Sharenthood
Leah Plunkett, MIT Press, September 2019
The wry Facebook post about your daughterâs suspension for a school prank gone wrong. The celebratory Instagram photo of your nephew leaving the facility where he successfully completed drug treatment. In the digital age, many of us donât just parent, we also sharent: distribute images, stories and other private information about minors in our care via digital channels â and we fail to grasp the implications of doing so. Written by the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Lawâs associate dean for administration and director of academic success, âSharenthoodâ examines how parents, teachers and other adult caregivers in the United States make decisions to disclose digital data about children that invade traditional zones of privacy and threaten kidsâ and teensâ current and future opportunities â as well as their ability to develop their sense of self. In prose that is clear and accessible, Plunkett offers a legal analysis of the sharenting problem, both identifying the ways our laws enable it and offering some ideas on how to fix it.
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The Insiderâs Guide to Working with Universities
James W. Dean Jr. and Deborah Y. Clarke, UNC Press, September 2019
How do universities differ from businesses? What makes them tick? Billed as a practical guide for board members, businesspeople, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, alumni, parents and administrators who want to invest in and enhance higher education, this new book by UNHâs ultimate insider â its 20th president â is a first-of-its-kind effort to answer those questions and more. Dean and his coauthor Clarke shed light on a range of issues that separate institutions of higher learning from other organizations. In so doing, they provide an invaluable resource for individuals and groups experiencing the reality of a university structure for the first time since their own student days.
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The Adventures of Eva and Buckskin Charlie
Book 1
Evaâs Secret Name
Book 2
Evaâs New Older Brother
John Norton â68G, Best Publishing Company, February and August 2019
In 1870, 12-year-old Eva and her family leave their farm in Virginia to homestead in the Colorado Territory. Initially reluctant to leave behind the life she knows, Eva soon embraces the adventure of a new environment â and a new friend, 14-year- old Buckskin Charlie. Originally written for his then 8-year-old granddaughter, Nortonâs stories about two families and two cultures learning to coexist in harmony and balance are the first in a six-book series.
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THE MYSTICAL ADVENTURES OF STAVROS PAPADAKIS
Michael Lacoy â88, Monteverdi Press, June 2019
A heart attack, a coma, trips to heaven and hell. An eventful Christmas Day leads Stavros Papadakis to the realization that, while he may be one of Bostonâs most successful lawyers, heâs been a terrible family man, and he vows to make amends. There are only two problems with his plan: his son and his ex-wife want nothing to do with him, and his business partner, the countryâs most celebrated trial lawyer, wants him to keep his trip to the afterlife to himself, fearing it will be bad for business. But how can Stavros keep his mouth shut when dying has shown him all that heâs missed out on in his life?
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Big Little City
Michael Bove â00, Moon Pie Press, October 2018
The titular âbig little cityâ of this poetry collection is Portland, Maine â the hometown of Bove, who teaches English at Southern Maine Community College. But Boveâs poems are less about the city itself than about the life and emotions that take place within it: childhood, parenthood and memory, and the experiences attached to these that are at once personal and universal.
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The Actual World
Jason Tandon â07G, Black Lawrence Press, August 2019
Rocks and tonics and bathroom tiles; frogspawn, eyelashes and pots of sage â the short lyric poems of Tandonâs fourth collection create a celebratory song of the everyday. In poem after poem, this collection illustrates just how mysteriously connected unlike things can become as they are transformed from the literal to the figurative.
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THE UNSTOPPABLE GARRETT MORGAN
Joan DiCicco â83, Lee & Low Books, October 2019
With simple illustrations and straightforward prose, DiCicco shares the true story of an African-American inventor who used his formidable intellect and determination to go around, over and through the obstacles that life and society threw his way. âThe Unstoppable Garrett Morganâ traces Morganâs path from Kentucky, where his parents were sharecroppers, to Ohio, where he ultimately developed a pair of safety inventions, the modern versions of which remain in use today.
Also of Note
Acacia Files: Book 3, Winter Science, Katie Coppens â01, â02G,
Tilbury House Publishing, November 2019
Dark Data: Control, Alt, Delete, Douglas J. Wood â76JD,
Plumb Bay Publishing, August 2019
Dear Mary: Letters Home from the 10th Mountain Division,
Sydney Williams â63,
Bauhan Publishing, July 2019
Consuming Government, Steven Borne â86,
Peter E. Randall Publisher, June 2019
Finding Treasure: A Collection of Collections, Michelle Schaub â96G,
Charlesbridge Publishing, September 2019
Hidden History of the Mississippi Sound,
Josh Foreman â17G and Ryan Starrett,
The History Press, June 2019
Images of America: Moxie, Dennis Sasseville â71 and Merrill Lewis â67,
Arcadia Publishing, May 2019
Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear and Laughter in the U.S.,
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young â98,
Oxford University Press, December 2019