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Bookmarks
Bookmarks is a compilation of recently published books by alumni. faculty, staff, and others with a University of Minnesota connection.

CURRENT BOOKS (for older books click on the links at right)




Eternity's Missing Children
By Ryan S. Praefke ('00)

Fiction


Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright Criticism
By Lucas Hilderbrand (B.A.)

Criticism



Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
By Negar Mottahedeh (Ph.D. '98)

Gender Studies


This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk
9780520257177By Steve Waksman (Ph.D. '98)

History


Stories from Ecuador: A Collection by Tyrel Nelson
51XtXNzB75L._SS500_By Tyrel Nelson (B.A. '03)

Travel, South America

Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization
Tadiar_coverBy Neferti X. M. Tadiar (M.A. '91)

Literary Criticism

Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History
51OurCR8jdL._SS500_By Rebecca N. Hill (Ph.D '00)

History

Historic Photos of Minnesota
MN_Cover_alumni_4By Susan Marks (B.A. '96, M.A. '01)

History

The Grass
stevecoverBy Paul Zerby (B.A. '53)

Literary fiction

It's Uphill Most of the Way Down
Lane_Cover2[1]By Dr. Barry Lawrence Lane (M.A. '81)

Biography



More than a Farmer's Wife: Voices of American Farm Women, 1910-1960
Lauters2By Amy Mattson Lauters (B.A. '94, M.A. '01)

American History

Minnesotans in Baseball
baseball_cover_3[1]_4Edited by Stew Thornley (BSB '81)

Sports

The Rebel Princess
RebelPrincess_hc_c_4By Judith Koll Healey (B.A. '61, B.S. '68)

Historical Fiction



Human Side of Globalization
Cover_Final_FrontBy Dr. Patrick Mendis (Ph.D. '89)

Economics, Political Science

Johnny McGovern: The "Little Giant" of Minnesota
McGovern_Book_Cover_2By Don Osell

Sports

Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously
Absinthe_and_FlamethrowersBy William Gurstelle (MBA '84)

Science

Tennis in the Northland: A History of Boys' High School Tennis in Minnesota
1665By James Holden (M.A. '72)

Non-fiction, Sports History

A Long Shout: Selected Writings of Clarence Jonk
jonkEdited by Doug Wilhide (Former Journalism Professor)

Anthology

The Triumphant Voyage
09-Triumphant_Cover-hiBy Jay Miskowiec (B.A. '81)

Fiction


Flying from the Black Hole: The B-52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam
9781591143598By Robert O. Harder (B.A. '66)

Non-fiction, Military

The Scent of Sake
scentofsake_pb_cBy Joyce Lebra (B.A., M.A., Honorary Doctorate '96)

Historical Fiction

Closing the Poverty & Culture Gap: Strategies to Reach Every Student
Closing_the_PovertyGapBy Sandra K. Darling (Ph.D. '90) and Donna Walker Tileston

Diversity

Teaching Strategies That Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests
Teaching_StrategiesBy Sandra K. Darling (Ph.D. '90)

Instruction and Assessment


Why Culture Counts: Teaching Children of Poverty
Why_Culture_CountsBy Sandra K. Darling (Ph.D. '90) and Donna Walker Tileston

TRADE for PEACE: How the DNA of America, Freemasonry, and Providence Created a New World Order with Nobody in Charge
iUniverse_Coverpage_FRONTBy Dr. Patrick Mendis (Ph.D. '89)

Writing to Recover: The Journey from Loss and Grief to a New Life
writingtorecoverBy Harriet Hodgson (M.A. '61)

Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980
Brown_Cover_SmallerBy Rebecca M. Brown (Ph.D. '99)

Few Are Chosen: A Campaign Memoir
1642By Douglas McFarland (Ph.D. '83)

Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides and Memory
vietnamBy Scott Laderman (Ph.D. '05)

We Hug in the Hallways Here
We_Hug_in_the_Hallways_Here_FrontCoverBy Roger E. Wenschlag (B.S. '70, M.A. '77)

Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life
Tell-Me-Hampl-May_4Edited by Patricia Hampl (B.A. ’68) and Elaine Tyler May

Pemberley Manor... Darcy and Elizabeth, for Better or Worse
Pemberley_4By Kathryn L. Nelson (B.A. ’74)

It’s a Cat’s World... You Just Live in It
Cat_s-World_4By Justine Lee

Fried: Surviving Two Centuries in Restaurants
Fried-Lerach_4By Steve Lerach (B.A. ’96, M.L.S. ’07)

Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is at Odds with Economics—and Why It Matters
freemarket_4By Peter Ubel (M.D. ’88)

The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson, Mama’s Boy and Scholar
AnnunciationCov_4By Scott Muskin (M.F.A. ’98)

Sixty Years and Sixty Heroes: A Celebration of Minnesota Sports
Bernstein_4By Ross Bernstein (B.A. ’93)

Porthole Views of the World
Weber_4Watercolors by Hazel Thorson Stoick Stoeckeler
Poems by Elizabeth Weber

Hard Work and a Good Deal
Sommer_4By Barbara W. Sommer (M.A. ’81)

A Hard Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It
Kennedy-Breining_4By Greg Breining (B.A. ’88)
Photographs by Layne Kennedy (B.A. ’88)

The Basis of Belief: A Century of Drama and Debate at the University of Minnesota
S_Keillor_4By Steven J. Keillor (B.S. ’74,
B.A. ’74, M.A. ’88, Ph.D. ’92)


Willie Walleye: Underwater Adventures
willie walleye coverBy Ed Zottola (Ph.D. ’64)
Illustrated by Nancy Scheibe



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