And for more books by Big Red authors<\/em>, peruse our previous round-ups<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Keri Blakinger \u201911, BA \u201914<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In what the New York Times<\/em> called a \u201cbrave, brutal memoir\u201d and a \u201criveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption,\u201d Blankinger recounts her struggles<\/a> with mental health, drug addiction, and incarceration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In December of her senior year\u2014just a few credits shy of graduation\u2014she was arrested in Ithaca with six ounces of heroin and ultimately spent 21 months behind bars. She has since completed her Cornell degree and gone on to a career in journalism, covering the prison system she experienced first-hand. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Says Kirkus<\/em>: \u201cBlakinger\u2019s voice is frank but compassionate, as she lovingly but truthfully owns up to her mistakes. Her deeply researched analysis of the dehumanizing nature of incarceration is trenchant and infused with the passion of her personal experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read our profile of Blakinger.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris Pavone \u201989<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pavone\u2019s 2012 debut thriller, The Expats<\/em>, won the coveted Edgar and Anthony awards for mystery fiction and made the New York Times<\/em> bestseller list. His latest<\/a> follows a woman named Ariel who\u2019s accompanying her new husband on a business trip to Portugal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Waking up alone in their hotel room, she\u2019s positive that something bad has happened to him\u2014but since he has only been gone a few hours, neither the Lisbon police nor the U.S. embassy will take her seriously. Has he been kidnapped, or worse? And how well does his wife really know him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s up to Ariel\u2014a small-town bookseller who\u2019s seemingly unprepared for international intrigue\u2014to figure it out. Her fraught, twisty journey will not only awaken her memories of past trauma, but threaten powerful men at the highest echelons of U.S. government. As superstar author John Grisham says in a blurb: \u201cI defy anyone to read the first twenty pages of this breakneck novel, then try to put it down for five minutes. It can\u2019t be done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read our profile of Pavone.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Robert Chen \u201902<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This guide<\/a> to helping professionals increase their revenue\u2014subtitled The Mindset, Strategies, and Tactics of Successful Rainmakers<\/em>\u2014is aimed at lawyers, accountants, consultants, investment bankers, and others in the knowledge economy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Chen, a partner at an executive training and coaching firm, offers advice on building a clientele and a reputation, cultivating long-term relationships, overcoming business development challenges, growing a personal and professional network, and more. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \u201cRainmakers are made, not born, and they only get to their level of success by first crossing the chasm from delivering their work to delivering and selling their work,\u201d Chen writes in his introduction. But, as he goes on to note, that shift \u201ccan often be intimidating, not to mention frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brad Herzog \u201990<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Herzog\u2014a prolific author of travel memoirs, kids\u2019 books, and more\u2014teams up with artist Zachary Pullen to profile nearly 70 of the most impactful scientists and inventors in human history. They feature not only the usual cadre of famous white men like da Vinci and Edison but lesser-known names.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Those includes Nobel Prize winner C.V. Raman of India and Chinese-American Chien-Shiung Wu, dubbed the \u201cfirst lady of physics.\u201d The hardcover volume<\/a> features Pullen\u2019s lush illustrations, as well as an introduction by Ira Flatow of NPR’s Science Friday<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou\u2019ll discover when you read the remarkable stories of these thinkers that science and knowledge do not run in a straight line,\u201d Flatow writes. \u201cOne success does not guarantee another. The road is filled with failure. Personal and professional. Those scientists who triumph do so, many times, after working in obscurity or battling long odds. Whether it\u2019s racial, gender, economic, or just plain stupidity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Berns \u201964, PhD \u201968<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Big Red engineering grad is the heroine of this neo-Cold War thriller<\/a>, in which an elite team of ex-KGB agents smuggles a nuclear bomb into the U.S. with the aim of causing mass causalities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The villains also plan to strike a blow against capitalist ideology by weaponizing the Internet\u2014exacerbating existing social divides and fomenting a second civil war in America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fighting to stop them is a Cornell-educated expert in cybersecurity and image analysis who happens to be the former lover of the Russian spymaster at the heart of the scheme. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n The book is the debut novel for Berns, a biomedical engineer on the faculty of the University of California, Irvine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laura Martin, PhD \u201915<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An environmental historian on the faculty at Williams College, Martin devotes this release<\/a> from Harvard University Press to a seemingly paradoxical pursuit: ecological restoration, the attempt to design natural spaces in order to repair the damage done by humans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She explores the history, science, and philosophy of this billion-dollar field\u2014in which governments, nonprofits, companies, and others build wetlands, remove invasive species, reintroduce native ones, and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n As bestselling author Elizabeth Kolbert (The Sixth Extinction<\/em>) says in a blurb: \u201cCan we repair the ecological damage that we\u2019ve done? As Laura Martin observes, no question today could be more pressing, or more uncertain. Wild by Design<\/em> is a fascinating book\u2014far-reaching, deeply researched, and probing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shirley Reva Levine Vernick \u201983<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This novel for middle-grade readers<\/a>, set during World War II, alternates between the perspectives of two girls from enemy nations: Nellie, who lives in rural Oregon, and Tamiko, in southern Japan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The story draws its inspiration from the true-life tale of the war\u2019s only casualties to perish in the continental U.S.: the half-dozen victims of Project Fu-Go, Japan\u2019s 1944\u201345 campaign to launch thousands of balloon-borne bombs that were designed to float via the Jet Stream to North America. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n In Vernick\u2019s book, Tamiko\u2014whose brother is serving in her country\u2019s army\u2014and her schoolmates are tasked with constructing the balloons to support the war effort. Nellie, whose father is fighting for the U.S., resides in the very region where the project\u2019s only lethal bomb will eventually detonate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hugh Ryan \u201900<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The institution of the title was a women\u2019s prison in Manhattan\u2019s Greenwich Village from 1929\u201374. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As Ryan (a historian who previously penned When Brooklyn Was Queer<\/em>) explains, it played a key role in the city\u2019s LGBTQ+ history and broader culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor tens of thousands of arrested women and transmasculine people from every corner of the city, the House of D was a nexus, drawing the threads of their lives together in its dark and fearsome cells,\u201d he writes in the book<\/a>, subtitled A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \u201cSome were imprisoned there once, for as little as a day; others returned often and were held for years at a time. For decades, upon their release these women navigated the streets of Greenwich Village: ate in its automats and diners; caroused in the bars that would let them in; lived in nearby tenements; slept rough in the parks; visited friends and loved ones who were on trial or in detention; worked what jobs would hire them; attended court-mandated health screenings and probation meetings; and in a million and one other ways, made the Village their own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read our profile of Ryan.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Maria Adelmann \u201907<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Classic fairy tale characters are re-imagined as women in a trauma support group in Adelmann\u2019s debut novel<\/a>, set in present-day New York City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The characters include one coping with the fallout of a failed romance with a psychopathic (and blue-bearded) billionaire and another who has troubling memories of being held captive in a house made of candy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAdelmann travels the well-worn paths of some of the Brothers Grimm\u2019s most famous fairy tales with stylistic panache and 21st-century verve,\u201d Kirkus<\/em> says in a starred review. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \u201cHowever, it’s her nuanced consideration of our own culpability that makes this book unique. In the end, Adelmann\u2019s true subject is actually her audience, the great anonymous \u2018we\u2019 who consumes the horrors of violent husbands, ravaging wolves, hungry witches, and made-for-TV love stories with such compulsive demand we never pause to think what might come after the happy ending. Both a meditation on trauma and a sendup of our society\u2019s obsession with scripted reality, this book sings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beth Morrison, PhD \u201902<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Morrison is senior curator of manuscripts at the Getty Museum; her brother, Boyd, is a New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of 12 thrillers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They\u2019ve teamed up to launch a series<\/a> about the adventures of a couple in 14th-century England: a noble lady and the knight who saves her from attack as she flees an arranged marriage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHistorical fiction fans will eagerly await the couple\u2019s further adventures,\u201d says Publishers Weekly<\/em> in a starred review.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Raves the PW<\/em> reviewer: \u201cThe authors make splendid use of such medieval-plot standbys as a castle with secret tunnels, plague-riddled vagabonds, a grand tournament, a priceless manuscript, and duplicitous churchmen as the action ranges from Canterbury to Paris and elsewhere in France and finally Italy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mary Ann Doane \u201974<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Doane is a professor of film and media at the University of California, Berkeley. Her latest book<\/a>, from Duke University Press, studies the use of scale in cinema, particularly the close-up\u2014and how such techniques can be used to impact the viewer\u2019s sense of place, space, and orientation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As she observes, audiences once saw tight shots, especially of faces, as off-putting. \u201cThe close-up of early cinema,\u201d she writes, \u201cseems more acutely to evoke the possibility of breaching the limit of the screen, the protective barrier of representation.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Doane\u2019s previous works include The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive<\/em> and Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark Levenson \u201978<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In a fantasy novel<\/a> described as \u201cFiddler on the Roof<\/em> meets The<\/em> Lord of the Rings<\/em>,\u201d Levenson marries real-life history with Jewish folklore. Set in Eastern Europe in the 18th century, it offers an origin story for his character of Rabbi Adam, a spiritual leader and family man who goes up against wizards, witches, and demons to protect his community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe story is such a page-turner I read it in one night,\u201d says a reviewer in the Jerusalem Post<\/em>. \u201cIf I were a gambling man, I would bet my money that The Hidden Saint<\/em> will be made into a film.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Also a puppeteer and a playwright, Levenson has had his Jewish-themed short fiction published in several magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Albert Podell \u201958<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Subtitled A Survivor’s Report from the Frigid Fifties to the #MeToo Movement<\/em>, this memoir<\/a>\u2014dedicated, by first name, to dozens of women he\u2019s known over the decades\u2014recalls the social, romantic, and carnal exploits of the travel author and former Playboy<\/em> editor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It includes chapters on events on the Hill in the \u201950s that, Podell says, sparked a revolt that ultimately led to the end of in loco parentis<\/em> rules about undergrad behavior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Podell\u2019s previous books include The Survival Guide for the Adventurous International Traveler<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n In the New York Times<\/em> bestseller Around the World in 50 Years<\/em>, he chronicled his successful effort to visit every country on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Corrections-in-Ink-Cover-A-674x1024.jpg\")
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