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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.

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.

Müller in NYT

A recent translation of Herta Müller's Hunger Strike has been reviewed in the New York Times. See it here.

Müller is the 2009 Nobel Prize in Laureate and also the author Nadirs (University of Nebraska Press, 1999), which is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on her childhood in the Romanian countryside.

Banzai Babe Ruth rave reviews

Banzai Babe Ruth is the story of baseball all-stars staying for a month in Japan, playing 18 games, spawning professional baseball, and spreading goodwill.

Robert Whiting said in the Wall StreetJournal that Banzai Babe Ruth by Robert K. Fitts “deserves a spot in any baseball (or Japan) lover’s library.”

On Shelf-Awareness, Fitts is hailed as “…excellent at capturing occasional bouts of dissension among the American players, describing the respectable quality of play by their Japanese opponents, and especially at capturing the ominous atmosphere that surrounded the tour. Fans will love the stats and player photos, too!”

Baseball season is here

Happy Opening Day to baseball fans all across the country!

According to Shelf Awareness, UNP is doing its part by having more than 118 baseball titles in print. And David Davis of the New York Times said, “the pulse of baseball beats strongly in the heart of Cornhusker Nation.”

Davis interviewed interim editor-in-chief, Rob Taylor, about how the press started to publish so many baseball books. Read the full article here.

And Dorothy Seymour Mills reviewed Conspiracy of Silence by Chris Lamb for the New York Journal of Books as “…overwhelming evidence of the effectiveness of the black press in advancing integration in this country.” Read the review here.

Conspiracy of Silence was also reviewed by Katherine A. Powers for the Barnes & Noble Review. Powers said, “Lamb shows how pivotal the desegregation of baseball was to that of the nation as a whole." See the full review at Salon.com.

Reviews and giveaway

In the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Birch Coulie by John Christgau was reviewed by Curt Brown.

Brown said, “Christgau's book is essential reading on the 150th anniversary of the largely forgotten, under-taught war that he describes as ‘a brutal collision of two worlds and cultures.’”

Brown also compared Christgau to one of the characters in the book, Boyd, by explaining that both are not “…overly sympathetic to either side, parlaying rich details and complex historical characters to capture a vibrant snapshot of Minnesota history.”

Read the full review here.

The Brave Ski Mom reviewed In Search of Powder by Jeremy Evans calling it a well-written story with the most interesting addressing immigrant labor at ski resorts and the evolution of skiing films.

And UNP is offering one free copy of the book to a luck reader! To enter, leave a comment below the review on the blog here.

The winner will be chosen at random on March 13. Good luck!

Mountains of praise

Earlier this week, Mountains of Light was given a rave review by Blog Critics.

In the book, author R. Mark Liebenow takes a journey deep into the heart of Yosemite National Park, introducing us to its grand and subtle marvels—and to the observations, reflections, and insights its scenery evokes.

Blog Critics said, “I repeat, Mountains of Light is a stunning book. I keep wanting to call it a ‘future’ classic. It deserves to stand with the great books of the iconic authors of this genre—Muir, Aldo Leopold, Sig Olson, Terry and Renny Russell. This is a book that cries out for wide availability. It is a book to be read and re-read.”

Read the full review here.