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February 3, 2025

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni, published the first week of each month. The February featured book is “Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons” by Maya J. Berry.

Bookmark This: 2024 wrap-up

January 3, 2025

We featured nine amazing books by College faculty and alumni across different disciplines in 2024. Enjoy this wrap-up of the books we featured last year, and find some new books for your reading list in 2025!

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December 6, 2024

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni. The December featured book is “The Lives of Jewish Things: Collecting and Curating Material Culture,” edited by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger and Ruth von Bernuth.

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November 1, 2024

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College people. The November featured book is “One Day I’ll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion that Conquered America” by Benjamin C. Waterhouse, professor of history.

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October 4, 2024

Bookmark This is a monthly feature highlighting books by College people. This month’s featured book is “Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State” by Kelly Alexander, assistant professor and George B. Tindall Fellow of American Studies.

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September 6, 2024

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College people. The September featured book is “Clover Garden: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir ” by Bland Simpson, illustrated with photographs by Ann Cary Simpson.

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June 7, 2024

Bookmark This is a monthly feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni. The June featured book is “Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness” by Inger Sigrun Bredkjaer Brodey. Join Brodey at a Flyleaf Books discussion about the book on June 11.

Summer’s the time for Tar Heel tales

May 28, 2024

UNC Press offers a Mayberry-infused memoir, veteran’s essays, stories of strong Southern women and more. College faculty members Daniel Wallace and Elizabeth Engelhardt are on the list as well as doctoral student Kylan Rice.