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Joanna Allan
Saharan Winds

As the climate crisis ensues, a transition away from fossil fuels becomes urgent. However, some renewable energy developments are propagating injustices such as landgrabs, colonial dispossession, and envi…

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John Antonik
Almost Heaven

Before assembling 40 winning campaigns as head coach of the Florida State Seminoles, Bobby Bowden served as head coach of the West Virginia University Mountaineers for six seasons. Although he logged five…

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Chris Campanioni
North by North/West

A hybrid work of creative nonfiction assembled as several iterative sequences--a discontinuous itinerary--of exile. A personal, critical, and autoethnographic exploration of diasporic identity formation a…

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh
The Spark of Learning

Historically we have constructed our classrooms with the assumption that learning is a dry, staid affair best conducted in quiet tones and ruled by an unemotional consideration of the facts. The field of …

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Mo Daviau
Epic and Lovely

Epic and Lovelyis the swan song of Nina Simone Blaine, the daughter of a long-dead 1950s Vegas crooner and a Texas beauty queen forty years his junior. In the wake of her unexpected divorce, Nina returns …

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Zoë Gadegbeku
Blue Futures, Break Open

On a mythical island oasis for Black souls, Lucille, a half-divine, half-human seamstress, juggles the responsibility of ensuring everyone's safety while seeking and losing love in her personal life in th…

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Marc Harshman
Dispatch from the Mountain State

A collection of poems anchored in West Virginia and engaging in the trademark themes of a mature poet--death, despair, dread and the seeming randomness with which all these come into a life.

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William Delisle Hay,
Doom of the Great City; Being the Narrative of a Survivor, Written A.D. 1942

This first critical edition of William Delisle Hay's novel introduces readers to the earliest tale of urban apocalypse and environmental devastation through a curated collection of historical excerpts and…

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Amanda E Hayes
Madison Women

By uncovering how higher education and gender roles evolved in Appalachia over time, The Madison Women delivers a history that contradicts the stereotype of the region as hostile to education, highlightin…

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Megan Howell
Softie

In beautifully melancholy stories of magical realism, the women and girls in Softie transform their bodies and test their sanity, trying to find meaning in the loneliest of places.A former child star haun…

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Henry T Ireys, Priscilla M Ireys
The Keep

When a mid-life couple finds an old farm that promises refuge from hectic lives and encroaching illness, their world opens up to unexpected adventures: breeding heritage goats, hogs, and cattle; managing …

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Margaret Jones
Public Health in Jamaica, 1850-1940

Using a range of primary sources from imperial, colonial and local government records, Rockefeller Foundation Archives, memoirs and reports, this study provides the most comprehensive account to date of p…

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Helen Kapstein
Petroforms

Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an offshoot of developments in postcolonial ecocriticism. Studies of resource fiction and …

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Kathryn J Kirkpatrick
Enraptured Space

In the first book-length study of one of Ireland's leading contemporary poets, Paula Meehan emerges as an original voice whose perspectives on gender, class, and ecology are transforming the Irish literar…

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Jennifer Mapes
The New American Small Town

What makes a sustainable city? When planners and politicians talk about making cities more sustainable, they often describe changes to large urban centers like New York City or Los Angeles. Yet when they …

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Woodville Marshall
Near a Plantation

In Near a Plantation, Woodville Marshall presents a transformative account of post-slavery Barbados. Through meticulous examination of wills and deeds, Marshall challenges established assumptions, delving…

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Douglas W Milliken
Enclosure Architect

It seems like a sign of liberation--of adulthood's indefinite postponement--when partisans bomb the university and every student's personal records, from transcripts to debts, are consumed in erasing fire…

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Salma Monani
Indigenous Ecocinema

Introducing the concepts of d-ecocinema and d-ecocinema criticism, Monani expands the purview of ecocinema studies and not only brings attention to a thriving Indigenous cinema archive but also argues for…

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Sarah L Morris
Lessons from Take Me Home, Country Roads

You may have heard it at a football game, in an advertisement, or on the radio on a road trip far from home. It may have moved you to dance at a wedding or cry at a funeral. Regardless of where it plays, …

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Jason L Newton
Cutover Capitalism

What happened to the loggers of America's past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did these communities continue to create value and meaning in t…

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