Shih Tzu owner Jonathan Agronsky ’68 shares stories and photographs of the dogs and the people who love them—proving that our interactions with pets reveal a lot—in Shih Tzu Nation: America Falls for the Lion Dog (Buddha Dog Books).

In the interrelated stories of Goat Game: Thirteen Tales from the Afghan Frontier (CreateSpace), career soldier Wick Walker ’68 captures slices of life—and death—across two decades of al Qaeda evolution in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Former Tracks lead singer Peter Wonson ’68 tells the story of the people and rock bands of the Upper Valley who helped make American music history from 1966 to 1975 in Old Times, Good Times: A Rock and Roll Story (Infinity Publishing).

Gettysburg College English professor Robert Garnett ’69 reveals Charles Dickens’ three great loves and how his passion for these women shaped his novels in Charles Dickens in Love (Pegasus).

Soup-kitchen founder Howard Reiss ’73 tells the story of a woman who opens a soup restaurant in a New England college town and the ensuing relationships with the quirky members of its community in his novel, The Year of Soup (Krance Publishing).

Ephraim Radner ’78, a professor of historical theology at the University of Toronto, rethinks the doctrine of the Christian church in light of its morally suspect history in A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church (Baylor University Press).

Architect-turned-journalist and Tokyo resident Naomi Pollock ’81 celebrates the clever and beautifully crafted objects of Japan’s recent design achievements in  Made In Japan: 100 New Products (Merrell Publishers).

Essayist and activist Nancy Kricorian ’82 tells the story of the Nazi occupation of Paris and its impact on an Armenian immigrant family in All the Light There Was (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).