Shelf Life
NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI
Bruce Ducker '60 offers a tribute to the middle-aged man and what happens to him when left alone on a deserted tropical island with one too many bottles of rum and an army of personal ghosts in Mooney in Flight (MacAdam/Cage).
David Bowman '63, co-founder of the Sewanee Trust for Historic Preservation, examines the 125-year tradition of architectural stonework at the University of the South on the Cumberland Plateau in Sewaneein Stone (Proctor's Hall Press).
Juliette Rossant '81 reveals the key ingredients that go into making a multinational food empire in Super Chef: The Making of the GreatModern Restaurant Empires (Simon & Schuster).
Roy Rowan '41 tells an entertaining fable about the importance of following your dreams in Solomon Starbucks Striper:A FishStory About Following Your Dreams (Book Nook Press).
Works by Maine-based poets Philip Booth'47, Paul Nelson '56, Bill Carpenter '62, CarlLittle '76 and April Ossman '92 are included in The Maine Poets: A Verse Anthology (Down East Books).
L. Ronald Scheman '53, director general of the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development, argues for stronger ties between the Americas in Greater America: A New Partnership for the Americas in the21st Century (NYU Press).
Dick Durrance '65 gives a new photographic chronicle of professional golf in The PGA Tour: A Look Behind The Scenes (Andrews McMeel Publishing). John Hauge '73 brings to life the world of opera in his murder mystery, Verdi Overtures (Xlibris).
Donald Drakeman '75, CEO of a biotechnology company and political lecturer at Princeton, examines the interrelationships between the legal, political and religious structures of American society in Churchand State In American History: Key Documents,Decisions, and Commentary From The PastThree Centuries (Westview Press).
Stephen Farnsworth '83, associate professor of political science at Mary Washington College, analyzes U.S. public opinion trends over recent decades in Political Support in a Frustrated America (Praeger). Lucretia Grindle '83 offers a haunting novel about telepathic twins in The Nightspinners (Random House).
David Katz '85, director of Yale's nutrition center, offers a comprehensive overview of food and diets in Way to Eat: A 6-Step Pathto Lifelong Weight Control (Sourcebooks Trade).
Fiona Bayly '89 offers a primer on the worlds premier marathon and the many careers that support it in Fun on the Run:AScholastic Peek at the New York City Marathon (1st Books Library).
Matthew Delaney '99 offers a combination of crime, horror and science fiction in jinn (St. Martin's Press), which has been picked up by Disney's Touchstone Pictures.
