JU Authors

The following is a listing of books, available in print, authored or coauthored by Jacksonville University graduates.

If you are a Jacksonville alumnus author who has been inadvertently left off this list, please let us know by emailing alumni@ju.edu and we'd be happy to add your name to the list!

Alumni Authors

Tom Alford '04 and D.J. Kaercher '04

• Dolph and Erasmus

Dr. Bertice Berry '82

• The Coverage and Nondiscrimination Answer Book
• I'm On My Way But Your Foot is on My Head
• Straight From The Ghetto...You Might Be Ghetto If
• You Still Ghetto
• Redemption Song
• The Haunting of Hip Hop
• Jim and Louella's Homemade Heartfix Remedy
• When Love Calls, You Better Answer
• The Ties That Bind: A Memoir of Race, Memory and Redemption
• The World According to Me

Sandy Branum '96

• The Devil's Rood

Dr. Larry Breeze

• From Farm to Front: An Innocent Goes To War

Gaylynn Brenoel '78/'85​

• ​Forest Faeries: The Shadetail Tribe
• Forest Faeries: The Whitetail Tribe

Sandra Lanham Brower '93

• The Neuropsychology of Mathematics: Diagnosis and Intervention - section: The Sum Total

Charles Hugh Brown '74

• Master Jones Goes to Washington

Chelsea Brown '12

• The Order between Sisters
• We Danced, Gingerly: An Anthology of Adolescence

Dr. Gary Buffone '73

• Choking on the Silver Spoon

Christine Prather Canova '74

• What Happened That Day?

Dr. Amy Carney '03

• Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS (German and European Studies)

Amy L. Cavanaugh '79

• The Coverage and Nondiscrimination Answer Book

Captain Tracy D. Connors '61

• Baited Trap: The Ambush of Mission 1890
• Truckbusters From Dogpatch, the Combat Diary of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing in the Korean War, 1950-1953
• The Nonprofit Handbook: Management, Third Edition
• The Volunteer Management Handbook

Faith Raymond Connors '80

• Love, Midgie
• Flavors of the Fjords

Joshua Cowart '08

• ​The Book of Chocolate: A Tale of Beginnings​

Pamela A. H. Edge '66

• The Christmas Ornaments

Richard Hadden '79

• Contented Cows Moove Faster
• Contented Cows Give Better Milk

Gary Izzo '92 '95

• The Devil's Rood

Brenda Jackson '89

• A Catalina Cove Christmas
• Delaney’s Desert Sheikh
• Finding Home Again
• Forget Me Not
• One Special Moment

More info about all of Brenda Jackson's books.

Rob Johnson '09

• Millennial Reboot: Our Generation’s Playbook for Professional Growth

Mary Calhoun King '79

• Level Ground

Dr. Frances Bartlett Kinne, Chancellor Emeritus

• Iowa Girl: The President Wears a Skirt

Kathryn Beyerle Lively '93

• Geek Meets Girl (Contemporary Romance)
• If You Want It (Contemporary Romance)
• Killing the Kordovas (Fiction/Dark Humor)
• Little Flowers (Inspirational/Thriller)
• Pithed: An Andy Farmer Mystery (Mystery)
• Rock Deadly (Mystery/Thriller)
• Rock Til You Drop (Mystery/Thriller)

Quang Ly, MPP '16

• Ken Volunteers at the Zoo (Children's book)

Lindsay Moss '96

• You Made This Drink, You Drink It

Frank Pace '73

• If These Lips Could Talk

Steve Piscitelli '75

• Books by Steve Piscitelli

Marcia Roy '94/'07

• Lived Experience Phenomenon Teaching Methods

Nicole Saunders '13

• Disposable

Peter W. Sherrill '80

• Black to the Future

Ted Simendinger '76

• 12 Miles to Paradise
• Critters, Fish & Other Troublemakers
• Highway to Somewhere
• Jurassic Trout: An Ensemble Comedy
• Maximum Horsepower
• Rich Without Money: Life Skills for Better Business and Living
• Searching for Tendulkar: Baseball’s Hunt for the Star of India
• The Rise and Fall of Piggy Church
• Tuki Banjo: Superstar

More info about all of Ted Simendinger's books.

Pat Sitkins '05

• Brand Aid: Taking Control of Your Reputation

J.R. (Jay) Slosar '74

• The Culture of Excess: How America Lost Self-Control and Why We Need to Redefine Success

Rhonda Strawter '99

• The Letter

Dedra Torelli '95

• The Devil's Rood

Robert Turknett '64

• Author 101: Bestselling Book Proposals
• Decent People, Decent Company: How to Lead with Character at Work and in Life

Nina Wade '93

• The Devil's Rood

A. Quinton White (with D.J. Gayle and B. Tewarie)

• Governance in the Twenty-First Century: Approaches to Effective Leadership and Strategic Management

Megan Williams '06

• Our Interrupted Fairy Tale