Grappling with innate desires and LGBTQ identity, a family struggles under the oppressive expectations foisted on them by fundamentalist Christianity.

Environment, craft, and meaning in the work of Appalachian instrument makers.

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

Scholarly and activist perspectives on identities often overlooked in the study of geography: youth and age.

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

Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world’s cycles, revelations, and redemptions.

A collection of creative writing and art about COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic by people from vulnerable populations.

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.

An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition.

One of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan.

How teachers can help combat higher education’s mental health crisis.

Historians investigate the relationships between film, culture, and energy.

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.
 

A more-than-human approach to planetary survival, from a leading environmental humanist.

The biracial coming-of-age journey of a boy from Black and Jewish families—a “brilliant, devastating book.”

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.

How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power.

A collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies to inspire transformative student learning and interrupt stereotypes about what a professor looks like.
 

Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.

A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics.
 

“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
 

Original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as ways to resist hopelessness in response to the climate crisis.

Award-winning teachers offer practical tips for addressing inequities in the college classroom and for making all students feel welcome and included.

“Part mystery, part fable but all original, Jim Foote is sure to be one of your favorite literary detectives—cryptid or otherwise.” —Jordan Farmer, author of The Poison Flood and The Pallbearer
 

A practical and evidence-based teaching guide for graduate students across all fields.

“A beautiful, powerful book. Read it and be changed.”—Jim Minick

What does memory mean for learning in an age of smartphones and search engines?

“Darkly compelling.” —Tom Perrotta

“A literary page-turner. . . . Part Cormac McCarthy, part Tom Drury and Raymond Chandler, Kapcala has created a voice all his own.” —Brian Castleberry

An environmental humanist’s study of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation in Indian fiction.

Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.

An engrossing and beautifully crafted memoir of imagination, obsession, and disaster from the couch of old-fashioned four-times-a-week psychoanalysis.
 

The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist.
 

Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society.
 

Recounted with humor and honesty, Lester invites us into his life as he struggles with masculinity and searches for a place where he fits.
 

History at the intersection of healthcare, labor, and civil rights.
 

A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.