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Elizabeth Shick
The Golden Land

Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, The Golden Land digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships in an intergenerational tale set against the backdrop of Myanmar.

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Curt Smith
The Presidents and the Pastime

The first in-depth historical yet also anecdotal and episodic examination of the unique relationship between the U.S. presidency and America’s national pastime, from Theodore Roosevelt to Joe Biden.

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Dennis Snelling
The Whiz Kids

The Whiz Kids recounts the story of the Philadelphia Phillies, who ended decades of futility to win the National League pennant in the last game of the season in 1950, lost the World Series to the Yankees…

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Nathan Sowry
Turning the Power

In Turning the Power Nathan Sowry examines how Native American students from the boarding school system, with its forced assimilated education, became key cultural informants for anthropologists conductin…

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Alex Squadron
Life in the G

Life in the G details the NBA G League experience and the relentless pursuit of the NBA dream through the lens of the Birmingham Squadron’s inaugural season (2021–22), one of the most remarkable years in …

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Steve Steinberg, Lyle Spatz
Mike Donlin

A biography of early twentieth-century baseball player and actor Mike Donlin, one of the best hitters and most colorful players in the history of the game. Haunted by tragedy, he was a showman and an alco…

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R B Stratton
Captivity of the Oatman Girls

A sensational bestseller when first published in 1857, Captivity of the Oatman Girls is the story of the nine members of the Oatman family who set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail in 1851 and …

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Cather Studies,
Cather Studies, Volume 14

The essays offer compelling ways of seeing and situating Willa Cather’s texts—both unsettling and advancing Cather scholarship. Cather was born and spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of V…

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Derek Taira
Forward Without Fear

Derek Taira argues that during the territorial period many Hawaiians neither subscribed nor succumbed to public schools’ aggressive efforts to assimilate and Americanize but instead engaged with American …

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Stephen Tatum
Unhomely Wests

Incorporating readings of key cultural texts from the environmental humanities, studies of globalization and economics, postmodernism, psychoanalytic criticism, and feminist theory, Stephen Tatum addresse…

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Nicholas Villanueva
Rainbow Cattle Co.

Nicholas Villanueva, Jr., investigates the untold story of the founders of an organization that helped gay rodeo participants persevere through bigotry and discrimination in sport, fought a pandemic that …

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Abdourahman A Waberi,
When We Only Have the Earth

In these moving poems French Djiboutian writer Abdourahman A. Waberi urges us to look for the truth and beauty hidden in our daily lives and exhorts us to join him in the collective fight to save our plan…

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Naomi Waltham-Smith
Free Listening

Free Listening argues that, instead of free speech, progressives should claim the more radical mantle of free listening and abolish obstacles to equality of audibility.

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Elliott West
Continental Reckoning

Elliott West lays out the main events and developments that together describe and explain the emergence of the American West and situates the birth of the West in the broader narrative of American history…

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David Yee
Informal Metropolis

Informal Metropolis uncovers how a former lake bed on the edge of Mexico City grew into the world’s largest shantytown—Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl—and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequalit…

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David Yee
Informal Metropolis

Informal Metropolis uncovers how a former lake bed on the edge of Mexico City grew into the world’s largest shantytown—Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl—and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequalit…

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Yolonda Youngs
Framing Nature

Framing Nature explores the environmental perception of Grand Canyon National Park and how visual representations shape popular ideas and meanings about national parks and the American West.

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John Youskauskas, Melvin Croft
Into the Void

Into the Void focuses on the unique story of those who have ventured outside the spacecraft into the unforgiving vacuum of space, including the difficulty and danger, the adaptation required, and the euph…

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Flyover Fictions

Flyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the “flyover country” trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies.

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Gem of the Sierra

This anthology features selections from fiction, nonfiction, and government documents of the nineteenth century that chronicle the splendor, the exploitation, and the controversies surrounding this extrao…

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