The Best of the University Presses: 100 Books to Escape the News

1.
The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash
The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Gold Dust
Gold Dust 3.87 avg rating — 2,124 ratings
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A Brief History of Fruit: poems (Akron Series in Poetry)
A Brief History of Fruit: poems (Akron Series in Poetry) 4.66 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Voices from the Ape House
Voices from the Ape House 4.13 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Red Chesterfield
The Red Chesterfield 3.61 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey
Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey
by: Bob Avian
4.40 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The New Anthology of American Poetry - 3 vol set: Beginnings to the Present
The New Anthology of American Poetry - 3 vol set: Beginnings to the Present it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Digital Reason: A Guide to Meaning, Medium and Community in a Modern World
Digital Reason: A Guide to Meaning, Medium and Community in a Modern World 1.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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BashĹŤ's Haiku: Selected Poems
Bashō's Haiku: Selected Poems 4.23 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Words Like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers
Words Like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers 4.06 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life
Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life 3.71 avg rating — 458 ratings
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The Toni Morrison Book Club
The Toni Morrison Book Club 4.13 avg rating — 987 ratings
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Sisters of the Undertow: A Novel
Sisters of the Undertow: A Novel 4.29 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Vikings Reimagined: Reception, Recovery, Engagement (The Northern Medieval World)
The Vikings Reimagined: Reception, Recovery, Engagement (The Northern Medieval World) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home
What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home 4.25 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Dendrite Balconies
Dendrite Balconies 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their role in our changing world
Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their role in our changing world 3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint
The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint 3.69 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Civilising Grass: The art of the lawn on the South African Highveld
Civilising Grass: The art of the lawn on the South African Highveld really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Little History of Poetry
A Little History of Poetry 3.71 avg rating — 750 ratings
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Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America
Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America 4.12 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 3.99 avg rating — 423,001 ratings
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Kafka in a Skirt: Stories from the Wall (Camino del Sol)
Kafka in a Skirt: Stories from the Wall (Camino del Sol) 4.31 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Long Peace Street: A walk in modern China
Long Peace Street: A walk in modern China 4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism 4.13 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Eat A Bowl Of Tea: A novel of New York's Chinatown
Eat A Bowl Of Tea: A novel of New York's Chinatown
by: Louis Chu
3.79 avg rating — 424 ratings
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OsnabrĂĽck Station to Jerusalem
Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem 3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Milwaukee Rock and Roll, 1950-2000: A Reflective History
Milwaukee Rock and Roll, 1950-2000: A Reflective History 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Apple that Astonished Paris
The Apple that Astonished Paris 4.19 avg rating — 789 ratings
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The Belle Créole
The Belle Créole 3.57 avg rating — 192 ratings
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[Ghost Notes]: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music
[Ghost Notes]: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music
RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Between the Rocks and the Stars: Narratives in Natural History
Between the Rocks and the Stars: Narratives in Natural History 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Dead Letters: Censorship and subversion in New Zealand 1914–1920
Dead Letters: Censorship and subversion in New Zealand 1914–1920 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970
Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism
Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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North by Nuuk: Greenland After Rockwell Kent
North by Nuuk: Greenland After Rockwell Kent it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Lumumba in the Arts
Lumumba in the Arts 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Boy in the Labyrinth: Poems (Akron Series in Poetry)
The Boy in the Labyrinth: Poems (Akron Series in Poetry) 4.44 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Hell and Damnation: A Sinner's Guide to Eternal Torment
Hell and Damnation: A Sinner's Guide to Eternal Torment 3.66 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Two Menus
Two Menus 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Brave Enough
Brave Enough 4.21 avg rating — 1,289 ratings
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A Short History of Film
A Short History of Film 3.65 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships
Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships 4.05 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Don't Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from Bona Mbella (The Griot Project Book Series)
Don't Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from Bona Mbella (The Griot Project Book Series) 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture
Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Madness of Mary Lincoln
The Madness of Mary Lincoln 3.75 avg rating — 636 ratings
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The Night Witches
The Night Witches 3.74 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts
Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts 4.61 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Egyptian Assassin: A Novel
The Egyptian Assassin: A Novel 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape
Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape 4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings
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I Have the Answer
I Have the Answer 4.46 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Between Two Rivers: Photographs and Poems between the Brazos and the Rio Grande
Between Two Rivers: Photographs and Poems between the Brazos and the Rio Grande 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Among the Woo People: A Survival Guide for Living in a College Town (Keystone Books)
Among the Woo People: A Survival Guide for Living in a College Town (Keystone Books) 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything 4.17 avg rating — 8,341 ratings
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Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays
Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays 4.19 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
by: Ross Gay
4.24 avg rating — 6,130 ratings
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Summer Baseball Nation: Nine Days in the Wood Bat Leagues
Summer Baseball Nation: Nine Days in the Wood Bat Leagues 3.46 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Transforming Your Thought Life: Christian Meditation in Focus
Transforming Your Thought Life: Christian Meditation in Focus 4.59 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Amazing Place: What North Carolina Means to Writers
Amazing Place: What North Carolina Means to Writers 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings
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How the World Looks to a Bee: And Other Moments of Science
How the World Looks to a Bee: And Other Moments of Science
by: Don Glass
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Stop Being Reasonable
Stop Being Reasonable 3.71 avg rating — 500 ratings
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Fandango and Other Stories
Fandango and Other Stories 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A History of Zinnias: Flower for the Ages
A History of Zinnias: Flower for the Ages 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Vincent's Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him
Vincent's Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him 4.06 avg rating — 129 ratings
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I Want You to Be: On the God of Love
I Want You to Be: On the God of Love 4.20 avg rating — 200 ratings
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From the Underground Church to Freedom
From the Underground Church to Freedom 4.39 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Hazel Hall
The Collected Poems of Hazel Hall 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO
Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO 3.78 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Little Yellow House: Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood
Little Yellow House: Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood 4.08 avg rating — 153 ratings
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O America: Discovery in a New Land
O America: Discovery in a New Land 4.25 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Fire Eater: Poems (Volume 10) (The TRP Chapbook Series)
The Fire Eater: Poems (Volume 10) (The TRP Chapbook Series) 4.36 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist 4.48 avg rating — 6,431 ratings
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Thoreau and the Language of Trees
Thoreau and the Language of Trees 4.15 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River
Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River 4.07 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Zombie History: The Fake Past and How to Overcome It
Zombie History: The Fake Past and How to Overcome It 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Orders of Protection (Volume 18) (Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction)
Orders of Protection (Volume 18) (Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction) 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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A Death in Harlem
A Death in Harlem 3.80 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester Heiress to the Rifle Fortune
Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester Heiress to the Rifle Fortune 3.65 avg rating — 431 ratings
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A Sonnet to Science: Scientists and their Poetry
A Sonnet to Science: Scientists and their Poetry 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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America's Last Great Newspaper War: The Death of Print in a Two-Tabloid Town
America's Last Great Newspaper War: The Death of Print in a Two-Tabloid Town 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC
DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Things That Art: A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanting Curiosity (EthnoGRAPHIC)
Things That Art: A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanting Curiosity (EthnoGRAPHIC) 3.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Letters from Tove
Letters from Tove 4.25 avg rating — 473 ratings
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A Chorus of Cranes
A Chorus of Cranes 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Smuggling Elephants through Airport Security
Smuggling Elephants through Airport Security 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories
The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824 (Volume 11) (New Directions in Native American Studies Series)
Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824 (Volume 11) (New Directions in Native American Studies Series) 3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Whose Game?: Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports
Whose Game?: Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Jewish Cuisine in Hungary: A Cultural History with 83 Authentic Recipes
Jewish Cuisine in Hungary: A Cultural History with 83 Authentic Recipes really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election
Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950
City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots
Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots
by: DJ Lee
4.14 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Rediscovering Korean Cinema
Rediscovering Korean Cinema 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Tiny Lights for Travellers
Tiny Lights for Travellers 3.99 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Origins of Catholic Words: A Discursive Dictionary
Origins of Catholic Words: A Discursive Dictionary it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Farallon: Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore
Farallon: Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Journeying
Journeying 3.67 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War
Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Practically Joking
Practically Joking it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating