UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. “I’ve been rereading Bram Stoker’s Dracula this month to get in on … Continue reading October Staff Reading List
Matthew Christopher Hulbert is an Elliott Associate Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He is the author of The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers became Gunslingers in the American West, winner of the 2017 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, … Continue reading Excerpt: Oracle of Lost Causes
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Operation Pedro Pan: The Migration of Unaccompanied Children from Castro’s Cuba (Potomac Books, October 2022) by John A. … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Operation Pedro Pan
Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work! Chicago Writes Book of the Year If This Were Fiction (Nebraska, 2022) by Jill Christman is a Finalist in the Traditional Nonfiction category. The winner will be announced … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
Reviews Portrait of a City Review in Publishers Weekly: “Though Pauley never turns a blind eye to the wrongs committed by residents of Lincoln, his portrait is a genuine labor of love. Midwest history buffs will enjoy this tremendously.” Truman … Continue reading News & Reviews
The National Willa Cather Center is celebrating acclaimed American novelist Willa Cather’s 150th birthday with a series of special events to mark the occasion! 2023 also marks the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, along with … Continue reading Willa Cather Reading List
Len Verwey is a South African poet who was born in Mozambique. He is the author of In a Language That You Know (Nebraska, 2017), and his poems have been published in numerous journals, including Transnational Literature and New Contrast. His newest poetry collection, Loving the … Continue reading Excerpt: Loving the Dying
This year Heartland Fall Forum is in Detroit, Michigan from Oct. 18-20. HFF is the premiere gathering place for those interested in independent bookstores throughout the Midwest. Hosted jointly by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. UNP … Continue reading Heartland Fall Forum 2023
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Cold War Radio (Potomac Books, October 2022) by Mark G. Pomar. About the Book: Cold War Radio is a … Continue reading Celebrating Cold War Radio’s First Year
What can we learn from the stories of bison and the Pawnee seed keepers? How can conservation be practiced today? Nebraska Public Media has put together a book club kit inspired by Ken Burns’s The American Buffalo (premiers today), which explores … Continue reading Nebraska Public Media Book Club Kit
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