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A Mount Pleasant-based publisher of local and regional history books that last branched out to New England is adding the Rust Belt to its geographic portfolio.

Stephanie Land's second memoir, 'Class,' a sequel to her blockbuster debut, 'Maid,' follows her journey to get an education — and holds readers at a distance.

When Suzanne Heywood was 7, she and her family stepped onto a boat and spent 10 years sailing the world. In her memoir, 'Wavewalker,' it doesn't sound like much fun.

"Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia"- A Discussion with Author Dr. Elizabeth Catte Community Event Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte’s Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States. Join us as we invite Dr. Elizabeth Catte, author of "What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia", to discuss her new book "Pure America...

comments Elizabeth Catte isn't interested in excuses. She's a historian; she understands the concept of different eras just fine. It's in the job description. But the author of 2018's "What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia" refuses to take a sympathetic tone about the atrocities of the past in her stunning new book, "Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia." "Here is something about this book that might get me into trouble," she writes early on. "I think most eugenicists were bad people. There will be no 'man of his time' hedging here." What she does, instead, is eloqu...