Lincoln’s locally-owned bookshop filled with good stories and great gifts for all readers since 2017.
At Francie & Finch, we bring the world of books to our community.
Lincoln is a growing and vibrant city. As one of the newer bookstores in town, we pride ourselves on our unique inventory that reflects both the local and international communities that call Lincoln home. Whether you are searching for a novel by a Nebraska author or you want to explore the world through literature, we can help you find exactly what you are looking for!
Located in the heart of downtown at 130 S. 13th, we are just a short story away from campus and hundreds of local businesses.
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01mar10:00 am5:30 pm2023 Events in Review
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Happy New Year! We want to thank our community for joining us in welcoming an incredible list of authors to our store in 2023! Your support means everything.
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Happy New Year!
We want to thank our community for joining us in welcoming an incredible list of authors to our store in 2023! Your support means everything. Thank you to the authors who brought new books and ideas to those around us and for letting us help share your work. We are truly honored.
Click on an author’s name below to read more about their work and the event that took place during the year.
Visit our website or give us a call at 402-781-0459 to get a copy of any of the books below.
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(Friday) 10:00 am - 5:30 pm(GMT-11:00)
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Join us on Saturday, March 2nd at 10:00 AM as former Nebraska Secretary of State Allen J. Beermann talks about his
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About the Book and the Author:
“Allen Beermann: Nebraska’s Ambassador to the World” is a fascinating testament to one of America’s most remarkable people and the endless promotion of his home state. And what better time to hold this chat than the day after Nebraska’s statehood anniversary! As AJB’s life story unfolds, special friends (known as FOBs) drop in with entertaining back stories about bomb threats, celebrity encounters, fossils, submarine rides, foreign trade missions, presidential visits, Puerto Rican rum and more! The narrative – drawn from essays, interviews and a robust personal archive – is as unique as the subject himself!
Stop by Francie and Finch Bookshop or call us at 402-781-0459 to get your copy today!
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(Saturday) 10:00 am - 11:30 am(GMT-11:00)
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Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
09mar4:30 pm5:30 pmBook Launch - Alison Pearce Stevens - Animal Climate Heros!
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Join us on Saturday, March 9th as we celebrate Alison Pearce Stevens’ new book Animal Climate Heros! Alison will be signing books, talking about her new book, and
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Join us on Saturday, March 9th as we celebrate Alison Pearce Stevens’ new book Animal Climate Heros! Alison will be signing books, talking about her new book, and sharing her love of natural science with guests. We can’t wait to see you there!
About the Book:
“What can we do to stop climate change? It’s time to call in some superheroes! We have elephants protecting our forests by trampling trees. Whales contributing to ocean health with their massive poo-nados. Sea otters fighting climate change by guarding kelp forests. And spiny anteaters moving 8 tons of soil each year, feeding plants as it goes. So when we protect the habitats of our climate heroes? We’re protecting our planet. Get ready to learn all about these four legged, and no-legged, creatures and how YOU can be a climate hero too!”–
About the Author:
Alison Pearce Stevens has been chased by a trumpeter swan, bitten by a bronze-winged duck, and served as a climbing wall for geckos and baby bats. She used to be a beekeeper and still thinks pollinators are some of the coolest things on the planet. Once upon a time, she was Dr. Stevens, science professor, until life took her overseas, at which point she started writing about science and nature for kids because she’s an educator at heart and had to find new ways to share cool things with the world’s most curious people. Some of these included working at museums developing exhibits and curriculum. And since the deep ocean both terrifies and fascinates her, Alison develops content for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from the safety of Nebraska.
Alison writes lots of fun nonfiction: articles, picture books, and middle-grade books. All of her work is inspired by a love of science and nature. She is a regular contributor to Science News Explores, Highlights for Children, ASK, and other kids’ magazines, and has co-authored four books for National Geographic Kids. Rhinos in Nebraska: The Amazing Discovery of the Ashfall Fossil Beds (2021) and Animal Climate Heroes! (2024) were both Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections. Rhinos also won three Nebraska Book Awards. Detective Dogs are on the Case will be released in September 2024.
Pre-order the book HERE!
***If you order Animal Climate Heroes! from us will receive a signed book, a bookmark, and some super swag. Note in the comment box how you would like the signature personalized.***
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(Saturday) 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm(GMT-11:00)
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Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
02apr5:30 pm5:30 pmPoetry Reading with Ae Hee Lee, Siwar Masannat and Kelly Weber
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Join us at F&F on Tuesday, April 2nd at 5:30 for an evening with Ae Hee Lee, Siwar Masannat, Kelly Weber! About the Authors: Ae Hee Lee – Born
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Join us at F&F on Tuesday, April 2nd at 5:30 for an evening with Ae Hee Lee, Siwar Masannat, Kelly Weber!
About the Authors:
Ae Hee Lee – Born in South Korea and raised in Peru, Ae Hee Lee is the author of ASTERISM (Tupelo Press 2024), selected by John Murillo for the Dorset Prize, and the poetry chapbooks Bedtime || Riverbed, Dear Bear, and Connotary (Frost Place Chapbook Competition Winner – Bull City Press 2021). Her work has been published in Poetry Northwest, The Georgia Review, New England Review, and POETRY Magazine, among others. For more information visit aeheeleekim.com
Siwar Masannat is a Jordanian writer. Her debut collection of poetry, 50 Water Dreams, was selected by Ilya Kaminsky as the winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Competition and published in 2015. Managing editor of the African Poetry Book Fund and Prairie Schooner, Masannat currently works at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Most recently, Masannat’s writing has appeared in Bennington Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Jacket2, Mïtra: Revue d’art et de littérature, and 7iber, among several other publications.
Kelly Weber (they/she) is the author of We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place (Tupelo Press, 2022) and You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis, winner of the 2022 Omnidawn First/Second Book Prize (forthcoming December 2023). They have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Pleaides, Waxwing, Gulf Coast Online, Electric Literature’s The Commuter, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University. More of their work can be found at kellymweber.com.
About the Books:
ASTERISM by Lee – This book contemplates the wonders and challenges of transnational, polycentric living. Moving between South Korea, Peru, and the United States, the poems in the collection find luminous homes at the interstices of bridges, flight layovers, languages, desires, imperfect memories, and mutable mouths. They blur the line between self and other: words are translated into connotations, self-portraits become co-inhabited identities with family, friends, foods, and cultural histories. As ASTERISM interrogates capitalist enactments of fixed and exclusive belonging, each line seeks to unfurl towards a strangeness and beauty of its own making.
cue by Masannat – Jordanian poet considers the cultural nuances of the private-versus-public paradox. With cue, Siwar Masannat follows up her prize-winning debut with poems that wrestle with intimacy and distance. Departing from love as a force of creation, cue’s intertextual experiments and lyric poems map environmental relations and pose questions about privacy and visibility, love and family, gender, and ecological agency.
Masannat responds to artist Akram Zaatari’s excavation of studio portraits by Hashem El Madani. Captured between the 1940s and 1970s in the Lebanese town of Saida, El Madani’s photographs are living artifacts of a transnational modernity. They archive performances of gender and romance that seek to circumvent respectability politics. The private-public, then, emerges as a paradox at the heart of cue’s composition. The desire to commune with and re-transmit the photographs and their stories is accompanied by the speaker’s understanding of how visibility may be coopted and how privacy, at once essential and weaponized, is unevenly enjoyed, opportunistically deployed, and systematically encroached upon.
You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis by Weber – Poems in a range of forms that consider the queer body, chronic illness, and love amid rural plains landscapes. Set against a rural plains landscape of gas stations, wind, and roadkill bones littering the highways, You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis is a love letter to the nonbinary body as a site of both queer platonic intimacy and chronic illness. Looking at art and friendship, Kelly Weber’s poems imagine alternatives to x-rays, pathologizing medical settings, and other forms of harm. Considering the meeting place of radiological light and sunlit meadows, the asexual speaker’s body, and fox skeletons, these poems imagine possible forms of love. With the body caught in medical crisis and ecological catastrophe, Weber questions how to create a poetry fashioned both despite and out of endings.
You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis explores forms with plainspoken prose poems with a mix of short poems and longer lyric sections that navigate insurance systems and complicated rural relationships to queerness.
You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis is the winner of the 2022 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest, chosen by Mary Jo Bang.
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(Tuesday) 5:30 pm - 5:30 pm(GMT-11:00)
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Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
05apr5:30 pm7:00 pmFirst Friday Book Launch - The Nebraska Sandhills
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Join us at Francie and Finch Bookshop on April 5th at 5:30 as we celebrate the release of The Nebraska Sandhills published by Bison Books of The University
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Join us at Francie and Finch Bookshop on April 5th at 5:30 as we celebrate the release of The Nebraska Sandhills published by Bison Books of The University of Nebraska Press! The Nebraska Sandhills features nearly forty essays about the history, people, geography, geology, ecology, and conservation of the Nebraska Sandhills, illustrated with hundreds of remarkable color photographs of the region. We will be joined by the editors! We’ll see you there!
Pre-order a copy of The Nebraska Sandhills HERE
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Monica M. Norby
Judy Diamond
Aaron Sutherlen
Sherilyn C. Fritz
Kim Hachiya
Douglas A. Norby
Michael Forsberg
About the Book:
“Like a rumpled wool blanket, the Nebraska Sandhills spreads out over twenty thousand square miles of north central Nebraska and is the largest stabilized dune field in the Western Hemisphere. It is also the largest intact mixed-grass prairie left on the continent.”
This description by photographer Michael Forsberg alludes to the exceptional physical geography of the Nebraska Sandhills, a place of rolling grasslands, rivers, and wetlands created by the Ogallala Aquifer that underlies the region. Home to abundant wildlife, from pronghorn antelope to sandhill cranes, the Sandhills are an ecological treasure. Dotted with ranches and small towns, the Sandhills are rich with deep cultural history, including those of Indigenous peoples, settlers, Black homesteaders, immigrants, ecotourists, and some adventurous golfers.
The Nebraska Sandhills features nearly forty essays about the history, people, geography, geology, ecology, and conservation of the Nebraska Sandhills. Illustrated with hundreds of remarkable color photographs of the area, this is the most up-to-date and illuminating portrayal of this remarkable yet largely unknown region of the United States.
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(Friday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm(GMT+00:00)
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Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
06apr4:30 pm6:00 pmBook Release Celebration - Timothy Schaffert - The Titanic Survivors Book Club
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Bibliophilia: The Life of the Book Lover, a conversation between author Timothy Schaffert and Pat Leach, former director of Lincoln City Libraries. With the launch of THE
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Bibliophilia: The Life of the Book Lover, a conversation between author Timothy Schaffert and Pat Leach, former director of Lincoln City Libraries.
With the launch of THE TITANIC SURVIVORS BOOK CLUB, a novel about novels, author Timothy Schaffert discusses seeking out the books that were on board the Titanic, and other bookish obsessions, with Pat Leach, host of the radio show and podcast “All About Books.” Bring along your own book mania for some literary therapy.
PRE-ORDER your book HERE
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In THE TITANIC SURVIVORS BOOK CLUB, the library steward for the Titanic misses the ship’s launch; this twist of fate and luck leads him to follow his dream of owning a bookshop in Paris. Eventually, he’s invited to a secret society of people who’d had tickets to the Titanic but didn’t board. And from this society emerges the book club of the title, and discussion of the library that sunk to the ocean floor.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
As the author of six previous novels (most recently 2021’s The Perfume Thief, which the Los Angeles Times named one of their “10 best books for summer beach reading” and Oprah Daily called “a pulse-pounding thriller and a sensuous experience you’ll want to savor”) and founder of the Omaha Lit Fest, Timothy Schaffert is leaning full tilt into his imaginative prowess. The beloved Nebraskan novelist returns to the cobblestone streets of Paris in his latest offering, THE TITANIC SURVIVORS BOOK CLUB, a queer historical novel operating as an ode to books and the transformative power of literature to spark collective remembrance and reconciliation with a secret book society foregrounding it all. He is the Adele Hall Chair of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and coeditor of Zero Street, a literary fiction series of the University of Nebraska Press.
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(Saturday) 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm(GMT+00:00)
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Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
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