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NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Harold Putnam '37, former newspaperman and lawyer, recalls the witchcraft trials and hangings and the fight to end the hysteria in his third novel in his triolgy, ColonialSalem,Massachusetts, Fearful Times (H&M Putnam).

Jim Biidner '75, a trustee of the Maine Island Trail Association, offers lavish views of—and charts to—the waterways of Maine Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast (International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press).

Peter Kenworthy 77, a former banker based in Telluride, Colorado, tells the tale of a small-town banker who embezzles half a million dollars from several N.Y.C. banks in his mystery novel Bank Job: The Story of C.D.Waggoner (Western Reflections Publishing).

Jili Fredston '80, a leading avalanche expert and co-director of the Alaska Mountain Safety Center, shares compelling stories of avalanche deaths and sheds light on why humans seek out dangerous places in Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches (Harcourt).

Eric Dezenhall '84 offers a black, comic ride through mega-stardom and the spins employed by handlers to ensure that crime pays—quite well, actually—in TurnpikeFlameout (St. Martins Minotaur).

Peter Holt '85, a former molecular biologist turned attorney in northern California, inspired in part by gene-sequencing work he did in Dartmouth's molecular biology labs, explores the perils of recapturing long-lost abilities buried deep in the human genome in his novel, Chromosome 8 (iBooks).

Benjamin Kwakye '90, a native of Accra, Ghana, and a senior corporate counsel in the Chicago area, offers a gripping tale of murder, courtroom shenanigans and intense societal conflicts set in Accra in his second novel, The Sun by Night (Africa' World Press). His first novel, The Clothes of Nakedness, earned the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and has been adapted for radio as a BBC Play of the Week.

Eric Ames '91, an assistant professor of German at the University of Washington, offers a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies as co-author of Germany's Colonial Pasts (University of Nebraska Press).

Christian Kull '91, a senior lecturer in the Monash University School of Geography and Environmental Science in Melbourne, Australia, uses detailed fieldwork in Malagasy villages and an archival investigation to offer a detailed analysis of the use of and need for—fire in Madagascar in Isle ofFire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burningin Madagascar( University of Chicago Press).

Eagle Glassheim '92, an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia, Canada, studies the evolution of Bohemian noble identity from the rise of mass politics in the late 19th century to the imposition of the Iron Curtain after World War II in Noble Nationalists: The Transformation of a Bohemian Aristocracy (Harvard University Press).