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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 30, 2020
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Tessa Terry
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800-307-2665
Shortlist for 2021 One Book One
Nebraska Announced
What book will all Nebraskans be encouraged to read in 2021? We will all
find out on October 23rd. A Nebraska biography, Midwest nonfiction, a book
of essays —all stories with ties to Nebraska and the Great Plains—are the
finalists for the 2021 One Book One Nebraska statewide reading program. The
finalists are:
- The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays by Lisa Knopp,
Bison Books (2004)
- Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha
Star Newspaper, 1938-1989 by Amy Helene Forss, University of
Nebraska Press (2014)
- The Loren Eiseley Reader by Loren Eiseley, The Loren
Eiseley Society (2009)
- Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap
Metal Drive of World War II by James J. Kimble, Bison Books (2014)
The One Book One Nebraska reading program, now in its sixteenth year, is
sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Humanities Nebraska, and
Nebraska Library Commission. It encourages Nebraskans across the state to
read and discuss the same book, chosen from books written by Nebraska
authors or that have a Nebraska theme or setting. A Nebraska Center for the
Book committee selected the four finalists from a list of twenty-four titles
nominated by Nebraskans. In the coming weeks, Nebraska Center for the Book
board members will vote on the 2021 selection.
Nebraskans are invited to take part in the virtual Celebration of
Nebraska Books during the week of October 19th-23rd, where the
choice for the 2021 One Book One Nebraska will be announced at noon on the
final day. This year’s One Book One Nebraska selection, All the Gallant
Men (William Morrow, 2016) by Donald Stratton with Ken Gire will be
featured in a keynote presentation by the Nebraska Center for the Book Board
Member Rebecca Faber. See
http://onebook.nebraska.gov or
https://www.facebook.com/OneBookOneNebraska for more information about
ongoing 2020 One Book One Nebraska activities.
The week-long virtual Celebration of Nebraska Books will include acceptance
messages and readings by the winners of the 2020 Nebraska Book
Awards emceed by Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason. A list of Nebraska
Book Award winners is posted at
http://centerforthebook.nebraska.gov/awards.html. The Celebration of
Nebraska Books is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book and Nebraska
Library Commission with support from History Nebraska’s Nebraska History
Museum. Humanities Nebraska provides support for the One Book One Nebraska
keynote presentation.
The Nebraska Center for the Book is housed at the Nebraska Library
Commission and brings together the state’s readers, writers, booksellers,
librarians, publishers, printers, educators, and scholars to build the
community of the book, supporting programs to celebrate and stimulate public
interest in books, reading, and the written word. The Nebraska Center for
the Book is supported by the national Center for the Book in the Library of
Congress and the Nebraska Library Commission.
As the state library agency, the Nebraska Library Commission is an advocate
for the library and information needs of all Nebraskans. The mission of the
Library Commission is statewide promotion, development, and coordination of
library and information services, “bringing together people and
information.”
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