New This Week: September 24th

It’s Tuesday and that means we have new books publishing! This week we’re excited to celebrate the release of two new books: A lyrical memoir of North Carolina’s Piedmont region and an analysis of how French and American writers reshaped their identities as they traveled in foreign countries after the social upheavals of the eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions. Learn more about both of these books below or browse all of our books publishing in September.

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

“Simpson is a master prose stylist, a poet at heart. His sentences are graceful and well-tuned—thoroughly worked on to get that “worked on” feeling out—and laced with continual surprises to save them from predictability. . . . Thomas Wolfe would approve.”—PineStraw Magazine

“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

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