Borgo Publishing
Welcome to Borgo Publishing, an independent book publisher offering a variety of book production options. We can design your book interior and cover, as well as provide additional services (editorial, illustration, proofreading, indexing, and photography) to complete your project. With 38 years of book design experience, we keep on top of current trends in the industry to increase the market value of each book. Most importantly, we provide an outlet for non-profits to tell their stories at a very competitive rate.
Borgo Publishing has most of its books available at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers, 1928 7th Street, Tuscaloosa. They would be happy to send copies of these books to you by contacting easty@ernestandhadleybooks.com
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Frontlist
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Ashley A. Dumas, Ian W. Brown and Shane K. Bernard​
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September 1, 2025
List Price: $19.95 PB
88 pages, full color
I value having played a tiny role in the archaeological history of the Island, but I am especially pleased to see this present study. The authors have done a master-ful job of pursuing the research and their efforts deserve accolades. Their study exemplifies the best that historical archaeology has to offer by comingling information from diverse sources. In isolation, the archaeological finds, the written records, and the historical images would each be interesting by them-selves. But in their skilled combination, they offer a profound understanding of the creation and development of Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce within the revered Laboratory. This study, because it focuses on one relatively small building, is essentially a case study in microarchaeology. But unlike many such close examinations, this one has a twist because its implications are truly global. Archaeologists of the modern era are likely to excavate Tabasco Sauce bottles in households across the globe, wherever dedicated hot sauce enthusiasts have trod. (A lucky Egyptologist may even find one.) Thus, this present study is destined to become a required reference work for this influential (many would say manda-tory) hot sauce. The authors are so successful that readers may swear they smell pepper mash as they hold the book.
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—​From the Foreword by Charles E. Orser, Jr.
The Archaeology of TABASCO® Brand Pepper Sauce​
Wandering
Ascending the Nile and the Rhine
with a Little of Jordan in Between
Ian W. Brown​
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February 2025
List Price: $18.95 PB
104 pages, full color
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A Borgo Travel Journal
With this volume on Wandering, a new series is launched. The 18th century was the heyday of publishing diaries as travel accounts. Although diaries do remain popular today as expressions of thought and philosophy, as well as coming-of-age accounts (think Anne Frank!), seldom are travel diaries published verbatim. Borgo Publishing thinks they should be. For all of you who travel, whether for work or fun, each day on the road yields new discoveries and sensations. Travel is a stimulant, both positively and negatively. It can bring immense joy, bitter frustration, excitement, fatigue, anger, or sorrow, often all in the same day. Travel also may establish friendships that last forever. The main lesson we learn from these diaries is that it’s okay to be grumpy at times in experiencing the lives and lands of others. ​
In the Shadow of Carson Mound A
John M. Connaway​
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October 1, 2024
List Price: $32.00 PB
228 pages, full color
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Cahokians were in the Yazoo Basin during the second half of the 11th century. What were they doing here? What were the historical implications of their being here, in northwest Mississippi at the very beginning of the Mississippian era? And what was the historical relationship between them and Carson’s 89 mounds, including its enigmatic biconical mounds and its unusual pentagonal platform, all oriented or aligned relative to a “Carson grid.” ...Carson was anything but a village! Its momentous and highly contingent history bespeaks one of the great Indigenous places of the precolonial Midsouth. That history began with the construction of two or three biconical mounds during the Middle Woodland period, if not also numerous other now-destroyed (mono) conical mounds. It continued with the arrival of Cahokians around A.D. 1070 ± 20 (based on pottery and one C14 date) and, after a 12th century hiatus, with a late Mississippian town on the Montgomery portion of the site. That town ended for reasons unknown, leaving behind the many houses and domestic remains that would be rediscovered by John Connaway and his crew ...Because of his tireless 11-year effort, the Native people who built Carson, as well as the place itself, can today be recognized as having played a truly pivotal role in the precolonial history of the American Southeast. And for that, archaeology in the Midsouth owes John Connaway its enduring admiration.
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—from the Foreword by Timothy R. Pauketat
Petey Wants Wings
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Pamela S. Wight and Neville N. Hill​​
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Ilustrated by Shelley A. Steinle
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September 15, 2024
List Price: $17.99 HB
32 pages, full color
Picture Book (Ages 3-8)
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Petey the squirrel wants wings. Despite his great life as a squirrel with many friends, Petey is unhappy. He knows that if he could fly like his bird friend Bessie, then his life would be complete. A magical dragonfly grants Petey his wish, but only if he gives up something important. Through misadventures and surprises, Petey discovers that wings aren’t the answer to what brings him joy. In fact, wings could be his downfall. By the end of the tale, Petey discovers how special it is …. to be himself.
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