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Recent Books By Alumni ALUMNI SAMMY D. BROOK (M.S.Ed. ’04), A Cowboy in Time, Xlibris. The book follows the exploits of Samuel Benjamin, a 19th-century U.S. deputy marshal who finds himself in 21st-century Oklahoma City after going through an inexplicable natural phenomenon while chasing an outlaw. When authorities find him, he is believed to have been riding a horse on I-40. Apparently, the horse was spooked, causing him to be thrown and become unconscious. Why was he riding a horse on the highway, dressed in 19th-century clothing, armed, and most importantly, with a gunshot wound to his leg? Oklahoma City police officer Paul Crabtree is tasked to investigate. www2.xlibris.com PAUL R. GARVEY (Ph.D. ’09), Analytical Methods for Risk Management: A Systems Engineering Perspective, CRC Press. Drawing from the author’s years of experience in the field, the book presents the foundation processes and analytical practices for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing risk in traditional systems, systems-of-systems and enterprise systems. Readers are introduced to fundamental concepts of risk and decision theory and how they apply to engineering systems risk management. The book includes exercises and examples to illustrate how technical principles apply to engineering systems projects. www.crcpress.com SARAH MCCOY (M.F.A. ’07) The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico, Random House. Sheltered in her mountain town in Puerto Rico, 11-year-old Verdita Ortiz-Santiago longs for the outside world – especially the States. With one foot in childhood and the other in adolescence, she chafes under the watchful eye of her doting, old-fashioned mother. In this coming-of-age debut novel, McCoy shares the pain and poignancy of growing up. As noted in a Library Journal review, the book “transcends borders and times. Readers will laugh and cry along with Verdita as she navigates a tumultuous adolescence, easily identifying with her problems and struggles.” www.randomhouse.com ANGELA SEIDERS ’91, LESLIE GRANT (M.S.ED. ’94) and Jennifer Hindman (lead author), People First! The School Leader’s Guide to Building and Cultivating Relationships with Teachers, Eye on Education. This concise, people-centered guide is for school leaders who want to create good relationships with their teachers and increase student achievement. It provides research-based and practitioner-developed tips and strategies for administrators, instructional leaders, teacher leaders and professional development specialists. Seiders, a middle school principal, has been recognized twice by her school system as middle school principal of the year. Grant, a former teacher, is on the faculty at William and Mary. www.eyeoneducation.com FRANKLYN SLEDD ’74, From This Moment, SleighFarm Publishing Group. The author describes his first fiction title as “a blend of the espionage and putative-science genres.” A global threat looms and a rogue madman seizes the opportunity of chaos to impose a terrorist threat as well. The protagonist, government analyst and former covert operative Sam Pearson, stumbles upon the scheme and attempts to make sense of the events and the insistent nagging of his professional intuition. Wendy Corman, a U.S. senator’s aide, joins the pursuit. http://stores.lulu.com/sleighfarmpub RENEE E. WARREN ’87 and Kirsten Poe Hill (lead author), You Buy the Peanut Butter, I’ll Get the Bread: The Absolutely True Adventures of Best Friends in Business, Penguin Group. Part inspiring business story and part tales of a friendship, the book shares the lessons two best friends learned in making their business dreams come true, while having fun along the way. Hill and Warren are the co-founders of Noelle-Elaine Media Inc., a New York City-based event management, media relations and production firm with many notable corporate, nonprofit and celebrity clients. The authors give aspiring small-business starters the real deal on what it takes to succeed and endure, both professionally and personally. www.penguin.com Calling All Authors |