New Books – August 2025 – The UncommonWealth

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Built by the People Themselves: African American Community Development in Arlington, Virginia, from the Civil War through Civil Rights

By Lindsey Bestebreurtje

Saving the Chesapeake: The History of a Movement

By Andrew S. Ramey

Edgar Allan Poe at Home

By Christopher P. Semtner

Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster: The Antebellum South's Love-Hate Affair with New York City

By Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr.

Virginia Cider: A Guide from Colonial Days to Craft's Golden Age

By Gregory J. Hansard

Perfectly Unconventional: The Art and Activism of Three Women in the Shenandoah Valley

By Cheryl Lyon

Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea

By Marcus Rediker

A Bad and Dangerous Man: A Novel Based on the Hillsville Courthouse Shootout

By Brett Lovell

Anon: Poems

By Sophia Terazawa

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