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Aligning the Glacier's Ghost
Essays on Solitude and Landscape
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ISBN: 9780826365934
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Rooted in Western Montana, the essays of Aligning the Glacier's Ghost navigate how sense of place intertwines with sense of self, filling geographical and personal in-betweens of identity and illness,...
Disequilibria
Meditations on Missingness
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ISBN: 9780826364678
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction PrizeDisequilibria: Meditations on Missingness is a hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author's stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a...
What Cannot Be Undone
True Stories of a Life in Medicine
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ISBN: 9780826363718
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics.
The Rock Cycle
Essays
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780826362438
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
In this collection of essays, Kevin Honold explores themes of history and its fading significance in modern American life.
Try to Get Lost
Essays on Travel and Place
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780826361370
Pub Date: February 2020
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
"Try to Get Lost is a bold, engaging disquisition on the perils and promises of travel: both cranky and wise, worldly and cultivated, humorous and rueful, its every sentence sparkles. All in all, it is thoroughly entertaining, a sophisticated pleasure."--Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother's Tale
I Am a Stranger Here Myself
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780826360717
Pub Date: March 2019
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West.
MINE
Essays
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780826359544
Pub Date: March 2018
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Mining her own life and those of others, Sarah Viren considers the contingencies of ownership alongside the realities of loss in this debut essay collection.
Young Widower
A Memoir
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780803249523
Pub Date: March 2014
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
John W. Evans was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in the Peace Corps in Bangladesh, taught in Chicago, studied in Miami, and were working for a year in Romania when...
Where the Trail Grows Faint
A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780803224513
Pub Date: July 2009
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
“This is Hannah,” Lynne Hugo introduces her chocolate Labrador retriever to an aged woman in a wheelchair at the Golden View Nursing Home. “Would you like to pat her?” “I don’t know,”...
So Far, So Good
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ISBN: 9780803245921
Pub Date: April 2013
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Bullet-shattered glass clatters onto his baby bed; he wakes and cries out into darkness. Does he remember this? Or remember being told? Regardless, he feels it, and will feel it again, bomb bay wind...
Mountains of Light
Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite
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ISBN: 9780803240179
Pub Date: March 2012
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
The environment may surround us, but when that environment is a natural wonder like Yosemite National Park, it also reaches what’s inside us. For Mark Liebenow, Yosemite did just that, and did so...
A Double Life
Discovering Motherhood
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780803235083
Pub Date: March 2011
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
There is no denying it: motherhood splits a woman’s life forever, into a before and an after. To this doubled life Lisa Catherine Harper brings a wealth of feeling and a wry sense of humor, a will...
The Enders Hotel
A Memoir
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780803217690
Pub Date: May 2008
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
In the center of the rural boomtown of Soda Springs, Idaho, stands the historic Enders Hotel, Café, and Bar, a three-story brick building that has been many things to many people. But to one family...
The Girls in My Town
Essays
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780826356628
Pub Date: April 2016
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Girls in My Town creates an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother's childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates moments of loss and longing, truth and beauty, motherhood and daughterhood.
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus
A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780803217126
Pub Date: April 2010
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement’s lesser-known stories. In January 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other...
An Inside Passage
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CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803232143
Pub Date: May 2009
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Although finding a way to feel at home in the world is ultimately the life’s work of us all, rarely has the search ranged as far or found as precise and moving an expression as it does in An Inside...
Aligning the Glacier's Ghost
Essays on Solitude and Landscape
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780826365934
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Disequilibria
Meditations on Missingness
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780826364678
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
What Cannot Be Undone
True Stories of a Life in Medicine
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780826363718
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
The Rock Cycle
Essays
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780826362438
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Try to Get Lost
Essays on Travel and Place
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780826361370
Pub Date: February 2020
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
I Am a Stranger Here Myself
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780826360717
Pub Date: March 2019
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
MINE
Essays
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780826359544
Pub Date: March 2018
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Young Widower
A Memoir
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780803249523
Pub Date: March 2014
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Where the Trail Grows Faint
A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780803224513
Pub Date: July 2009
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
So Far, So Good
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780803245921
Pub Date: April 2013
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Mountains of Light
Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780803240179
Pub Date: March 2012
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
A Double Life
Discovering Motherhood
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780803235083
Pub Date: March 2011
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
The Enders Hotel
A Memoir
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780803217690
Pub Date: May 2008
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
The Girls in My Town
Essays
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780826356628
Pub Date: April 2016
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus
A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780803217126
Pub Date: April 2010
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
An Inside Passage
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803232143
Pub Date: May 2009
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press