Retired ambassador to Somalia Peter Bridges ’53 tells the story of a once-famous diplomat, Union officer and Washington, D.C., editor in his latest book, Donn Piatt: Gadfly of the Gilded Age (Kent State University Press).

Rutgers University creative writing professor Michael Leong ’00 deconstructs and blends the disparate components of a T.S. Eliot essay, Wikipedia articles about the chemical elements, and the periodic table to create a book-length poem, Cutting Time with a Knife (Black Square Editions).

Behavioral consultant Dr. Richard Sanders ’59 gives individuals the tools to take control of their eating habits and provides a source of reference for dietitians and behavioral health professionals in Control Your Eating: A Behaviourist Speaks (Railroad Street Press).

David Godschalk ’53, a city and regional planning professor emeritus at UNC Chapel Hill, describes the challenges of addressing historic preservation, green building practices and long-term development in the creation and implementation of a master plan for UNC’s campus as coauthor of The Dynamic Decade: Creating the Sustainable Campus for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001-2011 (University of North Carolina Press).

Gardening author Henry Homeyer ’68 shares the adventure of a young outcast born with a mustache and the ability to talk to animals in Wobar and the Quest for the Magic Camulet (Bunker Hill Publishing).

Christopher Blake ’94 tells his story of overcoming a difficult childhood as the son of a black radical and an Irish schizophrenic. A governmental conspiracy during the 2004 presidential election then forces him to confront the country’s racial and political history in Blue Eye Soul: A Memoir of Politics, Race and Inheritance (Amazon).

Paul Griffin ’88 follows a high school hacker who endangers himself trying to solve the mystery plaguing the most beautiful girl in his high school in a soulful tale about the meaning—and dangers—of love and beauty in his fourth novel, Burning Blue (Dial).

Seasoned Nordic ski coach and guide Scott McGee ’88 shares his technical and practical expertise with beginners, experts and coaches alike in Basic Illustrated Cross-Country Skiing (FalconGuides).

Rick Shefchik ’74 examines the development of golf in Minnesota club by club, beginning with St. Paul’s Town & Country Club, which introduced golf to Minnesota in 1893, in From Fields to Fairways: Classic Golf Clubs of Minnesota (University of Minnesota Press).

Massachusetts Institute of Technology assistant professor of literature Sandy Alexandre ’97 investigates American cultural representations of lynching through photographs, poetry and fiction and the effects of those representations in The Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching (University Press of Mississippi).

Pennsylvania State University assistant education policy professor Erica Frankenberg ’01 demonstrates the importance of suburban schools and communities’ responses to demographic changes to the future of race relations in America as coauthor of The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American Education (Harvard Education Press).

In his fourth installment of the award-winning Carter Ross series, former Washington Post reporter Brad Parks ’96 follows an investigative journalist’s quest for answers about the mysterious death of a Newark policeman in The Good Cop (Minotaur Books).