Skip to content
University of Nevada Press
  • University of Nevada Press
  • Home
  • Books
    • Column
      • Authors
      • Series
      • Subjects
      • Imprints
      • Exam copies
  • Catalog
  • Support
  • Events
  • About the Press
    • Column
      • Prospective Authors
        • Submit a Proposal
        • Manuscript Formatting Guide
        • Permissions Guide
    • Column
      • News
      • Review copy requests

Books

    Authors

      On The Site

        FICTION

        Showing results 1-10 of 89

        • Books
        • Site Content
        Filter Results OPEN +
        Searching...
        ‹12345›
        Cómo Salir con un Mexicano Volador

        Cómo Salir con un Mexicano Volador

        Relatos Nuevos y Escogidos

        by Daniel A. Olivas

        ISBN: 9781647790806

        Pub Date: 22 May 2023

        Format: Paperback

        224 Pages

        During the pandemic and in the wake of his father’s death, Daniel A. Olivas reviewed almost 25 years’ worth of his short stories and chose his favorites. The result is How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories. This collection brings together some of his most unforgettable strange tales that will be enjoyed, again, by his fans, and introduce new readers to Olivas’s distinct—and very Chicano—short stories.
         
        Fire Scars

        Fire Scars

        A Novel

        by John B. Wright

        ISBN: 9781647790967

        Pub Date: 9 May 2023

        Format: Paperback

        260 Pages

        In John B. Wright’s debut environmental mystery, Matt Solberg is charged with discovering who is lighting fires in the forests that surround Missoula, Montana. A geographer with a deep personal...
        McKenzie Rising

        McKenzie Rising

        An American Frolic

        by Miles Wilson

        ISBN: 9781647790639

        Pub Date: 18 October 2022

        Format: Paperback

        244 Pages

        A cultural satire, McKenzie Rising follows the MegaMax Corporation’s venture to turn the upper McKenzie Valley into an upscale development, the Estates at Rancho Rio. Having already bought out the regional state university, MegaMax is poised to complete its acquisition of the upper McKenzie, and its efforts are overseen by Marta Juggernaut, Wharton School MBA graduate and project manager at Rancho Rio, and by Mark Neighbors, Northwest Acquisitor for MegaMax.

        Their work is countered by a Dickensian ensemble of characters, many of whom are chronically sidetracked from the heroic community purpose by various amatory diversions. Given that the protesters include such locals as D.B. Cooper (the long-vanished airplane hijacker) and Sasquatch, in all his odoriferous glory, the reader is in for a rollicking but powerfully thought-provoking journey.

        A lusty, environmental picaresque, McKenzie Rising satirizes our shortfalls, while celebrating our resilience and the triumph of community....

        Skins

        Skins

        A Novel

        by Adrian C. Louis

        Foreword by David Pichaske

        ISBN: 9781647790226

        Pub Date: 11 October 2022

        Format: Paperback

        284 Pages

        Skins is Adrian C. Louis's realistic novel of life on Pine Ridge Reservation, the story of two brothers—one a rez cop, the other an alcoholic—and their relationship with each other, with their people, with their environment. 
        Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces

        Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces

        A Novel

        by Maceo Montoya

        ISBN: 9781647790752

        Pub Date: 27 September 2022

        Format: Paperback

        308 Pages

        Selected as one of the San Francisco Chronicles' 15 best books of 2021 From critically acclaimed author Maceo Montoya comes an inventive and adventurous satirical novel about...
        Out of Patients

        Out of Patients

        A Novel

        by Sandra Cavallo Miller

        ISBN: 9781647790592

        Pub Date: 16 August 2022

        Format: Paperback

        256 Pages

        After practicing medicine for more than thirty years, Dr. Norah Waters struggles with career burnout as she hunts for the lost fulfillment in her work. Supported by her steadfast dog, a misfit veterinarian, and a pensive radiologist, she wrestles her way through a surprising assortment of obstacles, sometimes amusing and sometimes dreadful, to make a final decision about her future.
        How to Date a Flying Mexican

        How to Date a Flying Mexican

        New and Collected Stories

        by Daniel A. Olivas

        ISBN: 9781647790363

        Pub Date: 22 February 2022

        Format: Paperback

        224 Pages

        During the pandemic and in the wake of his father’s death, Daniel A. Olivas reviewed almost 25 years’ worth of his short stories and chose his favorites. The result is How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories. This collection brings together some of his most unforgettable strange tales that will be enjoyed, again, by his fans, and introduce new readers to Olivas’s distinct—and very Chicano—short stories.
         
        Three Wives’ Tales

        Three Wives' Tales

        A Novel

        by Dale Erquiaga

        ISBN: 9781949805598

        Pub Date: 9 December 2021

        Format: Paperback

        240 Pages

        In 1950, a simple wedding toast highlights the bringing together of two Basque families, culminating and combining their immigrant stories and launching a new American tale. Three Wives' Tales provides a glimpse into the lives of Victoria, Eladia, and Annie, three formidable women who served as the backbone of their families in the American West. Victoria leaves her tiny village in Bizkaia to seek work and struggles to overcome her superstitions and Old Country ways. Eladia, cut off from her family for marrying a man beneath her social class, hesitates to embrace her new Nevada home. Optimistic Annie, whose marriage brings the two families together, does her best to fulfill the promise of American opportunity. Woven together as a work of historical fiction, the memoirs and family lore of these three Nevada women capture a journey of self-discovery filled with wisdom and strength that other Basque and immigrant families will recognize. Three...
        Performance Art

        Performance Art

        Stories

        by David Kranes

        ISBN: 9781647790141

        Pub Date: 5 October 2021

        Format: Paperback

        192 Pages

        A show-stopping collection exploring the way we look at celebrity and how celebrities look at themselves
        Where No One Should Live

        Where No One Should Live

        A Novel

        by Sandra Cavallo Miller

        ISBN: 9781647790165

        Pub Date: 21 September 2021

        Format: Hardcover

        264 Pages

        Public health physician Dr. Maya Summer faces a myriad of medical challenges as she comes to grips with her uneasy past. Helped by faculty physician Alex Reddish, who withstands his own identity trials, she uncovers the grave truth behind a series of illnesses as she and Reddish draw close to one another.
        ‹12345›

        Connect

        © 2023 University of Nevada Press. All Rights Reserved.

        Powered by Supadu