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FALL 2024 TITLES

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Djinns: Purple book cover with the title text in bold, black lettering up the left side of the page. The author text is written in yellow between the 'D' and the 'J'. Small silouhettes of people dot the page.
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Djinns
Fatma Aydemir
Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi
Fall 2024

  

Moments of Happiness: Mike Leckrone, standing in front of the percussion session of the UW Madison marching band, his arms outstretched, a large smile on his face.
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Moments of Happiness
A Wisconsin Band Story
Mike Leckrone and Doug Moe
Fall 2024

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Diversity Quota
Ranjan Adiga
Fall 2024

  

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Beer, Brats, and Cheese
A Wisconsin Road Trip
Heather Kerrigan
Fall 2024

Bones of Bascom Hall: cover depicting Bascom Hall at night, a dark, cloudy sky looming above it. The image has a rainbow filter over it, but the ominous quality of the picture means that the color does not add any joviality to the cover.
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The Bones of Bascom Hall
Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden
Fall 2024

  

Wolf Act: cover depicting an illustration of a red cloak hanging on a wall with the hide of a wolf hanging beside it. The title text is written in bold font above the two hanging items. The top half and left side of the image, including the red cloak, are in shadow, while the wolf hide is in bright light.
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Wolf Act
AJ Romriell
Fall 2024

A Brave Lovely Woman: A beige cover displays the book title and author name in red all caps to the left of the page. To the right, a black and while image of Mamah Borthwick stares almost broodingly into the distance.
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A Brave and Lovely Woman
Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright
Mark Borthwick
Fall 2024

  

Congo's Dancers: cover depicting two photographs of the same woman posed in different ways, the images cropped so that the viewer never sees her complete form. The cover is tinted blue and green, with another set of photos faintly super-imposed over the original photos, further muddling the images.
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Congo's Dancers
Women and Work in Kinshasa
Lesley Nicole Braun
Fall 2024

Framing the Holocaust: In portrait orientation, a black background dotted with dim red displays the title in white all caps. A blue frame with the author name to the bottom surrounds the black box.
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Framing the Holocaust
Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941
Edited by Valerie Hébert
Fall 2024

  

Plain: cover showing an abstract painting full of rich yellows, oranges, greens, and pastel pinks and blues. The title text is kept in a small white box in the center of the page.
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Plain
A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood
Mary Alice Hostetter
Fall 2024

Illiberal Vanguard: a white cover with bold red text.
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Illiberal Vanguard
Populist Elitism in the United States and Russia
Alexandar Mihailovic
Fall 2024

  

Gold letters spell out 'Dynastic Democracy.' 'Dynastic' eclipses a small portion of the top side of 'Democracy' while 'Democracy' blots out a small portion of the bottom part of 'Dynastic.'' In an auditorium, a multitude of politicians stand attention in the background.
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Dynastic Democracy
Political Families in Thailand
Yoshinori Nishizaki
Fall 2024

Ripple Effects: cover showing an arial photo of a speed boat creating a wake in a body of water. The title text hovers above the boat in striking teal font.
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Ripple Effects
How We're Loving Our Lakes to Death
Ted J. Rulseh
Fall 2024

  

Death Casts a Shadow: cover depicting an island in a lake during the winter, an orange sunset filling the sky behind tall pine trees.
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Death Casts a Shadow
Patricia Skalka
Fall 2024

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Charlottengrad
Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin
Roman Utkin
Fall 2024

  

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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
Olufemi Vaughan
Fall 2024

In Defense of Sovereignty: a red and purple cover with white and purple corn-like tassles emerging from the top and bottom of the page. The title text is written in all capps in the center of the page, between the two corn-tassles.
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In Defense of Sovereignty
Protecting the Oneida Nation's Inherent Right to Self-Determination
Rebecca M. Webster
Fall 2024

  

Written for the Drawer: a black and white photo of messy shelves in an office. The title text is written in contrasting, bold yellow and white font.
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Written for the Drawer
Leonid Tsypkin, Uncensored Literature, and Soviet Jewishness
Brett Winestock
Fall 2024

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Cowboy Park
Eduardo Martínez-Leyva
Fall 2024

  

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Surveille
Caitlin Roach
Fall 2024

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Whispers in the Echo Chamber
Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society
Edited by Jesse A. Fivecoate and Andrea Kitta
Fall 2024

  

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Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty
Within and between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia
Ian G. Baird
Fall 2024

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Hollywood's Unofficial Film Corps
American Jewish Moviemakers and the War Effort
Michael Berkowitz
Fall 2024

  

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Enchanted Modernities
Ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong
Micah F. Morton
Fall 2024

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Menander and the Birth of Domestic Drama
Mitch Brown
Fall 2024

  

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Rescue and Remembrance
Imagining the German Collective after Nazism
Kobi Kabalek
Fall 2024

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Architectural Networks in the North Aegean
Thasos, Samothrace, and the Formation of Hellenistic Design
Edited by William Aylward, Jacques des Courtils, and Bonna D. Wescoat
Fall 2024

  

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From Metaphor to Direct Speech
Contemporary Russophone Drama and Performance Theory
E. Susanna Weygandt
Fall 2024

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Writing against Hitler
Hermann Budzislawski and the Making of Twentieth-Century Socialism
Daniel Siemens
Translated by Ben Fowkes
Fall 2024

  

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What Sex Is Death?
Dario Bellezza
Selected and translated by Peter Covino
Fall 2024
         

 

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