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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.
Swarm
JAY ALLEN
From early deployments like Starlink and OneWeb to a growing wave of planned systems from nations and commercial players, Swarm traces how commercial ambition and state strategy are becoming inseparable in orbit.
Appearing in English and Ewe, Kofi Anyidoho’s poems in Ghananya Revisited are a lyrical tribute to the Ewe-speaking people, exploring themes of tradition, identity, resistance, community, and the evolving Ghanaian experience.
Last Flight Out of Kabul
JAMES P. DEHART
Last Flight out of Kabul alternates between DeHart’s year in Panjshir and the massive U.S. evacuation twelve years later.
Battle of Values
MARK G. POMAR
Battle of Values tells the story of the founding of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and how its broadcasts communicated the values of freedom, human rights, and democracy to audiences in closed societies, offering lessons from Cold War broadcasting that are relevant in today’s U.S. national security climate.
A Prisoner in Dixieland reconstructs the complete Civil War experience of Union soldier Stephen French, offering a rare and unvarnished view of the daily realities of wartime service.
Queens on the Court
DACE CALDWELL MARTINEZ
In Queens on the Court, Dace Caldwell Martinez chronicles the unlikely journey of young women from poor, rural families and their trailblazing path to success at a small Texas college.
Nyamuteza
JEDIDIAH MUGARURA
The sonorous book-length poem is a love song that unravels the affective from the perspective of a village in rural Uganda devastated by the climate catastrophe of a hailstorm.
Mercy and Debris
STEVEN WINGATE
Tender, incisive, and honest, Mercy and Debris gives readers slices of soul-searching life in a region of America that wants the comfort of traditional societal roles but recognizes that the times and its people are changing in ways that can’t be predicted or controlled.
Gettysburg Cavalry Commander
EDWARD G. LONGACRE
Separating fact from fiction, Edward G. Longacre tells the story of Major General Alfred Pleasonton, a controversial but supposedly a key player in helping save the Union Army of the Potomac from disaster during the Civil War.
