Top 25 Books from Public University Presses for the Month of March

#1 (#1)
A Single Man
Isherwood, Christopher
Univ of Minnesota Pr

A "frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife"; the author's favorite of his own novels.

#2 (#4)
Travelin' Man / On the Road and Behind the Scenes With Bob Seger
Weschler, Tom/ Graff, Gary/ Mellencamp, John (FRW)/ Kid Rock (AFT)
Wayne State Univ Pr

Photographs & stories of of Seger’s hard-gigging, heavy-traveling, reputation-making early days.

#3 (#2)
Black Elk Speaks / Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, the Premier Edition
Neihardt, John G.
State Univ of New York Pr

The famous life story of the Lakota healer and visionary, Nicholas Black Elk.

#4 (#3)
Pathologies of Power / Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Farmer, Paul/ Sen, Martha (FRW)
Univ of California Pr

Harrowing stories of life— and death— in extreme situations interrogates our understanding of human rights.

#5 (--)
The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies
Comentale, Edward P. (EDT)/ Jaffe, Aaron (EDT)
Indiana Univ Pr

Pioneering studies of the Coen brothers’ cult classic

#6 (#22)
Creating Moments of Joy for the Person with Alzheimer's or Dementia
Brackey, Jolene
Purdue Univ Pr

Focusing beyond the challenges of Alzheimer's disease to create moments of joy.

#7 (--)
U. S. Grant / American Hero, American Myth
Waugh, Joan
Univ of North Carolina Pr

Examines Grant's shifting national and international reputation, illuminating his role in American history.

#8 (#15)
Armageddon in Stalingrad / September-November 1942
Glantz, David M./ House, Jonathan M.
Univ Pr of Kansas

An iconic military campaign of the Eastern Front and Hitler’s first great strategic defeat.

#9 (#5)
Heaven Is a Playground
Telander, Rick
Univ of Nebraska Pr

One of Sports Illustrated's "Top 100 Sports Books of All Time."

#10 (#11)
Death in a Prairie House / Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders
Drennan, William R.
Univ of Wisconsin Pr

The brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin.

#11 (--)
Old South Baton Rouge / The Roots of Hope
Petra Munro Hendry and Jay Edwards
University of Lousiana at Lafayette Press

Documents the history, architecture, and community of one of Baton Rouge’s oldest neighborhoods.

#12 (--)
Galapagos / A Natural History
Jackson, Michael H.
Michigan State Univ Pr

The natural history of the plants and animals found in the Galapagos Islands.

#13 (#7)
Outside the Limelight / Basketball in the Ivy League
Orton, Kathy/ Feinstein, John (FRW)
Rutgers Univ Pr

The first book to look inside Ivy League basketball and at the boundless enthusiasm that defines it.

#14 (#12)
Lost Plantations of the South
Matrana, Marc R.
Univ Pr of Mississippi

An illustrated history of the grand plantation homes lost to war, disaster, and neglect.

#15 (#8)
Pedaling Revolution / How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities
Mapes, Jeff
Univ of Arizona Pr

The growing bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities, suburbs, and small towns across North America.

#16 (#13)
Isadore's Secret / Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town
Link, Mardi
Univ of Michigan Pr

A young nun disappears and turns up buried in the basement of the church.

#17 (--)
Barrelhouse Words / A Blues Dialect Dictionary
Calt, Stephen
Univ of Illinois Pr

An exhaustive, engrossing lexicon of blues idioms

#18 (--)
Pittsburgh / A New Portrait
Toker, Franklin
Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

A former rustbelt city is now routinely acclaimed as one of the most promising and livable of America's cities.

#19 (#18)
The Sheriff of Ramadi / Navy Seals and the Winning of al-Anbar
Couch, Dick
Naval Inst Pr

The SEALs' ability to adapt and evolve in an urban battle space and their code of brotherhood were key to their success.

#20 (--)
Camping and Woodcraft / A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness
Kephart, Horace
Univ of Tennessee Pr

A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness

#21 (--)
The Blue Tattoo / The Life of Olive Oatman
Mifflin, Margot
Univ of Nebraska Pr

The harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America

#22 (--)
We Were Merchants / The Sternberg Family and the Story of Goudchaux's and Maison Blanche Department Stores
Sternberg, Hans J./ Shelledy, James E.
Louisiana State Univ Pr

How refugees from Nazi Germany founded a Louisiana retail icon.

#23 (--)
I Walked With Giants / The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath
Heath, Jimmy/ McLaren, Joseph
Temple Univ Pr

Some of the history of jazz from an eyewitness

#24 (#6)
Crow Killer / The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
Thorp, Raymond W./ Bunker, Robert
Indiana Univ Pr

One of the most gripping feuds-- one man against a whole tribe-- in American history.

#25 (--)
A Southern Sportsman / The Hunting Memoirs of Henry Edwards Davis
Davis, Henry Edwards/ Moise, Ben M. (EDT)/ Casada, Jim (FRW)
Univ of South Carolina Pr

Tales of pursuing turkeys, deer, ducks, and partridges through the fields, forests, and swamps of South Carolina