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Reviews and mentions

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Reviews and other mentions of our new fall books continue to roll in. Following is a sampling of some of the notice UNP books and authors have received recently. Yesterday, Between Panic and Desire by Dinty W. Moore was reviewed in the Coal Hill Review by Sue Kreke Rumbaugh. Between Panic and Desire documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world. In Moore’s book, Rumbaugh says, “With subtle wit and outright humor, Dinty W. Moore takes the reader on a journey like no other in his latest memoir.” Click here to read the full review. Earlier this … Continue reading Reviews and mentions

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Sci fi sale

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UNP is offering 25 percent off science fiction and fantasy books through the month of October. You can get a discount on books like The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories and Year 3000. The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories is a collection of stories from Miles J. Breuer, edited by Michael R. Page, which were written in the 1920s and 1930s.       Year 3000, first published in 1897, is a futuristic utopian novel that follows two young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the … Continue reading Sci fi sale

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Off the Shelf: Finding Oil by Brian Frehner

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Frehner Read the beginning of the Introduction from Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920 by Brian Frehner:

"Shortly after walking over the dry west Texas plains, Jett Rink knelt on the ground while squeezing handfuls of oil-soaked dirt through his fingers and gazed in amazement at the black crude slowly bubbling to the surface. Later, Rink stood atop a cable tool drilling rig when a loud noise caught his attention. The black crude that had merely bubbled to the surface began to emit an awesome roar as it erupted from the hole Rink punctured in the earth. He stepped back to behold the spectacle he had created, as oil spewed from the earth and rained down on him. He held both hands in the air as if to thank Mother Earth for her beneficence, and jumped up and down to celebrate his good fortune.

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Banned books, limited literacy

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Lisa Catherine Harper, author of A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood, wrote a guest blog for Huff Post Parents. In her post, she discusses banned books and what affects those have on children. When talking about one of her son’s favorites, Captain Underpants, she writes,” The problem is not really the appropriate — or inappropriateness — of Pilkey's world. The problem is much bigger: we limit our kids' literacy all the time.” One of her final points is that “It shouldn't matter what kids want to read. They should just read.” To read Harper’s full blog post, click here. Continue reading Banned books, limited literacy

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The Big O’s big anniversary

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In the beginning of September, Sports Illustrated.com published an article discussing The Big O on revenue sharing and the current lockout debate in the NBA. Zach Lowe writes, “… the general issue of revenue sharing is clearly not new, and the players’ union forty years ago was arguing that revenue sharing, rather than cutting player salaries, could stabilize the league. Forty years later, the NBA still does not split gate receipts (something the NFL does), and every team gets to keep 100 percent of its local television revenues.” The Big O, written by Oscar Robertson, is his memoir of his … Continue reading The Big O’s big anniversary

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What They Saved book launch

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What They Saved by Nancy K. Miller is about her discovery of a minuscule family archive: a handful of photographs, an unexplained land deed, a postcard from Argentina, unidentified locks of hair. Miller follows their traces from one distant relative to another, across the country, and across an ocean. Her story, unlike the many family memoirs focused on the Holocaust, takes us back earlier in history to the world of pogroms and mass emigrations at the turn of the twentieth century. Earlier this month, the book launch took place at Girls Write Now. Below is a photo from the event. … Continue reading What They Saved book launch

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Reviews and interviews

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This past weekend, The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney, was mentioned in the LA Times Book section as “a splendid fable of a miserable-looking little circus that visits a dusty Arizona town and leaves an unforgettable impression.” Click here to read the full review. Also earlier this week, UNP author John Schulian had a Q&A session with Lary Wallace of The Faster Times. Wallace introduced Schulian by listing great sports writers but then saying, “If I’m forgetting anyone, it’s because I’m eager to get to the writer with perhaps the purest talent of them all, the closet … Continue reading Reviews and interviews

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Nebraska Book Award winners

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The results are in and two UNP books have been named winners for the 2011 Nebraska Book Award! Lamb Bright Saviors by Robert Vivian won the Fiction Award, and Stolen Horses by Dan O'Brien won the Fiction Honor Award. Lamb Bright Saviors follows several troubled young men, a wandering preacher, and his young assistant, whose lives intersect for a few hours on a desolate Nebraska farmstead. Stolen Horses takes readers to McDermot, Nebraska, a pleasant, scenic western cattle town situated in the Pawnee River valley, as a local journalist uncovers a medical scandal epitomizing the problems facing the community. Award … Continue reading Nebraska Book Award winners

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Off the Shelf: Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand by John Schulian

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Schulian Read the beginning of the Introduction from Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us by John Schulian:

"In an age when it seems that no royal perk is enough for the athletes who have been crowned our heroes, the helicopter that whisks Kobe Bryant to the Lakers’ home games strikes me as more practical than self-indulgent. After all, the drive from his manse can take as long as two hours, even in a Lamborghini. What better reason to fly over the traffic jams that snarl the sprawling mess of Los Angeles, where his name and likeness are indelible in every subdivision and strip mall? L.A. is his kingdom, and a kingdom must be a hard thing to ignore when it is yours, but still I hope Kobe looks beyond it once in a while. I hope he looks until he sees the past.

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Q & A with H. Lee Barnes

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Today, Time Magazine Online posted a Q & A with author H. Lee Barnes about his new book, When we Walked above the Clouds. In the Q & A, Lee discusses what he learned during Vietnam, what drove him to write book, and about the relevance of the book with today’s fighting in Afghanistan.   When asked what lessons he learned in Vietnam, Lee answered this way: "I learned the value of humility and that heroism, in order to be recognized, requires both a substantial act and witnesses to verify it, but courage is the simple act of pulling on a … Continue reading Q & A with H. Lee Barnes