Marblehead, Massachusetts, lobsterman Hugh Bishop ’59 narrates the changing tides of First Harbor history, from the golden age of fishing to the industry’s decline, as coauthor (with his sister) of Marblehead’s First Harbor: The Rich History of a Small Fishing Port (History Press).

Jacqueline Francis ’85, a senior lecturer at the California College of the Arts, explores the discourse of “racial art” within early American modernism through a juxtaposition of three New York City artists in Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America (University of Washington Press).

Award-winning novelist and poet Victoria Redel ’80 celebrates midlife and examines the human necessity for love and desire for pleasure in her latest poetry collection, Woman Without Umbrella (Four Way Books).

Dartmouth visiting professor of economics Charles Wheelan ’88 makes the field of statistics accessible, breaking it down to its most intuitive concepts in Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data (W.W. Norton).

ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper ’91 pens an eye-opening account of the devastating sacrifices made during one of America’s deadliest battles in Afghanistan in The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor (Little, Brown and Co.).

University of Florida Cuban and Caribbean history professor Lillian Guerra ’92 contends that Castro’s propaganda during the Cuban Revolution explained the tumultuous time and encouraged radical change in Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971 (University of North Carolina Press).

Dartmouth senior associate admissions director Becky Munsterer, Adv’05, reinvents the Christmas story as a modern girl joins her grandmother’s best friend, Mrs. Claus, on a magical adventure to the North Pole in Mrs. Claus and the School of Christmas Spirit (In This Together Media, co-founded by Carey Albertine, Tu’05).