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Cover of Ancient Nubian Art: A History (nonfiction) by Rita Freed ’74
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Issue  SPRING 2026
Section  New Works

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Hillary Hurst Bush ’06 and Ellen Braaten—The Motivation Mindset Workbook: Helping Teens and Tweens Discover What They Love to Do (nonfiction), Guilford Press

Nardi Reeder Campion ’38Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers (nonfiction reissue of 1974 edition), Brandeis University Press

Jennifer Caplan ’01, editor, with Jarrod Tanny, et al.—Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor (nonfiction), Wayne State University Press

Leslie Pickering Francis ’67States of Health: The Ethics and Consequences of Policy Variation in a Federal System (nonfiction), Oxford University Press

Rita Freed ’74Ancient Nubian Art: A History (nonfiction), Getty Publications

Sue Hwang ’99From Both Sides of the Curtain: Lessons and Reflections from an Oncologist’s Personal Breast Cancer Journey (nonfiction), Morgan James Publishing

Erika Kitzmiller ’00 and Rolanda Sealey-Ruiz—Unchartered: How One High School Transformed First-Generation College Success, (nonfiction), Harvard Education Press

Roman Lillie ’01Compromise Is Killing You: How to Build the Life You Want (nonfiction), LittleRo Productions

Padya Paramita ’18Appetite (fiction), Dial Press

Clara Peterson ’08Daly City (film), Nickhartanto.com

Jennifer Lonoff Schiff ’87An Obsession with Murder (mystery), Shovel and Pail Press

Victoria Shorr ’71Fatherland (fiction), W.W. Norton

Susan Siegfried ’71The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s (nonfiction), Yale University Press

Candice Waldo ’00Day and Night: 21st Century Work Environment (poetry), Argyle Fox Publishing

Rachel Wang Yung-Hsin ’88, translator—Little Monk Writes Rain (fiction by Hsu-Kung Liu), Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

Kamilah Ain Welch ’12mindbalm (poetry), Bookleaf Publishing

Elyse Wilk ’06Body of Work: Where the Dead Whisper and the Living Obey (fiction), H & E Wilk Press

Ann Wood ’59Around the World in 450 Days: The Diary of Ann Wood’s Zigzag Travels (memoir), independently published

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