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#BookFaceFriday – Billboard Magazine!
More than just a pretty #BookFace! If you’re like me, you don’t just read books, but love magazines too! Don’t forget you can read your favorite magazines on Nebraska OverDrive Libraries! You have...
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Friday Reads: Imaginary by Lee Bacon
Artwork by Asher Owen I have an 11-year-old son that is going into middle school this fall, so when I picked up Imaginary by Lee Bacon this spring and saw that it was also about an 11-year-old...
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#BookFaceFriday “All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook” by Leslie Connor
All rise for #BookFaceFriday! Ahh, the smell of freshly sharpened pencils and new erasers, makes us want to go out and buy school supplies! This week’s #BookFace is a reminder that a Book Club Kit is...
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Book Club Spotlight – Firekeeper’s Daughter
Today, we will be spotlighting a popular title that you might not know we have! Called an “Indigenous Nancy Drew” by the author, Firekeeper’s Daughter is not only a New York Times best-seller, but a...
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#BookFaceFriday: “Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket” by Hilma Wolitzer
We’re just crazy for this #BookFaceFriday! Well, this just sounds like a regular Tuesday night. This week’s #BookFace title comes from the collection “Best Books of 2021 (Adult Fiction &...
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Friday Reads: Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury...
Mad Max: Fury Road is a post-apocalyptic dystopian movie with an outwardly simple plot: the protagonists escape captivity and race towards a destination, The Green Place, where they will be safe from...
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#BookFaceFriday “When the Wind Came” by Jan Andrews
There’s no place like home with #BookFaceFriday! We are embracing, or at least making use of, these windy Nebraska days for this week’s #BookFace! Life is not always rainbows and blue skies. While we...
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Friday Reads: Son of a Gamblin’ Man by Mari Sandoz
Son of a Gamblin’ Man is Mari Sandoz’s historical novel about the gambler, entrepreneur, promoter, controversial, bold, and visionary John J. Cozad. Book descriptions note that it is Robert Henri’s...
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#BookFaceFriday: “My Antonia” by Willa Cather
O! #BookFaceFriday! “During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had both known long ago.” This week’s #BookFace title comes...
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#BookFaceFriday “Beauty Queens” by Libba Bray
Miss Congeniality has nothing on #BookFaceFriday! There she is, Miss America.. er I mean #BookFaceFriday! Don’t be a pageant mom with this week’s #BookFace, “Beauty Queens” by Libba Bray (Scholastic...
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Friday Reads: Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
I’ve been rereading the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith, in anticipation of the next book in the series. This is a tradition I have with this series and others, I love revisiting my...
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#BookFaceFriday “Just Like That” by Gary D. Schmidt
Throw your hands in the air for #BookFaceFriday! Check out this new book by Newbery Honor-winning writer Gary D. Schmidt! This week’s #BookFaceFriday! “Just Like That” (Clarion Books, 2021), follows a...
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#BookFaceFriday “The Reading List” by Sara Nisha Adams
#BookFaceFriday‘s TBR list has never been longer! Maybe a little on the nose for a Book Club read but who cares, it was too good not to use for this week’s #BookFaceFriday. We have gotten several new...
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#BookFaceFriday “Not Here to Be Liked” by Michelle Quach
We’re not taking this #BookFaceFriday lying down! Just another relaxing #BookFaceFriday at the library commission! We hope you’ll like “Not Here to Be Liked” by Michelle Quach (HarperCollins, 2021),...
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#BookFaceFriday “The Forgotten Home Child” by Genevieve Graham
Who could forget #BookFaceFriday? This week’s #BookFaceFriday is the unforgettable “The Forgotten Home Child” by Genevieve Graham (Simon & Schuster, 2020). Based on the true story of the British...
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Book Club Spotlight – Why I’m an Only Child & Other Slightly Naughty Plains...
I admit that I’m a newbie to the bibliography of Roger Welsch- so I thought I’d dip my toes into the proverbial waters for this week’s Book Club Spotlight. With over 40 books to his name (11 of which...
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#BookFaceFriday “Touch” by Olaf Olafsson
You can’t touch this #BookFaceFriday! We’re leaving on a jet plane, don’t know when we’ll be back again… er well at least we won’t be back in time for #BookFaceFriday! We’re taking a trip with “Touch:...
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#BookFaceFriday “Finlay Donovan is Killing It” by Elle Cosimano
We’re knocking ’em dead with this week’s #BookFaceFriday! Your book club may just die … of laughter with this week’s #BookFaceFriday pick, “Finlay Donovan is Killing It: A Novel” by Elle Cosimano...
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Friday Reads: Accelerated: A Guide to Innovation at the Speed of Change by...
Not too long ago, I found myself in Chicago, visiting friends on my way to Wisconsin. Chicago fully reflects the speed of change and innovation taking over the world. I went out of my way to wave at...
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Book Club Spotlight – Pet
When asked to write a flagship title for the new Random House imprint “Make Me a World,” author Akwaeke Emezi set out to create a story that they would want to read if they were a teen today. Their...
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