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The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74
The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74
$17.00
By Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974 The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched...
An Unexpected Guest — Korkeakivi '82
$15.00
By Anne Korkeakivi, Class of 1982 Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband’s career. As she shops for fresh stalks of asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day is complicated by the unexpected arrival of her son and a random encounter w...
It's Me — Hickey '07
It's Me — Hickey '07
$15.99
By Kate Hickey, Class of 2007 It’s the fall of 2003 and Perry Walsh is entering her freshman year of college. She quickly meets the handsome Ben Brown, a chance encounter that will forever alter the course of her life. As if navigating her connection with another human being isn't hard enough, throw in the realities of campus living: a roommate ...
Without a Map: A Memoir — Hall '93
$14.00
By Meredith Hall, Class of 1993 Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giv...
Dying to Be Beautiful — Kay '91
$22.95
By Gwen Kay, Class of 1991 Dying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics tells the story of how cosmetics came to be regulated in early-20th-century America. In 1906, the Food and Drug Administration was given the power to control food and drugs. Not until 1938 were other products that went into or onto the body, including cosmetics, simil...
The Big Disconnect — Steiner-Adair '76
$26.99
By Catherine Steiner-Adair, Class of 1976 Have iPads replaced conversation at the dinner table? What do infants observe when their parents are on their smartphones? Should you be your child's Facebook friend? As the focus of family has turned to the glow of the screen—children constantly texting their friends, parents working online around th...
Alice Bliss — Harrington '76
Alice Bliss — Harrington '76
$25.95
By Laura Harrington, Class of 1976 When Alice Bliss learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has le...
Coronavirus Heroes — Dookie '21, et al.
$14.99
By Basmattie Dookie, Class of 2021; Hikmah Okoya, Class of 2021; Emma Hahesy, Class of 2022; and Joanna Lin, Class of 2022 Join Charlie on an adventure to uncover her superpower during a pandemic. From online learning to being stuck at home, Charlie navigates the ups and downs of the coronavirus pandemic with her mother. Her story mimics many o...
Meet Me in Paradise — Hubscher '01
$17.00
By Libby MacKenzie Hubscher, Class of 2001 Marin Cole has never: Seen the ocean Climbed a mountain Taken a risk on love ....But if her sister's plan works, she just might do all three. Ever since her journalist mother died on assignment, Marin has played it safe, refusing to set foot outside the state of Tennessee. Her wild-child younger sis...
Select — Weisenberg '95
Select — Weisenberg '95
$17.99
By Marit Weisenberg, Class of 1995 Julia Jaynes has the perfect life. The perfect family. The perfect destiny. The daughter of a billionaire investor in Austin, Texas, it looks like Julia has it all. But there’s something rotten beneath the surface‒dangerous secrets her father is keeping; abilities she was never meant to have; and an elite socie...
Farm-to-Table Desserts — Shishak '97
$22.99
By Lei Shishak, Class of 1997 When we shop at farmers’ markets, we support our local economy and consume food that’s healthier, tastier, and packed with essential nutrients specific to our local environment. In Farm-to-Table Desserts, chef Lei demonstrates how baking with locally sourced, organic ingredients is so satisfying that it will quickly...
Beach House Dinners — Shishak '97
$24.99
By Lei Shishak, Class of 1997 Dinner is the most home-cooked meal of the day. We gather in the kitchen, open up a great cookbook, and see what ingredients we have in our pantry. Our devices are off, work is done for the day, and we get ready to make and share an amazing meal. Beach House Dinners: Simple, Summer-Inspired Meals for Entertaining Ye...
Eddie Red Undercover: Grants' Tomb — Wells '96
$16.99
By Marcia Wells, Class of 1996 Eddie Red, the NYPD’s youngest crime-solving hero, smells trouble. Could he be the target of the elusive art thief Lars Heinrich, whose last robbery he ruined? If so, why won’t the police let Eddie help on the case? What are they hiding from him? In the thrilling third installment of the Eddie Red Undercover series...
A Doorway Through Space — Joy '86
$14.95
By Judith Bourassa Joy, Class of 1986 Two young people, with a little help from their friends, travel through a wormhole to find their space-traveling mother. The creatures they encounter and the adventures they discover are worth the trip. -From the back cover.
500 Words or Less — Del Rosario '04
$18.99
By Juleah Del Rosario Swanson, Class of 2004 A high school senior attempts to salvage her reputation among her Ivy League–obsessed classmates by writing their college admissions essays and in the process learns big truths about herself in this mesmerizing debut novel-in-verse, perfect for fans of Gayle Forman and Elizabeth Acevedo.Nic Chen refus...
Indigenous Peoples of East Africa — Jenson-Elliott '84
$27.45
By Cynthia Jenson-Elliott, Class of 1984 Indigenous Peoples of Africa examines the contemporary life of Africa's diverse populations as well as their widely varying social, cultural, and political histories. Family and community life, religious beliefs and practices, and the challenges of life in a fast-changing world are among the topics covere...
Glorious One-Pot Meals — Yarnell '91
$17.95
By Elizabeth Yarnell, Class of 1991 Elizabeth Yarnell developed her revolutionary infusion-cooking method to avoid often mushy slow-cooker results and to make cooking and cleaning up after dinner a breeze. Now anyone with too many tasks and not enough time can use her technique to get dinner on the table in an hour or less, with no more than twe...
What You Know in Your Hands — Poliner '82
$19.99
By Elizabeth Poliner, Class of 1982 Elizabeth Poliner's poems are of painting, literature, and music, of family, memory, and loss. Whether set in Washington, D.C., the small Connecticut town of her childhood, or the coast of Maine, these poems speak with uncommon clarity and musicality as they explore the complexity of the human heart. -From the...
Alchemy of Awakening — Hobin '82
$15.95
By Lynn Hobin, Class of 1982 Alchemy of Awakening is a window into the author's life during the time it was transformed from a carefully planned life into one more in alignment with her authentic self, and consistent with that which she came into being to do. A life-altering event was placed in her path enabling her to become conscious of univer...
The Girl of the Early Race — Boe '76
$11.95
By Deborah Boe, Class of 1976 Lovers of poetry who remember Deborah Boe's critically acclaimed debut book, Mojave, will wonder why she published no subsequent book -- until now.Thomas Simmons of the University of Iowa wrote in his September 6, 1999, review of Mojave on Amazon.com: "Deborah Boe is one of the most under-rated poets in America. I h...
The Kinfolk — Morgan '89
The Kinfolk — Morgan '89
$18.95
By Genevieve Morgan, Class of 1989 In the conclusion of The Five Stones Trilogy, Chase, Evelyn, and Knox fight to save not just the island of Ayda but their own world. They are scattered throughout the war-torn island as Dankar, the power-hungry ruler of Exor, mounts his greatest attack. His forces begin a final, fatal siege on the weakening rea...
Chantarelle — Morgan '89
Chantarelle — Morgan '89
$18.95
By Genevieve Morgan, Class of 1989 In Book Two of The Five Stones Trilogy, Chase, determined to fulfill his promise to find the unifying Fifth Stone, finds the elusive Captain Nate and brings him back to the island of Ayda, where one realm is burning and two others are under siege from Dankar’s dark forces of Exor. Meanwhile, Knox and Evelyn mus...
The Bear Who Couldn't Sleep — Nastro '92
$17.95
By Caroline Nastro, Class of 1992 There’s no place like home when it’s time for bed. When Bear can’t sleep, he goes on an adventure and discovers the wonders of New York City—a parade, Central Park, hot dogs, and more! But when he finally gets tired and looks for a place to rest . . . he learns why it’s called the city that never sleeps. What’s ...
Living Sustainably — Sanford '83
$36.95
By A. Whitney Sanford, Class of 1983 In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to craft t...