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SUMMARY:Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day at Francie & Finch Bookshop!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday\, April 27th!\nFrancie & Finch Bookshop will be open for extended hours\, from 10 am to 6 pm!\nOn this\, the last day of the Southeast Nebraska Independent Bookstore Crawl\, at F&F you will find treats\, special merch plus two books from our Advanced Reader copy stash when you spend $50\, author visits\, and more prizes and surprises! You don’t want to miss it! See below for a line-up of our visiting authors:\n10:00 – 1:00 – Jayme Sandberg: Author of Total Solar Eclipse – A Stellar Friendship Story\nJayme Sandberg unexpectedly fell in love with total solar eclipses when one appeared in her Nebraska backyard in 2017. After chasing a pre-schooler around with eclipse glasses that day\, she made it her mission to help parents and educators simultaneously teach their kids about safely viewing this amazing celestial event while also celebrating the unexpected ways we shine together. \n12:00 – 2:00 – Glenda Clair – Author of The Legacy of Prairie Winds\nFrom an early age\, she sat on the arm of her grandmother’s over-stuffed rocking chair as she read to her granddaughter. The tools were Every Child’s Story Book\, Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates which led to reading Jack London and Agatha Christie. The love of literature and power of words was her gift to a wide-eyed small girl. Glenda taught English Literature and creative writing. Now retired\, her dream is now to focus on her own writing and has been awarded the Bess Streeter Aldrich 2023 Short Story award. She has published novels: The Legacy of Prairie Winds\, Women of Dust and Wind\, and two young adult novels\, Time for Courage\, Surviving Yellowstone and Propelling Beyond Barriers: Evelyn Sharp\, No Ordinary Girl. She loves the art of creating characters and the musical sounds of words. \n2:00 – 3:00 – Devan Martin & Kolleen Meyer-Krikac: Author of The Enneagram Series for Children\nDo you sometimes wonder about your child and the difficulties they seem to encounter? The Enneagram Series for Children is a great tool for parents to understand and help their children while children love and relate to the characters\, seeing themselves in the stories. We have 5 of the 9 book series completed! \n3:00 – 5:00 – Gordon McGill – Wood Creations:\nMeet Gordon and shop from an array of his wood creations! \n4:00 – 6:00 – Karissa Bettendorf – Artist:\nKarissa Bettendorf\, owner of Karis Fine Arts\, is an artist\, author\, and illustrator living in Lincoln Nebraska with her husband\, their 2nd grade son\, and Springer Spaniel. When Karissa isn’t painting or writing\, she loves to read\, garden\, bake\, and play in the sunshine. Karis Fine Arts is an allied business\, and Karissa believes that every person deserves to be celebrated and represented exactly for who they are. You can find her and her art on Facebook at Karis Fine Arts\, Instagram  @karisfinearts1\, and TikTok at @karisfinearts – and at Clements Noyes Ary Gallery in downtown Lincoln! \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Kerri Denell - Invited to More: Letters for Life - Love\, Kerri
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 25th at 5:30 as we welcome author Kerri Denell to the bookshop! She will be discussing her book Invited to More. We’ll see you there!\nAbout the Book:\nInvited to More: Letters for Life – Love\, Kerri is an authentic memoir that traces Kerri’s 100-day journey to deeper vulnerability\, union with God\, and connection to others. In the hurriedness of our culture\, we rarely pause to behold our lives. In this powerful debut memoir\, Kerri lovingly invites us to examine our everyday lives\, to look at the things and people around us and be changed. Through personal stories\, reflections\, and heartfelt letters you will recognize how big and small moments shape us and how the written word has the power to transform our connection with ourselves\, our loved ones\, future generations\, and the Divine. These letters show us a pathway to empower our lives. Her raw vulnerability invites us to consider our successes and failures\, love and forgiveness\, joys and losses\, and all that life offers in between. \n‘May the gift of these writings be my whisper in your ear\, my legacy of inspiration to know and be known and reveal how I live “the greatest of these is love.” These days have been but a snapshot of my heart. There was no peculiarity or reason behind choosing this season. I heard the Divine call and accepted the invitation. To write a piece of me\, what I carry in my heart\, to demonstrate my value of witnessing and blessing others. We are all vessels of light. Our beautifully imperfect stories are our greatest gifts and are what makes us shine. May we accept the invitation to our most beautiful life.’ \nLove\,\nKerri \nAbout the Author:\nKerri Denell was born and raised in a small town deep in the heart of Texas. She graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Social Work and has worked as a grant writer and hospice social worker. She currently serves as an End-of-Life Doula to individuals and families as they explore legacy wishes\, end-of-life planning\, and writing to create deeper meaning in their lives and connections to future generations. She now lives in Lincoln\, Nebraska with her husband\, four children\, and two rowdy pups. For more on the author\, visit: www.kerridenell.com \nCall the shop to pre-order your copy – 402 781-0459
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SUMMARY:Book Launch With Poet Daniel Simon - Under a Gathering Sky
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Under a Gathering Sky by Daniel Simon.\nDaniel will share some of his new poems in Under a Gathering Sky\, followed by a book signing.\nPre-order your copy HERE\nAbout the Book:\nThe poems in Under a Gathering Sky present a quest narrative that examines the essence of questing itself. Grouped in five sections\, the collection opens with a gathering called “Auguries\,” marked by the crossing of spatial and temporal thresholds. Section 2 offers poems in “slant” dialogues with such writers as William Blake\, Emily Dickinson\, Gerard Manley Hopkins\, Lucille Clifton\, W. G. Sebald\, and Robert Hass. The third section\, “Ingathering\,” engages most directly with twenty- first century reckonings as well as voices and images from the author’s past. Section 4 consists of mostly four line poems\, which demand that the reader engage with the text and their own ethics. In the final ascent of the fifth section\, the concluding poems reflect on personal and collective geographies as well as on the limits of our knowing. \nWhat Others Have Said About the Manuscript:\n“Just from these few poems I can see or hear a guiding voice and aesthetic and probably a trajectory to the book a journey (through this ‘new country’) as much through time and circumstance as place\, and a seriousness\, an accompanying tenderness (for nature\, for prospects of hope\, etc.). I detect something like a five act movement\, with a magnitude and a real sense of progression. There’s also a kind of expository riskiness\, which I am drawn to here\, with a balance of a type of lyrical image and something like a thinking through of the large issues even in relatively short poems. And it looks like much of the coherence is natural that is\, the placement of conscience and history making in a palpable location in a natural scene. There’s a classical seriousness throughout.” ~David Baker\, Denison University \n“I find the book prophetic\, and the work of a mystic who is in touch with tellurian and human forces that remain hidden to the common person. ‘Days of Reckoning’ in particular is very powerful\, and so is the eponymous poem\, ‘Under a Gathering Sky.’ The\nvolume is a journey sending the reader into the unknown\, into another dimension\, broader and faraway. .The homecoming in part 5 is also an atoning\, and rearranging the homestead with love\, creating a new\, pared down harmony\, keeping the essential\nharmonies\, creating order. The homecoming is spiritual\, physical\, and intellectual.  Writing poetry or harvesting the grain\, both are inseparable in their rhythm. And ‘Knowing’ sums it up: climbing upward\, returning to our departure point\, ready perhaps\nfor another journey it is a poem that brings closure yet manages to keep the volume open.” ~Alice Catherine Carls\, University of Tennessee at Martin \n  \n[ \nAbout the Author:\nA poet\, translator\, and essayist\, Daniel Simon is assistant director and editor-in-chief of World Literature Today magazine at the University of Oklahoma\, where he also serves on the English\, International Studies\, and Judaic Studies faculty. The author of two previous verse collections\, Cast Off (2015) and After Reading Everything (2016)\, his third book of poems\, Under a Gathering Sky\, is forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press in April 2024. His poems have appeared in three anthologies\, been translated into five languages\, and nominated for multiple awards. Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology\, 1867–2017\, which he edited\, won a 2018 Nebraska Book Award and was included on NPR’s “50 States” summer booklist (2022). His latest anthology\, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2020)\, was a Publishers Weekly starred pick. Most recently\, he served as consulting editor for the Best Literary Translations annual anthology\, forthcoming from Deep Vellum in spring 2024. He is a member of the Academy of American Poets\, PEN America\, Nebraska Center for the Book\, and the Norman Arts Council Roundtable. The grandson of Czech and Irish immigrants\, Daniel grew up in Nebraska along the banks of the Platte River. He and his wife currently live in Norman\, Oklahoma\, and have three daughters. (Author photo by Alba Simon)
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SUMMARY:Book Talk ***at First Plymouth Church - Hope Edelman - After Grief: Finding Our Way Along the Long Arc of Loss
DESCRIPTION:Hope Edelman will be at First Plymouth Church on Thursday\, April 18th at 7:00 PM! The event is co-sponsored by Mourning Hope Grief Center. Francie and Finch Bookshop will be there to sell books that can be signed after the talk by Hope!\nAbout the Book:\nA validating new approach to the long-term grieving process that explains why we feel “stuck\,” why that’s normal\, and how shifting our perception of grief can help us grow–from the New York Times bestselling author of Motherless Daughters \n“This is perhaps one of the most important books about grief ever written. It finally dispels the myth that we are all supposed to get over the death of a loved one.”–Claire Bidwell Smith\, author of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief \nAren’t you over it yet? Anyone who has experienced a major loss in their past knows this question. We’ve spent years fielding versions of it\, both explicit and implied\, from family\, colleagues\, acquaintances\, and friends. We recognize the subtle cues–the slight eyebrow lift\, the soft\, startled “Oh! That long ago?”–from those who wonder how an event so far in the past can still occupy so much precious mental and emotional real estate. \nBecause of the common but false assumption that grief should be time-limited\, too many of us believe we’re grieving “wrong” when sadness suddenly resurges sometimes months or even years after a loss. The AfterGrief explains that the death of a loved one isn’t something most of us get over\, get past\, put down\, or move beyond. Grief is not an emotion to pass through on the way to “feeling better.” Instead\, grief is in constant motion; it is tidal\, easily and often reactivated by memories and sensory events\, and is re-triggered as we experience life transitions\, anniversaries\, and other losses. Whether we want it to or not\, grief gets folded into our developing identities\, where it informs our thoughts\, hopes\, expectations\, behaviors\, and fears\, and we inevitably carry it forward into everything that follows. \nDrawing on her own encounters with the ripple effects of early loss\, as well as on interviews with dozens of researchers\, therapists\, and regular people who’ve been bereaved\, New York Times bestselling author Hope Edelman offers profound advice for reassessing loss and adjusting the stories we tell ourselves about its impact on our identities. With guidance for reframing a story of loss\, finding equilibrium within it\, and even experiencing renewed growth and purpose in its wake\, she demonstrates that though grief is a lifelong process\, it doesn’t have to be a lifelong struggle. \nAbout the Author:\nHope Edelman is the author of eight nonfiction books\, including the bestsellers Motherless Daughters and Motherless Mothers\, and the memoir The Possibility of Everything. Her original essays have appeared in many anthologies\, including The Bitch in the House\, Behind the Bedroom Door\, and Goodbye to All That. Her work has received a New York Times notable book of the year designation and a Pushcart Prize for creative nonfiction. The recipient of the 2020 Community Educator Award from the Association for Death Education and Counseling\, she is also certified as a Martha Beck Certified Life Coach\, and facilitates Motherless Daughters retreats and workshops all over the world. She lives and works in Los Angeles and Iowa City.
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Uche Okonkwo in conversation with Timothy Schaffert - A Kind of Madness
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 18th as author Uche Okonkwo launches her new book A Kind of Madness\, named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Oprah Daily!\nAbout the Book:\nA teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich\, vivacious friend\, but as the friend’s behavior grows unstable and dangerous\, she must decide whether to cover for her or risk telling the truth to get her the help she needs. A young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium–though when the offer fails to materialize\, that envy threatens to turn vicious\, pitting them both against their community. And a lonely daughter finds herself wandering a village in eastern Nigeria in an ill-fated quest\, struggling to come to terms with her mother’s mental illness. \nIn ten vivid\, evocative stories set in contemporary Nigeria\, Uche Okonkwo’s A Kind of Madness unravels the tensions between mothers and daughters\, husbands and wives\, best friends\, siblings\, and more\, marking the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and inviting us all to consider the question: why is it that the people and places we hold closest are so often the ones that drive us to madness? \nAbout the Author:\nUche Okonkwo’s stories have been published in A Public Space\, One Story\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019\, and Lagos Noir\, among others. A former Bernard O’Keefe Scholar at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and resident at Art Omi\, she is a recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy and a Steinbeck Fellowship. Okonkwo grew up in Lagos\, Nigeria\, and is currently pursuing a creative writing PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. \nAbout Timothy Schaffert:\nTimothy Schaffert is the author of seven novels\, most recently THE PERFUME THIEF and THE TITANIC SURVIVORS BOOK CLUB. His work has been recommended by the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Oprah.com\, People\, NPR\, NBC New York\, and other media. He is the Adele Hall Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\, and the co-editor/founder of Zero Street Fiction.
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SUMMARY:Author Visit - Kij Johnson - The Privilege of the Happy Ending: Small\, Medium\, and Large Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting event celebrating the new book from author Kij Johnson\, described as “a surprising and exciting new collection of speculative and experimental stories that explore animal intelligences\, gender\, and the nature of stories.”\nGo HERE to order your copy of The Privilege of the Happy Ending \nAbout the Book:\nThe Privilege of the Happy Ending collects award-winning writer Kij Johnson’s speculative fiction from the last decade. The stories explore gender\, animals\, and the nature of stories\, and range in form from classically told tales to deeply experimental works. The collection includes the World Fantasy Award-winning “The Privilege of the Happy Ending” and “The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe\,” as well as two never-before published works. \nAbout the Author:\nKij Johnson writes speculative and experimental fiction and has won the Hugo\, Nebula\, and World Fantasy Awards\, among others. She also writes and edits gaming materials and teaches creative writing\, novel idea generation\, and science fiction and fantasy lit. She was the associate director of the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction and the Ad Astra Center for Science Fiction and the Speculative Imagination\, both at the University of Kansas; now she assists with the nonprofit Ad Astra Institute\, exploring the intersection of speculative fiction\, STEM fields\, and creativity. \nPraise for The Privilege of the Happy Ending:\n-“Kij Johnson has an unrivaled gift for making the unreal real and the real unreal.” – Ursula K. Le Guin \n-“A rare gift for pulling readers directly into the heart of a story and capturing their attention completely.” – Library Journal \n“Johnson’s language is beautiful\, her descriptions of setting visceral\, and her characters compellingly drawn.” – Publisher’s Weekly
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SUMMARY:Book Talk ***at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Omaha- Sarah McCammon -The Exvangelicals
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Classics and Religious Studies is co-sponsoring a book signing with Sarah McCammon on April 14 for her new book\, The Exvangelicals. The event will be at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral\, and Francie & Finch will be there to see Sarah’s book! \nTrinity Episcopal Cathedral – 113 N. 18th St. in Omaha\nAbout the Book:\n“Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the ’80s and ’90s\, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God\, obey him\, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather would go to hell unless she could reach him\, or that her Muslim friend would need to be converted\, and that she\, too\, would go to hell if she did not believe fervently enough\, McCammon was a rule-follower and–most of the time–a true believer. But through it all\, she was increasingly plagued by fears and deep questions as the belief system she’d been carefully taught clashed with her expanding understanding of the outside world. After spending her early adult life striving to make sense of an unraveling worldview\, by her 30s\, she found herself face-to-face with it once again as she covered the Trump campaign for NPR\, where she witnessed first-hand the power and influence that evangelical Christian beliefs held on the political right. Sarah also came to discover that she was not alone: she is among a rising generation of the children of evangelicalism who are growing up and fleeing the fold\, who are thinking for themselves and deconstructing what feel like the “alternative facts” of their childhood.”–Provided by publisher \nAbout the Author:\nSarah McCammon is a National Political Correspondent for NPR and cohost of The NPR Politics Podcast. Her work focuses on political\, social and cultural divides in America\, including the intersections of politics and religion\, reproductive rights\, and the conservative movement. She is also a frequent guest host for NPR news magazines and has appeared on the BBC\, CNN\, PBS\, and MSNBC. During the 2016 election cycle\, Sarah was NPR’s lead political reporter assigned to the Donald Trump campaign and previously reported for NPR Member stations in Georgia\, Iowa\, and Nebraska. She lives in Norfolk\, Virginia with her husband and two children. \n 
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Erin Belieu - Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, April 10th at 5:30 to welcome poet and author Erin Belieu! She will be reading from her works of poetry titled Come-Hither Honeycomb and Slant Six. We’ll see you there!\nAbout the Author: \n\nErin Belieu’s poetry collection\, Come-Hither Honeycomb\, was published in February 2021. \nBelieu‘s other poetry collections are Infanta\, winner of the National Poetry Series\, and chosen one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post\, National Book Critics Circle\, and Library Journal; One Above & One Below\, winner of the Midland Author’s and Ohioana Poetry Prizes; Black Box\, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and Slant Six\, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly\, and was named by the New York Times’s book critic’s one of their 10 Favorite Books of 2014. All of Belieu’s poetry collections are published by Copper Canyon Press. \nBelieu has received admiring reviews for her poetry throughout her writing career. Book critic Dwight Garner in the New York Times says “Belieu is a poet who can’t abide pretension\,” and “She’s a comedian of the human spirit\, in league with poets from Frank O’Hara\, to Deborah Garrison\, to Tony Hoagland.” \nBelieu’s poetry has appeared in many magazines and anthologies\, including the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, Poetry\, Atlantic Monthly\, Slate\, Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review\, the Academy of American Poets Poem a Day\, and the American Poetry Review. Her poems have been selected for multiple appearances in the Best American Poetry anthology series. Her prizes include the Rona Jaffe Foundation fellowship\, and she was recently honored with the Barnes and Noble “Writers For Writers Award\, recognizing Belieu’s long career of literary activism\, as well as AWP’s George Garrett Prize\, honoring her “outstanding literary citizenship” in service to the national writing community. Belieu also founded the resistance network\, Writers Resist\, the organization that\, in January 2016\, hosted more than 100 simultaneous events in different cities worldwide to promote the tenets of democracy\, diversity\, and freedom of speech. \n\nStop by or call the shop today to get your copy of Erin’s books!
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Cynthia J. Sylvester with Timothy Schaffert - The Half-White Album
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, April 8th\, Francie & Finch Bookshop will be welcoming author Cynthia J. Sylvester! Cynthia will be joined in conversation with Timothy Schaffert about her debut novel The Half-White Album\, published by the University of New Mexico Press.\nPurchase a copy of The Half-White Album HERE\nAbout the Book:\nThe Half-White Album – This powerful debut collection explores lives lived between worlds. Sylvester masterfully weaves together fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction to give readers a poignant though fractured view of her characters’ lives\, their loves\, and their struggles. Told from the perspective of an urban Native\, the work details a journey led by the nomadic band\, the Covers. It is an experience meant to heal generational trauma and bring back into the light people who may otherwise be forgotten. At its heart\, The Half-White Album is a healing ceremony of the author’s own creation\, a process grounded in music that celebrates what it is to be human and imperfect and to love imperfectly. \nAbout the Author:\nCynthia J. Sylvester is an enrolled member of the Diné\, born into the Kiyaa’áanii Clan for the Bilagáana Clan. She is a native of Albuquerque\, New Mexico. Her flash fiction and short stories have appeared in ABQ in Print\, Leon Literary Review\, Lunch Ticket\, As Us Journal\, and Bosque–The Magazine\, among others. \nPraise:\n“The Half-White Album is an astounding healing performance of soulful losses and strong-hearted connections within Diné families\, friends\, and a people. Told through a multitude of carefully curated genres\, Cynthia Sylvester’s debut collection shares a song of restoration and grounding\, of humor and tragedy\, of ancestors and the individuals who live through them today.”–Natanya Ann Pulley\, author of With Teeth \n“The Half-White Album is a stunning powerhouse of literary music! Sylvester writes with deep heart and compassion\, introducing us to characters we can’t help but love\, even as they fall. Her lush\, gorgeous language is a song that heals not only the story but also the reader.”–Susan Power\, author of Sacred Wilderness \nThis compelling debut collection explores liminal spaces\, love\, trauma and healing through poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. Sylvester’s writing is radiant\, the musicality is visceral and the voices are captivating and prismatic.\n—Karla Strand\, Ms. Magazine
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SUMMARY:Book Launch -  Timothy Schaffert - The Titanic Survivors Book Club with Pat Leach\, former director of Lincoln City Libraries.
DESCRIPTION: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.\nPRE-ORDER your book HERE\nABOUT THE BOOK:\nIn 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.\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nAs 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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SUMMARY:First Friday Book Launch - The Nebraska Sandhills
DESCRIPTION: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!\nPre-order a copy of The Nebraska Sandhills HERE\nEdited by\nMonica M. Norby\nJudy Diamond\nAaron Sutherlen\nSherilyn C. Fritz\nKim Hachiya\nDouglas A. Norby\nMichael Forsberg \nAbout the Book:\n“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.” \nThis 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. \nThe 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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SUMMARY:Author Event - John Waters - River City One
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special author event on Tuesday\, November 14th at 5:30! We will be joined by author and Nebraska resident John Waters as he presents his novel River City One!\nJohn writes\, “I want people to know that war traumatizes everyone it touches.The feeling passes through marriages\, families and generations\, not just those who fight. Coming home is as complex and emotional as the conflict stories we so often tell. The only thing that redeems us is love.” \nAbout the Book:\nThe tale of a man and the memory that haunts him\, River City One is the poetic and compassionate story of John Walker\, a lawyer and ex-Marine adrift in a nameless city. Home from the war\, he has become a man on the edge\, quietly raging against the people he must now work for and live among—the kind of people incapable of understanding the terror he felt in combat and the guilt he carries in his heart. When he meets Ruth\, a beautiful\, famous singer traveling through the city\, John discovers a new passion for living. But as the lies pile up\, he takes more and more foolish risks to hold onto his family and the newfound love that threatens them both. Moving and lyrical\, River City One is the story of a man discovering that the hardest part of going to war is coming home to face yourself. \nAbout the Author:\nJohn J. Waters graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. He served in the Marine Corps as a scout sniper platoon commander and intelligence officer\, deploying to Afghanistan\, Iraq\, and East Africa. He lives with his family in Nebraska\, where he was born. \nPre-order a copy of the book HERE.
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Ae Hee Lee\, Siwar Masannat and Kelly Weber
DESCRIPTION:Join us at F&F on Tuesday\, April 2nd at 5:30 for an evening with Ae Hee Lee\, Siwar Masannat\, Kelly Weber!\nAbout the Authors:\nAe 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 \nSiwar 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. \nKelly 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. \nAbout the Books:\nASTERISM 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. \ncue 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. \nMasannat 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. \nYou 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. \nYou 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. \nYou 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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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Gail Shaffer Blankenau - Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska Territory
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, March 26th we will be joined by author Gail Shaffer Blankenau! She will be discussing her book Journey to Freedom\, the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory published by Bison Books of the University of Nebraska Press.\nAbout the Book:\nIn late November of 1858 two enslaved Black women—Celia Grayson\, age twenty-two\, and Eliza Grayson\, age twenty—escaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls household in southeastern Nebraska. John Williamson\, a man of African American and Cherokee descent from Iowa\, guided them through the dark to the Missouri River\, where they boarded a skiff and crossed the icy waters\, heading for their first stop on the Underground Railroad at Civil Bend\, Iowa. \nIn Journey to Freedom Gail Shaffer Blankenau provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of these two enslaved Black women from Nebraska City. Poised on the “frontier\,” the Graysons’ escape demonstrated that unique opportunities beckoned at the confluence of Nebraska\, Missouri\, Iowa\, and Kansas\, and their actions challenged slavery’s tentative expansion into the West and its eventual demise in an era of territorial fluidity. Their escape and the violence that followed prompted considerable debate across the country and led to the Nebraska legislature’s move to prohibit slavery. Drawing on multiple collections\, records\, and slave narratives\, Journey to Freedom sheds light on the Graysons’ courage and agency as they became high-profile figures in the national debate between proslavery and antislavery factions in the antebellum period. \nAbout the Author:\nGail Shaffer Blankenau is a professional genealogist\, historian\, speaker\, and author. She holds an MA degree in history from the\nUniversity of Nebraska–Kearney\, and in 2023 she received the James L. Sellers prize for her article about the Grayson sisters in a\nvolume of Nebraska History magazine. Blankenau is from Nebraska and currently lives in Lincoln. \nTo order a copy of Gail’s book from F&F\, click HERE
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