Four nonfiction books and three novels—all stories with ties to
Nebraska and the Great Plains—are the finalists for the
2015
One Book One Nebraska statewide reading program. The
finalists are:
Benediction, by Kent Haruf
Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War
Reporting, by Beverly Deepe Keever
Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World,
by John G. Neihardt
The Floor of the Sky, by Pamela Carter Joern
Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of
Race, by Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson
Goodnight, Nebraska,
by Tom McNeal
The Loren Eiseley Reader, by Loren Eiseley
The One Book One Nebraska reading program, now in its eleventh 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 committee of the Nebraska Center for the Book selected
the seven finalists from a list of twenty-five titles nominated by
twenty-nine Nebraskans. In the coming weeks, Nebraska Center for the
Book board members will vote on the 2015 selection.
The choice for the 2015 One Book One Nebraska will
be announced at 5:30 p.m. at the
Celebration of Nebraska
Books on
November 8 at the Nebraska
Library Commission, 1200 N Street in downtown Lincoln. This year’s
One Book One Nebraska,
Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the
North Platte Canteen by Bob Greene, will be featured at the
Celebration, see
http://onebook.nebraska.gov/2014/index.aspx
or
https://www.facebook.com/OneBookOneNebraska
for more information about ongoing 2014 One Book One Nebraska
activities.
The Celebration of Nebraska Books is scheduled for 3:30 - 6:30 p.m.,
with the Nebraska Center for the Book Annual Meeting to be held at
2:30 p.m. and an Awards Reception, book signings, and announcement
of the 2015 One Book One Nebraska book choice concluding the
festivities. Awards will be presented to the winners of the
2014 Nebraska Book Awards, and some of the winning authors
will read from their work. A list of winners is posted at
http://centerforthebook.nebraska.gov/awards.html.
The event will also recognize Omaha’s Bookworm bookstore, named as
the recipient of the
2014 Jane Geske Award. 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 Celebration of Nebraska
Books is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska
Library Commission, and University of Nebraska Press. For more
information, contact
Mary Jo Ryan, 402-471-3434 or 800-307-2665. Confirmed presenters
will be announced at
www.centerforthebook.nebraska.gov and
http://www.facebook.com/NebraskaCenterfortheBook
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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