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The Madonnas of the Leningrad
by Debra Dean
7 copies

An Interview with the Author
Book Group Guide
Reading Guide Questions 
The Madonnas of the Leningrad by Debra Dean
Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce
10 copies

#1 in the Circle Open Series
Open Circle Series Wiki Article

Reading level: Young Adult
The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas
9 copies

#1 in the Magic Thief Series
Discussion Questions

Reading level: Ages 8 and up
Mail-Order Kid, An Orphan Train Rider's Story by Marilyn June Coffey
3 copies

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Mail Order Kid by Marilyn June Coffey
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
11 copies

Discussion Questions
Reading Group Guide and Topics for Discussion in the back of each book
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost by Molly Worthen
4 copies

New York Times Book Review
The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost by Molly Worthen
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
4 copies

Discussion Questions 

Newbery Medal winner, 1991
Reading level: Ages 11 and up
Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
by Wilma Mankiller
7 copies
Mankiller by Wilma Mankiller
March by Geraldine Brooks
8 copies / 1 audio CD

Author interview and discussion questions
Pulitzer Prize Winner 2006
Reading Guide Questions
March by Geraldine Brooks
Mariner's Compass by Earlene Fowler Mariner's Compass by Earlene Fowler
13 copies

Earlene Fowler's Website
Amazon.com
Synopsis from the Mystery Reader
Marley and Me by John Grogan
5 copies

Amazon.com
Book Club Discussion Questions
Marley and Me by John Grogan
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
11 copies

Amazon.com
#19 in the Discworld Series
Terry Pratchett Biography
Mayor Helen Boosalis: My Mother's Life in Politics by Beth Boosalis Davis
4 copies

Amazon.com
Video: Beth Boosalis Davis Discusses the Life and Legacy of Her Mother

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U5002 T255 -2008 Mayor Helen Boosalis : my mother's life in politics / Davis, Beth Boosalis
Mayor Helen Boosalis: My Mother's Life in Politics by Beth Boosalis Davis
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
15 copies

Book Review
Geisha Information
Reading Group Guide 
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards
20 copies

Amazon.com
Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions
Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty

The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
23 copies

Amazon.com
Interview with Ron McLarty
Reader's Guide and Questions for Discussion
Mercy Sky by Dawn Dyson
3 copies

Amazon.com
Author Interview

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Mercy Sky by Dawn Dyson 
Mercy Train by Rae Meadows Mercy Train by Rae Meadows
5 copies

Discussion Questions
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
14 copies

Amazon.com
Book Reviews
Reading Group Guide
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community by Mary Pipher The Middle of Everywhere by Mary Pipher
10 copies

Amazon.com
Article by Mary Pipher
Discussion Questions

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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
5 copies

Discussions Questions
James Frey and the Oprah Controversy
 
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Missing May by Cynthiha Rylant Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
8 copies

Literature Guide
Study Guide for Missing May
1992 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
1993 Newbery Medal
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
6 copies

Amazon.com
Discussion Questions
Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
12 copies

Author Interview
Becoming an American: The Chinese Experience
Wikipedia Entry for Gish Jen 
Monda in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
8 copies / 1 audio CD

Reading Guide Questions
Study Guide
Summary and Book Reviews
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
12 copies

General Questions for Fiction
National Book Award Winner
1976 Nobel Prize Winner
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
20 copies

Amazon.com
Discussion Questions (in a compilation)
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
Murder is a Cinch by Patricia A. Bremmer  Murder's a Cinch by Patricia A. Bremmer
3 copies

Amazon.com
Patricia A. Bremmer's Blog

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 My Antonia by Willa Cather
20 copies
 
Big Read Book Club Guide 
My Antonia Book Notes Summary
My Antonia Study Guide & Essays
Reading Group Guide

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U5001 T293 .0002 -1994 My Antonia / Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
 
My Antonia by Willa Cather 
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
10 copies

Discussion Questions

Reading level: Ages 12 and up
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
My Own Country by Abraham Verghese My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
12 copies

Discussion Questions from Litlovers
Discussion Questions from Reading Group Guide
TED Video: Abraham Verghese A Doctor's Touch
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
9 copies

Discussion Questions

Reading level: Ages 8 and up
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
22 copies

Discussion Questions
Wikipedia entry
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society
by Trenton Lee Stewart
7 copies

Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions

Reading level: Ages 8 and up
Series: The Mysterious Benedict Society (Book 1)
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
12 copies

Discussion Questions
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart
8 copies / 1 audio CD

Author's website
Conversation with the Author
Discussion Questions
Reading Group Guide
The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart
A Name of Her Own by Jane Kirkpatrick
2 copies

#1 in the Tender Ties Historical Series
Discussion Questions
A Name of Her Own by Jane Kirkpatrick
The Names: A Memoir by N. Scott Momaday
9 copies

Navarre Scott Momaday is a Native American author of Kiowa descent. His work House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969.
The Names by N. Scott Momaday
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
11 copies

Discussion Questions
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
A Necessary Evil by Alex Kava A Necessary Evil by Alex Kava
3 copies

#5 in the Maggie O'Dell Series
Reviews and Press about Alex Kava
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A Never Event: Exposing the Largest Outbreak of Hepatitis C in American Healthcare History by Evelyn V. McKnight and Travis T. Bennington
4 copies
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A Never Event by Evelyn V. McKnight
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
by Eckhart Tolle
8 copies

Oprah Book Club Information
Reading Group Guide
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
Night by Elie Wiesel Night by Elie Wiesel
2 copies

Discussions Questions
Oprah's Book Club Information
Study Questions
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
8 copies

Amazon.com
Discussion Guide
Discussion Questions
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
4 copies

Discussion Questions
No-No Boy by John Okada No-No Boy by John Okada
12 copies

Discussion Questions
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
16 copies

#1 in the Ladies Detective Series
Book Reviews
Reading Group Guide
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands by John Price Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands
by John Price
3 copies
 
Amazon.com
What the Critics Say about John Price

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U5001 T991 -2004 Not just any land : a personal and literary journey into the American grasslands / Price, John, 1966-
The Notorious Dr. Flippin
by Jamie Q. Tallman
4 copies

Generic Questions for Non-Fiction
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The Notorious Dr. Flippin by Jamie Q. Tallman
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
50 copies

Celebrating 100 Years of O Pioneers!
Discussion Questions
One Book One Nebraska 2013
Summaries and Analysis
Willa Cather Foundation


Download this book from Project Gutenberg
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U5001 T293 .0001 -1992 O pioneers! / Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Old Jules by Mari Sandoz Old Jules by Mari Sandoz
12 copies

General questions for fiction

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Once Upon a Chariot by Iris Paris
3 copies

Amazon.com
Photos, Video, Audio, Documentss
 
Once Upon a Chariot by Iris Paris
One False Move by Alex Kava

One False Move by Alex Kava
22 copies

Book Review
Discussion Questions for this Book
One Book. One Nebraska 2006

This book group kit was provided due to the generosity of Alex Kava through the One Book One Nebraska 2006 project.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3 copies

Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
Oprah's Book Club Information
Reading Group Guide

Open House by Elizabeth Berg Open House by Elizabeth Berg
3 copies

Discussion Questions
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
15 copies

Amazon.com
Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Ordinary Genius by Thomas Fox Averill. Ordinary Genius by Thomas Fox Averill
10 copies

Book Review
Donated by the University of Nebraska Press and the Nebraska Library Commission in support of the Great Books of the Great Plains project of the Plains Humanities Alliance

U5002 T043 .0001 -2004 Ordinary genius / Averill, Thomas Fox, 1949-
 
Our Father Who Art in a Tree
by Judy Pascoe
10 copies

Discussion Questions

Winner of the Young Minds Book Award  Discover Great New Writers 2003

Adult/High School
Our Father Who Art in a Tree by Judy Pascoe
Out of Egypt by Andre Aciman Out of Egypt: a Memoir by Andre Aciman
13 copies

1995 Whiting Writer's Award Winner
Generic Questions for Non-Fiction
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
4 copies

Reading Group Guide in the back of the book
Coretta Scott King Award winner

Reading level: Ages 10 and up
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
10 copies


Discussion Questions
Discussion questions at the end of the book

Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Outside the Ordinary World by by Dori Ostermiller Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller
7 copies

Amazon.com
Reader's Group Guide
Paper Trail by Barbara Snow Gilbert
11 copies

Reading level: Ages 11 and up
Paper Trail by Barbara Snow Gilbert
Peace Breaks Out by John Knowles
7 copies

Amazon.com 
Peace Breaks Out by John Knowles
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
27 copies / 6 audio (3 CD/3 cassettes)

Alex Award 2002
LA Times Best Book of the Year 2002
One Book, One Lincoln 2004
Reading Group Guide
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
29 copies / 4 audio CDs

One Book, One Lincoln 2009
Reader's Guide
The Sarajevo Haggadah
A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava
2 copies

#1 in the Maggie O'Dell Series
Amazon.com
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A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava
Petticoat Ranch by Mary Connealy Petticoat Ranch by Mary Connealy
3 copies

#1 in the Lassoed in Texas Series
International Readers Choice Contest Finalist Long Historical Fiction
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The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters
by Timothy Schaffert
2 copies

Review from Bookreporter.com
What the Critics Say About Timothy Schaffert
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The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters by Timothy Schaffert
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
10 copies

Discussion Questions
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
9 copies

Oprah's Book Club Information
Reading Group Guide

Plain Heathen Mischief by Martin Clark
12 copies

Amazon.com
Mostly Fiction Book Reviews
Plain Heathen Mischief by Martin Clark
Plain Sense of Things by Pamela Carter Joern  Plain Sense of Things by Pamela Carter Joern
3 copies

Amazon.com
Book Club Study Guide
University of Nebraska Press Reviews
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U5002 T043 .0009 -2008 The plain sense of things / Joern, Pamela Carter, 1948-.
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
3 copies

Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions
 Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
23 copies / 11 audio (1 CD/10 cassette)

Conversation with Kent and Excerpt
One Book, One Lincoln 2002
National Book Award Finalist
Reading Group Guide
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Plainsong by Kent Haruf
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3 copies

Discussion Questions
The Post Birthday-World by Lionel Shriver
6 copies

Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions
The Post-birthday World by Lionel Shriver
Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
12 copies

#5 in the Tommy & Tuppence Beresford Mysteries
Amazon.com
Wikipedia Entry for Postern of Fate
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
10 copies

Discussion Questions
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
by Terry Ryan
13 copies

Amazon.com
Discussion Questions
Wikipedia Entry for the movie
Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
8 copies / 1 book on CD

Book Review
Interview with Barbara Kingsolver
Reading Group Guide
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

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