Paradise Vendor 
By David Alan Hall ’87
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Casey Raymond thinks he can save the world. Or at least make it a whole lot better for the little guy. And he just might be able to do it. He’s got a couple of big ideas — how to build safe, cheap, non-polluting cars and houses — and the money to make it happen. That is, if he can stay alive. Certain big-business folks don’t cotton to his ideas and want him dead.

David Alan Hall’s ’97 epic novel of one man’s lifelong quest to bring a little paradise to the world is an intriguing action tale of perseverance and ambition. The story charges through Casey’s life while examining the cost and questioning the value of power, fame and success.

You’ll like Casey as you cheer for his dreams and weep at his follies. And you’ll think more than twice about what makes mankind mankind.

In the Way Elephants Do 
By David L. Kilpatrick
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Noah the Wanderer is a cantankerous 100-year-old bull elephant who has lived an incredible life. Now living out his few remaining days in a run-down Midwestern zoo, Noah tells the story of this remarkable life — from his beginning in an African savannah to his adventures across three continents, to his experiences as a circus performer and side-show attraction.Through it all he witnessed all the human world has to offer: war, peace, love, hatred, kindness and absolute cruelty.

Kilpatrick’s Noah is a gentle, insightful character and a gifted storyteller. Sharing the travels of this wonderous animal is a delightful journey into an existence beyond our own — and yet all at once marvelously familiar.