{"id":17358,"date":"2021-08-10T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=17358"},"modified":"2021-08-17T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T22:13:33","slug":"on-the-bookshelf-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2021\/08\/on-the-bookshelf-23\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"One Year From Tonight<\/strong><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Heather Palmer \u201981<\/strong><\/p>\n

How could Emily, aged 25 in 1864, decide what to do with her life when there were so many possibilities? The world she had been reared to expect had been changed forever by the Civil War. Incorporating the full text of an actual 1864 diary, the novel tells the story of the choices Emily made as she found her place in a new world. Palmer says students read an 1864 diary in a college history course she taught and were shocked by the choices the diary\u2019s author made, so Palmer wrote this novel to explain Emily\u2019s choices. Palmer also has visited CC History Professor Carol Neel\u2019s classes, discussing how readers imagine experiences from historical diaries. Published by Heather Palmer, 2020.<\/p>\n

\"\"Too Good To Be True<\/strong><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Carola Lovering \u201911<\/strong><\/p>\n

A cat-and-mouse thriller filled with twists and turns, Kirkus Reviews says, \u201cThe second novel from Lovering more than lives up to the promise of her debut, \u2018Tell Me Lies\u2019.\u201d Skye Starling may have it all, but her OCD has been a relationship deal-breaker. When Skye meets Burke Michaels, the stage is seemingly set for a fairy-tale story. But multiple voices in this narrative suggest all may not be well: Burke\u2019s diary entries, written at his marriage counselor\u2019s behest \u2014 yeah, he\u2019s married (revealed early on); Skye\u2019s former toxic boyfriend; and a decades-earlier narrative by Burke\u2019s wife confounds the plotline. Nested in this tale is a none-too-gentle critique of our system\u2019s social and economic inequities. Published by St. Martin\u2019s Press, 2021.<\/p>\n

\"\"No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Paul Adler, assistant professor of history<\/p>\n

The book chronicles how U.S. consumer and environmental activists became significant players in national and world politics in the late 20th century. From boycotting Nestl\u00e9 to lobbying against NAFTA to marching in the Battle of Seattle, the book shows how a progressive coalition arose demanding alternatives to neoliberal globalism. The book also illuminates how professionalized organizations became a critical part of liberal activism \u2014 and how that has affected the course of U.S. politics to the present day. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.<\/p>\n

\"\"Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Susan Burch \u201993<\/strong><\/p>\n

Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. Drawing on oral history interviews, correspondence, material objects, and archival sources, Burch, director of American Studies at Middlebury College, reframes the histories of institutionalized people and the places that held them. Published by University of North Carolina Press, 2021.<\/p>\n

\"\"Lies with Man<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Michael Nava \u201976<\/strong><\/p>\n

The eighth in the Henry Rios mystery series, the book is set in 1986 Los Angeles, where a group of right-wing Christians has launched a ballot initiative to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps \u2015 and it looks like it\u2019s going to pass. Rios agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER (Queers United to End Erasure and Repression). QUEER claims to be committed to peaceful civil disobedience. But when one of its members is implicated in the bombing of an evangelical church that kills its pastor, who publicly supported the quarantine initiative, Rios finds himself with a client suddenly facing the death penalty. Published by Amble Press, 2021.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Nasty Business of a Bodyguard<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Elijah Douresseau \u201913 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Los Angeles chef Alvin Gates is an ambitious culinarian with a flair for Caribbean cooking and promoting his cultural food roots in the West Indian diaspora. And, he\u2019s just landed a job cooking for business executive Jasmine Benjamin, aka Coco. The FBI soon shows up, cornering the young cook to become their eyes and ears on the inside of Coco\u2019s operations. The FBI could not be more clear: The nation\u2019s safety and future are in the hands of a guy who just wants to rock the socks off his client with good food. But he will have to don more than a chef\u2019s hat if he wants to survive his undercover foray into the sophisticated crime underworld. The book has an accompanying Spotify playlist. Published by Elijah Douresseau, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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