Welcome to our virtual exhibit for the Pennsylvania Library Association!
We’ll miss meeting you this year at the Pennsylvania Library Association. However, we would still like to introduce you to some of our new titles, many of which are also available as e-books! Please browse and follow the links to shop! Use coupon code PaLA20 to receive 30% off!
The official Pennsylvania Library Association virtual conference site is here (available October 19–21).
Have a project you'd like to discuss? Several of our editors acquire books in fields relevant to Pennsylvania librarians.
- Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief Kendra Boileau
- Executive Editor Eleanor H. Goodman
- Acquisitions Editor Kathryn Yahner
Due to continued state, local, and university precautions, it may take longer than normal to process and ship orders placed via our website or by phone. We ask that you be patient and know that your order will be processed and shipped as soon as we are able to do so. (For more information on PSU Press's response to COVID-19, click here.)
Notre Dame Cathedral
Nine Centuries of History
Dany Sandron and Andrew Tallon, Translated by Andrew Tallon and Lindsay Cook
Menopause
A Comic Treatment
Edited by MK Czerwiec
Out in Central Pennsylvania
The History of an LGBTQ Community
William Burton with Barry Loveland
Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
Edited by Dennis B. Downey, James W. Conroy, Foreword by Dick Thornburgh, and Ginny Thornburgh
Uncanny Bodies
Superhero Comics and Disability
Edited by Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz
Algériennes
The Forgotten Women of the Algerian Revolution
Swann Meralli, Deloupy, and Translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger
Sewn in Coal Country
An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945–1995
Edited by Robert P. Wolensky
The Letters of Edgar Degas
Edited by Theodore Reff
PathoGraphics
Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community
Edited by Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff
The Light in Their Consciences
Early Quakers in Britain, 1646–1666
Rosemary Moore
The Third Population
Aurélien Ducoudray and Jeff Pourquié, Translated by Kendra Boileau
A Pre-Columbian Bestiary
Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America
Ilan Stavans with etchings by Eko
The First Inauguration
George Washington and the Invention of the Republic
Stephen Howard Browne
Picatrix
A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic
Translated with an introduction by Dan Attrell and David Porreca
Vanni
A Family’s Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict
Research and story by Benjamin Dix, Script and illustration by Lindsay Pollock
The Susquehannocks
New Perspectives on Settlement and Cultural Identity
Edited by Paul A. Raber
The Lady Doctor
Ian Williams
Kenyan, Christian, Queer
Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa
Adriaan van Klinken
A Material World
Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America
Edited by George W. Boudreau and Margaretta M. Lovell
Us Two Together
Ephameron, Translated by Michele Hutchison
Journey to the Maghreb and Andalusia, 1832
The Travel Notebooks and Other Writings
Eugène Delacroix, Translated by Michèle Hannoosh
Bells for America
The Cold War, Modernism, and the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington
Diederik Oostdijk
Here in This Island We Arrived
Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York
Elisabeth H. Kinsley
The Book of Sarah
Sarah Lightman
Life Support
Invitation to Prayer
Judith Cohen Margolis
Troublesome Women
Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Erica Rhodes Hayden
The Writings of Elizabeth Webb
A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697–1726
Edited by Rachel Cope and Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Queering Mennonite Literature
Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community
Daniel Shank Cruz
Glenhill Farm
The History of a Family Estate, as Revealed in the Correspondence Between Brognard Okie and Ernst and Mary Behrend
Richard L. Hart
The Shape of Difficulty
A Fan Letter to Unruly Objects
Bret L. Rothstein
Escaping Wars and Waves
Encounters with Syrian Refugees
Olivier Kugler
Field Guide to Grasses of the Mid-Atlantic
Sarah Chamberlain
Shale Play
Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields
Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin
The Hidden Life of Life
A Walk through the Reaches of Time
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Evan Pugh’s Penn State
America’s Model Agricultural College
Roger L. Williams
Reading Shaver’s Creek
Ecological Reflections from an Appalachian Forest
Edited by Ian Marshall
The Letters of Mary Penry
A Single Moravian Woman in Early America
Edited by Scott Paul Gordon
Twilight of the Hemlocks and Beeches
Tim Palmer
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Life and Law in the Commonwealth, 1684–2017
Edited by John J. Hare
The Quakers, 1656–1723
The Evolution of an Alternative Community
By Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore
Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic
Revised and Expanded Edition
Bill Russell
Lair of the Lion
A History of Beaver Stadium
Lee Stout and Harry H. West
Taking Turns
Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
MK Czerwiec
Where Honeybees Thrive
Stories from the Field
Heather Swan
The Facts of Life
Paula Knight
A Thousand Coloured Castles
Gareth Brookes
Aliceheimer’s
Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass
Dana Walrath
Hole in the Heart
Bringing Up Beth
Henny Beaumont
My Degeneration
A Journey Through Parkinson’s
Peter Dunlap-Shohl
The Bad Doctor
The Troubled Life and Times of Dr. Iwan James
Ian Williams
Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park
. . . When You’re 29 and Unemployed
Aneurin Wright
Editorial Staff to contact
Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief acquires in the areas of animal studies, graphic studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and sensory studies. Her book series include Animalibus: Of Animals and Culture, AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series, Graphic Medicine, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sensory History
Executive Editor acquires in the areas of art and architectural history, visual culture, history of photography, medieval and early modern studies, occultism and esoterism, Iberian and Latin American history and culture. Her book series include Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, Latin American Originals, Magic in History, Magic in History Sourcebooks, and Refiguring Modernism
Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic history, regional studies and regional trade, and religious studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity, Signifying (on) Scriptures, Religion Around, The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe, Keystone Books, Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies, Critical Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700, and World Christianity
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