Forget I Told You This is the story of Amy Black, a queer single mother and aspiring artist who finds herself in the thick of a plot to overthrow Big Data.

#SpeakingUP on consumer surveillance, AI and sharing LGBTQ+ stories

Nebraska Volleyball is the first book to tell the fifty-year story of how volleyball took hold at the University of Nebraska, going from its early origins to its first National Championship and beyond.

#SpeakingUP on women’s stories and women’s sports

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice.

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Dog on Fire unfolds around a family’s turmoil, past loves, and a mysterious death. Out of a Shakespearean-wild Midwest dust storm, a man rises. The cupboard is filled with lime Jell-O, and there are aliens, deadly kissing, and a restless, alcoholic mother who carries a gun.

#SpeakingUP on family relationships, the rural Midwest and navigating grief

We 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 (Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, and German) through the seven cycles of life in Indigenous ways.

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Black Snake is the story of four leaders—LaDonna Allard, Jasilyn Charger, Lisa DeVille, and Kandi White—and their fight against the Dakota Access pipeline. It is the story of Native nations combating environmental injustice and longtime discrimination and rebuilding their communities.

#SpeakingUP on Native activism and environmental injustice

Too Strong to Be Broken explores the dynamic life of Edward J. Driving Hawk, a Vietnam and Korean War veteran, chairman of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, former president of the National Congress of American Indians, husband, father, recovered alcoholic, and convicted felon.

#SpeakingUP on Native American life, veteran experiences and incarceration

Voice First offers writers an opportunity not only to engage their voices but to understand and experience how developing their range of voices strengthens their writing. Each chapter includes writing prompts and explores a different element of voice.

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Woman Pissing is a literary collage that takes its title from a raunchy Picasso painting. In it, Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists—particularly twentieth-century women artists—who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty.

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Rez Metal captures the creative energy of Indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of Indian Country and across generations, heavy metal has touched a collective nerve on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona in particular.

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If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman’s long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car accident; for her children; for her husband, Mark; and ultimately, for herself. In this collection, Christman takes on the wide range of situations and landscapes she encountered on her journey from wild child through wounded teen to mother, teacher, writer, and wife.

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Sovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in North America have struggled to preserve their religious practices and cultural knowledge by educating younger generations but have been thwarted by the deeply corrosive effects of missionary schools, federal boarding schools, Bureau of Indian Affairs reservation schools, and off-reservation public schools.

#SpeakingUP on Native activism, community and public school sovereignty

Standing Bear’s Quest for Freedom relates an unprecedented civil rights victory for Native Americans: for the first time, in 1879, a federal court declared a Native American to be a “person”—a human being with the right to file an action for a redress of grievances in a federal court, like every other person in the United States.

#SpeakingUP on Native American rights and activism

Wolf in Man’s Clothing takes Nurse Sarah Keate to a gloomy mansion in the remote Berkshire Hills. She nurses a young man with fatal connections to some poisonous people stuck at the scene—privileged people who are used to getting their way and are unprepared for Sarah.

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Deer Season is a drama about the complicated relationships connecting the residents of a small-town farming community, exploring troubling questions about how far people will go to safeguard the ones they love and what it means to be a family.

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Rise Up! explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution. Combining deep research with personal stories by nearly four dozen award-winning Indigenous musicians, Craig Harris offers an eye-opening look at the growth of Indigenous music.

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