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Dive into Cleveland's deep past and return with a new vision for how we should think about the region today. The land we call "northeast Ohio" was originally forged through eons of glacial pressure,...

From an exhilarating new voice, a breathtaking memoir about gay desire, Blackness, and growing up. Darius Stewart spent his childhood in the Lonsdale projects of Knoxville, where he grew up...

Author: Terrion WilliamsonPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948742691ISBN-13: 9781948742696

This hilarious, touching debut novel by Aaron Foley, author of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass, follows three Black gay millennial men looking for love, friendship, and professional...

From the critically acclaimed author of Shizuko's Daughter (a New York Times Notable Book) and Yarn, comes a fascinating new memoir about animals, loss, and finding a home in the world. Cat and Bird,...

An inside look at the music born, bred, and perfected in Chicago. Chicago house music originated in the city's Black, gay underground in the late seventies and became one of the most popular musical...

Clutter : An Untidy HistoryAuthor: Jennifer HowardPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1953368093ISBN-13:...

Dreadful Sorry: Essays On An American NostalgiaAuthor: Jennifer NiessleinPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Mar 01, 2022Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

With over a hundred photos collected by G. Faye Dant, and with an introduction by renowned Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin. When Mark Twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1885, he...

Author: Edward Mcclelland, Ted McclellandPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Dec 01, 2016Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0997774274ISBN-13: 9780997774276

Essays from six incarcerated men about power, punishment, and redemptionAuthor: Elsinore-Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice, John Edgar WidemanPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Sep...

Sonya 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,...

Midwest Futures - 9781953368089Author: Phil ChristmanPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Feb 01, 2022Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1953368085ISBN-13:...

A historical tour of midwestern pies that recalls when recipes were shared through faded note cards and junior league cookbooks. New England may say it's the "Great American Pie Belt," but pie has a...

A guided tour of one of the Midwest's most vibrant subcultures, one DIY ramp at a time. The American Midwest may not have a reputation as the nation's skating mecca, but maybe it should. In Midwest...

Our Endless And Proper Work: Starting (And Sticking To) Your Writing PracticeAuthor: Ron HoganPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: June 08, 2021Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage:...

Ferguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America's racial tensions after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and the protests that followed in its wake. Though this suburb just outside St. Louis...

Radical Humility: Essays On Ordinary ActsAuthor: Rebekah Modrak, Jamie Lausch Vander BroekPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: March 16, 2021Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A fundamental reevaluation of how to be a sports fan by an acclaimed baseball writerSports fandom isn't what it used to be. Owners and executives increasingly count on the blind loyalty of their fans...

Rust Belt Femme - 9781953368041Author: Raechel Anne JoliePublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: September 14, 2021Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen: Recipes, Resources, And StoriesAuthor: Meredith PangracePublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Dec 07, 2021Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Tales of the Buckeye State, told by a native sonAuthor: William Dean Howells, Anne TrubekPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Mar 26, 2019Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In 1983, U.S. News and World Report started to rank colleges and universities, throwing them into competition with each other for students and precious resources. Over the course of the next thirty...

From the author of Clean Time comes a firsthand account of the organizing effort inside one of the world's largest tech companies and its impact on one Pittsburgh family. In 2019, Ben Gwin played an...

Author: Daniel Kay HertzPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Oct 16, 2018Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948742098ISBN-13: 9781948742092

First published in 1896, The Damnation of Theron Ware follows a young Methodist minister who comes to a small, upstate New York town to spread the gospel. Instead, his congregation slowly leads him...

Author: Samuel LovePublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Sep 15, 2020Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948742756ISBN-13: 9781948742757

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 Last Children of Mill CreekAuthor: Vivian GibsonPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: April 20, 2020Number of Pages: 150 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948742640ISBN-13:...

In the fall of 2020, as the pandemic raged around the globe, Zito Madu traveled to Venice for a writing fellowship. There, he found a deserted, silent, but still beautiful city, "one of those...