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SPRING 2022 TITLES

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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
Spring 2022

Dot & Ralfie: cover depicting a line illustration of two women embracing each other, one with her hair up in a bun, wearing a floral shirt, the other with short, spiky hair and loose-fitting clothes. The ambersand in the title text is bright red and wraps itself around the women. The background is magenta and the rest of the title text is a contrasting white.
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Dot & Ralfie
Amy Hoffman
Spring 2022

Mourning Light: cover depicting a slight wake in deep water, the ripples resembling the structured muscles of a human back. The title and author text is written in think white text, flowing as if the words are waves themselves.
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Mourning Light
Richard Goodkin
Spring 2022

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One Breath from Drowning
Kent Quaney
Spring 2022

Hoaxes and Other Stories: cover showing the title text written in a randsom letter fashion, with different fonts and backgrounds for each letter of the word 'Hoaxes'.
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Hoaxes and Other Stories
Brian DiNuzzo
Spring 2022

Girl's Guide to Leaving: cover depicting a painting of a woman with five fully black eyes and four arms, holding the the sun in one hand, a spoon in another, and a paintbrush in another. She stands before some trees in a dark forest. Many other detils give this piece an eclectic and haunted feeling.
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Girl's Guide to Leaving
Laura Villareal
Spring 2022

Thunderhead: cover depicting a technocolor sky filled with tall, thunderhead clouds atop a wavy ground of green, blue, yellow, and red stripes. The title text appears in yellow font, written vertically down the page.
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Thunderhead
Emily Rose Cole
Spring 2022

The Sound Boat: cover depicting a dark blue and white piece of abstract art contained within a white border.
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The Sound Boat
New and Selected Poems
Judith Vollmer
Spring 2022

Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light: cover depicting red and pink geraniums in the upper left corner, atop a seafoam green background. The title text is written in black and white at the bottom of the sea foam green section, below it a grayscale photoraph of two elderly hands.
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Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light
Rigoberto González
Spring 2022

Long Way Round: cover art of a blue sky above a red brick building, the title text taking up most of the space.
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Long Way Round
Through the Heartland by River
John Hildebrand
Spring 2022

A Dog Lover's Guide: cover showing Lucky the Labrador-border collie walking up a steep, muddy path lined with coniferous trees. The title text is written in green font within an orange box.
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A Dog Lover's Guide to Hiking Wisconsin's State Parks
Danielle St. Louis
Spring 2022

Dairylandia: Cover showing the Mona Lisa wearing a Wisconsin Badgers shirt painted on the side of a barn. Cows stand in front of the barn, and a blue sky hangs above it.
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Dairylandia
Dispatches from a State of Mind
Steve Hannah
Spring 2022

Amphibians and Reptiles of Wisconsin: cover depicting a photo of spotted salamander atop a pile of wet, autumn leaves at the top of the page, and a photo of a small green snake curled in the sand at the bottom of the page. The two photos are bisected by a black stripe containing the yellow title text.
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Amphibians and Reptiles of Wisconsin
Edited by Joshua M. Kapfer and Donald J. Brown
Spring 2022

Last Train to Auschwitz: cover displaying a blue tinted photograph of two trains. The title text is proclaimed in light blue capitalized font in the center of the page. Design by Jeremy John Parker.
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Last Train to Auschwitz
The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability
Sarah Federman
Spring 2022

Animals Under the Swastika: cover depicting a grayscale buck staring straight ahead at the viewer. The background is blurry and indistinct. The all capps title text is written above the buck in white, with the word 'Swastika' interweaving the buck's large antlers written in red.
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Animals under the Swastika
J. W. Mohnhaupt
Spring 2022

Making Hollywood Happen: cover showing two reams of film upon a purple background. The titles and author text is written in sans sarif white font.
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Making Hollywood Happen
The Story of Film Finances
Charles Drazin
Spring 2022

French Film History, 1895–1946: cover depicting a woman wearing a wedding gown and veil smiling. The photo is grainy and tinted blue. Behind her, a man's face takes up the entirety of the background, but it is so large and blurry that it is easy to miss. The title text is stacked in the center of the page.
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French Film History, 1895–1946
Richard Neupert
Spring 2022

Peoplehood in the Nordic World: pink cover displaying black title text and white author text.
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Peoplehood in the Nordic World
Ove Korsgaard
Spring 2022

Urban Planning in the Nordic World: yellow cover displaying black title text and white author text.
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Urban Planning in the Nordic World
Ellen Braae
Spring 2022

Teaching U.S. History through Sports: cover depicting a photo of athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their gloved fists upwards to protest racial descrimination and violence during the national anthem in the 1968 Olympics after getting their Olympic medals.
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Teaching U.S. History through Sports
Edited by Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy
Spring 2022

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Understanding and Teaching Native American History
Edited by Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti
Spring 2022

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Culture Work
Folklore for the Public Good
Edited by Tim Frandy and B. Marcus Cederström
Spring 2022

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The Making of an Antifascist
Nordahl Grieg between the World Wars Dean Krouk
Spring 2022

Dancing Spirit, Love, and War: cover with a dark background showing four golden people dancing with confident stances.
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Dancing Spirit, Love, and War
Performing the Translocal Realities of Contemporary Fiji
Evadne Kelly
Spring 2022

The Befana is Returning: cover depicting an aerial view of Tuscany with a warm tone. The title text is written in delicate, white font over the image.
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The Befana Is Returning
The Story of a Tuscan Festival
Steve Siporin
Spring 2022

Rise of the Brao: Cover showing people shaking hands in front of a building. The entire image is tinted red, with a yellow symbol depicting five towers to the right side of the page.
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Rise of the Brao
Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation
Ian G. Baird
Spring 2022

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Dynastic Democracy
Political Families in Thailand
Yoshinori Nishizaki
Spring 2022

Burning Ambition: cover depicting an illustrated, lit match whose orange flame contains the title text.
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Burning Ambition
Education, Arson, and Learning Justice in Kenya
Elizabeth Cooper
Spring 2022

Entrepreneurial Goals: cover depicting black, female soccer players wearing blue and pink jerseys. One looks directly at the viewer with a stoic expression. The title text is written in white font above the girls.
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Entrepreneurial Goals
Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies
Itamar Dubinsky
Spring 2022

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Religious Entanglements
Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga
David Maxwell
Spring 2022

Russia's Social Gospel: cover displaying a grayscale photograph of a group of Russian priests sitting in three rows. The title text is proclaimed in yellow all caps text in the center of the page.
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Russia's Social Gospel
The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution
Daniel Scarborough
Spring 2022

Fugitive Texts: cover depicting a piece of brown, aged paper, torn at the edges. On the lower half of the page is a pencil illustration of an old-fashioned machine, above which rests the title text.
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Fugitive Texts
Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture
Michaël Roy
Spring 2022

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Intermediate Horizons
Book History and Digital Humanities
Edited by Mark Vareschi and Heather Wacha
Spring 2022

Eclogues and Georgics: cover depicting a photo of various trees which creates a border around a red box in the center of the page. Contained within the red box is the white and yellow title text.
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Eclogues and Georgics
Vergil
Spring 2022

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Ovid's "Heroides" and the Augustan Principate
Megan O. Drinkwater
Spring 2022

Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina: book cover showing stone carving of man's head. The image is tinted blue. The title text is written in white font across the face of the bust.
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Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina
Varro’s Guide to Being Roman
Diana Spencer
Spring 2022