The Kent State University Press Black Squirrel Books imprint: 23 books
Meet Me at Ray's
A Celebration of Ray's Place in Kent, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Stories and trivia from a beloved Kent Institution
Meet Me at Ray’s celebrates more than seventy-five successful years (and counting) of Ray’s Place, a restaurant and bar located near the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio. Once referred to as the place “where the hustlers meet...
Hell's Wasteland
The Pennsylvania Torso Murders
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Did the Mad Butcher of Cleveland also strike in Pennsylvania?
From 1934 to 1938, Cleveland, Ohio, was racked by a classic battle between good and evil. On one side was the city’s safety director, Eliot Ness. On the other was a nameless phantom dubbed the “Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run,”...
by Janet McAdams
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
“Seven Boxes for the Country After is a book about a way-making and way-finding. It is a journey, both internal and external, across a map, over borders, through a life, and in a body. It is passage and pilgrimage, odyssey and exile. Above all it is a book of questions. What do we carry with us...
by Jim Tully
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life
“Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelists to emerge in the 1920s and ’30s. He gained this position with intelligence, sensitivity, and hard work. . . . No matter how crazily violent or fantastic his stories...
Classic 'Burgh
The 50 Greatest Collegiate Games in Pittsburgh Sports History
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
The great tradition of collegiate sports in western Pennsylvania told through 50 memorable games
When sports fans think of collegiate sports in western Pennsylvania, most think of football at the University of Pittsburgh, but there is much more.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Duquesne University...
Bandersnatch
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
An inside look at the Inklings and their creative process
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other’s works-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing?...
Ohio's Craft Beers
Discovering the Variety, Enjoying the Quality, Relishing the Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Ohio's Craft Beers celebrates the variety of craft brewing in Ohio, offers appreciations of its quality, and reports on the renaissance of the brewer's art throughout the Buckeye State. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs, the book takes readers on a tour of more than 40 of Ohio's larger...
Finding Utopia
Another Journey Into Lost Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In Finding Utopia, Randy McNutt sets off again to explore Ohio’s forgotten nooks and byways. He begins where his last journey ended—on roads less traveled—finding more ghost towns, battlefields-turned-cornfields, and old memories that beckon him like spectral hitchhikers. On the way, he meets...
America's Football Factory
Western Pennsylvania's Cradle of Quarterbacks from Johnny Unitas to Joe Montana
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
A small area of western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh has produced almost 25 percent of the modern era quarter- backs enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That percentage is wildly disproportionate to the number of superstar quarterbacks any one state might claim, let alone a mere sliver of...
George Steinbrenner's Pipe Dream
The ABL Champion Cleveland Pipers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Steinbrenner nearly beats the Cavaliers to the NBA by eight years
In an eleventh-floor corner office in downtown Cleveland during the spring of 1961, 30-year-old George Steinbrenner sketched with his hands the future as he dreamed it. He grabbed the young basketball player who was sitting near...
Classic Steelers
The 50 Greatest Games in Pittsburgh Steelers History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
When it came to football in the 1930s, the college sport was king. But in 1933, former boxer and minor league baseball player Art Rooney, who had quarterbacked the squad at Duquesne University, purchased a team for Pittsburgh for $2,500. Thus began the legacy we know as “Steeler Nation.”
At...
Classic Reds
The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Red History
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
The 50 most historically significant games of baseball's first all-professional team
Choosing the 50 greatest games is hard to do; ranking them is even harder. Now every Reds fan can relive memories of baseball before and after the Big Red Machine, debate about these choices, or make a list...
Disqualified
Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Having previously tied the world record, Eddie Hart was a strong favorite to win the 100-meter dash at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. Then the inexplicable happened: he was disqualified after arriving seconds late for a quarterfinal heat. Ten years of training to become the “World’s Fastest...
Bloody Lies
A CSI Scandal in the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The remote farming community of Murdock, Nebraska, seemed to be the least likely setting for one of the heartland’s most ruthless and bloody double murders in decades. In fact, the little town had gone more than a century without a single homicide. But on the night of Easter 2006, Wayne and Sharmon...
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