Kenya F. Ayers (Ed.D. ’99) shares her own doctoral journey and provides tips, resources, and insights to empower other women to do the same. To Whom Much is Given (Esperanza Communications) encourages the reader to move past self-limiting perceptions and to see possibilities for a future through the attainment of a terminal degree.
In Pamela Binnings Ewen’s (J.D. ’79) Walk Back the Cat (B&H Publishing Group), a popular and media-savvy clergyman is out to destroy the church of God that has abandoned him. His motives are hidden beneath a strong charismatic personality as he leads the church toward destruction. But the mysterious Shroud of Turin, the cloth many believe was the burial cloth of Jesus, forces him to confront a terrible choice.
Naked Reading (Stenhouse) was inspired by Teri Lesesne’s (’76, M.Ed. ’85, Ed.D. ’91) ten-year-old granddaughter, who frequently spent time after a shower air-drying in the privacy of the bathroom so that she could continue reading an engrossing book. This made Lesesne curious about what makes some tweens (nine- to fourteen year- olds) avid readers while others elect not to read or become dormant readers. She draws on her extensive experience as a teacher and consultant to examine ways that educators can help interest kids in books and keep them reading during this crucial period.
Mother and Zen priest Karen Maezen Miller’s (’78) Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood (Shambhala) reveals how the daily challenges of parenthood can become the most profound spiritual journey of one’s life. Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of early motherhood into vignettes of Zen wisdom.
Mark E. Steiner’s (J.D. ’82, Ph.D. ’93) An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln (Northern Illinois University Press) goes beyond the hasty sketches of previous biographers to paint a detailed portrait of Lincoln the lawyer. Steiner’s portrait depicts Lincoln’s work for the railroads and the infamous case in which he defended claims of a slaveholder; but it also illustrates his more typical cases involving debt and neighborly disputes.
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