Non-Fiction

From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a "rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S." (The New Yorker) Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett's first collection of poetry, The...

"Overnight Code is a must-read for anyone seeking inspiration to overcome social barriers and to shatter glass ceilings." --Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate The inspiring story of a groundbreaking African...

Control, Conquer, and Prevail! Everybody's biased. The truth is, we all harbor unconscious assumptions that can get in the way of our good intentions and keep us from building authentic relationships with people different from ourselves. Tiffany Jana...

More than seven million people visit the Outer Banks of North Carolina every year, and they all fall in love with its coastal Southern cuisine. The Outer Banks Cookbook is a true celebration of the many flavors of North Carolina's coastal communities...

LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021 'Inspiring'The Guardian'Excellent'Runner's World 'Fascinating'Publishers Weekly 'Brilliant'Ed Vaizey'Through reading this book you will come to understand that the heart and soul of running are to be found in...

A thrilling new route to a better societyA toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that...

For nearly fifteen years NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture has been a leading scholarly journal of baseball history. Covering the cultural and historical implications of America's national pastime, NINE has explored baseball from the...

Out of the Ashes is the prodigal story of Deanna Wilson's struggle from the depths of hell on earth to a place of redemption, where she is finally able to see the realization of dreams she'd did not even know she had. As Deanna candidly recounts her...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country...

When the food of a culture survives, the culture itself continues. Our Texas Heritage celebrates the culture as well as the cuisine of the variety of groups that settled in Texas between the Civil War and World War ll. Each group has its own unique story...

The riveting story of four men--Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige--whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond. In July 1947, not even...

"This is home cooking with a twist of whimsy and a dash of Paula Dean decadence." - Booklist A pinch of the North and a dash of the South! Oh, Sweet Basil bloggers Cade and Carrian Cheney blend their Pacific Northwest and Southern roots in these...