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Recent Books By Alumni BAINEY CYRUS (M.S.Ed. ’04), EILEEN KATZ and CELEST CHEYNEY, and FRANCES M. PARSONS, Deaf Women’s Lives: Three Self-Portraits, Gallaudet University Press. In this third volume of the “Deaf Lives” series, three deaf women with widely varying stories share their experiences in a unique collection, revealing not only the vast differences in the circumstances of their lives, but also the striking similarities. In Bainy Cyrus’s “All Eyes,” she vividly describes her life as a young child who was taught using the oral method at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Mass. Her account of the methods used animates the extraordinary amount of work performed by deaf children to learn to read and speak. She also relates the importance of her lifelong friendships with two girls she met at Clarke, and how the different paths they took influenced her as an adult. The Writers Notes Book Awards lists Deaf Women’s Lives as a 2006 Notable Book in the Health/Self-Help category. gupress.gallaudet.edu KEVIN J. DERROW ’87, The Mad Sailor of the North Atlantic. This is the third edition of a self-published book of poetry, short stories and pictures, which also includes the author’s eighth double CD of music. “This manuscript began in the summer of 1969 as I looked at the world around me and attempted to explain it to myself. It ended in the winter of 1989, not because I figured it all out, but because the Mad Sailor just quit writing,” says Derrow, a Navy veteran. A songwriter and singer, he is known as “The Dutchman.” 4611 S. Hanna St., Fort Wayne, IN 46806 WILLIAM A. FOX (M.U.S. ’79), Chesapeake Sailing Craft, Tidewater Publishers. Fox is the editor of this volume, written by his longtime friend and mentor, Robert H. Burgess. It is an expanded edition of Burgess’s original book, published in 1975, and features the author’s photographs and recollections. Fox is author of the 1986 book, “Always Good Ships,” a comprehensive history of all the ships built at the Newport News shipyard since its founding in 1886. www.cmptp.com JAMES GIBSON (M.B.A. ’74), Anasazi Triumph, Pentacles Press. This is the fifth and concluding novel in the Anasazi Princess series, which reflects the author’s love of the Old West and his fascination with Native American shamanism and sorcery. Here, the Indian princess Shanni and her lover, Caleb Stone, reach the forbidding land of the Yucatan in search of the ancestral homeland of the Huastecs. But what they find are desolation and the descendants of the once-proud Maya living as serfs on the plantations of the Spanish conquerors. At last, Shanni is able to decipher the code of the Temple of Inscriptions and learn the terrible secret of the Maya that has been hidden for a thousand years. But the forces of darkness gather round her and Caleb, and only their knowledge of the ancient arts of shamanism and sorcery can save them from certain death. www.pentaclespress.com CHIVONNE JACOBS ’99, Dedications, Author House. This book of poetry, with its themes of praise, worship, peace and love, is designed to offer readers hope and encouragement. The author writes, “This book is dedicated to my savior (Jesus Christ), my family and those who have ministered to me and helped me along life’s tedious journey.” www.authorhouse.com KATHY STEVENS ’80 and MICHAEL GURIAN (lead author), The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life, Jossey-Bass. Boys receive up to 70 percent of the D’s and F’s given all students in the United States; they create 90 percent of all classroom discipline problems; 80 percent of all high school dropouts are male; and young men currently make up just over 40 percent of the college population. Is there a crisis with our boys? Or is there a crisis with an educational system that is having difficulty teaching them? In their book, Gurian, who has devoted the last 20 years to examining the issues related to children and education, and educator Kathy Stevens reveal the reasons boys today are having more difficulty learning than girls, and offer proven strategies for parents and educators in order to help them better teach and empower young males. They draw on social philosophy, neurobiology, case studies and their own experiences in the field to explore how boys’ brains develop, function and learn. www.josseybass.com HAL WIGGINS ’86, Virginia Native Plants, Black Cat Press, King George. Wiggins dedicates his book to Lytton Musselman, ODU professor of biology, who taught him botany during his student days. The author is a biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Fredericksburg field office, and his book reflects the time he has spent in area fields, forests and wetlands. It features his own photos and basic information about plant biology and taxonomy, and focuses on dominant flowering plants in the Freder-icksburg area – everything from skunk cabbage and bloodroot to passionflower and pink lady’s slipper. www.lulu.com
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