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The oldest scholarly press in Ohio, specializing in African studies, Appalachian studies, regional guidebooks, and literary fiction. Learn more at ohioswallow.com
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🏆 Thrilled to share that Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi’s Imagine Lagos won the ASA Best Book Prize! 👏
Honorable mention goes to Jody Benjamin for The Texture of Change. 🎉
Big congrats to these scholars!
Learn more:
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November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Today's the first day of our annual winter holiday book sale!

40% off all titles and free US shipping on orders $50+ w/ promo code SNOW

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Ohio University Press to hold winter holiday book sale
Once again this year, Ohio University Press will offer the OHIO community a 40% discount off of its books, in all formats.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Congratulations to Admire Mseba, winner of the 2025 Martin A. Klein Prize in African History from the American Historical Association! Learn more about his book at bit.ly/Mseba

Now through November 25, get 40% off all African studies titles with promo code ASA25

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Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960
A little over two decades ago, Zimbabwe undertook its Fast Track Land Reform Programme. Critics saw it as nothing more than an assault on human and property ...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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📚 African Studies Book Sale!

Explore the richness of African history, culture & scholarship with our award-winning books.

✨ 40% OFF all African Studies titles w/ promo code ASA25 at bit.ly/OhioASA25
🚚 Free U.S. shipping
📅 Offer ends November 25

#AfricanStudies #BookSale #AcademicBooks
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Big News for Victorian Studies Enthusiasts! 📚
50% OFF select Victorian Studies titles!
🛒 Use promo code: OHVIC at checkout
📅 Offer valid: November 13–16, 2025
Shop now and save big: www.ohioswallow.com/series/serie...
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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🎧 Just released on the New Books Network:

Jessica Campbell discusses The Brontës and the Fairy Tale—a fresh look at how fairy tales shaped the Brontës’ literary legacy.

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#BrontëSisters #FairyTales #VictorianLit #NewBooksNetwork
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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📚 Celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth with Dolores Huerta Stands Strong!

This inspiring biography for young readers honors a fearless activist who fought for justice with the rallying cry “Sí, se puede!” 💪

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#DoloresHuerta #YoungReaders #SíSePuede
Dolores Huerta Stands Strong: The Woman Who Demanded Justice book cover shows an illustration of Dolores Huerta wearing brown pants and a white shirt, holding a sign above her head that reads HUELGA (STRIKE) against a sky-blue background with radiant gray beams fanning out from the left. The title, author's name, and "Biographies for Young Readers" are printed alongside the illustration.
September 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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📘 “The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” — James Madison

#ConstitutionDay reminds us of the enduring power of dialogue, debate, and vision.

Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 offers a firsthand look: www.ohioswallow.com/978082140765...

#JamesMadison
Book cover shows a sculptured bronze profile bust of James Madison
September 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Julie K. Rubini's children's bio "Virginia Hamilton: America’s Storyteller" has been selected by the Ohio Center for the Book for the Great Reads from Great Places program THIS WEEKEND at The Library of Congress National Book Festival 2025!

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#NatBookFest #VirginiaHamilton
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September 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Author Kathleen Smythe packed the house Monday at Joseph-Beth Books, sharing stories from Bicycling Through Paradise—a guide to cycling tours of Cincinnati’s most fascinating historical sites.

You can still grab a copy and start your own journey through the Queen City’s past. bit.ly/BikeParadise
August 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🚴‍♀️ Like cycling and local history? Join authors Kathleen Smythe & Chris Hanlin for a discussion and signing of Bicycling through Paradise: Historical Tours Around Cincinnati.

📅 Aug 25 | 7 PM
📍 Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Cincinnati, OH
🔗 Event info: bit.ly/BikeCincy

#Cycling #Books #CincinnatiEvents
August 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The trippiest road trip novel of all somehow didn't make this list of the best in the genre— www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/b... —but lucky for you, we have copies of the counterculture classic DIVINE RIGHT'S TRIP by Gurney Norman:
www.ohioswallow.com/978091778842...
August 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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🇺🇸 Today we honor the bravery and brilliance of the Navajo Code Talkers.
Introduce young readers to their legacy with Thomas H. Begay and the Navajo Code Talkers, a powerful middle-grade biography.
📘 Learn more: bit.ly/Begay
#NavajoCodeTalkersDay #MiddleGradeBooks #IndigenousHistory #CodeTalkers
August 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Congratulations to Kimberly Cleveland, author of Africanfuturism, winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award for the best first scholarly monograph in science fiction! www.ohioswallow.com/978082141148...

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Africanfuturism
In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from t...
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August 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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‪"The historian Anna Müller has achieved something remarkable in her account of the life of Tonia Lechtman." Sean Martin reviews "An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman" @ohiounivpress.bsky.social‬ in Polish American Studies Vol. 82, No. 1. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti...
Cover of Polish American Studies, Vol. 82, No. 1, Spring 2025 White and red color block background with photo: St. Peter and Paul Church, formerly St. Stanislaus Kostka, the first Polish church in the Pacific Northwest, Tacoma, WA.
July 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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In our latest #OA Featured Review, Khwezi Mkhize explores “Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala” (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) by Joel Cabrita:

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#SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid
July 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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We're delighted to share this breathtaking essay by poet Han Vanderhart, author of the prizewinning book, Larks: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

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Larks book cover with a black-and-white photograph of a stack of cameras on a wooden table resting on a plank wood floor. A gauzy curtain wafts in from the right. The image is overlaid with the following text: Larks / Poems / Han Vanderhart / Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize | Selected by Chanda Feldman.
July 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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We're moving to a smaller office, and that means free books for you! Visit Alden Library 101 on Monday, July 14, from 9 am to 4 pm. We have fiction, poetry, children's books, history, African studies, Appalachian studies, and more!

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Piles of books with text overlay: Free Books, Monday, July 14, 9 am–4pm, Alden 101
July 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Join us at the FREE Columbus Book Festival this weekend! Check out our titles and score some awesome OHIO swag at booth 48. Plus, Columbus author Andrew Welsh-Huggins will be in our booth Saturday, 11–noon. If you haven't read one of his Andy Hayes Mysteries, you're missing out. See you there!
Columbus Book Festival logo. July 12–13, 2025.
July 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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We're delighted that Katie Berta's RETRIBUTION FORTHCOMING is a longlisted finalist for the 2024 Julie Suk Award for the best poetry book published by a literary press! Get your copy today for 40% off with code SUN at www.ohioswallow.com/978082141150...

#poetry
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May 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Special episode with GUEST HOST @amorak.bsky.social interviewing Han about Larks (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) 📚💙

Of second books, writing trauma, line breaks versus enjambment, Marianne Moore, and more!

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/35d06173
Episode 72: Han VanderHart (Of Larks, Genealogy and Truth as a Poetics, and the Line) with Guest Host Amorak Huey
Han VanderHart, author of Larks (OHU, 2025) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Purchase: Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025) Read: “Larks” at Poetry Daily Han VanderHart i…
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May 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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With summer nearly here, we’ve got reading on our minds and a special online sale to offer: From May 20 to June 8, use promo code SUN at ohioswallow.com to get 40% off ALL books. Order more than $30 and get free U.S. shipping. Happy reading! #ReadUP #booksale
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May 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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"Steele’s work is in a category apart, however. No serious poet can afford to ignore it, and in fact few have." A wonderful review of Timothy Steele's All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing in @plough.bsky.social: www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
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To Rhyme Is Human
A poet reviews three essential guides to the history and craft of writing poetry in English, which point to a bright future for versification.
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May 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Dan Gearino—author of Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture—appears in a new documentary showing tomorrow at 4:30 at the Gateway Film Center in Columbus! www.dailymotion.com/video/x9h713m
Learn more about Dan's book here: www.ohioswallow.com/978080401213...

#comicbooks
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May 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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"Should be read by scholars and practitioners alike." Malaria on the Move examines how migration and travel influence the risk of malaria and reaffirms the need to take into consideration local socioeconomic factors in designing and implementing interventions. #WorldMalariaDay #WorldMalariaDay2025
Malaria on the Move book cover: Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890–2015. Kundai Manamere. Graphic showing a mosquito and other biological drawings.
April 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM