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Recent Books By Alumni PATRICIA BROWN-GLOVER ’82, Laugh Aloud and Keep Moving: Lessons Learned While Moving Beyond Cancer & Congestive Heart Failure, Drinking Gourd Press. As the publisher suggests, the book is “a quick read, just like a phone conversation with a friend.” A story of triumph, faith and inspiration, it relates the true story of the author’s battle for survival, her willingness to learn life’s lessons, her victory over leukemia and her struggle to overcome congestive heart failure. Info@NAWPublishing.com EUREKA F. COLLINS ’00, Strong Winds Change Lives, Xulon Press. A true story of faith, triumph and healing, the book invites readers to take an inward look and recognize who they are in times of tragedy and the trials of life. It begins with the author’s personal story of a family torn apart by the death of a child on the same day when her Navy husband receives word that he will be departing for Iraq within a week, and how they make sense of the tragedy through their faith. www.xulonpress.com ROD L. EVANS ’78, The Gilded Tongue: Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things, Writer’s Digest Books. As noted on its cover, “With The Gilded Tongue, you’ll never have to settle for plain, simple expression again.” Indeed, this unique dictionary contains more than 500 entries “guaranteed to make an indelible impression on your friends, coworkers and family.” Whether or not you’re a logomaniac (one obsessed with words), this esoteric collection of English words should prove entertaining; it even might make you cachinnate (laugh loudly) as you turn the pages. Included is a reverse dictionary where the reader can find a word by looking at its definition. Who knew, for example, there was actually a word for pulling an all-nighter (pernoctation)! www.writersdigest.com LINDA MINTLE (Ph.D. ’95), Making Peace with Your Thighs: Get Off the Scales and Get On with Your Life, Integrity Publishers. In this, her 13th book, the author challenges women to defy societal myths, boldly alter their own attitudes, change the culture and ultimately embrace their bodies. A licensed clinical social worker, Mintle draws on more than 20 years of counseling experience and specializing in food, weight and body image. Acting as author and personal coach, she questions readers’ motivations, obsessions and reasons behind their constant need to improve their looks. She then gets to the true root of their body dissatisfaction, and gently leads the way toward acceptance and improved self-confidence and esteem. www.integritypublishers.com RALPH E. RODRIGUEZ ’92, Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity, University of Texas Press. In his book, the first comprehensive study of Chicano/a detective fiction, Rodriguez examines the recent contributions to the genre. Their works reveal the struggles of Chicanas/os with feminism, homosexuality, familia, masculinity, mysticism, the nationalist subject and U.S.-Mexico border relations. Rodriguez, associate professor of American civilization and ethnic studies at Brown University, maintains that the novels register crucial new discourses of identity, politics and cultural citizenship that cannot be understood apart from the historical instability following the demise of the nationalist politics of the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s. One reviewer notes, “In Rodriguez, the Chicano/a whodunits have found a master interpreter.” www.utexaspress.com TONY RUGGIERO (M.A. ’04), Alien Deception, Dragon Moon Press. Promoted as a “classic space opera with a Stanley Kubrick twist,” nothing is as it appears in Ruggiero’s new book. The United Council for Developing Worlds, an alien conglomeration of civilized planets, wants to help the Earth move forward into space – or at least that is what the plan appears to be. The alien organization leader, Copolla, has decided the time is right to install two delegates from Earth onto the council and to infiltrate the American political system to effect change. Yet, his leading initial contact agent Leumas senses something is wrong – that the Earth is not yet ready to be part of the prestigious organization. Leumas soon discovers that the two humans are not what they appear to be and that Copolla has something else in mind for the future of the planet Earth. www.dragonmoonpress.com By Our Faculty Alexander Godunov, physics, and Andi Klein (lead author), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Introductory Computational Physics, Cambridge University Press Sheri Reynolds, English, The Firefly Cloak, Shaye Areheart Books
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