Events
In addition to author meet and greets and book signings, F&F celebrates performance and fine arts in our community with events.
Visiting Authors – Lexi Rodriguez and Kelsi Kautz- The Big Little Dream
Saturday, February 21, 20266:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Beyond Adventure Speaker Series – Kevin Fedarko – ***at the Swanson Auditorium in the Nebraska Union
Thursday, February 19, 20266:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Book Launch Celebration – Kristen Hoerl – The Impossible Woman: Television, Feminism, and the Future
Tuesday, February 10, 20265:30 pm - 7:30 pm
February First Friday Celebration with artist Tom Sheppard
Friday, February 6, 20265:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Visiting Author – Brad Bigelow – Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Saturday, January 24, 20264:30 pm - 5:30 pm
The Librarians at Joyo Theatre
Saturday, January 17, 20267:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Book Launch – Carole Levin & Marguerite A. Tassi – Creatively Expanding the Premodern: Historical and Literary Afterlives
Wednesday, December 17, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Tom Chorneau – Mrs. Cook and the Klan: Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America’s Heartland
Wednesday, December 10, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Book Celebration – The Day We Found Yesterday
Saturday, December 6, 20253:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Live Music at Francie & Finch! – Prairie Psycho
Friday, December 5, 20256:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Visiting Author – Susan Bruzas – Turning on the Light: My Mysterious Illness and the Year that Transformed Me
Thursday, December 4, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Plaid Friday and Shop Small Saturday at Francie & Finch Bookshop
Friday, November 28, 2025 All Day Event
Visiting Author – John T. Price – Goethe’s Oak: A Holocaust Story
Saturday, November 22, 20254:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Visiting Author – Max Perry Mueller in conversation with Gabriel Bruguier – Wakara’s America
Thursday, November 13, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Ilana Masad – Beings: A Novel
Wednesday, November 12, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – John Stevens Berry – Second Comings, Final Tour
Monday, November 10, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Publication – Meet the Flatwater Free Press!
Sunday, November 2, 20252:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Visiting Author – Corinna Barrett Lain in conversation with Professor Eric Berger – Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection
Wednesday, October 29, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Rebecca Lexa – The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go
Sunday, October 12, 20253:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Visiting Writers – Teo Shannon, Saddiq Dzukogi, and Alina Nguyen
Friday, October 3, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – River Selby in conversation with Timothy Schaffert – Hotshot: A Life on Fire
Wednesday, October 1, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Book Launch Event – Alison Pearce Stevens – Detective Dogs: How Working Dogs Sniff Out Invasive Species (Books for a Better Earth)
Friday, September 19, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
An Evening with Author Jeff Chu in Conversation with Pat Leach at First Presbyterian Church
Friday, September 12, 20257:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Author Event – Dr. Helen Fagan – Lead Like People Matter: What Emotional Intelligence and Neuroscience Reveal About Leadership
Tuesday, September 9, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – David Moscovich – Workday [CAPTCHA Poems] – with musical guests Joseph Jaros, Brad Krieger, and Scott Scholz
Monday, September 8, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Lauren Sisler – Shatterproof: How I Overcame the Shame of Losing My Parents to Opioid Addiction (and Found My Sideline Shimmy)** OFFSITE
Thursday, September 4, 20256:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Book Launch Celebration – Linda Pawlenty in conversation with Tom Gannon – Clutch: An Education at Work
Tuesday, September 2, 20256:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Visiting Author – Josha Sietsma – Think. Define. Choose: How 21 Stories Shaped Life in Nebraska
Saturday, August 30, 20254:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Book Launch Celebration – Jeff Hill – Dark Tendencies and Dirty Secrets
Friday, August 29, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Book Launch Celebration – Jaye Viner – The Island of Dreams
Saturday, August 23, 20254:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Visiting Author – Brandon Scranton – Secrets in the Shadows of House Nassau
Friday, August 22, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Book Launch Party – Dr. Addison Killeen’s – The Shift: A Leadership Fable of the Transition from Overwhelm to Focus
Thursday, August 21, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Visiting Writers – Abby E. Murray in conversation with Ava Winter
Friday, August 8, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Acoustic Performance and Book Signing – Brad Colerick and Scott Feldmann – Zintka!: Lost Bird of Wounded Knee – Zintkála Nuni
Thursday, August 7, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
August First Friday Celebration with artist Tom Sheppard
Friday, August 1, 20255:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Visiting Author – Pamela Carter Joern – At the Corner of Past & Future: A Collection of Life Stories
Saturday, July 12, 20254:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Visiting Poets – Tyler Michael Jacobs & Maria Nazos
Saturday, June 28, 20254:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Visiting Author – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder – Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn from Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling
Thursday, June 26, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Book Launch Celebration – Kwame Gyamfi – Prism of Perspectives: The Life and Names of Kwame Gyamfi
Thursday, June 19, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Poetry Reading – Julie Paschold, Amy Haddad, and Bonnie Johnson-Bartee
Saturday, June 7, 20254:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Art Show – Stephen Lahey – Philosophy in Limestone: The Sculptures on the Nebraska Capitol
Friday, May 9, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Visiting Author – Liese Greensfelder with Roger Holmes — Accidental Shepherd: How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway
Thursday, May 8, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Book Launch – Ted Genoways – Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
Tuesday, May 6, 20255:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Visiting Author – R.F. McEwen – Old Rags and Iron: New and Selected Poems
Saturday, May 3, 20254:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Latin American Literature, stories and poems with Luis Othoniel Rosa, Sarah Banderas & Iliana Rosabal Perez
Friday, May 2, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Author Visit – Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis – Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World
Thursday, May 1, 20252:00 pm - 3:00 pm
National Independent Bookstore Day
Saturday, April 26, 202510:00 am - 6:00 pm
Visiting Poet – John Brehm – The Poetry of Grief, Gratitude and Reverence
Friday, April 25, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Nebraska Author – Mike Theiler – Nikon Road
Friday, April 25, 20258:00 am - 5:00 pm
April Poetry Reading
Monday, April 21, 20255:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Visiting Author – Deborah Jackson Taffa – Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
Thursday, April 17, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Ken Meter – Building Community Food Webs
Wednesday, April 16, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
First Friday Art Walk – Featured Artist – Kinzee Hillis
Friday, April 4, 20255:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Visiting Author – Karen Russell in conversation with Judi M. gaiashkibos – The Antidote
Tuesday, April 1, 20255:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Book Launch and Poetry Reading – Frizabel Waki – One Voice: Original Poetry
Saturday, March 29, 20254:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Visiting Author – Stacey Waite – A Real Man Would Have a Gun: Poems
Tuesday, March 11, 20256:00 pm - 7:00 pm
First Friday Art Walk – Featured Artist – Jude Martindale
Friday, March 7, 20255:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Visiting Authors – Poetry Reading with Carolina Hotchandani and Maria Zoccola
Saturday, February 22, 20254:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Visiting Author – Kevin Shinn – A Different Metaphor: Faith That Imagines The Impossible
Saturday, January 25, 20251:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Book Launch – Dennis P. Crawford & Dr. Laura J. Crawford – Robert F. Kennedy: The Road Not Taken From Nebraska to the White House
Wednesday, December 18, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Inside Nebraska Courthouses – Dean Settle
Saturday, December 14, 20244:30 pm - 5:30 pm
SHOP SMALL HOLIDAY REPORT CARD
Saturday, November 23, 20248:00 am - 5:00 pm
Downtown Lincoln’s 17th Annual Shop the Blocks 2024
Thursday, November 21, 20245:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Poetry Reading with Greg Kosmicki and Twyla Hansen
Saturday, November 16, 20244:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Visiting Author: Josha Sietsma – Think. Define. Choose. How 21 Stories Shaped Life in Nebraska
Tuesday, November 12, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Contributors – Patricia Miller, Michael M. Bartels, and James J. Reisdorff – Train Photos from Nebraska: The Vernacular Rail Images of Fred Ritter Jr.
Saturday, November 9, 20244:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Annual $100 Shopping Spree!
Wednesday, November 6, 20248:00 am - 5:30 pm
Meet the (Flatwater Free) Press with Matthew Hansen
Sunday, November 3, 20242:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Book Launch Event with Katie Anania – Print/Draw: An Experiment on Paper
Friday, November 1, 20245:30 pm - 7:30 pm
POSTPONED – Visiting Author Storytime – Heather Dawn Torres – The Tractor Squad
Saturday, October 26, 20243:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Visiting Author – Artist Edgar Jerins – Edgar Jerins Life in Charcoal
Friday, October 25, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Stephanie Saldaña – What We Remember Will Be Saved
Friday, October 18, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
An Evening with Amanda Peters – The Berry Pickers** at Lincoln Highschool
Monday, October 14, 20247:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Visiting Author – DeMisty D. Bellinger – All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere: Stories
Thursday, October 10, 20246:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Civil War Free Panel & Lecture Events: Dr. Jeremi Suri – Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
Wednesday, October 9, 202412:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Visiting Author – Dr. Simon A. Wood in conversation with Dr. Abla Hasan – The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate
Tuesday, October 8, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Book Launch Celebration – Allison L. Bitz in conversation with Joan F. Smith and Laura Taylor Namey – Three Things About Emmy Crawford
Friday, October 4, 20247:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Virtual Book Launch Event – Pascha Sotolongo in conversation with Timothy Schaffert – The Only Sound is the Wind: Stories
Thursday, October 3, 20247:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Visiting Author – Maura Jane Farrelly – Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier
Saturday, September 28, 20244:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Charlotte’s Web at Lincoln Community Playhouse – Win Tickets!
Saturday, September 28, 20248:00 am - 5:00 pm
Book Launch Celebratioin – Ava Nathaniel Winter – Transgenesis
Saturday, September 21, 20244:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Visiting Author – Jeff Barnes – Forts of the Northern Plains: A Guide to Military and Civilian Posts of the Plains Indian Wars
Wednesday, September 18, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Book Launch – To the Bone – Alena Bruzas in conversation with author Kelsy Burke
Friday, September 13, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Bruce E. Whitacre – Good Housekeeping
Thursday, September 12, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Chris Quigg in conversation with Ken Bloom – Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature
Wednesday, September 4, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Book Launch – Kwame Dawes – Sturge Town
Friday, August 23, 20246:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Book Launch Celebration- Ava Nathaniel Winter – Transgenesis
Friday, August 23, 20248:00 am - 5:00 pm
Visiting Author – Jerry Bockoven – What Rhymes With Therapy?: Poetic Pathways to Hope and Healing in Troubled Times
Saturday, August 17, 20244:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Visiting Author – Colby Coash – Running Naked: Surviving the Legacy of Family in Rural Nebraska
Saturday, August 10, 20244:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Alan Bartels – 100 Things To Do In The Nebraska Sandhills Before You Die
Saturday, July 20, 20244:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Visiting Author ***At Eastmont Living – Susi Amendola – The Centered Heart: Evidence Based Mind Body Practices to Stress Less and Improve Cardiac Health
Saturday, July 20, 20242:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Visiting Author – Laura Essay – Side Effects Are Minimal: A Novel
Saturday, July 13, 20244:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Visiting Author – Taylor Keen – Rediscovering Turtle Island: A First Peoples’ Account of the Sacred Geography of America
Saturday, June 29, 20244:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Howard Kaye Art Celebration
Friday, June 21, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Book Talk and Signing – Bruce Reyes-Chow – Everything Good About God is True: Choosing Faith
Thursday, June 20, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Poetry in the Afternoon – Poetry Workshop with Dr. Katie Marya
Saturday, June 15, 20242:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Book Signing Event – Rebecca Craig – Once Upon a Nightmare: Through the Looking Glass of Narcissistic Abuse
Thursday, June 13, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Chigozie Obioma – The Road to the Country
Saturday, June 8, 20244:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Book Launch – Nathan Vieth & Karissa Bettendorf – Remy the Lonely Dragon
Thursday, May 23, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Author Visit- Brad Balukjian – The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania
Tuesday, May 21, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day at Francie & Finch Bookshop!
Saturday, April 27, 202410:00 am - 6:00 pm
Visiting Author – Kerri Denell – Invited to More: Letters for Life – Love, Kerri
Thursday, April 25, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
The Stocking Project Book Drive**** EXTENDED
Sunday, April 21, 20248:00 am - 5:00 pm
Book Launch With Poet Daniel Simon – Under a Gathering Sky
Friday, April 19, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Book Talk ***at First Plymouth Church – Hope Edelman – After Grief: Finding Our Way Along the Long Arc of Loss
Thursday, April 18, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Visiting Author – Uche Okonkwo in conversation with Timothy Schaffert – A Kind of Madness
Thursday, April 18, 20246:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Author Visit – Kij Johnson – The Privilege of the Happy Ending: Small, Medium, and Large Stories
Wednesday, April 17, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Book Talk ***at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Omaha- Sarah McCammon -The Exvangelicals
Sunday, April 14, 20245:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Visiting Author – Erin Belieu – Poetry
Wednesday, April 10, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Cynthia J. Sylvester with Timothy Schaffert – The Half-White Album
Monday, April 8, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Book Launch – Timothy Schaffert – The Titanic Survivors Book Club with Pat Leach, former director of Lincoln City Libraries.
Saturday, April 6, 20244:30 pm - 6:00 pm
First Friday Book Launch – The Nebraska Sandhills
Friday, April 5, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Author Event – John Waters – River City One
Wednesday, April 3, 202412:00 am - 12:30 am
Poetry Reading with Ae Hee Lee, Siwar Masannat and Kelly Weber
Tuesday, April 2, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Visiting Author – Gail Shaffer Blankenau – Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters’ Escape from Nebraska Territory
Tuesday, March 26, 20245:30 pm - 6:30 pm