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Friday Reads: The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Science fiction titles have been popping up more and more in my reading list over this past year, perhaps as an escape from our current reality. A list of the some of the best new science fiction from...
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Pandemic Resources for Libraries – One Year Later
We are now more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve learned to Zoom, perfected curbside pick-up, and have probably forgotten how to shake hands. While many of our Nebraska libraries closed...
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Book Club Kits
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage month! If you are looking for a book club selection that explores and honors AAPI experiences, we have added a genre category to our Book Club Kit...
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#BookFaceFriday “The Duke and I” by Julia Quinn
Is it steamy out here, or is it just #BookFaceFriday? A rakish rouge, a scheming debutante, a mysterious gossip column…what could go wrong? Whether or not you spent your pandemic binging Bridgerton on...
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Friday Reads: “Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard...
I enjoy celebrity biographies and behind-the-scenes stories, and those two things come together quite groovily in Melissa Maerz’s oral history of the 1993 cult-classic Dazed and Confused. Maerz...
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#BookFaceFriday “Love & Other Curses” by Michael Thomas Ford
Let this #BookFaceFriday cast a spell on you! This week was the Nebraska Library Association Fall Conference, and this #BookFace, “Love & Other Curses” by Michael Thomas Ford (HarperTeen, 2019),...
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#BookFaceFriday “Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich” by Adam Rex
This #BookFaceFriday might ruin your dinner! You think you’ve got problems? They don’t hold a dripping black candle to those of the monsters in this week’s #BookFace, “Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich...
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Friday Reads: “Come Fly With Me: the Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am” by...
If you’ve spent the pandemic grounded as I have, you may enjoy the escape to exotic locates found in Julia Cooke’s Come Fly the World: the Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am. Following the career...
View ArticleRelaxed Copyright Rules For Virtual Storytimes Ending
Throughout 2020 and 2021, many publishers relaxed their read-aloud and book-sharing rules to allow librarians and educators to have virtual storytimes. While a few publishers have extended these...
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#BookFaceFriday “The Last Holiday Concert” by Andrew Clements
We wish you a Merry #BookFace and a Happy New Year! Fa-la-la-la-la! Driving over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house is the perfect time to listen to an audiobook like “The Last...
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#BookFaceFriday “Fifty-Four Things Wrong With Gwendolyn Rogers” by Caela Carter
There’s nothing wrong with this #BookFaceFriday! Writing your New Year’s Resolutions? Lots of folks create lists of things they’d like to accomplish or change about themselves. In this week’s...
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#BookFaceFriday “Women Made Visible” by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
#BookFaceFriday, we see you! Start your Women’s History Month with this week’s #BookFaceFriday, “Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City“ by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda...
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Friday Reads: Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake
I first read Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake last winter with my kids, who both enjoy humor and talking animals (who doesn’t, right?). A story of an unlikely friendship, Badger and Skunk must learn...
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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 “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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#BookFaceFriday “An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good” by Helene Tursten
This #BookFaceFriday will leave you in stitches! Don’t be fooled by the diminutive size of this week’s #BookFace – it’s more than meets the eye. Just like Maud, the tiny octogenarian protagonist of...
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