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SUMMARY:Visiting Publication - Meet the Flatwater Free Press!
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Francie & Finch Bookshop as we welcome our friends from the Flatwater Free Press (FFP)! Lincoln reporter Emily Wolf and Managing Editor Ryan Hoffman will be here to let us know what they’ve been working on\, listen to guests share what stories they think FFP should work on next\, and to hand out their 2025 Commemorative Edition newspaper! We can’t wait to see you there!\nA portion of the bookstore sales for the day will support the FFP newsroom. \nTo learn more about Flatwater Free Press visit https://flatwaterfreepress.org/.
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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 Stevens Berry - Second Comings\, Final Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Berry Law founder and Pulitzer nominated poet\, John Stevens Berry back to Francie & Finch Bookshop. He will be presenting his newest book of poetry Second Comings\, Final Tour.\nAbout the Author:\nBerry is a decorated Vietnam Veteran\, Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers\, and a Baker Street Irregular. His poetry reflects on service\, justice\, and the human condition — a powerful commentary on a life of meaning and impact. \nTo learn more about John\, visit:\nhttps://nebraskaauthors.org/authors/john-stevens-berry
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Ilana Masad - Beings: A Novel
DESCRIPTION:From the celebrated author of All My Mother’s Lovers\, a new novel based on true events asks whether extraterrestrial life might be what ties us to one another\, to history\, and to reality itself. Please join us in welcoming author Ilana Masad on Wednesday\, November 12th at 5:30 as she presents her new novel Beings!\nTo order a copy\, follow the link HERE!\nAbout the Book:\n“The alien abduction meets lesbian yearning novel that will restore your faith in the universe. Ilana Masad excavates the juiciness of historical archives and the otherworldly mysteries of the everyday in her most brilliant work yet.” –Ruth Madievsky\, author of All-Night Pharmacy \nNamed a “Most Anticipated Book” by the LA Times\, Washington Post\, Autostraddle\, Town and Country\, Boston Globe\, Chicago Tribune\, Lit Hub\, and The Millions \nIn 1961\, an interracial couple drove through the dark mountains of New Hampshire when a mysterious light began to follow them. Years later\, through hypnosis\, they recalled an unbelievable brush with extraterrestrial life. Unintentionally\, a genre was born: the alien abduction narrative. \nIn Ilana Masad’s Beings\, the couple’s experience serves as one part of a trio of intertwined threads: Known only by their roles as husband and wife\, Masad explores the pair’s trauma and its aftermath and questions what it means to accept the impossible. In the second thread\, letters penned by a budding science-fiction writer\, Phyllis\, to her beloved\, Rosa\, expose the raw ache of queer yearning\, loneliness\, and alienation in the repressive 1960s-as well as the joy of finding community. In the present day\, a reclusive and chronically ill Archivist attempts to understand a strange forgotten childhood encounter while descending into obsession over both Phyllis’s letters and the testimony of the first alien abductees. \nOver the course of a decade\, Phyllis wrestles with her desires and ambitions as a lesbian writer\, while the abducted couple grapple with how to maintain control of their narrative. All the while\, the archive shatters and reforms\, redefining fact and fiction via the stories left behind by the abductees\, Phyllis\, and the Archivist themself. Masad makes human what is alien and makes tangible what is hidden – sometimes by chance and sometimes intentionally – in the archive. \nAbout the Author:\nIlana Masad is a writer of fiction\, nonfiction\, and criticism whose work has been widely published. Masad is the author of the novel All My Mother’s Lovers and is co-editing the forthcoming anthology Here For All the Reasons: #BachelorNation’s Franchise Fascination. \nPraise for the Book:\n“Three gripping narratives entwine as supernatural encounters and personal revelations transform lives in the 1960s and the present… Miraculously\, Masad makes this dense braid of stories easy to follow\, elegantly blending serpentine sentences\, endearing and intimately observed characters\, natural dialogue\, and playful\, generous asides to keep the reader in enthralled suspense. A dazzlingly original testament to companionship\, curiosity\, and faith in ourselves in times of fear and loneliness.” —Kirkus (starred review) \n“An incandescent exploration of memory\, narrative\, and sexual identity\, Beings is certain to delight readers of literary fiction with sf elements.” —Booklist (starred review) \n“Masad (All My Mother’s Lovers) spins an affecting tale of aliens\, alienation\, and archives… The interconnected narratives reveal the power of stories and archival material to reach across time and help an isolated person find themselves. Readers will be swept away.” —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 - Max Perry Mueller in conversation with Gabriel Bruguier - Wakara's America
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Max Perry Mueller in conversation with Gabriel Bruguier (Yankton Sioux Tribe) about Mueller’s new book Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West.\nPre-order your copy of the book HERE\nAbout the Book:\nThe forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara\, the mighty\, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West.The Native American leader Wakara (ca. 1815–1855) was among the most influential and feared men in the nineteenth-century American West\, famed as a fierce warrior\, a merciless trader of Indian slaves\, and history’s greatest horse thief. \nIn Wakara’s America\, historian Max Perry Mueller illuminates Wakara’s complex and sometimes paradoxical story\, revealing a man who both helped build the settler American West and defended Native sovereignty. Wakara was baptized a Mormon and allied with Mormon settlers against other Indians to seize large parts of modern-day Utah. Yet a pan-tribal uprising against the Mormons that now bears Wakara’s name stalled and even temporarily reversed colonial expansion. Through diplomacy and through violence\, Wakara oversaw the establishment of settlements\, built new trade routes\, and helped create the boundaries that still define the region. \nDrawing together deep archival research with Native oral histories\, archaeology\, geology\, and ecology\, Wakara’s America offers an innovative new vision of the history of the American West with Native people at its center. It serves as a powerful testament to Wakara’s legacy\, which endures in his story\, in his tribal descendants\, and in their stewardship of their ancestral lands today. \n\nMax Perry Mueller is an associate professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and is the author of the award-winning Race and the Making of the Mormon People. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic\, the New Republic\, and Slate. He lives in Lincoln\, Nebraska. \nGabriel Bruguier is an Assistant Professor and Teaching and Learning Librarian at the University of Nebraska Libraries. He is an enrolled member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe and grew up in Vermillion and Sisseton\, South Dakota. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln\, a B.A. in philosophy from University of Minnesota Morris\, and a Licentiate in International Relations from the Universidad de las Americas-Puebla.  He is the City of Lincoln Commissioner on the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs. \nPraise for the Book:\n“Gripping… an eye-opening and layered new vision of the American West.” – Publishers Weekly \n“With attentive care\, Max Perry Mueller has pieced together the chaotic and previously under-studied history of the famous Ute leader\, Wakara\, whose power both terrified and galvanized Native and non-Native peoples across the West. This book offers a sobering reassessment of the history of the Great Basin and locates the disruptive and violent influences of colonialism at its center.”–Ned Blackhawk\, National Book Award–winning author of The Rediscovery of America \n“A poignant and fascinating history\, Wakara’s America tells how the great leader Wakara led his Ute people through good times and bad and helped to create the American West.”–Kathleen DuVal\, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Native Nations \n“Wakara was a power to reckon with in western North America. In this eye-opening and engaging work\, Max Perry Mueller demonstrates the adaptability and resourcefulness of a Native leader and his people while highlighting the incredibly harsh choices they faced.”–Andrés Reséndez\, author of The Other Slavery \n“The place that is Wakara’s America feels vaguely familiar—Utah and its environs—but it turns out to be a different country altogether. Fighting off generations of erasures\, Max Perry Mueller blends personal reportage and tautly narrated history to reveal the complex life and legacy of the wide-ranging Ute leader who shaped unfreedom\, trade\, and settlement across a huge expanse of the American West. Rich in detail and subtle in analysis\, Wakara’s America is a classic page-turner that grabs a reader and won’t let go.”–Philip J. Deloria\, Harvard University
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - John T. Price - Goethe’s Oak: A Holocaust Story
DESCRIPTION:Join us as author John T. Price visits Francie & Finch Bookshop and reads from his newest work of non-fiction\, Goethe’s Oak: A Holocaust Story.\n“A tree that thinks — most of us would imagine this impossible. Yet in Goethe’s Oak\, John Price has created a compassionate\, compelling\, and utterly believable narrator. Its story is a meditation on nature\, loss\, rebirth\, and time. Most of all\, it’s a treatise on how to be human.”—Hope Edelman\, The AfterGrief \nOrder your copy of the book HERE! \nAbout the Book:\nWriting from the perspective of the legendary Goethe’s Oak\, John T. Price reimagines and honors the life of an extraordinary tree. Drawing on centuries of human remembrances\, from the tree’s namesake\, writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, to prisoners at Buchenwald in the 1940s\, Price intertwines their stories with recent scientific research into the underground communication networks of trees. Goethe’s Oak offers readers a poignant yet inspiring picture of nature’s ability to comfort. (icecubepress.com) \nAbout the Author:\nJohn T. Price is the award-winning author of four books of creative nonfiction\, most recently All is Leaf: Essays and Transformations (2022)\, and Goethe’s Oak: A Holocaust Story (2025).  He is also editor of The Tallgrass Prairie Reader (2014)—the first nature writing anthology entirely dedicated to the tallgrass environment.  A recipient of a prose fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, his work has been featured in numerous journals\, magazines\, and anthologies. He teaches at The University of Nebraska at Omaha\, where he directs the English Department’s Creative Nonfiction Writing Program.
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-author-john-t-price-goethes-oak-a-holocaust-story/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Plaid Friday and Shop Small Saturday at Francie & Finch Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:It’s that time of year again for our annual celebration!\nCome visit us on Plaid Friday\, November 28th\, or Shop Small Saturday\, November 29th to join in the fun!\nLoads of new inventory\nOriginal Art\nHomemade treats and hot cider\nFree ARC with purchase\nand as always\, free gift wrapping! \nVisiting Authors on Shop Small Saturday!\n10am – 12pm – John Shaw – Cameron the Capitol Cat\n11am – 1pm – Bruce Arant – Ethan Eats Hot Lunch/Ethan Goes to Reess/Simpson’s Sheep Just Want to Sleep/Simpson’s Sheep Won’t Go to Sleep\n12pm – 2pm – Barbara Mayes Boustead – Wilder Weather\n2pm – 3pm – Kolleen Meyer-Krikac – Enneagram Series for Kids \n  \nPlus\,  **Every time you shop\, between now and 12/15\, you’ll be entered into our annual $100 Shopping Spree drawing (in-store AND online).\nYour support throughout the year means so much to us\, so please think of us this holiday season and join in on the fun!
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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