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Books We Love – Week One
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Here at the University Press, we love books, and to celebrate Library Lover’s month, we’ll be posting some of our all-time favorite novels and stories. Here are just a few to start us off: 1984 Author: George Orwell Genre: Dystopian, political fiction, social science fiction Written in 1948, George Orwell’s…
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“Turn Back Before Baghdad” Cover Reveal!
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The long-awaited, new edition of Laurence Jolidon’s novel, Turn Back Before Baghdad, will be launching on April 8, 2017. To tie you over until then, here’s the beautiful cover of this highly anticipated wartime novel.
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Upcoming Release: Turn Back Before Baghdad!
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Turn Back Before Baghdad travels back in time to a quarter century ago to the morning of January 12, 1991. There was a scramble by the news outlets to reach their Eastern Saudi Arabia stationed reporters, because it happened, war was inevitably coming, and Saddam Hussein was refusing to surrender…
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Celebrating Chinese Authors!
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With the start of the Chinese New Year, we at the Press are focusing a few notable Chinese and Chinese-American authors, their accomplishments, and their contributions to the literary world. Maxine Hong Kingston Born and raised in Stockton, California, Kingston is a first-generation Chinese-American writer who has written critically-acclaimed…
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The Forgotten American Who Went: Arthur Guy Empey
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Many are familiar with war-themed novels like The Red Badge of Courage (1895) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), but few have ever heard of Over the Top by Arthur Guy Empey. Arthur Guy Empey and his first book Over the Top (1917) redefined war literature. Over the…
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Happy Birthday, Robert Burns!
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Robert Burns (1759-1796) was a man known by many names, including, but not limited to, Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, and the Ploughman Poet. He was a poet by trade, though his word’s effects were not bound to the literary community. Burns was regarded as the National Poet of…