Anders Halverson ’91, a journalist and research associate at the University of Colorado’s Center of the American West, chronicles the discovery of rainbow trout and their subsequent introduction around the world in An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World (Yale University Press).

Anthropologist Ann Armbrecht ’84, who made several trips to northeastern Nepal to research how local villagers acquired, farmed and held on to their land, charts her travels and offers a meditation on what it means to move between cultures in Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home (Columbia University Press), which earned a 2009 Gold Nautilus Award for books that will change the world.

Stephen Waterhouse ’65, Tu’67, has compiled stories by alumni of Dartmouth’s leadership role in the development of skiing during the past 100 years in Passion for Skiing (self published).

Lang Davison ’83, the executive director of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, highlights the importance of drawing together people and resources to address economic opportunities and challenges as co-author of The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion (Basic Books).

Tracy (Masonis) Trivas ’93 entertains middle school readers with ancient alchemy, curses and a visit from Macbeth’s witches in her debut fantasy novel, The Wish Stealers (Simon & Schuster).

Playwright Stefan Lanfer ’97 shares his journeys into fatherhood in The Faith of a Child & Other Stories of Becoming and Being Dad (Lulu.com).

James A. Feinstein ’01, a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, uses essays to illustrate the universal life lessons his first patients teach him in Short White Coat: Lessons from Patients on Becoming a Doctor (iUniverse Star).