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Richard Hoyt B.M. ’83, author of the John Denson Pacific Northwest mysteries, pens a new novel introducing Jake Hipp, “a modern-day Henry David Thoreau” as sleuth, and Willow Blackwing, his American Indian partner.

Moonshine Cove Publishing, 2013. 266 pages. 

Conrad Wesselhoeft BA ’76 authors a coming-of-age novel about video gamer and daredevil dirt bike rider Arlo Santiago, who is recruited by the U.S. military to pilot drone missions in Pakistan. When the game becomes all too real, he must reconcile his duty with the violent death that haunts his family.

HMH Books for Young Readers, 2014. 352 pages. 

Donald Levering CAS ’72 offers a collection of poems focusing on the critical dramas of our era: the impacts of climate change, milita- rization, and consumerism. His recent honors include being named a finalist for the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize and the Jane Kenyon Award.

Red Mountain Press, 2014. 78 pages. 

Lisa Blee BA ’02, assistant professor of history at Wake Forest, explores critical questions surrounding the murder conviction of Chief Leschi, a Nisqually leader who was found guilty in 1855 but was posthumously exonerated in 2004.

University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 320 pages. 

Rev. Zuigaku Kodachi, professor emeritus of Japanese language and literature, explores the development of the Lotus Sutra in its historical context along the Silk Road linking South and East Asia. He treats this important scripture as the product of cultural exchanges inflected by interregional history, politics, and commerce. Kodachi, who was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun With Silver and Golden Rays by the Emperor of Japan, taught at Lewis & Clark for more than 50 years.

Sankibo Busshorin Publishing Company, Tokyo, Japan, 2014. 268 pages. 

Erin Waterman BA ’88 wrote these poems over the course of 30 years. She says she spends “every waking moment appreciating the natural world and striving toward gratitude for all life’s lessons.”

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. 72 pages. 

Charles Cantelon BA ’70 pens his first book of poetry. He also provided the photo for the book’s cover, which he says is “a double exposure I did of the staircase in the Manor House at Lewis & Clark, back in the day.”

Xlibris, 2014. 60 pages.