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Elizabeth A Athens
William Bartram's Visual Wonders

Winner, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 2024 Literary Award for NonfictionPennsylvania naturalist William Bartram (1739-1823) is best known as the author of a travelogue describing his botanizing journey th…

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Angela Ball
Steeplechase

Steeplechaseexplores multiple landscapes, including Mississippi and its many church steeples; countries known and unknown; cities and inhabitants both aspirational and lost. Its voice is humorous, bewilde…

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Aristides Baltas
Peeling Potatoes or Grinding Lenses

"I can work best now while peeling potatoes. . . . It is for me what lens-grinding was for Spinoza."--L. WittgensteinMore than 250 years separate the publication of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics and L…

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Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Investigations of Nature

Investigations of Nature takes us on a guided tour through history, when voyages of exploration and exploitation were tied to technological advances in navigation and warfare; religious unity was broken w…

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Shannon Cain
The Necessity of Certain Behaviors

Winner of the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeShannon Cain's stories chart the treacherous territory of the illicit. They expose the absurdity of our rituals, our definitions of sexuality, and above all, …

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Kameryn Alexa Carter
Antediluvian

Antediluvianengages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality. Written in part during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book's speaker calls on an intertextual constellation of artist…

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Joseph Stanhope Cialdella
Motor City Green

Winner, 2021 CCL J. B. Jackson Book Prize Winner, 2020 Jon Gjerde Prize from the Midwestern History AssociationMotor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteent…

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Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Writing Architectural History

Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing …

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Marilyn M Cooper
The Animal Who Writes

Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter--treaties, new species, soft…

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D&,
Gravitation

Translated by Nathan FieldsThe selected poetry of Milan Dězinský, translated by Nathan Fields, including many poems previously not published in English by the celebrated Czech poet.

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José Carlos Díaz-Zanelli
Insurgent Veins

Insurgent Veins examines the decolonial ideological bridge between the early twentieth-century indigenista literary tradition and its influence on the consolidation of Indigenous literature, which emerged…

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Denise Duhamel
Pink Lady

When her mother agrees to enter a Rhode Island nursing home in December of 2019, Denise Duhamel promises she'll visit at least once a month. By March of 2020, everyone is in lockdown. The elegies in Pink …

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Marshall C Eakin
Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

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Marshall C. Eakin
Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

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Lara Egger
Flop Era

Flop Era reckons with the complications of being human, and therefore, with the consequences of being fundamentally flawed. It contends with failed potential and the certain uncertainty of the future, whi…

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Lara Egger
Flop Era

Flop Era reckons with the complications of being human, and therefore, with the consequences of being fundamentally flawed. It contends with failed potential and the certain uncertainty of the future, whi…

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Bobby Elliott
The Same Man

Winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeA one-of-a-kind debut that asks what we owe those we love, The Same Man is an aching chronicle of the early days of parenthood and the wounds of the pas…

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Catherine Boland Erkkila
Spaces of Immigration

By transporting waves of newly arrived immigrants along rail lines from both coasts, railway companies played an active role in repopulating the interior of the country. Spaces of Immigration follows the …

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Bill Gaythwaite
A Place in the World

Winner of the 2025 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeStories of Ordinary People Experiencing Extraordinary CircumstancesThe eleven stories in A Place in the World are character-driven portrayals of various lives…

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Allan Gillies
Narco-Democratization

The development of the global illicit drug trade has posed significant challenges to democracy throughout Latin America. Scenes of violence and disorder linked to organized crime and the "war on drug…

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