And It Begins Like This, LaTanya McQueen, Black Lawrence Press

Archaeological Oddities, Kenneth L. Feder, Rowman & Littlefield Pub

Dream of the Water Children: Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific, Frederick D. Kakinami Cloyd, 2Leaf Press

Far Flung: Improvisations on National Parks, Driving to Russia, Not Marrying a Ranger, the Language of Heartbreak, and Other Natural Disasters, Cassandra Kircher, West Virginia University Press

Pepper: A Guide to the World’s Favorite Spice, Joe Barth, Rowman & Littlefield Pub

Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black as Told to Susan Klonsky, Timuel D. Black Jr., Northwestern University Press

The Texas Rangers in Transition: From Gunfighters to Criminal Investigators 1921-1935, Charles H. Harris III & Louis R. Sadler, University of Oklahoma Press

Time’s Up: A Memoir of the American Century, Robert Cabot, McPherson & Co

The Westside Slugger: Joe Neal’s Lifelong Fight for Social Justice, John L. Smith, University of Nevada Press