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.

The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan ’80

October 1, 2021

Tags Alumni Book

(Seattle: Lake Union Publishing, 2021).
From the author of the bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family’s inspiring story of daring, survival, and triumph. According to the publisher: “In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear’s intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves — murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect ‘pure-blood’ Germans? The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century. But after already living under Stalin’s horrifying regime, Emil and Adeline decide they must run in retreat from their land with the wolves they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom.”