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As a follow-up to Dean Oliver’s Basketball on Paper, Basketball beyond Paper recounts the insights gained over Oliver’s twenty years of experience using statistics to understand basketball.

Tiffany Midge’s hilarious and biting collection of essays, written during the COVID-19 pandemic, brims with satiric insight from a Native American perspective. The Dreamcatcher in the Wry entertains while it informs, gleaning wisdom from the incongruities of everyday life and turning over the colonizer’s society and culture for some good old Native American roasting.

The Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry is an anthology of poems originally selected by Ted Kooser in 1980 and published by his Windflower Press, a small, independent publisher that specialized in poetry from the Great Plains. The collection contains almost two hundred poems from dozens of poets and was designed to resemble a commonplace farmer’s almanac. The Windflower Press was the sole operation of Kooser, who was later named the first U.S. poet laureate from the Great Plains. The Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry earned notice from the Library Journal as one of its era’s best small press books.

Abortion in Mexico examines the social, legal, and judicial condemnation of abortion in Mexico from the early post-contact period through the present day.

Nicholas Villanueva, Jr., investigates the untold story of the founders of an organization that helped gay rodeo participants persevere through bigotry and discrimination in sport, fought a pandemic that ravaged the LGBTQ community, and created a sporting community that became an international family.

Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, The Golden Land digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships in an intergenerational tale set against the backdrop of Myanmar.

Walks on the Ground is a record of Ponca Elder Louis V. Headman’s personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning seven decades.

Blue-Eyed Soul Brother is the biography of Bill Bradley, an All-Pro free safety who starred for the National Football League’s Philadelphia Eagles from 1969 to 1976.

The essays offer compelling ways of seeing and situating Willa Cather’s texts—both unsettling and advancing Cather scholarship. Cather was born and spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Here, as an observant daughter of a privileged white family, Cather first encountered differences and dislocations that remained lively, productive, and sometimes deeply troubling sites of tension and energy throughout her writing life. These essays range from examinations of how race shapes and misshapes Cather’s final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, to challenges to criticisms of her 1935 novel, Lucy Gayheart.

Indian Soldiers in World War I follows the experiences of Indian soldiers deployed to battlefields in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East during World War I; the contested representations British and Indian audiences drew from the soldiers’ wartime experiences; and the impacts these had on the British Empire’s racial politics.

David H. Wilson Jr. recounts an epic story of the Northern Paiutes’ resistance and adaptation as they faced settler colonization and governmental misappropriation of their land in Oregon Country from the early 1850s to the 1930s.

Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962. Never before had both the Yankees and the Mets been in contention for the playoffs so late in the same season. For months New York fans dreamed of the first Subway Series in nearly thirty years, and the Mets and the Yankees vied for their hearts. Despite their nearly identical records, the two teams were drastically different in performance and clubhouse atmosphere. The Mets were filled with young, homegrown talent led by outfielder Darryl Strawberry and pitcher Dwight Gooden. They were complemented by veterans including Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, Ray Knight, and George Foster. Leading them all was Davey Johnson, a player’s manager. It was a team filled with hard nosed players who won over New York with their dirty uniforms, curtain calls, after-hours activities, and because, well, they weren’t the Yankees. Meanwhile the Yankees featured some of the game’s greatest talent. Rickey Henderson, Dave Winfield, Don Mattingly, and Don Baylor led a dynamic offense, while veterans such as Ron Guidry and Phil Niekro rounded out the pitching staff. But the Yankees’ abundance of talent was easily overshadowed by their dominating owner, George Steinbrenner, whose daily intrusiveness made the 1985 Yankees appear more like a soap opera than a baseball team. There was a managerial firing before the end of April and the fourth return of Billy Martin as manager. Henderson was fined for missing two games, Lou Piniella almost resigned as coach, and Martin punctured a lung and then gave drunken managerial instructions from his hospital room. Despite all that, the Yankees almost won their division. While the drama inside the Mets’ clubhouse only made the team more endearing to fans, the drama inside the Yankees’ clubhouse had the opposite effect. The result was the most attention-grabbing and exciting season New York would see in generations. And it was the season the Mets would win the battle for the hearts of New York baseball fans, dominating the New York landscape for nearly a decade, while the Yankees faded into one of baseball’s saddest franchises.

Grit and Ghosts tells the stories of eight women from the American West who speak to a shared human experience of struggle and the grit required to move through it.

Sally Thompson brings readers into the heart of the Salish homeland in what is now Montana, not only through the words of missionaries and other European observers, but through the lives, stories, and worldview of the Salish people in the nineteenth century.

DeMisty D. Bellinger’s debut story collection covers queer liaisons and trysts, love bordering on the absurd, and awe-worthy finds in the familiar, the familial, and the mundane. These stories’ protagonists, mostly women, often unexpectedly redefine themselves in intimate circumstances.

A look back at golfer Ben Hogan’s historic 1953 season, still the closest any player has gotten to winning golf’s Grand Slam.

The biography of Myron Cope, creator of the Terrible Towel and the color commentator for Pittsburgh Steelers radio broadcasts from 1970 to 2005, the second-longest-serving team broadcaster in NFL history.

The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky seeks to deepen understanding of the history of Chinese immigrants in Montana by recovering their stories in their own words.

Stories of the Street is a series of imaginative meditations—through prose poems, short-short essays, microfictions, and prose pieces without precise genre distinction—of what it means to encounter lost or discarded texts. By photographing on-location, David Lazar becomes a flaneur of paper debris, puzzling over the evidence of urban human life that litter represents.

The second volume of the Sandoz Series is a rich selection of essays that highlight the diverse approaches used to interpret Mari Sandoz’s final book. All are intended to give the modern reader a fresh and engaging perspective on this literary masterpiece.

Informal Metropolis uncovers how a former lake bed on the edge of Mexico City grew into the world’s largest shantytown—Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl—and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequality in twentieth-century Mexico.

Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body presents the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents, now gone, from Lebanon and Syria and of Armenian descent.

It’s not easy for a middle-aged gay man to find love out in small-town America, so when Mike Breck blows his shot with a local guy just as lonely as he is, he’s got to open up to the people around him to figure out how to angle for a second chance.

An outdoor memoir of fly-fishing in South Korea, from the Korean Demilitarized Zone to the mountains, the coasts, and places Korean War battles were fought.

A sensational bestseller when first published in 1857, Captivity of the Oatman Girls is the story of the nine members of the Oatman family who set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail in 1851 and were attacked by Indians who killed most of the family, mistakenly left one boy for dead, and took two girls as captives. This Bison Books edition includes the entirety of the enlarged edition and a new foreword.

In this compelling firsthand account, Sonja Trom Eayrs tells the story of one Dodge County family farm in rural Minnesota to expose the abuses wrought by corporate factory farms in terms of pollution, cancer clusters, waste, the destruction of local communities and economies, and the erosion of democracy.

Moving from travelogue to interviews to critical meditations, Living West as Feminists goes on the road to meet and interview U.S. western feminists, putting them into conversation with one another about some of the most challenging and forward-looking topics in contemporary life.

Between Black and Brown explores the experiences of Blaxicans, individuals with African American and Mexican American heritage, as they navigate American culture, which often clings to monoracial categorizations.

A biography of early twentieth-century baseball player and actor Mike Donlin, one of the best hitters and most colorful players in the history of the game. Haunted by tragedy, he was a showman and an alcoholic, married one of the nation’s most famous vaudeville actresses—who turned his life around, and acted on the stage and in approximately one hundred films.