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Holiday sale

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Save 25 percent when you order online from UNP! Click here for some gift books, including the following: In Search of Powder: A Story of America's Disappearing Ski Bum, by Jeremy Evans, is Evans' account of how he became immersed in ski bum culture—a carefree lifestyle whose mantra was simply: “Ski as much as possible.” At age twenty-six, Evans suffered a stroke, which caused him to reexamine his priorities, quit his job, move back to Tahoe, and throw himself into snowboarding.     Idaho Wine Country, by Alan Minskoff with photography by Paul Hosefros, is the first full-length exploration of … Continue reading Holiday sale

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Off the Shelf: Homesteading Space by David Hitt, Owen Garriott, and Joe Kerwin

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HittNew in a paperback edition, read from Homer Hickam's foreword of Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story by David Hitt, Owen Garriott, and Joe Kerwin:

"The book that follows is a riveting, insightful account of the Skylab missions flown by the United States in 1973 and 1974. It is also simply a great yarn. Skylab began as an underdog, was nearly knocked out several times, staggered back to its feet, and fought on against overwhelming odds until it became a champion. In a lot of ways, it was the Rocky of space, and just like the story in that great film, it is an inspiration for all who know it. The difference is the remarkable saga of Skylab is all true.

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Veterans’ Day

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Today we honor those American veterans who have served our country, putting their lives on the line for our freedom. According to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, an act approved on May 13, 1938 made November in each year a legal holiday – day a to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be known as “Armistice Day.” It was mainly set aside veterans of World War I, but after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, Marines and air men in the nation's history, the 83rd Congress amended the act by … Continue reading Veterans’ Day

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Leonard Bloomfield Book Award

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A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee) by Jack B. Martin, has been selected to receive the Linguistic Society of America’s prestigious Leonard Bloomfield Book Award! The Bloomfield Award was established to recognize the volume which makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics. Creek (or Muskogee) is a Muskogean language spoken by several thousand members of the Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole nations of Oklahoma and by several hundred members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. This volume is the first modern grammar of Creek, compiled by a leading authority on the languages of the … Continue reading Leonard Bloomfield Book Award

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UNP books in the media

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This past week, two UNP books were reviewed by Necessary Fiction and the Omaha World-Herald. In Necessary Fiction, Steve Himmer reviewed Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda. He said that “…self-invention and renewal it offered is at the heart of Bohemian Girl.” Click here to read the full review.     And in the Omaha World-Herald, David Hendee called Atlas of the Great Plains by Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer  a tool that could “…help save your life.” The Atlas of the Great Plains has more than three hundred original full-color maps, accompanied by extended explanatory … Continue reading UNP books in the media

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Off the Shelf: The Wink of the Zenith by Floyd Skloot

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SklootRead the beginning of "Going, Going, Gone" from The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life by Floyd Skloot:

"I was standing in the bedroom of our Brooklyn apartment with my ear pressed to the radio. It was dark outside, a spring evening in the mid-1950s, and through the open window I could hear people talking in the courtyard four stories below. I was eight or nine years old, and my brother Philip, a teenager, was sitting at his desk bent over homework. That explains why the radio’s volume was turned so low. Philip couldn’t hear it over the courtyard chatter or else he’d have told me to turn it down.

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Shelf Awareness review

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The Least Cricket of Evening by Robert Vivian is written about Midwestern towns and Europeans cities, and tries to find the spiritual significance of circumstances and places and those who inhabit them. Vivian’s collection was reviewed yesterday in Shelf Awareness, in the From My Shelf section.  Bruce Jacobs said “With a poet's eye and ear, Vivian elevates the everyday to the universal in a contemplative voice.” Click here to read the full review. Continue reading Shelf Awareness review

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A tastey book sale

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Take advantage of this cold rainy weather to stay inside and do some extra reading! Especially reading that may inspire your taste buds to help cope with the chilled temperatures. Right now you can save 25 percent of wine and food books, like Corkscrewed and Masters of American Cookery. Corkscrewed by Robert V. Camuto recounts his journey through France’s myriad regions—and how the journey profoundly changed everything he believed about wine.       Masters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, Craig Claiborne, Julia Child by Betty Fussell demonstrates vividly how each of these chefs has made … Continue reading A tastey book sale

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Guest blog: Jeremy Strong

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Educated Tastes is a collection of new essays, edited by Jeremy Strong, that examine how taste is learned, developed, and represented. From the highs (and lows) of connoisseurship to the frustrations and rewards of a mother encouraging her child to eat, the essays in this volume explore the complex and infinitely varied ways in which food matters to all of us. Strong has given UNP an insight as to how this book began and where the idea came from. Below is an explanation from the author himself: The background to Educated Tastes starts with an article I published in Gastronomica … Continue reading Guest blog: Jeremy Strong

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Off the Shelf: The Least Cricket of Evening by Robert Vivian

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VivianLeastRead the beginning of "Ghost Hallway" from The Least Cricket of Evening by Robert Vivian:

"I live in a ghost hallway. They come and go whenever they want, like the transparent, blow-away wings of bees. Their spirits hover inside this house on Mechanic Street like a twilight hue filling a wine glass. I live more or less inside their moods, which they carry behind them in traces of light that flood the panes one window at a time and in the creaky flutes of rusty hinges. The ghosts don’t say “boo” and they don’t swing chains. They’re good ghosts as far as I can tell, calm as a cup of tea, considerate and watchful and able to pay attention to the least thing for hours.

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