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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Colby Coash - Running Naked: Surviving the Legacy of Family in Rural Nebraska
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, August 10th at 4:30\, former state senator and author of the new memoir Running Naked: Surviving the Legacy of Family in Rural Nebraska\, Colby Coash\, will be sharing his work with guests at Francie & Finch Bookshop! We’ll see you there!\nAbout the Book:\nFROM DUSTY ROADS AND DEAD ENDS\, A NEBRASKA NATIVE SON FINDS HIS WAY\nA former Nebraska state senator hails from the heart of rural Nebraska—tiny Bassett\, Nebraska\, population 1\,010—where his father and grandfather owned and operated the fertilizer plant\, the backbone of the rural community. Born into the tapestry of small-town existence\, Coash’s narrative unfolds against the backdrop of tight-knit neighbors and the enduring spirit of the American small town. \nIn this inspiring coming-of-age memoir. Coash chronicles the challenges of the rural economy on his father and his fertilizer business\, captures the heart of the heartland in growing up in a place where everybody knows you\, painfully tells how his mother abandoned the family for California dreams\, and reveals why he\, too\, couldn’t get out of town fast enough. Becoming a fertilizer man like his father was not in his future. \nHis journey takes him running shockingly naked across the theater stage in college to the hallowed halls of the Nebraska State Capitol as a senator\, with a passion for something beyond the confines of his hometown as he pursued a greater purpose—and one that makes his father proud. \nHonest\, unfiltered\, with dreams as ephemeral as the tumbleweeds that surrounded him\, Coash runs from his small-town roots into a life of purpose fulfilled by one of life’s great joys: his own role as a father. \nAbout the Author:\nColby Coash has extended his political experience as a state senator into lobbying for education. He lives in Lincoln\, Nebraska\, with his wife\, Rhonda\, and his own legacy\, Cole. He even gets a movie role once in a while.
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Jerry Bockoven - What Rhymes With Therapy?: Poetic Pathways to Hope and Healing in Troubled Times
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, August 17th at 4:30! Dr. Jerry Bockoven will be presenting his book What Rhymes With Therapy?: Poetic Pathways to Hope and Healing in Troubled Times\, a book where “each poem is like a therapy session that offers insights and directions designed to make you strong and resilient in a time when the world’s problems push to erode and weaken.” We can’t wait to see you there!\nFollow the link HERE to get your copy today!\nAbout the Book:\nIt is easy to get lost. One minute you’re hiking along a beautiful trail enjoying the wonders of nature\, and the next thing you know\, you have made a wrong turn and don’t know where you are. You look around for signs that will reorient you\, but no such signs appear. It is then that your mind starts to panic\, and more than anything else in the world\, you long to be home again. \nThe outer world is only one place we can get lost. The ever-growing number of problems we are currently facing as a culture can put so much stress on us that we begin to lose the way that leads to emotional health and well-being. Some get lost in depression and anxiety\, where they are trapped in an emotional torture chamber. Some wander into the dark forest of anger\, where they fight an unwinnable battle against the rest of the world. Others get lost in the past as they grieve unthinkable losses and struggle to free themselves from the clutches of past traumas. Still others lose their way in their relationships as those once cherished connections start to sour and grow bitter. \nWhat Rhymes with Therapy is a road map for those times when we get lost and cannot find our way home. Using the unique language of poetry\, What Rhymes with Therapy describes the way emotional and relational problems work and how they can be successfully addressed. Each poem is like a therapy session that offers insights and directions designed to make you strong and resilient in a time when the world’s problems push to erode and weaken. So if you are feeling the burden of being unable to find your way to the health and well-being you want and need\, consider these poetic pathways as guides that lead back to the safety\, peace\, and health of home. \nAbout the Author:\nJerry Bockoven is a native of Lincoln\, Nebraska and a lifelong Huskers fan (even when they are losing). Holding a master’s degree in divinity and a Ph.D. in psychology\, he has worked as a parish minister\, leadership consultant\, public speaker and non-profit administrator. He was the chair of the psychology department at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 2002-2011 and currently holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Psychology. In addition\, his work as a psychologist has spanned 30 plus years during which time he conducted therapy with individuals\, couples and families addressing a wide variety of relational and emotional challenges. Prior to his retirement in 2020\, he worked exclusively with veteran’s issues at the VA in Lincoln. He has published several academic articles and has recently completed his first book entitled “What Rhymes with Therapy.” \nIn his spare time\, Dr. Bockoven enjoys spending time with his family and friends\, traveling\, playing guitar\, doing close-up magic\, and surviving Midwest winters.
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Celebration- Ava Nathaniel Winter - Transgenesis
DESCRIPTION:Poet Ava Nathaniel Winter will be launching her new book Transgenesis at Francie & Finch Bookshop on September 21st a 4:30. We are excited to celebrate this new work\, recently featured in the New York Times Book Review\, and hailed by fellow authors as “fearless” and “timely”. We can’t wait to see you there!\nTo order a signed copy of Transgenesis\, follow the link HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nAn excavatory collection of poems tracing the connections between Jewish transfemininity\, queer desire\, and cultural histories. Selected by Sean Hill for the National Poetry Series\, this collection is a scrupulous chronicle of individual and cultural knowledge. In an exceptional debut\, Ava Nathaniel Winter challenges our concepts of the beautiful and the sacred\, delving not only into the historically marginalized\, but also into the chilling subconscious of supremacy. “Let me be clear / from this beginning\,” she writes\, “What I mean by beauty / is a terror I have fled from / into language.” \nWinter writes with a documentarian’s attention\, a poet’s resonance. “I’m trying\,” she admits\, “to find language for what we do / to one another.” From Lódź\, Poland\, to predominantly white suburban America\, from the space shared by queer lovers to antique cabinets filled with Nazi memorabilia\, from Talmudic depictions of genderqueer rabbis to archival lynching photos\, she regards the tender and the difficult with equal gravity\, commemorates the fraught gift of survival. \nAt the heart of this collection–despite its moments of profound darkness–is a new\, hard-won holiness. The “earthy aroma of rye” calling up a mother’s baking\, her mother’s\, hers. Belief in a lover’s lavishing. A chosen future\, one where we are “reader\, sibling\, sister.” If Transgenesis began in fear of beauty\, where it lands is this: “turning at last / to face her.”\n \nAbout the Author:\nAva Nathaniel Winter is the author of Transgenesis\, a winner of the National Poetry Series. Her poetry has appeared in The Baffler\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Best New Poets\, New Poetry From the Midwest\, Poetry International\, TriQuarterly\, and elsewhere. Ava served as a Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University and received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. She holds an M.F.A. from the Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln\, where she teaches in the Department of English and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. \nPraise for Transgenesis:\nThese poems of eros\, erudition\, and epistemologies achieve more than the sum of their parts; they hold the body in a care that’s rare in life and rarer still in words. Winter’s debut is a finely wrought gem\, one that doesn’t shy away from centering the grand yet vexed idea of love—but rather expands on what love can do\, what it is\, and\, ultimately\, who it is for.—Ocean Vuong\, author of Time is a Mother \nIn this fearless exploration of gender and identity\, Ava Nathaniel Winter meditates on the ways humiliation and degradation shape us all. Navigating a path forward by engaging the pasts of Jewish forebears\, those who survived the Holocaust and those who did not\, Winter contemplates both the nature of desire and the global consequences of racism\, sexism\, transphobia\, and colonialism. The poet courageously faces her own complicity in these matters of ongoing marginalization and oppression\, writing with compassion and psychological acuity into the deep work of creating and maintaining an authentic self among others. The scope of Transgenesis\, along with its crucial discoveries\, are timely reminders of our common humanity\, in all its flaws and struggles. —Kathy Fagan\, author of Bad Hobby
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Kwame Dawes - Sturge Town
DESCRIPTION:Francie and Finch Bookshop is pleased to announce the date for a special book launch for esteemed author Kwame Dawes! On August 23rd at 6:00 PM\, Kwame will be reading from his new book of poetry Sturge Town\, hailed by Herman Sutter of the Library Journal as “filled with tenderness\, curiosity\, and compassion for what has been and what might be”.\nWe can’t wait to see you there!\nPre-Order Your Copy HERE\nAbout the Book:\nIn this stunning volume\, acclaimed poet Kwame Dawes explores the mythic\, ancestral\, and spiritual journeys that make up a life.\nThe site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes’s family\, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica\, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and\, for Dawes\, a metaphor of the journeying that has taken him from Ghana\, through Jamaica\, and to the United States. The poet ranges through time\, pursued by a keen sense of mortality\, and engages in an intimate dialogue with the reader—serious\, confessional\, alarmed\, and sometimes teasing. Metrically careful and sonorous\, these poems engage in a personal dialogue with the reader\, serious\, confessional\, alarmed and sometimes teasing. They create highly visualized spaces\, observed\, remembered\, imagined\, the scenes of both outward and inner journeys. Whether finding beauty in the quotidian or taking astonishing imaginative leaps\, these poems speak movingly of self-reflection\, family crises\, loss\, transcendence\, the shattering realities of political engagement\, and an unremitting investment in the vivid indeterminacy of poetry. \nFrom “Recall”:\nOh\, pipe me back to my familiar earth\,\nfor it is slipping slowly from me. \nAbout the Author:\nKwame Dawes is the author of numerous books of poetry and other books of fiction\, criticism\, and essays. Dawes is a George W. Holmes University Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner. He is a chancellor emeritus for the Academy of American Poets and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawes is the winner of the Windham-Campbell Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2022\, Kwame Dawes was awarded the Order of Distinction Commander class by the Government of Jamaica. He lives in Lincoln\, Nebraska. \nPraise for Sturge Town:\n“Like one of his heroes\, Bob Marley\, Dawes changes not just the way readers look at the world but the lens through which they see reality. His is a transcendent vision\, filled with tenderness\, curiosity\, and compassion for what has been and what might be.” – Herman Sutter\, Library Journal \n“Wise and generous\, this illustrates a poetic journey toward self-understanding.” – Publishers Weekly
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - John Janovy\, Jr. PhD - Life Lessons From a Parasite: What Tapeworms\, Flukes\, Lice\, and Roundworms Can Teach Us About Humanity's Most Difficult Problems
DESCRIPTION:Author and prize-winning scientist John Janovy\, Jr. PhD will be visiting Francie & Finch Bookshop to present his new book Life Lessons From a Parasite on Saturday\, 8/24! You don’t want to miss this fun and educational event. We’ll see you there!\nPre-Order Your Copy of the Book HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nThe answers to life’s biggest questions can be found by looking at the little things…\nLife’s most profound revelations often emerge from the most unexpected sources. While sometimes imperceptible to the naked eye\, parasites inhabit our everyday lives. From headlice to bird droppings\, litterboxes to unfiltered water\, you have crossed paths time and time again with the most common way of life on our planet—living in (and off off) other organisms. In Life Lessons from a Parasite\, parasitologist John Janovy Jr.\, PhD\, reveals what humans can learn from the most reviled yet misunderstood animals on earth. \nIn Life Lessons from a Parasite\, Janovy discusses:\nHow the worm N. texomensis showed how seemingly simple problems can have solutions that defy the finest minds\nHow microscopic flagellate living in maggots taught him resilience\nThat like worms and bacteria\, harmful ideas can infect our minds and those of our leaders \nAbout the Author:\nPrize-winning scientist and teacher John Janovy\, Jr.\, PhD\, is emeritus professor of biology of the University of Nebraska and lives in Lincoln\, NE. \nPraise for the book:\n“In nature\, as in society\, the parasites outnumber the hosts. John Janovy Jr. offers the parasites’ view of this situation. The result is smart\, funny\, and all too revealing.”— Elizabeth Kolbert\, staff writer for The New Yorker and New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction \n“This book\, a love song to research scientists\, is written with the hope that we ordinary humans can learn from their work. Janovy implores his readers to base their conclusions on evidence\, rather than being swayed by the many infectious and false ideas in our culture. He stresses that successful organisms adapt to\, rather than deny\, a changing reality. And he stresses the uniqueness of every organism\, no matter how small. Most of all he shows us the complexity and beauty of parasites. After reading this book\, I’ll never look at mosquitos in the same way again.” — Dr. Mary Pipher\, author of Letters to a Young Therapist \n“Professor John Janovy Jr. is one of the one of the great thinkers in the field of parasitology\, and our understanding of host parasite relationships. I’m thrilled that now he has synthesized his thinking in this important new book. It is especially timely given how students in parasitology lately go right to the molecules or the cells without the context of the whole organism biology. His new book will help remind us of what we are missing!” — Peter Hotez\, MD\, PhD\, DSc (hon)\, FASTMH\, FAAP\, author of The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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