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Nebraska CAS Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Flight Risk, Joy Castro

Flight Risk

Joy Castro
Nebraska CASNebraska CAS

"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
Book Cover for: Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

Jim Downs
Nebraska CASNebraska CAS

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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Book Cover for: The Qur'anic Dilemma: A Hermeneutical Investigation of Al-Khidr, Abla Hasan

The Qur'anic Dilemma: A Hermeneutical Investigation of Al-Khidr

Abla Hasan
Nebraska CASNebraska CAS

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)
Book Cover for: Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape, Dana Fritz

Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape

Dana Fritz
Nebraska CASNebraska CAS

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
Book Cover for: Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan, David G. Dalin

Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan

David G. Dalin
Nebraska CASNebraska CAS

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
Book Cover for: Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa, Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri

Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa

Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri
Nebraska CASNebraska CAS

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)
Book Cover for: Nebraska: Poems, Kwame Dawes

Nebraska: Poems

Kwame Dawes
Nebraska CASNebraska CAS

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
Book Cover for: Valley of the 99: A Wesern Duo: A Circle V Western, Wayne D. Overholser

Valley of the 99: A Wesern Duo: A Circle V Western

Wayne D. Overholser
Nebraska CASNebraska CAS

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
Book Cover for: Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation, Andrew Stobo Sniderman

Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

Andrew Stobo Sniderman
Nebraska CASNebraska CAS

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
Book Cover for: After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands, Margaret D. Jacobs

After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands

Margaret D. Jacobs
Nebraska CASNebraska CAS

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