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THANKS FOR THIS RIOT by @janellebassett.bsky.social explores the limits of kindness, the weight of being needed, and the fear of being misunderstood. Grouped by types of riots the book is a mordantly funny collection with a feminist viewpoint.

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November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In NOURISHING GROWTH AND SUFFOCATING LIFE, Daniel Mains argues that all too often subsidizing economic growth has self-destructive consequences for drinking water and stormwater infrastructure. 

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November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
MYSTERIES OF THE JAGUAR SHAMANS OF THE NORTHWEST AMAZON tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon.

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November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"For fans who love to read about the game and its history, BASEBALL IN THE ROARING TWENTIES by @thomaswolf47.bsky.social brings to life the 1926 season and the World Series between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals," writes James Breeden for Eclectica. 

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November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"@abdourahmanwaberi.bsky.social’s poems, in addition to gesturing toward complex dualities, also counsel against and question capitalism’s dictates of extraction and greed," writes @worldlittoday.bsky.social of WHEN WE ONLY HAVE THE EARTH. bit.ly/3M0wIlo
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In GAME ON David Bockino, a former marketing and advertising manager at ESPN turned professor of communications and sport management, provides the first overview of the evolution of the sports media industry.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"This handsomely produced collection of critical and historical essays . . . provides an admirably balanced appraisal of how his work holds up under the pressures of contemporary concerns," writes Michael Kowalewski for WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE. muse.jhu.edu/article/967040
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
TRANSLATING PAST TO PRESENT edited by Andrew Offenburger and Patricia Nelson Limerick offers a new perspective on the historical significance of interpretation and translation.

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November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
SACRED SEEDS examines New World plants and their Native myths as they moved across the Atlantic and into English literature, reinstating the contributions of indigenous peoples to European society while charting an alternative history of transatlantic multiplicity.

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November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Join @paulknepper.bsky.social tonight at the Next Chapter for your very own signed copy of MOSES MALONE: THE LIFE OF A BASKETBALL PROPHET!

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November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
THE EARTH IS EVIL by @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, political, and environmental struggles.

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November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Next Tuesday, November 18, @paulknepper.bsky.social will be at The Next Chapter bookstore in Long Island to sign copies of his biography of American basketball player Moses Malone, MOSES MALONE: THE LIFE OF A BASKETBALL PROPHET.

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November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Fitts' interviews reveal a wealth of insights into the Japanese game . . . an excellent addition to sports collections," writes Alan Moores in a starred review for @ala-booklist.bsky.social.

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November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
MESSIANIC FULFILLMENTS by Hayes Peter Mauro explores ethnohistorical encounters in colonial and nineteenth-century America through the lens of artistic works by evangelically inspired Anglo American artists and photographers.

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November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Wilder's stirring consideration of an often overlooked subject has great emotional resonance," writes Colleen Mondor in a starred @ala-booklist.bsky.social review.

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November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In COLONIZED THROUGH ART, Marinella Lentis explores how American Indian schools taught children to abandon their cultural heritage and produce artificially “native” crafts that were exhibited at local and international fairs.

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November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Anthropologist Robert Jarvenpa examines how the energy and extraction industries in Canada’s subarctic north threatens destruction of traditional southern Denesułiné cultural practices.

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November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
'NAZIS AT THE WATERCOOLER by @tcraigpetty.bsky.social has both intellectual and emotional resonance and stands as a meaningful contribution to the expanding body of scholarship on the enduring legacies of the Third Reich," writes Mikkel Dack for @hnetreviews.bsky.social. bit.ly/43WdfII
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
POSITIVE POLLUTIONS AND CULTURAL TOXINS by John Blair Gamber examines urbanity and the results of urban living, arguing for a recognition of all forms of human detritus as part of the world.

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November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
OUR PEOPLE BELIEVE IN EDUCATION is the story of a tribe and university—with almost nothing in common aside from a shared name—that collaborated to support Indigenous language and cultural revitalization.

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November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Adesina runs through one genre and narrative angle after another in his studies of his life’s most pressing absences," writes @literaryhub.bsky.social of DEATH DOES NOT END AT SEA. bit.ly/3WC5aoF

 
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
TAKING CHARGE, MAKING CHANGE by Robert W. Galler Jr. shows how individuals and families helped to found the Crow Creek Tribal school, maintain enrollment, secure funding, and influence school policies.

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November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
THE GREATER PLAINS tells a new story of a region, stretching from the state of Texas to the province of Alberta, where the environments are as varied as the myriad ways people have inhabited them

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November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"There is much to gain from African knowledge, not least an understanding of how one's ancestors can bless a life. We learn as much from Nigerian poet Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto," writes Foreword of THE NAMING.

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November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
DREAMS OF A YOUNG REPUBLIC examines American Catholic missionaries’ perceptions and expectations for a China that would forever be free and democratic, between the 1911 revolution that created the Republic of China and the communist revolution of 1949.

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October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM