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Carolyn (Goldberg) Burke ’61, author,art critic, translator, and teacher, is currentlyon a book tour for her latestwork, Lee Miller: A Life, Alfred A.Knopf, 2005. This biography of theearly photojournalist was featured inThe New York Times daily and Sundayreview sections, picked as the editor’schoice, and nominated for the BiographyAward by the National Book CriticsCircle. In 2007, it will be published inFrench translation by Autrement. Burkeis also the author of the criticallyacclaimed book Becoming Modern: TheLife of Mina Loy. She has taught atPrinceton; the Universities of California–SantaCruz and Davies; the Universitiesof Western Sydney and NewSouth Wales, Australia; and at the Sorbonneand the University of Lille,France.BooksRoger Abrahams ’55, with Nick Spitzer, JohnSzwed, and Robert Thompson, Blues for NewOrleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul,University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Theauthors present the return of Mardi Gras toNew Orleans as a symbol of the region’sreturn to vitality and its ability to expressand celebrate itself.Virginia (Stern) Brown ’49, In Transit: AMemoir, XLibris Corp., 2005. With wit andsensitivity, the author recounts her journeythrough the 20th century.Tom Graham and Rachel Graham Cody ’94,Getting Open: The Unknown Story of Bill Garrettand the Integration of College Basketball,Atria Books, 2006. More than “just a basketballbook,” this volume tells the story of amajor breakthrough in sports and civilrights.Daisy Fried ’89, My Brother Is Getting ArrestedAgain, University of Pittsburgh Press,2006. The poet’s second collection celebratesthe contradictions and quandaries ofcontemporary American life.Guiomar Borrás, Stephen Henighan ’84,James Hendrickson, and Antonio Velásquez,Intercambios, Nelson, 2006. This introductorySpanish language textbook is the first tobe designed especially for Canadian students,using examples specific to Canadaand Canadian society.Marc Elihu Hofstadter ’67, Shark’s Tooth,Regent Press, 2006. A collection of poems,divided into five thematic sections, providesa kaleidoscopic view of a gay man’s life.Jacob Howland ’80, Kierkegaard and Socrates:A Study in Philosophy and Faith, CambridgeUniversity Press, 2006. This book examinesthe relationship between philosophy andfaith in Søren Kierkegaard’s PhilosophicalFragments.Jane (Stallmann) Jaquette ’64 and GaleSummerfield (eds.), Women and Gender Equityin Development Theory and Practice, DukeUniversity Press, 2006. In this collection,contributors reflect on the connectionsbetween women’s well-being and globalization,environmental conservation, landrights, access to information technology,employment, and poverty alleviation.Madeleine Kahn ’77, Why Are We ReadingOvid’s Handbook on Rape?: Teaching andLearning at a Womens’ College, Paradigm Publishers,2005. Kahn raises feminist issues ina way that reminds people why they matter.Scott Kugle ’91 (trans.), The Book of Illumination(Kitab al-Tanwir fi Isqat al-Tadbir), FonsVitae, 2005. This translation of a classicwork of Islamic spirituality has been describedas “unique,” “lucid,” and “lyrical.”Christopher Lehmann-Haupt ’56, The MadCook of Pymatuning, Simon & Schuster,2005. This chilling novel about a boys’ summercamp in the 1950s is reminiscent of Lordof the Flies.Jenny Lombard ’85, Drita, My Homegirl, G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 2006. In this novel for middle-graders,the author tells an urban multiethnicstory of two girls from different cultureswho develop an unlikely friendship.Jennifer Ruth ’91, Novel Professions: InterestedDisinterest and the Making of the Professional inthe Victorian Novel, The Ohio State UniversityPress, 2006. This work offers the reader anew way to view the role of professions inestablishing definitions of value in Victorianliterature.Mary Ann (Tomkins) Segal ’62, GettingThrough the Wilderness: The Fuel Crisis, GlobalWarming, and the Hydrogen Frontier, Author-House, 2006. This book will enlighten andempower readers about the benefits of alternativeenergy.Mike Sharpe ’50, Thou Shalt Not Kill, UnlessOtherwise Instructed, North Castle Books,2005. In this collection of poems and stories,the author uses humor to illuminate thehorror and agony of the Iraq War.Requiem for New Orleans, North CastleBooks, 2006. In a further poetry collection,the poet laments the destruction of a greatcity, expresses scorn for those who allowedthe devastation, and meditates on man’sability to overcome loss.Katherine Stanton ’94, Cosmopolitan Fictions,Routledge, 2006. This work proposes“cosmopolitan fiction” as both a descriptiveterm for a literary genre that probes states offeeling, modes of belonging, and practices ofcitizenship in a pluralized cosmos and as aninterpretive lens that allows us to glean newinsights into works that thematize migration,exile, and diaspora.Richard Valelly ’75 (ed.), The Voting RightsAct: Securing the Ballot, CQ Press, 2005. Inthis collection of essays, scholars explore theorigin, development, and consequences ofthis landmark legislation.Brenda Webster ’58, The Beheading Game,Wings Press, 2006. In this novel, the authorcrosses the classic medieval poem “Gawainand the Green Knight” with a contemporarylove story between two men.TheaterLaurie (Daniels) Blazich ’63, Signs of Peace(and the Star in the East), Actor’s Theatre ofSacramento, 2005. This is the second play bylongtime social worker Blazich. Last year, theauthor received an Ellie Award for her firstdrama, Backwater Park.june 2006 : 59