Public Information and Communication
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 10, 2012
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Tessa Terry
402-471-3434
800-307-2665
Finalists for 2013 One Book One
Nebraska Announced
One nonfiction book and three novels-all stories
with ties to Nebraska and the Great Plains-are the four finalists for the
2013 One Book One Nebraska statewide reading program. The finalists are:
O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North
Platte Canteen, by Bob Greene
While the Patient Slept, byMignon
Eberhart
The Tie That Binds, by Kent Haruf
The One Book One Nebraska reading
program-sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Humanities
Council, and Nebraska Library Commission-is now in its ninth year. 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 committee of the Nebraska Center for the Book selected the
finalists from a list of twelve titles nominated by sixty Nebraskans.
The choice for the 2013 One Book One
Nebraska will be announced at 5:30 p.m. at the Celebration
of Nebraska Books on November 3 at the Nebraska
State Historical Society's Museum of Nebraska History, 15th and P Streets in
downtown Lincoln. The event, scheduled for 3:30 - 6:30 p.m., will feature a
program by Joe Starita, author of the 2012 One Book One Nebraska selection,
"I Am a Man" Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice. The
Celebration will honor winners of the 2012 Nebraska Book Awards,
including readings by some of the winning authors. A list of winners will be
posted at http://centerforthebook.nebraska.gov/awards.html
.
The recipient of the 2012 Jane Geske
Award will also be announced. The Jane Geske Award recognizes a
Nebraska association, organization, business, library, school, academic
institution, or other group that has made an exceptional, long-term
contribution to one or more of these fields in Nebraska: Literacy, Reading,
Book Selling, Books, Libraries, and/or Writing in Nebraska.
The 2012 Celebration of Nebraska Books is
sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Humanities Council,
and Nebraska Library Commission, in partnership with the Nebraska State
Historical Society's Museum of Nebraska History. For more information,
contact
Tessa Terry, 402-471-3434 or 800-307-2665. Confirmed presenters and
award winners will be announced at
www.centerforthebook.nebraska.gov and
http://www.facebook.com/NebraskaCenterfortheBook
The Nebraska Book Awards competition is
sponsored by Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Humanities Council, and
Nebraska Library Commission, in partnership with The Apollon, a
collaborative arts venue. 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 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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