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Sean McEnroe MAT ’95, assistant professor of history at Southern Oregon University, offers a new interpretation of Indian government, citizenship, and military service in the Spanish Empire. His book describes how Spanish alliances with Indian states built a multiethnic empire capable of expanding to new frontiers and incorporating new peoples.

Cambridge University Press, 2012. 264 pages.

Ana Cutter Patel BA ’90 coedits a text that explores disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programs in the context of transitional justice measures and initiatives.

Social Science Research Council, 2010. 288 pages.

Suzanne Blazier MA ’89 offers a book that is the ideal place to record 12 years of family reunions, with pages for journal entries, guest registers, photos, and life transitions (births, deaths, and marriages). Included in the book are suggestions for planning and hosting your event.

Little Blue Publishing, 2012. 108 pages.

Jack Hayes MAT ’76 reflects on his love for teaching and coaching as well as his search for himself and his place in the world in this heartfelt memoir.

Self-published, 2013. 171 pages.

Erin Ryan, associate professor of law, explores tensions among the competing values that underpin American federalism and the resulting consequences for governance that require local and national collaboration.

Oxford University Press, 2012. 398 pages.

James Wallace, professor emeritus of teacher education, documents the lives of his mother and aunt, Edith and Ethel Scott, twins growing up in Wolfeboro, a New Hampshire village. Using diaries and artifacts inherited from his family, Wallace reconstructs small-town New England life in the first decades of the 20th century.

CreateSpace, 2012. 390 pages.

Lois Gaither Hallock BA ’52 tells the tale of “five funny women from Portland, Oregon, then and now.” Hallock and her four friends met as kindergartners, went their separate ways after high school, and reunited at their 50th high school reunion. Now they get together every year at the beach.

Dog Ear Publishing, 2012. 112 pages.

Kimberly Hill Campbell BA ’79, MAT ’94, associate professor of teacher education, and Kristi Latimer MAT ’04 examine the research surrounding the five-paragraph essay and find the form restricts creativity and leads to vapid writing. In their book, they show teachers how to reclaim the literary essay and create a program that encourages thoughtful, lively writing.

Stenhouse Publishers, 2012. 232 pages.

Paul Tristan Fergus BA ’92 writes a fantasy adventure with weird magic, complex relationships, and mysterious creatures.

Amazon Digital Services, Kindle edition, 2010. 456 pages.

Susan Carlton BS ’81 writes a young adult novel about being 17 and pregnant in 1971, right in the middle of San Francisco’s flower-power heyday, but before abortion was legal. The book was nominated for an award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (in the category of best fiction for young adults) and made the Amelia Bloomer list (recommendations of feminist literature for kids and teens).

Henry Holt and Company, 2012. 192 pages.

Pauls Toutonghi, assistant professor of English, documents a long journey from Montana to Cairo, both geographically and psychologically, driven by a highly likeable, albeit quirky, first-person narrator, Khosi Saqr. The novel traces his search for an absent father, a lost history, and a greater understanding of himself.

Crown Publishers, 2012. 304 pages.

Mary Szybist, Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities, authored Incarnadine which explores religious iconography and was inspired by time spent in the art museums of Italy.

Graywolf Press, 2013. 72 pages.