Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs is a professor of medicine emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Jonas Salk: A Life and Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease. Her latest book 90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s … Continue reading Excerpt: 90 Seconds to Midnight
Father’s Day is this weekend! Whether you’re looking for a gift for a father figure in your life, or are one yourself, this reading list has got you covered. From chronicles of pickup trucks and road trips to searching memoirs … Continue reading Reading List: Father’s Day
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
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
May brings with it plenty of ways to save on your next UNP read. In honor of Shavout and in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month, we’re offering 40% off on select titles. This month marks Potomac Books’ tenth anniversary … Continue reading May Sales 2023
Edward Marks, a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer, served as the State Department Advisor on Terrorism and is a founding trustee of the Command and General Staff College Foundation. He is the coauthor of U.S. Counterterrorism: From Nixon to Trump—Key Challenges, … Continue reading Excerpt: A Professional Foreigner
Awards Tomás Q. Morín’s Let Me Count The Ways was nominated for the Vulgar Genius Awards. Winners will be determined by readers’ votes. Show your support for the Let Me Count the Ways by voting at their website, the poll … Continue reading News & Reviews
Awards Mary Clearman Blew’s Think of Horses has won the Western Heritage Award for best Western novel of 2023 from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame/Western Heritage Museum Laura Bylenok’s Living Room is a finalist for the Medal Provocateur Award … Continue reading News & Reviews
ICYMI UNP’s new Podcast Behind the Book Awards Susan Nguyen’s Dear Diaspora won the AAAS Outstanding Achievement in Creative Writing (Poetry) Award Reviews Mine Mine Mine Review in Poetry Foundation: “Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s Mine Mine Mine enters not only the South African … Continue reading News & Reviews
Saturday, March 4 through Sunday March 5, 2023, UNP will be at the Tucson Festival of Books. Come see our amazing authors for signings and more! UNP authors in attendance: Signings will take place at UNP’s Booth #200 over the … Continue reading UNP at the 2023 Tucson Festival of Books
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