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Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville
BRIAN K. BURTON
Through the winter of 1862 and spring of 1863, the U.S. Army and Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia clashed along the Rappahannock River in two major battles. Civil War historian Brian K. Burton provides a clear, concise narrative of the battles and offers a stop-by-stop guide through Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.

Red Woman
PEARL E. CASIAS
With unflinching honesty, Casias lays out the problems confronting Southern Ute people, including the harm that centuries of colonialism have wrought on the reservation. Blending her personal story with that of her tribe, Casias describes how, as a tribal leader, she strove to develop positive cultural values within Ute society.

So Young, So Great
JIM INGRAHAM
By focusing on the first six years of Feller’s career, So Young, So Great captures in revelatory detail Bob Feller’s unprecedented arrival, as a high school teenager, on the Big League stage, and his rapid ascension into one of the game’s all-time greats.

Emancipation War
DAMON ROOT
In Emancipation War award-winning journalist Damon Root chronicles the great legal, political, and military struggle to amend the U.S. Constitution to outlaw slavery once and for all.

Bloodlines
LIZA J. NICHOLAS
Bloodlines: A Story of Horses, Family, and Obsession is a love story—of a mother’s love for her husband and a father’s love for horses. Combining memoir and social history with a journey into the world of horses, Liza J. Nicholas reveals how a parent’s passions can determine the destiny of an entire family.

The Texas Rangers and Me
T.R. SULLIVAN
The Texas Rangers and Me takes readers on a journey through the incredible highs and lows and the unforgettable moments that have shaped the franchise through the eyes of beat reporter T.R. Sullivan, who covered the team for thirty-two years, longer than any reporter in franchise history.

Forward to Richmond
BRIAN K. BURTON
Covering all aspects of the war in Virginia in the first six months of 1862, Forward to Richmond treats the military actions in the Shenandoah Valley, the Piedmont, and the Peninsula as part of a theatre-wide campaign.

Have You Landed?
EMMA COMERY
Have You Landed? offers nuanced portraits of life across the U.S. military—Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and National Guard—and includes the experiences of wives, husbands, partners, widows, and exes. It describes life as a modern military partner and the commitment to a lifestyle that often challenges our notions of love, family, strength, and self.

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
PATRICIA JABBEH WESLEY
In conversation with Africa and her new homeland of America, Wesley’s craft is imbued with Grebo oral tradition, bringing her language alive as she makes the reader cry out in anger or laughter. On one page you may find reason to mourn the brutality of war, and on the next, a reason to laugh about the beauty of family or at the small wonders of everyday life.

Vulture Gold
MICAH DEAN HICKS
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the characters in Vulture Gold challenge expectations and norms in a dark and magical shared world. A wedding dress turns a reluctant bride into a flock of birds, and families put on their wolf coats before devouring one another. These growling, prickly-feathered stories blur the lines between human and animal, living and dead.
