Two nonfiction books, one poetry collection, and three
novels—all stories with ties to Nebraska and the Great Plains—are
the finalists for the 2016 One Book One Nebraska statewide reading
program. The finalists are:
- Backstage: Stories from My Life in
Public Television by Ron Hull. University of Nebraska Press
(2012)
- The Meaning of Names by Karen
Shoemaker. Red Hen Press (2014)
- The Naked Mountaineer: Misadventures of
an Alpine Traveler by Stephen Sieberson. University of
Nebraska Press (2014)
- Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of
Poetry edited by Greg Kosmicki and Mary K. Stillwell. The
Backwaters Press (2007)
- The Plain Sense of Things by Pamela
Carter Joern. University of Nebraska Press (2008)
- While the Patient Slept by Mignon
Eberhart. University of Nebraska Press (1995)
The One Book One Nebraska reading program, now in its twelfth 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 six
finalists from a list of twenty-seven titles nominated by
Nebraskans. In the coming weeks, Nebraska Center for the Book board
members will vote on the 2016 selection.
Nebraskans are invited to attend the
Celebration of Nebraska
Books on
November 14, where the choice for
the 2016 One Book One Nebraska will be announced at 5:30 p.m. at the
Nebraska Library Commission, 1200 N Street in downtown Lincoln. This
year’s One Book One Nebraska,
Death Zones & Darling Spies: Seven
Years of Vietnam War Reporting, by Beverly Deepe Keever, will
be featured at the Celebration in a presentation, “Beverly Deepe
Keever: An Unconventional Woman for An Unconventional War,” by
Thomas Berg, PhD, Dept. of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
See
http://onebook.nebraska.gov
or
https://www.facebook.com/OneBookOneNebraska
for more information about ongoing 2015 One Book One Nebraska
activities.
The November 14 Celebration of Nebraska Books is scheduled for 2:30
- 6:30 p.m., with the Nebraska Center for the Book Annual Meeting to
be held at 1:30 p.m. Awards will be presented to the winners of the
2015 Nebraska Book Awards, and some of the winning
authors will read from their work. 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 Friends of University of Nebraska Press. For more information,
contact Mary Jo Ryan,
maryjo.ryan@nebraska.gov, 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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