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Empty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives Through Public Design
$49.95 Add to cartFinalist for the UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes’ J.B. Jackson Book Prize
Empty Pedestals uses a design perspective to explore how monuments to the Confederacy sp
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title- Series: Reading the American Landscape
- Author: Boone, Kofi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181560
- Language: English
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Elements & Offerings
$20.95 Add to cartThe poet Paul Celan noted that, in his view of language, thinking and thanking are cognate, innately connected in their roots and connotations. Elements & Offerings, a new collection of poems by Dan … [more below]
- Author: Beachy-Quick, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0807186031
- Language: English
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Rubble Masonry
$29.95 Read moreRubble Masonry is a collection of lyric essays that takes its title from the practice of stone masons who, rather than using materials cut to ideal measurements, work with found rocks’ natural shapes…. [more below]
- Author: McLarney, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0807185892
- Language: English
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Driving the Beast: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartDriving the Beast is a book about movement. Christopher Bakken’s poems shift between Greece and the American Midwest, tracking the restless nature of selfhood, while seeking glimpses of the sacred in … [more below]
- Series: Sewanee Poetry
- Author: Bakken, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: December 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184756
- Language: English
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
$44.95 Add to cartThe poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkans
- Author: Gray, Laguana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0807157686
- Language: English
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Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway
$39.95 Add to cartThe multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers’s magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach ha… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185094
- Language: English
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The Furies: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartIn The Furies, Moira Egan offers fierce feminist reimaginings of familiar myths and narratives, from Arachne to Echo, from Medusa and Mary Magdalene to the female characters of The Odyssey, in verse… [more below]
- Author: Egan, Moira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: October 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184985
- Language: English
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The Ramos Gin Fizz
$24.95 Add to cartThe Ramos Gin Fizz was invented sometime around 1890 by Henry Charles “Carl” Ramos at his Imperial Cabinet saloon in New Orleans. It includes lemon and lime juice, egg white, cream, and orange flower
- Series: Iconic New Orleans Cocktails
- Author: Reed, John Shelton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: July 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183520
- Language: English
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The Obituary Cocktail
$24.95 Add to cartIn a city known for celebrating in the face of death, it’s no surprise that the funerary tradition is honored by a drink. The Obituary Cocktail is a spirited dive into New Orleans’s bohemian past, chr
- Series: Iconic New Orleans Cocktails
- Author: Strachan, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184799
- Language: English
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Chef Celeste’s Louisiana Kitchen: Simplifying Cajun and Creole Cuisine
$34.95 Add to cartChef Celeste Gill began to learn traditional southern cooking from her mother and grandmother at the age of four. Raised in Detroit and trained as a chef in Hawaii, she ultimately chose to make her ho
- Author: Gill, Celeste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184977
- Language: English
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By Stone and Needle: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2025 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award
Shimmering to the pulse of the unseen, By Stone and Needle circles like a compass needle around the figure of the witch. Catherine Carter concocts a bo- Author: Carter, Catherine W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185078
- Language: English
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The Road to Cisterna: Darby’s Rangers and Their Most Consequential Battle in World War II
$44.95 Add to cartThe Road to Cisterna is the story of Darby’s Rangers, an elite American army unit in World War II, selected for toughness and specially trained in beach landings and lightning raids deep behind enemy
- Author: Williams, David Lyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185035
- Language: English
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The New Rules of Dining Out: An Insider’s Guide to Enjoying Restaurants
$29.95 Add to cartThe New Rules of Dining Out is the quintessential resource for anyone, from the casual diner to the ardent foodie, who wants to dine like a pro. Sharing colorful anecdotes from his 20-plus years of ex
- Author: Reiner, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185043
- Language: English
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You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song
$29.95 Add to cartIn You Are My Sunshine, Robert Mann weaves together the birth of country music, Louisiana political history, World War II, and the American civil rights movement to produce a compelling biography of o
- Author: Mann, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183504
- Language: English
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Civil War Cavalry: Waging Mounted Warfare in Nineteenth-Century America
$49.95 Add to cartThe Civil War produced the largest cavalry force ever raised in American history. In Civil War Cavalry, Earl J. Hess examines that force comprehensively and from new perspectives, challenging standar… [more below]
- Author: Hess, Earl J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184446
- Language: English
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The Appalachian Sea: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartSteve Scafidi’s The Appalachian Sea explores the eponymous place of mountains and story, of rivers and magic, as well as of mortality, where people work and live and die. What began as an homage to th… [more below]
- Series: Southern Messenger Poets
- Author: Scafidi, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: July 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184713
- Language: English
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Mother Water Ash: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartMother Water Ash, a wrenching new collection of poems by Nicole Cooley, explores the personal grief of a mother’s sudden death alongside the environmental crises of the storms, fires, and floods that… [more below]
- Author: Cooley, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: July 25 2024
- ISBN10: 080718246X
- Language: English
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The Winter Dance Party: Poems, 1983-2023
$34.95 Add to cartThe Winter Dance Party lays out, not someone’s entire life, but that person’s life as a poet. This enthralling, career-spanning book by the National Book Award finalist David Kirby is made up mainly o… [more below]
- Author: Kirby, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182443
- Language: English
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Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory
$44.95 Add to cartCourt Carney’s Reckoning with the Devil grapples with the troubled, complex legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest–a slave trader, Confederate general, and prominent Klansman. More than a century after his
- Author: Carney, Court
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0807171530
- Language: English
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Melted Away: A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru
$29.95 Add to cartA prolific poet as a child, Barbara Drake-Vera loved writing almost as much as she adored her father, a moody postal employee with an elaborate comb-over and a fondness for Mahler. But when her succes
- Author: Drake-Vera, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181528
- Language: English
