Shelf Life

Dick Manero '61, Tu'62, an attorney for 37 years, chronicles a Westport, Connecticut, lawyers arduous and twisted road to personal redemption in his first novel, The Resurrection of Nunzio (Ist Books). Mark Fidler '77 in his latest children's novel, Signed Ball (iUniverse), tells the story of 8- year-old Jimmy Jarvis as he seeks the autograph of his favorite major league baseball player and a family to adopt him.

William McDonough 73, an environmental architect (see the cover story in the Sept/Oct issue of DAM) based in Charlottesville, Virginia, explains how products can be designed from the outset so that after their useful lives they will provide nourishment for something new in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking theWay We Make Things (North Point Press). Julia Collins '82 gives a haunting account of her father's traumatic WW II experiences and their devastating impact on her family in her new book, My Father's War (Four Walls Eight Windows). Scott Lasser '84 tells the story of Barry Schwartz, a fictional Dartmouth graduate living in Colorado with a happy home life and a stress-free job who risks everything when he decides to end his penny-counting days and make it big on Wall Street, in the! navel All I CouldGet (Knopf). David Havlick '87 explores the history and ecological and financial costs of the more than 550,000 miles of roads that crisscross our national parks, national forests and wildlife refuges in No Place Distant: Roads andMotorized Recreation in America's Public Lands (Island Press).

Henry Homeyer '68, a lands caper and garden designer, gives practical advice on how to nurture the plants and defeat the predators in Notes from the Garden: Reflections andObservations of an Organic Gardener (University Press of New England).

Lisa Collins '89, an African studies and art history professor at Vassar College, studies the work of con temporary African-American female artists in The Art of History:African American Women Artists Engage the Past (Rutgers University Press).