Don’t miss this extended excerpt of Norm N. Nite and Tom Feran’s The House That Rock Built: How it Took Time, Money, Music Moguls, Corporate Types, Politicians, Media, Artists, and Fans to Bring the Rock Hall to Cleveland.
“The book, told from radio personality Nite’s perspective with former Plain Dealer reporter and editor Feran, draws on […]
Congratulations to Howard Ruffner author of Moments of Truth: A Photographer’s Experience of Kent State 1970 for being selected as a finalist in the 2020 Ohioana Book Awards, About Ohio category. The book is an important and visually arresting book that examines the past to understand & look to the future.
“This wonderful collection is just […]
Section420: Talkin’ Yankees hosts Dr. Lincoln Mitchell, author of Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues.
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Great news! Kent State University Press books have won two 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY).
Congratulations to George R. Dekle Sr. for winning the Silver Award for Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts in the US Northeast Best Regional Non-Fiction category and Jason Prufer who won the Gold Award for Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized […]
“PA Books features authors of books about Pennsylvania-related topics. These hour-long conversations allow authors to discuss both their subject matter and inspiration behind the books.”
Catch Thomas Flagel as he discusses his book War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion on the PA Books Podcast.
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“‘In nursing, if you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen,’ Jeanne Bryner said.
The retired Newton Falls nurse, who spent much of her career working in the emergency room at then-Trumbull Memorial Hospital, took her documenting one step further, turning her experiences into poems, short stories, plays and nonfiction work. Her work even can be found […]
Boxscore News reviews The ’63 Steelers: A Renegade Team’s Chase for Glory by Rudy Dicks.
“Author Rudy Dicks guides us thru the Steelers 1963 season game by game taking us into the clubhouse and at times inside the huddle. He details mercurial Head Coach Buddy Parker’s tactics and back story. Parker and the Pittsburgh faithful find the team […]
Publisher’s Weekly features The Other Veterans of WWII by Rona Simmons. https://bit.ly/3bBMyMi
Find out more about the book at: http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/…/other-veterans-o…/
Boxscore News reviews Blanton’s Browns: The Great 1965–69 Cleveland Browns by Roger Gordon.
“[Blanton’s Browns] casts a brilliant beam on a highly competitive NFL outfit. During this era,’65-’69, the franchise nearly repeated as league title holders, nabbed 3 Division championship, and missed by a game going to a Super Bowl.”
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The Hemingway Society reprints “Love in the Time of Influenza: Hemingway and the 1918 Pandemic” by Susan F. Beegel.
“In 1918 a virulent strain of influenza emerged that would spread around the world, fueled by World War I with its patriotic rallies and parades, its streams of refugees, and its mass movements of troops, such as the […]
