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	Just How Far From the Apple Tree  John S. Peale '58 For the only son of the famous preacher and author Norman Vincent Peale, life was not without its challenges. In this memoir, John S. Peale shares his story, one of love, tension, and resentment. Life in the shadow of a famous father became a long and heartfelt struggle to become his own man. Despite the difficulties he faced, he found a way to thrive and make his own way. After a long and distinguished career as a professor of philosophy, he became a scholar of religion in China. He was actively involved in church and community. His has been a successful road, but it wasn't always an easy one. Tensions between the famous father and his son created darkness and despair. While the two loved each other, their relationship was strained at best. Due to John's strength of character and willful endurance, he was able to move beyond a sense of unworthiness to embrace that he is, indeed, a talented and giving man. Now in his seventies, John, with his warm and positive smile, emulates Confucius: "At seventy, I could give my heart and mind free rein without overstepping the mark." Although the story of a famous parent causing resentment and isolation from a son or daughter is not unfamiliar, John seeks to inspire others in similar situations to have hope and faith in their own abilities and identity. ISBN #W2656 $17.95
	Seeing Red: Hollywood's Pixeled Skins  Harvey Markowitz At once informative, comic, and plaintive, Seeing Red-Hollywood's Pixeled Skins is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in film. From George B. Seitz's 1925 The Vanishing American to Rick Schroder's 2004 Black Cloud, these 36 reviews by prominent scholars of American Indian Studies are accessible, personal, intimate, and oftentimes autobiographic. Seeing Red-Hollywood's Pixeled Skins offers indispensible perspectives from American Indian cultures to foreground the dramatic, frequently ridiculous difference between the experiences of Native peoples and their depiction in film. By pointing out and poking fun at the dominant ideologies and perpetuation of stereotypes of Native Americans in Hollywood, the book gives readers the ability to recognize both good filmmaking and the dangers of misrepresenting aboriginal peoples. The anthology offers a method to historicize and contextualize cinematic representations spanning the blatantly racist, to the well-intentioned, to more recent independent productions. Seeing Red is a unique collaboration by scholars in American Indian Studies that draws on the stereotypical representations of the past to suggest ways of seeing American Indians and indigenous peoples more clearly in the twenty- first century. ISBN #W2595 $29.95
	My Bright Abyss  Christian Wiman Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith-responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition-might look like. Joyful, sorrowful, and beautifully written, My Bright Abyss is destined to become a spiritual classic, useful not only to believers but to anyone whose experience of life and art seems at times to overbrim its boundaries. How do we answer this "burn of being"? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our lives-and for our deaths-if we acknowledge the "insistent, persistent ghost" that some of us call God? ISBN #W2597 $24.00
	Covering America's Courts  Toni Locy America is a nation obsessed with crime and the law. We are devoted viewers of Law and Order and CSI. When we slip and fall in the grocery store, we sue. When we cannot agree on what society should value, we turn to the courts to solve our moral conundrums. The law has permeated American life so thoroughly that knowledge of the courts and legal principles is essential for all reporters, whether they want to cover sports, business, entertainment, or politics. With a specific, thorough, and practical approach, this text is an engaging and accessible introduction to the American court system, its players, language, and impact on the public. Written by a veteran court reporter, the book provides students with the necessary skills and knowledge for covering this beat, including: -How to cover the courts and the law accurately, fairly, and with healthy skepticism; -How to find stories in the courts and how to read legal documents and make sense of them; -A discussion of the advances in technology that are changing the way stories are reported and delivered, as well as how to access electronic information maintained by the courts; -Concrete examples, provided throughout the text, of what it is like to cover courts. A valuable resource, Covering America’s Courts provides students, bloggers, and citizen journalists with the foundation they need to walk into a courthouse anywhere in the country and report fairly, clearly, and ethically about criminal and civil cases. ISBN #W2489 $47.25
	The Red Wolf  R. T. Smith In The Red Wolf: A Dream of Flannery O Connor, R. T. Smith fuses the facts of Flannery O Connor's biography with a richly imagined dreamscape, taking us from Yaddo to Iowa to Milledgeville, Georgia "the peacock s shriek blistering the midnight air." With the intricate artistry for which he is deservedly known, Smith creates and sustains a voice surprising as it is believable, the "hick-ridiculous" and hilarious of her life and fiction in perfect balance with "sunsets, a river, a car, fresh blood." Smith takes into his account as well the lupus that came to define O'Connor's physical reality and the "flight or asylum" that became her remarkable literary outpouring. The Red Wolf will delight O Connor fans and seduce anyone not already smitten. --Claudia Emerson R. T. Smith is one of the most vital voices in contemporary American poetry. --The Georgia Review Raise the curtain. Here she is: R. T. Smith's Miss Flannery herself, stumping her crutches onto the stage to wrestle "the prophets and blessed dimwits" down to the mat and onto the page. Here she is, no nun, no saint, but fleshed out funny in all her ambition and longing: "Did you reckon I was all thistle/ inside?" Here she is, pecking away at her Royal or "unsteady on her legs," but fierce as the "joyful mysteries, luminous and sorrowful." Smith has given us a book that s an act of love if ever there was one. --Alice Friman ISBN #W2440 $14.95
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