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  • af David Brauer
    308,95 kr.

    A biography of University of Miami baseball coach Ron Fraser, who coached the Hurricanes from 1963 to 1992 and was one of college baseball’s greatest promoters and most successful and influential coaches in history, helping to bring the game into national prominence.

  • af Donald Honig
    273,95 kr.

    In this companion volume to "Baseball When the Grass Was Real", also available as a Bison Book, Donald Honig collects the reminiscences of nineteen players, including Robin Roberts, Raph Kiner, and Enos Slaughter, who lay their careers on the line and also talk about the likes of Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, and Ted Williams.

  • af Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
    258,95 kr.

    In Defense of Loose Translations is a memoir that bridges personal and professional experiences of the provocative and often controversial writer Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, who narrates the story of her intellectual life in the field of American Indian studies.

  • af Charlotte Hinger
    258,95 kr.

    Set against the backdrop of the farm crisis of the 1980s Charlotte Hinger’s moving novel explores the lives of Mary and Iron Barrett as they face the multiple calamities imposed by overproduction, debt, falling commodity prices, rural bank restructuring, and internal family dysfunction.

  • af Ken LaZebnik
    218,95 kr.

    Buzzie and the Bull is the story of two men, a championship baseball season, and a country on the brink in 1965.

  • af John M Glionna
    278,95 kr.

    John M. Glionna tells the story of eight-man football at McDermitt High School on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation located on the Nevada-Oregon border.

  • af Frances Washburn
    258,95 kr.

    Set on the Pine Ridge Reservation, An Endangered Species is a tale of two families, each with their own problems and failures, and both bound into circumstances beyond their control, surviving on the Great Plains during the 1960s.

  • af Maura Jane Farrelly
    308,95 kr.

    Maura Jane Farrelly explores the history of the nineteenth-century United States via the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families who moved to Wyoming to escape a host of humiliations—only to discover that by 1890 the West was no longer a place where anyone could go to be forgotten and start over.

  • af Jared Harel
    193,95 kr.

    Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America.

  • af Sue William Silverman
    248,95 kr.

    Acetylene Torch Songs is a guidebook for writers who want their honesty, social engagement, and intimacy to reach beyond the page and transform the lives of readers with searing, indelible, and unquenchable words.

  • af Van Jensen
    228,95 kr.

    When a three-mile-long humanoid alien crashes into Earth in western Nebraska, the local small-town sheriff’s job becomes far more complicated—and dangerous—especially when a series of brutal murders occurs.

  • af Romeo Oriogun
    213,95 kr.

    The Gathering of Bastards chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external.

  • af Sidney Thompson
    213,95 kr.

    Set in the 1890s, The Forsaken and the Dead follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves as he moves through the valleys and shadows of Indian and Oklahoma Territories as the modern world implodes around him.

  • af Suzanne Roberts
    208,95 kr.

    This updated edition of a month-long backcountry trip on the John Muir Trail is part memoir, part nature writing, and part travelogue.

  • af Rebecca M Valette
    353,95 kr.

    This first biography of artist and carver Clitso Dedman presents the life and work of one of the most important but overlooked Navajo artists of his generation.

  • af Patrice Gopo
    213,95 kr.

    In Autumn Song Patrice Gopo invites readers into her personal stories of encountering absences, examining the details as one might turn around a prism, looking for the splinters of color each angle reveals.

  • af Hilary Zaid
    198,95 kr.

    Forget I Told You This is the story of a queer single mother and aspiring artist who finds herself in the thick of a plot to overthrow Big Data.

  • af Mike Stark
    233,95 kr.

    In this historical novel a fire nearly destroys Astoria, Oregon, in 1922. A Finnish immigrant is blackmailed into starting it, a lovesick thief gets blamed, the Ku Klux Klan pulls the strings, and the fire inspector sorts out the mess.

  • af Sara Dant
    318,95 kr.

    Historical narratives often concentrate on wars and politics while leaving out the central role and influence of the physical stage on which history is carried out. In Losing Eden, expert scholar and professor, Sara Dant, traces the environmental history and development of the American West and explains how the land has shaped and been shaped by the people who live there.

  • af Steven P Gietschier
    458,95 kr.

    A history of baseball as a sport and business during the middle of the twentieth century, examining the game on and off the field and tracing its development within the broader contours of American history.

  • af Dennis Snelling
    263,95 kr.

    The untold story of Lefty O’Doul, one of baseball’s greatest hitters, most colorful characters, and the unofficial father of professional baseball in Japan.

  • af Michael K. Johnson
    336,95 - 1.134,95 kr.

  • af Charles E Rankin
    353,95 kr.

    Toward a More Perfect Union collects 162 letters exchanged between Frederic E. Lockley and his wife Elizabeth, during and after the Civil War.

  • af Lawrence A. Dwyer
    213,95 kr.

    Lawrence A. Dwyer has written the story of Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation, who was willing to face arrest for leaving the government’s reservation without permission because of his love for his son and his people, and a desire to be free, resulting in the First Civil Rights victory for Native Americans.

  • af Bob Hall
    163,95 kr.

    C’RONA Pandemic Comics features three comic stories written for youth, accompanied by essays about the COVID-19 pandemic. The three stories feature the COVID-19 virus, wildlife and viruses, and the impact of the pandemic on Tribal communities.

  • af Ann McGrath, Jakelin Troy & Laura Rademaker
    711,95 kr.

  • af J J Anselmi
    223,95 kr.

    J.J. Anselmi tells the story of Rock Springs, Wyoming, a mining boomtown with a history of brutal racial violence, widespread addiction, prostitution, and a staggeringly high per-capita suicide rate—yet a place that has proven remarkably resilient.