Nominate Now for 2012 One Book One Nebraska Book Selection

The Nebraska Center for the Book (NCB) invites recommendations for the 2012 One Book One Nebraska book selection. The Nebraska Center for the Book will consider books written by a Nebraska author (living or dead/with current or former residence in the state), or that have a Nebraska theme or setting. Books should have a broad appeal to readers across Nebraska and lend well to group book discussion. Books may be fiction, non-fiction, biography, memoir, or poetry. They must be in print and readily available. The Center for the Book strongly suggests that anyone who nominates a text should have read it. Book recommendations should be sent via e-mail by June 15, 2011. Recommendations may also be sent via the U.S. Postal Service to The Nebraska Center for the Book One Book One Nebraska, c/o Nebraska Library Commission Reference Services, 1200 N Street, Suite 120, Lincoln, NE 68508-2023. The Nebraska Center for the Book will announce the 2012 One Book One Nebraska choice at the Fall Nebraska Center for the Book Celebration, which will include a 2011 One Book One Nebraska Program, Jane Pope Geske Award and Nebraska Book Awards Ceremony, and NCB Annual Meeting. For information about One Book One Nebraska, including current and previous book selections, see http://centerforthebook.nebraska.gov/programs/onebook_archive/2011.html or join us on http://www.facebook.com/#!/NebraskaBookFestival The Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Humanities Council, Nebraska Library Association, Nebraska Library Commission, and other statewide organizations sponsor One Book One Nebraska to demonstrate how books and reading connect people across time and place. In 2011, Nebraska communities will come together through literature in community-wide reading programs to explore Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps, a non-fiction work by one of Nebraska’s best-loved authors—Nebraska’s own Ted Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and U.S. Poet Laureate (2004–2006).