Sonya Bonczek Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Director of Publicity @UNC_Press 📚📣 Currently reading Prison Capital by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (Nov). Publicity inquiries: sonya.bonczek@uncpress.org
We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World
Brian Michael MurphySonya BonczekPanic! at the Library - excerpt from Brian Michael Murphy’s excellent new book *We the Dead* in @laphamsquart (the ! is my edit) https://t.co/cLikNoLnQ7
Hardcover, 2022
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hypertext Review: Spring - Summer 2020
Sahar MustafahSonya BonczekIt's that special time in book publishing; the in-between, right before our new Spring/Summer 2023 catalog goes live and sales conference circuit begins. Some pages are in, some aren't, but I'm happily drowning in PDFs & word docs of *very* good new books that I get to promote 🥲
Paperback, 2020
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South
Berkley HudsonSonya BonczekNever miss a piece by Lauren. *O.N. Pruitt's Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South,* published in partnership with @UNC_Press + @CDSDuke is out - buy a copy! https://twitter.com/lachristensen/status/1501914751873519627
Hardcover, 2022
$49.95$24.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit
Josiah RectorSonya BonczekI really love this graph from @ScottWStern's brilliant review of Josiah Rector's *Toxic Debt* in the @nybooks https://t.co/A02h5H0bTO
Paperback, 2022
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia
Tamika Y. NunleySonya BonczekCheck out this excerpt from @TamikaYNunley's THE DEMANDS OF JUSTICE, which provides context about the history of America’s criminal justice system and how it treated enslaved Black women, in particular. https://t.co/APejQRAA2Y
Paperback, 2023
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Daniel T. FlemingSonya BonczekThe first MLK Day was celebrated in 1986, but since then, a new book, Living the Dream: the contested history of Martin Luther King Junior Day, by Dr Daniel Fleming (@danieltf111) argues it’s both canonised and de-radicalised King and his legacy. https://t.co/3shuzcbJmS
Hardcover, 2022
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love: Gepunktetes A5 Notizbuch oder Heft für Schüler, Studenten und Erwachsene
Pm BooksSonya BonczekNC Triangle friends: this Friday, 3/25, @UNC_Press celebrates its 100th birthday at the Chapel Hill Public Library (@chpublib). 5:30-7pm. Rain or shine (this is all outside). Come for the good times, stay for the swag (& lots of it)! All are invited. You just have to love books. https://t.co/dWK4FndOwB
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An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
Beth BaileySonya BonczekPowerful piece👇with necessary context/commentary from @BethLynnBailey, whose new book AN ARMY AFIRE masterfully depicts how the US Army tried to confront its crisis of race & includes personal interviews and incredible stories of Black veterans https://t.co/nlCX2XwtXQ https://t.co/tHiePtjFbu
Hardcover, 2023
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America
Ava PurkissSonya BonczekCheck out an excerpt about how Black women used exercise to achieve civic goals in the late 19th century, from @PurkissA's new book FIT CITIZENS, in @laphamsquart https://t.co/5W5Rgk45Ur
Paperback, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle ZevinSonya Bonczek@TheBookMaven Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Picked up a copy from @goldenfigbooks’ new Carrboro location yesterday and am 100ish pages in so far and hooked 👏
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book