New This Month: September 2024

Happy September! With the first day of fall at the end of the month, now is the perfect time to start filling up your shelves for some cozy fall reading. Luckily, we have a great selection of new books publishing this month. Check out our September releases below or browse everything new this season in our Fall/Winter Catalog. Plus, if you want news about new books delivered right to your inbox, sign up for our monthly eNews.

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Health Freaks: America’s Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness by Travis A. Weisse

“Health Freaks is an ambitious, wide-ranging survey of the American diet. Weisse explores both the fringes of dietary cultures and mainstream challenges to the ‘standard American diet’ in order to ask bigger questions about what drives American dietary fads and faddism.”—Rachel Louise Moran, University of North Texas

“In this exploration of the lives of four ‘diet gurus’ in the alternative diet movement during the twentieth century, Weisse deftly analyzes the various and popular forms of alternative medicine through diet and nutrition. It’s a significant contribution to our understanding of food and diet and a fun read on the history of health and medicine.”—Benjamin R. Cohen, Lafayette College

Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History by Lori D. Ginzberg

“Ginzberg has hit the ball out of the park with Tangled Journeys. Knitting together sources from Europe, the Caribbean, and North America, Ginzberg traces fragmented records to reveal how slavery and empire collided to create blood kin who could be neither recognized nor acknowledged legally in the United States. The result is a genealogical quilt that reveals the pernicious nature of slavery and also the warmth of kinship via the Sanders family. We learn of the resilience of Black people whose very existence resisted fictions about their erasure.”—Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

“Read this book. It will change the way you see Black, American, and women’s history.”—Jennifer L. Morgan, author of Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

Clover Garden: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir by Bland Simpson, Ann Cary Simpson

“This lush praise song of the North Carolina Piedmont is written in prose that truly sings. Through portraits of people, places, and incidents historic and recent, Clover Garden documents everyday life on the land—gardening, fishing, fixing fences, timbering, training up dogs, sharing beers in a biker bar, and caring for neighbors. At a time when sprawling development is moving ever faster in North Carolina, this bright narrative beckons us to consider what we are losing and how simple and glorious the pleasures of this verdant landscape we must protect.”—Georgann Eubanks, author of Saving the Wild South

“Clover Garden is a wonderful read. Starry nights and country characters, pool halls and draft horse–pulling contests, even a conga line in a dance hall that’s afire: This is one of Bland Simpson’s best.”—Jan DeBlieu, author of Year of the Comets

Traveling to Unknown Places: Nineteenth-Century Journeys toward French and American Selfhood by Lloyd S. Kramer

“This book intricately intertwines captivating narratives that shed light on the formation of identities through nineteenth-century transatlantic travel.”—Janet Polasky, University of New Hampshire

“Lloyd Kramer offers a sharp analysis of mostly little-known individuals, showcasing a unique perspective on our understanding of identity and notions of self. This book is a standout work.”—Daniel Kilbride, John Carroll University