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SUMMARY:Visiting Author – Jessica Willis Fisher - UNSPEAKABLE: Surviving My Childhood & Finding My Voice
DESCRIPTION:Singer/Songwriter Jessica Willis Fisher is making a stop at F&F during her music tour!\nJoin us for this special author visit and book signing!\n \nAbout the Book – Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice\nBrought up under the strange philosophies of her controlling father\, young Jessica Willis was curious about the outside world. She wondered if other girls were forbidden to disagree with their elders. If other mothers feared their husbands. If other daddies came into their daughters’ bedrooms at night. In Unspeakable\, her debut memoir\, Jessica Willis Fisher gives a lacerating portrait of a girl who was famous yet unknown\, dreaming of freedom and terrified of finding it. Stunning in its detailed\, poetic prose\, Unspeakable takes us on a journey through a chaotic and crowded childhood\, first kisses and first love\, an electrifying court case that brings new losses to the surface\, and a tumultuous journey of a faith so different from the one Jessica first knew. \n“Unspeakable is simultaneously devastating and inspiring. Jessica Willis Fisher’s story shines the spotlight on the cruelty and abuse that lies hidden in unimaginable places. The courage she found to reach beyond the stranglehold of everything that she knew to save herself is a miracle.” – Amy Grant – Singer/Songwriter\, Philanthropist \n“Fisher finally sheds light on the life that once looked like a fairytale but turned into a nightmare.” – People Magazine \nAbout the Author\nJessica Willis Fisher is a singer/songwriter\, fiddler\, author\, speaker\, and advocate who believes that sharing our stories with one another will change the world. Growing up the eldest daughter in a controlling and abusive household\, she performed with her family band\, The Willis Clan\, until her departure in 2016 at the age of 23. Her first book\, Unspeakable\, narrates her harrowing struggle to both articulate her childhood experience and find her true voice on the other side of emotional\, physical\, and sexual abuse. \nAs a musician\, Jessica performs original Folk\, Celtic\, and Americana music that reflects the influence of her Nashville upbringing. She has recorded two albums\, with a third coming later in October. She will be performing a public concert for Lincoln Association for the Traditional Arts (LAFTA) Friday\, Oct. 16\, 7:30 pm at the 7th Street Loft (504 South 7th Street\, 3rd floor of The Bridge Behavioral Health Building). Tickets available at the door or at lafta.net.
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Lynn Kalemkiarian - A Pawprint on My Soul: Adventures with Barney
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, October 17th as we welcome author Lynn Kalemkiarian! She will be talking about her new book A Pawprint on My Soul: Adventures with Barney\, the heartwarming true story of a unique bond between her and her extraordinary therapy dog\, Barney. We can’t wait to see you there!\nTo order your copy through Francie & Finch Bookshop\, follow the link HERE!\n\nAbout the Author and the Book:\nA Pawprint on My Soul: Adventures with Barney” tells the heartwarming true story of a unique bond between myself and my extraordinary therapy dog\, Barney. \nWhen I first met Barney\, I felt an undeniable spark of healing\, but I never could have imagined how profoundly our bond would transform both of our lives. \nThis is a story of love\, compassion\, and the unspoken power of animals to heal human hearts. \nIn this deeply personal and heartwarming narrative\, I share my emotional journey with Barney\, a dog who became my best friend and my source of strength. Our story is a reminder that love has no boundaries\, and that sometimes\, the greatest healing comes from the most unexpected places. \nA Pawprint on My Soul” is perfect for dog lovers\, animal therapy advocates\, and anyone who has ever experienced the transformative bond between a person and their pet. Whether you’re seeking inspiration\, healing\, or simply a story of love that will make you smile\, this book will leave pawprints on your heart.
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-author-lynn-kalemkiarian-a-pawprint-on-my-soul-adventures-with-barney/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - August Lamm - You Don't Need a Smartphone: A Practical Guide to Downgrading Your Phone and Upgrading Your Life
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting author visit on October 19th! Author August Lamm will be presenting her new book You Don’t Need a Smartphone: A Practical Guide to Downgrading Your Phone and Upgrading Your Life. We can’t wait to see you there!\nBook release on October 6th. To pre-order\, follow the link HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nIn this revelatory manifesto\, anti-tech activist August Lamm gives you the courage and confidence to ditch your smartphone once and for all. \nWhen I owned a smartphone\, my life was bad. I knew this. What I did not know was that I had a choice. \nAugust Lamm wasted her youth on the internet. In her late twenties\, burnt out as a social media influencer\, she sold her smartphone and switched to a dumb phone. Immediately\, her mental health improved\, her attention span increased\, and her curiosity returned. Since then\, she has made it her mission to help others do the same. \nLamm started using a smartphone at age 14\, so she knows how it feels to come of age glued to a screen—and how hard it is to break free. Filled with moving stories and practical suggestions\, You Don’t Need a Smartphone proves that living without a computer in your pocket is not only possible but ideal. Offering guidance on selecting a new phone\, navigating without GPS\, meeting people offline\, and overcoming obstacles like digital tickets and dual-factor authentication\, You Don’t Need a Smartphone is as urgent and radical as its title\, and a new blueprint for a fulfilling life in the Information Age. \nAbout the Author:\nAugust Lamm is an artist\, writer\, and musician from New Haven\, CT. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Guardian\, and she has appeared on NBC and NPR to speak about low-tech living. She runs an offline residency in upstate New York\, and her debut novel is forthcoming from Vintage.
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Mohammad Rashedul Hasan - Reconceiving AI: The World as an Apple or a Blue Orange
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Francie & Finch Bookshop as we welcome Mohammad Rashedul Hasan!\n“This book is for readers curious about AI but wary of hype. For those who sense that something is missing from the conversation. For anyone who believes that to build intelligence\, we must first understand it.”\nAbout the Book:\nWhat if everything we assume about artificial intelligence rests on a misconception of human intelligence? \nReconceiving AI: The World as an Apple or a Blue Orange began at a Cézanne retrospective in Chicago in 2022\, with a question: what did a painter who spent thirty years on apples understand about perception that the most sophisticated AI still misses? Drawing on art\, literature\, film\, philosophy\, and cognitive science\, the book argues that human cognition cannot be replicated through data and processing power alone. Beyond the “cracked mirror” of current AI\, it envisions the Blue Orange Mind: a form of intelligence that neither humans nor machines can achieve alone\, arising from the interplay between what we are and what we might create. \nThis book is for readers curious about AI but wary of hype. For those who sense that something is missing from the conversation. For anyone who believes that to build intelligence\, we must first understand it. \nAbout the Author\nM. R. Hasan is a Professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln\, where he directs the Human-First AI Lab (HAL 2.0 — named in pointed contrast to Kubrick’s misconceived HAL). His research engages foundational questions about intelligence in both humans and machines. His work has received international recognition at major AI conferences. \nBorn in Bangladesh\, he writes from the productive contradictions of immigrant consciousness: between languages\, between cultures\, between the home he left and the home he is still making. Reconceiving AI is his first book. He lives in Lincoln\, Nebraska. \nFor speaking engagements\, book clubs\, or media: https://mrhasan-ai.github.io/ 
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SUMMARY:Visiting Authors - Andrew Farkas and Danilo John Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special visit from authors Andrew Farkas and Danilo John Thomas on October 24th at 4:30!\nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nDanilo Thomas:\nDanilo John Thomas’s debut story collection\, Ore Vein\, was published by Veliz Books in March 2026.  A graduate of the PhD program in creative writing at Florida State University\, he is the co-director of Octopus Books\, the managing and prose editor at Baobab Press\, and production managar at The Kenyon Review. He lives in Omaha\, Nebraska\, with his wife\, two daughters\, and one toothsome staffy. \nAndrew Farkas:\nIn 2026\, three books by Andrew Farkas were released: Are You Now\, or Have You Ever Been? (Alternating Current Press)\, Movies Are Fine for a Bright Boy Like You (Whiskey Tit)\, and The Ancient Mysteries of Las Vegas (KERNPUNKT Press — his debut play). Farkas is also the author of The Great Indoorsman: Essays\, The Big Red Herring\, Sunsphere\, and Self-Titled Debut. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Washburn University and an editor for Always Crashing. \nABOUT THE BOOKS:\nOre Vein: Ore Vein\, the debut short story collection by Danilo John Thomas\, explores the thin spaces between hardship and heroism prevalent in small-town America. Thomas captures what it feels like to come of age among the urban decay and cracked pastoral landscapes of Southwestern Montana and a fictionalized version of the town where he was raised. From the claustrophobia of crumbling mine shafts to the senseless consequences of bar brawls\, these stories are at once mystical and all too real\, violent yet deeply introspective\, masculine but tender. \nOre Vein\, like the mines it showcases\, digs deep in dark places after fortunes\, showing what it means to hit the mother lode and\, sometimes\, what it means to lose it. (www.danilojohnthomas.com) \nMovies Are Fine for a Bright Boy Like You: In the short fiction collection Movies Are Fine for a Bright Boy Like You\, Andrew Farkas explores the unseen lives of stock characters (security guards in “Watching the Night” and the two guys who carry a pane of glass across the street during chase sequences in “Mythos of the Glaziers”)\, examines cinematic conventions (absurd swashbuckling set pieces in “Conditional Vengeance” and the fact that pictures taking place in other countries are full of characters who speak English with bad accents in ” Foreign] Accents”)\, deconstructs film genres (the thriller in “A Suitcase of Money Out on the Edge of Town” and creature features in “Our Inner Kaiju”)\, while\, along the way\, lovingly making fun of almost everything having to do with movies (extras in “A Real Nobody” and purposefully schlocky B-grade horror films in “Continuity”). So grab some snacks and get ready to yuck it up with the rest of the peanut gallery as Farkas celebrates the joyfully\, wondrously synthetic history of the movies. \nAre You Now\, or Have You Ever Been?: It has been said of Andrew Farkas’ stories that they “eff the ineffable.” In Are You Now\, or Have You Ever Been?\, Farkas continues effing away by plumbing the depths of identity\, questioning how we define the self\, and yanking the rug out from under our comfort zones. Whether through an existentially terrifying brochure for a paradise island vacation\, an insurance salesman who refuses to believe he’s actually Napoleon\, a dead man who finds death superior to life\, or an overcrowded bar that possibly signifies the end of the world\, Farkas investigates in these stories that elusive idea of who we think we are. Follow a detective seeking someone confoundingly indescribable\, a salvager befriending sentient warehouses\, a motorist proving that you should never ask for directions\, and the first person (or maybe three) to circumnavigate the globe in Farkas’ whirlwind of witticisms\, bewildering entropy\, and stifling indecision. Yeah\, sure\, the Oracle of Delphi may’ve said\, “Know Thyself.” But in Are You Now\, or Have You Ever Been?\, Farkas counters with: “Nice maxim. Now how’s about you show us how.” \nThe Ancient Mysteries of Las Vegas: Throughout the course of The Ancient Mysteries of Las Vegas\, we are asked to question whether the events of each act happened in some form at some time to the protagonists\, Arty and Auggie\, or if those events were dreams of a sort\, or\, by the third act\, if those events are being used by Arty to cover up some deeply private shame and regret. After all\, in the first act\, Arty and Auggie\, two twentysomethings who appear to be trapped in an apartment\, imagine a surreal road trip to Las Vegas. But are they dreaming\, or are they actually on their way? In the second act\, Arty and Auggie\, two fortysomething gangsters on the lam in Las Vegas\, hide out in a hotel room where they interact with an animatronic boss who keeps promising to bring them a job. Fueled by paranoia thanks to the television\, Auggie isn’t even certain when they became gangsters\, or how. Instead\, Auggie thinks there’s some kind of setup going on. Arty’s not so sure. In the third act\, Arty is a very old man\, likely in an assisted living facility in Nevada\, who thinks he’s in a play. Arty\, somehow in his twenties again\, is in the audience of the play. Except how could he be in the audience when we learn that he probably died when he and Arty went in search of a legendary place that does not exist (like Atlantis) called Las Vegas? Dealing with memory\, fantasy\, conspiracist thinking\, and friendship\, Andrew Farkas‘ debut play shows that what happens in Vegas may not stay in Vegas. And what happens when all that surreality bleeds out?
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-authors-andrew-farkas-and-danilo-john-thomas/
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