Sinners, saints and saviors collide in Bobby Johnston's stories, which chronicle the savagery and poetry of opressive Catholic upbringing in 1970s Rust-Belt America. Johnston weaves landscapes of transgression and absolution, humor and resilience into his sharp-eyed tapestry of recall.

In the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz--and American--history.

When a man tells you that he wants to give you the world, believe him. And when he shows you that he's a piece of shit, believe that too. Sloane and Tisha have been best friends since high school. They do everything together. So when one married a millionaire, the other married his best friend. Sloane and Tisha finally realize that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. While having money and being a part of a social elite class brings them added perks, it also brings a string of other issues as well. To get away from their daily life of constantly being scrutinized by the public eye, they whisk themselves away for annual girl's only vacations. A trip to the Virgin Islands, proves to be not what they'd imagined at all. Everything that they once held near and dear comes crashing down around them. In He Ain't No Saint, Sloane and Tisha are left trying to pick up the pieces and hold on to A Hurtful Love that they've become accustomed to. This novel will have you screaming at the pages for these two best friends to wake up and honor themselves as the true queens that they are.

Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block...for the fourth time. California’s Newport Beach is her family’s latest perch, and she’s determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name—Cindy. It’s the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes more difficult as Iran makes U.S. headlines with protests, revolution, and finally the taking of American hostages. Even puka shell necklaces, pool parties, and flying fish can't distract Cindy from the anti-Iran sentiments that creep way too close to home. A poignant yet lighthearted middle grade debut from the author of the bestselling Funny in Farsi. California Library Association’s John and Patricia Beatty Award Winner Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award (Grades 6–8) New York Historical Society’s New Americans Book Prize Winner Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature, Honorable Mention Booklist 50 Best Middle Grade Novels of the 21st Century

Pragmatic Modernism traces an alternative strain of modernism influenced by pragmatist philosophy and characterized by its commitment to gradualism, continuity, and habit rather than spectacular events and radical rupture. Through original readings of Gertrude Stein, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., this study rediscovers an overlooked cultural and social matrix and suggests an expanded range of responses to modernity.