Set in western Montana, the Nebraska Sandhills, rural Iowa, and beyond, Bloodlines tells the story of how one man’s passions ripple through generations. It is the story of a family who followed their father across the country in search of the fastest horse, the best deal, the promise of a payday.

In this history of the Civil War’s early eastern theater in the Shenandoah Valley, the Piedmont, and the Peninsula, Brian K. Burton goes beyond military events to also examine the political, social, and diplomatic interactions that led Union soldiers to begin moving toward support of emancipation.

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.

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.

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.

Welcome to a dark country of sadness and wonder. Where 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.

Part siren songs, part torch songs, Pyrrhic Symphony sings wry lullabies for apocalypses public, personal, and politic, moving from cruise ships to Krakatoa, from a dentist’s office to a marriage as it explores how love, family, community, and art can function in the face of an increasingly hostile climate.

Oklahoma Reconsidered provides a concise and conversational history of Oklahoma from the 1700s and into the twenty-first century by two historians who show how Oklahoma has been shaped by wars, epidemics, civil rights movements, and unified efforts to heal after devastating terrorist attacks.

Paul VanDevelder’s propulsive and kaleidoscopic essays give a sense of the West we want as well as the West we have created, with all the messiness, uncertainty, and joy that life in a tough place produces.

In this literary reckoning, each essay endeavors to more intimately understand the loves and landscapes that have made, and are making, Wilkins and his family.