NEBRASKA Authors

Featured books by Nebraska alumni, faculty and staff

The Big City Dance

By Valerie Doherty (’74)

Moe Doodle is a country mouse who decides to move to the Big City in search of excitement and adventure. Although he nds plenty of fun, he soon realizes he is homesick and missing his friends. Told in bouncing rhyme and rhythm with incorporated dance movements for young listeners and readers.

Available at Amazon

Beyond Ragnarok

By Tore Olav Arnesen (’74)

At the end of the Cold War, Jens, a researcher in Norway, makes a stunning breakthrough resulting in a reimagined understanding of the intelligence of dolphins. To protect dolphins under threat from this new knowledge, Jens goes on a suspenseful adventure.

Available at Amazon and arnesen.us

The Principal’s QuickReference Guide to School Law

By Robert F. Hachiya (’80)

Provides the go-to help principals need to increase their knowledge of education law in this time of change. Leaders can access tools to help them make better decisions when educational law-related issues impact their schools. Available at Amazon and corwin.com

Data + Journalism: A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting

By Mike Reilley (’89) and Samantha Sunne

Taking a hands-on and holistic approach to data, this offers insights into data journalism from a global perspective, including datasets, exercises, training videos and interviews with data journalists from around the world. Featuring the work of UNL alumni Lise Olsen and Andy Boyle. Available at routledge.com

At War with Mars

By Jim Fuxa (’71)

A Gold Medal winner for Best Historical Fiction (Next Generation Indie Book Awards), this is a whirlwind tale of love, loss, struggle, and war set in 17th Century Europe. A novel that melds astrology, astronomy, witchcraft, and so much more.

Available at Amazon and Apple Books

The GermanRussians in Words and Pictures

By William Bosch (’70)

A brief history of the German-Russian people from the time of Catherine the Great to the 1900s and their migrations to the Americas. Over 100 pictures of villages in Ukraine, Crimea, and the Volga River area as well as of the early Dakotas. The author has also written a historical novel “The Land Seekers.”

Available at Amazon

MYSTERY PHOTO

Were you at this 1974 tug of war on East Campus?

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ITEMIZED

Cara Pesek (’03) has kept these box cutters since college.

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ROCK N’ ROLL

Whatever happened to downtown’s Rock n’ Roll Runza?

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LOVE STORY

It all started when she threw a hot dog at him.