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SPRING 2024 TITLES

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The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That: cover depicting a vintage style illustration of a group of privileged suburbanites having a cookout. One woman and one young girl are both wearing medical face masks, another woman is holding a a bunch of blue and pink balloons. Fire rages behind them.
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The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That
Nick Lantz
Spring 2024

  

Host: cover depicting an x-ray of a seed, with the title text written sideways in bold, green font, visible through the transparent seed.
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Host
Lisa Fay Coutley
Spring 2024

The Story of Your Obstinate Survival: a cover depicting illustrated flames curving across the page. The title text is written in text with varied widths that weave in and out of the flames.
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The Story of Your Obstinate Survival
Daniel Khalastchi
Spring 2024

  

Unswerving: a bright yellow cover with an abstract illustration of a wheelchair cropped by the right side of the page. The wheel is comprised of colorful brushstrokes: blue, red, purple, yellow, and green. The title text is written in a bold font reminiscent of handwriting, curving along the side of the wheel.
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Unswerving
Barbara Ridley
Spring 2024

Hart Island: a blue to red gradient cover with the title text written in large white and red font across much of the page. The word 'Island' appears to be sitting in water, the bottom half of the word like a reflection distorted by waves, and a foggy apparition of a ship behind it, obscuring the bottom of the word 'Hart.'
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Hart Island
Gary Zebrun
Spring 2024

  

How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters: cover depicting purple waves beneath a stormy pink sky, flashes of lightning hitting the water. The title text floats among the waves, partially obscured.
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How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters
Saúl Hernández
Spring 2024

The Long Hallway: cover depicting a door, ever so slightly open, flooded with light. The edges of the page are red, the light fading quickly to darkness, with the title text written in a scratchy black font.
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The Long Hallway
Richard Scott Larson
Spring 2024

  

Peerless: cover depicting a photo of young Rouben Mamoulian, wearing circular, thick-rimmed spectacles, staring directly into the camera. The photo is tinted teal with contracting orange title text written across the middle of the page.
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Peerless
Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood, and Broadway
Kurt Jensen
Spring 2024

Year of Plenty: cover with a blurry black and white photo of two children playing in a sprinkler, framed in an off-white box containing red title text.
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Year of Plenty
A Family's Season of Grief
B.J. Hollars
Spring 2024

  

Masses and Man: Illustration of a geometric mosaic consisting of various red, black, white, and gray pieces. In the center, a large black rectangle contains the title and author text. Design by Jennifer Conn.
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Masses and Man
Nationalist and Fascist Perceptions of Reality
George L. Mosse
Spring 2024

Camera Lake: cover depicting a small island full of trees and a giant camera. A hand stretches towards the island. The image is drawn in stark blue and orange, the subtlest hint of green in the trees. The title text is written in bold white font, partially obscured by the clouds over the island.
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Camera Lake
Alex Pickett
Spring 2024

  

Understanding and Teaching Religion in US History: cover depicting a close up photograph of wooden benches, like you might find in a house of religious worship. The title text is contained within a blue box at the top of the page.
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Understanding and Teaching Religion in US History
Edited by Karen J. Johnson and Jonathan M. Yeager
Spring 2024

Legitimating Nationalism: cover depicting a statue of a man holding a long bow, his back hand open, as if he just shot an arrow. The background is blue at the top but fades to white. The title text is written in contrasting red font.
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Legitimating Nationalism
Political Identity in Russia’s Ethnic Republics
Katie L. Stewart
Spring 2024

  

Visions and Victims: a pink cover depicting a woman with teary eyes staring off into the distance, a lopsided crown upon her head. The title text is written in contrasting white and yellow.
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Visions and Victims
Art Melodrama in the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer
Amanda Doxtater
Spring 2024

Forsaken Causes: a red cover with three white elephants in the center, a pyramid atop their heads. The title text is written in white font in a blue block at the top of the page.
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Forsaken Causes
Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos
Ryan Wolfson-Ford
Spring 2024

  

I Talk about It All the Time: text based cover in indigo, sky blue, and magenta. The title is written in jaunty graphic text, with a more subtle all capps text for the author and translator.
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I Talk about It All the Time
Camara Lundestad Joof
Translated by Olivia Noble Gunn
Spring 2024

Rival Praises: cover depicting a painting of cupid pointing an arrow at an archer with a halo.
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Rival Praises
Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic Tradition
Celia M. Campbell
Spring 2024

  

Unruly Dead: cover depicting a teal and red abstract lined image between two black blocks containing the title text.
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The Unruly Dead
Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste
Lia Kent
Spring 2024

Boys of Love: a painting of a pair of hands holding each other with the title written in thin white text atop the image.
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Boys of Love
Ghazi Rabihavi
Translated by Poupeh Missaghi
Spring 2024

  

The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: cover showing abstract black and orange art, with the title text written in bold white and yellow font.
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The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa
Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young
Edited by Scott Straus and Aili Mari Tripp
Spring 2024

Surreal Geographies: Cover depicting a painting made of yellows, greys, and blacks abstracted by warping it into a spiral. The title text is written in bold white font over a section of the image that has been further blurred.
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Surreal Geographies
A New History of Holocaust Consciousness
Kathryn L. Brackney
Spring 2024
         

 

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