This is what our monthly email looks like: a short introductory paragraph followed by a list of the books that have come out that month.

Fiction

The Big Buddha Bicycle Race
A Novel

By Terence A. Harkin

Brendan Leary, assigned to an Air Force photo squadron an hour from L.A., thinks he has it made. But when the U.S. invades Cambodia and he joins his buddies who march in protest, he is shipped off to an obscure air base in upcountry Thailand. → Continue

Mystery

The Third Brother
An Andy Hayes Mystery

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins

It’s a violent encounter that private investigator Andy Hayes could have done without. One minute he’s finishing up some grocery shopping ahead of a custody visit with his sons. The next, he must come to the rescue of a Somali-American mother and her young children as anti-immigrant bullies torment them. → Continue

British History

Inventing Pollution
Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800

By Peter Thorsheim

Inventing Pollution examines new understandings of pollution, centered not on organic decay but on coal combustion, that emerged in the late 19th century in Britain. This change, Thorsheim argues, gave birth to the smoke-abatement movement and to new ways of thinking about the relationships among humanity, technology, and the environment. → Continue

Biography (Juvenile Nonfiction)

Count the Wings
The Life and Art of Charley Harper

By Michelle Houts

When you look at a bird, do you see feathers and a beak? Or do you see circles and triangles? Artist Charley Harper spent his life reducing subjects to their simplest forms, their basic lines and shapes. This resulted in what he called minimal realism and the style that would become easily recognized as Charley Harper’s. → Continue

Literary Criticism, US

Lyrical Liberators
The American Antislavery Movement in Verse, 1831–1865

Edited by Monica Pelaez

Before Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women. → Continue

Hip Hop

Hip-Hop in Africa
Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers

By Msia Kibona Clark

Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community. → Continue

Continental Philosophy

The Birth of Sense
Generative Passivity in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy

By Don Beith

In The Birth of Sense, Don Beith proposes a new concept of generative passivity, the idea that our organic, psychological, and social activities take time to develop into sense. More than being a limit, passivity marks out the way in which organisms, persons, and interbodily systems take time in order to manifest a coherent sense. → Continue

That's it for now. As always, instructors and reviewers can request exam or review copies from book description pages on our website.

Thank you for your attention and see you next month.

Best,
Ohio University Press