Belt Publishing
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American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA
$18.00 Read moreDuring the Great Depression, out-of-work writers were hired by the federal government to interview American working-class workers about their jobs. What was it like working in a meatpacking plant in C… [more below]
- Author: Trubek, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 154027022X
- Language: English
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Boston in 50 Maps
$30.00 Add to cartSee Boston from a new perspective in these fifty-plus new, original maps.
In this fun and informative book, you can trace Paul Revere’s ride as well as Viking Leif Erikson’s supposed (and dubious) rou
- Series: 50 Maps
- Author: Woodruff, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1540270033
- Language: English
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Bring Cash: A Guide to Estate Sales in the Midwest and Beyond
$18.95 Add to cartUnlock the secrets of shopping estate sales–and why doing so is good for your home, your style, your wallet, the planet, and even your sense of empathy.
Have you ever wanted to get into shopping est
- Author: Davis, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1540270173
- Language: English
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Fidelity
$20.00 Add to cartA classic feminist novel originally published in 1915, and set in Iowa in the early years of the 20th century, Susan Glaspell’s Fidelity is a surprising, suspenseful work about the strictures that con
- Series: Belt Revivals
- Author: Glaspell, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1540270157
- Language: English
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On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes
$20.00 Add to cart“As a man who long convinced himself that he lived on the edge of the world, here’s my wish for you: Embrace the awe. Allow yourself to feel alone. Then remember you are not.”
The thirty-three writers
- Author: Welch, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1540270165
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure
$18.95 Add to cartWhether failing to restrain herself from trying to find greater meaning in roadkill, or to convince her dad that psychedelic mushrooms will not save his marriage, or to believably perform enthusiasm f
- Author: Zaleski, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1540270149
- Language: English
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Cincinnati in 50 Maps
$30.00 Add to cartThere are as many versions of Greater Cincinnati as there are residents of the region. That’s roughly two million different perceptions of the city.
In Cincinnati in 50 Maps, editor Nick Swartsell an
- Series: 50 Maps
- Author: Swartsell, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1540270017
- Language: English
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Columbus in 50 Maps
$30.00 Add to cartThis full-color book of maps, one of Belt Publishing’s 50 Maps Series, presents the capital and biggest city in Ohio like you’ve never seen it before.
Columbus is a place perpetually in search of an i
- Series: 50 Maps
- Author: Warren, Brent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1540270025
- Language: English
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The Rockford Anthology
$24.00 Add to cartScrew Capital of the World. Forest City. Home of the Rockford Peaches of A League of Their Own fame. Rockford, Illinois, has many identities, most oriented toward the past. These days, the fastener in
- Series: Belt City Anthologies
- Author: León, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1540270122
- Language: English
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The Great Black Swamp: Toxic Algae, Toxic Relationships, and the Most Interesting Place in America That Nobody’s Ever Heard of
$19.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 2014, a strange thing happened to one of the largest freshwater bodies on the planet: Lake Erie’s western shore turned bright green with toxic algae that could have killed 400,000 Ohi
- Author: Wensink, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1540270106
- Language: English
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Football Sissy: A Cross-Dressing Memoir
$20.00 Add to cart“Jack’s sports reporting was always fair, honest, and straightforward. He tells his own story in the same exact way.” –Cris Collinsworth, NBC Sunday Night Football
In Jack Brennan’s decades-long care
- Author: Brennan, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1540270041
- Language: English
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Chicago House Music: Culture and Community
$24.00 Add to cartAn 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 ge
- Author: Harrold, Marguerite L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368735
- Language: English
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Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA
$34.00 Add to cartFerguson, 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 might
- Author: Heyda, Patty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368751
- Language: English
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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
$19.95 Add to cart“A brief, cogent analysis of gentrification in Chicago … an incisive and useful narrative on the puzzle of urban development.”-Kirkus Reviews
In the years after World War II, a movement began to brin
- Author: Hertz, Daniel Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1948742098
- Language: English
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An Alternative History of Pittsburgh
$18.95 Add to cartEd Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories–the LA Review of Books calls it an epic, atomic history of the Steel City.
The land surrounding the confluence o
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1948742926
- Language: English
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Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game
$17.95 Add to cartA fundamental reevaluation of how to be a sports fan by an acclaimed baseball writer.
Sports fandom isn’t what it used to be. Owners and executives increasingly count on the blind loyalty of their fans
- Author: Calcaterra, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1953368239
- Language: English
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Great Lakes in 50 Maps
$30.00 Add to cartA new way of looking at the largest freshwater system on Earth.
The Great Lakes region is not a primary regional identity―most people would identify as a midwesterner or Ohioan or even a Rust Bel
- Series: 50 Maps
- Author: Hill, Alex B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1540270009
- Language: English
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The Set Up
$20.00 Add to cartAlly, an aspiring actress, is about to give up on getting her big break. But then, after another disappointing audition, a charismatic scene partner says he has a fun gig for her. Soon, Ally is making
- Author: Wynn, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1953368948
- Language: English
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The Pocket Rhubarb Cookbook
$18.00 Add to cartA handy little cookbook that puts the humble rhubarb in the spotlight.
There’s more to rhubarb than you thought. The distinctive plant was initially used as an herbal medicine, and it eventually became
- Series: Cookbooks
- Author: Furstenau, Nina Mukerjee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1953368980
- Language: English
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Pittsburgh in 50 Maps
$30.00 Add to cartPittsburgh in 50 Maps offers unique new views of a city at a crossroads–culturally, economically, and demographically.
There are countless ways to map a city. Roads, bridges, and waterways help you na
- Series: 50 Maps
- Author: Danielson, Stentor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1953368859
- Language: English
