Laura Reece Hogan is the author of I Live, No Longer I, O Garden-Dweller, and Litany of Flights. Her most recent book Butterfly Nebula was published this month by Backwaters Press. The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in late 2021, has provided the world … Continue reading From the Desk of Laura Reece Hogan: On Stars and Sea Creatures
Happy Mystery Series Week! To celebrate, we’re challenging your amateur detective skills by playing ‘Clue’ with Mignon G. Eberhart’s Nurse Sarah Keate mystery books. We’ve provided you with the case, a list of suspects, the weapon, and location. Can you … Continue reading Mystery Series Week: Put Your Detective Skills to the Test with Eberhart’s Books
Happy Mystery Series Week! To celebrate, we’re highlighting Nebraska’s own whodunnit queen, Mignon G. Eberhart. Her book, The Mystery of Hunting’s End was the One book One Nebraska selection of 2023, chosen for it’s ability to keep the reader guessing. … Continue reading Mystery Series Week: How well do you know Mignon G. Eberhart?
Laura Reece Hogan’s Butterfly Nebula (Backwaters Press, 2023) is officially out now. Be sure to mark your calendars for some upcoming events celebrating this new book. Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Butterfly Nebula reaches from the depths of the sea … Continue reading Upcoming Events for Laura Reece Hogan’s Butterfly Nebula
For more than sixty years, Bison Books has helped sustain the intrigue of the West by serving as the living literature of western lands and people. Within the imprint, we preserve the history of the peoples and cultures that have … Continue reading Bison Books Sale
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 recently finished Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson. The … Continue reading September Staff Reading List
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 If This Were Fiction (Nebraska, September 2022) by Jill Christman. About the Book: If This Were Fiction is a … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to If This Were Fiction
Almost thirty years ago, Suzanne Roberts, author of Animal Bodies and Bad Tourist, embarked on a twenty-eight-day hike on California’s John Muir Trail that changed her life. Her story of a month in the backcountry, Almost Somewhere, was first published … Continue reading Postcards from the John Muir Trail: Muir Pass and Finding a Home in the Mountains
Save 40% off during our Simchat Torah book sale! Enter coupon code 6ST23 in your shopping cart, then click “Apply.” Offer expires October 8, 2023 and is good for U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Shop the sale Continue reading Simchat Torah Sale with the Jewish Publication Society
Torsa Ghosal is an assistant professor of English at California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative. Alison Gibbons is a reader in contemporary stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. She … Continue reading Excerpt: Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives
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