Alumni Authors

• Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism (co-author)

• The Man Who Could Fly – The Bob Beamon Story

• Can You Hear Us Now?
• Can You See Us Now?

• The Real Rosebud – The Triumph of a Dakota Woman

• She-Hulk Little Golden Books

• Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels

• Chocolate Covered Lemons

• Odd Women Out: Exposure in Essays and Stories

The following is a partial list of publications, showing representative publications in chronological order from 1967 through the present:

• Psychiatric services and medical utilization in a prepaid health plan setting I
• Psychiatric services and medical utilization in a prepaid health plan setting II
• The California School of Professional Psychology: One alternative to the extinction of professional psychology
• Cummings, N.A. (September 1977). The anatomy of psychotherapy under national health insurance. American Psychologist, Vol. 32, No. 9, pp. 711-718.
• Behavioral health in primary care: Dollars and sense
• Turning bread into stones: Our modern anti-miracle
• Arguments for the financial efficacy of psychological services in healthcare settings
• Medical cost offset: A reprinting of the seminal research conducted at Kaiser Permanente, 1963-1981
• Medicaid, managed behavioral health, and implications for public policy: A report of the HCFA-Hawaii Medicaid Project and Other Readings
• Medical costs, Medicaid, and manage mental health treatment: The Hawaii Study
• The impact of the Biodyne Model on medical cost offset: A sampling of research projects
• Focused psychotherapy: A casebook of brief, intermittent psychotherapy throughout the life cycle
• Surviving the demise of solo practice: Mental health practitioners prospering in the era of managed care
• Behavioral health in primary care: A guide for clinical integration
• The next phase in the evolution of behavioral care and its re-empowerment of the practitioner
• The essence of psychotherapy: Reinventing the art in the era of data
• The first session with substance abusers: A step- by-step guide
• Integrated behavioral healthcare: Prospects, issues, and opportunities 
• Integrated behavioral healthcare: Positioning mental health practice with medical/surgical practice
• A collaborative primary care/behavioral health model for the use of psychotropic medication with children and adolescents: The report of a national retrospective study
• The practice of psychology: The battle for professionalism
• The impact of medical cost offset on practice and research: Making it work for you
• Behavioral health as primary care: Beyond efficacy to effectiveness
• Early detection and treatment of substance abuse within integrated primary care
• Psychological approaches to chronic disease management
• Resolving the dilemmas in mental healthcare delivery: Access, stigma, fragmentation, conflicting research, politics and more
• Universal healthcare: Readings for mental health professionals
• Universal healthcare: Readings for mental health professionals
• Behavioral integrative care: Treatments that work in the primary care setting
• Destructive trends in mental health: The well-intentioned path to harm
• Integrated behavioral healthcare: A guide to effective intervention
• Clinical strategies for becoming a master psychotherapist
• We are not a healthcare business: Our inadvertent vow of poverty
• Eleven blunders that cripple psychotherapy in America: A remedial unblundering
• Evidence-based adjunctive treatments
• Psychology’s war on religion
• Understanding the behavioral healthcare crisis: The promise of integrated care and diagnostic reform
• Restoring psychotherapy as the first line intervention in behavioral healthcare
• Our broken family court system
• Refocused psychotherapy as the first line intervention in behavioral health
• Psyche’s prophet: The selected writings of Nicholas A. Cummings. 

• Brooklyn Birth-Sicilian Soul

• Shukr: An Inspirational Dua and Gratitude Journal for Women
• untold: defining moments of the uprooted (co-editor)

• Illuminating the Human Condition 

• Pacific Wiretap

• Battle of the Plastics: The Animals Story

• 100 Things Spiderman Fans Should Know and Do Before they Die

• A Walk in the Woods
• Quick Reaction Force
• It’s in the Mail (Original Excerpts)

• Prosody Management of Communications Disorders

• Remember Us with Smiles

• Superhero Grief: The Transformative Power of Loss

• A Deaf Child’s Silent Concert
• A Hidden Treasure in St. Augustine 
• Dakota Help Me See the Light
• Emma’s House of Sound
• Freaky Sneakers
• Santa’s Toys
• Santa’s Visit
• Teddy No Stuff
• The Power of Words
• Thumbs Up

• Stay
• Who Said
• The End of the Soul
• The Happiness Myth
• Funny
• Doubt
• The Next Ancient World

• American Literary Anecdotes
• American Talk The Words and ways of American Dialects
• American Tomato: The Complete Guide to Growing and Using Tomatoes
• Animal Crackers: A Bestial Lexicon
• The Berry Book
• Book of Literary Anecdotes
• Business Talk: A Dictionary of Business Words and Phrases
• Burpee Tomatoes
• The Facts on the Dictionary of American Regionalisms
• The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
• Grand Emporiums: The Illustrated History of America’s
• Great Department Stores
• Grand Slam, Hat Tricks and Alley-Oops: A Sports Fans Book of Words
• The Great American Chewing Gum Book
• The Great American Tomato Book
• Happy Trails: A Dictionary of Western Expressions
• Human Words; the Complete Unexpurgated
• Uncomputerized Human Wordbook
• It’s Only Rock-N-Roll: The Ultimate Guide to the Rolling Stones
  
• Ladybugs, Tiger Lilies and Wallflowers/a Gardener’s Book of Words
  
• The Literacy Life and Other Curiosities
  
• Lewd Food: The Complete Guide to Aphrodisiac Edibles
  
• More Cunning Than Man: A Social History of Rats and Man
  
• Mountain Range: A Dictionary of Expressions From Appalachia to Ozarks
  
• New Yawk Tawk: A Dictionary of New York Expressions
  
• The Ocean Almanac
  
• The Road to Appomattox
  
• Salty Words
  
• The Show Biz Life
  
• Sumter: The First Day of the Civil War
  
• Whistlin’ Dixie: A Dictionary of Southern Expressions
  
• Word Literacy Anecdotes
  
• Yankee Talk: A Dictionary of New England Expressions

• What Lawyers Don’t Know (co-author)

• A Better Way
• I Gave You My Word

• The Magic Book
• Magic Lessons
• The World That We Knew
• The Rules of Magic
• Faithful
• The Marriage of Opposites
• The Museum of Extraordinary Things
• The Dovekeepers
• The Red Garden
• The Story Sisters
• The Third Angel
• Skylight Confessions
• The Ice Queen
• Blackbird House
• The Probable Future
• Blue Diary
• The River King
• Local Girls
• Here on Earth
• Practical Magic
• Second Nature
• Turtle Moon
• Seventh Heaven
• At Risk
• Illumination Night
• Fortune’s Daughter
• White Horses
• The Drowning Season
• Property Of
• Nightbird
• Green Heart
• Green Witch
• Green Angel
• Incantation 
• The Foretelling
• Indigo
• Aquamarine
• Faerie Knitting 

• Shanti’s Safe Place

• Electroporation in Veterinary Oncology Practice

• Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-year Search for Truth
• Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19
• The Sower
• El Sembrador
• The Sower 2.0
• SoMa

• Cosmologic Triadic Drive Theory: The Physics of the Psyche

• Pieces of My Heart

• A Kid’s Book About Gratitude 
• Climb

• Everything is Possible

• Visions of Garden City

• Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Become an Ally

• Family* of Humans

• Phil Fly’s First Flight

• A Path to Learning and Literacy 

• Women of Resistance:  Poems for a New Feminism (co-author)

• The Crown is Yours

• Seasons – The Watercolors of Helen Murdock-Prep      
• Lettering Life: Calligraphic Inspirations
• High Drama: a Novel
• Rainy Day Friend
• The Time Being

• Nowhere Man
• Three Chords and the Truth
• Spider, Spin Me a Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers 
• Wrecking Ball
• Spirits in the Night
• An American Storm
• The Punch List
• King’s Christmas
• The Last Resort
• FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
• Something of the Night
• Indian Summer

• Elmer & Virginia: A World War II Romance in Letter

• The Triumphs of a Black President in a White America

• Finding Patterns

• Hidden History of Long Island
• Westbury from Above
• Forgotten Tales of Long Island
• New York City History for Kids
• Keys to American History
• Engineering the City
• Galileo for Kids
• Archeology for Kids
• Our Supreme Court
• World War II for Kids
• Escape ’56: A Novel

• Seeing in the Dark, Arielle’s Story
• Naked Under the Lights
• Sculpture as Experience 2nd Edition
• Art Activities for Mind and Imagination 
• Smart Starts in the Arts
• Artistic Crafts Inventive Creations with Cast-Offs
• Leap to the Sun: Learning Through Dynamic Play
• Art & Interaction
• The Bright Blue Button and the Button-Hole
• Runaway Piggy Bank
• Judith Peck 50 Years of Sculpture

• A Memoir, Cold War Secrets, Unscrambling-Uncertainties of Family Secrets

• Cinchology: Achieving BIG Breakthroughs, One Inch at a Time

• The Italian American Experience (co-authored)

• There’s Coffee in the Fridge: One Man’s Journey Through Anxiety and Depression

• April Ninth: Episode 1: Abduction
• April Ninth: Episode 2: Prophet
• April Ninth: Episode 3: Countdown
• April Ninth: Episode 4: Decision
• April Ninth: Episode 5: Rath”na’l
• April Ninth: Episode 6: Destiny
• Chaos on the Spirit
• Day of Dendrites
• Shell Games
• Uncle Ted’s Tall Tales
• You Pic It

• The Ninth Session
• Depression in Later Life: An Essential Guide
• Depression and Your Child: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers
• Living with Depression

• Humanizing Grief in Higher Education- Narratives of Allyship and Hope (co-authored)

• My Life With The Stars: Extraordinary Behind-the-Scenes Memoir Of A Movie-TV Producer

• Stinky Poo…Who Are You? (co-author)

• The New Retirement Savings Time Bomb
• Ed Slott’s Retirement Decisions Guide: 2021 Edition
• Fund Your Future: A Tax-Smart Savings Plan in Your 20s and 30s
• Ed Slott’s Retirement Savings Time Bomb…and How to Defuse It
• Stay Rich for Life
• Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map

• Difficult: Mothering Challenging Adult Children through Conflict and Change

• The Case Against Iran
• Topographic Psychology: Behavior and the Geometry of the Brain

• Play Jimmy Roselli: Growing Up Italian American in 1950s Brooklyn

• Modern American History
• American History Since 1865
• English History
• Western Civilization Since 1600

• Breathing Room

• Printmaking in the Sun

• Red at the Bone
• The Day You Begin
• Harbor Me
• Another Brooklyn
• Young People’s Poet Laureate
• From Brown Girls Dreaming —- Poetry As Memoir
• From Locomotion — Poetry As Fiction
• From The Other Side — Poetry As Picture Book
• From “Show Way” — Poetry as History
• From Each Kindness — Poetry As Empathy
• Brown Girl Dreaming
• This is the Rope
• Each Kindness
• Beneath a Meth Moon
• Pecan Pie Baby
• Coming On Home Soon
• We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past
• The Other Side
• Sweet Sweet Memory
• Our Gracie Aunt
• Visiting Day
• Show Way
• Between Madison and Palmetto
• Maizon at Blue Hill
• Last Summer at Maizon
• Locomotion
• Feathers
• Peace Locomotion
• Hush
• Behind You
• If You Come Softly
• Miracle’s Boy
• From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
• I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This
• Lena
• The House You Pass On The Way
• The Dear One
• After Tupac and D Foster

• Fifty Shades of Green