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WSJ review

Writings From the Sand: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal by Caroline Moorehead.

Click here to read the full review.  

Check out some of our authors in the media

Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Tobias Carroll.

On Extra Bases, the Red Sox blog manager Bobby Valentine was seen reading Banzai Babe Ruth by Robert K. Fitts.

And Robert Wistrich, author of From Ambivalence to Betrayal wrote an op-ed in Haaretz and in the Times of Israel.

Women's soccer in the spotlight

Total Football Magazine previewed Beyond Bend It Like Beckham: The Global Phenomenon of Women's Soccer on their women’s soccer blog.

See the full review here.

Give to Lincoln totals

Thanks to all who donated to the Friends of UNP on Give to Lincoln Day!

Last week we received $1,935 in gifts, which will be matched proportionally by the Lincoln Community Foundation. We are so grateful to all of you who support the books we publish.

We couldn’t do it without you.

Kayaking memories

In High Country News, UNP author Mike Barenti wrote an essay called "Kayaking memories on the White Salmon River." Read the full text here.

Barenti is the author of Kayaking Alone: Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho's Mountains to the Pacific Ocean (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).

Today is Give to Lincoln Day!

All day you can make donations to support Lincoln non-profit groups like the Friends of the University of Nebraska Press, who support publications of UNP books.

Show your support and donate here!

Book review

The History of the Holocaust in Romania by Jean Ancel was reviewed by Michael N. Dobkowski for the Jewish Book Council saying that it is a “scholarly witnessing to be admired.”

UNP books in the media

Baseball books, Double No-Hit: Johnny Vander Meer’s Historic Night Under the Lights by James W. Johnson was mentioned on Red Reporter and Connie Mack: The Turbulent &Triumphant Years, 1915-1931 by Norman Macht was reviewed on Tampa Bay Online’s blog by Sports Bookie Bob D’Angelo.
 
The Equalizer featured Tim Grainey's Beyond Bend it Like Beckham and Tracy Crow’s storytelling in Eyes Right was called “impeccable” by Publisher’s Weekly. 
 
Ellen Cassedy (author of We Are Here) interviewed Julija Šukys on VilNews about her book Epistolophilia.

Atlas of the Great Plains by Stephen J. Lavin made the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association (PSLA) YA Top Forty list.

IPPY winner

The 2012 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards) results are in! 
 
Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, & Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan by Robert K. Fitts won the silver medal in the Sports/Fitness/Recreation category.

See the complete list of winners here.
 
Congrats Rob!

Happy May Day!

Additional sales start today for Mother's Day and Jewish American Heritage Month!

Find a gift for Mother's Day and save 25 percent on Eyes Right by Tracy Crow and This Is Not the Ivy League by Mary Clearman Blew. Act fast, offer ends May 11!

Celebrate Jewish American Heritage month! Ellen Cassedy's We Are Here and Norman H. Finkelstein's American Jewish History are 25 percent off. Sale ends May 31.