OCTOBER 2001
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PALM CROWS
by Virgil Suarez (associate professor, English)
The University of Arizona Press, Tucson
A collection of poetry, "Palm Crows" conveys images-like hibiscus, banyan trees and royal palms, mango jam and oxtail stew-of a Cuba that many remember and others have never known. The poems offer compelling imagery of loss, longing and memory.
JAZZ IN NEW ORLEANS
The Postwar Years Through 1970
by Charles Suhor (Ph.D. '81, English education, College of Education)
The Scarecrow Press Inc. (www.scarecrowpress.com)
Charles Suhor advances his reporting and ideas in three main themes-jazz and the establishment, the traditional revival in jazz and the little-known early bebop and avant-garde movements.
CHILHOWEE
by Mary Ruth Miller (B.A. '48, English)
1st Books Library (www.1stbooks.com)
Chilhowee is a contemporary southern novel set in East Tennessee. The main character is an English professor dealing with circumstancesh foreign to her chosen lifestyle. Relationships, Alzheimer's disease, nursing homes, southern churches, bomb threats and good eating all come into play.
THE WOMEN'S HOME-BASED BUSINESS BOOK
OF ANSWERS 78 Important Questions
Answered by Top Women Business Leaders
by Maria T. Bailey (B.S. '86, creative writing)
Prima Publishing (www.primapublishing.com)
Starting a home-based business has incredible challenges, and Bailey says the beginning entrepreneur needs to have answers before the questions arise. Bailey and 40 other successful businesswomen offer answers on mastering time management, researching the market, writing an effective business plan, balancing family and work, networking for long-term success and other likely questions.
ETERNAL JOURNEY A Novel
by Carol Hutton (E.D.D. '86, adult education)
Warner Books Inc., New York, NY.
Two best friends of many years had relied on each other through careers, marriages and children. Then cancer changed everything. Daryl Ott Underhill calls "Eternal Journey" a "captivating story of love, loss, and heartrending renewal."
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