L&C Magazine

Evan Nichols BS ’84 tells a story of mysterious forces from another dimension threatening to invade the world and a group of ordinary people, brought together by the unexpected circumstances, who realize that they are Earth’s best hope to stop the invasion before it happens.Lulu.com, 2024. 180 pages.

Peter Ames Carlin BA ’85 looks beyond the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll to open a window into the fascinating lives of four college friends who formed the iconic rock band R.E.M. Doubleday, 2024. 464 pages.

Allen Reel JD ’74 shares a selection of Western poems that he has presented at the Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering. The book also includes a true and compelling murder story from his days at Montana State. The event was a major influence in Reel attending Lewis & Clark Law School and becoming a lawyer. Gorham Printing, 2024. 76 pages.

Samantha Schoech BA ’92 shares 14 insightful, witty, and often laugh-out-loud stories, which are populated by angels, earthquakes, sibling complexity, love affairs gone bad, and children left to figure it out on their own. Woven throughout is an abiding sympathy for the mess-ups, bad choices, and missteps humans make despite their best intentions.7.13 Books, 2025. 200 pages.

Matt Daly BA ’93 offers a book of poems that strives to address the Puritan history of his ancestors, not to redress their wrongs, but at least to face them in the hope of making sense of how we might live beyond their influence.Unsolicited Press, 2024. 106 pages.

Toru Nakamura BA ’68 presents the facts and myths concerning Minoa; the catastrophic earthquakes, tsunami, and volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea; Greece before and after its Dark Ages; and their historical connection with Japan’s ancient society.Universal Publishers, 2024. 104 pages.

Kelley Harness BM ’82, professor of music (musicology) at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, undertakes the first comprehensive study of the 17th-century Florentine horse ballets. Oxford University Press, 2024. 344 pages.

Diana Leonard, associate professor of psychology and department chair, coedits this text that asks, “How can educators, researchers, and designers use games to support inclusion, compassion, care, equity, and justice?” The book explores 50 different games, including commercial, indie, desktop, mobile, card, and board games.Lulu.com, 2024. 312 pages.

Paul Nelson BA ’71 tells the stories of the spectacular hotels that were built on Lake Tahoe in the early 20th century. The book, which includes more than 100 historical photos, traces the interrelated exploits of some of the most interesting and influential characters in the West, as well as some of its most infamous.The History Press, 2024. 224 pages.

Kevin Wright MAT ’16 pens “a poetic rollercoaster” in which he explores the essence of unknown feelings and emotions, bringing clarity to the journey of healing. BooxAI, 2023. 128 pages.

Amy Baskin, administrative coordinator for the English and history departments, pens a collection of poetry that explores the themes of harm, trauma, pain, illness, and healing from brain injury sustained in the context of our collective, trying times.Poetry Box, 2024. 40 pages.

Maryann Bylander, associate professor of sociology, explores the costs, risks, and unfreedoms produced alongside migrant regularization in Southeast Asia. Based on multisited ethnography, and informed by a decade of experience researching migrant communities in Cambodia, the book describes the experiences of Cambodians confronting Thailand’s intensifying documentation regime.University of Hawaii Press, 2024. 258 pages.

Lana Kim, associate professor and program director of the Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy Program, coedits this groundbreaking text that brings together the personal and professional narratives of Asian American family therapists, offering insight into the Asian American experience through systemic theory and frameworks, individual and community stories, and clinical considerations.Routledge, 2024. 206 pages.

Meiru Liu, instructor in Chinese, offers a three-book Chinese language series titled BBC Practical Business Chinese, which is aimed at learners who are engaged in commerce and trade, as well as expatriate employees of multinational corporations and self-learners. The books include exercises and task-based practical activities.Phoenix Tree Publishing, 2024.