Shelf Life

Book covers of The Mist and the Flame, The Cruelty Virtues and Whoa Nelly!

New and Notable Books by Gator Authors

Book cover featuring San Francisco Skyline

Wilber Johnson aka Don Sainte-Johnn 

(B.A., ’85)

“San Francisco’s Last Top 40 Disc Jockey” (Coquihalla Publishing), memoir

Book cover featuring Raspberries

Paula Nichols

(B.A., ’85) 

“Picking Raspberries: Flash Memoirs of a Minnesota Girlhood,” nonfiction

Book cover featuring human mind

John S. Saroyan 

(B.A., ’85; M.S., ’87)

“Core Self Theory: Discovering Self-Acceptance and How to Live Authentically” (Transformation Media Books), self-help

Book cover featuring farm girl looking into the horizon

Julia Park Tracey

(B.A., ’86)

 “Whoa, Nelly! A Love Story (with Footnotes)” (Sibylline Press), fiction

Book cover featuring honey comb and a jar of honey

Cal Orey

(M.A., ’90)

“The Healing Powers of Honey: A Complete Guide to Nature’s Remarkable Nectar” (Kensington Books, second edition), nonfiction

Book cover featuring a hand stack

Erika Bjune

(B.A., ’93)

“Organizing for Impact: A Guide to Cultivating Collaborative Leadership, Building Adaptive Teams and Doing Work That Matters,” nonfiction

Illustraded book cover of a women looking at a wave

Letitia Moffitt aka Coral-Li St. Helen

(M.A., ’93)

“The Mist and the Flame” (Cantraip Press), young adult/fantasy

something out there in the distance

Grant Faulkner

(M.A., ’94)

“something out there in the distance” (University of New Mexico Press), fiction

A painting of a man with mask taken off revealing abstract art face

Seth Brady Tucker

(B.A., ’95)

“The Cruelty Virtues” (Three: A Taos Press), poetry

book cover featuring clip art of people

Joshua Zerkel

(B.A., ’98; M.A., ’03)

“The Community Code: Strengthening and Aligning Your Go-to-Market Through Community” (with Erica Kuhl), nonfiction

A sunflower with petals leading down the book cover

Terena Scott

(B.A., ’99; M.A., ’12; teaching credential, ’12, ’22)

“Raising Rhia: A Mother’s Fight for a Joyful Life” (She Writes Press), nonfiction

a foggy scene in a forest roadway

Kelli Stanley

(B.A., ’00; M.A., ’06)

“The Reckoning” (Severn Press), mystery/thriller

book cover featuring a man in a suit (Michael Joseph)

Michael Joseph

(B.A., ’06)

“A Dollar for Fifty Cents: Proven Strategies to Outperform the Market with Closed-End Funds” (IW$ Press), nonfiction

an inside look of Oakland A's arena "the Oakland Coliseum"

Jeremy Wesler

(B.A., ’09)

“Goodnight Oakland A’s,” nonfiction

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