We are happy to announce that two of the University of Nebraska Press titles are honored this year by the Nebraska Center for the Book.

Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, a Journalist in the Gilded Age
By Elia Peattie and Edited and with a biography by Susanne George Bloomfield won the NCB Nonfiction award.  Impertinences also won the 2006 WILLA Literary Award Winner.

"The book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on the history of US journalism."—CHOICE

Rainmakers: A Photographic Story of Center Pivots By The Groundwater Foundation is the NCB Nonfiction Honor Book.

“An enjoyable coffee table book meant for a general audience.”– Nebraska Life

Award winners will be recognized at the Nebraska Book Festival tomorrow, October 7, 2006.