Alumni Authors Bookshelf
Fiction
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
Dr. Kent H. Dixon, A&S '65 (MA)
A close translation/rendition of the full epic (Tablet XII included and justified) by Kent H. Dixon (Hopkins '65), with his artist son Kevin H. Dixon (born at JHHospital, '65).
ISBN: 978-1-60980-793-1
THE FURY OF COVID 19: THE POLITICS, HISTORIES, AND UNREQUITED LOVE OF THE CORONAVIRUS
Vinay Lal, A&S '82
There has never been anything like the coronavirus pandemic in history. We have witnessed unprecedented levels of state intervention, global upheaval, and extremely varied responses across the world. This is the first book to consider some of the pandemic's cultural, social, political, and economic aspects and its philosophical implications.
ISBN: 9789389104233
IN THE ABSENCE OF STRUGGLE
Gregg Mokrzycki , A&S '94
When the heart attack took his father 15 years earlier, Klu thought God robbed him of life's instruction book. But maybe God's plan was for Klu to write his own.
ISBN: 9781736005705
Hellmouth
Meredith Anthony, A&S '70
Welcome to hell. By turns very dark and unexpectedly funny, HELLMOUTH chronicles a woman's determination to discover the truth. She won't give up, even though the cost of knowing might be her husband's life. Or her own.
ISBN: 9781524672898
Eisenstein's Monster
Alexander Bach A&S '10
A novel in montage concerning a man with cancer in the language centers of his brain explores what it means to live, love and create inside a body.
ISBN: 978-0997681208
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Above Average
Amitabha Bagchi, Engr '02
Arindam Chatterjee floats from the middle-class security of his home in East Delhi to the fiercely competitive world of the Indian Institute of Technology and onwards to the East Coast of the US. On his journey he begins to realize that his life is a confused tangle of ambitions and aspirations, some attainable, some not and some hanging tantalizingly in between.
ISBN: 8172236530
This Place
Amitabha Bagchi, Engr '02
Jeevan Sharma, former taxi driver, lives a quiet life on 26th street just south of the Homewood campus. Then two things happen to throw his life into disarray: the sudden arrival of Sunita, a young woman who has walked away from a cheating husband, and the decision by the City of Baltimore to demolish his block.
ISBN: B00GZK374U
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Murder and the Muse
Alexei Bayer, SAIS '82
Third book in a crime series set in Moscow in the '60s. Olga Khokhlova, Picasso's first wife, comes to Moscow and, despite being chaperoned by KGB Chief Yuri Andropov, is robbed at the fancy Metropole Hotel. Murders follow.
ISBN: 1880100495
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Comrades in Health: U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Timothy H. Holtz, Wendy Johnson, Vicente Navarro
Politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have long worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. This volume offers an impressive array of historical and vivid, first-person accounts by famed and lesser-known health leftists who have participated in struggles for health and social justice, internationally and domestically.
ISBN: 9780813561202
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Drinking Closer to Home
Jessica Anya Blau, A&S '95
"Reminiscent of Jeannette Wall's The Glass Castle, Jessica Anya Blau's sophomore effort is a raging success." -New Your Journal of Books
ISBN: 0061984027
The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals
Rae Bryant, A&S '11In this visceral collection of stories by Rae Bryant, we explore the wits, moralities, edges and sometimes broken realities of lovers and friends, life and death, and the mundane tragedies in a normal day. From detachable women to cow tipping, kingfishers to drive-thru sex, Bryant pushes the boundaries and creates for her readers the amusing, the heartbreaking and the magically bizarre conditions of woman and man.
ISBN: 978-0615496962
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Ghosts of Bergen County
Dana Cann, A&S '02
A couple confronts grief amid addictions and the company of a mysterious girl. With ghosts both literal and figurative, the novel delicately weaves loss, recovery, and forgiveness. Set on the cusp of the financial crisis, Ghosts of Bergen County is a literary mystery with eerie elements of the supernatural.
ISBN: 1941040276
The Prosector
Arnold L. Dellon, A&S '66, Med '70
A pioneering woman surgeon helps her patients in pain by discovering secrets from the dead.
ISBN: 979-8201204280
This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West
Dominique Dickey, A&S 21
In this collection legends, myths, tales, omens, folk horror, and science fiction explore the fantastical, the apocalyptic, the bizarre, the unknown, and the apocryphal origins and conclusions of life.
ISBN: 978-1-936097-46-3
The Apex Beat: Compositions from the Heart for the Heart
Nitish Dogra, BSPH '05
Dr. Nitish Dogra is an Indian public health physician who works on planetary challenges. His first work of fiction explores the journey from finding lost love to the fragility of life.
ISBN: B0BVGY42RM
Geosynchron
David Louis Edelman, A&S '93
David Louis Edelman's business science fiction saga that began with Infoquake and MultiReal comes to a stunning conclusion with Geosynchron, the last book of the Jump 225 trilogy.
ISBN: 1591027926
Infoquake
David Louis Edelman, A&S '93
Infoquake, the debut novel by David Louis Edelman, takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It's a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases, and sales pitches.
ISBN: 1591024420
MultiReal
David Louis Edelman, A&S '93
David Louis Edelman's debut novel Infoquake was called — the love child of Donald Trump and Vernor Vinge — and hailed as the best science fiction debut of 2006. The story continues with MultiReal, the stunning second book in the Jump 225 trilogy.
ISBN: 1591026474
The Case of the Hidden Dentures
William Edmonston, A&S '52
John Braemhor discovers a set of dentures behind a medicine cabinet which leads him to an international corporate operation smuggling Chinese workers into the U.S. and a mystery that involves secret codes, murder, and attempted assassinations, all cloaked in deeply troubling psychological relationships.
ISBN: 9781434327765
The Strange Case of Mr. Nobody
William Edmonston, A&S '52
John Braemhor solves the murder of a headless, handless body near Hadrian's wall, but not before the bloody trail leads him to Nova Scotia and an international smuggling operation.
ISBN: 1892059010
The Sin Collector
Shelley Fairweather-Vega, A&S '00 and Daria Desombre
By turns very dark and In this book translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega, a serial killer stalks the streets of Moscow, tracked by two detectives who must unravel his dark obsession with Russian theology and history.
ISBN: 9781542047203
Victor in the Rubble
Alex Finley, SAIS '96
A satire of the CIA and the War on Terror.
ISBN: 9780997251005
Cromwell's Folly
Regina Fite, A&S '88
A head in a dumpster and a pinky finger with an emerald/diamond ring attached is all Detective Sam Lagarde of the WV State Police has to go by. Doggedly following lead after lead, Lagarde stumbles upon five women who all have one thing in commonn: Ben Cromwell.
ISBN: 9781626943377
They Shall Be Remembered
John Freeze, McCoy College '65
Historical Fiction novel that follows the lives of three families from the Chesapeake Bay region. They befriend and serve famous people from the War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, and World War One. Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Tubman, Douglass, Mitchell, and Rickenbacker are brought alive..
ISBN: 9780595531103
Millie - A Cautionary Tale of America's Longest War
Nelson Goodman, Med '54
From my experience practicing internal medicine in Maryland for forty years and serving as Chairman of the Med Chi Committee on drugs, I have written a polemic against the failed drug war in the form of a novel.
ISBN: 1493554212
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Somewhat Close to Normal
Ebonye Gussine, A&S '07
A 9/11 novel about living life after loss
ISBN: 9780989986205
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Interdiction
Matthew Hardman, Krieger '21
A new POTUS. A desperate CEO. An aging warship. A stolen nuke.
ISBN: 1990644082
Call Me Obie
Ateret Haselkorn, Bus '08
Obie lives with an artificially printed heart and no one can know.
ISBN: 978-1958901090
The Color of My Soul
Melanie Hatter, A&S '09
Washington Writers? Publishing House 2011 Fiction Prize winner, The Color of My Soul takes the reader on a journey through race and culture, family loyalty and selfhood through a young woman's discovery of a secret about her father.
ISBN: 9780931846984
How High Up is Heaven
Ben Herman, A&S '50
Stories about East Baltimore and the rest of the world.
ISBN: B000RZH9KM
The Rhapsody in Blue of Mickey Klein
Ben Herman, A&S '50
The growing up of a boy with the wildest imagination ever encountered in twentieth century America is the story Ben Herman tells, in this endearing novel.
ISBN: 9780916144685
Sunday after Sunday after Sunday
Ben Herman, A&S '50
A collection of East Baltimore stories.
ISBN: B002EYGDE2
Chasing Antigone
Stephen Hirst, SAIS '66
A killing in Asia and a bombing in Ohio come together years later when a professor crosses paths with an evasive beautician who vanishes just before an assault team storms the professor?s house looking for her. The professor traces the woman to Arizona, where he lands in the middle of something far bigger and more sinister than he could ever have imagined.
ISBN: 9781301959525
Lauren Greasewater's War
Stephen Hirst, SAIS '66
A ruined shelter, a Native American woman and the force of the US government: the gunpowder that ignite Lauren Greasewater?s War. The story traces a woman?s quest from the streets of New York to the canyons of the Southwest finding her way back to her birthplace to reinvent herself as Lauren Greasewater. Caught between two worlds, she turns a cultural misunderstanding into an armed conflict.
ISBN: 9781301766079
China Jewel
Thomas Hollyday, '64 '68
Media around the world cover an inspiring and beautiful ocean race as international tall ships once again sail the ancient tea trade route to China. Yet, beneath the bright sails hide evil and treachery as the competitors sabotage and even murder each other to win the billion dollar prize
ISBN: 9780985475307
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Terror Flower
Thomas Hollyday, '64 '68
When a visiting African author begins to agitate for violent change and a bomb explodes in River Sunday because of her testimony before the United Nations, the search for answers becomes more urgent. Tench races against time to prevent the terror from escalating, with only the wisp of a clue, "Black-Eyed Susan", to guide him through the darkness.
ISBN: 9780974128788
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Why We Came to the City
Kristopher Jansma, A&S '03
A warm, funny, and heartfelt novel about a tight-knit group of twentysomethings in New York whose lives are upended by tragedy. From the widely acclaimed author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards.
ISBN: 9780525426608
In the National Interest
Joseph A. Kayne, A&S '80
Jonathan Sheppard inherited what might be the only contemporaneous account of how and why Lee Harvey Oswald became a presidential assassin. But, is it fact or fiction.
ISBN: 9798218179571
How David Met Sarah
Anne Kelleher, A&S '81
A heartwarming look at what it means to be family through the eyes of a developmentally disabled young man. 20% of all proceeds are donated to the National Down Syndrome Society.
ISBN: 1467951935
Red Sun in Morning
Richard Kemp, A&S '03
June 1944, America buzzes. On a sharecropper farm, a family struggles with the changing world. Cheating land owners, budding love, the claws of war, and a growing world vision changes the family: Six of them want off the farm, while one wants to stay. But at what cost?
ISBN: 9780615678269
Exact Change: Short Fiction
Henry James Korn, A&S '68
Henry James Korn's first book Exact Change is a collection of short form fiction that was originally published by Assembling Press in 1974 with an original lithograph cover by photographer and print-maker Scott Hyde. It now finds a new life in digital form as an e-book where audiences can see several clear links from Korn's late 60's and early 70's literary experiments to the anticipated major themes, characters, and plot points in his 2016 debut novel Amerikan Krazy. Memorable stories include King Kong in the Kitchen, The Condemned of Altoona, and One Thing Perfectly Clear. It also contains one of his earliest modular experimental efforts The Pontoon Manifesto which was published separately in a variety of formats.
ISBN: 9781943912063
Proceedings of the National Academy of the Avant Garde
Henry James Korn, A&S '68
From Henry James Korn, a leader in the experimental writing and small press community in Lower Manhattan during the 1970's, comes volume one, issue one of an imaginary academic journal that administers the coup de grace to the American reality consensus. "I am amazed. Not only is Proceedings of the National Academy of the Avant Garde the only funny example of experimental fiction I have ever laid eyes on, it is the only example of experimental art in any form that I've seen in years that I thought was really good. Give us more, Mr. Korn and mark my words they won't be calling you experimental for long." -P.J. O'Rourke
ISBN: 9781943912056
Belle o' the Waters
Raima Larter, A&S '16
Belle Waters, a young Mormon woman in the 1850s, fears she will be married off to the Prophetâ an old man who already has many wives. When the US Army invades, Belle realizes the possibility of becoming a child bride is just the first in a series of disastrous threats.
ISBN: 9781684018895
Fearless
Raima Larter, A&S '16
Father Mike, worn down by terrorist bombings, is overwhelmed. He meets a young woman who, inexplicably, cannot feel fear. Together, they uncover the mysterious causes of her disorder while exploring faith, what is real and what is not, and learning about the myriad ways people cope in our fear-filled world.
ISBN: 9780999461761
Burning Distance
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, A&S '69
Set in the years before and after the first Gulf War, Burning Distance is a journey through family secrets and competing loyalties, contemporary history, and the dark world of arms trafficking.
ISBN: 978-1608095339
The Appearance of a Hero: The Tom Mahoney Stories
Peter Levine, A&S '06
In this debut collection, author Peter Levine tells the story of the prom king after the prom. Tom Mahoney: good-looking, popular, seemingly uncomplicated, is starting to disappear from the lives of those who love him. Levine charts the life of a modern day hero, someone both extraordinary yet flawed.
ISBN: 9781250001221
Rossio Square N.°59
Jeannine E. Johnson Maia, SAIS '88 & '89
A French refugee and a Portuguese cafe waiter in WWII Lisbon investigate a friend's murder and the disappearance of two vulnerable children. They don't know it could cost them everything.
ISBN: 978-9893303108
Gods and Heroes
Gerard Marconi, A&S '98
A novel of linked stories about coming of age in Baltimore during the 1960s, this unusual love story follows two young people as they search for someone to love and something to believe in.
ISBN: 9781614347125
A Fatal Family Secret,The Morphosis.me Files Book #1
Samantha Marks, A&S '97, Peabody
If you could change anything about yourself, what would it be? When an awkward teen becomes a shape-shifter and a target, surviving the school-year means defending herself against cyber-bullies, learning to control her new found powers, and hiding from the ancient secret society that kidnapped her mother.
ISBN: 9781943406012
A Treacherous Social Game, The Morphosis.me Files Book #2
Samantha Marks, A&S '97, Peabody
Kayleigh delves deep into untapped magic to better control her morphing powers, still determined to find and free her mother. No amount of magic, however, can help her survive the social tightropes of high school life: dating, popularity contests, exchange students, and a surprise sports competition called the Gaelic Games.
ISBN: 9781943406050
Girl in a Box
Sujata Massey, A&S '86
Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura takes a freelance gig with a Washington DC alphabet agency to work undercover in a Tokyo department store. It's a risky assignment that brings her into the world of economic espionage and hard-core fashion addiction.
ISBN: 97800607656
Borrowing Time: A Latino Sexual Odyssey
Carlos T. Mock, A&S '76A wonderful story of love and compassion, growth and resolution, mourning and acceptance and about family - the one you're born in and the one you make as you deal with an HIV diagnoses
ISBN: 9780915745777
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Historias
Carlos T. Mock, A&S '76Historias is Carlos Mock's latest musings on his past seen through his imagination. A set of short stories ranging from childhood jokes to life and death situations.
ISBN: 9781499582642
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Mosaic Virus
Carlos T. Mock, A&S '76A plausible tale of intrigue involving a man made killer virus
ISBN: 9780915745791
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Papi Chulo: A Legend, A Novel, and the Puerto Rican Identity
Carlos T. Mock, A&S '76The story of a country as seen through the eyes and lives of three strong women of several generations
ISBN: 9780979645709
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Vietnam: The Other Side, Challenging All Odds
Duong Nguyen, SPH '83
By taking his life experiences, Duong Nguyen has created a spell binding story that is historically informative, inspirational in the extraordinary determination and courage manifest by characters and humbling as we consider the lives of those who have taken on the most difficult of life's challenges and finished their journey at the top of the mountain.
ISBN: 9781508607038
Dulci's Legacy
Margaret Pinard, SAIS '08
Dulci knew high school would be difficult, but strange visions point to a supernatural threat to her best friend that she must solve to save much more than her academic record.
ISBN: 9781311969873
The Grasping Root
Margaret Pinard, SAIS '08
As the MacLeans attempt to put down roots and grasp new opportunities, old enemies and new challenges test their strength and loyalties in 1820s Nova Scotia.
ISBN: 9781370059751
The Keening
Margaret Pinard, SAIS '08
A crofting family in Scotland, 1822, must deal with political and economic changes to their island home. Sheila and Gillan must adjust or struggle against the tension breaking the family apart.
ISBN: 9781311486332
Memory's Hostage
Margaret Pinard, SAIS '08
Privileged brothers in Victorian England are shocked to find themselves in a scandal with an amnesiac young woman at its center. Little do they know, something much darker lurks behind her memory loss.
ISBN: 9781370105632
Storm Wrack & Spindrift
Margaret Pinard, SAIS '08
A dramatic story of family survival and personal struggle set against social upheaval in Argyllshire, UK and Nova Scotia of the 1830s.
ISBN: 9781949990300
West
Whitney Poole A&S '08
Sebastian's father is missing. His house is in ruins. He finds the city of his youth changed so much it is almost unrecognizable. All that remains are journal entries about a mystical aleph existing somewhere in the city. In Sebastian's search, he finds that people in the city are losing their memories, only to reappear with entirely new identities and no memory of the past. Worse yet is that Sebastian's memory begins to slip as well…
ISBN: 9780990433132
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Devil's Gun
Cat Rambo, A&S '90
No one escapes their past as a bioship's crew attempts to navigate the hazards of opening a pop-up restaurant and the dangers of a wrathful pirate-king seeking vengeance.
ISBN: 978-1250269355
Shirtless Men Drink Free
Dwaine Rieves, A&S '16
Shirtless Men Drink Free makes vivid the human soul's struggle in a world bedeviled by desire and the inevitable question...why...
ISBN: 978-1946507044
The Mayan Clue
Phyllis Ringler, A&S '72
Phyllis Ringler has published a mystery novel, The Mayan Clue, on Amazon.com.
ISBN: 1523205974
The Last Resident: The Love Story of a
British Official and an Indian Princess
Shahzad A Rizivi, SAIS '79
British diplomat Nigel loves India and Muslim culture, but not his spoiled wife Pamela. He has fallen in love with the married princess of the Muslim princely state where he serves. When Pamela is murdered, Nigel is the prime suspect; only the state's brilliant Jewish prime minister can exonerate him.
ISBN: 9781604818260
Haywire
Thaddeus Rutkowski, A&S '77
A novel in flash fictions. A finalist in the fiction category of the Asian American Literary Awards and winner of the Members' Choice Award, 2013.ISBN: 9780984213313
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Roughhouse
Thaddeus Rutkowski, A&S '77
"In-your-face punk realism with touches of the surreal and subversive black humor." - Publishers Weekly
ISBN: 1885030266
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Tetched: A Novel in Fractals
Thaddeus Rutkowski, A&S '77
Written in an edgy, minimalist style, Tetched presents a darkly comic picture of difficult mixed-race family life, quirky sexuality and urban dislocation.ISBN: 1933016167
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Violent Outbursts
Thaddeus Rutkowski, A&S '77
A collection of 86 flash fictions drawn from the author's life--first as a child in rural America and later as an adult in a big city. Some of the pieces are realistic, others are more dreamlike or imagistic.
ISBN: 978-1-941550-58-8
Maaijke
Thomas J. Vander Salm, Med '66
Maaijke, born in 1815, is an infectiously likeable, insatiably curious, physically rambunctious, blond Dutch farmer's daughter who learns to travel through time with her imagination.
ISBN: B0CXYD5H1B
Stumbling Toward Grace
Rosalia Scalia, A&S '03
Sometimes we try to connect to others, especially people we love but end up missing each other. The stories in STUMBLING TOWARD GRACE explore instances of imperfect people.
ISBN: 978-1-950730-82-7
St. Bart's Way
Patricia Schultheis, '73, '06
St. Bart's Way is an award-winning collection of short stories about the families living on a fictional street in Baltimore.
ISBN: 9781941551097
Away With the Fishes
Stephanie Siciarz, A&S '07With ner new novel, Away with the Fishes, award-winning author Stephanie Siciarz gives us a "witty companion to her debut novel [Left at the Mango Tree]...with snappy dialogue, well-timed plot twists and Siciarz's lyrical sentences. ...Beautiful language, delightful storytelling and a fully imagined world make this return trip to Oh worth the ride." (Kirkus Reviews)
ISBN: 0989686329
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Mr. Dickens and His Carol
Samantha Silva, SAIS Bologna '82, '83With the wit of Shakespeare in Love and the evergreen heart of A Christmas Carol, Silva playfully reimagines the creation of the second most beloved Christmas story in the world.
ISBN: 978-1-250-15404-0
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Emerald's Eyes
Talitha Simeona-Stewart, SOE '07
Take a glimpse through Emerald's Eyes as she journeys down the long, dark road filled with twists and turns, navigating through paths of multi-generational incest, molestation, murder, sibling rivalry, greed, and jealousy.
ISBN: 9781366209535
Heartsick
Caitlin Sinead, A&S '11Quinn is used to shrugging off smitten men. But when a mysterious epidemic sweeps across her college campus and an infected friend is murdered, Quinn must work with the local cops even if the lead detective just so happens to be one of those aforementioned smitten men.
ISBN: 9781426899607
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Choke Creek
Lauren Small, A&S '86
Based on the Sand Creek Massacre, Choke Creek delivers a gripping portrait of families haunted by the past. Evie Glauber's search for the truth leads her to uncover acts of ruthless brutality. The past, she learns, cannot be changed, but with courage and compassion, the future might yet be redeemed.
ISBN: 9780615220116
Alexander's Odyssey
Steven Southard, Engr '02
Alexander the Great might well be on his way to conquering the world, but when he decides to explore underwater in a glass-windowed barrel, he enrages Poseidon. Will the ocean deity defeat Alexander and prevent future deep-sea exploration by mortals, or can a single clever Macedonian outwit a god?
ISBN: 9781452453927
Leonardo's Lion Illustrator
Steven Southard, Engr '02
In 1515, Leonardo da Vinci built a mechanical lion, an amazing clockwork creation. Decades later, a boy discovers the lion and embarks on a quest that leads him in search of Leonardo's greatest secrets of all, hidden mysteries that could affect the future of all humanity.
ISBN: 9781619500082
The Sea-Wagon of Yantai
Steven Southard, Engr '02
Around 200 B.C. in China, a young man of war and and old man of peace clash over the use and future of the world?s first submarine.
ISBN: 9781926704098
The Wind-Sphere Ship
Steven Southard, Engr '02
Heron of Alexandria invented the steam engine in the 1st Century, A.D. With a little persuasion, he could have used this engine to propel a ship. If his steam-ship could beat a man-rowed galley, could Heron make the Industrial Revolution happen 1700 years early? Let the race begin!
ISBN: 9781452479873
Within Victorian Mists
Steven Southard, Engr '02
If the fog of time had lifted a little differently on the 19th century, and you could mix a hauty Englishman tinkerer, a plucky American steam engine repair-woman, laser holograms, brass goggles, giant dirigibles, and ornithopters, you might just get one madcap steampunk romance.
ISBN: 9781452450933
Sympathetic People
Donna Baier Stein, A&S '90
Both the beauty and frailty of human connections are seen in the thirteen stories collected in Sympathetic People. Here are women and men struggling to find love, meaning, happiness in marriage, adulterous affairs, art, meditation, and even the passage from life to death.
ISBN: 0985849584Buy now
Bulfinch
Hannah Sternberg, A&S '09A JHU history student's imagination is so powerful that the knight from the book she's reading pops out of her head and into real life!
ISBN: 9780692207291
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Daisy: A Novel
Libby Sternberg, Peab '75 & '78
No empty-headed fool, Daisy Buchanan tells her side of the story of that tumultuous summer when she reunites with her first love, Jay Gatsby. "Original and charming." Booklist
ISBN: 978-1610885874
A Wedding in Provence
Ellen Sussman, A&S '78
Ellen Sussman, nationally bestselling author of French Lessons, delivers a feast for the senses in A Wedding in Provence. A moving novel of love, forgiveness, and trust, set among the beaches and vineyards of southern France.
ISBN: 9780345548955
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Cyberbolt: COVID-19 is Just the Eye of the Storm
Phil A. Templeton, Med '82
While an entertaining thriller, this also rings the alarm bell around the vulnerability of the medical system to cyber-attacks, and in particular connected medical devices.
ISBN: 979-8843108960
47 Minutes on Christmas Eve
William Van Doren, A&S '70
"A magical tale of redemption." -The Hook, Charlottesville, Va. "A gift that will endure." -Lynchburg Ledger. "Part Alice in Wonderland, part It's a Wonderful Life."? -Virginia Living. "Take time to savor its powerful message: 'tis, indeed, the gift to be simple." -John de Graaf
ISBN: 9781452479873
Perfection Unleashed
Amelia Waters, A&S '97
In this multiple award-winning novel, Danyael Sabre's hard-won normal life is shattered when Galahad, the perfect human being, escapes from Pioneer Laboratories. The first era of the Genetic Revolution was peaceful; the second is headed for open war, with Danyael--a reluctant but powerful alpha empath--trapped at its heart.
ISBN: 1469980355
The Twenty-Year Death
Ariel S. Winter, A&S '02
A breathtaking novel written in the form of three separate crime novels, each set in a different decade and penned in the style of a different mystery grand master. Stephen King calls The Twenty-Year Death, "Bold, innovative, and thrilling," and James Frey says it's "One hell of a debut."
ISBN: 9780857685810
Oil in the Wok
YuMin Ye, A&S '08
Amber Yang is going to medical school, but not if teen pop sensation Brooke Fulton has a say in it. Should Amber go "the Chinese way" or become the singer she's always dreamed of? Or will she become another failed attempt like her dad?
ISBN: 9781936688036
Fearless
Raima Larter, A&S '16
Father Mike, worn down by terrorist bombings, is overwhelmed. He meets a young woman who, inexplicably, cannot feel fear. Together, they uncover the mysterious causes of her disorder while exploring faith, what is real and what is not, and learning about the myriad ways people cope in our fear-filled world.
ISBN: 9780999461761
Remembered
Yvonne Battle-Felton, KSAS '09
Long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction. It's 1910 Philadelphia and with the help of her dead sister, newspaper clippings, and reconstructed memories, Spring shatters the silences that have governed her life and recreates stories of slavery, identity, and family to lead her dying son home.
ISBN: 9780349700502