Bookshelf

(State University of New York Press, 2025)

According to the publisher, “Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for transgender rights, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States takes an empathic approach to an embattled subject. Sweeping in scope and deeply personal in nature, this groundbreaking volume traces the development of transgender medicine across three centuries-centering the voices of transgender individuals, debunking myths about gender-affirming care, and empowering readers to grasp the complexities of this evolving field. More than 40 contributors-including patients, advocates, physicians, psychologists, and scholars-weave an illuminating, sometimes surprising narrative of collaboration and conflict between trans people and the scientists who have studied and worked with them. An indispensable guide to understanding the current tumult surrounding trans health-care access in the United States, the volume underscores a crucial message: gender diversity is not a new phenomenon but an integral part of our shared human history.”

(NoSubject Press, 2022).

According to the author, this book is “a time capsule of unemployment during COVID-19. Text messages, journal entries, short essays, and lots of photos of a time when long walks were my solace, an ambulatory saving grace. No longer working two service-industry jobs, time was all my own. But pandemic unemployment didn’t unleash my creativity. Instead, it left me anxious. Neutered. I didn’t write or edit, read, or record. But I walked. Long walks, head down, all over an eerily quiet San Francisco.

(Bacchus USA Publications, 2022)

Drawing from the author’s 28 years of grassroots leadership, this book is described as “a comprehensive tactical guide to direct action in economic, political, legal, and non-legislative arenas essential for conservatives to defeat socialism and preserve American culture.

(Finishing Line Press, 2024).

This collection of poetry provides a lyrical warning — take better care of the Earth or find ourselves in the extinction category.

(Wings ePress, 2024).

The latest work from Dafoe explores Grace Storey’s deep dive into dual mysteries about her great-great-grandfather and a contemporary soldier injured in Iraq. Grace’s search arises both out of empathy and an attempt to come to terms with her own devastating losses.

(Routledge, 2025).

According to the publisher, “This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, and related circulating visual and textual media.

(Del Rey Publishing, 2025).

The New York Times bestselling fantasy author returns to the world of Shannara, delving deep into the origin story of the Elven leader Galaphile Joss.

(Lexington Books, 2024).

The volume, co-edited with Marzia Caporale and Habib Zanzana from the University of Scranton, is the first to investigate post-2000 French banlieue (periurban) cinema through an intersectional lens. Some interpretive axes and areas of critical investigation include toxic masculinity, hypermasculinity, female identity at the intersection of gender, age, race, and socioeconomic status, queer identities and spaces, sexual politics, patriarchal dominance, and artistic expression as a form of resistance.

(Sticking Place Books, 2024).

MacDonald is the author of five volumes of A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers and more than two dozen other books. Named an Academy Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences in 2011, he says about this work:

(Polyverse Publishing, 2024).

A retired professor, Sangster is a self-described news junkie and fan of crime novels and Law and Order on TV. So it wasn’t a stretch for him to write a novel about a college professor who gets wrapped up in the legal system.