Books by Beavers Fall 2024

Cover image of abstract blue and green boxes in a woven pattern, with a bird, flower, and bee.

1. Weave Me a Crooked Basket

By Charles Goodrich, MFA ’02

Set in a college town much like Corvallis, Weave Me a Crooked Basket tells the story of a botanist who returns home still reeling from the breakup of a bad marriage to care for her ailing father and ends up in a last-ditch effort to save a way of life on the family farm. Goodrich, the former director of Oregon State’s Spring Creek Project, is a poet and co-editor of two anthologies.

2. Echoes of the Arcane

By Cody D. Campbell, ’18

Explore ancient worlds of magic and distant dystopian futures in Campbell’s debut publication, a collection of short works of science fiction, fantasy, general fiction and poetry – Echoes of the Arcane.

3. The Collagist

By Karen Holmberg, associate professor, School of Writing, Literature, and Film

In this young adult novel, a girl must convince her father to reveal his greatest secret, as well as that of the Being that exists in the world beyond. Holmberg won the 2021 Acheven Book Prize. Learn more.

4. No Perfect Mothers

By Karen Spears Zacharias, ’79

In devastating detail, this work of historical fiction explores the infamous Buck v. Bell U.S. Supreme court case of 1927 as the story of one 17-year-old girl sterilized against her will. Learn more.

Books by BeaversFall 2024