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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:Virtual Book Launch Event - Pascha Sotolongo in conversation with Timothy Schaffert - The Only Sound is the Wind: Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom\, on October 3rd at 7:00 PM\, as author Pascha Sotolongo joins in conversation with Timothy Schaffert as they celebrate her new book of stories The Only Sound is the Wind!\nTo register for the event follow the link HERE!\nPre-Order a copy of the book HERE!\n\nAbout the Book:\nIn the tradition of narrativa de lo inusual (narrative of the unusual)\, The Only Sound Is the Wind combines the fantastic with the everyday\, weaving elements of magical realism and surrealist twists to sharpen our view of human (and animal) connection. In the title story\, the arrival of a mail-order clone complicates a burgeoning romance; a lonely librarian longing for her homeland strikes up an unusual relationship in the award-winning “The Moth”; when humans start giving birth to puppies and kittens in “This New Turn\,” a realignment of the natural order ensues; and the narrator of “Chicory” harnesses the power of invisibility to spy on her beautiful neighbor. With a playful tenderness and satirical bent\, The Only Sound Is the Wind is a lyrical exploration of solitude and communion\, opening strange new worlds where characters try to make their way toward love.\n\nAbout the Author:\nPascha Sotolongo is a fiction writer and college English professor who was born and raised in Florida but has called Nebraska home for more than two decades. Given to surrealism and tenderness\, her writing explores themes of poverty\, isolation\, longing\, and invisibility. She is currently finishing a novella set on the High Plains.\n\nPraise for the Book:\nThese stories—these bewitching portraits of a melancholy dystopia—are spellbinding. . . . With this rich collection\, Sotolongo joins the ranks of Margaret Atwood and Cristina Rivera Garza\, and other masters of illusion. — Timothy Schaffert\, author of The Perfume Thief and The Titanic Survivors Book ClubIn this gorgeous debut\, Pascha Sotolongo lyrically blends the fantastical with stories of family\, love\, and longing. Within these pages are vampires\, ghosts\, invisible daughters\, and near apocalypses\, and just as readily\, the stories of our secrets\, our joys\, our fears\, and our dreams. A beautiful and spellbinding collection. — Alexander Weinstein\, author of Universal Love and Children of the New WorldCaptivating. . . . Pascha Sotolongo has written a book that’s simply exceptional\, filled with startling\, surreal\, and utterly spectacular stories that demand to be savored. — Megan Kamalei Kakimoto\, author of Every Drop is a Man’s NightmareSharp and ineffable—these are immersive stories that show us how the familiar world we live in is brimming with shadowy surprises. — Manuel Muñoz\, author of The ConsequencesThe intimate\, incendiary stories in Pascha Sotolongo’s elegantly woven debut collection offer an ode to the grief and exhilaration of diaspora\, probe the delicate shades of gray between solitude and loneliness\, and hinge\, ultimately\, on metamorphosis. The Only Sound is the Wind is a scar shaped like Cuba—a gorgeous scar. — Joy Castro\, author of One Brilliant Flame
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Celebration - Allison L. Bitz in conversation with Joan F. Smith and Laura Taylor Namey - Three Things About Emmy Crawford
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with award-winning author Allison L. Bitz! We will be celebrating Allison’s new book Three Things About Emmy Crawford!  Allison will be in conversation about the book and its themes with guests Joan F. Smith and Laura Taylor Namey. We can’t wait to see you there!\nPre-Order Your Copy HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nIn this coming-of-age novel perfect for fans of Lynn Painter and Rebecca Lynn Solomon\, nothing can derail Emmy Crawford\, the type-A daughter of a senator\, from relentlessly pursuing her dreams—not Crohn’s disease\, the paparazzi\, or even heartbreak.\n\nThere are three things high school senior Emmy Crawford will accomplish\, no matter what:\n1. Taking Nationals in debate this season.\n2. Shielding her sister\, Issy\, from anything that could hurt her\, especially her anxiety.\n3. Representing her family well\, since her mom may be the next president. \nAnd nothing can get in Emmy’s way. Not Crohn’s disease\, even if her gut has been acting up. Not the paparazzi\, who snap any photos they can get of the daughters of a presidential candidate. And definitely not her feelings for Gabe Castillo\, the only debater in DC who stands a chance at beating her—and who she used to be on secret kissing terms with\, before he ghosted her. When Gabe unexpectedly returns to the debate scene and Issy starts crushing on him\, Emmy works harder than ever to keep her eyes on winning and off her aching heart and body\, because the alternative means losing the three things that matter most. \nAbout the Author:\nAllison L. Bitz is the award-winning author of The Unstoppable Bridget Bloom and Three Things About Emmy Crawford. She hails from Lincoln\, Nebraska\, where she lives with her spouse and two kids. Her superpower is empathy\, and she’s been known to have resting tell-me-your-life-story face. Allison holds a PhD in counseling psychology and has worked as a licensed psychologist since 2012. When she’s not working on a novel or counseling\, Allison is more than likely writing a song\, getting riled up about something political\, or trying to track down a pastry to enjoy with her coffee. She has a soft spot for rescue animals\, which are vying for species majority in her home (two perfect dogs\, two ornery cats). You can learn more about Allison at allisonlbitz-author.com or follow her on Twitter\, Instagram\, and TikTok @AllisonLBitz. \nPraise for the book:\nAn honest exploration of trust\, family\, and self-care. A senator’s daughter struggles with perfectionism amid familial\, academic\, and romantic tensions. — Kirkus Reviews \n“THREE THINGS ABOUT EMMY CRAWFORD delivers on everything I look for in a YA novel\, then delivers even more. Bitz effortlessly weaves together the day-to-day realities of chronic illness with a funny and fresh take on academic rivals-to-lovers\, and it Works with a capital W! Emotional\, sweet\, and ridiculously swoony\, this book is a must-read.” — Lynn Painter\, New York Times Bestselling author  \nThe votes are in: Three Things About Emmy Crawford wins for its sharp portrayal of real issues teens care about\, sparkling debate team hijinks\, and thoughtfully drawn relationships. Sisterhood and slow-burn romance meld in this delightful story. You won’t stop at three things to love about Emmy.\n— Laura Taylor Namey\, New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow \n“Emmy Crawford is a heartfelt exploration of what it means to learn how to live in the body you have when challenges with sisterhood\, romance\, family life in politics\, and a front-running spot on the debate team demands otherwise. This coming-of-age tale will resonate with readers for its sharpness\, wit\, and the intriguing realities of life in the public eye.” — Joan F. Smith\, author of The Other Side of Infinity and The Half-Orphan’s Handbook \n“Told with nuance\, candor\, and understanding\, Bitz’s characters weave through issues of anxiety and chronic illness and a shot at debate team nationals. Readers will cheer for Emmy to be seen for her successes as well as her heart\, bravery\, and ability to let others into a world she’s hidden away.”—Gretchen Schreiber\, author of Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal — Gretchen Schreiber\, author of Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Dr. Simon A. Wood in conversation with Dr. Abla Hasan - The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 8th at 5:30 as the UNL Institute for Ethnic Studies welcomes Dr. Simon Wood and Dr. Abla Hasan to Francie and Finch Bookshop. Simon’s most recent work of translation brings the 1923 work The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate by Muhammad Rashid Rida to English-speaking professors and students for the first time.\n\nAbout the Book:\nA translation of Muhammad Rashid Rida’s best-known work\, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought. \nMuhammad Rashid Rida (1865–1935) was a prominent Muslim intellectual and reformer. Born in a village near Tripoli in present-day Lebanon\, he was renowned for his founding of Al-Manar\, an independent and successful Islamic magazine in which he published The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate as a series beginning in 1922. The work showcased Rida’s faith in the Islamic tradition as the origin of notions such as self-determination and popular sovereignty\, as well as his opposition to Western politics. A realist\, he nevertheless argued that a revived Caliphate was viable and held the keys to Muslim empowerment and universal salvation. \nThis skillful translation by Simon A. Wood will make The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate accessible for the first time to English-speaking scholars and students of political theory and the modern Middle East. \n\nAbout Simon A Wood:\nSimon A. Wood is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UNL\, where he has been faculty since 2004. He has degrees from the University of Otago (pronounce: oh-taa-go) in New Zealand\, and Temple University in Philadelphia. His teaching and research focus on modern Islam and comparative religious studies. His books include: \n-The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate (Yale UP\, 2024). This book is a translation and introduction of a 1923 book on the caliphate written in Arabic by Rashid Rida\, a seminal Syrian Muslim intellectual.\n\n-Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History (U of South Carolina Press\, 2014). This book is an edited volume that discusses how the idea of religious fundamentalism has influenced our understanding of Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam.\n\n-Christian Criticisms\, Islamic Proofs: Rashid Rida’s Modernist Defense of Islam (Oneworld\, 2008; paperback 2012). This book is a translation and introduction of Rashid Rida’s 1905 book about Christianity and Islam. \nAbout Abla Hasan:\nPhD in Philosophy of Language from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\, 2013; MA in Philosophy as a Fulbright grantee from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2009. Dr. Hasan obtained her BA in Philosophy from Damascus University/Syria in 2000\, followed by a Diploma of High Studies from Damascus University in 2001. She is a native speaker of Arabic. She teaches Arabic language and culture at UNL and she is the Program’s Founder and Coordinator. Her teaching and research focus on Qur’anic Studies\, Qur’anic Hermeneutics\, Islamic feminism\, and Arabic studies. She has published with Brill\, Analize\, Ar-Raniry\, JIL\, Disputatio\, Al-Manarah\, E-logos and other peer- review international journals. She is the author of: Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur’an: Retrieving Lost Voices on Gender (Lexington: 2019)\, the author of On Pain and Suffering: a Qur’anic Perspective (Lexington: 2022)\, and the author of The Qur’anic Dilemma: A Hermeneutical Investigation of al-Khidr (Routledge: 2022).Abla Hasan is the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Engagement Award for 2021\, the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award for 2022\, the recipient of the 2023 Rev. Dr. Michael Combs Award for Scholars of Equality and Justice\, and the recipient of UNL’s first annual Women’s and Gender Justice Award 2023.
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-author-simon-wood-in-conversation-with-abla-hasan-the-caliphate-or-supreme-imamate/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Civil War Free Panel & Lecture Events: Dr. Jeremi Suri - Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Francie & Finch Bookshop will be selling copies of author Dr. Jeremi Suri’s book Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy during and after the 12:00pm and the 7:00pm events.\nFind information about the lectures below: \nA HOUSE DIVIDED\, POLITICS TODAY AND AMERICAN HISTORY\nA PANEL DISCUSSION REFLECTING ON THE LEGACY OF THE CIVIL WAR AND TODAY’S DIVIDE IN THE UNITED STATES.\nOCTOBER 9\, 2024\, 12 PM\nLied Commons at Lied Center For Performing Arts\nFREE ADMISSION (No tickets required) \nThis diverse panel featuring University of Nebraska experts joined by Nebraska leaders and celebrated author Jeremi Suri\, PhD will be facilitated by Dr. Will Thomas\, Angle Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Nebraska. \n___________________________________ \nAMERICA’S CIVIL WAR: THEN AND NOW\nLECTURE BY JEREMI SURI\, PhD\, RENOWNED HISTORIAN AND CELEBRATED AUTHOR\nOCTOBER 9\, 2024\, 7 PM\nEthel S. Abott Auditorium at Sheldon Museum of Art\, University of Nebraska – Lincoln\nFREE ADMISSION\, Ticket reservation required \nThis free lecture by Jeremi Suri\, PhD\, from University of Texas-Austin\, will provide a thought-provoking presentation related to A House Divided and the legacy of the Civil War. This event is presented in partnership with the Sheldon Museum of Art and is connected to the world-premiere production of the play A House Divided. Dr. Jeremi Suri is the author and editor of eleven books on contemporary politics and foreign policy\, most recently Civil War By Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight or Democracy. He also hosts the weekly This is Democracy podcast\, which illuminates ways in which the past offers hope for the present and the future\, if only we can escape the negativity of our current moment. Dr. Suri will share insights from his scholarship on the Civil War\, including historical divisions in the U.S.\, and connections to current affairs. \n 
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - DeMisty D. Bellinger - All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere: Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome DeMisty D. Bellinger to Francie and Finch Bookshop on October 10th at 6:00!\nOrder a copy of All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction \nFantastical\, sensual\, and as beguilingly strange as they are insightful and real\, the stories of All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere are centered around intimate familial or romantic relationships\, featuring protagonists who make awesome discoveries—from the beautiful to the horrible—in seemingly mundane situations. The protagonists in each story come from marginalized communities\, which sometimes exacerbates their problems but always allows for unique perspectives and epiphanies. \nA violinist nearly hits a bicyclist with her car on her rush to rehearsal\, leading to a blissful affair and speculation about the effect of love on her violin playing. The whispering of schoolgirls leads a teacher to consider her own fears and failings. In the title story the nature of motherhood\, fatherhood\, and familial pride plays against a backdrop of death and high school theater. \nThese are stories of human frailty and newfound strengths\, with surprising confrontations. The writing is rich and playful\, whether the characters are coy or startlingly direct\, creating worlds in which the metaphorical might become literal in the blink of an eye. DeMisty D. Bellinger finds magic in the smallest moments and makes the biggest moments resonate with a quiet intensity. \nAbout the Author:\nDeMisty D. Bellinger lives with her family in Central Massachusetts\, where she teaches creative writing. She has a BA in English from University of Wisconsin-Platteville\, an MFA from Southampton College\, and a PhD from the University of Nebraska. She is an alum of Bread Loaf and Marge Piercy’s Intensive Writing Workshop. Also\, she was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center on a fellowship and at Gullkistan in Iceland with support from friends and family. \nPraise for All Daughter Are Awesome Everywhere:\n“DeMisty Bellinger’s new collection is full of surprising connections\, complex questions\, and wonderfully human perspectives on relationships and networks of kinship. I wanted to both race through it and savor every moment.” – Ilana Masad\, author of All My Mother’s Lovers: A Novel \n“In All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere DeMisty D. Bellinger has gifted us a book of many worlds beneath the same roof\, its stories and characters at turns brash\, tender\, joyous\, sly\, and always deeply\, messily human. I loved dwelling in these pages. I loved the ride this collection took me on: one full of surprises and heart” – emily m. danforth\, author of Plain Bad Heroines and The Miseducation of Cameron Post \n“Bellinger’s prose is honest and unflinching. A thoughtful\, observant collection of short stories from an important voice.” – June 15\, 2024 Kirkus Reviews \n“Infectious reading. All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere is a feast of storytelling where women—mothers\, daughters\, and lovers—travel the roads between a world that wishes to constrain them and the ferocious realm of their own desires.” – Elwin Cotman\, author of Weird Black Girls
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Amanda Peters - The Berry Pickers** at Lincoln Highschool
DESCRIPTION:  \nAn Evening with Amanda Peters\nA One Book One Lincoln Program\nLincoln City Libraries is excited to welcome Amanda Peters\, the award-winning author of “The Berry Pickers\,” this year’s One Book One Lincoln selection\, for an unforgettable evening of celebration and conversation. \nWhile this event is free\, registration is encouraged. Use the link or contact your local library for assistance: 402-441-8500. \nEvent Highlights:\nIn-person interview with Amanda Peters\nAudience Q&A session\nBook signing opportunity\nMayor Leirion Gaylor Baird expressed the significance of this year’s selection. “The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters is a poignant exploration of resilience\, identity\, and the enduring ties that bind families together. This year’s selection invites our community to reflect on the stories that connect us all\, fostering empathy and unity through shared experiences.” \nEvent Details:\nDate: Monday\, October 14\, 2024\, at 7 p.m.\nLocation: Lincoln High School Auditorium | 2229 J Street\n(Enter through Door #1. Parking is available in the North lot.) \nThis debut novel\, has captivated readers with its powerful themes of family\, resilience\, and identity. \nAMANDA PETERS is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. Her debut novel\, The Berry Pickers is the Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction\, the 2023 Barnes & Noble Discovery Prize Winner\, and was shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Book of the Year and the Atwood Gibson Fiction Award from the Writers Trust of Canada. Her work has also appeared in the Antigonish Review\, Grain Magazine\, the Alaska Quarterly Review\, the Dalhousie Review and Filling Station Magazine. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers’ Trust Rising Stars program. Amanda is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, and has a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. \nWe will have books available for purchase on-site\, but pre-orders are encouraged. \n 
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LOCATION:Lincoln High School\, 2229 J Street\, Lincoln\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Stephanie Saldaña - What We Remember Will Be Saved
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 18th at 5:30 as we welcome author Stephanie Saldaña! She will be presenting her book What We Remember Will Be Saved\, a portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry. We’ll see you there!\nOrder a copy of What We Remember Will Be Saved HERE!\nAbout the Book:\n2023 Christopher Award Winner\n2024 Excellence in Religion Reporting Award Winner for Nonfiction \nEggplant seeds\, a lullaby in a vanishing language\, an embroidered dress. When people flee their homes\, the things they save speak of beauty and suffering and the indomitable human spirit. In an era of mass migration in which more than 100 million people are displaced comes this lyrical portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry. What We Remember Will Be Saved is a book of hope\, home\, and the stories we hold within us when everything else has been lost. Journalist and scholar Stephanie Saldaña\, who lived in Syria before the war\, sets out on a journey across nine countries to meet refugees and learn what they salvaged from the ruins when they escaped. Now\, in the narratives of six extraordinary women and men\, from Mt. Sinjar to Aleppo to Lesvos to Amsterdam\, we discover that the little things matter a great deal. Saldaña introduces us to a woman who saved her city in a dress\, a musician who saved his stories in songs\, and a couple who rebuilt their destroyed pharmacy even as the city around them fell apart. Together they provide a window into a religiously diverse corner of the Middle East on the edge of unraveling\, and the people keeping it alive with their stories. Born of years of friendship and reporting\, What We Remember Will Be Saved is a breathtaking\, elegiac odyssey into the heart of the largest refugee crisis in modern history. It reminds us that refugees are storytellers and speakers of vanishing languages\, and of how much history can be distilled into a piece of fabric\, or eggplant seeds. What we salvage tells our story. What we remember will be saved. \nAbout the Author:\nStephanie Saldaña is a journalist and religion scholar from San Antonio\, Texas\, who has spent most of the last twenty years living in the Middle East. Saldaña studied religion at Harvard Divinity School and is the author of A Country Between and The Bread of Angels\, hailed by Geraldine Brooks as “a remarkable\, wise\, and lovely book.” Her work has been published in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, America Magazine\, and Plough\, and she has been featured on National Public Radio. Saldaña and her family split their time between Bethlehem and France. \nPraise:\n“This outstanding book from essayist and author Saldana puts names and faces on several emigrants from Iraq and Syria\, emphasizing their distinctiveness….Readers won’t soon forget the compelling stories of these brave individuals\, revealed so poignantly by Saldana’s beautiful writing.” —Booklist\, starred review \n“Throughout this compassionate book\, the author demonstrates the resilience of refugees\, who carry with them their precious languages\, cultures\, and memories. Memorable personal stories that give much-needed depth and humanity to what are otherwise merely numbers.” —Kirkus Reviews \n“Stephanie Saldaña long ago proved herself a poetic and perceptive essayist. In this book\, she also proves herself a courageous one. Following refugees into the darkest and most dangerous spaces of recent history\, she documents journeys that are about much more than bare survival\, at once wrenching and radiant.” —Geraldine Brooks\, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction \n“Amid the ashes of war and unimaginable losses in Iraq and Syria\, there is beauty\, to which Stephanie Saldaña bears witness in this indelible work that should be read widely and deeply.” —Rubén Degollado\, author of The Family Izquierdo
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-author-stephanie-saldana-what-we-remember-will-be-saved/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Artist Edgar Jerins - Edgar Jerins Life in Charcoal
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 25th at 5:30 Edgar will be joining us to celebrate his book of art Edgar Jerins Life in Charcoal! This beautiful book exhibits Edgar’s talent for portraiture and capturing the human spirit in the hardest of times. See below for more about Edgar\, his book\, and praise for his work.\nOrder your copy of Edgar Jerins Life in Charcoal from Francie & Finch HERE!\nThank you for supporting local!\nAbout the Book:\nForged in the crucible of family tragedy\, Edgar Jerins’ monumental charcoal drawings are a towering achievement of contemporary American art. Arthur Miller commanded “Attention must be paid” and in these meticulously observed images\, the artist does exactly that. His middle American subjects have been buffeted by a sea of troubles\, sometimes of their own causing. Jerins brilliantly and movingly captures friends and family members at a moment when all denial has been stripped away. There is no irony here\, no flippant art world in-jokes\, no smug condescension and certainly no sentimentality. Jerins shows us the redemptive power of suffering\, the quiet heroism of the American spirit\, and our refusal to give up no matter the odds against us. The difficulties his subjects have with relationships\, money\, health\, aging\, substance abuse\, violence\, and death are part of the human condition that we Americans all know too well. With unflinching honesty and the kind of empathy only known by fellow travelers\, Edgar Jerins brings a new realism to American art. His art is not just about life\, it is life. \nAbout the Author:\nEdgar Jerins was born in Lincoln\, Nebraska in 1958. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1980. His primary focus was always portraiture\, whether the subject was clothed or nude. In 2001 he began a series of large-scale narrative drawings of his family and friends in crisis. The drawings received considerable attention in the form of grants\, reviews\, and museum exhibitions and purchases. \nArtist Statement:\n“I consider myself a storyteller. Capturing the times we are living through is one of my primary goals as an artist. My drawings depict real people—primarily my friends and family–in their natural environments. These are people who never expected to find themselves subjects for narrative art\, but whose stories need to be told. Many are struggling with addiction and mental illness. Mental illness\, in particular\, is rarely discussed in our public discourse\, and I want to add my voice to help create a realistic view of those suffering from it. My aim is to express the hardships of my subjects’ lives in a way that isn’t hopeless or sentimental and which shows compassion for human frailty. When possible I work from direct observation\, photographing my subjects in their home environments. But my drawings merely start with images captured on film. I then heighten their reality in almost a theatrical way. My drawings\, for example\, are physically commanding—a scale I believe is critical to their impact on viewers. Similarly\, I take great pains to position my subjects within their environment in ways that reveal and accentuate emotional resonance.” \nBook Review Excerpts: \n“The people haunt the places they inhabit\, being in the landscape but not necessarily of it. Many of the models seem to stare at some distant\, unreachable thing. They don’t engage with each other in group compositions\, often but not always eschewing the viewer’s gaze as well. Even when the models do meet the viewer’s gaze\, their eyes seem to look past the viewer\, almost to something looming over the shoulder. Maybe this looming thing is the knowledge that we will all eventually face the empty chair\, the vacant room\, the street unpopulated. Life is a delicate\, ephemeral thing.”\n–Janet Kozachek\, Visual Artist \n“Jerins brilliantly and movingly captures friends and family members at a moment when all denial has been stripped away. There is no irony here\, no flippant art world in-jokes\, no smug condescension and certainly no sentimentality. Jerins shows us the redemptive power of suffering\, the quiet heroism of the American spirit\, and our refusal to give up no matter the odds against us.” –John Thornton \n“I see unique things in his drawings especially\, of life growing up in the Midwest.  A mindset\, a beauty\, a bleakness\, a poignancy….both despair and comfort.  That is what makes them so compelling to me.  It’s easy to examine the joys in life\, but much braver to examine it’s imperfections.” – Ronda Klein
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Visiting Author Storytime - Heather Dawn Torres - The Tractor Squad
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed – we’ll share the new date as soon as it is confirmed. \n\nJoin us on Saturday\, October 26th as we welcome author Heather Dawn Torres! She will be reading from her new storybook The Tractor Squad. This new book is described as a “bright and bouncy read-aloud”. We can’t wait to see you there to have some fun!\nOrder a copy HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nIllustrated by Gary Laib\n“Where do tractors go when it turns cold and snows? Do they make cozy beds in their giant red sheds?”\nIn this bright and bouncy read-aloud\, tractors dig and scoop\, round up the sheep and feed the chickens . . . all before they chug and stomp\, zig and zag — dancing with their farmyard friends. Then\, in a second story inspired by “Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed\,” count down from ten with Field Mouse\, Farmer\, and a colorful cast of hard-working tractors. \nOversized trim with bright candy-colored art and a full 40 pages long\, The Tractor Squad will have vehicle-obsessed kids bouncing along to the playful rhythms and rhymes. For kids who love Goodnight\, Goodnight\, Construction Site and Little Blue Truck.  \nAbout the Author:\nHeather Dawn Torres grew up on an Iowa farm\, where she spent hours reading books to get out of doing farm chores. She now spends her days in the city dreaming of farm life and creating stories for children. When not rhyming words\, Heather can be found back at the family farm enjoying long walks\, homemade pies\, and tractor rides. Heather currently lives in Nebraska with her husband and their two sons. Visit her online at www.heatherdawntorres.com.   \nPraise:\n“Laugh\, dance\, and sing along with the Tractor Squad! An ideal storytime selection to help little ones get their wiggles out . . . Rich traditional and digital watercolor illustrations are worth lingering over\, while the verse will have readers dancing and singing along.” —Kirkus Reviews
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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