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Bookmarks

Bookmarks includes new works by UMass Amherst alumni and faculty authors. To have your book or audio recording listed, contact us.

MURDER AT FORT REVERE
Frank Infusino ’64
First Edition Design Publishing

In this crime novel, a California homicide detective returns to his hometown of Hull, Massachusetts, to escape his personal demons, only to find himself embroiled in a complex plot involving human trafficking and the murder of a priest.


THE SPIRITUAL TEEN: AWAKENING TO THE REAL YOU
Angela Jamal ’78
Balboa Press

The text offers mindfulness-based, spiritual habits for improving life, custom-tailored for teenagers.


THE JOURNEY: AN EGYPTIAN WOMAN STUDENT’S MEMOIRS OF AMERICA
Radha Ashour ’75 PhD
Interlink Books

Celebrated Egyptian feminist and activist Radha Ashour chronicles her culture shock and insights about the United States during the years of earning her doctorate in the brand-new Department of Afro-American Studies in the mid-1970s. Ashour passed away in 2014.


HOCKEY: A GLOBAL HISTORY
Stephen Hardy ’75G, ’78G, ’80 PhD
University of Illinois Press

Long considered Canadian, ice hockey has become a worldwide phenomenon. In this monumental global history of the sport, Stephen Hardy and his co-author Andrew C. Holman trace the modern game from its birthplace in Montreal, through Europe, and across the breadth of Asia.


ST. GEORGE’S GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB 1917-2017: DEVEREUX EMMET’S LONG ISLAND LEGACY
Bradley S. Klein ’84 PhD
Independent Publisher

Bradley S. Klein, an authority on golf course architecture, profiles a historic course on Long Island’s North Shore.


THE MEDIA NARRATIVE
Rob Hochschild ’86
Podcast

Rob Hochschild’s podcast features interviews with authors, journalists, musicians, artists, and other creators of modern media.


A ROCK-SOLID HISTORY OF HAWTHORNE, NEW JERSEY
Veronica MacDonald Ditko ’99
Ronnie Monnie Moonie Press

Children learn best through tangible objects, so in this local history geared to school-age readers, Veronica Ditko creates a history of a small town in New Jersey based on its rocks, from prehistoric times to the present day.


FADING OUT BLACK AND WHITE: RACIAL AMBIGUITY IN AMERICAN CULTURE
Lisa Simone Kingstone ’99 PhD
Rowman & Littlefield International

The author examines the possibilities of what will happen in the United States, a country built on strict delineations of race polarity, as “white” ceases to be a majority and the boundaries of race disintegrate in an increasingly multiethnic, transracial climate.


LITTLE PRAYERS
Susie Meserve ’01 MFA
Blue Light Press

In this collection, Susie Meserve’s poems explore subjects through points of view such as a ballpark, a lake, a New England glacial valley, the Dakotas, the produce section of a supermarket, and the planet Mars.


ANAPHORA
Kevin Goodan ’04 MFA
Alice James Books

After Kevin Goodan’s cousin Jimmy, a member of the Flathead Indian tribe, committed suicide by hanging, his family stopped speaking of him. In this collection, Goodan’s poems are an elegy exploring the death of his cousin.


REAL FOOD FOR PREGNANCY: THE SCIENCE AND WISDOM OF OPTIMAL PRENATAL NUTRITION
Lily Nichols ’08
Self-published

With the authority of a textbook, this evidence-based look at prenatal nutrition guidelines draws from scientific and traditional sources to outline current nutritional issues for readers and advocate a diet that will optimize maternal and fetal health.


SORORITY
Genevieve Sly Crane ’10
Simon and Schuster

Female friendships can be complex and fraught with pain and contradiction, especially during a crucial turning point of life like college, as is dramatized in this multiple-perspective novel that looks into the exclusive world of Greek life inside a sorority house.


THE RIGHT THING TO DO AT THE TIME
Dov Zeller ’12 MFA
Tiny Golem Press

A comedy of manners that traces the fortunes and misfortunes in love of Ari Wexler, a Jewish trans violinist living in New York City.


SUBJECTIVE GEOGRAPHY: A POET’S THOUGHTS ON LIFE AND CRAFT
Madeline DeFrees, former MFA Faculty
Lynx House Press

This collection of critical and philosophical essays by poet Madeline DeFrees, who taught in the Poets & Writers MFA program from 1979 through 1985, spans topics of prayer, the practice of writing, and John Berryman’s ghost, among other insightful and deep reveries. DeFrees passed away in 2015.


T.T. MANN, ACE DETECTIVE
Gerald McFarland, Professor of History Emeritus
Levellers Press

A fanciful detective yarn set in 1955 San Francisco follows the exploits of a private investigator who although six feet tall, weighs in at only 22 pounds.


FROM ZERO TO SIXTY… AND THEN SOME
David Schuman, Professor of Education Emeritus
Mindstir Media

David Schuman’s collection of essays on various topics serves the purpose of an intellectual memoir.


THE FLAGRANT JOYS OF SOLO TRAVEL
Laura Marjorie Miller, UMass Magazine staff
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing

Through her solo jaunts in the Americas and Europe, the writer heals herself from a toxic relationship and reestablishes her relationship with nature.