark Fleisher’s second publication of poetry. Fleisher is at heart a narrative poet, leaning on his journalistic background to impart clear and powerful messages as...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: June 22, 2016

“Do you want to be perfect?” That’s what Danny asked Celia the night he turned her into a vampire. Three months have passed since, and immortality didn’t transform her into the glamorous, sexy vamp she was expecting, but left her awkward, lonely, and working at a Florida gas station...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: June 21, 2016

Tommy and Careen have been vilified in the media for the Resistance's failed attempt to take down the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense. Both teens struggle to survive the circumstances that thrust them into the national spotlight, and this time, they don't have each other to lean on. They're...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: June 19, 2016

Part history, part journalism, this entertaining and astute guide proposes that Ohio has been the key state in the Electoral College for more than a century and examines what the idea of the swing state has come to mean. In discussing the evidence, Kondik uses the state’s oft-mentioned status...

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: June 6, 2016

Described as "moving," "delightful," and "skillfully written," Nicole Eiden's poetry examines our connections to each other and the continuity of the human experience. She is a keen storyteller who details the experience of attentive living. From "My Blank White Bumper Sticker" to "The Bridge,"...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: June 1, 2016

"Haint is a book of life. Not a book of survival, though the poet survives, not a book of reckoning, though the poet comes to terms with many things. Haint is a book of choices, and witnessing. A book of learning the bodies territories, pleasures and sorrows. A book that constructs the irrepressible center of a soul..."

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: May 28, 2016

Pinkerton Agent Sadie Michelson poses as a casino singer to investigate a Texas Senator. Before she can cozy up to her quarry, she must get past his bodyguard, William Cassidy, her long-lost lover. An outlaw seeking redemption, Cass was lured to Texas by the promise of a Ranger badge. But...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: May 12, 2016

Fever

Frankie Brubaker, the woman Ari loves but can never have, has been abducted from the hospital where she works. There’s no ransom note, and no contact from the kidnappers. With his past experience working for the FBI, this type of investigation is right up Van Owen’s alley. In no time he...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: May 4, 2016

The Columbus Food Truck Cookbook

Renee Casteel Cook, BBA '04

Tiffany Harelik

Every food truck in Columbus has a story. Jim Pashovich, godfather of the local scene, honors his Macedonian heritage with his fleet of Pitabilities trucks. After working as a New York City line cook, Catie Randazzo returned to Columbus to open Challah! and wow the hometown crowd with her...

Genre: Cookbooks
Publication Date: May 2, 2016

Notorious Louisiana drug smuggler Barry Seal made countless runs from Central America to the United States, flying thousands of pounds of cocaine and marijuana into the country and making millions of dollars. When faced with criminal prosecution, Seal turned snitch for the DEA, but he...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: April 21, 2016

It’s a magical age of kings and queens, knights and castles, and royal marriages. For some reason, poor Princess Bella never laughs, that is until she befriends a friendly dragon named Spurlock. Together they’ll face Bella’s doubtful parents, a snobbish prince, and an evil witch who wants the...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: April 14, 2016

If there's one thing that Mark Remy knows, it's running. After 25 marathons and a career of writing for and about runners in Runner's World, he is well equipped to dissect the running world and the odd creatures that make up its population. The North American Runner has evolved greatly over the...

Genre: Humor
Publication Date: April 5, 2016

The novel is based on the real-life literary celebrity Ambrose Bierce, who mysteriously vanished in Mexico in 1913. In summary: The 71-year-old Bierce crosses into revolutionary Mexico where he encounters Pancho Villa. Not only does Bierce save Pancho's life but develops a close...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: April 1, 2016

10:00 tonight at the water tower. Tell no one. ―Chaos Club -- When Max receives a mysterious invite from the untraceable, epic prank-pulling Chaos Club, he has to ask: why him? After all, he's Mr. 2.5 GPA, Mr. No Social Life. He's Just Max. And his favorite heist movies have taught him...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: April 1, 2016

The backstory of the remarkable bond between Surrealist artist Salvador Dali and the man who found a cure for skin cancer -- Dr. Edmund Klein. In addition to a biographical sketch of Dr. Klein, the book chronicles the creation of a unique personal collection of drawings Dali did for Klein, and...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: March 15, 2016

A Monologue is an Outrageous Situation! How to Survive the 60-Second Audition explains how to successfully tackle the "cattle call" acting audition with a sixty-second monologue. Through Q&As, tips, director’s notes, and a glossary full of outrageous actions meant to inspire the actor into truly...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Feb. 26, 2016

Edited by: Frances Smith &

Timothy Shary, MA '92

Refocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and screenwriter of Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. As such, the book constitutes a significant intervention in Film Studies, prompting a...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Feb. 19, 2016

A poignant story of a little boy in an Italian Mountain Village, wishing to stop his ill grandfather from dying, convinces the local church monk to stop the village clock at the stroke of midnight, in his quest to 'stop time'... The little boy soon learns that although time can't be stopped…that love never expires...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Feb. 14, 2016

Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region's quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Feb. 2, 2016

What could be more miserable than a little dragon with a cold, one with a cold that makes others miserable, as Willard's friends discover. Brr! Curl up with a dragon this winter. New picture book Sneeze-Fire will warm you up.

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Jan. 6, 2016

How you can help bring common sense back to our society and Government! Dedicated to the belief that common sense, ethical behavior, and new individual initiatives are required for our society to survive.

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: Jan. 1, 2016

Offering step-by-step guidance, in this book Rossman shares more than 40 revenue-generating methods to bolster the library's bottom line. Through plentiful examples, interviews, and implementation exercises this book: discusses the current context of funding for libraries and non-profits, using the...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: 2016

Thoroughly grounded in years of research, The Savage Apostle, is an exciting and colorful account of the events leading up to King Philip’s War, the costliest war per capita ever fought on American soil. Moreover, it is an exemplary lesson for today’s world where divisiveness and conflict are so...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Dec. 23, 2015

Imagine clearing out your family attic and discovering hundreds of letters written during the Civil War. Faced with that situation, and not knowing why his family had the letters, the author uses the resources of Ancestry.com and other sources to discover how two Vermont soldiers fit into his...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Dec. 9, 2015

The history of modern Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day. Inevitably, as Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia demonstrates, reality casts a shadow and the community must look to the next leader. As an impoverished state, second only to Haiti in the Americas...

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: Nov. 15, 2015

This inspiring collection of poetic prose takes a personal look inside the life and world of Jesus Christ. Author Nancy Elizabeth Gainor lets us shadow Jesus, overhear His conversations, experience His joy, and look into His compassionate and loving eyes through her verse.

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: Oct. 28, 2015

Finn Harding specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found. Dr. Daryl Jennings is a family friend who mistakenly becomes entangled in a fentanyl smuggling operation. Finn negotiates a deal with a violent Indianapolis mob boss to earn the doctor’s freedom, but it doesn’t come cheap.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Oct. 22, 2015

William Virgil Davis is a widely published, award-winning poet. Among his many honors, fellowships, and awards are the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, the New Criterion Poetry Prize, and the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry. His poems regularly appear in leading journals...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Oct. 15, 2015

My Life Inscribed is an easy-to-follow interview guide that walks you and a loved one through a series of questions written specifically to draw out great stories and words of wisdom. The chronological order of the questions creates an interview that feels like an illustrative walk through a loved...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: Oct. 13, 2015

A collection of works with notes and suggestions for further development and improvisation. Includes original works and folk music arrangements and continues and elaborates on ideas and materials presented in 'Pieces and Processes' (SMC 569). Provides tools for effective, creative teaching.

Genre: Music
Publication Date: Oct. 1, 2015

Buddy Bloom is a flower seed looking forward to fresh air, sunshine, and gentle rain to help him grow. After a raging storm-with help from George the Ant, Ken the Turtle, and Sadie the Butterfly, he learns the value of struggle, the joy of friendship, and the celebration of life.

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Oct. 1, 2015

Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood Marshall, Miller argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Sept. 22, 2015

Kate Jefferies is obsessed with the TV show “Lost,” crazy about the main character, Jack Shepherd, and desperate to find the way around an island of her own, that place where all confused, unemployed, recent college graduates end up before they figure out what they actually want to do for a...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Sept. 5, 2015

The Crystal Tower is an unusual, gentle story, full of gripping adventure and timeless wisdom about the human heart. Readers of all ages will enjoy its rich characterization and humor as they are swept up in the page-turning adventures of Blair, Florian and all the creatures Blair and Florian meet...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 25, 2015

Knowledge comes with a price. Tommy and Careen’s eyes are opened to the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense’s abuses of power. After accidentally discovering that the miracle antidote that’s supposed to protect them is actually meant to control them, they take their knowledge public...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 25, 2015

Some thirty years ago, movie star Laura Marlowe was shot to death by a crazed fan in New York City, who then killed himself. The police ruled it a murder-suicide, the case was closed, and the beloved starlet faded away into history. But when New York Daily News reporter Gil Malloy...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 11, 2015

It's 1587. Shakespeare is struggling to launch his career. Finally he persuades James Burbage, a theater owner, to stage Henry VI. He's the same proprietor who refused to look at Amelia Bassano's comedic script. Infuriated after being blocked at every turn, she reluctantly seals...

Genre: Historical Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 10, 2015

The Global Great Depression and the Coming of World War II demonstrates the ways in which the economic crisis of the late 1920s and early 1930s helped to cause and shape the course of the Second World War. Historian John E. Moser points to the essential uniformity in the way in which...

Genre: History
Publication Date: July 30, 2015

When Grace Shaw finds out she’s been cast as the lead in her school play, she has about two seconds to celebrate before she realizes she’ll have to kiss Prince Charming, aka James Lowe, aka the heartthrob of Sloane Middle School…on the lips! She’s never kissed a boy, and the idea of...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: July 21, 2015

The setting for the first two chapters of Doubly Blessed is actually Ohio University in Athens, one of my favorite places on Earth. It's where I met my first wife. It's a story of loss, struggle, and hope. 

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: July 20, 2015

Climb aboard for an adventure to the Greek islands of past and present! You'll meet creatures of land and sea-and if you think pirates are a thing of the past, you might want to keep an eye on your valuables. Meet Elias Tantalos, an almost-eleven year old bad luck magnet who escapes the most...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: July 17, 2015

This volume examines early modern representations of women’s reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatises, court records, histories, and more, which are often interpreted as depicting female reproductive bodies as passive...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: July 16, 2015

For teachers and employers: Have you ever wished for a magic wand that, with the casual wave of your hand, could dispense confidence and assertiveness to your students or employees who are terrified of delivering a presentation? If you are troubled by the visible anxiety you see in your...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: July 14, 2015

Actions for a Truly Outstanding Life! Has something happened in your life that seems unfair? Of course it has, but have you even thought about your response? This story summarizes some of my own obstacles and how I responded. The actions I chose were not always correct, and believe me...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: July 14, 2015

If you love watching Major League, you’ll be fascinated by this inside story. Based on interviews with all major cast members plus crew and producers, it tells how writer/director David S. Ward battled the Hollywood system to turn his own love of the underdog Cleveland Indians into a...

Genre: History
Publication Date: May 29, 2015

Short stories by Gary Carr. In these eleven short stories by Gary Carr we follow a biblical-era weapons merchant with good taste in food, meet the author’s self-portrait in the face of someone on the subway, and consider the staging of a “Chekhovian action scene.” And the wild and funny ride...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: May 16, 2015

Behind the Shades tells the story of the life of a female agent entering the male dominated world of the Secret Service. It is a story of personal sacrifice, adventure, acceptance and rejection, tenacity, endurance, and hard work during trying times. Sue Ann Baker was on the front lines of...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: May 12, 2015

These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: April 7, 2015

Kelly Fordon, MS '97

In Garden for the Blind, trouble lurks just outside the door for Kelly Fordon’s diverse yet interdependent characters. As a young girl growing up in an affluent suburb bordering Detroit, Alice Townley witnesses a tragic accident at her parents’ lavish party. In the years that follow, Alice is left mostly in the...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: April 1, 2015

Doyli to the Rescue: Saving Baby Monkeys in the Amazon

In Doyli to the Rescue: Saving Baby Monkeys in the Amazon, 10-year-old Doyli, with the help of her family, rescues endangered, orphaned monkeys from the perils of native hunters and the black market. She carries the rescued animals home to her island home in the Peruvian Amazon, where...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: March 25, 2015

Frankenstein Soul's Echo (Book 2 of 3 in The Resurrection Trinity) 

Ernest Frankenstein continues to unravel the dark legacy of his ill-fated brother, Victor and must decide if he should fight against or join his brother’s unholy creation. Meanwhile, Ernest’s mysterious sister-in-law, Abrielle, a French Imperial spy, must rescue her niece. To do so, she’ll have to outmaneuver...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: March 6, 2015

Racing to the Brink: The End Game for Race and Capitalism

Telling the truth is difficult for some and hearing it even more difficult for others. "Racing to the Brink..." uses facts, truths and expert analysis to explain the evolution of our American economics, its politics and especially how race, racism and capitalism have combined to bring us to the brink...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Feb. 5, 2015

Still plagued from the fallout of the “Houston” prostitute scandal, New York Daily News reporter Gil Malloy finds an opportunity to land a big story and return his reputation to good standing when a star reporter at the paper is found dead in an abandoned building. Even with all hands on deck to...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Feb. 3, 2015

Generous Genes is a road map for parents, grandparents and others who want to teach kids--from 2 to 20--to live compassionately. This indispensable guide is full of practical advice, inspiring stories and resources to help adults encourage their kids to share their time, talent...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Jan. 30, 2015

This book is a collection of stories and observations gleaned from the author’s many years of experience as a family physician. Almost every chapter features at least one patient experience or example. Some of the stories are more humorous, some more inspirational, and some more an...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Jan. 19, 2015

Coaching the Single Wing Hybrid was written to help coaches who are interested in installing a run-oriented offense but who may be unwilling to line up in base single wing on every play. The single wing hybrid combines the power and deception of the single wing with the option attack of the pistol...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: Jan. 6, 2015

One Leaf, Two Leaves, Count With Me!

Count your way through the seasons! In spring, the tree’s leaves appear, one by one. By summer, there’s a glorious canopy. And when autumn winds blow, leaves fly from the tree, one after another, leading us into winter. There’s a world of activity to spy in and around this beautiful tree as...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Jan. 1, 2015

Have you ever received a letter from the same person month after month for ten years? Jeff Faulkner has been that person. He has sent these letters faithfully to many friends and family members. Now you can read this collection of heartfelt stories and inspirations that will give you time to...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Dec. 3, 2014

If you are a system administrator or Linux professional who wants to learn to set up, install, and manage OpenVZ containers on a server to implement OS-level virtualization, then this book is for you. Along with elementary knowledge of Linux programming, you need to have a conceptual understanding of system...

Genre: Computers/Technology
Publication Date: Nov. 11, 2014

In a perfect world, all school extracurricular activities would be fully funded. But with all indications being that future education funding will be significantly reduced, it's clear we no longer live in a perfect world. As a result, school and community leaders, as well as parents, will be forced to...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Nov. 3, 2014

Never Forgotten chronicles the Peace Corps service of a young American who taught in Saganeiti, Eritrea during a nascent rebellion against Ethiopia in 1965-1967. The story recounts his return after 35 years to reunite with Eritreans after years of war led to independence. Numerous...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Oct. 13, 2014

A poignant mother-daughter memoir, Not Going Gently fuses story and science together into a unique book. Constance L. Vincent, PhD, shares her mother’s personal experience living with Alzheimer’s, intertwined with her own professional research into the disease. Striving to use her skills to...

Genre: Health/Medicine
Publication Date: Sept. 25, 2014

Lisa Abraham, BJS '85

Catherine St. John

Tucked into the historic enclave of Hudson, Ohio, is one of the oldest cooking schools in America, the Western Reserve School of Cooking. Originally founded by Zona Spray, and now run by Catherine St. John, the intimate institution has been a destination for many prominent chefs...

Genre: Cookbooks
Publication Date: Sept. 19, 2014

A Place for Humility examines Dickinson’s and Whitman’s poetry in conjunction with this important change in American environmental perception, exploring the links between their poetic projects within the context of developing nineteenth-century environmental thought. Christine Gerhardt...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Sept. 1, 2014

This book provides critical commentary on cartoons made by Warner Brothers, MGM, Walter Lantz and DePatie-Freleng between 1933 and 1976, covering cartoons “starring” Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker and the Pink Panther among others.

Genre: History
Publication Date: Aug. 28, 2014

Finn Harding specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found. Bishop runs a black-market information brokerage on the dark web, selling stolen personal data to the highest bidder. When someone blackmails Bishop, threatening to go public with his identity and crimes, he hires Finn...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 26, 2014

In this bold and entertaining thriller from a true media insider, discredited newspaper reporter Gil Malloy breaks the story of the link between seemingly unconnected murders—a Kennedy half dollar coin found at each of the crime scenes. At the same time, a man emerges who claims to...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 12, 2014

The government uses fear to control you. Show no fear, and they will destroy you. Still raw from the death of his parents, eighteen-year-old Tommy Bailey isn't sure if he wants to live—until he meets complex and intriguing Careen. He comes to her aid during a terrorist gas-strike, sharing his last...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 4, 2014

The Marketing Performance Blueprint is an actionable and innovative guide to unlocking your potential as a marketer and accelerating success for your business. With an eye toward the marketing industry's rapid evolution, this book focuses on the processes, technologies, and strategies that...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: July 25, 2014

“A warrior is meditating at the foot of a giant snow-capped mountain, surrounded by vibrant flowers, lush green fields and a flowing water stream. A warrior is sitting inside a dark cave with a large hole on the roof from where the water is falling onto his head. A warrior is fighting a battle. There is...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: June 23, 2014

When a cheating boyfriend leads to an unexpected summer job, Rowena discovers that the best way to let go of the past might be to dive right into it. Rowena Duncan is a thoroughly modern girl with big plans for her summer—working at the mall with her best friends, taking trips to the Cape...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: June 3, 2014

Marilyn Cavicchia, AB '95, MS '02

Marilyn Cavicchia gives vivid voices to the drivers and passengers traveling a rainy stretch of freeway in eastern Ohio. She conjures distinctive verbal identities for each of her personae, and each poem’s vignette delights the imagination and the ear. A further joy is to trace the “secret rivers”...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: June 1, 2014

Kenton Hyatt, PhD '86

Cheryl De Ciantis

What's Important is about Values Perspectives: a different way of looking at and working with values, whether you want to really understand what drives your own life and work choices; or if you want to build a foundation of shared values energy with your team, or, align your organization...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: May 27, 2014

Michael Hinden, AB '63

Betsy Draine

Life in Bodega Bay on the rugged, foggy coast of northern California has been pretty quiet since Alfred Hitchcock filmed The Birds there. But antiques dealer Toby Sandler learns that his new business partner Charlie has been found dead on an abandoned boat in the harbor. When the...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: May 23, 2014

In Homer Economicus a cast of lively contributors takes a field trip to Springfield, where the Simpsons reveal that economics is everywhere. By exploring the hometown of television's first family, this book provides readers with the economic tools and insights to guide them at work, at home...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: May 14, 2014

The writing in this remarkable collection makes such masterful use of bones as metaphor that the book reads as much like a single long poem as it does a bringing together of individual lyrics. Open the book anywhere and enjoy a small gem of poetry, or read the whole book-even in a single...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: April 21, 2014

From Fruit Shed to Fortune 500: The inside story of ROLM and its continuing influence on Silicon Valley. Decades before Facebook, seven years before Apple, four young men were hard at work in a prune-drying shed designing ''the world's toughest computer.'' That was the founding of ROLM...

Genre: History
Publication Date: April 8, 2014

Generation Multiplex (2002) was the first comprehensive study of the representation of teenagers in American cinema since David Considine’s Cinema of Adolescence in 1985. This updated and expanded edition reaffirms the idea that films about youth constitute a legitimate genre worthy of study on its own...

Genre: Cinema
Publication Date: April 1, 2014

You could be sitting on a good one, a two-to-eight word answer that says exactly how important Guthrie's Contemplative Man is. Something concise. Something direct. Something that proves a summary actually can say something true about something else. You think, damn, this sounds smug, and...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: March 14, 2014

The controversial 1922 Federal Baseball Supreme Court ruling held that the "business of base ball" was not subject to the Sherman Antitrust Act because it did not constitute interstate commerce. In Baseball on Trial, legal scholar Nathaniel Grow defies conventional wisdom to explain why the...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Jan. 27, 2014

Sharon Arthur Moore, BSED '69, AB '73, MED '73

Pen name: Angelica French

A very different novel of romance, recovery and sex for sale! Carrie is a smart woman with a dark past and more than her share of heartache. Determined to retire early from hands-on sex work, she uses her skills as an exhibitionist to bargain for partial ownership of a high-end, brownstone...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Jan. 2, 2014

This 12-chapter textbook teaches sentence diagramming from beginning concepts to advanced sentence structures. It was written and designed by an experienced teacher of Developmental English. The methods and lessons have been classroom tested, revised, and published here as effective...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: Jan. 1, 2014

Penned by his courageous mother, this is the portrait of a boy as gifted as he was challenged, and of the family that loved him. Born two months premature, Ezra suffered permanent brain damage at six days old. His parents ignored the forewarnings of doctors and welcomed their son...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Dec. 3, 2013

Counterculture icon and best-selling author of the anti-authoritarian novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey said he was “too young to be a beatnik and too old to be a hippie.” It’s All a Kind of Magic is the first biography of Kesey. It reveals a youthful...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Nov. 12, 2013

These poems advocate for courage in the face of a future whose business it is to be dangerous. There is a gallery of marvels in these pages - poems of nature, love, jazz, and family, and while some address the despairing tragedies of history, all remain affirmations of hope.

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Oct. 23, 2013

Marie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for the daring in style and fashion that she brought to 18th century France. For the better part of the queen’s reign, one man was entrusted with the sole responsibility of ensuring that her coiffure was at its most...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Oct. 16, 2013

Most of us are going to work today with individuals who at times come across as incompetent, lazy, spotlight-hugging, whiny, or backstabbing. Then, tomorrow we go to work with them again and again. Like it or not, the bulk of our waking hours are spent with people at work--people who can grate...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Oct. 15, 2013

This easy to follow formula explains how to write your own wedding ceremony, make your vows unique to you and your partner and create memories that last a lifetime. The sections of the ceremony and examples are provided so you can adapt your ceremony to truly reflect you and your partner. Written...

Genre: Self-Help
Publication Date: Oct. 15, 2013

Part lifestory and part lifeadvice, The Formula offers an immensely lucid and readable account of how the sexes relate to each other, and how the partners in a relationship can understand and empathize with each other to harmonious effect. Bernard Bushell combines anecdote, personal...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Aug. 30, 2013

Mary Norton of New Jersey: Congressional Trailblazer tells the compelling story of Mary Norton, who served in the United States House of Representatives for 13 terms from 1925 to 1951, featuring her significant role as a congressional pioneer for women and American workers. The...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: June 20, 2013

Growing up in the 1980’s Turney Duff was your average kid from Kennebunk, Maine, eager to expand his horizons. After trying – and failing – to land a job as a journalist, he secured a trainee position at Morgan Stanley and got his first feel for the pecking order that exists in the trading pits...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: June 4, 2013

In time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel, comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC Comics superhero Superman and the inspiration for Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay -- Drawing on ten years of research in the trenches...

Genre: History
Publication Date: June 4, 2013

Models of Atonement breaks new ground in the science-theology dialogue, going beyond questions about the doctrine of creation to speak about God's work of new creation through Christ in a world described by science. The book builds on the author's earlier work that addressed questions...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: May 15, 2013

If there is one thing that seventeen-year-old Rain knows and knows well, it is survival. Caring for her little brother, Walker, who is "Touched," and losing the rest of her family to the same disease, Rain has long had to fend for herself on the bleak, dangerous streets of Earth City. When she looks...

Genre: Science Fiction
Publication Date: May 14, 2013

The Politics of Social Welfare in America examines how politicians, theorists and citizens discuss need, welfare and disability with respect to theoretical and political projects. Glenn David Mackin argues that participants in these discussions often miss the way their perceptions of those in...

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: April 22, 2013

The thing about the end of the world is...It doesn’t end. Trent Sheets goes on a long bender in the woods and wakes up to discover most of humanity is dead. Trent expects zombies, ghosts, or crazed vigilantes. Instead he faces nothing but vast space and mind-blowing silence. Striking...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: March 20, 2013

God's Creative Gift is an in-depth study for Christian creatives, artists and worshipers. It is intended for both professional and lay artists, for the casual crafter and hobbyist, and for those in both sacred and secular settings. It is for those who see things where others do not and for those...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: Feb. 27, 2013

As the mysterious Dr. Kino travels from village to village in the aftermath of the First World War, Karl becomes his assistant, enthralled by the nightmarish visions shown each night in the Dream Cabinet. The twenty-one stories within the Dream Cabinet include the vampire tales "Winter...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Jan. 26, 2013

This book profiles 24 athletes who overcame seemingly insurmountable medical odds to attain athletic success. Each profile describes the athlete's problem, the medical issues he or she faced, how success was achieved despite the setback, and the personal qualities that helped the athlete to...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Jan. 1, 2013

In Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, editor Timothy Shary collects fourteen contributions that consider male representation in films made at the turn of the century to explore precisely how those questions have been dealt with in cinema. Contributors move beyond...

Genre: Cinema
Publication Date: Dec. 17, 2012

Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America

Inspired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California's Radiation Laboratory began in 1957 a program they called Plowshare. Joined by like-minded government officials, scientists, and...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Dec. 15, 2012

Love is in the air in Willow, Ohio, but not for teacher Kendra Clayton. Her lawyer boyfriend, Carl, dumped her and moved to Atlanta after a misunderstanding, and the other man she thought she could count on, Reverend Morris Rollins, has romantically hooked up with her nemesis...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Dec. 12, 2012

Bluejackets in the Blubber Room explores key events in US maritime history from the 1820s to the end of the Civil War through the biography of the sailing ship William Badger. Taking a biographical approach to his subject, Peter Kurtz describes three phases of the life of the William Badger, a...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Nov. 28, 2012

A quaint town overtaken. Antique dealers selling off the living room. Relationships that fizzle. Ensconced biddies fighting the newest mayor, Ms. Service Industry. Who will win? And will Lisa, the young woman jogger with the Band-aid and the pink bandana ever return? In this novel a quest for...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Nov. 20, 2012

Jenean Atwood Baynes, MFA '99

John H. Atwood

Meet the Frazzies from the Land of Dushkin! These fuzzy-haired creatures are alike in every way but one . . . some have yellow spots and some have blue. Will this small difference keep them apart forever? In this enchanting tale, Blue Spots! Yellow Spots! John Atwood and Jenean Atwood...

Genre: Children
Publication Date: Nov. 14, 2012

On India's Independence Day in 1962, an Ohio family of six landed dockside at the Bombay Harbor, stranded by holiday miscommunications. It was a fitting introduction to an upside down lifestyle ahead. A two day train journey to their temporary home in the Punjab confirmed the fascination and...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Nov. 12, 2012

Landscape in American Guides and View Books: Visual History of Touring and Travel is vested in the American relationship to landscape and the role guidebooks and view books played in touring and travel experiences, including immigration. Early in the history of the republic, the relationship...

Genre: Travel
Publication Date: Nov. 8, 2012

Nicole Antoinette, BBA '92

Jill Cox-Cordova

"Tag - you're it" can be heard in virtually all neighborhoods as children play the game Tag. The basic rule to Tag is that one person is designated as "it," and that person runs around trying to touch someone else. If they succeed, the person they touch is now "it." Unannounced, that cheerful, yet...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Nov. 6, 2012

Nancy E. Rupprecht

Edited by: Wendy Koenig, MFA '98

The Holocaust and World War II: In History and In Memory is a thematic volume of nineteen articles based on papers presented at the 9th Middle Tennessee State University International Holocaust Studies Conference in October, 2009. It focuses on the connection between World War II and...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Nov. 1, 2012

House of Horrors exposes the shocking details of Sowell's depraved crimes and twisted psyche. He preyed on neighborhood women, luring them to his home with alcohol and drugs. Sowell then murdered the women and lived among their corpses. At least five other women were attacked by...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Oct. 29, 2012

Caught in a riptide of haphazard underemployment, at turns violent and unpredictable and with no family or friends to speak of, Stratton Brown longs for the chance to escape his small-town past and build a new life. He sets out for Chicago, where he meets a new and fresh hell: a nine-to-fiver in a nondescript...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Oct. 16, 2012

Our Millie stories recounts an innocent and simple time when the important things in life were family, friends, helping people, animals, giving and living with nature and seeing life in a clearer and more honest way. The stories are amusing, fun to read, and sometimes rather sad, but they reflect...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Sept. 25, 2012

Jane Silverlake lives with her father in a crumbling family estate on the edge of Hampstead Heath. Jane has a secret—an unexplainable and frightening gift that allows her to see the souls of man-made objects—and this talent isolates her from the outside world. She finds solace in her...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Sept. 11, 2012

October Ridge follows a serial killer as he stalks and kills his victims in beautiful Wayne National Forest. A half-century later, a criminal profiler is finally on the trail of the serial killer.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Sept. 11, 2012

Nathan Chamberlain, BA '04

Leslie Chamberlain 

Ashlee Christian

Andrew Cullen

Mongolia is an adventurous travel destination. While some luxury accommodations exist in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar (UB) and some tourist hot spots have more Westerner-friendly accommodations, the most interesting experiences are outside the capital, where travelers must be creative...

Genre: Travel
Publication Date: Aug. 23, 2012

Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition--us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: Aug. 22, 2012

William Heyen's work explores romantic conceptions of contemporary sport, powering its way into a post-catastrophe setting of dirty bombs in stadiums, tortured athletes, corporate domination, and cynicism on a global level.

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Aug. 14, 2012

Psychopomp Volume One: Cracked Plate is the story of Meena, a struggling writer who suffers a mental fracture on Portland's light rail that alters her life in an instant. Confused and afraid that her unexpected unraveling will result in universal rejection, she confronts a man in a coffee shop and...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 10, 2012

Ten years after the loss of his entire family to madness and death, Ernest Frankenstein finds himself compelled to return to the city of his birth, Geneva, in order to discover if his elder brother, Victor, might still be alive. Only Victor can provide the answers to questions, which have long...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 1, 2012

The continuing U.S. Government's debt ceiling crisis is an anomaly characterized by a dysfunctional Congress that previously approved the budgetary expenditures for a multitude of government programs that now requires that same body to approve raising the ceiling to pay for those...

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: July 27, 2012

Straw Man

When Marcus Schmidt discovers his estranged brother is missing he quickly returns to the Midwest, determined to find him. What he uncovers instead is a side of Rolland that he never knew, someone deeply involved in a Mexican drug war that threatens to explode into a blood bath...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: July 20, 2012

Sports Fundraising is a complete introduction to fundamental principles and best practice in sports fundraising. Focusing on the particular challenges of fundraising in intercollegiate and interscholastic sport, and for youth sport organizations, the book is designed to help students...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: July 18, 2012

John Scratch, the Devil himself, is the protagonist in this stunningly imaginative, sharp, funny, and tender novel, as he tricks, teases, and prods America to greatness in the hope of luring his lost love back down to Earth from Heaven. Up Pops the Devil is fiction with humor and heart, the...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: July 3, 2012

Scott Syfert

Melisa Boris, BSC '92

This simple, easy-to-understand guide to one of the most complex, confusing, and misunderstood areas of U.S. law helps readers navigate the bewildering and intimidating world of U.S. visa and immigration laws. The book simplifies complex concepts, defines common terms, and...

Genre: Travel
Publication Date: May 1, 2012

The Thompson Tract is a property in southeastern Tennessee, of great environmental importance, owned by a grandfatherly John Thompson, known locally as JT. An unscrupulous land developer, Sam Webster, plans to destroy thousands of acres of primitive wilderness after the death...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: April 12, 2012

Behind the Curtain:A Career in Equal Employment & Education Opportunity "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chuck Duffy began some of his EEO presentations with, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."...

Genre: Politics/Government
Publication Date: April 1, 2012

Scott Owens describes his new volume of poetry: I grew up in two worlds: my father’s parents’ world of brick homes, city streets, shopping, and playgrounds; and my mother’s parents’ world of dirt roads, livestock, growing our own food, and endless woods. That second world was...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Feb. 23, 2012

Parktails is an adventure that takes place in the aftermath of a great forest fire. Once the fire is extinguished, the animals of Geyser District, led by Zornova and Gondzor, are forced to confront numerous difficulties. Many of these displaced animals become despondent as a result of the...

Genre: Religion
Publication Date: Feb. 22, 2012

Our Millie used to say that she lived in the hairy armpit of life, but I didn’t know what she meant until I met her Ma, Big Mil. Big Mil stood almost six feet tall with muscles built from hard work and harder play. She could scare the bull out of the pit bull, the rattle off the snake and make any...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Feb. 16, 2012

The Dark Side of Sports has strong appeal for diverse audiences because it highlights the need for risk management in every male athletic culture. This includes individuals with direct involvement in sports such as athletes, coaches, managers, administrators, and support staff, who...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: Feb. 15, 2012

Steve Willis

Ken Walker, BSJ '73

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver brought his mini-series, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, to Huntington, West Virginia, "the fattest city in America." But long before the small town was on the chef's radar, one pastor had already begun to pray for Huntington's spiritual and physical transformation...

Genre: Cookbooks
Publication Date: Dec. 14, 2011

What would you do if you received a postcard sent by three people you met in 1972, and their message was as baffling as the 1931 postmark? That’s the challenge which sets Sam and his friend into action 36 years after their backpacking trip through Europe during the...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Dec. 13, 2011

Whether you're a child, a child at heart, or just childish, you'll enjoy "C is for Chafing"--a kid-friendly running book that covers the good (E is for Endorphins) the bad (B is for Blister), and the ugly (O is for "Oh, No..."). With 26 gorgeous color illustrations, "C is for Chafing" offers a fun and...

Genre: Humor
Publication Date: Nov. 25, 2011

Invokes a narrative and intimate distance through the imbalance of power between men & detectives and women & wives, leaving a risky proposition like an alphabet or the simple complexity of memoir and writing about memory. A sobering examination of the ultimate spy-styled...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Nov. 15, 2011

DREAM BIG & MAKE IT HAPPEN In this easy to read confidence-building book by David Shirey you'll learn: * Exact words to say to get the job and then how to excel at it * How to treat the janitor like the CEO and vice versa * What the sports world can teach us about confidence * The...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: Nov. 8, 2011

Fine wine has always had its expert guides to taste and terroir. Why not beer? Funky, young, and smart, this is the ultimate beer geek's companion, covering everything from the homebrew renaissance to nanobreweries to many of America's preeminent beer events and festivals...

Genre: Cookbooks
Publication Date: Nov. 1, 2011

Betsy Draine

Michael Hinden, AB '63

The cave of Lascaux may be closed to the public, but five scholars a day are allowed inside, and Nora Barnes has finagled an appointment. True, she may have fudged a bit in her letter to the authorities, but she does teach art history, and she isn’t about to miss her chance to see the...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Oct. 4, 2011

Meg Galvin

Stepfanie Romine, BSJ '03, BA '03

This practical yet inspirational guide, which is based on the same easy, real-world principles as the SparkPeople program, takes the guesswork out of making delicious, healthy meals and losing weight-once and for all. Award-winning chef Meg Galvin and SparkRecipes editor Stepfanie Romine have...

Genre: Cookbooks
Publication Date: Oct. 1, 2011

Author John B. Kachuba visits more than 30 legendary haunted places, all of which are open to the public―so you can test your own ghosthunting skills, if you dare. Join John as he visits each site, snooping around eerie rooms and dark corners, talking to people who swear to their paranormal...

Genre: Science Fiction
Publication Date: Sept. 13, 2011

While on a late 1930’s research venture in Mexico, a University of Minnesota anthropologist experiences a serendipitous encounter with a youth from a secretive indigenous clan. The youth, who has become disaffected with his people, shares with Dr. Comstock a secret of his people and...

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Sept. 9, 2011

Patricia woke up one day and realized that Einstein’s definition of Insanity as “Doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result” really applied to her so this domicile-free and income challenged American decided it was time to Do Something Different! Taking the first...

Genre: Travel
Publication Date: Sept. 6, 2011

The Markham saga continues. A family of coal miners suffer unspeakable tragedy and are forced to make a painful decision. Mollie Hunt, left whirling by husband and boss Fred Hunt, fills the empty spaces in her heart by going into politics and rising to the most coveted position possible.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Aug. 23, 2011

Proven skills, not theories, to give employees performance feedback the way they want to be given it in order to gain their cooperation and avoid creating defensiveness. Also includes skills to develop feedback agreements in advance; how to resolve resistance if it occurs; and what to do when...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Aug. 11, 2011

Authorial Ethics is a normative study that deals with the many ways in which writers abuse their commitment to truth and integrity. It is divided by academic discipline and includes chapters on journalism, history, literature, art, psychology, and science, among others. Robert Hauptman offers...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Feb. 22, 2011

This is the first study of the life and art of Sydney Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's brother, a person notable not only for his importance in establishing his brother's career, but in several other early Hollywood enterprises, including the founding of United Artists and the Syd Chaplin Aircraft...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Dec. 15, 2010

Antenna Towers for Radio Amateurs is full of practical information for anyone who’s ever considered installing a tower, or who’s in the process of installing a tower. Don Daso, K4ZA, a professional tower climber with years of experience, leads you through the process of designing and building...

Genre: Engineering
Publication Date: Nov. 1, 2010

Hot on the heels of last year's popular The Runner's Rule Book comes another indispensable guide from Mark Remy and his fellow Runner's World experts. Whether you run in the city or on trails, in races or just for fun, you'll find The Runner's Field Manual loaded with practical advice and...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Oct. 12, 2010

Frederic V. Hartemann

Robert Hauptman, MA '67, PHD '72

Operating in some of the most challenging and dangerous conditions on earth, mountain climbers are uniquely driven men and women. In these interviews, 15 well-known climbers and three leading historians of the sport, all native to or living in North America, recount experiences shared by...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Oct. 7, 2010

Pittacus Lore

(Jobie Hughes, BBA'02 & James Frey)

Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—but we are real...

Genre: Young Adult
Publication Date: Aug. 3, 2010

Through careful investigation of Wilson’s writings and correspondence, along with other contemporary sources, author Mark Benbow shows how Wilson’s religious heritage shaped his worldview, including his assumption that nations should come together in a covenant to form a unitary whole like the United States.

Genre: History
Publication Date: June 11, 2010

Every sport has rules. Running is no exception. If you're curious, just visit the Web site of USA Track & Field, the sport's governing body, where you'll find detailed dictates on everything from disqualification to bib-number placement to the caliber of the starter's pistol. But what about the everyday rules of running? The unspoken...

Genre: Humor
Publication Date: Oct. 13, 2009

Too Long a Solitude migrates from isolation to communion. Beginning alone on an iceberg, we eventually find ourselves at one with a lover in a moonlit vale. As solitude lifts and the journey ends, the poet finds he need no longer travel to find solace. But we’re glad, all the same, to have shared the journey with him.

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Feb. 1, 2009

Youth Culture in Global Cinema offers the first comprehensive investigation of how young people are portrayed in film around the world. Eighteen established film scholars from eleven different national backgrounds discuss a wide range of films that illuminate the varied conditions...

Genre: Cinema
Publication Date: Jan. 27, 2009

Tells the story of the Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, challenges to segregation on interstate buses and the facilities serving them.

Genre: History
Publication Date: Dec. 18, 2008

Elevate your writing—simply. In 10 Steps to Successful Business Writing (2nd edition), you’ll transform how you write to achieve better career and business outcomes. In Jack Appleman’s business writing book, he reveals the practical steps he’s perfected in two decades as a writing instructor, coach and professor...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Nov. 14, 2007

Cincinnati’s photographic memory sometimes fades when it comes to the rich heritage of its African American community. This historical work by Gina Ruffin Moore recounts Cincinnati’s role in the Underground Railroad, as well as the Great Migration of African Americans to the north after the Civil War. The book...

Genre: History
Publication Date: July 30, 2007

The Kindness of Strangers

A young widow raising two boys, Sarah Laden is struggling to keep her family together. But when a shocking revelation rips apart the family of her closest friend, Sarah finds herself welcoming yet another troubled young boy into her already tumultuous life.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Jan. 31, 2006

Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen

Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen is a detailed look at the depiction of teens on film and its impact throughout film's history. Timothy Shary looks at the development of the teen movie – the rebellion, the romance, the sex and the horror – up to contemporary portrayals of ever-changing youth. Films...

Genre: Cinema
Publication Date: Dec. 15, 2005

Right Turn: John T. Flynn and Transformation of American Liberalism

John T. Flynn, a prolific writer, columnist for the New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and Collier's Weekly, radio commentator, and political activist, was described by the New York Times in 1964 as “a man of wide-ranging contradictions.” In this new biography of Flynn, John E. Moser fleshes out his many contradictions and profound...

Genre: History
Publication Date: April 1, 2005

In The Talking Hours

James Ragan's first book of poems originally published in 1979 unleashes its raw energy and emotional power like a collection of classic paintings brought forth in a new retrospective. Hailed by Josephine Miles as an authoritative voice who will be recognized as an important voice, this distinguished collection...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: April 1, 2004

Joe Theismann

Brian Tarcy, BSJ '83

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Football, Second Edition, provides new and intermediate football fans with all the information they need to understand and enjoy football. From high school to the NFL, coverage includes the basics of offense and defense, players, rules, strategies...

Genre: Education
Publication Date: June 1, 2001
 

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

This is Dr. Nielsen's own account of her experience at the Pole, the sea change as she becomes "of the Ice," and her realization that as she would rather be on Antarctica than anywhere else on earth. It is also a thrilling adventure of researchers and scientists embattled by a hostile environment; a penetrating...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Jan. 1, 2001

At the age of 27, Stephenson intended to spend the year living among the Hadzabe, and, more importantly, living their life, hunting what they hunted, eating what they ate, participating in their dances and ceremonies, consulting with their medicine men and learning their myths and dreams. Armed only...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Sept. 15, 2000

Albert Sperath, BFA '73, Margaret R. Vendryes, Steven H. Jones, Eva King

Ellis Wilson (1899-1977) was an African American artist from Mayfield, Kentucky. After attending The Art Institute of Chicago he moved to Harlem where he lived the rest of his life. His subject matter was people at work and play. Wilson worked for the WPA and received two Guggenheim Grants that took him to...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Feb. 11, 2000

Heartbreaking and wicked: a memoir of  stunning beauty and remarkable grace. Improbable friendships and brushes with death. A schoolgirl affecting the course of aboriginal politics. Elvis and cocktails and Catholicism and the secrets buried deep beneath a place that may be another, undiscovered Love...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Oct. 1, 1999

Articulating the search for a cohesive American identity, Matthew Cooperman’s poetry attends to the slippery question of place: its history in personal and cultural memory and its tenuous constitution as family, nature, love, and community. Cooperman uses the metaphor of travel to invoke the necessary...

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: April 9, 1999

The word "orphan" may make us think of a child--but even self-sufficient adults can feel the pain of "orphanhood" when their parents are suddenly gone. Complicating the natural mourning process is the fact that this loss often occurs in our thirties, forties, or fifties--as we are raising our own children, watching...

Genre: Social Sciences
Publication Date: April 1, 1999

In 1918, Anglophobia, a permanent fixture of the nineteenth-century American cultural landscape, made a stunning reappearance in American political discourse. Anti-British invective, whether directed against the empire, the monarchy, the aristocracy, or even against Americans suspected of harboring pro-English sympathies...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Nov. 1, 1998

In Lusions, the internationally acclaimed poet James Ragan casts his eye on modern and ancient history in poems that put an original spin on the progression of the world. These are lyrical and witty poems about change and cultural evolution from an intellectual and insightful mind. Ragan explores humankind's cultural and mythical identities.

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: March 18, 1997

Her career stagnant in the ten years since she covered the unsolved murders of Loverboy, an infamous serial killer whom she has never been able to forget, reporter Lucy Shannon connects two recent homicides to Loverboy.

Genre: Fiction
Publication Date: Jan. 1, 1997

Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman

Harry Truman, Hamby writes, was a flawed man--insecure, often petty and vindictive--yet one of the great presidents of the twentieth century. But Americans cherish him less for what he did than for who he was: an ordinary person who worked his way up the political ladder to the summit of power...

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Oct. 26, 1995

The Hunger Wall

A critically acclaimed poet explores the parallels between riot-torn Los Angeles and Prague, the crux of the newly divided Czechoslovakia, reflecting on the nature of divisions--ethnic, cultural, and political--in resonant, delicately crafted verse.

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Oct. 26, 1995

Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776

Eckes reconsiders trade policy issues and events from Benjamin Franklin to Bill Clinton, attributing growing political unrest and economic insecurity in the 1990s to shortsighted policy decisions made in the generation after World War II. Eager to win the Cold War and promote the benefits of free trade...

Genre: Business
Publication Date: Sept. 11, 1995

Rogers Hornsby: A Biography

A profile of the legendary baseball player, manager, and instructor contrasts his extraordinarily successful sports career with his complex, sometime turbulent personal life and analyzes Hornsby's seminal role in the history of professional of professional baseball.

Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
Publication Date: Jan. 1, 1995

Through the Ewing correspondence and his own narrative, Ruoff shows the parallel between the attitude toward the Chinese held by the foreign community in the 1890s and the equally restricted outlook the Chinese held of their land and themselves. But just as the views held by the...

Genre: History
Publication Date: Nov. 1, 1990

Womb-Weary, chronicles a soul-searching odyssey through the international landscape of human joy and suffering, a private charting of a terrain both physical and metaphysical. 

Genre: Poetry
Publication Date: Jan. 1, 1990