Books Published by NWU-Boston authors in 2009

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John Amiard (pen name of John Oberteuffer), Swedish Blood (Edson Press). Detective thriller. Investigative journalist Peter Frost finds himself investigating his own family history. This well-paced mystery moves from Cape Cod and Cmabridge to Stockholm and the Baltic Coast archipelago.

Barbara Beckwith, What Was I Thinking? Reflecting on Everyday Racism (distributed by Crandall, Dostie and Douglass Books (cddbooks.com)

Anne Brudevold, editor, Journey Anthology by Eden Waters Press. Journeys to Israel, Syria, Ireland, all over the USA, and interior journeys; stages of life, emotion, spirituality. 51 contributors; poets, memoirists, artists, photographers.

Anita Diamant, Day After Night (Scribner). Four women, with four different stories of surviving the Holocaust, find themselves in an internment camp. Novel based on the true story of a dramatic rescue of more than 200 prisoners at the Atlit camp. By the author of The Red Tent.

Steve Early, Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home (Monthly Review Press). A Labor journalist tackles hot issues facing unions today from immigrant worker organizing to schisms over internal democracy and to obstacles to labor law reform.

Stephen Fake, The Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA (Black Rose Books). Exposes the damaging role played by US leaders, NGOs, and corporate media outlets. Shows how the West has failed Sudan's Darfur region.

Nancy B. Finn, co-author, Digital Communication in Medical Practice (Springer). Electronic medical records help doctors and patients research healthcare options, allow daily monitoring from home, and protect unauthorized access. Real-life case studies show how the technology is deployed and is critical to healthcare.

Patricia A. Gozemba, co-author, Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages (Beacon Press). Paperback edition of the sumptuously illustrated chronicle.

Lee Ann Hoff, People in Crisis: Clinical and Diversity Perspectives, 6th edition (Routledge). Classic text expanded to include new expertise on resilience, workplace violence, war and trauma, and youth violence, and a new emphasis on diversity.

Lee Ann Hoff, Violence and Abuse Issues: Cross-cultural Perspectives for Health and Social Services. (Routledge). A multi-disciplinary text addressing interpersonal violence and its prevention across the life-span, as well as state-sponsored violence and its damaging consequences for individuals, families, communities, and whole nations.

J. Kates, translator/co-editor, Contemporary Russian Poetry (Dalkey). Bilingual collection of poems by 44 living Russian poets, many previously unpublished in the West.

Judah Leblang, Finding My Place: One Man's Journey from Cleveland to Boston and Beyond (Lake Effect Press). Memoir in episodes, from a boyhood in 1960s Cleveland to the present-day gay Mecca of Provincetown, to life as a hard of hearing man with a funny name, navigating middle age in Boston. Buy it here.

Ruth Lepson, I Went Looking For You (BlazeVox Books). Lepson's poems are about places, mainly Swampscott, a Massachusetts town on the ocean, strangers overheard and seen, works of art, aging parents, deceased friends, and love that persists across disconnections.

Randy Susan Meyers, The Murderer's Daughters (St. Martin's). The novel, which follows thirty years of two sisters' lives after their father murders their mother, has been praised as "mesmerizing" "complex" and "empathic."

Li Mo, Spirit Bridges: Coming of Age in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Madrid and New York City in the 1960s (Streetfeet Press), follows her as she gains knowledge, joy, and optimism through extraordinary challenges.

Susan Oleksiw, co-editor, Deadfall: Crime Stories by New England Writers (Level Best Books). From rural Maine to a mall parking lot, from a Cambridge therapist's office to church bingo, good and bad guys and gals struggle for love, honor, money, and truth.

Mark Schafer, translator, Before Saying Any of the Great Words, David Huerta Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press). A bilingual anthology of work by one of Mexico' most important living poets. Info. at www.beforesaying.com.

Barbara Schwartz, Mercy, Mandates, Merger (Cambridge Books). Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, founded by the Jewish community, and Deaconess Hospital, founded by Methodists, had a mission: to give care without discrimination. This is the inside story of challenges they faced when they merged as Beth Israel-Deaconess, and more recent challenges from fiscally-focused health care trends. Based on research and interviews with staff and senior administrators.

Cecilia Tan, Mind Games (Ravenous Romance) A woman with suppressed psychic abilities, leads a quiet, lonely life until her sister goes missing. She begins to have dreams about a dream lover who visits her at night - could someone be stalking her in her dreams? A novel of love, suspense and scorching sex.

Kath Weston, Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor (Beacon). Paperback edition. Raised working class, an anthropologist crosses the U.S. by bus: she swaps advice, snacks, favors and worldviews with her fellow travelers, people living poor in the world's wealthiest nation.

Carol Wintle, Empowering Children to Help Stop Bullying at School (Character Development Group Inc.). A unique guide for teachers, counselors, parents, students, and staff. For more information, visit www.carolwintle.com.

Howard Zinn, State of the Union 2009: Notes for a New Administration (Back Pages Publishers). Zinn pulls together the strands of past and present in his open call to the American public to find an active role in shaping the future of America. Available from www.backpagesbooks.com