Mary Noé’s keyhole true crime book The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan is about false identities, radical politics, and the prewar tensions of the early twentieth-century US. In... Read More

The essays of "Black Hair in a White World" concern the struggles of Black women who sport natural hair in a colonized world. A commodity, a means of discrimination, a point of... Read More

Anneliese Abbott’s "Malabar Farm" chronicles the significant history of what was once a small private farm, and is now a state park, recreation area, working farm, and living... Read More

Historian Gordon H. Shufelt’s true crime book recounts the 1875 murder of a Black man by a white policeman. While racial police brutality is still not uncommon, the grim... Read More

Larger-than-life writer at large Ernest Hemingway always made it his practice to seek out the world’s centers of attention, whether they were war zones, Parisian literary... Read More

Deborah Fleming’s "Resurrection of the Wild" celebrates and explore’s Ohio’s ecology and resources. The book’s perspective is personal—Fleming is an Ohio native. She... Read More

Hart’s insider’s perspective conveys the frustrations of athletes whose lives were changed by the tragic 1972 Olympic games. College track coach Eddie Hart spent his career... Read More

This gripping and timely portrait of a highly decorated police officer sheds light on the challenges of inner-city policing. In "Badge 387", Cleveland-based journalist Robert... Read More

Sometimes the best way to deal with a tough topic is through comic form. This collection of Crankshaft comics brings together the long-running strip’s two Alzheimer’s... Read More

The sliver-thin silver lining of Holocaust denial is that deniers promote the subject of Nazi evil back to center stage where the Holocaust-ignorant might discover and never... Read More

Forget fishing, disregard drinking, ’twas war what wrought Ernest into a hardened, thoughtful, truth-be-told writer. To understand the man, take this book at its word. Read More

“The cloud of midlife unknowing,” Hammond writes, “brings sublime compensation in the freedom to be oneself. This is why it is so important to know who that self really... Read More