Sponsorship | Volunteer | Vendors & Exhibitors | Donate | Read the Books | 2010 Festival | Join NCB
Sponsor a writer or poet. Your support helps keep the Nebraska Book Festival a free event for everyone to enjoy. Funding supports authors/presenters, activities/materials, supplies and promotion. If you would like more specific information about becoming a sponsor, please contact Mary Jo Ryan at 402.471.3434 or toll free at 800-307-2665, and to email, click here. View this year's sponsors.
Volunteer to work on November 14 and/or to help with
advance planning and promotion. If you are interested in
volunteering to help make this year's festival a success, contact Kathryn Brockmeier
at 402.471.4002 or toll free at 800-307-2665, to email
click here.
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Exhibit on November 14 and share your message with Nebraska book lovers. Publishers and author organizations, along with book and reading-related vendors, are invited to exhibit and/or sell publications/products during the festival. Commercial and non-profit exhibits will be set up in the first floor of the Nebraska History Museum in the spacious, brightly-lit foyer. Each vendor will receive one 4-foot table and one folding chair. A few 6-foot tables will be made available for vendors with extremely large inventory. View pricing and details (PDF). View and print registration form (PDF). View this year's vendors and exhibitors.
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Please make a tax deductible donation to the
festival. Your support helps keep the Nebraska Book
Festival a free event for everyone to enjoy. Funding supports
authors/presenters, activities/materials, supplies and promotion. If you would like more specific information
about donating to the Nebraska Book Festival contact Mary Jo Ryan
at 402.471.3434 or toll free at 800-307-2665, to email
click here.
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Read these books and then come hear the authors read and talk about their current work:
A Claim of Her Own (Bethany House), by Stephanie Grace Whitson |
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A Date You Can't Refuse
(Broadway), by
Harley Jane Kozak |
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2009 One Book One Nebraska
Book Discussion: A Lantern in Her Hand (New York, D. Appleton & Co), by Bess Streeter Aldrich |
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A Sandhills Ballad (University of New Mexico Press), by Ladette Randolph |
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City at War (The Backwaters Press), by J.V. Brummels |
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Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing (Salt Publishing), by Allison Hedge Coke |
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Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild (University of Chicago Press), by Michael Forsberg |
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Lights on a Ground of Darkness (University of Nebraska Press), by Ted Kooser |
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The Loren Eiseley Reader |
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Safer (Delacorte Press), by Sean Doolittle |
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Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World (Riverhead), by Mary Pipher |
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What Happens (University of Nebraska Press), by Hilda Raz |
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Save the date. Next year’s festival has been set for November 6, 2010. For the 2010 Nebraska Book Festival, Nebraska writers and publishers with ©2010 releases (books by Nebraska authors), are invited to contact Mary Jo Ryan at 402.471.3434 or toll free at 800-307-2665, to email click here.
The Nebraska Center for the Book brings together the state’s readers, writers, booksellers, librarians, publishers, printers, educators, and scholars to build the community of the book. We are people who know and love books, and who value the richness they bring to our lives.
Our Nebraska Center supports programs to celebrate and stimulate public interest in books, reading, and the written word. Help make a difference -- become a part of the coalition. As a bonus, you'll get the NCB newsletter free. Just click this link and follow instructions to become a member. Join Nebraska Center for the Book.