Happily Ever After 
The Romance Story in Popular Culture
Catherine M. Roach
"Roach's attempt to do emotional justice to the genre should satisfy academics and fans alike." —Publishers Weekly
Catherine M. Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into "Romancelandia": the land of the romance fiction, a women-centered multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon that creates national and international societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars.
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Congress, Presidents, and American Politics 
Fifty Years of Writings and Reflections
Lee H. Hamilton
"Hamilton provides a solid look at the thinking, actions, and failures from the Lyndon Johnson years to the present. . . . Hamilton's views on politicians might just renew some readers' faith in our elected officials. At once encouraging and enlightening, his writings stir hope, and what he says is still important all these years later. . . . The book—essentially an encapsulation of the author's philosophy of politics and politicians—is a good choice for those who want to believe in government again." —Kirkus Reviews
The Dead Sea and the Jordan River 
Barbara Kreiger
"A rare natural, political, and human history . . . Remarkable and timely." —Booklist
"Students of the Middle East will doubtless find this exhaustive report on the history and geopolitical details of the Dead Sea and the Jordan River indispensable." —Foreword Reviews
The natural and human history of these storied bodies of water, drawn on accounts by travelers, pilgrims, and explorers from ancient times to the present.
Kaveena 
Boubacar Boris Diop
Translated by Bhakti Shringarpure and Sara C. Hanaburgh
Foreword by Ayo A. Coly
"Always opinionated, always passionate, and always worth reading." —The Lit Hub
"A dark, ferocious novel that you won't put down unscathed, and certainly not any more confident in the goodness in the hearts of humankind." —Maurice Mourier, La Quinzaine Litteraire
In a civil-war torn nation where powerful men use others as pawns in a real-life violent chess match, the murder of six-year-old Kaveena and her mother’s quest for vengeance that brings about a surprise reckoning.
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Utter Chaos 
Sammy Gronemann
Translated by Penny Milbouer
Foreword by Joachim Schlör
"First published in 1920 and set 17 years earlier, Gronemann's newly translated novel blends satiric humor and an eerie sense of foreboding in relating the efforts of European Jews to assimilate at a wildly contentious and confusing time. . .A free-wheeling Jewish comic novel before its time, this artfully contained commentary on Jewish life in Europe in the early 1900s makes a welcome reappearance." —Kirkus Reviews
The Tortoise in Asia 
Tony Grey
Based on a popular legend in Gansu, the far western province of China, The Tortoise in Asia recounts the exploits of Marcus, a young Roman centurion schooled in the Greek classics who, after a devastating loss in a battle with the Parthians, is taken prisoner, marched along the Silk Road, and pressed into service as a border guard on the eastern frontier.
1915 Diary of S. An-sky 
A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front
S. A. An-sky
Translated from the Russian and with an Introduction by Polly Zavadivker
In 1915, An-sky took on the assignment of providing aid and relief to Jewish civilians trapped under Russian military occupation in Galicia. The diary fragments within are vivid firsthand descriptions of civilian and military life in wartime.
Comrade Huppert 
A Poet in Stalin's World
George Huppert
"Of interest to scholars of Austrian literature and history." —Kirkus Reviews
A historian details the life and work of Austrian communist and writer Hugo Huppert, a Jew, perhaps a relative, who embodies a distinctly central European experience of his time, of people trapped between Hitler and Stalin. Huppert tells a story of displacement and exile, the price of party loyalty, and the toll of war and terror on the mind of this emblematic figure.
Little Indiana 
Small Town Destinations
Jessica Nunemaker
"Jessica Nunemaker has a gift for uncovering hidden gems in small towns across Indiana and bringing each community to life. The amazing stories and photographs in Little Indiana: Small Town Destinations will entice you to explore the Hoosier state and ensure you know the best places to stay, play, eat and shop in each town." —Ken Kosky, Indiana Dunes Tourism Promotions Director
Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures 
Indiana Bicentennial Edition
James Whitcomb Riley
Illustrated by Will Vawter
Introduction by Norbert Krapf, former Indiana Poet Laureate
A must-have for Riley enthusiasts everywhere, this classic book has been faithfully reproduced for Indiana’s state bicentennial. Now with an introduction by lifelong Riley enthusiast and former Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf, this charming book contains 39 of James Whitcomb Riley's signature poems.
American Shame 
Stigma and the Body Politic
Edited by Myra Mendible
Examining shame through a prism of race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays offer a broader understanding of how America’s discourse of shame helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and moral actors.
The Well-Dressed Hobo 
The Many Wondrous Adventures of a Man Who Loves Trains
Rush Loving, Jr.
"Loving’s sweeping and grand epic on the renaissance of American railroading during the last 40 years and the characters, both wise and foolish, who helped make it a reality should be on the bookshelf of anyone who loves railroading as much as its author." —Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun
Now in paperback
In the Shadow of the Shtetl 
Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
Jeffrey Veidlinger
Winner, 2014 Canadian Jewish Book Awards, history category
"Hitherto the story of the Holocaust in the Eastern European shtetl has been told by those who left—on behalf of those who did not survive. What do we learn from these stories told from the shtetl itself? In the Shadow of the Shtetl restores horror to the setting in which it occurred: at home, among familiar people and places. . . . In their accounts the everyday and the extraordinary, the innocuous and the gruesome are continually intertwined" —New York Review of Books
Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia 
Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging
Tatjana Lichtenstein
"It has long been known that unlike elsewhere in East Central Europe, for census purposes, Jews in Czechoslovakia were recognized as a separate nationality as well as a religious group. Tatjana Lichtenstein explores the ramification of this distinction for Zionists and their interactions with this state in important study of Jewish nationalism." —Harriet Pass Freidenreich, Temple University
Now in paperback
Oscar Micheaux and His Circle 
African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era
Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser, Editors and Curators
"The 14 essays cover a range of topics, from overviews of black American performance and cinemas, to detailed analyses of Micheaux films, to thoughtful discussion of the work and impact of other groups of African American performers and filmmakers. The essays are lively and readable, casting light on an underrepresented fact of American film history.” —Library Journal
Expressionism and Film 
Rudolf Kurtz
Edited with an afterword by Christian Kiening and Ulrich Johannes Beil
Translated by Brenda Benthien
Expressionism and Film, originally published in German in 1926, is not only a classic of film history, but also an important work from the early phase of modern media history. Written with analytical brilliance and historical vision by a well-known contemporary of the expressionist movement, it captures Expressionism at the time of its impending conclusion—as an intersection of world view, resoluteness of form, and medial transition.
Speaking Pictures 
Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature
Alistair Fox
"Very rich argumentation that progressively constructs its object, shifting with much skill from the conceptual elaboration of its global perspective to the various concrete examples of works approached so to give it flesh and blood." —Raymond Bellour, film critic, theorist, and author of The Analysis of Film
Music of Azerbaijan 
From Mugham to Opera
Aida Huseynova
"In each chapter Huseynova combines historical context, cultural insights, and musicological analysis to create a study of musical and cultural fusion that is as compelling as it is informative. She rounds off the work with the re-staging of the Uzeyir Hajibeyli’s first mugham opera, played on the world stage with Alim Gasimov and Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble—a triumphant testimony to the power of cultural fusion." —Anna Oldfield, Coastal Carolina University
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A History of the Harpsichord 
Edward L. Kottick
A History of the Harpsichord brings together for the first time more than 200 photographs, illustrations, and drawings of harpsichords in public museums and private collections throughout Europe the United States. Edward L. Kottick draws on his extensive technical knowledge and experience as a harpsichord builder to detail the changing design, structure, and acoustics of the instrument over six centuries.
Writing Jewish Culture 
Paradoxes in Ethnography
Edited by Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran
"With its diverse chorus of academic voices, this anthology of new work on the cultural and literary history of Jewish ethnography is an extraordinarily rich, thoughtful, and engrossing text." —James Loeffler, author of The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
Power and Change in Iran 
Politics of Contention and Conciliation
Edited by Daniel Brumberg and Farideh Farhi
"By a wide margin, this book is the most sophisticated treatment of the internal dynamics and paradoxes of Iranian politics that I know of. The nuance, precision, insight, and details of the ebb and flow of the Iranian public sphere are what make this book truly unique. . . . The introduction is magisterial in terms of its depth, scope and objectivity. . . . The chapters flow well together and they are organized in an effective manner." —Nader Hashemi, co-author of The Syria Dilemma
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