Tag Archives: Crossing to Safety

#BookFaceFriday “You Never Forget Your First” by Alexis Coe

Posted on August 28, 2026 by Tessa Timperley

We couldn’t make this #BookFace up if we tried!

Truth really is stranger than fiction, this week we’re checking out all the nonfiction reads in our Book Club Kit collection. This week’s #BookFaceFriday is “You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington” by Alexis Coe (‎Viking, 2020). This title is available as a book club kit for your library. You can browse all the nonfiction titles available to book clubs, it’s a curated list located in the Browse Options section.

“In this breezy yet fact-filled revisionist biography, historian and podcast host Coe (Alice + Freda Forever) takes George Washington’s previous—predominantly male—biographers to task…Readers who like their history with a dose of wry humor will savor this accessible account.”

—Publishers Weekly

Book Club Kits Rules for Use

  1. These kits can be checked out by the librarians of Nebraska libraries and media centers.
  2. Circulation times are flexible and will be based upon availability. There is no standard check-out time for book club kits.
  3. Please search the collection to select items you wish to borrow and use the REQUEST THIS KIT icon to borrow items.
  4. Contact the Information Desk at the Library Commission if you have any questions: by phone: 800/307-2665, or by email: Information Services Team

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!

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#BookFaceFriday “Crossing to Safety” by Wallace Stegner

Posted on August 7, 2026 by Tessa Timperley

#BookFace sweet BookFace!

A hand holds a copy of “Crossing to Safety” by Wallace Stegner so that the illustrated house on the book cover aligns with a real house in the background, both featuring a white exterior and red brick chimney under a clear blue sky.

“Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.” We’re coming home for this week’s #BookFaceFriday, “Crossing to Safety” by Wallace Stegner (Modern Library, 2002). Lauded as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century, this novel about marriage and friendship follows two couples across decades of love and conflict. Originally published in 1987, this title is available as book club kits for your library.

“A superb book. . . . Nothing in these lives is lost or wasted, suffering becomes an enriching benediction, and life itself a luminous experience.”

―Doris Grumbach

Book Club Kits Rules for Use

  1. These kits can be checked out by the librarians of Nebraska libraries and media centers.
  2. Circulation times are flexible and will be based upon availability. There is no standard check-out time for book club kits.
  3. Please search the collection to select items you wish to borrow and use the REQUEST THIS KIT icon to borrow items.
  4. Contact the Information Desk at the Library Commission if you have any questions: by phone: 800/307-2665, or by email: Information Services Team

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!

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