EDEN’S CLOCK
by Norman Lock C’72 (Bellevue Literary Press, 2025, $17.99.) In this 12th and final stand-alone book in Lock’s series of historical novels, a disabled Civil War veteran makes an epic, westward journey toward a fateful encounter with author Jack London, only hours before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It calls into question the American belief in individualism to shape our destiny when confronted with irrepressible, chaotic forces. Buy this book
REINVENTING PROTESTANT GERMANY: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for
Post-Nazi Democracy by Brandon Bloch C’11 (Harvard University Press, 2025, $49.95.) A history professor who focuses on the politics of memory provides a revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after World War II, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism. Buy this book
THE SOCIETY by Karen Winn Nu’00 (Penguin Random House, 2026, $19.00.) This twisty, suspenseful novel follows two women whose lives become tangled with a notorious secret society in the heart of Boston. While some believe it is merely an elite social club, others are convinced it hides something more sinister. Buy this book
THE COMPOSER EMBALMED: Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch by Abigail Fine C’10 (University of Chicago Press, 2025, $35.00.) A professor of musicology documents the eccentric ways that composers have been remembered—from relics to rituals to pilgrimage, and even exhumation and embalming—during the 19th century when composers’ devotees longed for a way to preserve, touch, and embrace the residues of their dead icons. Buy this book
ANNA GAUL: Unnameable translated by AKaiser C’88 (Zephyr Press, 2025, $17.00.) A Pushcart Prize–nominated poet herself, AKaiser translates selected poems by prize-winning Catalan poet Anna Gaul, for the first time in English. The book is bilingual in both English and Catalan on facing pages. Buy this book
BREAKING THE BARRIER: A Woman Veterinarian Paves the Way by Linda Rhodes V’78 (University of Nevada Press, 2026, $26.95.) In the 1970s, veterinary medicine, and specifically large-animal veterinary medicine, was dominated by men. Although the field has been feminized in the last 50 years, there continues to be a bias against women in large-animal veterinary medicine. A large-animal vet shares her story. Buy this book
THE PURSUIT OF HOME: A Real Estate Guide to Achieving the American Dream by Scott Harris C’96 (Matt Holt Books, 2025, $30.00.) A real estate veteran demystifies the home-buying process, providing unconventional and overlooked keys to success centered on self-awareness and vision-building for potential homebuyers. Buy this book
THE SPLIT by Ellis Weiner C’72 and Steve Radlauer (Exasperated Media, 2025, $15.00.) In this satire, the US has peacefully divided into two countries: former red states make up the Confederation of Conservative States of America (CCSA); and former blue states comprise the USA. Fifteen years after the split, a 20-something bartender finds herself pregnant and on the lam from CCSA authorities who want to place her in a government breeding center followed by forced marriage. Buy this book
YOUR AI LIFE: Foresight, Insight, and Advice to Help You Start Building Your AI-Powered Life Today by Scott A. Snyder EAS’87 GEng’90 Gr’94 (faculty) (Self-published, 2025, $19.99.) This guide aims to bridge the gap between the “tech elite” and the average person with practical AI tips for people at every stage of life, including students, parents, teachers, young professionals, and aging retirees. Buy this book
FORGING EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT LEADERS IN THE AGE OF AI: The Blueprint for Unlocking Human Potential in the Future of Work by Mikah Sellers WAM’16 GrEd’24 (Jetlaunch, 2025, $19.99.) Drawing on original research and immersive fieldwork with senior executives, Sellers contends that emotional intelligence is the defining human advantage in an AI-driven world, and offers a new blueprint for leadership development rooted in neuroscience and adult learning theory, with insights from hundreds of hours of interviews with C-suite leaders. Buy this book
NETHER LAND: A Story of High School Temptation, Insurance Haze, Stolen Resolution, and Murder by Kem Hinton GAr’81 (Tenebo Publishing, 2025, $17.95.) Ed Netherland, a highly successful businessman, was murdered in the Virgin Islands in 2014. His murder was never solved. Told by his high school classmate, this true crime memoir provides a split-screen narrative of two men from the same town with the same background going on to lead vastly different lives. Buy this book
A SLUMLESS AMERICA: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing by Betty Boyd Caroli ASC’61 (Oxford University Press, 2026, $34.99.) This biography tracks the life and accomplishments of Mary K. Simkhovitch, a trailblazing advocate for public housing and urban reform who played a central role in designing and administering the first public housing projects in America during the New Deal. Buy this book
