Events
Join us to chat about favorite reads, books that changed our lives, or the book we just couldn’t put down. No need to make reservations--just come and enjoy a little conversation about books. Carol Lynch will facilitate the discussion.
It's a volatile new economy in Durant, Wyoming, where the owners of a multi-million dollar development of ranchettes want to get rid of the adjacent junkyard. When a severed thumb is discovered in the yard, conflicts erupt, and Walt Longmire, his trusty companion Dog, life-long friend Henry Standing Bear, and deputies Santiago Saizarbitoria and Victoria Moretti find themselves in a small town that feels more and more like a high plains pressure cooker.
The Sherlock Holmes Book Club will discuss The Man with the Twisted Lip, a short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Penguin, $14). All Sherlockians, old or new to the canon, are welcomed. And if you don't know the difference between the canon and a pastiche, don't worry, just an enjoyment of "the game" is all that's needed.
Relive the history, tradition and memories in this commemorative book, with more than 300 pages of stories and photos about the renowned stadium. (Omaha World-Herald, $24.95)
After an itinerant childhood and countless moves as an adult, Daum was living in Los Angeles, single and in her mid-thirties, and devoting obscene amounts of time not to her writing career or her dating life but to the pursuit of property, visiting open houses and fantasizing about finding the right place for the right price. Finally she succumbed, depleting her life's savings to buy a 900-square-foot bungalow. From her mother's decorating manias to her own "hidden room" dreams, Daum explores the perils and pleasures of believing that only a house can make you whole.
One life is enough for most. Imagine having three. Nicholas Gambit did. One man, three very different reasons for being. From artless college student to inconceivably skilled government operative, his tale is both authentic and outrageous.
The As the Worm Turns Book Discussion Group will discuss The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton (Harper, $14.99). On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive--and, ultimately, they will come to cherish all the more fiercely the bonds of love that hold the family together. Jackie Byers will facilitate the discussion. Space is limited, so please call to reserve your place.
Historic Photos of Nebraska will take one back to sod houses and frontier forts, to one-room schoolhouses and laborers putting in a hard day’s work. It includes faces of both the famous and the obscure, cityscapes and farmers. The struggles are chronicled here, as are moments of triumph and achievement. With nearly 200 black-and-white images, this book strikes a tone that is sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, but always faithful to the soul of Nebraska.
Bestselling author Beverly Jenkins will sign her most recent books: Rhythms of Love, a two-in-one collection containing her novel You Sang to Me and Elaine Overton’s Beats of My Heart; and A Second Helping, a return to the beautiful Kansas town of Henry Adams, and the residents who make it unique. She will also sign two young adult novels: Josephine and Belle.
By exploring all of Levi's writings--including his short stories, poems, novels--Magavern introduces us to a talented writer who had a profound love of humanity, a sharp wit, a passion for his profession as a chemist--a man inspired by a variety of things beyond his Holocaust experience. Magavern brings a fresh, personal sensibility to the way we think about Levi and produces a hybrid book--part life story and part literary biography, finally doing justice to the man's calm rationality and essential beliefs.
The World War II History Book Discussion Group will discuss Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Don and Petie Kladstrup (Broadway Books, $14.95). In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. This is the thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their cherished crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them that, in a very real way, saved the spirit of France.
When a widely despised gossip columnist is found shot to death, Riley Spartz must secretly investigate a case in which she becomes the prime suspect. In the wake of the brutal murder, our heroine discovers that news and gossip have more in common than she ever imagined. Trouble begins when Riley publicly clashes with newspaper gossip writer Sam Pierce, throwing a drink in his face after he implies in his popular column that she cheated on her husband. When clues to the homicide lead to her, Riley is charged with the crime. The police seem unwilling to look any further for perpetrators, although numerous local news- makers have reason for revenge--even a motive for killing.
