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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Chris Quigg in conversation with Ken Bloom - Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty\, Truth\, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, September 4th\, as author Chris Quigg joins in conversation with Ken Bloom about his new book Grace in All Simplicity!\nTo pre-order your signed copy\, follow the link HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nAn enthralling and accessible account of humanity’s quest to make sense of our physical world\, told through interwoven tales of inspiration\, tragedy\, and triumph. How do the remarkable recent discoveries of the Higgs boson\, dark matter\, and dark energy connect with the equally revolutionary discoveries in centuries past? In Grace in All Simplicity\, readers will delight in Cahn and Quigg’s engaging prose and see how the infinite and the infinitesimal are joined. Today\, physicists and astronomers are exploring distances from a billionth of a billionth of the human scale to the entire cosmos\, and contemplating time intervals that range from less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second out to far longer than the age of the universe. Leaving home in this metaphorical way requires devising new instruments that spectacularly expand our senses and conceiving original ways of thinking that expand our minds. This is at once an act of audacity and an exercise in humility. \nGrace in All Simplicity narrates the saga of how we have prospected for some of Nature’s most tightly held secrets\, the basic constituents of matter and the fundamental forces that rule them. Our current understanding of the world (and universe) we inhabit is the result of curiosity\, diligence\, and daring\, of abstraction and synthesis\, and of an abiding faith in the value of exploration. In these pages we will meet scientists of both past and present. These men and women are professional scientists and amateurs\, the eccentric and the conventional\, performers and introverts. Scientists themselves\, Cahn and Quigg convey their infectious joy as they search for new laws of nature. \nJoin the adventure as scientists ascend mountain tops and descend into caverns deep underground\, travel to the coldest places on Earth\, and voyage back in time to near the birth of the Universe. Visit today’s great laboratories and the astounding instruments they house. Grace in All Simplicity is a thrilling voyage filled with improbable discoveries and the extraordinary community of people who make them. Together\, we will travel the path to the Higgs boson\, weigh the evidence for subliminal dark matter\, and learn what makes scientists invoke a mysterious agent named “dark energy.” We will behold the emergence of a compelling picture of matter and forces\, simple in its structure\, graceful in the interplay of its parts\, but still tantalizingly incomplete. \nAbout the Author:\nChris Quigg is Distinguished Scientist Emeritus at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He graduated in physics at Yale before moving to Berkeley. He is the author of an acclaimed text on gauge theories and critical works on high-energy collisions\, quarks\, neutrinos\, and the Higgs boson. He received the American Physical Society’s Sakurai Prize for theoretical physics and the German Alexander von Humboldt Prize. \nAbout Ken Bloom:\nKen Bloom is Willa Cather Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.  He is an experimental particle physicist\, and has spent his career exploring the graceful phenomena described in Cahn and Quigg’s book.  He has also had the pleasure of knowing Chris Quigg for nearly 30 years. \nReview for the Book:\n“A captivating book that reveals the interconnectedness of science’s most profound advances.” —Kirkus Reviews  \n\n\n\n\n“The path taken that led to our emerging view of the Universe is neither simple or graceful\, but spell-binding and charming in all its human complexities.” —Professor Steven Chu\, Nobel laureate\, Professor of Physics\, Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Environmental Science and Engineering\, Stanford University \n“Erudite yet accessible\, Grace in All Simplicity interweaves scientific adventure with remarkable human stories. Grace is also personal\, as the authors Cahn and Quigg themselves participated in—and were affected by—many of these great discoveries. This makes the book a fine embarkation for those just beginning their journey\, for those already on a scientific path\, or for anyone who has followed this great story.” —David Saltzberg\, Professor of physics and astronomy\, University of California Los Angeles\, Science Consultant for The Big Bang Theory\, Young Sheldon\, and Oppenheimer
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Bruce E. Whitacre - Good Housekeeping
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 12th as we welcome back poet Bruce E. Whitacre to Francie & Finch Bookshop to read from his new book Good Housekeeping!\nTo order your copy go to the link HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nThe contradictions of privilege and want\, the dynamics of gay marriage\, the joy of a good cocktail – all enter the mix as these 31 poems explore home\, marriage\, travel\, war\, sensuality\, tea\, and\, yes\, housekeeping. Selected as an Editor’s Pick by BookLife Reviews\, Good Housekeeping includes “The Foldout Couch\,” which was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize. Some poems have appeared in The Journal of American Poetry\, The Mandarin Magazine\, and World Literature Today\, among other places. \nMainstream audiences\, LGBTQA+\, and readers who are interested in social justice and climate issues will enjoy these poems. Comparative titles include Carolyn Forch ‘s In the Lateness of the World and Mark Wunderlich’s God of Nothingness. \nAbout the Author:\nGood Housekeeping is forthcoming in 2024 from Poets Wear Prada and is a BookLife Reviews Editors Pick. Bruce E. Whitacre’s debut collection\, The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks\, was also a BookLife Reviews Editors Pick and Indy Spotlight. It placed 2nd in Contemporary Poetry at The BookFest Spring 2023 and was a Finalist in Narrative Poetry in the American BookFest Best Book Awards 2023. Publications include The American Journal of Poetry\, World Literature Today\, Life and Legends\, The Mandarin\, Nine Cloud Journal. Published in anthologies from Southern Arizona Press (Castles and Courtyards\, 2023\, and The Wonders of Winter\, 2022) and Milk and Cake Press (I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe\, 2021). “Leave Meeting” was a sample poem in Diane Lockward’s craft book\, The Strategic Poet\, Terrapin Books\, 2021. He has garnished nominations for Pushcart and Best of the Net. A Nebraska native\, he lives with his husband in Queens\, NY. \nPrior to devoting full-time to writing\, his management career included executive positions in public accounting\, publishing\, international economic development\, banking\, and theatre. \n 
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - To the Bone - Alena Bruzas in conversation with author Kelsy Burke
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting book launch with the “Depraved Writers Club”! Alena Bruzas and author of Pornography Wars\, Kelsy Burke\, will launch Alena’s new novel by discussing how they handle writing dark or controversial subject matter as well as how Alena conceived of the idea of To the Bone.\nTo pre-order your signed copy follow the link HERE!\nAbout the Book: YA novel for ages 14+\nA young woman goes hungry—and falls in love—in the Virginia Company’s colony of James Fort.\nThe year is 1609\, and Ellis has traveled alone across the ocean from England to be an indentured servant to Henry Collins. She’s come to seek a better life\, her family back home fractured by death and poverty\, but she soon learns that this land is no undiscovered Eden\, ripe for the taking. Tensions are rising between the Indigenous Powhatan people and the invading European settlers\, and the cruelty of claim-laying extends to Ellis’ own hearth\, where Henry treats her as property and abuses both her and his pregnant wife. Meanwhile\, winter draws ever closer\, and with it the specter of starvation. A bright light in all this darkness is Jane\, a spritely young woman who loves Ellis fiercely and shamelessly. Ellis loves her\, too—as secretly as she can\, given Henry’s violent disapproval. The two are friends with Rowan\, a deeply kind young man who’s come to the settlement alone; he’s their companion in misadventure as they seek sustenance and survival. Bruzas pulls no punches with her lean\, lyrical prose. Ellis’ voice is entirely convincing\, her quiet observations of people and situations around her perfectly embedded in her own experiences even as they elucidate for a contemporary audience the brutal harm done by her settlement. \nAbout the Author:\nAlena Bruzas grew up in Seattle and currently lives in Lincoln\, Nebraska\, with her family. She is the author of the acclaimed novel Ever Since\, and she hopes her writing will find the people who need it most. When she’s not writing\, Alena serves on the board for Ten Thousand Villages\, Lincoln. She also occasionally cooks dinner\, worries about commas\, and wanders the prairie. \nAbout author Kelsy Burke:\nDr. Kelsy Burke is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\, editor-elect of Contemporary Sociology\, and Public Fellow for the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). After receiving a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013\, Kelsy has become a leading expert on the relationship between conservative Christianity and gender and sexual politics in the United States. Their research has been supported by multiple grants and fellowships\, including an award from the National Science Foundation\, and published in top scholarly journals. \nKelsy has written two books: the award-winning Christians under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet (University of California Press\, 2016)\, and The Pornography Wars: The Past\, Present\, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession (Bloomsbury\, 2023). Kelsy’s writing has also appeared in the Guardian\, Huffington Post\, Newsweek\, Religion News Service\, Salon\, Slate Magazine\, Sojourners\, and the Washington Post. Kelsy lives in Lincoln with her spouse\, two children\, and assorted pets. \n\nPraise for To the Bone: \n\n★ “Ruthless and tender by turns: a triumph of historical fiction” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \n“A tale of graceful devastation… A chilling\, unforgettable story.” —Gillian French\, author of Sugaring Off and The Lies They Tell \n“Alena Bruzas has spun a tale that will crawl under your skin …a unique and unforgettable read.” —June Hur\, bestselling author of The Red Palace \n“Brutal and gut-wrenching… Tragic\, harrowing\, and raw.” — Erin Bowman\, author of Vengeance Road
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Jeff Barnes - Forts of the Northern Plains: A Guide to Military and Civilian Posts of the Plains Indian Wars
DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming Great Plains historian and author Jeff Barnes to F&F Bookshop on Wednesday\, September 18th at 5:30! He will be signing copies of his book Forts of the Northern Plains: A Guide to Military and Civilian Posts of the Plains Indian Wars. This new edition now features more than 150 military and civilian sites\, directions\, and GPS coordinates\, with full-color photography and maps\, and aerial shots of select sites.\nTo order your copy\, follow the link HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nAs the first official symbols of U.S. government presence on the western frontier\, the forts of the northern plains were both centers of commerce and sources of conflict. The integral roles these forts played during decades of warfare with the Plains Indian tribes—and the fate of the posts after those wars ended—were essential to the expansion of the American West during this traumatic period of history. \nIn Forts of the Northern Plains Jeff Barnes presents an informative guidebook to the forts of the Indian campaigns of the late nineteenth century. Focusing on sites in Iowa\, Minnesota\, Montana\, Nebraska\, North Dakota\, South Dakota\, and Wyoming\, Barnes includes the forts’ histories\, descriptions of what remains today\, directions\, nearby points of interest\, and visitor information for each post. This new expanded edition adds a number of federal sites designated as camps and posts\, as well as civilian and militia sites that are marked. With new entries\, color photographs\, and updated information on the forts\, as well as a rating system for traveler interests\, Barnes provides an up-to-date guide of the historic military posts of the Indian Wars.\n \nAbout the Author:\nJeff is a fifth-generation Nebraskan and long-time student and writer of Great Plains history. A former newspaper reporter and editor\, he is the author of eight books on Great Plains subjects\, including two winners of the Nebraska Book Award. He is also among the most frequently requested speakers of Humanities Nebraska\, the largest speaker organization in the state\, and is the first and only HN speaker to present in all 93 Nebraska counties. Since beginning as a public speaker in 2008\, Jeff has made more than 800 appearances for groups in ten states. He is a past trustee of the Nebraska State Historical Society\, a present trustee of the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation\, past chair of the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission\, and former marketing director of the Durham Museum. \nPraise for the book:\n“Barnes has produced a valuable combination of history and travel guide for all students of the Northern Plains Indian Wars. A very timely\, very impressive work.”—Robert M. Utley\, author of The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas \n“Well written and researched\, [Forts of the Northern Plains] offers a handy\, carefully organized summary of many important military sites in the West.”—Barton H. Barbour\, Great Plains Quarterly \n“A much-needed\, up-to-date guide to the critical forts of the Indian campaigns of the late nineteenth century. This book should be on the shelves of everyone with an interest in the West during this traumatic period of American history.”—Jerome A. Greene\, author of Nez Perce Summer\, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Celebratioin - 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:An 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.”\n\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. \n\n\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\n\nAbout the Author:Ava 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. \n\n\nPraise for Transgenesis:These 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 \n\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
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/book-launch-celebratioin-ava-nathaniel-winter-transgenesis/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Charlotte's Web at Lincoln Community Playhouse - Win Tickets!
DESCRIPTION:Charlotte’s Web is the story of a little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur – and of Wilbur’s dear friend Charlotte A. Cavatica\, a beautiful large grey spider who lived with Wilbur in the barn. With the help of Templeton\, the rat who never did anything for anybody unless there was something in it for him\, and by a wonderfully clever plan of their own\, Charlotte saved the life of Wilbur\, who by this time had grown up to be quite a pig. \nThis beloved book by E. B. White is a favorite of ours.  The play\, adapted by Joseph Robinette will be performed at Lincoln Community Playhouse on OCT 10-13 and OCT 18-20 and we’re giving away two free tickets! \nStop by the shop to register to win two tickets – winner announced 10/10** \nE. B. White’s Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship\, love\, life\, and death that will continue** to be enjoyed by generations to come.  Order a copy HERE \n  \n**Reservations are subject to availability and tickets may be used on any Season 79 show
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Maura Jane Farrelly - Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier
DESCRIPTION:Author Maura Jane Farrelly will be visiting Francie & Finch Bookshop on Saturday\, September 28th at 4:30 to discuss her new book Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier. Farrelly explores these narratives as stories about the early demise of our right to be forgotten. We can’t wait to dive in further! We’ll see you there!\nOrder your copy of Maura Jane Farrelly’s new book HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nIn Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent Maura Jane Farrelly explores the history of the Gilded Age United States\, using the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families who moved to Wyoming to start over as her guide. Robert Ray Hamilton was a state lawmaker from New York and the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton. John Dudley Sargent came from a long line of Brahmin families in New England that included several colonial governors and the famous painter John Singer Sargent. Edith Drake Sargent was the eccentric and musical daughter of a New York banker who had made a fortune selling short. All three experienced some form of humiliation after newspapers speculated on their possible shameful secrets: bigamy\, blackmail\, murder\, incest\, baby-selling\, mental illness\, and more. All three fled to Wyoming\, believing distance and remoteness would hide their shame. But by the 1890s the West was no longer a place where anyone could hide. Just as many today are learning that the internet has opened up a vast wilderness of information to exploration and settlement—enabling our mistakes and transgressions to follow us for years—so\, too\, did Hamilton and the Sargents learn that technology and the growing power of celebrity journalism made it difficult for anyone in the West to leave a scandal-ridden past behind. Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent is a story about the early demise of our right to be forgotten. \nAbout the Author:\nMaura Jane Farrelly is an associate professor of American studies at Brandeis University. She has worked as a reporter in Atlanta\, Washington DC\, and New York. Her books include Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity and Anti-Catholicism in America\, 1620–1860. \nPraise for the book:\n“Maura Jane Farrelly is a marvelous writer and gifted storyteller who brings a finely honed sense of time and place to this remarkable book. . . Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent manages to be both sweeping and intimate.”—Wendy Gamber\, author of The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age \n“Maura Jane Farrelly’s historical detective work unearthed intersecting trails and unforgettable tales of murder\, suicide\, social scandal\, and much more. . . . A remarkable work of research and storytelling\, Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent proves that if a picture tells a thousand words\, it can also hide thousands more.” —Dayton Duncan\, coauthor of The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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