Special Interest

A powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands

Recipes from Willa Cather's work, her family and friends, and the Willa Cather Foundation

A practical guide to artfully reviving diversity and wildness in our communities

Five years of documenting this magnificent migratory bird with over 150 photographs from the author

Epic novel that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West

Nebraskan Jeri Shute recounts tales from a bygone era.

"My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself."

Women's films and filmgoing in the 1910s

In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader.

A comprehensive look at American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight. 

A delightful delve into the geography, location, and terrain of our best-loved literary works