One nonfiction book and two novels—all stories with ties to Nebraska and the Great Plains—are the finalists for the 2014 One Book One Nebraska statewide reading program. The finalists are “Goodnight, Nebraska” by Tom McNeal, Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen by Bob Greene and Plainsong by Kent Haruf.
The One Book One Nebraska reading program, now in its tenth year, is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Library Commission, and Nebraska Library Association. It encourages Nebraskans across the state to read and discuss the same book, chosen from books written by Nebraska authors or that have a Nebraska theme or setting. A committee of the Nebraska Center for the Book selected the three finalists from a list of 71 titles nominated by 141 Nebraskans.
The choice for the 2014 One Book One Nebraska will be announced at 5:30 p.m. at the Celebration of Nebraska Books on October 26 at the Nebraska State Historical Society’s Museum of Nebraska History, 15th and P Streets in downtown Lincoln. The event will also recognize the Willa Cather Foundation for their promotional efforts celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of the 2013 One Book One Nebraska book selection O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. For more information about One Book One Nebraska, see http://onebook.nebraska.gov/2013/index.aspx.