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Yael Valencia Aldana
Black Mestiza

"For our ancestors below the sea from our ancestors across the sea I see you, you see me. In this powerful, profound, and prophetic collection, Yael Valencia Aldana reckons with her identity as a Car…

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Jennifer Brian,
Classic Cocktail Revival

"Creating craft cocktails - flavorful and aesthetically pleasing combinations of spirits, juices, syrups, and garnishes - is both an art and an experience. Establishing a cocktail ritual can carve ou…

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Roohi Choudhry
Outside Women

"Would you risk your own life to pursue justice for a stranger? Two migrant women-separated by geographies and generations-face this same devastating choice. Lured away from her home in 1890s India, …

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Jonathan Corcoran
No Son of Mine

"Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Jonathan Corcoran was the youngest and only son of three siblings in a family balanced on the precipice of poverty. His mother, a traditional, evangelical, an…

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Arthur T. Coumbe
Soldiers in the Schoolhouse

Established in 1916, with training programs in over three thousand high schools and an enrollment of more than half a million student cadets across the country, the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps…

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Coumbe
Soldiers in the Schoolhouse

Established in 1916, with training programs in over three thousand high schools and an enrollment of more than half a million student cadets across the country, the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps…

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Monic Ductan
Daughters of Muscadine

"Two events tie together the nine stories in Monic Ductan's gorgeous debut: the 1920s lynching of Ida Pearl Crawley and the 1980s drowning of a high school basketball player, Lucy Boudreaux. Both for…

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Charles D Dusch
Balloon Ace

In 1927, when aviator Charles A. Lindbergh flew his famous monoplane in a triumphant tour of the United States, the Spirit of St. Louis touched down in Wheeling, West Virginia, for his visit to the Linsly…

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Julia Flint
We Were Promised

"Karen "Momma K" Gorrell did not consider herself to be an activist. But when those she cared about were wronged, she refused to remain silent. With the economy still reeling from the Great…

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Thom Gossom, Sam Heys,
Just Follow Me

"In 1969, James Owens (1951-2016) made sports history as the first Black football player at Auburn University-a significant milestone that marked the beginning of the end of segregation in the Southe…

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Bryan N Groves
When Presidents Fight the Last War

Many still see the Vietnam War catastrophe as the ultimate cautionary tale for US presidents faced with wartime decisions. A singular focus on Vietnam, however, overlooks the seismic shift in strategy fol…

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Dani Lamorte
Nobody's Psychic

In Nobody's Psychic, Dani Lamorte sets out to define his sense of self and the world in a discordant collection of memories both vivid and surreal. Raised in a church driven by apocalyptic paranoia and ho…

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Sonya Lea
American Bloodlines

"Summer 1936: Rainey Bethea, a young Black man, is tried for the rape and murder of an elderly white woman. The all-white, all-male jury takes just four and a half minutes to find him guilty. Bethea …

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Tim Loughman
A Strange Whim of the Sea

"The USS Macaw was one of the few Chanticleer-class submarine rescue vessels active in World War II, and she was the only one that met a harrowing end not at the hands of any human enemy, but from th…

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Luke Manget
Ginseng Diggers

The harvesting of wild American ginseng ( panax quinquefolium), the gnarled, aromatic herb known for its therapeutic and healing properties, is deeply rooted in North America, but nowhere has it played a …

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Christopher McKittrick
Vera Miles

"Captivating, talented, and beautiful, Vera Miles was destined for fame. Within a few years of making her way to Hollywood in 1949, she starred in such films as The Rose Bowl Story (1952), Tarzan's H…

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Manini Nayar
Being Here

*"We are all now writing stories. Sometimes in memory, sometimes in air. The wind lifts and passes us in gusts. Our stories scatter over continents, camouflaged histories we cannot share."*In th…

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Caleb Pendygraft
Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival

"What happens to reading and writing when place, emotion, and materiality are just as important as the ability to write or to engage with a text? Grounded in the field of literacy studies, Reading, W…

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Mary Perdue
Landaluce

"When Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew retired from racing in 1978 to stand at stud at Spendthrift Farm, no one could be certain he would be a successful sire. But just four years later, his dark bay…

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Mandi Fugate Sheffel
The Nature of Pain

In The Nature of Pain, Fugate Sheffel recounts coming of age during the opioid epidemic of the late nineties and early 2000s.

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