Bookmarks

		The Castration In their first book, former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors William A. Carey and St. John Barrett ’44 tell a riveting story of murder, the Mafia, and courtroom drama in idyllic, seaside Kennebunkport. Publish America 2002 • 233 pages • $19.95
		Catalina Saga Richard Buffum ’43 brings together his reporting skill, love of sailing and fascination with California history in a cove-by-cove cruise around this offshore paradise. Written with his wife, Marjie, who sailed with him for 30 years. Abracadabra Press, 2003 • 296 pages, 113 rare photos • $28.95
		Blue Window This debut collection of poems by Ann Fisher-Wirth ’70 offers an autobiographical lyricism combining fierceness and tenderness. Fisher-Wirth is a professor of poetry and environmental literature at the University of Mississippi. Archer Books, 2003 • 104 pages • $14.00
		The Winged Soul Retired professor of psychology John Kunkel ’54 returns to his early love of Plato (which began, he says in his preface, in several of his Pomona College classes) with a fanciful autobiography revealing the human side of the great philosopher. XLibris, 2003 • 400 pages • $34.99 hardback, $24.99 paperback
		Contrary Mary (All in Good Time) and Tokens on the Table (A Tip is Not Enough) J. Cris Miller ’59 offers two books for the price of one—a Southwestern romance on one side, and a mystery on the other. To be sold on a yet-to-be announced Website. JCMA, 2002 • 500 pages • $11.95
		Lords of Rainbow In her second fantasy novel, Vera Nazarian ’88 offers an epic about a world without color, illuminated by a gray sun, that is transformed and disrupted by a sudden, brilliant, and utterly impossible flash of light. Betancourt and Company, 2003 • 389 pages • $34.95
		Actors and Activists: Politics, Performance, and Exchange Among Social Worlds David A. Schlossman ’89 looks at politics and artistic performance in America today, with special attention to performances produced by activists and the musical, “Miss Saigon.” Routledge, 2002 • 336 pages • $85.00
		The Mysterious Presence Long-time Pomona professor of philosophy Frederick Sontag examines the presence of God as a never fully solved mystery, in contrast with the rational tradition, which saw God as an obvious presence to the rational mind. University Press of America, Inc., 2003 • 382 pages • $53.00