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Winner of Prize Americana, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee's second award-winning book of poetry, Intersection on Neptune, moves outward from the immigrant experience through first and second generations to unravel a history of American life in New York and New Jersey beginning in the early to mid-1900s. In a sweep of suburban, city, and rural life, this intersection of lives spins off separate journeys to what will become twentieth-century American ex...

A grandfather reluctantly raising his seven-year-old granddaughter throws her a birthday party to which no one comes-and she's delighted. A former hockey player, about to become a father, suffers flashbacks to times his coach sexually abused him. A one-time Olympic hopeful reveals the heartbreaking reason she failed to land her signature jump-and thereby frees herself to find her next passion. Winner of Prize Americana, The Rink Girl may have ...

12 Conversations with American Studies Scholars is a collection of interviews featuring some of the most influential professors in the field: Nancy Bentley, Ray B. Browne, Floyd Cheung, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Sam B. Girgus, William A. Gleason, M. Thomas Inge, Matthew Frye Jacobson, E. Ann Kaplan, George Lipsitz, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, and Peter C. Rollins.

Winner of Prize Americana, Ryan Harper's poetry collection My Beloved Had a Vineyard travels through America to remind us who we are and where we come from. Filled with midnight and apple orchards and mountain valleys, his poems surprise and delight with magical ease" --

Asylum Seeker, a poetry collection by Rich Murphy, analyzes the problems, hypocrisies, politics, and media issues in American culture with unflinching force and conviction" --

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Winner of Prize Americana, The Avant Garde of Western Civ is the story of one "foot soldier" and his family as they sought to provide salve and transformation within the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in 2003. This memoir by David Holdridge explores how difficult and often complicit "giving" can be.

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Winner of Prize Americana, Grant Hier's Untended Garden is a quest narrative set in the suburbs, a long poem in the spirit of "Song of Myself" that weaves personal history, natural history, and American history.

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Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, presents his first full-length book of poetry. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology.

Eudora Renfroe has sewn a champion quilt, but when a hurricane threatens her hometown, she faces the most difficult decision of her life.

Ten-year-old Samantha Stone lives in New Orleans with her mother until mysterious incidents lead her to the island of North Bimini and a portal into a parallel dimension where she must battle the evil Lord Draegor for the Light of Aerynon.

Reel Histories: Studies in American Film" is an essay collection that extends the academic dialogue concerning the "holy trinity" of race, social class, and gender as they are constructed on the screen while also examining aspects of the film industry that are often ignored.