Books by Medill Alumni

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The Blues Brothers

Daniel de Visé (MSJ90) In the first half of this exhaustively researched, highly informative book, de Visé, the author of King of the Blues and...

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Keep This Off The Record

Arden Joy (BSJ16) Abigail Meyer and Freya Jonsson can’t stand one another. But could their severe hatred be masking something else entirely? From the moment...

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Everybody Here is Kin

BettyJoyce Nash (MSJ88) On Boneyard Island, Georgia, where everyone’s weirdly kin, thirteen-year-old Lucille is marooned when her mother goes AWOL with an old flame, leaving...

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Into the Soul of the World

Brad Wetzler (MSJ91) This powerful memoir shares an adventure journalist’s story of a decade-long, round-the-world quest to overcome his drug addiction and to understand and...

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Who We Are Now

Lauryn Chamberlain (BSJ14) Four friends. Fifteen years. Who We Are Now is a story of Sliding Doors moments, those seemingly small choices of early adulthood...

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Video Game of the Year

Jordan Minor (BSJ14) Pong. The Legend of Zelda. Final Fantasy VII. Rock Band. Fortnite. Animal Crossing: New Horizons. For each of the 40 years of...

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Shadow State

Frank Sennett (BSJ90) One of the first novels to explore the implications of the January 6 insurrection, and the infiltration of Oath Keepers and Proud...

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