Me First: A Deliciously Selfish Take on Life by C. Nicole Mason (Three Ducks in a Row Publishing, Jun 15, 2013) High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart (Amistad, Jun 11, 2013) Soul Recovery: 12...
One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, he is guaranteed ...
Klára Winlow-Vostrovská (aka Claire Winlow-Vostrovsky) was born on October 27, 1871, in West Point, Nebraska, within a thriving Czech community. Her parents, Jaroslav (Jerome) Vostrovský (1836-1901) and Anna Vostrovský (1839-1922) were Czech immigrants. Her father, originally from ...
I recently submitted the manuscript of my book, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts, to the University of Nebraska Press, and that left me little time and energy for Neglected Books. And second, I’ll apology in advance for the fact that there will be a fair number of posts about b...
So when he discovers that he needs glasses, and his family can only afford the ugliest pair in the store, any hope Rex had of fitting in goes completely out of focus. Charlie has a foolproof plan for the first day at her new middle school. Even though she’s used to starting over ...
And power players have to at least respect Caesars’ place in the sports betting hierarchy when it comes to limits on wagers. Caesars offers something beneficial to all who wager – and in an industry that tends to favor one type of bettor over another, that’s a massive benefit to ...
A True Story of Bikers, Murder and the Law. Born and raised in Nebraska, Lowe immigrated to Canada in 1970. He moved to Sudbury, Ontario in 1974 where he became an avid student of that city’s turbulent labour history. The first two volumes of the Nickel Range Trilogy areThe RaidsandTh...
It seemed to me that I was looking at the form and pattern of a thought, placed for the first time in a finite space. Here space itself truly spoke, dreamed, and gave birth to temporal forms. Expectancy, doubt, concentration, all were visible things. With my own eye I could see silen...
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There is a proper place in the world for novels that are chock full of characters, enormously entertaining, and will never change the world or your mind. This is one of them. • Imperial City by Elmer Rice … And here’s another, perhaps my favorite guilty pleasure read of all. ...