Univ. of Nebraska Press

Shadows on the Rock

By Willa Cather - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

This gratifying novel sprang from Willa Cather’s enraptured discovery of Québec City in 1928 during an unexpected stopover with her companion, Edith ...Read Review

Lige Mounts, Free Trapper

By Frank B. Linderman - Published 2005

Genres:

AdventureWestern

By 1922, when Frank B. Linderman wrote Lige Mounts, he had given up his life as a free trapper in the rugged mountains of ...Read Review

Macadam Dreams

By Gisèle Pineau (trans. C. Dickson) - Published 2003

Genres:

Saga

For Eliette, life’s memories begin sometime after the great cyclone of 1928 during which she was injured. Though she doesn’t remember the ...Read Review

Turning Bones

By Lee Martin - Published 2003

Genres:

LiterarySaga

The title refers to a ritual in which celebrants exhume and dance with the bones of their ancestors, a Day of the Dead ...Read Review

Hot Chocolate at Hanselmann’s

By Rosetta Loy (trans. Gregory Conti) - Published 2003Published 2003 (c1995)

Genres:

Alternate HistoryInspirationalMilitary

Although the “hot chocolate” arrives only in the final chapters, what come before are emotional and sometimes shocking events in an Italian family ...Read Review

The Rustler

By Frances McElrath - Published 2002

Genres:

RomanceWestern

Bittersweet love and tragic range war in 1890s Wyoming enthrall and inform in this tale built upon true facts, the author having been ...Read Review

A Cycle of the West

By John G. Neihardt - Published 2002

Genres:

Short StoriesWestern

A Cycle of the West is a unique publication. It is an epic poem; a saga of early America; and an action-packed western. ...Read Review

Eleazar, Exodus To The West

By Michel Tournier - Published 2002

Genres:

Literary

This novella retells the Biblical story of Moses leading the Exodus out of Egypt, with a setting in 19th Century Ireland followed by ...Read Review

The Savage Night

By Mohammed Dib - Published 2001

Genres:

LiteraryShort Stories

This is a collection of thirteen short stories, some historical and some contemporary, that reflect a way of life and thinking totally alien ...Read Review