June 23 marks the 40th anniversary of Title IX legislation and in celebration you can save 25 percent on women's sports books, like Beyond Bend it Like Beckham, in honor of the event! Click here for other sale titles. Offer ends June 29. Continue reading Title IX legislation anniversary sale
This Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Ellen Cassedy, author of We Are Here, will be in the autographing area at table 5. And at 11:00 a.m. Banzai Babe Ruth author Robert Fitts, will be at table 7. Continue reading UNP authors signing books at BEA
Father's Day is just around the corner! Right now you can save 25 percent on Father's Day gift books like Banzai Babe Ruth, Double No-Hit, Let There Be Pebble and Straight Down the Middle. Click on the Father's Day Sale link on the left for a full list of sale titles. Offer ends June 15. Continue reading Father’s Day sale
For the first time ever BEA is opening its doors to a select group of people for a discounted price. When you register, you get a free bag of swag and a full day of BEA fun! Click here for more information and to register. Continue reading This Thursday is BEA Power Reader Day
HBO recently released a new movie titled "Hemingway and Gellhorn" which recounts the marriage of Ernest Hemingway and journalist Martha Gellhorn. Gellhorn (1908–98) had a six-decade career as a war correspondent and published sixteen books, including six novels, short fiction, and two collections of journalistic articles. Her story is also in paperback, not just on TV. Love Goes to Press (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), starts in a press camp on the Italian front in 1944, two women war correspondents—smart, sexy, and famous for scooping their male competitors—struggle to balance their professional lives with their love lives. Gellhorn and Virginia … Continue reading Hemingway and Gellhorn on HBO
Thanks to all who donated to the Friends of UNP on Give to Lincoln Day! Last week we received $1,935 in gifts, which will be matched proportionally by the Lincoln Community Foundation. We are so grateful to all of you who support the books we publish. We couldn’t do it without you. Continue reading Give to Lincoln totals
In High Country News, UNP author Mike Barenti wrote an essay called "Kayaking memories on the White Salmon River." Read the full text here. Barenti is the author of Kayaking Alone: Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho's Mountains to the Pacific Ocean (University of Nebraska Press, 2008). Continue reading Kayaking memories
All day you can make donations to support Lincoln non-profit groups like the Friends of the University of Nebraska Press, who support publications of UNP books. Show your support and donate here! Continue reading Today is Give to Lincoln Day!
Additional sales start today for Mother's Day and Jewish American Heritage Month! Find a gift for Mother's Day and save 25 percent on Eyes Right by Tracy Crow and This Is Not the Ivy League by Mary Clearman Blew. Act fast, offer ends May 11! Celebrate Jewish American Heritage month! Ellen Cassedy's We Are Here and Norman H. Finkelstein's American Jewish History are 25 percent off. Sale ends May 31. Continue reading Happy May Day!
On the Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan blogged about Pot Farm by Matthew Gavin Frank. Check out "The Perils of A Pot Farm" here. Continue reading Pot Farm in Daily Beast
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