This Book is Free and Yours to Keep
Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project
Indigenous Ecocinema
Decolonizing Media Environments
Utter, Earth
Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
Hell’s Not Far Off
Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left
God of River Mud
A Novel
Grappling with innate desires and LGBTQ identity, a family struggles under the oppressive expectations foisted on them by fundamentalist Christianity.
Finding the Singing Spruce
Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests
Environment, craft, and meaning in the work of Appalachian instrument makers.
Mama Said
Stories
Original stories of Black family life in Louisville, Kentucky, for readers of Dantiel Moniz (Milk Blood Heat) and Kai Harris (What the Fireflies Knew).
“Surprising and revelatory. . . . I love this book.” —Stephanie Powell Watts, author of No One Is Coming to Save Us
Critical Geographies of Youth
Law, Policy, and Power
Scholarly and activist perspectives on identities often overlooked in the study of geography: youth and age.
Shattered
Fragments of a Black Life
A heartrending and engrossing memoir that challenges narratives of racial progress and postracial America.
“Every so often, a book comes along that changes the way we see, speak, and think about the world. Shattered is one of those books.” —Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Afropessimism and Incognegro
Clear Creek
Toward a Natural Philosophy
Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world’s cycles, revelations, and redemptions.
Essential Voices
A COVID-19 Anthology
A collection of creative writing and art about COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic by people from vulnerable populations.
The Wounds That Bind Us
The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels the globe with her young daughter in a Land Rover.
Abigail Field Mott's The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano
A Scholarly Edition
An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition.
Community across Time
Robert Morgan’s Words for Home
One of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan.
Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom
How teachers can help combat higher education’s mental health crisis.
American Energy Cinema
Historians investigate the relationships between film, culture, and energy.
In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me
Stories
For readers of Elena Ferrante, Nicole Krauss, and Carmen Maria Machado, In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me is a braided story collection that invokes the real, surreal, and mythic to explore the longings and loneliness of contemporary love.
Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene
A more-than-human approach to planetary survival, from a leading environmental humanist.
The In-Betweens
A Lyrical Memoir
The biracial coming-of-age journey of a boy from Black and Jewish families—a “brilliant, devastating book.”
The Fifth Border State
Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872
One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia’s origins in over a century—and one that corrects previous histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding.
Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility
The Agrochemical-GMO Industry in Hawai‘i
How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power.
Picture a Professor
Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning
A collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies to inspire transformative student learning and interrupt stereotypes about what a professor looks like.
Bratwurst Haven
Stories
Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.
Imperium in Imperio
A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics.
Curing Season
Artifacts
“A lovely and rapturous excavation and examination of the past, a lesson in writing oneself into history when it doesn’t offer you a space.” —Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life
Almanac for the Anthropocene
A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures
Original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as ways to resist hopelessness in response to the climate crisis.
Inclusive Teaching
Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom
Award-winning teachers offer practical tips for addressing inequities in the college classroom and for making all students feel welcome and included.
Teaching Matters
A Guide for Graduate Students
A practical and evidence-based teaching guide for graduate students across all fields.
A Year without Months
“A beautiful, powerful book. Read it and be changed.”—Jim Minick
Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology
Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World
What does memory mean for learning in an age of smartphones and search engines?
Lioness
A Novel
“Darkly compelling.” —Tom Perrotta
Hungry Town
A Novel
“A literary page-turner. . . . Part Cormac McCarthy, part Tom Drury and Raymond Chandler, Kapcala has created a voice all his own.” —Brian Castleberry
Another Appalachia
Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
Rogues in the Postcolony
Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India
An environmental humanist’s study of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation in Indian fiction.
African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.
Slow Fuse of the Possible
A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis
An engrossing and beautifully crafted memoir of imagination, obsession, and disaster from the couch of old-fashioned four-times-a-week psychoanalysis.
Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw
The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist.
Engaging the Atom
The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present
Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society.
Perfect Dirt
And Other Things I've Gotten Wrong
Recounted with humor and honesty, Lester invites us into his life as he struggles with masculinity and searches for a place where he fits.
A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers
The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199
History at the intersection of healthcare, labor, and civil rights.
The Harlan Renaissance
Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.
Rock Climbing in Kentucky's Red River Gorge
An Oral History of Community, Resources, and Tourism
Tells the fascinating story of the Red’s climbing community through interviews with the people who lived that history and considers how sustainable ecotourism might contribute to the region economically.