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NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Charles Cummings '57, M.D., an otolaryngology professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, delivers a definitive analysis of head and neck surgery in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Fourth Edition (Mosby).

Charles Soule '56, former president and CEO of the Paul Revere Insurance Group, delivers an intelligent thriller about a Boston native who gets entangled in a Middle Eastern terrorist plot inpens In theSame Space (Book Surge LLC).

Christopher Kelly '96, the chief film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a writer-at-large for Texas' Monthly, delivers a mesmerizing revenge fantasy for anyone who was tormented in high school in his debut novel, A Pushand a Shove (Alyson Books).

Howard Greene '59 co-authors his eighth guide to educational matters with son Matthew Greene '90 in. Paying for College:The Greenes' Guide to Financing Higher Education (Petersons).

Peter Golenbock '67, a national sports author, debuts his first novel in the form of a memoir as Mickey Mantle tells the hidden story of his life as a baseball hero and asks for forgiveness from his friends and family in 7: The Mickey Mantle Novel (Lyons Press).

Robert Whitcomb '70, vice president of The Providence Journal and former editor for The Wall Street Journal, explores the conflict of money, status and power playing out against environmental consciousness in Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity,Class, Politics, and the Battle for OurEnergy Future on Nantucket Sound (Public Affairs Books).

Rick Shefchik '74, a former editor of TheDartmouth, makes his novel debut with Amen Comer (Poisoned Pen Press), a thriller/crime novel that takes place at Augusta National Golf Club during the Masters tournament.

Peter Schafer '82, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Israel and Perelman Professor of judaic Studies at Princeton University, explores the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmud texts and justifies them as historical sources for Jesus' life in Jesus in the Talmud (Princeton University Press)."

Heather Peters '86, a professional problem -solver at Image Works, a Maine- based Internet business solutions company, pairs the popular challenging puzzles with food for thought in Sudokufor the Spirit (Nine Square Press).

Hilary Justice '88, an assistant professor of English at Illinois State University, excavates Ernest Hemingways path of creative process using published and archival texts to form connections between his life and writing in The Bones of The Others: The HemingwayText from the Lost Manuscripts to thePosthumous Novels (Kent State University Press).

David Hosp '90, partner in the Trial Department at Goodwin Procter LLP, follows the investigations of a departed firm attorney who risks his life in order to take on a solo case in Innocence (Grand Central Publishing).

Christina Katz '88, a freelance writer, shares her wisdom about balancing a writer's life and parenthood in Writer Mama: How toRaise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids (Writers Digest Books).

Mininder Kocher '89, the associate director of sports medicine and associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, publishes an informative text on The Pediatric and Adolescent Knee (WB Saunders).

James Zug '91, a historian and journalist, recounts the life and times of a signature anti-apartheid newspaper in The Guardian: TheHistory of South Africa's ExtraordinaryNewspaper (Michigan State University Press).

Molly Phinney Baskette '92, senior minister of First Congregational Church of Somerville, Massachusetts, has authored two children's bereavement books,Remembering My Pet: A Kid's Own Spiritual Workbookfor When a Pet Dies and Remembering MyGrandparent: A Kid's Own Grief Workbookin the Christian Tradition (Skylight Paths Publishing).

Alexandra Zissu '96, a former reporter for the New York Observer, coauthors a guide to a safe pregnancy in a polluted world in The Complete Organic Pregnancy, (Collins).

Steven Sugarman '97, a partner at investment management firm GPS Partners, reveals the warning signs of corporate fraud in The Forewarned Investor: Don't Get FooledAgain by Corporate Fraud (Career Press).

Sylvie Hogg '98, an experienced travel writer who lived in Rome for five years after graduation, offers the inside scoop on Italy in the guidebook MTV Italy (Frommer's).

Mima Loomis '00, a reporter for The MauiNews, gives an anecdotal history of the cowboys who have been in Hawaii; since 1793 in Rough Riders: Hawaii's Paniolo and Their Stories (Island Heritage),which recently won the Hawaii Literary Arts Council's Elliot Cades Award for Literature.

Robert Schwartz '84 explores the premise that people are eternal souls who plan their lives prior to birth for purposes of spiritual growth in CourageousSouls: Do We Plan Our Life ChallengesBefore Birth? (Whispering Winds Press).

Rochelle Bourgault '01, a freelance writer and crafts lover, shows how to integrate contemporary, stylish graphics into knitting patterns in Hip Graphic Knits (Quary Books).

Andrew Trief '01 writes about backpacking through 70 countries on five continents in Voices of Wanderlust (self-published).