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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.

Pot Farm in Daily Beast

On the Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan blogged about Pot Farm by Matthew Gavin Frank.

Check out "The Perils of A Pot Farm" here.

UNP authors on the Web

The 40th Anniversary of Title IX and the XXX Olympics in London this summer prompted writers to take a look at the history, culture and role of women and sports in the Spring edition of On The Issues Magazine.
 
Authors Rachel Toor and Tim Grainey were among them.
 
Read Toor's "Nine Titles Thinking About Title IX" here and Grainey's "The Rise and Fall and Possible Rise of Women's Pro Soccer" here.

Kooser's new picture book

Poet Ted Kooser's new book, House Held Up By Trees (Candlewick, 2012), was reviewed in Read the Spirit.
 
Kooser has published many books with UNP, among them Lights on the Ground of Darkness, which is also mentioned in the review.

Šukys on CBC radio

Author Julija Šukys was on The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright discussing her new book, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė. Listen to the full interview here. 

Cassedy speaks out

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, author Ellen Cassedy found hope for the future discussing her Lithuanian connection to the past.

Check out her articles in the Huffington Post and The Baltimore Sun.

Boston baseball

Red Sox fans have officially been singing “Take me out to the ball game” for a century.

Fenway Park’s 100th anniversary is today and what better way to celebrate than to play the New York Yankees.

Check out MSNBC and NBC Sports for photos and reactions.

And take advantage of UNP’s Boston Baseball sale. You can save 25 percent on Ted Williams: A Baseball Life by Michael Seidel and Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball by Mark Armour.