Bookshelf

(Austin, Texas: Pandamoon Publishing, 2017)
This novel features Ezra Kaufman, a police detective, and Aisha Hassan, a reporter, who meet following an anti-Muslim protest. The author writes, “Confronting misogyny, homophobia, and the tyranny of teenage cliques, rejecting both fundamentalism and intolerance, [the characters] learn that they must chart their own paths toward spiritual meaning and personal connection.”

New York: Viking/Penguin Press, 2018)
In her second book of narrative history, the author provides a stirring history of women’s long journey to suffrage and political influence. As Publisher’s Weekly noted in giving the book a starred review: “Remarkably entertaining ... a timely examination of a shining moment in the ongoing fight to achieve a more perfect union.” The book is dedicated to the author’s beloved friend, Natalie Babbitt.

(self-published: Lulu.com, 2017)
The author sums up his collection of poems this way: “I have written for television, movies, advertising, newspapers, magazines, and, in moments of reflection, poetry. Maybe a thousand or so. These are the only ones I have kept. My other work made a lot of money. My poetry, none. But it has been valuable to me. I hope you will like a few of them.”

(Salem, Ore.: Rogue Phoenix, 2017)
Hard at work on her dissertation, the last thing on Vena Goodwin’s mind is solving a crime. But that’s where she finds herself after a man for whom she had feelings is assumed to have committed suicide. Believing it to be murder, she acts alone on her suspicions to trap the killer. Dafoe’s stories, essays, and poems have appeared in several literary publications.

(Bloomington, Ind.: LifeRich Publishing, 2016)
According to the publisher, “Holly Amidon delights in cooking for and eating with others. In this book, she weaves together the tale of her life with the foods that she enjoys preparing for the people she loves. Most of the recipes are recognizable comfort foods, but often Holly puts her own spin on them and creates dishes that become ­family and friend favorites.”

(Cooperstown, N.Y.: Bassett Healthcare ­Network, 2016)
This richly illustrated book traces the history of a small, rural hospital’s evolution into a nationally recognized, multi-county integrated network. The author is attending physician and director of medical education emeritus at Bassett, and clinical professor emeritus of medicine, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University.

(New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
Based on extensive field work, including 170 interviews conducted in Egypt during the Arab Spring, the author offers insight into what motivated thousands to take to the streets against the Mubarak regime in 2011: “[s]ocial media, violent government repression, changes in political opportunities, and the military.”

(New York: Riverhead Books, 2017)
Described as a Greek tragedy in the age of ISIS, the author reimagines Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a British Muslim family living in the shadow of a dead father and his sins. This novel, the author’s seventh, was longlisted for the prestigious 2017 Man Booker Prize. One reviewer observed, “The most impressive part of Home Fire … is Shamsie’s writing, which is beautiful without being florid, and urgent without being rushed.”

(Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, 2017)
The author asked 12 everyday people — from a physician, to an actor, to a prisoner serving a life sentence — to imagine themselves as “secondary” characters from stories in the Bible and then to reflect on those characters’ points of view. For example, the story of Adam and Eve told from the perspective of the serpent or the crucifixion of Jesus as witnessed by the centurion responsible for his execution. The results, as one reviewer noted, “are striking and at times unforgettable.”

(Cambridge, Mass.: Academic Press)
Neutron Scattering [Vol. 44, 2013]; Neutron Scattering – Magnetic and Quantum Phenomena [Vol. 48, 2015]; Neutron Scattering – Applications in Biology, Chemistry, and Materials Science [Vol. 49, 2017] provides an in-depth overview of the applications of ­neutron scattering in the fields of physics, materials science, chemistry, biology, earth sciences, and engineering. Fernandez-Alonso is head of the Molecular Spectroscopy Group and coordinator of the Centre for Molecular Structure and Dynamics at the ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom.