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My Life in Nevada Politics
The Memoirs of Richard H. Bryan
ISBN: 9781647791759
Pub Date: 22 October 2024
Format: Hardcover
364 Pages
My Life in Nevada Politics tells the entertaining, informative, and at times poignant story of the rise of Richard Bryan from humble beginnings in Las Vegas to the pinnacle of Nevada politics during...
Walk of Ages
A Generational Journey from Mt. Whitney to Death Valley
ISBN: 9781647791063
Pub Date: 26 March 2024
Format: Paperback
172 Pages
Following in her father’s footsteps, Withanee Andersen begins the expedition of a lifetime when she and her comrades embark on a trek from Mt. Whitney to Death Valley, tracing the rugged path her...
When You Dare to Say Yes
Jill Derby and Nevada Activism
ISBN: 9781647791407
Pub Date: 27 February 2024
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
In 1973, a radical choice that Jill Derby made while under pressure changed the trajectory of her career from a potential profession in academia to that of a lifelong political activist. When You Dare...
The Land of My Fathers
A Son's Return to the Basque Country
ISBN: 9781647791544
Pub Date: 15 January 2024
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees. The son of Basque emigrants, Laxalt wanted to learn as much as he could about...
Savage West
The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage
ISBN: 9781647790677
Pub Date: 10 January 2022
Format: Paperback
257 Pages
Savage West is a literary biography chronicling the life and novels of neglected Montana novelist, Thomas Savage (1915-2003). It seeks to restore him to a high position in the ranks of western American, let alone Montanan, literature.
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote
ISBN: 9781647790189
Pub Date: 30 November 2021
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Perceptive study of the life of writer and artist Mary Hallock Foote
Helmi's Shadow
A Journey of Survival From Russia to East Asia to the American West
ISBN: 9781647790202
Pub Date: 17 August 2021
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
The sweeping true story of two courageous women—Russian Jewish refugees who survived World War II in China and Japan and their subsequent life as American immigrants
Fragments of a Mortal Mind
A Nonfiction Novel
ISBN: 9781948908788
Pub Date: 6 April 2021
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
We are where we’ve been and what we’ve read, aren’t we? Where else do we get the experience we need to evocatively live? At once a memoir, a reading journal, and a novel, Fragments of a Mortal...
They Met at Wounded Knee
The Eastmans' Story
ISBN: 9781948908726
Pub Date: 14 October 2020
Format: Hardcover
372 Pages
The history of the United States from the Civil War to World War II is the canvas of this double biography of the most famous Native American of his time—physician Charles Ohiyesa Eastman—and the white woman he met at the Wounded Knee Massacre in late 1890 and married, Elaine Goodale. Bonded by love and the trauma they witnessed, this mixed-race couple wrote 22 books, gave speeches, lobbied Congress, and organized Indian communities, investing their lives in changing U.S. policies that progressively reduced the power and resources of Indigenous Americans.
American Commander in Spain
Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
ISBN: 9781948908740
Pub Date: 22 September 2020
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
“An important, inspiring, and riveting story of a brave man furiously fighting in every sense for his ideals, it reveals much about memory and loss.” — Katherine Stafford, The Volunteer
American Commander in Spain is the inspirational and agonizing story of Robert Hale Merriman commanding idealists fighting for democracy against fascism in the Spanish Civil War and his wife who so adored him she joined with him in the war.
My Life in Nevada Politics
The Memoirs of Richard H. Bryan
ISBN: 9781647791759
Pub Date: 22 October 2024
Format: Hardcover
364 Pages
My Life in Nevada Politics tells the entertaining, informative, and at times poignant story of the rise of Richard Bryan from humble beginnings in Las Vegas to the pinnacle of Nevada politics during...
Walk of Ages
A Generational Journey from Mt. Whitney to Death Valley
ISBN: 9781647791063
Pub Date: 26 March 2024
Format: Paperback
172 Pages
Following in her father’s footsteps, Withanee Andersen begins the expedition of a lifetime when she and her comrades embark on a trek from Mt. Whitney to Death Valley, tracing the rugged path her...
When You Dare to Say Yes
Jill Derby and Nevada Activism
ISBN: 9781647791407
Pub Date: 27 February 2024
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
In 1973, a radical choice that Jill Derby made while under pressure changed the trajectory of her career from a potential profession in academia to that of a lifelong political activist. When You Dare...
The Land of My Fathers
A Son's Return to the Basque Country
ISBN: 9781647791544
Pub Date: 15 January 2024
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees. The son of Basque emigrants, Laxalt wanted to learn as much as he could about...
Savage West
The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage
ISBN: 9781647790677
Pub Date: 10 January 2022
Format: Paperback
257 Pages
Savage West is a literary biography chronicling the life and novels of neglected Montana novelist, Thomas Savage (1915-2003). It seeks to restore him to a high position in the ranks of western American, let alone Montanan, literature.
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote
ISBN: 9781647790189
Pub Date: 30 November 2021
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Perceptive study of the life of writer and artist Mary Hallock Foote
Helmi's Shadow
A Journey of Survival From Russia to East Asia to the American West
ISBN: 9781647790202
Pub Date: 17 August 2021
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
The sweeping true story of two courageous women—Russian Jewish refugees who survived World War II in China and Japan and their subsequent life as American immigrants
Fragments of a Mortal Mind
A Nonfiction Novel
ISBN: 9781948908788
Pub Date: 6 April 2021
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
We are where we’ve been and what we’ve read, aren’t we? Where else do we get the experience we need to evocatively live? At once a memoir, a reading journal, and a novel, Fragments of a Mortal...
They Met at Wounded Knee
The Eastmans' Story
ISBN: 9781948908726
Pub Date: 14 October 2020
Format: Hardcover
372 Pages
The history of the United States from the Civil War to World War II is the canvas of this double biography of the most famous Native American of his time—physician Charles Ohiyesa Eastman—and the white woman he met at the Wounded Knee Massacre in late 1890 and married, Elaine Goodale. Bonded by love and the trauma they witnessed, this mixed-race couple wrote 22 books, gave speeches, lobbied Congress, and organized Indian communities, investing their lives in changing U.S. policies that progressively reduced the power and resources of Indigenous Americans.
American Commander in Spain
Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
ISBN: 9781948908740
Pub Date: 22 September 2020
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
“An important, inspiring, and riveting story of a brave man furiously fighting in every sense for his ideals, it reveals much about memory and loss.” — Katherine Stafford, The Volunteer
American Commander in Spain is the inspirational and agonizing story of Robert Hale Merriman commanding idealists fighting for democracy against fascism in the Spanish Civil War and his wife who so adored him she joined with him in the war.
American Commander in Spain is the inspirational and agonizing story of Robert Hale Merriman commanding idealists fighting for democracy against fascism in the Spanish Civil War and his wife who so adored him she joined with him in the war.