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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

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Off the Shelf: Crazy Basketball by Charley Rosen

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Rosen Read from Chapter 1, "Portrait of the Hooper as a Young Man" from Crazy Basketball: A Life In and Out of Bounds by Charley Rosen, Foreword by Phil Jackson:

"My first formal game was in a ninth-grade tournament at Junior High School No. 44, where my class (of intellectually gifted students) was trounced by class 9-14, a low-IQ team of unruly young men who’d been left back several times and who shaved every day. My main memories of playing in the cold, windy schoolyard were of wearing my long pants with my shirttails flapping, of getting razzed for being so clumsy as to stumble over a foul line, and later getting beaten by my father for tearing my pants.

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Off the Shelf: The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz by Jules Verne

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Verne Read the beginning of The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz: The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript by Jules Verne, translated and edited by Peter Schulman:

"“. . . And get here as soon as possible, my dear Henry. I can’t wait to see you. By the way, this country is magnificent and there’s a lot for an engineer to see in the industrial region of Lower-Hungary. You won’t regret coming.

 Yours with all my heart
 Marc Vidal”

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UNP author to help Major League Baseball trace its roots

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University of Nebraska Press Author David Block will serve on a committee that will trace the beginnings of U.S. baseball. The committee, announced by Major League Baseball on March 15, will be made up of 12 baseball experts who will seek out the history of baseball’s very early days, along with the game’s evolution and growth. The committee will also look at the history and evolution of in various regions, cities and communities. Block, the author of Baseball Before We Knew It, which won the Seymour Medal in 2006, is in good company; other committee members include Ken Burns and … Continue reading UNP author to help Major League Baseball trace its roots