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“Achy Affects is the first affect text to refuse the emotional binary. CE Mackenzie’s insistence on recognizing the range of feelings, specifically their collisions and overlaps, is grounded in community outreach, formed through life writing and positioned at the intersections of health rhetoric, trans and affect theories, and composition studies.”

“In his debut book, The Gift & Curse: One Man’s Journey with Dyslexia, Deon L. Butler chronicles his life story of poverty, trauma and undiagnosed dyslexia-which ultimately cost him an NFL contract with the Detroit Lions. Using sports to get his education, and in turn using education to empower himself and others, Butler inspires readers to have the audacity to hope, dream and believe for greatness despite any learning disability.”

“In this collection of memoir-in-poetry, Shaheen Dil retraces her life beginning in Old Dhaka and taking her around the world and across the United States. Framed as a series of letters addressed to her younger self, Choiti, she recalls memories both pleasant and painful, examining the places, experiences, and selves contained within her own ‘multitudes.’”

“Frankie is a good daughter, a loyal best friend, and a model student, coasting through her final semester at an elite Catholic prep school in a wealthy Pittsburgh enclave. But acceptance to her dream college leaves her unmoored. When a classmate takes his life after posting a cryptic message about Woolf Whiting–a former student hockey player who died in a presumed suicide years earlier–Frankie and her best friend, Shiv, decide to investigate Woolf’s death as part of their journalism class project.

“A revelatory, inclusive history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.”

“A revelatory, inclusive history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.”

“Holler’ is at once a memoir, a living history of climate justice, and the story of a hopeful movement. Centered on six frontline activists fighting against the Mountain Valley Pipeline–a teacher, a single mother, a nurse, an organizer, a photographer, and a seed keeper–it is also a moving portrait of the diverse people and places of Appalachia.”

“A ‘zine’ profiling Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood, looking at some of its people, institutions, and landmarks.”