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New & Forthcoming

Irregular Heartbeats at the Park West

Russell Brakefield

Bold yet vulnerable poems that traverse family, friendship, grief, Americana, and the writer's life.

Paperback
Available January 2024
ISBN: 9780814351024
$17.99
Ebook
Available January 2024
ISBN: 9780814351031
$17.99

Science Fiction Theatre

J. P. Telotte

Embark on an odyssey through the series that galvanized the television sci-fi anthology genre.

Paperback
Available January 2024
ISBN: 9780814350294
$19.99
Ebook
Available January 2024
ISBN: 9780814350300
$19.99

Diver Beneath the Street

Petra Kuppers

True crime meets ecopoetry at the level of the soil, bringing together life and death.

Paperback
Available February 2024
ISBN: 9780814351116
$17.99
Ebook
Available February 2024
ISBN: 9780814351123
$17.99

Relief After Hardship

The Ottoman Turkish Model for the Thousand and One Days

Ulrich Marzolph

Contributes to the history of Middle Eastern narrative lore and its impact on Western tradition.

Paperback
Available February 2024
ISBN: 9780814351154
$24.99
Hardcover
Available February 2024
ISBN: 9780814342770
$44.99
eBOOK
Available February 2024
ISBN: 9780814342763

The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory

edited by Natalia Aleksiun, Zofia Wóycicka, and Raphael Utz

Examining the uses -- and misuses -- of memory of aiding Jews during the Holocaust.

Paperback
Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350836
$36.99
Hardcover
Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814349502
$94.99
Ebook
Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814349519
$36.99

Queer Jews, Queer Muslims

Race, Religion, and Representation

edited by Adi Saleem

Groundbreaking essays on the intersection of Jewish, Muslim, and LGBTQ identities.

Paperback
Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350874
$29.99
Hardcover
Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350881
$99.99
Ebook
Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350898
$29.99

For Times Such as These

A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year

Rabbi Ariana Katz and Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg

A revolutionary guide to Jewish practice rooted in social justice, feminism, and queer liberation.

Paperback
Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350515
$29.99
Ebook
Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350522
$29.99

When Detroit Played the Numbers

Gambling's History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City

Felicia B. George

How Detroit entrepreneurs created a thriving - if illegal - lottery system to support themselves and uplift their communities.

Paperback
Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350768
$29.99
Hardcover
Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350775
$94.99
Ebook
Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350782
$29.99

The Salmon Capital of Michigan

The Rise and Fall of a Great Lakes Fishery

Carson Prichard

Local voices reveal the personal stories and cultural legacy of a once-flourishing fishing town impacted by environmental change.

Paperback
Available April 2024
ISBN: 9780814351130
$26.99
Ebook
Available April 2024
ISBN: 9780814351147
$26.99

Michigan's Venice

The Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Landscape, 1640–2000

Daniel F. Harrison

A chronicle of a unique waterscape and how its inhabitants navigated, claimed, and reshaped the region.

Hardcover
Available April 2024
ISBN: 9780814349472
$39.99
Ebook
Available April 2024
ISBN: 9780814349489
$39.99

Ma Lineal

A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family

Faith S. Holsaert

An inspiring memoir about love, race, identity, and contested narratives told with unflinching mettle.

Paperback
Available April 2024
ISBN: 9780814350799
$29.99
Ebook
Available April 2024
ISBN: 9780814350805
$29.99

Matrilineal Dissent

Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History

edited by Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan, and Ashley Walters

Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.

Paperback
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814349854
$39.99
Hardcover
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814349861
$92.99
Ebook
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814349847
$39.99

Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties

Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway

Philip P. Mason

A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan.

Paperback
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814351048
$25.99
Hardcover
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814325834
$39.99
Ebook
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814351055
$19.99

Carrying a Big Schtick

Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

Miriam Eve Mora

Jewish masculinity as a diverse set of adaptive reactions to masculine hegemony and the political, religious, and social realities of American Jews throughout the twentieth century.

Paperback
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814349625
$39.99
Hardcover
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814349632
$99.99
Ebook
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814349649
$39.99

On Rhetoric and Black Music

Earl H. Brooks

How Black musicians and composers used their craft to define and influence public discourse.

Paperback
Available June 2024
ISBN: 9780814346488
$36.99
Hardcover
Available June 2024
ISBN: 9780814346471
$94.99
Ebook
Available June 2024
ISBN: 9780814346495
$36.99

A Jew in the Street

New Perspectives on European Jewish History

edited by Nancy Sinkoff, Jonathan Karp, James Loeffler, and Howard Lupovitch

Reconsidering how early modern and modern Jews navigated schisms between Jewish community and European society.

Paperback
Available June 2024
ISBN: 9780814349670
$44.99
Hardcover
Available June 2024
ISBN: 9780814349687
$99.99
Ebook
Available June 2024
ISBN: 9780814349694
$44.99

The Lake Huron Mermaid

A Tale in Poems

Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomenillustrated by Meridith Ridl

Hardcover
Available July 2024
ISBN: 9780814347416
$16.99
Ebook
Available July 2024
ISBN: 9780814347423
$16.99

In Her Hands

The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia

Eliyana R. Adler

Illuminates the role that private schools for Jewish girls played in Russian Jewish society and documents their influence on contemporary political discourse and educational innovation.

Hardcover
Available August 2024
ISBN: 9780814334928
$46.99
eBOOK
Available August 2024
ISBN: 9780814336854

New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts

A Transnational Art Cinema

edited by Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisherafterword by Eric Rentschler

Paperback
Available October 2024
ISBN: 9780814348901
$34.99
Hardcover
Available October 2024
ISBN: 9780814348918
$94.99