LOVE AND LOSS AFTER WOUNDED KNEE: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage by Julie Dobrow ASC’84 Gr’87 (NYU Press, 2025, $35.00.) This dual biography of Elaine Goodale and Ohíye’Sa (a Dakota Sioux from Minnesota, also known as Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman) explores their individual lives as well as their highly publicized interracial marriage in the late 19th century.
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THE LAST GASP OF WILLIAM SCHWARZFELLER: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin’s Gulags by Peter Feller C’60 (Bloomsbury, 2025, $35.00.) Feller’s father disappeared in Moscow in 1938, when Feller was just six months old. As a young boy he asked his mother about him, but got no answers. Decades later, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Feller went searching for the truth. What he discovered is anything but what he expected.
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LETTING GO: Parenting Teens and Young Adults in a Time of Uncertainty by Demie Kurz (staff) (Oxford University Press, 2024, $99.00.) Based on interviews with a diverse group of mothers, Kurz, former codirector of Penn’s women’s studies program, details the negotiations parents make with their adolescent children over trust, control, and letting go, and the ways social policy can help young people succeed.
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GEOGRAPHIES OF THE EAR: The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona by Tania Gentic G’02 Gr’07 (Duke University Press, 2025, $31.95.) A professor of Spanish and Portuguese examines the language and soundscape of post-Franco Barcelona to listen for the remnants of a globalized colonial ear.
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REMISSION QUEST: A Medical Sociologist Navigates Cancer by Virginia Adams O’Connell G’91 Gr’01 (Temple University Press, 2025, $29.95.) As a medical sociologist, O’Connell long studied the healthcare system, but when she confronted her own diagnosis with primary bone lymphoma, the reality of living with cancer changed her perspective on what she had studied.
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5-MINUTE WRITING PROMPTS FOR KIDS: Fun Story Starters and Questions to Unleash Your Creativity by Chevahn Brown C’13 (Z Kids, 2025, $12.99.) This collection is designed to spark children’s imaginations and hone their creative writing skills, five minutes at a time. From fantastical quests to robot pets, each prompt invites new ideas and boundless creativity.
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LEAD BABIES AND POISONED HOUSING: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental Failure by Carolyn Rosen Boiarsky CW’63 (Purdue University Press, 2024, $32.99.) Over 70 million people live within three miles of a Superfund site. Drawing on historical sources and present-day interviews, an investigative reporter details the human side of what happens when the industries responsible for polluting leave, but the residents remain.
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THE TEACHER IN THE MACHINE: A Human History of Education Technology by Anne Trumbore GrEd’20 (Princeton University Press, 2025, $29.95.) The former director of Wharton Online unveils the surprising history of education technology and its political, financial, and social impact on higher education and our world, from AI tutors to free online courses.
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THE PESSIMIST’S SON: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope by Martin Kimel C’82 and Alexander Kimel (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025, $19.00.) Written with Martin’s late father, Alexander Kimel, this book is a rare portrayal of Jewish Holocaust survivors who remained in Communist Poland after the war. It is a story of the many challenges Martin’s parents faced and the life they built together upon leaving Poland in 1956 for Israel, before ultimately emigrating to America.
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BECOMING THE EXPERIENCE MAKER: Turn Everyday Interactions into Remarkable Customer Experiences (second edition) by Dan Gingiss C’96 (Morgan James Publishing, 2025, $19.95.) Gingiss introduces his framework for creating memorable customer experiences that spread through word-of-mouth. He teaches that when your customers are your biggest advocates, business growth becomes sustainable.
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OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Survival in Nazi-Occupied France and Making a Life in America by Michel Jeruchim GEE’63 GrE’67 (Tree of Life Books, 2024, $24.95.) In this memoir, Jeruchim recounts how he survived World War II by hiding with a French Catholic family in Normandy, France, when he was just five years old, immigrated to America with his siblings, and decades later discovered that his parents did not survive.
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