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The Voyage to Magical North (The Accidental Pirates #1)
by Claire FayersTwelve-year-old Brine Seaborne is a girl with a past--if only she could remember what it is. Found alone in a rowboat as a child, clutching a shard of the rare starshell needed for spell-casting, she's spent the past years keeping house for an irritable magician and his obnoxious apprentice, Peter.When Brine and Peter get themselves into a load of trouble and flee, they blunder into the path of the legendary pirate ship the Onion. Before you can say "pieces of eight," they're up to their necks in the pirates' quest to find Magical North, a place so shrouded in secrets and myth that most people don't even think it exists. If Brine is lucky, she’ll find her place in the world. And if she's unlucky, everyone on the ship will be eaten by sea monsters. It could really go either way.
This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America
by Jonathan FoilesJonathan Foiles weaves together psychology and public policy, exploring the trauma underlying urbanization in a book Kirkus Reviews calls an "urgent call for reform." When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate studen
The Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt Neighborhood Guidebooks)
by Nick SwartsellPart of Belt's Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook is an in-depth look at the City of Seven Hills, written by the people who live and work there every day. Cincinnati, Ohio, is a complex mi
The Milwaukee Anthology (Belt City Anthologies)
by Justin KernThe Milwaukee Anthology is a book on hope and hurt in one of America's toughest ZIP codes. In these pages are the stories of a Grecian basketball superstar in the making against an unlikely backdrop; of Sikh temple services that carry on after one of America's most notorious mass shootings; of an astronaut's wish for kids in the same school halls where he formed a dream of space. You won't find Summerfest or Laverne and Shirley herein, but you will find Riverwest, Sherman Park, and the South Side; Hmong New Year's shows, 7 Mile Fair, and the Rolling Mill commemoration. Edited by Justin Kern, with personal essays, narratives, poems, Q&A's, and art from more than 50 contributors including Dasha Kelly, Pardeep Kaleka, and Michael Perry, it's a book about a place on the lake that can make you say "yes" and wonder "why" in the same thought.
Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education
by John WarnerThe coronavirus pandemic laid bare the unsustainability of our public higher education system. In Sustainable. Resilient. Free. , author and educator John Warner maps out a path for change. In 1983, U.S. News and Wor
The Gary Anthology (Belt City Anthologies)
by Samuel A. Love“Instant City,” “Magic City of Steel,” “Sin City,” “Chocolate City,” “Plywood City,” “Murder Capital.” Once the second-largest city in Indiana, and home to the world’s largest steel mill, Gary has suffered and shrunk greatly in the postindustrial global economy. Population numbers now approach pre-Great Depression lows. Large swathes of its land are urban prairie, and a recent survey found a quarter of the Gary’s built environment is in a dilapidated or dangerous condition. But Gary is also a center of Black culture and political power. It is home to the Indiana Dunes National Park and globally rare ecosystems. Union, community organizing, and environmental justice struggles based in Gary have profoundly shaped social and political life in the United States. It is the setting for everyday joys and tragedies, and very much alive. The Gary Anthology’s contributors include not only the essayist, poet, and journalist but also the graffiti writer, the minister, the activist, the singer, the organizer, and of course, the steel worker. Their work complicates standard narratives about steel, violence, and urban decay, and offers readers the chance to hear from those who are reshaping the city from the bottom up. Taken as a whole, the collection is a vibrant rebuke to the notion that Gary is “dead.”
Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game
by Craig CalcaterraA fundamental reevaluation of how to be a sports fan by an acclaimed baseball writer. Sports fandom isn't what it used to be. Owners and executives increasingly count on the blind loyalty of their fans and too often act agai
So You Want to Publish a Book?
by Anne TrubekIn So You Want to Publish a Book?, Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing, demystifies the publishing process. This insightful guide offers concrete, witty advice and information to authors, prospective authors, and those curio
El Dorado Freddy's: Chain Restaurants in Poems & Photographs
by Danny Caine Tara WrayA charming and accessible collection of poems dedicated to one of the most American of inventions--fast food. El Dorado Freddy's may be the first book of fast-food poetry. In poems like "Olive Garden," "Culver's," "Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen," "Cracker Barrel," "Applebee's (after James Wright)," Caine--owner of the Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas--"reviews" chain restaurants, bringing our attention to a slice of American life we often overlook, even though it's everywhere. Along the way, he touches on such topics as parenting, the Midwest, politics, and the pitfalls of nostalgia. Caine's wry, deceptively accomplished poems are paired with Tara Wray's color-drenched photos. The result is a literary yet goofy homage to American food and identity, set in a midwestern landscape dotted by the light of fast-food restaurants' glowing signs. Perfect for those readers who love both poetry and Popeye's.
The Pocket Pawpaw Cookbook
by Sara Bir"I have yet to meet a person who is drawn to pawpaws who is not a good person." Pawpaws are found in the fleeting, honeyed weeks between August and October. They are fleshy and awkward to eat, sweetly fragrant, and th
Who We Lost: A Portable Covid Memorial
by Martha GreenwaldWho We Lost is the first book that directly acknowledges the free-floating grief of the COVID-bereaved, affirms that it must be addressed, and offers a purposeful activity that respects mourners as well as the mourned.  In 2020,
The Dayton Anthology (Belt City Anthologies)
by Shannon Shelton MillerThe Dayton Anthology, the fifteenth in Belt's City Anthologies series, is a portrait of a city recovering from the twin 2019 crises of devastating tornadoes and the mass shooting that took the lives of nine residents. Through essays and poems, contributors reflect on these traumas, and the longer-term ills of disinvestment and decay that have plagued the city for years, but also on the resilience of the people who call Dayton home. This is the city that brought the world the Wright brothers' invention of flight, along with the cash register, the hydraulic pump, and other technological innovations, but also the soaring poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the comedy of Dave Chappelle. With contributions from Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley and former Ohio Governor Bob Taft.
Rust Belt Femme
by Raechel Anne JolieOne of NPR's "Best Books of 2020," and winner of the 2020 Independent Publisher Awards' gold medal for LGBTQ+ nonfiction, Raechel Anne Jolie's blazing memoir is now available in paperback. Raechel Anne Joli
How to Speak Midwestern
by Edward McClelland"A dictionary wrapped in some serious dialectology inside a gift book trailing a serious whiff of Relevance" - The New York Times In this book on Midwestern accents, and sayings, Edward McClelland explains what Midwesterners sa
The History of Democracy Has Yet to Be Written: How We Have to Learn to Govern All Over Again
by Thomas Geoghegan"This book made me laugh out loud and also gave me glimpses of an entire horizon of possibility I hadn't seen before."--Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes End the filibuster. Abolish
The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt Neighborhood Guidebooks)
by Aaron FoleyDetroiters need to get to know their neighbors better. Wait ― maybe that should be, Detroiters should get to know their neighborhoods better. It seems like everybody thinks they know the neighborhoods here, but because there are so many, the definitions become too broad, the characteristics become muddled, the stories become lost. Edited by Aaron Foley, The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook contains essays by Zoe Villegas, Drew Philip, Hakeem Weatherspoon, Marsha Music, Ian Thibodeau, and dozens of others.
Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest
by Terrion L. WilliamsonAn ambitious, honest portrait of the Black experience in flyover country. One of The St. Louis Post Dispatch's Best Books of 2020. Black Americans have been among the hardest hit by the rapid deindustrialization and
City of Hustle: A Sioux Falls Anthology (Belt City Anthologies)
by Belt PublishingA part of Belt's City Anthology Series, a unique take on the South Dakota town residents call "the Best Little City in America." In 1992, Money magazine named Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the best place to
The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or, Illumination (Belt Revivals)
by Harold FredericFirst published in 1896, this unsung masterpiece of American literature details the rise and fall of a Methodist minister in upstate New York. Part of Belt's Revivals series and with a new introduction by Ruth Graham. Th
Conspiracy to Riot: The Life and Times of One of the Chicago 7
by Lee WeinerA memoir of a life in activism by one of the original defendants in the Trial of the Chicago 7, subject of the 2020 Oscar-nominated Aaron Sorkin film of the same name. In March 1969, eight young men were indicted by the federal
The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention
by Steve Volk Beth BenedixA succinct and impassioned call to reimagine the small liberal arts college, by two veteran educators. Private liberal arts colleges have struggled for decades; now, as the COVID-19 pandemic widens cracks latent in many American
Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen: Recipes, Resources, and Stories
by Belt PublishingA varied, handy collection of Rust Belt culinary favorites, updated for today&’s vegan diet. The Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen is a community cookbook created by professional and home chefs who live and work in the Rust Belt. Recipes collected here represent the diversity of the region, and include vegan versions of:Polish pierogisDetroit coney dogsHungarian paprikashSlovak kolachesMexican conchasGerman sauerkraut ballsCincinnati chiliSlovenian fish fryChitterings, and many more.The cooks and chefs collected here offer stories about their recipes as well as family and culinary traditions. The book also includes resources on how to stock a vegan pantry, guides to useful equipment, and basic how-tos for &“veganizing&” staples. Infusing old world recipes with a new level of creativity for a changing audience, The Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen is unpretentious, accessible, and fun.
Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt Neighborhood Guidebooks)
by Belt PublishingThis book is for those who want to understand what radiates away from Terminal Tower, and who understand that as lovely as the city often is, it can sometimes be brutal, too. You will read about places no longer here, such as the Little Italy Historical Museum and League Park, as well as increasingly popular areas, such as North Collinwood and Asiatown. You will learn about Cleveland Heights s natural history, Mount Pleasant back in the day, and Opportunity Corridors missed. The writers tell you stories about starting a business in Ohio City, marketing Larchmere, first time home buying in Detroit Shoreway, self-loathing in South Euclid, troubling developments in Tremont, closed schools in Lee-Miles, and a vineyard in Hough. Bound together, they conjure a Cleveland as complex as are its residents.
Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook
by Sonya HuberSonya Huber, author of the award-winning Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System , offers a candid, lyrical look inside the unsung world of exurban Illinois. New Lenox, Illinois, is a
Tales of Bunjitsu Bunny (Bunjitsu Bunny Ser. #1)
by John HimmelmanIntroducing Isabel, aka Bunjitsu Bunny! She is the BEST bunjitsu artist in her school, and she can throw farther, kick higher, and hit harder than anyone else! But she never hurts another creature . . . unless she has to. This series of brief stories about Isabel's adventures are a beguiling combination of child-friendly scenarios and Eastern wisdom perfect for the youngest readers.