Psi U Authors
Psi Upsilon brothers are bringing their talents and ideas to readers throughout the world.
Bernard Moran, Beta Beta ‘58 (Trinity College ) Love and Treachery In Palm Beach
Fifteen short stories delve behind the glitz and glamour of Palm Beach to reveal the true natures of residents of this island paradise. A playboy tries to score with a rich widow. A sugar daddy lusts after young girls with tragic consequences. A social climber seeks to breach the rarified world of restricted clubs. A ne’er-do-well undone by the machinations of his Palm Beach hostess. An Old Guard mother tries to control her adult children. Desperate matrons yearn for love or its substitute. Cheating husbands, vindictive wives, bankers, brokers, schemers, scammers - they’re all here in this panorama of Palm Beach life.
Steven R. Smith, Rho ‘66 (University of Wisconsin) Managing for Success: Practical Advice for Managers
This, concise, 150-page guide is for readers who want to learn what they really should be doing as managers of people and departments- and how to do it. It includes the best ideas the author has discovered and applied throughout his 42-year career spanning 15 companies of all sizes. Most of us never receive the training needed to become really good managers, but this book helps fill that void by providing advice on how to handle your most important duties and responsibilities.
Barry Gough, Zeta Zeta ‘62 (University of British Columbia)
The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest
Sir Alexander Mackenzie is known to schoolchildren as a great Canadian explorer who gave his name to the country’s longest river, but hardly anyone could name the man who mentored Mackenzie and mapped much of northwestern Canada before him. Soldier, fur trader and explorer Peter Pond, the subject of this long overdue book, is a man whose legend has been forgotten in favor of those who came after him. Much of Pond’s life is shadowed in mystery. Historian Barry Gough uses Pond’s surviving memoirs, explorers’ journals, letters written by acquaintances of Pond, publications in London magazines and many other sources to track and reconstruct the life of one of the last of the tough, old-style explorers who ventured into the wilderness with little more than a strong instinct for survival and helped shape the modern world.
Rodo Sofranac, Chi ‘71 (Cornell University) Polly and the Peaputts:
Join Polly Poppop, and learn more about her family, friends, and their village called Peaputt Place. The Peaputts may not be perfect, but they practice acceptance and forgiveness in special ways. See how Polly and the Peaputts live, love, learn, and smile.
Polly and the Peanut Pull:
The residents of Peaputt Place stumble upon a strange “root” growing in their town. Excitement from the Peaputts and their creative efforts to extract the item leads to an important lesson from the smallest member of the community.
James P. Lenfestey, Zeta ‘66 (Dartmouth College) Seeking the Cave: A Pilgrimage To Cold Mountain
In this transformative book, award-winning poet and essayist James Lenfestey makes an epic journey across the world to find the Cold Mountain Cave, a location long believed to exist only in myths and the ancient home of his idol, Han Shan, author of the Cold Mountain poems. Lenfestey’s voyage takes him from the Midwestern United States to Tokyo to a road trip across the expanse of China with frequent excursions to the country’s rich historical and cultural landmarks. As he makes his way to the cave, Lenfestey learns more than history or geography; he discovers his identity as a writer and a poet. Interspersed with poems by both the author and Han Shan, Seeking the Cave will appeal to lovers of poetry and travel narrative alike.
Ernie Wood, Psi ‘69 (Hamilton College) One Red Thread
When architect Eddy McBride, a fortysomething self-absorbed noticer of details and self-appointed seeker of truths, stumbles upon a way to visit, watch and ultimately participate in events from his family history, he finds answers to long-ago tragedies and mysteries. But each time Eddy returns to the present, he unleashes the unhappy consequences of exploring history on his family and friends. And as Eddy’s knowledge of the past grows, he turns from curious seeker of truths to frantic fixer of mistakes--present, past and by those from the present who would change the past--as he follows a devastating trail of hurt, disappearance and death.
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