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Resnick on the radio

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Goodbye Wifes and Daughters by Susan Kushner Resnick uncovers the story behind the losses behind the tragic 1943 story of how almost 80 men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana and only three came out alive. Lisa Bonos of the Washington Post said,“Resnick does an admirable job of breathing life into the story of a smalltown’s demise and its questioning of whether the disaster could have been avoided.” On April 18, Resnick was a guest on Write The Book and interviewed by Shelagh Shapiro. The interview aired in Burlington,VT on WOMM-LP 105.9 FM. Click here to listen … Continue reading Resnick on the radio

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Steve Steinberg writes-

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Earlier this month, the Museum of the City of New York hosted a program on Casey Stengel, the famous outfielderand manager, called “Casey Stengel's Baseball, The Greatest Character of the Game.” More than 100 people gathered at the museum to hear Steve Steinberg, coauthor of 1921:The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York and a panel of people giving their insights to Stengel’s life. For those of you who are diehard baseball history fans, Steve Steinberg took detailed notes. Following is a rundownof the panel discussion that night, complete with many nuggets of baseball trivia. … Continue reading Steve Steinberg writes-

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Some spring reads

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Hey you baseball fans, games have just gotten under way and what better way to start off a new season of America’s favorite pastime with discovering a little history about the sport. Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball by Larry Baldassaro chronicles how Italian Americans helped shape baseball as we all know it today. Baldassaro discussed his book recently on Milwaukee Public Radio. Click here to take a listen. And earlier this month, the Omaha World-Herald ran a roundup of 10 books with themes related to Nebraska or the Midwest. Two University Nebraska Press books, Nebraska Moments by Donald R. … Continue reading Some spring reads

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Off the Shelf: Between Light and Shadow by Jacob Wheeler

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Wheeler Read the beginning of the Prologue from Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl's Journey through Adoption by Jacob Wheeler:

"This is a story about the journey of a girl to the United States from the desperate, poor streets of her home village in Guatemala. It’s about the birth mother who gave her up for adoption because she was pressured and promised money by the lawyers who make Guatemalan adoption so lucrative and so controversial. It is a story about one American family and its journey through international adoption: the guilt, the joy, the premonitions, and the conflicts that unfolded when the characters traveled to Central America and wealth met poverty head-on. It’s also a story about a very poor nation divided by race and class and a bloody history that continues today—and how its people deal with the humiliating perception that the world wants Guatemala more for its children than anything else it has to offer.

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Off the Shelf: Beneath Blossom Rain by Kevin Grange

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Grange Read the beginning of Beneath Blossom Rain: Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World by Kevin Grange:

"Stepping up to the first pass of the snowman trek in the Land of the Thunder Dragon, my heart pounding, I removed each arm from my shoulder straps, set my backpack down, and stood tall to have a look around. The pass was totally socked in, but with short fitful bursts, the highest mountain range on earth slowly revealed itself. A vast expanse of snowy peaks, rocky spires, and immense glaciers flashed through brief openings in the dark clouds.

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Winner of the Seymour Medal

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1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York by Lyle Spatzand Steve Steinberg takes place at the dawn of the roaring twenties whenbaseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, two teams emerged to fight for the future of the game. They were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city rose in dramatic fashion to the pinnacleof the baseball world. 1921 … Continue reading Winner of the Seymour Medal

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More Lisa Harper news

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Lisa Harper, author of A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood, will be a guest on Cassie Premo Steele's Co-CreatingShow tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. You can even call in live to ask questions. Click here for the link to the radio show and number. In other Double Life news, Harper was also on a memoir panel with Katherine Ellison, author of Buzz, on the blog, Writers on Writing. Take a listen here.                                                             … Continue reading More Lisa Harper news

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Off the Shelf: Honyocker Dreams by David Mogen

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Mogen Read the "Finding Home" from Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories by David Mogen:

"By the time I got to know my way around a new hometown, it was time to leave.

And where was “home”? While I was growing up we moved through a series of small towns along the Montana Hi-Line, the three-hundred-mile corridor stretching west from North Dakota to the Rockies, and north from the Missouri River to Canada. But we also lived in Bozeman and Missoula while Dad went to school, and since we visited relatives all across the state it sometimes seemed that all of Montana was home. For a while, Idaho was home, too. When I was twelve I began working as a farmhand for three summers in a row at my uncle Phil and aunt Roma’s Idaho homestead, nearly a thousand miles from my Montana home.

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A celebration of Bison Books

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The Golden West edited by Alicia Christensen celebrates the Bison Books tradition of giving readers the best historical, literary, and original western literature, bringing together some of the most beloved and iconic stories of the American West. Published in celebration of Bison Books' 50th anniversary, The Golden West collects iconic Western voices who have published with Bison Books throughout the years. Stories include those depicting adventures of the Corps of Discovery to the trials of the Oregon Trail, from traditional Sioux culture to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and from the cowboys, ranchers, farmers, and mountaineers who often make up our … Continue reading A celebration of Bison Books

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Spring break news roundup

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Welcome back to those of you who weren't around last week because of spring break. Here’s some news that you may have missed while lounging at a beach or shoveling snow in Omaha. Coda by French author Rene Belletto was reviewed on the news and entertainment radio show Breakfasters which is on 3RRR, an Australian radio station. Listen to what book critique Emmett Stinson had to say about Coda at RRR FM.     Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine by David Shields received some attention on the blog Negative Dunkalectics as “…really really thoughtful about race and masculinity.” … Continue reading Spring break news roundup