Nebraska CAS Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Flight Risk
Joy Castro
"Twisting Plots and Other Literary Mischief" is Dec. 1 at 5:00 p.m. ✔️ A Zoom conversation on writing crime and suspense ✔️ @_JoyCastro, author of Flight Risk ✔️ @timschaffert, author of The Perfume Thief https://bit.ly/3xdk3jO @unlenglish @UNLEthnicStu @UNLwriters https://t.co/KWU7BBrbHB
Paperback, 2021
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
Jim Downs
Historian @jimdowns1, author of "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine," will give the annual Charles and Linda Wilson Humanities in Medicine lecture April 13. https://t.co/aT07pyRuZr https://t.co/XcZKycc0hT
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The Qur'anic Dilemma: A Hermeneutical Investigation of Al-Khidr
Abla Hasan
Bravo 🏆 to Abla Hasan! Her book "The Qur'anic Dilemma: A Hermeneutical Investigation of al-Khidr" was published by @routledgebooks! https://t.co/MPzZdh7IIO @UNLModLang https://t.co/facBSbzX6S
Hardcover, 2022
$160.00$135.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape
Dana Fritz
It's #FirstFriday tonight in #LNK at the @UNLGreatPlains Art Museum! On view 5-7 pm: 📸 "Wayfaring Strangers" from Michael Farrell 📸 "Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape" from Dana Fritz https://t.co/RQvHGrAjR8 https://t.co/PhgfhEIP61
Paperback, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan
David G. Dalin
Today at noon in the Union Ballroom: Historian David G. Dalin of @BrandeisU will give the Judaic Studies Krivosha Lecture, titled "Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court," coinciding with a NE Supreme Court session in memory of Judge Norman Krivosha. 👉 https://t.co/Hu4HHY0NC1 https://t.co/YDLAM0kdWy
Hardcover, 2017
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa
Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri
Join @HRHA_UNL on April 19 for a Book Talk with Ng’ang’a Wahu-Muchiri of @unlenglish covering his book "Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa." 📕 https://t.co/ZDU4SLmTjN https://t.co/bvx0nELqES
Hardcover, 2023
$70.00$45.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Nebraska: Poems
Kwame Dawes
Bravo 🏆 to Kwame Dawes of @unlenglish for winning @NarrativeMag's Fourteenth Annual #Poetry Contest! Announcement: https://t.co/7nf2wH6wEN Poems published in Narrative: https://t.co/fBnNPeWkUZ #UNL https://t.co/dZb0HAgvob
Paperback, 2019
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Valley of the 99: A Wesern Duo: A Circle V Western
Wayne D. Overholser
This year's recipient of the annual @UNLGreatPlains Stubbendieck Distinguished Book Prize is "Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation" by @StoboSniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii)! https://t.co/SuDdUgfQ63 https://t.co/zEwWwQMZdj
Hardcover, Large Print, 2020
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
Andrew Stobo Sniderman
This year's recipient of the annual @UNLGreatPlains Stubbendieck Distinguished Book Prize is "Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation" by @StoboSniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii)! https://t.co/SuDdUgfQ63 https://t.co/zEwWwQMZdj
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands
Margaret D. Jacobs
Margaret Jacobs' talk on Feb. 21 will be based on her book "After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands" and the Reconciliation Rising project she co-directs. 👉 https://t.co/tQUYFRcyOO @UNLHistory @UNLGreatPlains @Reconcil_Rising https://t.co/TIv9ElGn4e
Paperback, 2023
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book