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GNOMON PRESS
Ohio’s First Ladies
Newfound
From the Midwest to the White House
Jim Wayne Miller
Katherine Jellison, ed. This engaging collection of essays explores the lives and legacies of six Ohio-born First Ladies: Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Caroline Scott Harrison, Ida Saxton McKinley, Helen Herron Taft, and Florence Kling Harding. With contributions by leading scholars, the volume moves beyond traditional biography to examine how each woman’s Ohio roots shaped her public role and influenced her husband’s political career at both state and national levels. thinking about ohio november 2026 5½ × 8½ in. | 192 pp. | 14 b&w illus. paper $24.95 t isbn 9780821427187 cloth $60.00 t isbn 9780821427170
First published in 1989, this Gnomon Press edition was released in 1996 In Newfound, Jim Wayne Miller offers a lyrical, plain-spoken coming-of-age story set in Appalachian Tennessee. In episodic vignettes, young Robert navigates his parents’ divorce, life on his grandparents’ farms, and seasonal rhythms. By age seventeen he leaves Newfound Creek for Berea College, shaped by family lore and hard-won lessons. august 2026 5½ × 8½ in. | 224 pp. paper $21.95 t isbn 9780917788598
His First, Best Country Jim Wayne Miller Published in 1993 by Gnomon Press
Going Across the Water New and Selected Poems of Harry Humes Daniel Donaghy with Michael Garrigan, eds.
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS Fall/Winter 2026
Harry Humes carved out a unique place in American literature by chronicling Appalachian working-class life, natural landscapes, and disappearing rural traditions in Appalachian Pennsylvania with rare lyricism, humility, and precision. This volume not only preserves the work of a significant American poet, offering scholars, teachers, and general readers a generous overview of the clarity, beauty, craft, and emotional depth of his substantial body of work. It allows future generations to rediscover poetry that deepens our understanding of how our labor, our landscapes, and our love shape us and change the ways we live and what we care about. swallow press november 2026 6 × 9 in. | 320 pp. paper $24.95 t isbn 9780804012676 cloth $49.95 s isbn 9780804012669
In His First, Best Country, the sequel to Newfound, Jim Wayne Miller delivers an unforgettable Appalachian novel. His lyrical prose captures the pull of home as he explores our ties to land, neighbors, and self, exploring what’s most painful and sustaining about belonging. august 2026 5½ × 8½ in. | 224 pp. paper $21.95 t isbn 9780917788550
The Last of ‘The Waltz Across Texas’ and Other Stories Jo Carson Published in 1993 by Gnomon Press
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The Last of ‘The Waltz Across Texas’ and Other Stories marks Jo Carson’s debut fiction collection. Across its pages, her keen imagination and sharp humor bring to life well-drawn characters navigating family, friends, and community. august 2026 5½ × 8½ in. | 160 pp. paper $21.95 t isbn 9780917788536
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