Hannah Adams, CLA ’12
One Carry-On Item

For the majority of her twenties, Hannah studied, taught, and lived in India, Brazil, Guatemala, and Peru. The poems in this collection are inspired by these places, the people she met, and the things she learned while immersed in different cultures and learning new languages.

Tyler Bamford, CLA ’20
Forging the Anglo-American Alliance: The British and American Armies, 1917-1941

The joint British and US campaigns in the European theater of operations during World War II rank among the most impressive examples of coalition warfare in history. Tyler Bamford presents the first history of the two armies’ relations from 1917 to 1941.

Edward Belfar, CLA ’90
A Very Innocent Man

In the spirit of John Kennedy Toole and Chuck Palahniuk, A Very Innocent Man is a darkly comic novel that, as with all good satire, may not be so absurd after all.

Rob Bell, CPH ’03
I Can't Wait To Be Patient

We are designed to get from point A to point B as fast as possible. However, as a result, we can’t slow down and there is a sense of urgency towards everything. I Can’t Wait To Be Patient is a practical guide to overcome our challenges, stress, and expectations, through the power of time and the path of patience.

Jimmy Curran, FOX ’11
Will the One-Winged Eagle

Will the One-Winged Eagle is a children’s book created to teach kids self-acceptance, acceptance of people with disabilities and other differences, as well as persistence in the face of adversity. Written and illustrated by two guys with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, we hope readers join Will as he learns to conquer his limitations!

Laura Dabundo, CLA ’87
Jane Austen: A Companion

Written for readers at all levels, this book situates Jane Austen in her time, and for all times. It provides a biography; locates her work in the context of literary history and criticism; explores her fiction; and features an encyclopedic, readable resource on the people, places and things of relevance to Austen the person and writer.

Laura Dabundo, CLA ’87
When The Parallel Converge

When the Parallel Converge spans the author’s spiritual pilgrimage. The author learns lessons of life, loss, grief, faith, hope, charity, and grace, along with laughter and joy.

Abby E. Errico, TYL ‘23
Abby Shares Her Feelings

Abby Shares Her Feelings follows the story of a young girl discovering that she has anxiety. She learns what it means to share her feelings and even makes a friend along the way.

Harvey Finkle, FOX ‘58
Faces of Courage: Ten Years of Building Sanctuary

Faces of Courage: Ten Years of Building Sanctuary chronicles the first ten years of the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, a coalition of twenty-eight congregations, which builds community across religious, ethnic, and class lines to end injustices against all immigrants, documented or otherwise.

Lindsay Gary, CLA ’23
The New Red Book: A Guide to 50 of Houston's Black Historical and Cultural Sites

The New Red Book by highlights the history of Houston through the perspective of place - 50 cultural organizations and sites created and sustained by African Americans.

Ross Gay, PhD, CLA ’06
Inciting Joy

In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we expand it.

Ross Gay, PhD, CLA ’06
The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight.

Christopher Gerns, TFMA ’07
My Libyan Salad Days

My Libyan Salad Days follows the humorous and frustrating adventures of Greg Schmidt, a cynical wounded veteran and functional alcoholic, who takes part in Operation Compassionate Viper, the international coalition aimed at overthrowing the brutal dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Greg’s life quickly shifts from the mundane to the exhilarating when he finds himself entangled in a destructive rivalry between the CIA and the Navy and that he’s become personally invested in the intense struggle of the Libyan rebels.

Matthew Goldberg, CLA ’21
Coolest American Stories

America's most talented storytellers share their most courageous, compelling, unputdownable work in a collection made for story lovers.

Ronnyjane Goldsmith, CLA ‘68
Temple Made: Profiles in Grit

Since 1884, Temple University alumni have overcome poverty, hardship and disappointment to achieve greatness. Author Ronnyjane Goldsmith, who received her BA, MA and PhD from Temple, presents thirty inspiring profiles of what it means to be Temple Made.

Rachel Ignotofsky, TYL ’11
What's Inside a Caterpillar Cocoon?: And Other Questions About Moths & Butterflies

With warm and heart-fluttering illustrations, discover the next nonfiction picture book about butterflies and moths from the creator of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science!

Alan Inman, FOX ’73
The Colors of Love: Treasured Wisdom on the Family

Parents will want this book, not only to read for themselves from cover to cover, but to read to their children to create the warm family love so insightfully described on page after page.

Craig Johnson, TFMA ’90
Hell and Back: A Longmire Mystery

What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding-school fire? In Hell and Back, the eighteenth installment of the Longmire series, author Craig Johnson takes the beloved sheriff to the very limits of his sanity to do battle with the most dangerous adversary he’s ever faced: himself.

Craig Johnson, TFMA ’90
The Longmire Defense: A Longmire Mystery

Sheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming’s Big­horn Mountains, where Walt finds himself on a rock outcropping remembering when his father told him about the first time he saw a man die.

Elisabeth Joyce, CLA ‘91
A Serpentine Gesture: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology

In A Serpentine Gesture, Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology. Joyce examines how he explores this process of continual reverberation between what is sensed and what is considered about that sensation and, ultimately, how he renders these perceptions into the "serpentine gesture" of language.

Majlinda Kapllanaj, FOX ‘10
Crypto Curious: The Basics for Beginners

Are you new to the world of cryptocurrencies? Do you find the topic confusing? Maybe you purchased Bitcoin because a friend or neighbor told you to do so without fully understanding the basics of cryptocurrencies. You are not alone. This is a complex topic and high risk for those who participate. Crypto Curious breaks down the complex world of cryptocurrencies into plain English so anyone can understand the fundamentals.

Dan Levitt, TFMA ’93
What’s Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body’s Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner

For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.

Megan Lynn, CLA '09
An Eye For Life Poetry

An Eye For Life Poetry has poems written from when Megan Lynn was 13 up until she was 23. The poems are lyrical, cynical, and most of all sentimental. Megan Lynn expresses her love, pain, and other feelings for certain situations in life.

Tom Madden, FOX ‘62
Wordshine Man: Tips for Polishing Words Until They Sparkle

Want to improve your writing and discover innovative ways of communicating? Here’s a book full of clever tips on how to make your writing more readable, more engaging, and more effective at getting the results you want to achieve! Let the “Wordshine Man,” a.k.a. author Tom Madden, show you how to make your writing stand out.

Wendy Osefo, PhD, CLA ’06
Tears of My Mother

When star of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Potomac Dr. Wendy Osefo was growing up, her mother was her everything. But when she became a mother herself, everything changed. In this “exquisitely-drawn portrait of the intense bond that only a mother can have with a daughter” (Katie Haufner, author of Mother Daughter Me), Wendy explores how her Nigerian upbringing has affected her life, her success, and her role as a parent.

Alvina Peat, FOX '85
Take Control of Your Career: Do What You Desire, Dare and Deserve To Do

Are you ready to have clarity, confidence, and control in your career? Or maybe you don't see your work as a career, but rather as a means to an end. A way to provide for yourself and your family. No matter the lens through which you view work, this book is designed to build confidence to pursue and maintain the career or work that you desire so that you can live your best professional life.

Amrita Rose, TYL '89
No Plaid Suits: How Not to Have a Boring, Normal Life

A self-help book for people who want to build personal resilience, have more adventures and feel more confident in their life without taking a million classes or watching a zillion videos. In this sparkling how-to guide, accomplished life and career coach Amrita Rose gives you the low-down on everything from how to schedule your time or create a meal from "nothing", to ending any relationship and dealing with grief.

Chris Scott, CLA '18
Homage: Recipes and Stories from an Amish Soul Food Kitchen

From renowned chef Chris Scott comes a first-of-its-kind, richly narrative cookbook that celebrates an under-explored foodway in the African diaspora: Amish soul food.

Maryanne V. Scott, FOX ‘84
An Eight-Year Goodbye

An Eight-Year Goodbye is the story of Sam's journey through this debilitating illness of Alzheimer's with some helpful suggestions from the author on how to handle some of the heartbreaking challenges that Alzheimer's presents. This story will touch the heart of anyone whose loved one has experienced or is experiencing the long, slow deterioration that Alzheimer's disease brings.

Craig Sherman, FOX ‘87
No Good Deed…

Dan Barkan never saw it coming. Not only did he not want to do it, but he never expected to be asked. They asked him to be president. He goes from humble volunteer to a bold leader in this thriller that culminates with the hero facing his nemesis in an angry and frightening confrontation fifty feet above the ground on which the community prays. All he ever wanted was to make a difference. Now he’s asking himself, was it really worth it?

Sabriaya Shipley, TMA ‘18
Somewhere Between God and Mammy

Somewhere Between God & Mammy is an exploration of the intersections of Black girlhood into womanhood while pushing the binary. A compilation of poetry written by Sabriaya Shipley, join them as she writes their soul's journey behind finding God in themselves, Mothering herself, and Savagely healing themselves.

Heather Mishel Williams, EDU ‘09
Little Z and Firefly: A Journey to Finding Light and Love

Little Z and Firefly is a children’s mental health book that teaches various self-help techniques. Throughout their journey to “Light and Love,” both Little Z and Firefly learn valuable lessons about supporting someone in a “Dark Place.” This book teaches children how to incorporate healthy coping mechanisms into their daily lives so that eventually, they grow to be healthy and happy adults.

Cheryl M. Willis, BYR '91
Black Tap Dance and Its Women Pioneers

While tap dancers Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Eleanor Powell were major Hollywood stars, and the rhythms of Black male performers such as the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson were appreciated in their time, Black female tap dancers seldom achieved similar recognition. Who were these women? Here are the personal stories of many Black women tap dancers who were hailed by their male counterparts, performed on the most prominent American stages, and were pioneers in the field of Black tap.