Books by Beavers Spring 2026

1. Enjoying the Evening

By Clemens Starck, OSU Facilities Services staff

From the late carpenter-poet Clemens Starck comes one final collection, marked by his plainspoken wit and clear-eyed attention to work and place in the Northwest. Starck received the William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award and won the Oregon Book Award for Journeyman’s Wages in 1995. Learn more.

2. Gods of the Smoke Machine

By Scott Latta, MFA ’15

Scott Latta draws on memoir and reporting to examine American megachurch culture and its human cost. Meet survivors, attorneys and advocates working to hold institutions to account in this intimate and unsettling look at faith and the misuse of power. Latta received the Southampton Review’s Frank McCourt Memoir Prize in 2016. Learn more.

3. I Will Give Them an Everlasting Name

By Samuel Cox, ’91

Centering on the verbal accounts of eight survivors, a rescuer and a camp liberator, this book tells the stories of 10 people who found themselves in Jacksonville, Florida, after experiencing the atrocities of the Holocaust in Europe. Learn more.

4. The Psychic

By Nancy Bush, ’75

A page-turning suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Bush, this intensely eerie story follows Veronica Quick as her ever-present premonitions lead her deeper into a grisly murder case. Learn more.

Books by BeaversSpring 2026