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Out of Their League
$19.95Dave Meggyesy had been an outside linebacker with the St. Louis Cardinals for seven years when he quit at the height of his career to tell about the dehumanizing side…
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Pampille’s Table
$24.95Inspired by references to the “delicious books of Pampille” in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, the veteran cookbook author Shirley King adapted this gastronomic gem of a book for the…
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Portals to Hell
$24.95The holding of prisoners of war has always been both a political and a military enterprise, yet the military prisons of the Civil War, which held more than four hundred…
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Powwow
$21.95This anthology examines the origins, meanings, and enduring power of the powwow. Held on and off reservations, in rural and urban settings, powwows are an important vehicle for Native peoples…
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Quilting Lessons
$12.95In the middle of a successful academic career, art historian Janet Catherine Berlo found herself literally at a loss for words. A severe case of writer’s block forced her to…
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Rebuilding the Indian
$19.95The building of a vintage Indian Chief motorcycle is more than the restoration of a bike—it’s the resurrection of a dream. Rebuilding the Indian chronicles one man’s journey through the…
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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860
$11.95In the summer of 1860 the author of these recollections, Mary Ann Stucki, then six years old, walked beside her parents’ handcart from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska, to Salt Lake City,…
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Red Haze
$20.00“One day unlike the others, he’ll run into a husband worse than the others, he’ll run into trouble. I often thought this. Well, I was wrong, it was a woman…
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Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly
$19.95Widely regarded as the best of Hamlin Garland’s novels, Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly tells the story of a country girl of precocious ability who is raised by her widower father…
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Scotty
$24.95When President Kennedy finished a difficult meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, the first person he talked to was not one of his advisers, his vice president, or his wife….
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Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
$29.95The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln houses one of America’s finest collections of twentieth-century sculpture. In addition to the major art historical landmarks that reflect the…
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Seasons in Hell
$19.95“Even before the start of spring training, Herzog had said, ‘If Rich Billings is the starting catcher again, we’re in deep trouble.’ When that evaluation was passed along to Billings,…