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A part of Belt's City Anthology Series, a unique take on Charm City through the eyes of those who live there every day. To many outsiders, Baltimore--sometimes derisively called "Mobtown" or...

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,...

Author: Ed SimonPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: April 20, 2021Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948742926ISBN-13: 9781948742924

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...

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

Author: Edward McclellandPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Jun 15, 2018Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0998018813ISBN-13: 9780998018812

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:...

Author: Ben GwinPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: Apr 06, 2021Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948742713ISBN-13: 9781948742719

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...

Anxiety may be the defining feeling of our current era, and though it affects many people on a deeply personal level, the last few years have also witnessed the rise of more communal feelings of...

Much was made of the 2016 electoral flip when traditionally Democratic states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio tipped the presidency to Donald Trump. Countless think pieces explored...

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...

From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell. In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She...

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...

Author: Ryan Schuessler, Kevin WhiteneirPublisher: Belt PublishingPublication Date: January 12, 2021Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948742810ISBN-13:...

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...