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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 18, 2024
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Tessa Timperley
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Shortlist for 2025 One Book One Nebraska Announced
What book will all Nebraskans be encouraged to read in 2025? We will all find out on October 12th at the Nebraska Celebration of Books
(N.COB) literary festival. A collection of nonfiction essays about Nebraska, a novel set in 1950’s about personal journeys, a historical
fiction novel about the Pacific theater in World War II —all stories with ties to Nebraska—are the finalists for the 2025 One Book One
Nebraska statewide reading program. The finalists are:
·
My Nebraska: The Good, the Bad, and the Husker
by Roger Welsch, The Globe Pequot Press, 2006.
·
The Lincoln Highway: A Novel
by Amor Towles, Viking Press, 2021.
·
The Long March Home: A World War II Novel of the Pacific
by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee, Revell, 2023.
The One Book One Nebraska reading program 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 three
finalists from a list of nineteen titles nominated by Nebraskans. In the
coming weeks, Nebraska Center for the Book board members will vote on the
2025 selection.
Nebraskans are invited to take part in the Nebraska
Celebration of Books (N.COB) Literary Festival where the choice for the 2025
One Book One Nebraska will be announced. Held on Saturday, October 12th, from
10:00am-5:30pm, in the Regency Suite, Heritage Room, and Swanson Auditorium
located on the second floor of the UNL City Campus Union, this event aims to
celebrate Nebraska’s literary heritage and contemporary authors. The festival
will honor the 20th anniversary of the One Book One Nebraska program with a
panel of past authors, in addition it will feature Nebraska authors, a SLAM
poetry showcase, book vendors, and presentation of the Nebraska Center for
the Book's Nebraska Book Awards, Mildred Bennett Award and Jane Geske Award.
This year’s One Book One Nebraska selection, Dancing with the Octopus: A
Memoir of a Crime by Debora Harding, will be featured with a memoir writing
workshop facilitated by Lucy Atkins from Larksong Writers Place.
See http://onebook.nebraska.gov or
https://www.facebook.com/OneBookOneNebraska for more information about
ongoing 2024 One Book One Nebraska activities.
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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http://nlc.nebraska.gov/publications/newsreleases.