Through this journey into how we construct our personal histories, Madden reveals the surprising pleasure, and occasional painful truth, of never really knowing.

In Ice Tribes Card explores the traditions of ice fishing and the science of ice formation, cataloging the joys and wonders of the sport even as he depicts the terror of breaking through the ice and ponders ice fishing’s future in a changing climate.

In this intimate, character-driven retelling of Kennedy’s last six years, B.J. Hollars focuses on the experiences that fundamentally transformed the man Kennedy became in the final chapter of his life. Rare interviews and archival research provide new dimensions to this profile.

Dancing Warrior is the biography of Cheyenne artist Paul Flying Eagle Goodbear, born in Oklahoma on the cusp of territory and statehood, and the story of Molly Hollenbach’s determined historical sleuthing to pen that biography. 

Using the creek as her literary lens, Kittredge grounds her essays in hope for a “better year next year.” As she explores an increasingly contested West, one where new settlers encounter both acceptance and deep resentment from those who came before, she advocates adapting to new ways of seeing, knowing, and being—all vital for a sense of belonging and place.

Edward G. Longacre makes a thorough and conscientious attempt to separate fact from fiction and truth from deception in Gettysburg Cavalry Commander.

In You Gotta Love These Guys David F. Schmitz recounts the full history of the Seattle Mariners, covering the team on the field, the larger history off the field, and the team’s impact as a social institution on Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

This collection covers eight years of unrest, personal and communal, beginning with stubborn patriotic certainty, a faith in neighborliness and American ideals, and ending with something broader: an alliance with the matriarch, Mother Nature, and the ways she elides ideology or definition. 

In Redlin or Rodin he looks to understand how the romantic palette of a farm country pastoral scene can obscure the industrialization of the very same land.

Taking its name from an old map used in the early ages for navigating by ship, Portolan, by Daniela Danz, redirects our gaze from land to the seas, following the routes of container shipping that, in our globalized world, connect us all through tourism, warfare, commerce, and ecological disaster.