Univ. of Nebraska Press

Vanished in Hiawatha

By Carla Joinson - Published 2016

Genres:

NonfictionWestern

This is the story of the notorious Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, an institution begun as a government pork barrel project during the ...Read Review

Up from These Hills: Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood

By Michael Lambert - Published 2011

Genres:

NonfictionSaga

Up From These Hills is a memoir of the life of Leonard Carson Lambert Jr., a Cherokee Indian who lived on and off ...Read Review

Dream of Reason

By Carol Maier (trans.) - By Rosa Chacel - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

Rosa Chacel is a Spanish modernist writer whose novel explores the meaning of thought, language, reason, and the emotions as they stream together ...Read Review

Searching for Tamsen Donner

By Gabrielle Burton - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

In 1846 Tamsen Donner and her family left Springfield, Illinois, in search of a new life in California. In 1977 Gabrielle Burton and her family ...Read Review

The Plain Sense of Things

By Pamela Carter Joern - Published 2008

Genres:

Literary

Joern’s novel is really a series of interwoven short stories, each of which can stand on its own, but taken together they ...Read Review

Two Men

By Elizabeth Stoddard - By Jennifer Putzi (ed.) - Published 2008

Genres:

Literary

Originally published in 1865, Two Men begins when Jason Auster, a carpenter, leaves home to start a new life. His stagecoach makes a stop ...Read Review

The Golden Volcano: The First English Translation of Verne’s Original Manuscript

By Edward Baxter (trans. and ed.) - By Jules Verne - Published 2008

Genres:

Adventure

In 1899, the Gold Rush is on—in Africa, in California, and in northwestern Canada. Montreal residents Ben Raddle and his cousin Summy Skim ...Read Review

Shantytown Kid

By Azouz Begag (ed. Alec G. Hargreaves; trans. Naima Wolf and Alec G. Hargreaves) - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureInspirational

What a delightful little book this is. Azouz Begag, the author, is a novelist, researcher, and, recently, the minister for equal opportunities in ...Read Review

Paper Tiger

By Olivier Rolin - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

Paper Tiger is the first English translation of acclaimed French novelist Rolin. The past becomes present over a night when a survivor of ...Read Review

Castro’s Curveball

By Tim Wendel - Published (c1999)Published 2006

Genres:

AdventureThriller

In 1947, career minor leaguer Billy Bryan is in Cuba playing winter ball, chasing a dream of making it to the majors that is ...Read Review