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Lori Hellis JD ’92 authors a sometimes funny, always compassionate guidebook directed to divorcing millennials. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022. 256 pages.

David Borofka BA ’76 pens a powerful short story collection that charts the yearning inherent in imperfect lives.The book received the American Fiction Award for Short Story Fiction from the American Book Fest. John Hopkins University Press, 2022. 208 pages.

Eric DeWeese JD ’09 offers a mystery in which Judge Smails is murderedon the eve of the Masters Tournament, leaving two golf families to struggle to come to terms with his death and with one another.Self-published, 2021. 249 pages.

Helena Darwin BA ’08 discusses how difficult it is to be anything other than a man or a woman in a society that selectively acknowledges those two genders. Gender-nonbinary people—those who identify as other genders besides simply “man” or “woman”—have begun to disrupt this binary system, but the limited progress they have made has required significant everyday labor. The book includes interviews with 47 nonbinary people. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 176 pages.

Farah Naz Rishi JD ’16 pens a “a multilayered coming-of-age narrative that addresses growth and identity, Islamophobia, struggles with faith, and capricious twists of fate (or divine intervention),” according to Kirkus Reviews. Quill Tree Books, 2021. 432 pages.

Scott Kauffman JD ’77 pens Saving Thomas, a story of forgiveness. After his wife’s death, reporter Jeremy Michaels concentrates on writing news stories that try to bring justice to the underdogs of the world until his editor sends him back to his hometown to discover the truth about an old friend. Wild Rose Press, 2022. 306 pages.

Lee Colin Thomas BA ’04 offers his first full-length collection of poetry, which won the 2020 Brighthorse Prize for poetry. Thomas has published his work in various journals, including Poet Lore, Narrative Magazine, Salamander, and Water~Stone Review. Brighthorse Books, 2021. 80 pages.

Mary Anker MAT ’76 coauthors a chapbook that she describes as “fun, deep, and tender.” A collaboration between an English teacher and a former student, it features short poems exchanged over six years and includes artwork from two other former students. Piscataqua Press, 2021. 45 pages.

Joan Wilson JD ’96 recounts a sister’s journey, partly through trickery, but eventually through truth, to gain a long-absent admission from the priest who abused her brother. She further seeks an understanding of how the first book of Timothy, the work of Saint Paul, contributed tothe silencing of women in her once-loved Catholic Church. Boreal Books, 2021. 320 pages.

Beka Feathers BA ’06, an expert in post-conflict institution building, offers a graphic novel that gives context to the modern issues that arise from constitutions. With historical examples from all over the world, the book examines how this essential document defines a nation’s identity and the rights of its citizens. First Second, 2021. 256 pages.

Richard Smiraglia BA ’73 coedits a book that discusses the Semantic Web, especially the Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud, which has brought to the fore the challenges of ordering knowledge embracing pointers to knowledge organization systems (KOSs) such as ontologies, taxonomies, etc. The social sciences and humanities, including cultural heritage applications, bring multi-dimensional richness to the LOD Cloud. Ergon Verlag, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2021. 249 pages.

David Schoenbrun BA ’80 examines group work—the imaginative labor that people do to constitute themselves as communities—in an iconic and influential region in East Africa. His study traces the roots of nationhood in the Ganda state over the course of a millennium, demonstrating that the earliest clans were based not on political identity or language but on shared investments, knowledges, and practices. University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 376 pages.

Leah Shuyler MA ’09 coauthors an environmental education curriculum and a path for children (and their adult counterparts) to become loving stewards of our planet. The book offers experiential activities that honor and encourage children’s imagination as a vital source of inspiration toward solving current environmental challenges. Still Moving Yoga, 2021. 176 pages.

F. Pieter Lefferts BA ’80 sets this novel in an imagined culture and society of the animals populating the eastern woodland ecosystems of New York’s Adirondack Mountains. At its core, the book is a call to all of us human animals to find a way to better listen to and understand our relationships with the other sentient beings on this planet—and to learn from our often wiser brethren. UnCollected Press, 2022. 309 pages.

Duncan Robertson BA ’11 follows a young American writer adrift in the world of Visegrad, a fictional place resembling an amalgamation of Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Krakow, and Berlin. New Europe Books, 2022. 354 pages.