University of Nebraska Press
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Baseball in the Roaring Twenties: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Captivating 1926 Season
$36.95 Add to cartIn the mid-1920s, America was in the throes of exuberant excess and clashing social change. It was the era of Prohibition and speakeasies; the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan; popular evangelists, inc… [more below]
- Author: Wolf, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496235789
- Language: English
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Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader
$21.95 Add to cartThe essays in Selected Misdemeanors are unapologetic word grenades lobbed into an otherwise complacent forgetfulness. Throughout the collection, Sue William Silverman focuses on pivotal, often fleetin… [more below]
- Author: Silverman, Sue William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496244222
- Language: English
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Death Does Not End at the Sea
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
In Gbenga Adesina’s groundbreaking debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we e- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Adesina, Gbenga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 149624477X
- Language: English
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Frontier Comrades: From the Fur Trade to the Ford Car
$27.95 Add to cartFrontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place
- Author: Wilke, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 149624222X
- Language: English
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The Perils of Girlhood: A Memoir in Essays
$21.95 Add to cartLike many girls growing up in the eighties and nineties, Melissa Fraterrigo leaned on popular culture to transition from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Judy Blume told stories about girls embrac… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Fraterrigo, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496242203
- Language: English
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
$29.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History
Winner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History
Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize
Winner of the 2024 Spur Award
Named a Best Civil
- Series: History of the American West
- Author: West, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 708
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243013
- Language: English
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I Make Envy on Your Disco
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction
“A funny and moving debut.”–Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post “A love letter to Berlin, to travel, and to saying yes to life.”–Alan Cumming It- Series: Zero Street Fiction
- Author: Schnall, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496239016
- Language: English
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The Fenway Effect: A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox
$34.95 Add to cartTo be a part of Red Sox Nation is to be a hopeful romantic who neither betrays loyalty nor surrenders hope in the direst of circumstances. From Bangor to Back Bay, New Englanders endure in baseball ma… [more below]
- Author: Krell, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623233X
- Language: English
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Perfect Eloquence: An Appreciation of Vin Scully
$34.95 Add to cartNamed aBest Sports Book of 2024 Pick by Sports Illustrated
When Vin Scully passed away in 2022, the city of Los Angeles lost its soundtrack. If you were able to deliver a eulogy for him, what might- Author: Hoffarth, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238788
- Language: English
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Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Books
$36.95 Add to cartLaura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were “too good to be altogether lost.” And those stories seemed far from being lost du… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496227883
- Language: English
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Baseball’s First Superstar: The Lost Life Story of Christy Mathewson
$32.95 Add to cartIf there was a first face of baseball, it was arguably Christopher “Christy” Mathewson. At the opening of the twentieth century, baseball was considered an undignified game played by ruffians for gamb… [more below]
- Author: Gaff, Alan D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243277
- Language: English
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Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body presents the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents, now gone, from Lebanon and Syria and of Armenian- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Bedikian, Lory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149624012X
- Language: English
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Planting Seeds of the Divine: Torah Commentaries to Cultivate Your Spiritual Practice
$24.95 Add to cartExperiencing deep personal fulfillment, happiness, and sustenance comes from feeling connected to our authentic selves, which involves building an ongoing relationship with the Divine Presence within
- Author: Smith, Yiscah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 082761571X
- Language: English
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Into the Void: Adventures of the Spacewalkers
$39.95 Add to cartThe world had been fascinated with astronauts and spaceflight since well before the first crewed launches in 1961, when Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, and John Glenn became household names. But when Alex… [more below]
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Youskauskas, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496224124
- Language: English
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Get Your Tokens Ready: The Late 1990s Road to the Subway Series
$34.95 Add to cartStarting with the first ever regular season matchup between the Mets and Yankees and ending with the last out of the 2000 Subway Series, Get Your Tokens Ready provides the most in-depth look ever publ… [more below]
- Author: Donnelly, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496230809
- Language: English
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Georgia and Anita: The Lifelong Friendship of Georgia O’Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer
$24.95 Add to cartGeorgia O’Keeffe knew as soon as she met Anita Pollitzer that they had nothing in common. Anita looked like a china doll, small boned and delicate, and obviously well-to-do in her fashionable tunics a… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Liza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496242793
- Language: English
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Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays
$21.95 Add to cartUrgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, a… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Moore, Bailey Gaylin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496241932
- Language: English
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1978: Baseball and America in the Disco Era
$34.95 Add to cartAmericans struggled to find their footing in the late 1970s. The Vietnam War ended with more than fifty-eight thousand American soldiers’ deaths; the public’s trust in politicians plummeted amid the W… [more below]
- Author: Krell, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496239601
- Language: English
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A Giant Among Giants: The Baseball Life of Willie McCovey
$32.95 Add to cartWillie McCovey, known as “Stretch,” played Major League Baseball from 1959 to 1980, most notably as a member of the San Francisco Giants for nineteen seasons. A fearsome left-handed power hitter, McCo… [more below]
- Author: Haft, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496236246
- Language: English
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How to Change History: A Salvage Project
$21.95 Add to cartIn How to Change History Robin Hemley grapples with the individual’s navigation of history and the conflict between personal and public histories. In an attempt to restore, resurrect, and reclaim what
- Author: Hemley, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496240324
- Language: English
