University of Nebraska Press
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Lord Grizzly
$18.95 Add to cartHunter, trapper, resourceful fighter, and scout, Hugh Glass was just a rugged man among other rugged American frontiersmen until he was mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his best friends. … [more below]
- Series: Buckskin Man Tales
- Author: Manfred, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803235232
- Language: English
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Toby’s Last Resort
$21.95 Add to cartToby Jenkins, the oldest surviving member of her family, has opened a summer residence program in the Nebraska Sandhills for the wounded and broken, misfits and dreamers. Besides her guests–a ministe… [more below]
- Series: Flyover Fiction
- Author: Joern, Pamela Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496232690
- Language: English
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Hotel Splendid
$17.95 Add to cartLike traveling a very long, very dark tunnel into a blinding bright beautiful light–Kirkus
H?el Splendidrecounts the daily life of three sisters who live in a decrepit hotel on the edge of a swamp. Th
- Series: European Women Writers
- Author: Redonnet, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 117
- Publish Date: September 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0803289537
- Language: English
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A Lantern in Her Hand
$14.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1928, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. In this classic story of a pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist Abbi… [more below]
- Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0803259220
- Language: English
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Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories
$17.95 Add to cart2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner-Los Angeles
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perc… [more below]- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
- Author: Blackburn, Venita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1496201868
- Language: English
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Dog on Fire
$19.95 Add to cartOut of a Shakespearean-wild Midwest dust storm, a man rises. “Just a glimpse of him,” says his sister; “every inch of him,” says his guilt-filled lover. “Close your eyes,” says his nephew. “What about… [more below]
- Series: Flyover Fiction
- Author: Svoboda, Terese
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235169
- Language: English
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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
$17.95 Add to cartRate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood an… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Huber, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803299915
- Language: English
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The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms
$24.95 Add to cartWithin the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls “hermit crab essays.” The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays tha
- Author: Adrian, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0803296762
- Language: English
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Mahagony
$19.95 Add to cartA New York Times New and Noteworthy Book
ﾉdouard Glissant’s novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Po騁ique de la Relation (Poetics of relation), are rich explorations of a deported- Author: Glissant, Édouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496201787
- Language: English
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All I Feel Is Rivers: Dervish Essays
$19.95 Add to cartAll I Feel is Rivers is a collection of a new hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. After several life-changing trips to Turkey, Robert Vivian took u… [more below]
- Author: Vivian, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496220331
- Language: English
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We Who Walk the Seven Ways: A Memoir
$21.95 Add to cartWe Who Walk the Seven Ways is Terra Trevor’s memoir about seeking healing and finding belonging. After she endured a difficult loss, a circle of Native women elders embraced and guided Trevor (Cheroke… [more below]
- Author: Trevor, Terra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235185
- Language: English
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Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers
$32.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2023 CASEY Award
Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers’ opening-day
Named a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest- Author: Sherman, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496231015
- Language: English
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Salish Myths and Legends: One People’s Stories
$30.00 Add to cartThe rich storytelling traditions of Salish-speaking peoples in the Pacific Northwest of North America are showcased in this anthology of story, legend, song, and oratory. From the Bitterroot Mountains… [more below]
- Series: Native Literatures of the Americas
- Author: Thompson, M. Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803210892
- Language: English
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Boundless Deep, and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartNamed a Public Picks 2023 by Public Books
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Boundless Deep, and Other Stories is a portrait of a family that holds together despite ev- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
- Author: del Raye, Gen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496237455
- Language: English
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Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology
$19.95 Add to cartSpanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s e… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Babikir, Adil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 149621563X
- Language: English
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The Infamous Rosalie
$19.95 Add to cartLisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but the traumatic memory of the Middle Passage as well. The stories
- Author: Trouillot, Évelyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803240260
- Language: English
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Inside the Mirror
$26.95 Add to cartWinner of the AWP Prize for the Novel
In 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies
Ms. Magazine’s Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024
Named to Brown Girl Bookshelf’s List of 24 Books to Read in 2024- Series: The James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel
- Author: Kapur, Parul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496236785
- Language: English
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Little Poison: Paul Runyan, Sam Snead, and a Long-Shot Upset at the 1938 PGA Championship
$32.95 Add to cartPaul Runyan–the Arkansas farm boy who stood five feet, six inches and weighed 130 pounds–shocked the golf world by defeating long and lean, sweet-swinging Sam Snead in the finals of the 1938 PGA Cha… [more below]
- Author: Dechant, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496231422
- Language: English
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If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays
$21.95 Add to cart2023 Heartland Booksellers Award finalist
If This Were Fiction is a
Foreword INDIES Silver Winner in Autobiography and Memoir
Winner of a 2023 Book of the Year Award from Chicago Writers Association- Series: American Lives
- Author: Christman, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232356
- Language: English
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January Children
$15.95 Add to cartSillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
“A taut debut collection of heartfelt poems.”—Publishers Weekly
2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, PoetryIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, “The Ja
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Elhillo, Safia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803295987
- Language: English
