OMAHA WORLD-HERALD LIVING SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 • 11E BOOKS BOOKENDS Catalog great way a list of the top 100 novels for youths. Tuesday, the Bookworm. Alex Kava to interview You can fi nd it at www.lincolnlibraries.org/ Workshop: Shakespeare Legend Writers novelist Brock Car kids/100BestNovels.pdf. Group, all genres, 9 a.m. Wednesday, Legend Comics & Coffee, 5207 Leavenworth St. to learn about Nebraska author Alex Kava will interview Summer reading can earn Workshops: Mentoring for high school writers, Omaha fi rst-time novelist Brock Car at 5:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesday; Nebraska Writers 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bookworm college cash for kids Workshop for adults, 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, in Countryside Village, 87th and Pacific Fifteen kids who participate in summer Baright Library, 5555 S. 77th St. in Ralston. Streets. reading programs at public libraries Book sale: Friends of the Omaha Public Sheldon’s artwork Car’s debut novel, a murder mystery titled throughout the state can be eligible to win Library, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Swanson $529 each in a program supported by the B Y C AROL BICAK “Dead Behind the Eyes,” is from Prairie Library, 9101 West Dodge Road. ever having to visit him. The Nebraska 529 College Savings Plans or WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER foreword is by Chris Peterson, Wind Publishing. Book discussion: Enquiring Minds Group, She will sign books after the presentation. NEST, First National Bank of Omaha, the “Happiness: A Very Short Introduction” by a young man from Omaha who Nebraska state treasurer and the Nebraska The Sheldon Museum of Art was treated by Creagan. Daniel Haybron, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the in Lincoln houses both the Shel- Nebraska women in journalism Library Commission. Bookworm. don Art Association collection “Miracles and Other Unusual Names of fi ve kids in each of the three Workshop: Nebraska Novelists critique group, and the University of Nebraska Medical Experiences” by Dr. next Page From Our Past topic congressional districts will be drawn to 7 p.m. Friday, Crossroads Barnes & Noble, receive the money in a NEST account collection, which total more than Byron Oberst (Trafford, $24.77 Eileen Wirth, author of “From Society 72nd and Dodge Streets. 12,000 artworks. in the Read to Win program. The young hardcover, $14.77 paperback). Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Workshops: “Turning Writing Dreams Into The collaboration, estab- The retired Omahan recalls readers have to be registered in a library Journalism” will participate in the next Page Reality” with Jeanie Jacobson, 9 a.m., 10 lished 125 years ago, features some of the extraordinary summer reading program. Winners will be a deep collection of paintings, From Our Past event at the Douglas County a.m. and 11 a.m. Saturday, Bible Truth things he experienced during his announced in September. Ministries Church, 2402 Franklin St., mostly from the Impressionists years as a pediatrician and the Historical Society Library Archives Center at For more information, visit www.NEST529. and other painters of the 19th Fort Omaha, 30th and Fort Streets. Bellevue. (Pre-register at bibletruthministries. advances in medicine that he com or nlc.nebraska.gov, or ask about it at org/bibletruthministries/Registration_Form. century through current artists, was able to witness. The roundtable discussion from 6:30 to your library. although some pieces date back 7:30 p.m. Tuesday is limited in space, so html) to the 18th century. To celebrate “Hummingbirds Don’t Fly in pre-registration is necessary. Register by ON THE CALENDAR Book discussion: Civil War Book Group, this anniversary as well as the the Rain” by Kimberly Klein 10 a.m. Saturday, “The Cherokee Nation in calling 402-455-9990, ext. 101. Cost to Workshop: Family History Writers Groups, 50th birthday of the museum’s (PMA Press, $22.95). Klein participate in $5 for society members and the Civil War” by Clarissa Confer, 10 a.m. building, a catalog of many of thought she couldn’t bear the 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. today, W. Dale Clark Saturday, the Bookworm. $10 for nonmembers. Library, 215 S. 15th St. these holdings was published pain of losing her daughter, Book signing: Lora Seilstad, author of “While this spring. Talia, in a plane crash. But the Book discussion: World War II Book Group, Love Stirs,” and Jewell Tweedt, author of While nothing compares subtitle for this book says it all: 100 novels for youths listed “A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of “Gold in My Pocket,” 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, the with seeing the art in person, “A Mother’s Extraordinary Search on Lincoln libraries website Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of Olive Branch, 19278 Conifer Lane, Council “Painting: From the Collection for Her Daughter — In This Life World War II” by Adam Makos, 2 p.m. Monday, Bluffs. You’re out of school and your summer of the Sheldon Museum of Art” and the Next.” The writer, who the Bookworm, 87th and Pacific Streets. stretches out in front of you. What should Book signing; Mark Langan, author of (University of Nebraska Press, now lives in Nebraska, says she Reading: Barbara Freeman, author of “Sugar: “Busting Bad Guys: My True Crime Stories you read? $75) is a wonderful introduction learned to communicate with A Princess Pit Bull Finds Her Family,” 3:45 of Bookies, Drug Dealers and Ladies of the to the museum. Talia in the afterlife and found If you need help fi nding a title, check with p.m. Tuesday, Nebraska Humane Society, Night,” 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 29, Aksarben Each piece is accompanied by life re-energized. your local library. Someone there should 90th and Fort Streets. Farmers Market, 67th and Center Streets. an essay on the artist (these are have plenty of suggestions. Book discussion: Crime Through Time Book — Events are free and open to the public. by numerous contributors) with “Crisis of Catholic Authority: But if you want to investigate online, the Group, “Behind That Curtain: A Charlie Chan plenty of footnotes so readers Faith and Power in the Lincoln City Library systems has compiled Mystery” by Earl Derr Biggers, 6:30 p.m. Contact the writer: 402-444-1067, [email protected] can follow up on any subject Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska” that may strike their fancy. The by Rachel Pokora (Paragon art ranges from pieces by well- House, $19.95). The author, known artists such as Thomas a member of the faculty at Eakins, Maurice Prendergast, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Marsden Hartley, Norman writes about what she saw as Rockwell, Thomas Hart Benton, an abuse of power by Catholic Robert Henri, Mark Rothko and bishops in Lincoln and how she Lee Krasner to lesser-known but felt betrayed by her church when often no less important painters such as Aaron Douglas, Eliza- she was excommunicated for beth Nourse, Stanton Macdon- being a member of Call to Action ald-Wright, John Steuart Curry Nebraska. and Esphyr Slobodkina. “She Makes Hats” by Robyn This book — edited by Bran- Devine (Asymmetrical Press, don K. Ruud and Gregory Nosan $12). An Omaha woman begins with a foreword by Jorge Daniel knitting hats as she worked Veneciano — is a lovely way to through the problems of infertility spend a few minutes or several and found shemakeshats. hours. com, an organization that knits Other books with local ties: hats for local and international “Stuck Together” by Mary organizations that help Connealy (Bethany House, newborns, older children and $14.99). The latest novel by the artists. She writes about her Nebraska romance, Christian journey of discovery and how and Western writer is the fi rst adopting a minimalist lifestyle book in the “Trouble in Texas” changed her. series, which is set in Texas after the Civil War. A woman “The Jesuit Post” edited by the from the East arrives in Broken Rev. Patrick Gilger (Orbis Books, Wheel, Texas, set on shutting $19). The Creighton University down the town saloon, but of professor and associate pastor course she meets her match in of St. John Catholic Church has the form of Vince Yates. collected essays on numerous subjects — from baseball to “Sisters’ Secret” by Cort philosophy, social media to Fernald ($10.99 paperback). politics. They were written to The Omaha novelist tells the urge people to think about story of a man who is obsessed religion and the church. with fi nding the rapist who killed his wife and attacked two other “From Grief to Joy: A Journey women from his past, which Back to Life & Living” by Donna leads him to powerful enemies Miesbach (Concierge Marketing, and extreme danger. $15.95). The Nebraskan urges readers to not be afraid of life’s “I Am a Wish: The Incredibly challenges and hurts, and tells True Story of the Dandelion” how she found the power of by Rere the Storyteller (Archway, faith, love and compassion. $24.90). Rere is actually Bellevue writer Marie Callegari. “American Carnage: Wounded Her children’s book encourages Knee, 1890” by Jerome A. readers to discover the beauty Greene (University of Oklahoma within themselves and learn how Press, $34.95). The retired to make their own wishes come educator has attempted to give the most comprehensive true. account of the massacre of “The Spirit Keeper” by K.B. Lakota Sioux and what led up Laugheed (Plume, $16). This to it. novel takes readers on the “Gottland: Mostly True Stories voyage of Katie O’Toole, who is From Half of Czechoslovakia” captured (or rescued from an by Mariusz Szczygiel (Melville abusive family, depending on House Press, $25.95). Although your point of view) by an Indian the Polish writer isn’t from holy man who believes she is around here, there are enough the subject of a vision he had. people of Czech ancestry in Her 1747 adventure takes her Nebraska to make this a book through the Omaha area. of local interest. It’s a mixture of “How Not to Be My Patient” stories about history, historical by Dr. Edward T. Creagan (Write characters and more recent On Ink Publishing, $19.95). people who have garnered The cancer and palliative care public attention and is based on specialist from the Mayo Clinic hundreds of interviews and lots teams up with Omaha writer of research. Sandra Wendel to offer advice on Contact the writer: how to live well and maybe avoid 402-444-1067, [email protected]

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