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The biography of George Allen, one of the greatest and most memorable coaches in NFL history and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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

Another vintage Nurse Keate mystery by Mignon G. Eberhart, "Wolf in Man's Clothing" takes Sarah to a gloomy mansion in the remote Berkshire Hills. She nurses a young man with fatal connections to some poisonous people stuck at the scene--privileged people who are used to getting their way and are unprepared for Sarah.

Fog and sleet make driving hazardous in the Chicago traffic. When Katie Warren momentarily stops her car on Michigan Boulevard, she hears a shrouded voice say, ¿I won¿t eat grape hair, nor yet glocks.¿ The image of grape hair is sinister enough to stick in Katie¿s mind. Steering through bad weather, she eventually reaches Aunt Minäs gloomy mansion¿and then something terrible happens.

Deborah, under suspicion, returns alone to the scene where a gaudy diva was murdered¿to the house on the rooftop of a Chicago apartment building. ¿She reached the roof and emerged at the opening of the parapet wall. Flat, black, and dirty. Chimneys, incinerators, ventilators. The house itself, dark and dingy and passive. Nothing moved. . . . No sound except, away below, the murmur of a passing automobile. . . . Quite suddenly she realized that...

Denise Low recovers the life and times of her grandfather Frank Bruner (1889–1963), whose expression of Lenape identity was largely discouraged by mainstream society.

2018 Alaskana Award from the Alaska Library Association 2018 Alaska Historical Society James H. Drucker Alaska Historian of the Year AwardWalter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America’s tallest mountain. Born in 1893, Walter Harper was the youngest child of Jenny Albert and the legendary gold prospector Arthur Harper. His parents separ...

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.

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.

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.

Bruce F. Pauley highlights his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, to study larger trends that affected daily life during a period of rapid social and technological change between the 1890s and 1920s.

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.

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.

Leo Durocher offers fascinating and fresh insights into the racial integration of baseball, Durocher’s unprecedented suspension from the game, the two clubhouse revolts staged against him in Brooklyn and Chicago, and his vibrant life off the field.

Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, this epic poem is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mark Halfon looks at life in the Major Leagues in the early 1900s, when the game was defined by low scoring and an emphasis on pitching and defense, and when players like Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, and Walter Johnson. For almost two decades, this era produced some of the best players who ever played the game.

Jürgen Buchenau tells the story of the Sonoran dynasty in the Mexican Revolution. Between 1920 and 1934 the governments over which they ruled helped determine how far the revolution would go in implementing a nationalist and anticlerical constitution, and they also created the political blueprint for postrevolutionary Mexico.

Centered around a massive ecological disaster in which eight hundred thousand Algerians died between 1865 and 1872, Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria explores how repeated performance of divisions across an expansive ecosystem produced modern imperialism in nineteenth-century Algeria.