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FictionThe Cradle by Patrick Somerville, MFA ’05(Little, Brown). In his first novel,Somerville weaves together two storylines: in 1997, pregnant Marissa sendsher husband, Matt, to search around theMidwest for a missing family heirloom,the cradle she used as a child; and in2008, on the eve of her son Adam’sdeparture for Iraq, Renee feels compelledto reveal a secret from her past.

Where It Lies by K. J. Egan ’74 (Mino-taur). Golf pro Jenny Chase investigatesan apparent suicide that turns out to bemurder. First novelist Egan is the winnerof the Washington Irving Book Award forFiction and a finalist in the New York LawJournal Fiction Contest.

The Baseball Card Kid by Adam Osterweil’94 (Front Street Books). In the sequel toThe Comic Book Kid, two boys journeyback in time to find the rarest baseballcard—the Honus Wagner tobacco card,first issued in 1909. Their adventurestake them from the Titanic to Transylva-nia and the mysterious planet Earth 2.

How To Buy A Love of Reading by TanyaEgan Gibson ’89 (Dutton). Thirteen-year-old Carley Wells hates words. Her parentstake drastic measures and move novelistBree McEnroy into their Long Island man-sion to write a book that Carley will haveto love.

PoetryThe Second Night of the Spirit byBhisham Bherwani ’90 (CavanKerry).Bherwani grapples with the themes ofself-identity, grief, and guilt, and theirinterplay with migration and politics inhis debut collection. Taking his title fromthe work of St. John of the Cross, Bher-wani brings light to personal tragedy.

Dusk at St. Mark’s and Other Poems byDylan Willoughby ’92, MFA ’95 (ChesterCreek). A limited, illustrated edition by awriter-in-residence at the Yaddo artists’colony.

Non-FictionRethinking Rights edited by Bruce P.Frohnen, PhD ’88, and Kenneth L. Grasso(Missouri). The editor of the Political Sci-ence Reviewer and a professor of politicalscience at Texas State University arguefor a reconsideration of the origins,nature, and role of rights in public life.

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