William Miles of Seekonk, adjunct professor of International Studies at Brown University, has written Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel’s Reform Kibbutzim (State University of New York Press, 242 pages, $70). The author follows a group of young American Jews who in the 1970s and 1980s established the only two Reform Movement kibbutzim in Jewish history. A paperback version of the book will be issued next year.

Frank Waabu O’Brien (Moondancer), a former president of the Aquidneck Indian Council and a member of the Abenaki Tribe and Rhode Island Indian Council, and Julianne Jennings (Strong Woman), the author of several books on southern New England Indians and a graduate student in anthropology at Rhode Island College, have written A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England: Voices from Past and Present (Bauu Press, 216 pages, $28.95). It provides an understanding of the ways, customs and language of the southern New England Indians, from voices of modern elders and other natives to the historic records of the 1500s and 1600s.

Street Dogs by Traer Scott (Merrell, 160 pages, $22.95), the follow-up to Shelter Dogs, features more than 90 portraits and outdoor photographs of dogs living on city streets. Scott, of Providence, is a fine art photographer with a background in portraiture and fashion and a long-time animal welfare volunteer.

The University of Georgia Press has published Tell Borges If You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism by Warwick native Peter LaSalle (256 pages, $24.95). LaSalle is the author of two previous short story collections and a novel; these 11 tales were awarded the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Theresa Arnold-Scriber, a former resident of Providence for 40 years and a graduate of Mount Pleasant High School, and her husband Terry G. Scriber have written Ship Island, Mississippi: Rosters and History of the Civil War Prison (McFarland and Company Publishers Inc., 479 pages, $75). They are the authors of two other Civil War books.

— Compiled by

MIKKI CATANZARO

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