University of Nebraska Press
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The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian
$49.95 Add to cartWinter counts–pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past–marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Candace S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803222114
- Language: English
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The Gathering of Bastards
$19.95 Add to cart2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in Poetry
Like I knew, standing
on the seashore, the hunger
wracking a migrant’s body
is movement.
–from Romeo Oriogun’s “Migrant by the Sea” The- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Oriogun, Romeo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234030
- Language: English
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Unpapered: Writers Consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging
$21.95 Add to cartUnpapered is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins. Native heritage is neither simple nor alwa… [more below]
- Author: Glancy, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235002
- Language: English
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A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays
$26.95 Add to cart2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for Essays
What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way that resembles poetry more than prose? Both of these- Author: Noble, Randon Billings
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496217748
- Language: English
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Hard Damage
$17.95 Add to cartHard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afg… [more below]
- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Aber, Aria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496215702
- Language: English
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Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air
$17.95 Add to cart2023 Midwest Book Award finalist
“Poems dipped out of the air” describes the manner in which Ted Kooser composed the poems in Cotton Candy, the result of his daily routine of getting up long before d- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496231295
- Language: English
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Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing
$26.95 Add to cartSport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owens’s four gold-medal victories in the 1936 N… [more below]
- Author: Diaz, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 149621773X
- Language: English
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Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years
$44.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2023 CASEY Award
Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years explores the history of organized ba
2024 SABR Seymour Medal
Named a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest- Author: Gietschier, Steven P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235371
- Language: English
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
$34.95 Add to cart2019 Tucson Weekly “40 Essential Arizona Books” pick
2014 One Book Yuma selection
2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection
2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist
20… [more below]- Series: Women in the West
- Author: Mifflin, Margot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803211481
- Language: English
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Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions
$22.95 Add to cartPenny Guisinger was not always attracted to women. In Shift she recounts formative relationships with women and men, including the marriage that produced her two children and ultimately ended in part
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Guisinger, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238907
- Language: English
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Nebraska: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartKwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually foun
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496221230
- Language: English
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Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego
$29.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 San Diego Book Award
Empire Builder is the previously untold story of a pioneer who almost singlehandedly transformed the bankrupt village of San Diego into a thriving city. When he- Author: Bonura, Sandra E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: December 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1496233417
- Language: English
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Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku
$21.95 Add to cartWaterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890-1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman.
Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their splas
- Author: Davis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496206002
- Language: English
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Deer Season
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel
It’s the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagan’s intellectually disabled farmhand, Hal Bullard- Series: Flyover Fiction
- Author: Flanagan, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 149622681X
- Language: English
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Boston Ball: Rick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, Gary Williams, and the Forgotten Cradle of Basketball Coaches
$36.95 Add to cartRick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, and Gary Williams played no small role in the making of modern college basketball. Collectively, they’ve won more than 2,300 games and six national championships and reached … [more below]
- Author: Trutor, Clayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233352
- Language: English
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Dream Like a Champion: Wins, Losses, and Leadership the Nebraska Volleyball Way
$21.95 Add to cartSince becoming the Nebraska women’s volleyball coach in 2000, John Cook has led the team to four national championships, seven NCAA semifinal appearances, and the nation’s top winning percentage in wo
- Author: Cook, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149621191X
- Language: English
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It’s a Question of Space: An Ordinary Astronaut’s Answers to Sometimes Extraordinary Questions
$19.95 Add to cartCovering an impressive amount of material, A Question of Space is an engaging read for those fascinated by the history of the space program.–Jeff Fleischer, Foreword Reviews
Having spent over 150 days
- Author: Anderson, Clayton C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 1, 2018
- ISBN10: 1496205081
- Language: English
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The Greatest Upset Never Seen: Virginia, Chaminade, and the Game That Changed College Basketball
$27.95 Add to cartNo one had really heard of Chaminade University–a tiny NAIA Catholic school in Honolulu with fewer than eight hundred undergraduates–until its basketball game against the University of Virginia on D… [more below]
- Author: Danilewicz, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 1, 2019
- ISBN10: 149620848X
- Language: English
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Forget I Told You This
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction
Amy Black, a queer single mother and an aspiring artist in love with calligraphy, dreams of a coveted artist’s residency at the world’s largest social- Series: Zero Street Fiction
- Author: Zaid, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: September 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235363
- Language: English
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My Grandfather’s Altar: Five Generations of Lakota Holy Men
$24.95 Add to cartRichard Moves Camp’s My Grandfather’s Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of five generations of Lakota religious tradition. Moves Camp is the great-great-grandson of Wtuȟ’a (“Chips”),… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Moves Camp, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: March 1, 2024
- ISBN10: 1496236912
- Language: English
