University of Nebraska Press
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Your Crib, My Qibla
$17.95 Add to cartDerek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner
Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language ab
Julie Suk Award Winner
Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Dzukogi, Saddiq
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496225775
- Language: English
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Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto
$23.95 Add to cartThough it is foundational to the craft of writing, the concept of voice is a mystery to many authors, and teachers of writing do not have a good working definition of it for use in the classroom. Writ… [more below]
- Author: Huber, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496231317
- Language: English
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Baseball’s Endangered Species: Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It
$34.95 Add to cartNamed a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest
Scouting has been called pro baseball’s personalized way of renewing itself from year to year and a pathway to the game’s past. It takes- Author: Lowenfish, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496214811
- Language: English
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It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know
$21.95 Add to cartAt first glance a reader might mistake It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know for a juicy Hollywood tell-all, given Chachi D. Hauser’s background as the great-granddaughter of Roy Disney, a cofounder wi… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Hauser, Chachi D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233158
- Language: English
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From Rails to Trails: The Making of America’s Active Transportation Network
$19.95 Add to cartIf, as Wallace Stegner said, the national park is “the best idea we ever had,” the rail-trail is certainly a close runner-up. Part transportation corridor, part park, the rail-trail has revolutionized… [more below]
- Author: Harnik, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496222067
- Language: English
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Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy
$24.95 Add to cartMolly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and social reformer. She used her fortune to support wom
- Author: McClain, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496216652
- Language: English
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For the Love of Wine: My Odyssey Through the World’s Most Ancient Wine Culture
$24.95 Add to cartIn 2011 when Alice Feiring first arrived in Georgia, she felt as if she’d emerged from the magic wardrobe into a world filled with mythical characters making exotic and delicious wine with the low-tec
- Author: Feiring, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1612347649
- Language: English
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Mine Mine Mine
$17.95 Add to cartMine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetic… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Phalafala, Uhuru Portia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235150
- Language: English
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Torah-TK-Large Print
$35.00 Add to cartThis large print edition of the Torah is the essence of Jewish tradition; it inspires each successive generation. The current JPS translation, based on classical and modern sources, is acclaimed for i… [more below]
- Series: Five Books of Moses (Large Print)
- Author: Jps
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 620
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0827606834
- Language: English
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Some Are Always Hungry
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family’s wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof. Thro… [more below]
- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Yun, Jihyun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496222180
- Language: English
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Mummy Eaters
$17.95 Add to cart2023 American Book Award
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Sherry Shenoda’s collection Mummy Eaters follows in the footsteps of a
2022 Longlist for the National Book Awards- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Shenoda, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232542
- Language: English
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A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman
$17.95 Add to cart“Marsh makes commendable use of the scant documentary evidence to piece together Hannah Freeman’s life. Her painstaking efforts to give Hannah a voice are impressive.” ―Thomas Britten, The Histo
- Author: Marsh, Dawn G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 080327520X
- Language: English
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Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska
$24.95 Add to cartWheels on Ice reveals Alaska’s key role in bicycling both as a mode of travel and as an endurance sport, as well as its special allure for those seeking the proverbial struggle against nature. This co… [more below]
- Author: Cherry, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 149623247X
- Language: English
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Girl Archaeologist: Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession
$24.95 Add to cart2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Girl Archaeologist recounts Alice Kehoe’s life, begun in an era very different from the twenty-first century in which she retired as an honored elder archaeolog- Author: Kehoe, Alice Beck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229363
- Language: English
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Island of Bones: Essays
$16.95 Add to cartWhat is “identity” when you’re a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah’s Witnesses? The answer isn’t easy. You won’t find it in books. And you certainly won’t find it in the
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Castro, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803271425
- Language: English
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Dear Diaspora
$17.95 Add to cartOutstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Association for Asian American Studies
Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with
New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Winner
Julie Suk Award Finalist- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Nguyen, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496227905
- Language: English
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Dream Like a Champion: Wins, Losses, and Leadership the Nebraska Volleyball Way
$29.95 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… [more below]
- Author: Cook, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1496201779
- Language: English
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Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country
$21.95 Add to cartMidwestern Strange chronicles B.J. Hollars’s exploration of the mythic, lesser-known oddities of flyover country. The mysteries, ranging from bipedal wolf sightings to run-ins with pancake-flipping sp… [more below]
- Author: Hollars, B. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496215605
- Language: English
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Nadirs
$16.95 Add to cartJuxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta M?ler’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual t… [more below]
- Series: European Women Writers
- Author: Muller, Herta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282540
- Language: English
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Extinction Events: Stories
$17.95 Add to cartIn this collection of short stories, Liz Breazeale explores the connections between humans and the natural world by examining the processes and history of our planet. A myriad of extinction events lar… [more below]
- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
- Author: Breazeale, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496215621
- Language: English
