In The Diviner’s Tale, Bradford Morrow (Engl’74) writes a gripping and haunting tale of a struggling single mother of twin boys by the name of Cassandra. While walking in a forest, a gifted dowser finds herself staring at the hanged body of a young girl.
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In The Ringer, Jenny Shank (MEngl’00) writes a captivating novel of heart-warming characters we can relate to. After a police officer in Denver raids a wrong address and mistakenly shoots and kills a Mexican immigrant, both his family and the family of the killed are affected in devastating ways.
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In co-writing The Failure of Environmental Education, Daniel Blumstein (EPOBio’86) highlights the problems of environmental education and offers a new vision for the future.
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In the third edition of The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event, Hugh Winebrenner (PhDPolSci’73) and Dennis Goldford give the history of the state’s precinct caucuses since a radical political status change in 1972.
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The House of My Sojourn by Jane Sutton (PhD Comm’84) delves into the world of rhetoric and the exclusion of women from its foundations. Sutton’s vision of the relationship between women and rhetoric is described as an ancient Greek house. The house allows for women, but also denies their authority to speak from within it.
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The Gospel of Progressivism: Moral Reform and Labor War in Colorado, 1900-1930 by R. Todd Laugen (PhD Hist’05) records the difficult journey of Progressive groups fighting corporate and political corruption during the twentieth century. The book follows Protestant reformers, labor organizers, activist women and mediation experts as they lobbied to defend the public against special interest groups involved with Colorado politics, including the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
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