Oh give me a home where the #BookFaces roam!

If you enjoy sunsets and long walks on the beach, this week’s #BookFace is for you. Actually, if you you enjoy the Sandhills, settlers literature, and slightly obscure writings of Nebraska authors, then this #Bookface is for you. Check out “Old Jules Country: A Selection from “Old Jules” and Thirty Years of Writing after the Book was Published” by Mari Sandoz (University of Nebraska Press, 1965) which includes selections from six volumes of Sandoz’s Great Plains Series The Beaver Men, Crazy Horse, Cheyenne Autumn, The Buffalo Hunters, The Cattlemen, and Old Jules and from her study of a great people, These Were the Sioux, also included are two essays, “The Lost Sitting Bull” and “The Homestead in Perspective,” a Cheyenne prayer and two sketches unavailable elsewhere—”Snakes” and “Coyotes and Eagles”—complete this collection. This title is part of the Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse, which receives documents every month from all Nebraska state agencies, including the University of Nebraska Press (UNP). UNP books, as well as all Nebraska state documents, are available for checkout by libraries and librarians for their patrons.

“This anthology provides a stimulating sampling for readers not yet acquainted with Sandoz’s work. For her extensive following, it offers the opportunity for a satisfying reappraisal of her overall achievement.”

— University of Nebraska Press

Love this #BookFace & reading? We suggest checking out all the titles available for book clubs at http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ref/bookclub. Check out our past #BookFaceFriday photos on the Nebraska Library Commission’s Facebook page!