Vanderbilt Magazine

Recent Books by Alumni 2023

Spring/Summer 2023

 

Book cover of Edward Lorenz and the Chaotic Butterflies by Robert Black, BE'86, dark blue background with a green, expanding butterfly outlinedEdward Lorenz and the Chaotic Butterflies (Royal Fireworks Press, 2022) and Benoit Mandelbrot: Reshaping the World (Royal Fireworks Press, 2021) by Robert Black, BE’86

A Time Past, Or What Might Have Been . . . The Odyssey of Norman Lane (indpendently published, 2023) by Al Claiborne, BA’74

Food Fight (Fitzroy Books/Regal House, 2023) by Linda Bennett Davis, BS’87, MS’90 

Team Bangkok: Hearts on Ice (Tuk Tuk Books, 2022) by Ira Denton, BA’61

Douglas Battery: A Family Legacy (Library Partners Press of Wake Forest University, 2021) by Marty Edwards, MBA’82, with Tom Douglas

McMinnville (MindStir Media, 2022) by Ken Gause, BA’82, under the pseudonym Derrick McCartney 

Where is God’s Hand (independently published, 2022) by James M. Geeslin, BA’61

Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject (Duke University Press, 2022) by Biko Mandela Gray, MTS’10

UNSUNShark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck, MEd'21, book cover on green background with a shark made from yellow, red, white and orange flowersG: Quiet Voices of the US Navy’s EOD Warriors and Their Families (independently published, 2022) by Joseph E. Shaffer III and Paula Kapp Greene, MEd’92, EdD’95

Raising the Bar (Chronicle Books, 2022) by Jacob Grier, BA’04, and Brett Adams

Climate Travels: How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates Action (Columbia University Press, 2023) by Mike Gunter, BA’91

Shark Heart: A Love Story (Simon & Schuster, 2023) by Emily Habeck, MEd’21

America’s Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant, from Farm Boy to Shiloh (Southern Illinois University Press, 2022) by Jack Hurst, BA’64

Now and Then Here and Now: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press/Syracuse University Press, 2022) by Greg Miller, BA’79

Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters (Manchester University Press, 2022) edited by Greg Miller, BA’79, and Anne-Marie Miller-BlaiseThe Last Ride by Martha Smith Tate, BA'67, book cover with old, grainy black and white photo of the person murdered with bright red lettering of the title

Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership (Duke University Press, 2023) by Monique Moultrie, MA’07, PhD’10

Sojourn on the Veld (independently published, 2022) by Bill Norton, EMBA’99

The Hidden Secrets of the Master’s Mind: How You Can Live with God’s Time (Create and Write Publishing, 2023) by Apelu Po’e, MA’92, PhD’99

The Last Ride: Murder, Money, and the Sensational Trial that Captivated Nashville (independently published, 2022) by Martha Smith Tate, BA’67

100 Days Smart (Elva Resa, 2023) by Karin Walwork Tramm, MEd’86

The Persuasion Business: How Public Relations Really Works (Dawning Press, 2023) by Robert Wynne, BS’84