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LOSERVILLE examines the pursuit, arrival, and response to professional sports in Atlanta during its first decade as a major league city (1966-75).

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Cover of "James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge: A Life of Science during the Age of Improvement" by Margaret M. Crump

"It’s not easy to write a biography of an early nineteenth-century polymath like James Cowles Prichard...He left no personal archive. Margaret M. Crump has triumphed over these obstacles," writes Peter Mandler for H-Sci-Med-Tech. bit.ly/4sKJhRM

News & Reviews Reviews They Came but Could not Conquer Review in Western Historical Quarterly: "As Alaska Native peoples continue their sovereign resilience in the face of political and environmental colonialism, Purvis’s work provides an effective scholarly supplement to these ongoing struggles." Royal Treatment Starred Review in Booklist: "McLaughlin deftly portrays a cosmopolitan, multiethnic, fiercely proud Montreal fully embracing and adoring the Robinsons while also bringing a sportswriter's chops to tracking Robinson's splendid debut season .

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S03 E15 - We Find Joy A memoirist and a musician take us on their journey to joy.

So happy to be on “Pop of Culture” where Jen Blackmer asked great questions and Luke Jones came in with his stellar editing to make us the best versions of our talking selves. The theme? Joy. indianapublicradio.org/popofculture... @pinestatepublicity.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social

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"Parishioners of Sovereignty: A History of Nationhood and War in Nineteenth-Century Paraguay," by Michael Kenneth Huner, University of Nebraska Press, 2025

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Bummerland Sends Up Austin’s MAGA Tech-Bro Culture A new essay collection by Randolph Lewis chronicles how Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, an Apple campus, and scorched-earth MAGA capitalism killed Austin's famous weirdness — and finds unexpected glimmers of hope even in big-box America.

"Incisive and witty, BUMMERLAND instead urges readers to reflect on both the weirdness and promise of everyday experience and to make authentic contact with fellow witnesses to stay sane amid the current madness," writes Theodore Hamm for @jacobinmag.bsky.social. bit.ly/4dVt9sU

Global Approaches to the Holocaust: Memory, History, and Representation The recent global turn in Holocaust studies has revealed the genocide’s profound international ramifications, from refugee flows to commemorative practices to international law.

"A glob­al approach to the Holo­caust may not be risk-free, but it is a valu­able and fruit­ful one," writes Meghan Riley for the Jewish Book Council of GLOBAL APPROACHES TO THE HOLOCAUST, edited by Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi. bit.ly/4tkUlWX

Excerpt: Nine Persimmons Kerry James Evans is an associate professor of English at Georgia College and State University, where he coordinates the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs. He is the author of the poetry collection Bangalore. A recipient of a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, his poems have appeared in…

Excerpt: NINE PERSIMMONS by @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social

The poems in NINE PERSIMMONS move with the gravity of pilgrimage, their compass set between wandering and witness, as they cross from ballfields and shipyards into the charged realms of myth and ritual.

The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir of Grief, Loss, Love—and Choice Diane Gottlieb interviews Jill Christman Jill Christman I have long admired Jill Christman’s writing for its honesty, beauty, and fearlessness. Christman writes about the hard stuff, yet her words …

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Cover of "Buffalo Bill and the Mormons" by Brent M. Rogers

"The book is well written in a lucid style, fully annotated, with both primary and secondary sources, and a very useful index. I recommend it for both academics and those interested in Western history," writes Michael W. Homer for Utah Historical Quarterly. bit.ly/4t2j5CS

Cover of "Notes for My Body Double" by Paul Guest. Past Winner of the Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry.

NOTES FOR MY BODY DOUBLE plumbs the depths of nature and culture (how, for instance, “gar” in Old English means “spear,” and an octopus can lose a limb during mating) to give form to the darkness and the light that make us human.

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Cover of "The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir" by Jill Christman.In the American Lives Series, edited by Tobias Wolff.

"Many have praised @jillchristman.bsky.social's new book for her ability to find humor amid agony—which is her gift—but I was moved by her message of healing from pain in order 'to love more deeply' which is her superpower," writes Steve Harvey in the Humble Essayist.

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From the Desk of Lisa G. Dill: Around the Bend Lisa G. Dill is an adjunct professor of creative and environmental writing at the University of Delaware. Her new book Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River (Bison Books, 2026) was published this month. A lot of people have asked me whether I knew I was going to write a book when I set off on my trip down the Missouri River.

From the Desk of Lisa G. Dill: Around the Bend

In AROUND THE BEND Lisa G. Dill bears witness to one of the world’s most powerful rivers as she and a crew of four cousins pilot a rickety pontoon boat down the Missouri on a modern voyage of discovery.

Cover of "One Season in Rocket City: How the 1985 Huntsville Stars Brought Minor League Baseball Fever to Alabama" by Dale Tafoya

ONE SEASON IN ROCKET CITY brings to life the baseball renaissance that shook up Huntsville, a city many doubted would support professional baseball.

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Love and Grief Jill Christman’s latest memoir, The Heart Folds Early, brings the reader directly to the epicenter of reproductive justice. The writing is raw and vivid, and Christman’s candor illustra…

"Just because we’re going through something serious and hard doesn’t mean everything we are disappears...I always say, 'When you can laugh, laugh, the rest of it will be waiting for you, I promise,'" says @jillchristman.bsky.social.

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Recent Award Winners Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work! 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize The Griffin Poetry Prize is among the world’s most significant prizes in literature, awarded annually for a first-edition poetry collection written in, or translated into, English by a living poet and/or translator from any country. The shortlist will be announced April 22. Death Does Not End at the Sea…

Congratulations to these UNP authors who have recently been recognized for their work!

Book Review: They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America - Emerging Civil War They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America. Edited by John M. Kinder and Jennifer M. Murray. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026. Paperback, 314 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Samuel Flowers When we hear the term “Civil War Memory,” our first thought might veer toward the issue of Confederate […]

"THEY ARE DEAD AND YET THEY LIVE extends our understanding of what we consider Civil War Memory, especially in a time in our nation’s history when Americans attempt to predict when the next one will happen," writes Samuel Flowers for Emerging Civil War. bit.ly/4t3NuAX

Cover of "The Book of What Stays" by James Crews. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.

For any of us, what possibly stays? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail-shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? The old woman who refuses to leave her home in Chernobyl?

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email : Webview : New in the African Poetry Book Series: I Have a Home, There Is a We by Mohammed Khelef Ghassani I Have a Home, There Is a We , whose original Swahili edition was in 2015 the first book of poetry to win the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature, brings the acclaimed verse of prolific Zanzibari poet, journalist, and cultural changemaker Mohammed Khelef Ghassani to English-language readers for the first time.

I HAVE A HOME, THERE IS A WE brings the acclaimed verse of prolific Zanzibari poet, journalist, and cultural changemaker Mohammed Khelef Ghassani to English-language readers for the first time.

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Join Facing History today at 6 p.m. CDT for a conversation with Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi, editors of GLOBAL APPROACHES TO THE HOLOCAUST, to confront a universal question: How should history be remembered? bit.ly/4szo7FW

April Sales 2026 Save on a number of titles this spring with the following sales. Whether you're looking for books to join you at the ballpark or the picnic, we've got your TBR covered, rain or shine. Click the links below to browse the sales; promo codes are good on U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Enter the code in the discount code field of your shopping cart and click “Apply” to save.

Save on UNP books throughout April with these sales!

Cover of "The Texas Rangers and Me: A Baseball Writer's Thirty-Two Years in Arlington" by T.R. Sullivan

THE TEXAS RANGERS AND ME takes readers on a journey through the incredible highs and lows and the unforgettable moments that have shaped the franchise through the eyes of beat reporter T.R. Sullivan.

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A Singular Pursuit: Why All Writing (and All Writers) Matter More Than Ever Today In February of 2015, the novelist and short-story writer Ryan Boudinot wrote an essay for Seattle news website The Stranger titled, “Things I Can Say About MFA Writing Programs Now That I No Longer…

"If you’ve decided that writing matters…it simply doesn’t matter how you get there, or what anyone thinks about your ability, or your talent, or your age," shares Tim Hillegonds, author of AND YOU WOULD CALL IT FATE in an essay for @literaryhub.bsky.social: bit.ly/4dFHkSS

Book Club Scams: Are You Next? Rosemary Sekora is the Marketing and Sales Manager for UNP and has a notes file on her phone filled with book ideas. I am not a published author. I have a masters in English and loved being a part of a Creative Writing program but alas, I have not yet written a book. Although, what’s this in my inbox? “I recently came across…

Received an email from an admiring individual inviting you to their "book club" for an engaging reader discussion? You may be the target of the latest scam in book publishing.

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Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal.

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Check out Nolan W. Reynolds's review of Larry E. Morris's "Guns, Furs, and Gold: An American West History of Indigenous Peoples and Explorers," published in 2025 by @univnebpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
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Excerpt: Life Beyond Fear Natalie Oceanheart is a trained psychologist and volunteer counselor. She immigrated to the United States in 2023 after the second Russian invasion of Ukraine. She has been awarded for her volunteer services and leadership by the Red Cross. Her new book Life Beyond Fear: A Ukrainian Woman's Memoir (Potomac Books, 2026) was published in March. Life Beyond Fear chronicles the harrowing journey of a Ukrainian woman and her family, forced to flee their war-torn homeland in search of safety, hope, and a new beginning.

Excerpt: LIFE BEYOND FEAR (Potomac Books) by Natalie Oceanheart

LIFE BEYOND FEAR chronicles the harrowing journey of a Ukrainian woman and her family, forced to flee their war-torn homeland in search of safety, hope, and a new beginning.

Cover of "They Came but Could Not Conquer: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Alaska Native Communities" by Diane J. Purvis

"Any reader interested in topics of environmental justice, Alaska history, or Native American studies will find something useful in the book’s pages," writes Colton John Brandau for The Western Historical Quarterly. bit.ly/4c4dvbY