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NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Edward Marks '32, founding executive director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees, writes about his almost 50 years working for the U.S. government, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations in Still Counting: Achievements and Follies of aNonagenarian (Hamilton).

Melvin Small '60, history professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, explores how domestic, political and economic factors affected military and diplomatic policies in Vietnam in At the Water's Edge-American Politicsand the Vietnam War (Ivan R. Dee).

Leonard Levitt '63, a veteran Newsday police reporter, explains how money, power and celebrities affected media coverage and law enforcement in one of the most sensational crimes of our era in Conviction: Solving theMoxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective'sTwenty-Year Search for Justice (Regan Books).

Peter Golenbock '67 adds to his library of Major League Baseball must-reads with two tides this spring: He worked with Bostons hairy outfielder Johnny Damon to chronicle Damons life in Idiot: Beating "TheCurse" and Enjoying the Game of Life (Crown) and offers a comprehensive history of the franchise in Red SoxNation: AnUnexpurgatedHistory of the Red Sox (Triumph Books).

Rob Portman '78, new U.S. trade representative, details the story of the first western Shaker settlement, founded in 1805, inWisdom's Paradise: The Forgotten Shakers ofUnion Village (Orange Frazer Press).::

Heid E. Erdrich '86 shares poems on women's experiences of work, childbirth and mothering within the contexts of the prairie landscape and American Indian cultures in Inthe Mother's Tongue (Salt Publishing).

Clay Nichols '89, playwright and filmmaking teacher at St. Stephens Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, offers a funny take on would-be filmmakers from the moment of inspiration to a finished short film and beyond in Filmmaking for Teens: Pulling Off YourShorts (Michael Wiese Productions).

Katie Wiilard '89 explores the complicated love between mothers and daughters and the power of female friendships in RaisingHope (Warner Books).

David Hosp '90, a Boston attorney, uses his insider s knowledge to infuse his debut thriller with real-life details in DarkHarbor (Warner Books).

Lillian Guerra '92, Caribbean history assistant professor at Yale, focuses on a period of Cuban history rocked by four armed movements in The Myth of Jose Marti: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early 20th-centuryCuba (University of North Carolina Press).

Cal Newport '04, a computer science grad student at MIT, shares strategies for making the most of your college years in How to Win at College; Surprising Secretsfor Success from the Country's Top Students (Broadway).