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Giveaways from the Nebraska Library Commission

A variety of books and videos are available to those visiting the Library Commission. Any Nebraska library is welcome to these books, including those titles listed below.

Books are available for free if picked up at the Library Commission, or they can be mailed to your library for a suggested donation of $3.00 per paperback or $4.00 per hardcover.

For more information or to reserve available titles, contact the Information Services Team

Some currently available nonfiction titles: (Looking for fiction, children's books, poetry, or library science?)

Title	Author	Format	Copies
27 - Two Tales of Perfection This is a story of championships, individual triumphs, and tragedies that characterizedthe 1958 and 1983 Clatonia Cardinals basketball teams.	by Gene Steinmeyer	Paperback	3
1968: a Year of War and Uncertainty Reflecting on a pivotal year in history with the Hlavaceks' reports filed from Vietnam and elsewhere.	by John Hlavacek and Pegge Parker Hlavacek	Paperback	1
Advocacy to Zealousness: Learning Lawyering Skills from Classic Films Includes 26 skills, listed in alphabetical order and appearing in separate chapters, which should ideally be in every lawyer s toolbox.	by Kelly Lynn Anders	Paperback	2
Babblings of a Burned Out Teacher A Nebraska teacher looks back at his career and the state of education.	by C.T. Wilke	Paperback	3
Being You, Changing the World What if you, being you, can change everything-your life, relationships, body, money situation. . .and the world?	by Dain Heer	Paperback	1
Bicycling beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so often done in this country: he headed west.	by Daryl Farmer	Hardcover	1
Bound To Have Blood: Frontier Newspapers and the Plains Indian Wars Takes readers back to the late nineteenth century to show how newspaper reporting influenced attitudes about the conflict between the United States and Native Americans.	by Hugh J. Reilly	Paperback	1
The Boys of Bloomfield: How They Survived the Great Depression and Won World War II This book is the culmination of eight years of work chronicling the life of the author's grandfather, his mother's family and his home town.	by Ramon D. Hansen	Paperback	2
A Brave Soldier and Honest Gentleman Lt. James E. H. Foster in the West, 1873-1881.	by Thomas R. Buecker	Hardcover	2
Broken Hoops and Plains People A catalogue of ethnic resources in the humanities: Nebraska and therabouts	by Galen Buller, et al	Paperback	1
Business As Usual: Nebraska Cornhuskers 1994 National Football Championship Details and photos of the 1995 football season.	by Lincoln Journal Star staff	Paperback	1
The Call of the Land An Agarian Primer for the 21st Century.	by Steven McFadden	Paperback	3
Cambridge Biographical Dictionary "A superb account of human history's important figures - past and present."	edited by Magnus Magnusson	Hardcover	1
Chad's Triumph: the Chad Green Story Portrays the epic saga of a mother's journey to help her son defeat leukemia, the courts, and the media.	by Diana Meyer	Paperback	2
Convenient Action Gujarat's Response to Challenges of Climate Change.	by Narendra Modi	Paperback	1
The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School "Marco Abel's invaluable new book sharpens our focus on the energies and incentives that have produced the remarkable films of the Berlin School." - Eric Rentschler, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University	by Marco Abel	Hardcover	3
Crazy Horse: the Strange Man of the Oglalas A powerful evocation of the long-ago world and enduring spirit of Crazy Horse. A 2007 One Book, One Nebraska selection.	by Mari Sandoz	Paperback	10
Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains "While Deep Map Country offers an important contribution to the growing body of work focused on the literature of the Great Plains, it also provides a kind of template for future ecocritical explorations of other deeply mapped bioregions."—Matthew Cella, Cultural Geographies	by Susan Naramore Maher	Hardcover	3
Diane's Blessings The story of an ordinary Catholic with a gift for compassion who is on an extraordinary pilgrimage to heaven.	by Jim Sizemore	Paperback	3
A Dictionary of Dates An informative and entertaining listing of important anniversaries for each day of the year.	by Cyril Leslie Beeching	Paperback	1
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History An in-depth coverage of the major historical figures and events of this century.	by Jan Palmowski	Paperback	1
Doorway to Freedom: The Story of David Kaufmann Based on meticulous research and many interviews with the survivors of the families who “Uncle David” saved from the Holocaust.	by William Ramsey and Betty Dineen Shrier	Paperback	2
The Eleventh Hour Can't Last Forever "Two tons of silver and gold coins, hundreds of thousands of nickels, dimes, quarters, and gold pieces. They were under our beds, in the kitchen cupboards, up in the attics, in the bottom of dresser drawers, in holes in the ground."	by Alison Johnson	Paperback	1
Entrepreneurs of Hastings Short sketches of some Nebraska risktakers.	by Jerri Reher Haussler	Paperback	1
Family Medical History: Unknown/Adopted A heart-warming story of personal, medical, genealogical, and emotional discovery.	by Nancy Kacirek Feldman and Rebecca Crofoot	Paperback	1
Focus On Them Leading the Mindset Revolution for coaches, educators, and business leaders.	by Dave Gosselin	Paperback	3
Forever Red More confessions of a Cornhusker fan.	by Steve Smith	Hardcover	1
The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price.	by Sharon Wood	Paperback	2
A Generation Removed: the Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World Examines how government authorities in the post–World War II era removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families.	by Margaret D. Jacobs	Hardcover	1
Gold Stars and Purple Hearts: The Way Dead of the Ravenna, Nebraska Area A compilation of biographies of the young men from a little town in south-central Nebraska and immediate surrounding area who died while serving their country.	by Valerie Lee Vierk	Paperback	2
Growing Up On Prairie Farms A rough and tumble childhood.	by Phyllis Pahl Mitchell	Paperback	4
Gratitude at Work How to say thank you, give kudos, and get the best from those you lead.	by April Kelly	Paperback	5
Her Art/Her Self Profiles of 56 women who make art matter.	by Suzanne Smith Arney	Paperback	3
Honey, I Smell Flowers A true story and facts about traumatic brain injury.	by Ruth Ann Bartels	Paperback	2
How Not to Be My Patient: A Physician's Secrets for Staying Healthy and Surviving Any Diagnosis Dr. Edward Creagan has been treating very sick patients for more than 35 years.	by Edward T. Creagan	Paperback	1
Huskers on the Hardwood 100 Years of University of Nebraska Basketball.	by Mike Babcock	Paperback	2
In the House of I Am: a Memoir After twelve years as a Catholic sister and within a few months after she meets a young priest named Raymond, Mary leaves the convent and learns a surprising truth about belonging to the House of I Am.	by Mary Avidano	Paperback	2
Inklings: a memoir Honest...Koterba renders scenes of family dysfunction with an artist's feel for nuance and detail." - Publisher's Weekly	by Jeffrey Koterba	Paperback	2
KRVN The First 50 Years of Service to Agriculture A History of the Best Farm Station in the Nation, KRVN, the Rural Voice of Nebraska.	by Max Brown and Eric Brown	Paperback	2
The Last American Highway A journey through time down U.S. Route 83.	by Stew Magnuson	Paperback	3
The Last Days of the Rainbelt The sobering tale of the rapid rise and decline of the settlement of the western Great Plains.	by David J. Wishart	Hardcover	2
Law at Little Big Horn Due process denied.	by Charles E. Wright.	Hardcover	1
Legacy of Love The true story of a family who moved to Nebraska in a covered wagon. Along the way they were robbed, nearly died of dehydration and hounded by rattle snakes, wild animals and all sorts of difficulties.	by Edyth Spriggs	Paperback	1
Letters From Lee One man's story of Vietnam.	by LaRayne M. Topp, as told by Lee Heckman	Paperback	2
A Lincoln Dialogue Cross-examines Lincoln’s major statements, papers, and initiatives in light of the comments and criticism of his supporters and detractors.	by James A. Rawley	Hardcover	3
Lonesome Dreamer Offering insight into both his personal and his literary life, this biography reaffirms Neihardt’s place in American literary history, his successes and failures, and his unbreakable spirit.	by Timothy Anderson	Hardcover	3
Looking Up at the Bottom Line The struggle for the living wage.	by Richard Troxell	Paperback	1
The Loren Eiseley Reader A collection of esseys intended to introduce the writings of the Nebraska naturalist and phlospher.	by Loren Eiseley	Hardcover	12
Magnitude Releasing the power of your leadership presence.	by Boyd Ober	Paperback	3
The Mayor: How I Turned Around Los Angeles after Riots, an Earthquake and the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial Riordan, a non-ideological Republican who was pro-choice, pro-gay rights, and pro-immigration, was elected to office in the aftermath of the infamous Rodney King beating and subsequent 1992 L.A. Riots.	by Richard J. Riordan	Hardcover	1
The Missouri River Ecosystem Exploring the prospects for recovery..	by National Research Council	Paperback	1
Modified Flight Plan In April of 2009, Brian leaves his job at Duncan Aviation, where he is an aviation mechanic, to go home with what he thinks is the flu. Four hours later, he is comatose and on life-support.	by Lisa Kovanda and Brian Thomas	Paperback	1
Natives Of A Dry Place Stories of Dakota before the oil boom.	by Richard Edwards	Paperback	2
Natural Treasures of the Great Plains An ecological perspective.	edited by Tom Lynch, Paul Johnsgard, and Jack Phillips	Paperback	1
Nebraska Authors: Volume 1 Discover United States and world history through the pen of Nebraska authors.	by Nancy Sue Hansen and Barbara Ann Dush	Paperback	1
The Nebraska Dispatches When playwright Christopher Cartmill returned to his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, to write a play about Chief Standing Bear, he unknowingly began a complicated adventure.	by Christopher Cartmill	Hardcover	1
Nerdy Thirty: Observations and Advice From a Lifelong Nerd A collection of thirteen humorous essays that recount personal experiences from one woman's childhood, her painfully awkward teen years, college and those leading up to the big three-oh (no!).	by Wendy Townley	Paperback	1
The New Advertising - Branding, Content, and Consumer Relationships in the Data-Driven Social Media Era a 2 volume set: Volume One: Traditional Advertising Transformed. Volume Two: New Media, New Uses, New Metrics	by Ruth Brown, Valerie Jones, and Ming Wang	Hardcover	3
Of Life Immense: the Prophetic Vision of Walt Whitman Whitman did not see himself primarily as a literary figure. First and foremost the poet saw himself as a prophet articulating an appropriate religion for his time.	by Ronald Knapp	Paperback	3
Omaha and Council Bluffs: Yesterday Á Today A collection of vintage photographs of great Omaha and Council Bluffs landmarks and locations, paired with more current photographs.	by Tom Kessler and Kristine Gerber	Hardcover	1
Omaha Community Playhouse Story: a Theatre's Historic Triumph The Omaha Community Playhouse’s story is full of colorful heroes and a few villains, flashy divas and dashing men, soaring triumphs and comical mishaps. The Playhouse is entering its 90th season.	by Warren Francke	Paperback	2
One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China Business in China is never quite what it seems.	by James McGregor	Paperback	1
One Man's Voice: the Donald Hartwell Diary Nebraska farmer's diary is keenly personal. His family were continually disappointed by economic circumstances, weather conditions and failure. It is a story of ordinary people trying to survive in extraordinary times. Excerpts of this diary were included in The Worst Hard Time by Tim Egan	edited by Marsha Davis	Paperback	3
The Perfect Season: #1 Nebraska's 1994 National Championship Details and photos of the 1994 football season.	by Lincoln Journal Star staff	Paperback	2
Reaching Higher The simple strategy to transform American's K-12 schools.	by John Baylor	Paperback	3
Reading and Writing Nebraska A Survey of Our State's Book Discussion and Writing Groups.	by Mel Krutz for the Nebraska Center for the Book	Paperback	16
Real Estate Investors - Clients For Life How to find, keep, and grow with them while making more income than you thought was possible.	by Fred Tichauer	Paperback	3
Reflections on Pediatric Medicine from 1943 to 2010 One man's odyssey through the Golden Years of Medicine - a true dual love story.	by Byron B. Oberst, MD, FAAP	Paperback	3
Revolutionary Spies Intelligence and espionage in America's first war.	by Tim McNeese	Harcover	2
Saleratus Á Sagebrush: People and Places on the Road West The members of the Bidwell-Bartleson party have been generally forgotten. This group was the first true emigrant train to cross South Pass.	by Robert Munkres	Paperback	1
Science at the American Frontier: a Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace Both a biography of American physicist DeWitt Bristol Brace (1859–1905) and a study of the processes by which scientific knowledge and associated instrumentation were transferred from Europe to the United States and from the east coast to the American frontier.	by David Cahan Á M. Eugene Rudd	Hardcover	1
Screw College Debt How to go to college without breaking the bank.	by Marco LeRoc	Paperback	1
Shingling The Fog and Other Plains Lies "More than corn grows tall on the American Plains. Here for the delectation of amateur folklorists is a collection of country whoppers from the frontier of Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa..."--Publishers Weekly	by Roger Welsch	Paperback	13
Shortcuts To Gourmet Cooking Encore "Enjoy cooking from scratch on almost any diet...this second cookbook from Fran focuses on healthful foods."	by Frances Schaffer	Hardcover	1
Slow Boat to Pakistan: The Personal Diaries and Letters of Pegge Parkers, 1951-1952 A widowed journalist documents her travels through her journal and letters home to her parents and young children.	by Pegge Parker	Paperback	2
Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream Traces the variegated career of this Virginia-born photographer who was himself an immigrant to the Nebraska plains.	by John Carter	Paperback	1
Soul Healing Miracles Ancient and new sacred wisdom, knowledge, and practical techniques for healing the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical bodies.	by Dr. Á Master Zhi Gang Sha	Hardcover	1
Surviving Life How to turn nightmares into dreams.	by Shandy Lee Loberg	Paperback	3
Sustainable Compromises: a Yurt, a straw Bale House, and Ecological Living When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise—until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he’d built in New Mexico. Thirty-five years later, he decided to try again.	by Alan Boye	Paperback	2
A Tale of a Mother, Her Three Boys, and Their Dog The love story of a father for his family.	by Byron B. Oberst, M.D., FAAP	Paperback	3
The Tallgrass Prairie Reader A first-of-its kind collection of literature from and about the tallgrass bioregion. Focusing on autobiographical nonfiction...	edited by John T. Price	Paperback	1
Thanks To One Of My Favorite Teachers: a Collection Of Personal Stories An extra spark occurs between a student and the teacher destined to be one of their favorites.	by John Morrissey	Hardcover	2
Trophy Wife: Sexuality. Disability. Femininity. "Part memoir, part commentary on social issues in sex and disability."	by Leandra Vane	Paperback	2
Two Gun Hart: Lawman, Cowboy, and Long-Lost Brother of Al Capone They were two siblings on opposite sides of the law, both ambitious and skillful, and both of the same family.	by Jeff McArthur	Paperback	3
Urban Villages and Local Identities Germans from Russian, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese in Lincoln, Nebraska.	by Kurt Kinbacher	Paperback	1
Webster's Concise Biographical Dictionary Biographies of world leaders and newsmakers	by Merriam-Webster	Hardcover	1
Wolves in Blue: Stories of the North Brothers and Their Pawnee Scouts A young adult quick-reading biography of brothers Frank and Luther North and their Pawnee Scouts who worked with the U.S. Army to protect and rescue overland trail travelers, settlers, soldiers, and Union Pacific railroad workers during the 1860s and 1870s Plains Indian Wars and the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.	by Jean Lukesh	Paperback	1