University of Nebraska Press
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George Allen: A Football Life
$39.95 Add to cartGeorge Allen was a fascinating and eccentric figure in the world of football coaching. His remarkable career spanned six decades, from the late 1940s until his sudden death in 1990 at the age of seven… [more below]
- Author: Richman, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0803249683
- Language: English
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Autumn Song: Essays on Absence
$19.95 Add to cartWe all live lives littered with what we leave behind: places we once lived, friendships we once had, dreams we once envisioned, the people we once were. Each new day we attempt to find a way to contin… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Gopo, Patrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235800
- Language: English
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Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
$17.95 Add to cartNational Jewish Book Award Finalist
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence
Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Harél, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496237293
- Language: English
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Do What They Say or Else
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature
Originally published in 1977, Do What They Say or Else is the second novel by French author Annie Ernaux. Set in a small town in Normandy, France, the nov- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496228006
- Language: English
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Star Bound: A Beginner’s Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard’s Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Betwe
$34.95 Add to cartStar Bound is a book for anyone who wants to learn about the American space program but isn’t sure where to start. First and foremost, it’s a history–short, sweet, and straightforward. From rocketry … [more below]
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Carney, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496241398
- Language: English
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Basketball Beyond Paper: Insights Into the Game’s Analytics Revolution
$29.95 Add to cartA pioneer in the field of basketball analytics, Dean Oliver introduced a framework to understand basketball through the use of statistics in his book Basketball on Paper. In his follow-up, Basketball … [more below]
- Author: Oliver, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496240499
- Language: English
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Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption
$24.95 Add to cart2019 High Plains Book Award (Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer categories)
In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand
2021 Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Harness, Susan Devan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496219570
- Language: English
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Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier
$29.95 Add to cartIn Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent Maura Jane Farrelly explores the history of the Gilded Age United States, using the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families who moved to Wyoming… [more below]
- Author: Farrelly, Maura Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496237056
- Language: English
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Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist
$19.95 Add to cartHoming: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist traces the creative coming of age of a mill-town feminist. Sherrie Flick, whose childhood spanned the 1970s rise and 1980s collapse of the steel industry, retu… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Flick, Sherrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238540
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Promised Me Horses
$24.95 Add to cart“He tried to outrun a train,” Theodore Blindwoman told David Joseph Charpentier the night they found out about Maurice Prairie Chief’s death. When Charpentier was a new teacher at St. Labre Indian Sch… [more below]
- Author: Charpentier, David Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238079
- Language: English
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Leave While the Party’s Good: The Life and Legacy of Baseball Executive Harry Dalton
$39.95 Add to cartHarry Dalton was a front office executive in Major League Baseball for more than forty years, serving as general manager for the Baltimore Orioles (1966-71), the California Angels (1972-77), and the M… [more below]
- Author: Kluck, Lee C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149622289X
- Language: English
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The Scent of Distant Family
$24.95 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of a remote location in the throes of rapid development, Nik Delaney leaves a respected career in wildlife biology to return home to Wyoming. In the Rocky Mountain winter, eve… [more below]
- Author: Sibo, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496240278
- Language: English
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The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels
$39.95 Add to cartClaus Spreckels (1828-1908) emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the United States with only seventy-five cents in his pocket, built a sugar empire, and became one of the richest Americans in hi
- Author: Bonura, Sandra E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496235118
- Language: English
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Thanks for This Riot: Stories
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in FictionThanks for This Riot explores the limits of kindness, the weight of being needed, and the fear of being misunderstood. A group counselo
- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
- Author: Bassett, Janelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496240332
- Language: English
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Bull Trout’s Gift: A Salish Story about the Value of Reciprocity
$21.95 Add to cart“We were wealthy from the water,” Mitch Smallsalmon says, and like all the tribal elders, he speaks to our understanding of the natural world and the consequences of change. In this book the wisdom of… [more below]
- Author: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803234910
- Language: English
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Indian Boyhood
$16.95 Add to cartIndian Boyhood (1902) was the literary debut of Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), a Santee Sioux whose eleven books aimed at bringing whites and Indians closer together. The favorable reception of the aut… [more below]
- Author: Eastman, Charles A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 295
- Publish Date: December 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0803267193
- Language: English
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Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball’s Civil War
$34.95 Add to cartWhen the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integr… [more below]
- Author: Lamb, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496219457
- Language: English
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Black Cowboys of Rodeo: Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West
$34.95 Add to cart2023 Best Book Awards Winner in Nonfiction sponsored by American Book Fest
They ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the- Author: Cartwright, Keith Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496226100
- Language: English
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Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World
$19.95 Add to cartSky Songs is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has pass… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Sinor, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496222644
- Language: English
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Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife
$29.95 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times Best Seller
Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected–a m
A 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Balukjian, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496218744
- Language: English
