University of Nebraska Press
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The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe
$14.95 Add to cartThe Middle Five, first published in 1900, is an account of Francis La Flesche’s life as a student in a Presbyterian mission school in northeastern Nebraska about the time of the Civil War. It is a sim… [more below]
- Author: La Flesche, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: September 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0803279019
- Language: English
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My Side of the River: An Alaska Native Story
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1971 the U.S. government created the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and extinguished Alaska Native aboriginal rights to hunting and fishing–forever changing the way Alaska Natives could be re… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Kelly, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235096
- Language: English
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Ravelings: Essays on Love, Loss, and Wonder
$21.95 Add to cartIn Ravelings, Lisa Knopp takes up an older, opposing meaning of the verb “ravel”–“to entangle”–as she explores the deaths and departures of loved ones and the rituals by which we mourn and honor the
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Knopp, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 149624494X
- Language: English
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Royal Treatment: Jackie Robinson, Montreal, and the Breaking of Baseball’s Color Barrier
$36.95 Add to cartThe story of Jackie Robinson’s prodigious talent, his courageous journey, and his influence on both the game of baseball and American society writ large has been told well and often. What hasn’t been
- Author: McLaughlin, Sean J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1496244311
- Language: English
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The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir
$26.95 Add to cartThis book is about what it means to make a choice. As mothers, how do we carry life and death in our bodies and survive with our hearts intact?
The Heart Folds Early is a story of transformation throug
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Christman, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1496246799
- Language: English
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Slow Guillotine
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction
Slow Guillotine follows three broke weirdos whose collective desire to make and think about art is constantly interrupted by their art-industry-adjacent
- Series: Zero Street Fiction
- Author: Rivera-Dundas, Teo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1496247310
- Language: English
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Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano
$32.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2025 CASEY Award
Ron Luciano was a college football star, baseball umpire, TV broadcaster, and best-selling author. He barged through the world with an outsized personality, entertaini
- Author: Leeke, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496237668
- Language: English
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And You Will Call It Fate: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartIn And You Will Call It Fate, Timothy J. Hillegonds explores an eight-year relationship with Sean Dempsey, a charismatic yet volatile former NFL player turned entrepreneur who profoundly reshaped the
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Hillegonds, Timothy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1496246233
- Language: English
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Going Out with Knots: My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry
$32.95 Add to cartFeatured on Zibby Owens’ My Most Anticipated Books 2025 list
Interweaving memoir with Hebrew poetry, Going Out with Knots illuminates author Wendy I. Zierler’s literary and personal Jewish mourning jo- Author: Zierler, Wendy I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0827615701
- Language: English
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Bakandamiya: An Elegy
$18.95 Add to cartCovering more than five hundred years of cultural transformation, Bakandamiya: An Elegy is a book-length epic poem set in northern Nigeria. The poem moves from passages of mythic power to elegant lyri… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Dzukogi, Saddiq
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496244273
- Language: English
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America Tees Off: True Tales of Golf’s Rich History
$29.95 Add to cartIn 1887 a linen salesman from New York City visited the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, considered to be the oldest golf course in the world. While there, he visited the shop of golf legend Old T… [more below]
- Author: Sowell, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243161
- Language: English
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Daddy Issues: Stories
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction
Daddy Issues is a collection of moving and complex–yet simply and directly told–stories of queer Asian American experiences in Los Angeles. In many o- Series: Zero Street Fiction
- Author: Wat, Eric C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243587
- Language: English
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The Team That History Forgot: The 1960s Kansas City Chiefs
$34.95 Add to cartWhile the Kansas City Chiefs are the NFL’s newest dynasty, winning three Super Bowls since 2020, most fans don’t recall the team’s earliest successful years before decades of futility. What about the … [more below]
- Author: Gosselin, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243102
- Language: English
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In the Japanese Ballpark: Behind the Scenes of Nippon Professional Baseball
$36.95 Add to cartBaseball is the national pastime of both the United States and Japan, but the two countries approach and play the game differently both on the field and away from it. To shed light on these difference… [more below]
- Author: Fitts, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496244079
- Language: English
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Moses Malone: The Life of a Basketball Prophet
$36.95 Add to cartMoses Malone overcame abject poverty in segregated Petersburg, Virginia, to become the first modern-day basketball player to jump directly from high school to the pros, paving a path for future stars … [more below]
- Author: Knepper, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496238974
- Language: English
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Return of the King: The Rebirth of Muhammad Ali and the Rise of Atlanta
$36.95 Add to cartReturn of the King tells the story of Muhammad Ali’s return to the ring in 1970, after a more than three-year suspension for refusing his draft notice as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam Wa… [more below]
- Author: Aiello, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496244184
- Language: English
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The Spring Before Obergefell
$21.95 Add to cartThe James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel, AWP Award Series Winner
It’s not easy for anyone to find love, let alone a middle-aged gay man in small-town America. Mike Breck works multiple part-time- Series: The James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel
- Author: Grossberg, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496240340
- Language: English
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Character Witness: A Memoir
$21.95 Add to cartWhen Jason Brown’s mother is arrested for stealing $38,000, he agrees to serve as a character witness for her, hoping to keep her out of prison.
Thus begins Character Witness, a memoir, a chronicle o- Series: American Lives
- Author: Brown, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496242637
- Language: English
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Out of Gaza: A Tale of Love, Exile, and Friendship
$24.95 Add to cartOut of Gaza tells the story of Dima Mansour, a young Palestinian who suffers hardship growing up in Jordan and Gaza during the Gaza War of 2014, later escaping to be with the man she loves in Belgium,
- Author: Galor, Katharina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126511
- Language: English
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The Trickster and the Troll
$12.95 Add to cart1998 WWA Spur Awards, Finalist in Best Western Juvenile Fiction
The friendship and adventures of Iktomi, the trickster figure from Lakota legend, and Troll, the familiar character from Norse mytholog- Author: Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803292635
- Language: English
