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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - The Lives of Immigrants and Refugees: Tales of Migration\, Hope\, Grief\, and Finding Home in Nebraska
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday September 16th at 5:30 as we hear stories from the new book from University of Nebraska Press\, The Lives of Immigrants and Refugees: Tales of Migration\, Hope\, Grief\, and Finding Home in Nebraska. We can’t wait to see you there!\nTo pre-order your copy\, follow the link HERE!\n\nAbout the Book:\nHuman beings have always migrated. To be on the move\, searching for a more hospitable climate\, greater resources\, and a welcoming community\, is part of our human DNA. All kinds of large\, uncontrollable forces—war\, the threat of genocide\, climatic changes\, political exile\, and economic hardship—propel people to leave behind everything familiar and begin their lives over again in a strange place\, sometimes with only the clothes on their backs. \nThe Lives of Immigrants and Refugees offers thirty-one essays by immigrants and refugees who now call Lincoln\, Nebraska\, home. These individuals have found support\, belonging\, and opportunity through the collaborative work of Lincoln’s New Americans Task Force members and the Lincoln/Lancaster County Welcoming and Belonging Strategic Plan. The stories in this book are brilliant\, harrowing\, poetic\, and revelatory. They’re also stories of survival\, resilience\, creativity\, and a staggering amount of work: learning a new language\, navigating a challenging immigration system\, being perceived as a foreigner\, struggling to grasp strange new customs and traditions\, working one’s way out of extreme poverty\, working through trauma and grief. Those of us who have had the good fortune of not being displaced have much to learn by listening. \nAbout the Editors:\nLeirion Gaylor Baird is the mayor of Lincoln\, Nebraska. \n\n\nMatthew F. Bokovoy is a senior acquisitions editor at the University of Nebraska Press\, specializing in Native American and Indigenous studies\, general nonfiction of the American West\, and borderlands history. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association\, New Mexico Historical Review\, and Reviews in American History. He is the author of The San Diego World’s Fairs and Southwestern Memory\, 1880–1940. \nLisa Guill is communications director at the Asian Community and Cultural Center. She is also the Welcoming Communities coordinator at Cultural Centers of Lincoln. \nMichelle Carr Hassler is associate professor emerita of journalism at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She was a newspaper reporter for sixteen years in Colorado\, Arizona\, and Nebraska. Hassler has received nine national teaching awards\, most from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication-refereed competitions and her students have won national and regional awards\, including the 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Digital Reporting. She was executive director of the Nebraska High School Press Association and received the R. Neale Copple Friend of Journalism Award in 2019. \nJoy Castro is Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies and director of the Institute of Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of the memoir The Truth Book (Nebraska\, 2012)\, the essay collection Island of Bones (Nebraska\, 2012)\, the fiction collection How Winter Began (Nebraska\, 2015)\, and the literary thrillers Hell or High Water\, Nearer Home\, Flight Risk\, and One Brilliant Flame. She edited Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family (Nebraska\, 2013)\, and serves as the founding editor of Machete\, a series in innovative creative nonfiction by underrepresented voices at Ohio State University Press. \nEmira Ibrahimpašić is associate professor of practice in School of Global Integrative Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her research articles have appeared in Translocal: Contemporary Local and Urban Cultures Journal\, Island Studies Journal\, and CAPA: The Global Education Network Academic Publications. \nPraise for the Book:\n“This important collection brings together academics and the Lincoln community to tell about how communities thrive as a result of immigration and change. These stories will make you cry and swell with compassion as you read the harrowing stories of trauma\, resilience\, and triumph directly from the pens of those who have lived through these adventures. These are American stories that reflect the bedrock notion that the United States\, Nebraska\, and Lincoln in particular have always been places that embrace immigrants from all over the world who come seeking a home to start a new life and become part of our community.”—María E. Montoya\, coauthor of Global Americans: A History of the United States \n“This important work chronicles how Lincoln\, Nebraska’s\, residents have created a welcoming haven for the world’s tired\, poor\, and huddled masses yearning to breathe freely. Recounting in first-hand narratives their past victimization\, these women and men simultaneously celebrate how Lincoln has incorporated them into the body politic. In this moment of harrowing national peril\, here is a powerful paradigm for welcoming strangers.”—Ramón A. Gutiérrez\, author of New Mexico’s Moses: Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement  \n“This book is a remarkable creative accomplishment. Beyond the sheer poignancy and power of the individual stories\, The Lives of Immigrants and Refugees is a testament to the ways in which municipal policy can and should intersect with public-facing scholarly work. Lincoln\, Nebraska\, can take a big measure of pride in the publication of this book for the ways it honors not only its immigrant and refugee neighbors but also the work of welcoming\, supporting\, and learning from them all.”—William Deverell\, professor of history and codirector of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Tlotlo Tsamaase - House of Margins
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, September 17th\, Francie and Finch Bookshop will welcome award winning author Tlotlo Tsamaase at 5:30 PM. She will be in conversation with writer Olajide Omojarabi. Tlotlo’s latest novel House of Margins\,“delivers a mesmerizing story of a young generation facing colonialism’s cultural legacy in Africa.” We can’t wait to see you there!\n“With melodic prose that stares down post-colonial racism\, the ‘true-crime’ commodification of missing and dead bodies\, and the infantilization of Black authors\, House of Margins is a brilliant work that gives the immersive feeling of being trapped in a nightmare. Interactive and deeply imagined\, Tlotlo Tsamaase has crafted a stunning examination of abuse\, cultural appropriation\, and eternal hauntings.” —Tamika Thompson\, author of The Curse of Hester Gardens\nTo order your copy of House of Margins\, follow the link HERE\nAbout the Book:\nSerial the podcast meets The Other Black Girl in a haunted house\, as young African author disappears after being invited to an exclusive writing residency\, and her sister is left only with a true crime podcast to help her uncover the truth about what really happened…Anaya Sebeya is missing.Before her disappearance\, Anaya was a brilliant writer: a rising star. Invited to a prestigious writing residency at Günter Huis\, an eerie colonial mansion on the slopes of Devil’s Peak\, Anaya was supposed to craft the next great African literary masterpiece—and so were four other young\, emerging writers\, all competing for the grand prize. But Anaya never made it home.When a sensationalized true crime podcast about Anaya emerges\, claiming to reveal everything that happened at Günter Huis\, her sister Ranewa is both skeptical and furious. But with each surreal episode\, Ranewa begins to piece together a truth worse than she ever could have imagined…At Günter Huis\, Anaya’s nightmares consume her. Time slips away from her. Günter Huis inflicts distorted visions and terrible supernatural visitations\, pushing Anaya to tell a story no one dares. But exorcising the house’s endless cycle of evil requires a sacrifice that neither Anaya nor her fellows are ready to make. \nIn House of Margins\, award-winning Motswana author Tlotlo Tsamaase delivers a mesmerizing story of a young generation facing colonialism’s cultural legacy in Africa. \n\n\nAbout the Author: Tlotlo Tsamaase is a Motswana author of House of Margins and The Silence of the Wilting Skin. Her novel\, Womb City\, is a Nommo Award winner\, an Ignyte and Locus Award finalist. Her debut YA fantasy\, The Bloodwinds\, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2027.  A Caine Prize finalist\, she received support from the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Tlotlo’s short fiction has appeared in Africa Risen\, New Suns 2\, The Best of World SF Volume 1\, Clarkesworld\, and other publications. She is a Rhysling Award nominee and a Bessie Head Short Story Award winner. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Botswana and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University. She is currently a PhD student in English (Creative Writing) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She can be found at tlotlotsamaase.com\n\nAbout the Moderator: Olajide Omojarabi is a Nigerian writer. His essays and fiction have appeared in Ploughshares\, Guernica\, Off Assignment\, Barren Magazine\, Lolwe and adda. He has received scholarship from Key West Literary Seminar and the Sundress Academy For The Arts. He’s a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.\n\nMore Praise for House of Margins:\n“House of Margins skillfully dissects bloody colonial history with a tale of sisterly devotion\, righteous anger\, and sacrifice too big for one person to shoulder. This will live with me for a long time. Make no mistake—Tsamaase pulls no punches.” —Vincent Tirado\, author of You Should Have Been Nicer To My Mom “Taking aim at colonization\, Tsamaase masterfully utilizes the gothic genre to blend the unfolding horror of the house with the horror of a brutal regime that destroyed people\, culture\, and land in ways that reverberate to this day. A stunning commentary that balances atrocity with art\, House of Margins is a must-read for fans of gothic horror the world over.” —Maria Tureaud\, author of This House Will Feed\n \n“Identity\, ambition\, and the deep wounds of South Africa’s colonial heritage collide in this razor-sharp horror-mystery that horrifies and haunts well past the last page. . . Tsamaase’s latest (after Womb City) is mesmerizing and compulsively readable. . .”—Library Journal starred review
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SUMMARY:Book Celebration - Luis Othoniel Rosa - El Gato En El Remolino/Animal Spiral
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of his new book El Gato En El Remolino\, and the English language version\, translated by Katie Marya\, Animal Spiral.\nTo order the Spanish language version\, El Gato En El Remolino\, follow the link HERE!\nTo order the English language version\, Animal Spiral\, follow the link HERE! \nAbout the Book:\nThe post-colonial birth\, life\, and death of the collective consciousness known as the Animal. \nMiddle-aged streamer twins in Bayam n\, Puerto Rico\, are the first human beings to successfully connect–sharing their consciousness across 34 translucent cables. In that moment\, the Animal is born\, an intracerebral force that quickly grows to encompass anthills of synaptically entwined bodies\, a floating library kitchen redolent of rice and beans far above the Mississippi river\, and a transhuman compound in a future Cuba on the Isle of Youth. \nCircling back and forth and ever progressing\, Animal Spiral moves through 400 years of human\, and then post-human history\, beginning with a revolution on the streets of San Juan and ending with five brilliant siblings: the Squash (humanoid)\, Calima (beetles)\, Yemay (eels)\, Coatlicue (serpents)\, and Jurac n (anthropomorphic birds)\, who have millions of bodies and all the world’s intelligence\, but only want to no longer be alone. This is a buoyant\, joyous ode to possibility\, a warning about the dangers of neglecting what makes us human\, and an astonishing exercise of the flexibility and capacity of liminal spaces. Loneliness is a collective disease We defend our right to madness Brave are not the ones who resist; brave are the ones who let go. \nAbout the Author:\nLuis Othoniel Rosa is a Puerto Rican writer from Bayamón. He studied at the University of Puerto Rico and holds a PhD from Princeton University\, and his work engages with questions of literature\, politics and form.Katie Marya is the author of Sugar Work\, the Editor’s Choice for the 2020 Alice James Book Award\, and the translator of Luis Othoniel Rosa’s novel Animal Spiral (2026). She has been awarded the James Dickey Prize in Poetry from Five Points and support from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Murray State University. \nAbout the Translator:\nKatie Marya is the author of Sugar Work\, the Editor’s Choice for 2020 Alice James Book Award. Her poetry\, creative nonfiction\, and translations have appeared in literary magazines such as AGNI\, North American Review\, Waxwing\, Salamander\, Fence\, and on the national poetry podcast The Slowdown Show. She lives in Nebraska and teaches writing a the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Chet Hardin - The Vampire’s Cult
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, September 25th as we welcome journalist and author Chet Hardin. Published in August 2026\, Hardin’s new book The Vampire’s Cult exposes the twisted world of Aubrey Trail\, an aging con man who presented himself as an all-powerful being\, and Bailey Boswell\, the woman who called herself his “queen.” Henry J. Cordes\, author of Pathological: The Murderous Rage of Dr. Anthony Garcia\, tells Hardin’s readers\, “If you thought the 2017 murder of Sydney Loofe was bizarre\, you don’t know the half of it until you’ve read Chet Hardin’s amazing account of the disappearance and murder that captivated Nebraska. Deeply reported and well-written\, it offers amazing jailhouse insight into how the minds of Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell became so strangely and tragically twisted. A great addition to the legacy of true crime on the Great Plains.”\nWe’ll see you there!\nTo order a copy from Francie & Finch\, follow the link HERE.  \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nWhen twenty-four-year-old Sydney Loofe disappeared after a Tinder date\, the quiet town of Wilber\, Nebraska was stunned. Days later\, her dismembered body was found scattered across nearby fields—and the horrifying truth began to emerge. Sydney hadn’t just met the wrong man. She had crossed paths with a deeply disturbed psychopath and his dangerous accomplice. \nIn The Vampire’s Cult\, investigative journalist Chet Hardin exposes the twisted world of Aubrey Trail\, an aging con man who presented himself as an all-powerful being\, and Bailey Boswell\, the woman who called herself his “queen.” Together\, they lured vulnerable young women into a spiral of sex\, theft\, and psychological manipulation—with deadly consequences. \nThrough exclusive interviews\, firsthand reporting\, and chilling detail\, Hardin unravels the making of a modern cult—and the social desperation that feeds it. In an era defined by false realities and toxic charisma\, The Vampire’s Cult reveals just how easily darkness can disguise itself as devotion. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nChet Hardin is an award-winning investigative journalist and the coauthor of The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of Nxivm. \nFor more information or if you would like to request an interview with the author\, please contact Robin Wane at robin.wane@sourcebooks.com \nEARLY REVIEWS\n“Beware: The Vampire’s Cult is neither horror nor true crime. It so marvelously combines the two genres it may require a new genre: horror crime. Hardin tells a terrible tale of an evil cult who committed murder in a small town in Nebraska and the consequences to all involved. His telling of the tale will leave you captivated\, if not mesmerized.” – Harry Maclean\, author of Starkweather \n“Chet Hardin was the first journalist to give me a voice. He didn’t just listen to me; he understood what it means to survive something people don’t want to believe. In The Vampire’s Cult\, he brings that same persistence and clarity to a case that reveals just how far manipulation and control can go… Dark\, unsettling\, and at times so absurd it almost disarms you – until it doesn’t. I’ve seen firsthand how these dynamics take hold – and this book exposes not just what happened\, but how the right vulnerabilities\, in the wrong hands\, can be shaped into something unthinkable.” – Toni Natalie\, author of The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM \n“In the terrifying true crime thriller The Vampire’s Cult\, author Chet Hardin sharpens his investigative knives to penetrate a graphic and disturbing crime in America’s heartland\, while also unmasking a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde hellbent on ritualistic murder. The writing is crisp and the narrative moves at the speed of a locomotive. This powerful book also begs the question: when I open an app\, am I allowing the devil inside?” – Casey Sherman\, New York Times bestselling author of Helltown and The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright \n“Chet Hardin is a fearless journalist who helped to expose the notorious ‘sex cult’ known as NXIVM. Now he applies that same skill to exploring the manipulation of deadly Nebraska cult leader Aubrey Trail. Like NXIVM leader Keith Raniere\, Trail used his powers of persuasion for sex and sadism. It takes someone like Chet to dig deep into such behavior\, which gives readers a better understanding of its chilling context.”  – Rick Alan Ross\, founder and executive director of the Cult Education Institute
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Speaker - Amanda Beard: Finding Strength Through Struggle Seven-time Olympic Swim Medalist***Event at St. Mark's United Methodist Church
DESCRIPTION:Olympic Medalist Amanda Beard will speak at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church on October 8th\, about her mental health struggles starting at a young age\, finding her voice over time\, seeking help and learning effective coping skills. Her story reminds audiences of all ages that even the strongest people can struggle and that healing is possible. She will be speaking\, with an opportunity for Q&A\, from 6:30-7:30\, followed by a book signing at 7:30. Books can be purchased onsite during the event from Francie & Finch. \nPlease register if you plan on attending by following the link HERE.\nAttend a mental health fair before and after the program. Doors open at 6 p.m. \nEvent Address:\nSt. Mark’s United Methodist Church\n8550 Pioneers Blvd.\, Lincoln\, NE\n\nAbout the Author/Speaker:\nAmanda Beard is a four-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist. She rose to fame as the second youngest swimmer in history to medal with one gold and two silvers. But outside the pool\, she faced hidden struggles with depression\, body image and self-worth.\n\nAbout the Book:\nIn her New York Times bestselling memoir\, international swimming star Amanda Beard reveals the truth about coming of age in the Olympic spotlight\, the demons she battled along the way\, and the newfound happiness that proved to be her greatest victory. \nSHE WAS DROWNING IN PLAIN SIGHT \nAt the tender age of fourteen\, Amanda Beard walked onto the pool deck at the Atlanta Olympics carrying her teddy bear\, Harold\, and left with two silvers and a gold medal. She competed in three more Olympic games\, winning a total of seven medals\, and enjoyed a lucrative modeling career on the side. \nYet despite her astonishing career and sex-symbol status\, Amanda felt unworthy of all her success. Unaware that she was suffering from clinical depression\, she hid the pain beneath a megawatt smile. In her late teens and twenties\, she became bulimic\, abused drugs and alcohol\, and started cutting herself. \nHer low self-esteem led to toxic relationships with high-profile men in the sports world. No one\, not even her own parents and friends\, knew about the turmoil she was going through. In these pages\, she speaks frankly about her struggles with depression\, the pressures to be thin\, and the unhealthy relationships she confused for love. In the Water They Can’t See You Cry is a raw\, compelling story of a woman who gained the strength to live as bravely out of the water as she did in it.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Mary Pipher - Letters to a Young Therapist: Updated Edition
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate with Mary Pipher on October 13th at 5:30! Her new edition of Letters to a Young Therapist will be available for purchase and Mary will be here to sign copies!\nTo pre-order a copy of the book\, call the shop or follow the link HERE! \nAbout the Book:\nA bestselling author and gifted healer’s guidance on how therapy can restore us in an increasingly stressful world. \n“A wise and compassionate book.” -Washington Post \nIn Letters to a Young Therapist\, psychologist Mary Pipher shares what she has learned in thirty years of clinical practice helping warring families\, alienated adolescents\, and harried professionals restore peace and beauty to their lives. Through an exhilarating mix of storytelling and sharp-eyed observation\, Pipher reveals her refreshingly inventive approach to therapy-fiercely optimistic\, free of dogma or psychobabble\, and laced with generous warmth and practical common sense. Whether she’s recommending daily swims for a sluggish teenager\, encouraging a timid husband to become bolder\, or simply bearing witness to a bereaved parent’s sorrow\, Pipher’s compassion and insight shine from every page. Now updated with a preface discussing how COVID and the digital sphere have divided us from our true selves\, each other\, and the natural world\, Letters to a Young Therapist is a powerfully engaging guide to living a healthy life. \nAbout the Author:\nMary Pipher is the author of eleven books. Women Rowing North\, The Shelter of Each Other\, Another Country\, and Reviving Ophelia were New York Times best sellers. Pipher has traveled all over the world speaking to psychologists\, students\, health-care professionals\, and community groups. She lives in Lincoln\, Nebraska. \nPraise for Book:\n“A wise and compassionate book.” — Washington Post \n“In Letters\, Pipher comes across as more of a tribal elder than clinician\, an empathetic observer offering solid advice that just happens to be supported by decades of research and experience.” — Florida Times-Union \n“Pipher’s book just might be one of the most soothing books you’ll ever read.” —The Plain Dealer \n“[Pipher’s] methods are down-to-earth and described in a refreshingly straightforward manner.”– Plain Dealer \n“Letters to a Young Therapist is upbeat. It sees life’s proverbial cup as half full.”– Lincoln Journal Star \n“What comes through is a skilled therapist who rejects superficial trends\, who looks to the past to see what’s missing in the present\, and who is firmly rooted in people\, place and nature.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution \n“Giving advice seems to be second nature to her.” — Kirkus \n“Refreshing\, informative and insightful.” — Publishers Weekly \n“Mary Pipher is a national treasure. Everyone\, not just therapists\, can benefit from this wise\, compassionate\, lovely book.” — Jean Kilbourne\, author of Can’t Buy My Love \n“Writing with her usual grace\, compassion and humility\, Pipher once again proves herself to be a magnificent storyteller and a wise\, trustworthy guide for our times. She speaks straight to the heart.” — Harriet Lerner\, Ph.D.\, author of The Dance of Anger \n “Mary Pipher makes me proud to be a therapist.” — William J. Doherty\, author of Take Back Your Marriage \n“What shines through the pages of this small book is Mary Pipher’s abundant wisdom\, rare compassion\, simple courage\, disarming charm\, and outrageous simplicity.”– Sam Keen\, author of Fire in the Belly \n“Mary Pipher’s tidy\, cordial book is so crammed with spunk and wide-ranging wisdom I wish it were required reading for all three branches of government. Pipher has done what we want therapists to do—she’s shared with us her love of life and hatred of cruelty and her hope for all of us.” — Carol Bly\, author of Beyond the Writers’ Workshop
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/book-launch-mary-pipher-letters-to-a-young-therapist-updated-edition/
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