Univ. of Nebraska
Bohemian Girl
Young Harriet opens her story by telling the reader that her frequently gambling father “lost her on a bet.” One…
Swords from the Desert
Collected in Swords from the Desert are seven exciting stories set during the crusades and in 17th-century India and the…
The Blue Tattoo
The Blue Tattoo pieces together the true story of Olive Oatman, a 14-year-old girl taken captive by the Yavapai Indians…
The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815
The “ship of the line” was the equivalent of the battleship in navies in the age of sail. While numerous…
Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England
Queens and Power is a collection of academic essays dealing with a variety of queens consort and queens regnant, mostly…
A Broken Mirror
As the biographical note explains, Rodoreda is a Catalan writer now being rediscovered as literary force more than 20…
La Salle
La Salle is an epistolary novel that presents a selective view of the explorations by the 17th century French…
Summer of Discovery
Two teenagers living in the dustbowl that is Nebraska in 1939 meet a professional archaeologist, who takes them on…
Henry Plummer: A Novel
Frank Bird Linderman was a best selling author at the turn of the last century. However, in the 1920s, publishers…
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