Discussing women’s soccer
Timothy Grainey, author of Beyond Bend it Like Beckham, was interviewed by Bruce Berglund for New Books in Sports. Take a listen to the interview here. Continue reading Discussing women’s soccer
Category: In the News
UNP book ‘essential’
Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War by Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader was reviewed on Strategy Page by A. A. Nofi. Nofi called the book "…an absolutely essential work for any serious student of the military aspects of the Civil War or the history of the U.S. Army and of American warmaking." Read the full review here. Continue reading UNP book ‘essential’
The Friday roundup
Island of Bones by Joy Castro, coming this Fall, recieved a starred review from Publisher's Weekly. Robert K. Fitt's Banzai Babe Ruth was reviewed in The Washington Post. Not by the Sword by Kathryn Watterson was mentioned in The Triangle at Drexel University. And Matthew Gavin Frank's Pot Farm won the grand prize at the 2012 New York Book Festival. Continue reading The Friday roundup
We Are Here gets rave review
We Are Here by Ellen Cassedy was reviewed by Philip K. Jason for the Jewish Book Council. Jason said, "Cassedy’s quest is brilliantly balanced, totally engaging, and constantly penetrating." Click here to read the full review. Continue reading We Are Here gets rave review
Author in Publisher’s Weekly
Susan Kushner Resnick's new book You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting, and Swearing in Yiddish (Globe Pequot/Skirt!) was reviewed by Publisher's Weekly. Resnick is also the author of Goodbye Wifes and Daughters (University of Nebraska Press, 2011), which tells the story of the 1943 mining disaster in Bearcreek, Montana, and the women who survived the tragedy. Continue reading Author in Publisher’s Weekly
WSJ review
Writings From the Sand: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal by Caroline Moorehead. Click here to read the full review. Continue reading WSJ review
Check out some of our authors in the media
Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Tobias Carroll. On Extra Bases, the Red Sox blog manager Bobby Valentine was seen reading Banzai Babe Ruth by Robert K. Fitts. And Robert Wistrich, author of From Ambivalence to Betrayal wrote an op-ed in Haaretz and in the Times of Israel. Continue reading Check out some of our authors in the media
Women’s soccer in the spotlight
Total Football Magazine previewed Beyond Bend It Like Beckham: The Global Phenomenon of Women's Soccer on their women’s soccer blog. See the full review here. Continue reading Women’s soccer in the spotlight
Book review
The History of the Holocaust in Romania by Jean Ancel was reviewed by Michael N. Dobkowski for the Jewish Book Council saying that it is a “scholarly witnessing to be admired.” Continue reading Book review
UNP books in the media
Baseball books, Double No-Hit: Johnny Vander Meer’s Historic Night Under the Lights by James W. Johnson was mentioned on Red Reporter and Connie Mack: The Turbulent &Triumphant Years, 1915-1931 by Norman Macht was reviewed on Tampa Bay Online’s blog by Sports Bookie Bob D’Angelo. The Equalizer featured Tim Grainey's Beyond Bend it Like Beckham and Tracy Crow’s storytelling in Eyes Right was called “impeccable” by Publisher’s Weekly. Ellen Cassedy (author of We Are Here) interviewed Julija Šukys on VilNews about her book Epistolophilia. Atlas of the Great Plains by Stephen J. Lavin made the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association (PSLA) YA Top … Continue reading UNP books in the media
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