Books by Alums
Joe Skelton has never written anything longer than a shopping list, but now his brain tumor is making him write a novel. It's a baseball novel about a crippled janitor who cleans up at a forgotten minor league field, and who is accidentally discovered to be a perfect never-misses hitter.
A pioneer woman educator in the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century academia, Mary Rippon was the first female professor at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado and is believed to have been the first woman in the United States to teach at a state university
Learn to walk in two worlds: the Western world and your inner Indigenous cosmos.
My Father is the Gardener digs into the plants, gardening, and landscapes of
the Bible, unearthing inspiration in the routine ways of caring for plants
and keeping a garden.
A band of swashbuckling pie-rats has only one goal: to find dessert! Whether it’s banana cream, lemon meringue, apple, or cherry, these ravenous rodents will battle storms and scallywags to find the best pie. But will their adventures reveal that there is more than one way to satisfy a sweet tooth? With rollicking rhyme and lively illustrations, Pie-Rats is a hunger-inducing read-aloud that will have readers begging for another helping.
The first and only book-length treatment on microaggressions in medical contexts.
This book shows that much of what scholarship depicts about media systems of developing nations is wrong. In reality, the ebb-and-flow of political change, democratization and backsliding calls for more historically informed views of media systems that do not fit into the confines of existing theories.
Learn to cope with grief, job loss, and single parenting as you walk in the footsteps of a widower.
From Mountains to Medicine is the story of Erica Elliott's magical, mind-bending, and heart-opening journey of self-discovery in search of her life's purpose.
Yuki is the daughter of a poor fisherman. Kiyo is the son of a senior executive at Chisso, a huge chemical conglomerate. In 1956, they meet and become friends, then gradually fall in love. But then all living things in the once beautiful Minamata Bay suddenly die. The impoverished people living around it begin suffering from a terrifying disease that causes agonizing pain, paralysis, and death . . . including Yuki’s family.