The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life
Megan Elias2026-06-22T10:32:44-04:00The Blacker the Berry (1929), Wallace Thurman’s debut novel, broke new ground as an exploration of issues of “colorism,” intra-racial prejudice, and internalized racism in African American life. Its protagonist, the young Emma Lou Morgan, is simply “too dark” for a world in which every kind of advancement seems to require a light complexion.…
American Indian Stories
Megan Elias2026-06-22T10:32:44-04:00Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Šá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering the reservation’s children a free education. The catch: They must leave their parents behind and travel to Indiana. Curious about the world beyond the reservation, Zitkála-Šá begs her mother to let her go—and her mother, aware of the advantages that an education offers, reluctantly agrees.…
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Megan Elias2026-06-22T10:32:44-04:00In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private.…
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Megan Elias2026-06-22T10:33:33-04:00When Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke returns from war to find his beloved Southwestern desert threatened by industrial development, it’s up to him to take the noxious bull by the horns. Joining forces with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, Hayduke is primed to fight the power.…
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Megan Elias2026-06-22T10:32:44-04:00Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifing from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks outhis fortune–in the hotel business, on new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the threacherous back roads of the American Northwest.…
Refuge
Megan Elias2026-06-22T10:32:44-04:00In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by.…
West: A Translation
Megan Elias2026-06-22T10:32:44-04:00In 2018, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. The result is West: A Translation–an unflinching hybrid collection of poems and essays that draws a powerful, necessary connection between the railroad’s completion and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943).…
Growing Up Biden
Megan Elias2026-06-09T12:40:47-04:00Growing Up Biden details Valerie’s decades-long professional career in politics, and the central role she played in her brother’s life as an insightful adviser, an ever-loyal advocate and best friend.…
Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies
Megan Elias2026-06-09T12:40:47-04:00A cornerstone of early American political thought, this collection provides invaluable insight into the grievances and philosophical underpinnings of the era. Dickinson’s work explores the economic relationship between Great Britain and its colonies, analyzing the impact of British financial policies on colonial life.…