Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

Child of Light by Terry Brooks ’66

March 1, 2022

Tags Alumni Book

(New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2021)
One reader described the latest book from the New York Times bestselling author this way: “An otherworldly adventure from the fertile mind of one of the most beloved storytellers of our generation.”

The first in a new fantasy series, the story focuses on a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she’s never known. According to the publisher, “At 19, Auris Afton Grieg has led an . . . unusual life. Since the age of 14, she has been trapped in a Goblin prison. Why? She does not know. She has no memories of her past beyond the vaguest of impressions. All she knows is that she is about to age out of the children’s prison, and rumors say that the adult version is far, far worse. So she and some friends stage a desperate escape into the surrounding wastelands. And it is here that Auris’s journey of discovery begins, for she is rescued by a handsome yet alien stranger.”

Author of the popular Shannara saga, as well as the novel based on the screenplay and story by George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Brooks has written 41 books. Two of his novels, Running with the Demon and A Knight of the Word, were selected by the Rocky Mountain News as two of the best science fiction/fantasy novels of the 20th century.