The Chicago Review of Books picks Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape for its list of “9 Dazzling Small-Press Essay Collections You May Have Missed.”
“Author Deborah Fleming, who has lived in rural Ohio and cared for its land for decades, shares fourteen interrelated essays, blending her own experiences with both scientific and literary research.”

Cleveland A to Z by John Grabowski is one of 31 made-in-Cleveland gifts recommended by Cleveland.com
“Learn more about Cleveland in the new book Cleveland A to Z. The book consists of 72 articles that look at Northeast Ohio’s history, and it was put out as a part of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s 150th anniversary celebration.”
On […]

Clevescene.com recommends three Kent State University Press titles in its list of “40 books every Clevelander should read.” We couldn’t agree more.
The Coming of Fabrizze and A Lost King by Ramond DeCapite.
“An under-the-radar Cleveland novelist, Raymond DeCapite should rightly be considered the bard of the South Side. The longtime Tremont resident absorbed the ethnic melting […]

Author Larry Wood goes into detail on this riveting episode of Most Notorious.
“Emma Barrett Molloy was a well-known Evangelical Christian, temperance and women’s rights activist in the 1870s and 1880s. But in 1885 she found herself embroiled in a lurid scandal involving a con-artist named George Graham. Graham married Emma’s foster daughter, Cora Lee, but without […]

The series welcomes studies detailing America’s long Civil War era,
from the rise of antebellum sectional tensions through Reconstruction. 
The series includes titles detailing the long Civil War era from the rise of sectional tensions in the antebellum period through Reconstruction. We welcome books from single authors or from editors of compilations that bring new social, political, […]

 
Kathleen M. Fernandez, former director of the North Canton Heritage Society, has won the Outstanding Publication Book Award from the Communal Studies Association for Zoar: The Story of an Intentional Community.
Zoar, published by the Kent State University Press, is an informative historical analysis of a group of German religious dissenters who immigrated to Ohio in […]

Bigamy & Bloodshed is one of 7 true-crime books newly recommended by NYT critic Marilyn Stasio for your “escapist” reading enjoyment!
“What’s worse, murder or immorality? To American sensibilities in the 1880s, immorality was apparently the greater evil. Or so it seems from Larry E. Wood’s entertaining Bigamy & Bloodshed: The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the […]