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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.