In Print

The Midnight Market

ALADDIN/SIMON AND SCHUSTER Beth Von Ancken McMullen ’87

The second book in the Lola Benko, Treasure Hunter series follows Lola Benko and her friends as they compete for a spot in top treasurehunting society.

After saving her father and the world, 12-year-old Lola and her friends are looking to redeem themselves after botching a job.

McMullen works and lives in Northern California with her husband and two children. Visit bethmcmullenbooks.com. The Squirbles and the Messy Room!

FIFTH ROUND Kate Harding Teves ’97

The Squirbles and the Messy Room is a colorful picture book for early readers. Children will have fun reading about Percy and Pip’s struggles to spiff up their room. But when the pet cat and fish decide to help out, things might just get messier than ever before.

Teves is a writer and illustrator. She lives in Florida with her husband and frequent collaborator, Christoph Teves ’97.

Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Jennifer Sherman ’90

Based on interviews, Sherman tells the story of Paradise Valley, Washington, a rural community where amenity-driven economic growth—tourism, second-home ownership, retirement migration—has resulted in a new social landscape of inequality and privilege, with fault lines between old-timers and newcomers. Traditionally, the community had relied upon logging, mining, and farming.

Sherman is associate professor of sociology at Washington State University.

Numerical Methods for Seakeeping Problems

SPRINGER Thomas E. Schellin ’57, Bettar Ould el Moctar, and Heinrich Söding

This book describes currently applied and newly developed advanced numerical methods for wave-induced ship motions and loads, which will be of interest to postgraduate students, Ph.D. candidates, as well as engineers in the fields of naval architecture, ocean, and marine engineering.

Schellin has lectured at the Institute of Ship Technology, Ocean Engineering and Transport Systems of the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2016, and has published widely. True Love Never Bleeds

IUNIVERSE Robert W. Barker ’63

True Love Never Bleeds is a fast-paced thriller, with a love story fraught with the potential for betrayal. Using old accusations of murder from when he served in Afghanistan, the CIA sends Peter Binder, a geological explorer and former SEAL, to the jungle in Peru to investigate Russian interests working with North Korea to fast-track development of Cerro Nublado, a controversial copper deposit. His lover, a former Russian spy, insists he stay away from Peru.

Barker, an author, geologist, and gold explorer, has published several previous books.

Free Spirit: A Biography of Mason Welch Gross

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS Thomas W. Gross ’69

Mason Welch Gross helped reshape Rutgers from a sleepy college into a world-renowned public research university. Starting as an assistant professor of philosophy, Gross rose through the ranks to become the university’s provost in 1949 and its president from 1959 to 1971. He led the university through an era when it experienced both some of its greatest growth and most intense controversies.

A member of the Taft Class of 1929, Gross later served as chair of Taft’s board of trustees and received the school’s Citation of Merit in 1962.

Author Thomas Gross, the youngest son of Mason Welch Gross, is a retired firefighter, military officer, and emergency physician who earned his M.D. from the Rutgers Medical School. Clean Sweep: A Novel

LITTLE BROWN DOG PRESS Evelyn Barata Lee ’75 (writing as E. B. Lee)

Carli Morris is looking forward to a quiet retirement after earning billions from the sale of her Madison Avenue ad agency. But the heartbreaking discovery of a homeless woman poisoned to death in Carli’s neighborhood not only opens her eyes to others, but reopens the wounds of Carli’s own tragic loss.

Realizing her busy career turned her away from the vulnerable, she throws herself on a mission to help get the defenseless off the streets. Over time, she comes to know them, one by one and comes to know the vulnerability of compassion.

Lee writes in the North Carolina Sandhills and Connecticut. Lawless and the House of Electricity

TITAN BOOKS William Sutton ’89

The third book in the Lawless series is set in London as the shadows of European machinations loom over the capital. For Sergeant Campbell Lawless, fears become reality as a series of explosions tear across the country. Home Office anxieties lead Lawless to Roxbury House, where the Earl of Roxbury, the country’s foremost weapons manufacturer, resides with a cavalcade of innovative scientists and researchers.

Sutton comes from Dunblane, Scotland, and is an author, actor and playwright. Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness

SKYHORSE Katharine Esty

Eightysomethings is a useful guide for people in their 80s and for their families. Esty shows readers how to embrace and thrive during the later stages of life. Based on interviews, the author explores the lives of ordinary eightysomethings— their attitudes, activities, worries, purposes, and joys.

Esty, 86, is an author, practicing psychotherapist, widow, mother, grandmother, and activist for aging well. She is the wife of Taft’s former headmaster, the late John Esty. Visit www.katharineesty.com.