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#BookFaceFriday –“The Blue Tattoo” by Margot Mifflin
It’s the wild west with this week’s #BookFaceFriday. Take a trip back in time with this week’s #BookFaceFriday, “The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (Women in the West)” written by Margot...
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#BookFaceFriday –“A Song Only I Can Hear” by Barry Jonsberg
If #BookFaceFriday were a mixtape. With schools out for summer, librarians are just gearing up for our busiest season! You know what that means, Summer Reading Programs, teen and children’s book...
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#BookFaceFriday –“Creativity for Library Career Advancement”
A bright idea for a #BookFaceFriday! Voila! Did you know the Commission has a collection of library science titles? Our Library Science Collection provides professional and reference materials for...
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#BookFaceFriday –“Librarian Tales” by William Ottens
This #BookFaceFriday really stacks up! We are not done hyping NLC’s library science collection! It’s not just textbooks and curriculum, but fun reads like “Librarian Tales: Funny, Strange, and...
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#BookFaceFriday “Sidekicked” by John David Anderson
We love a good back-to-school #BookFaceFriday! Ahh, the smell of freshly sharpened pencils and new erasers, makes us want to go out and buy school supplies! This week’s #BookFace is a reminder that a...
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#BookFaceFriday “The Perfume Thief” by Timothy Schaffert
We’d let this #BookFaceFriday steal us away any day! Nebraska’s very own Timothy Schaffert has just released his latest book, “The Perfume Thief” (Doubleday, 2021) and we just couldn’t wait to share...
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#BookFaceFriday “Anxious People” by Fredrik Backman
No need to fret, it’s #BookFaceFriday! New book club kits alert! The Nebraska Library Commission’s Book Club Kit Collection is constantly growing. either from purchases or donations. One of our newest...
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#BookFaceFriday “The Calamities of Kalamity Kate”
Yeehaw! Get along, lil’ #BookFaceFriday! In honor of a true Nebraska legend, today we are highlighting Leta Powell Drake’s memoir, “The Calamities of Kalamity Kate: A History of Nebraska’s Children’s...
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#BookFaceFriday “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This week’s #BookFaceFriday is off-limits! We are celebrating Banned Books Week with a very dapper banned #BookFace! The Nebraska Library Commission supports readers and the freedom to read so we make...
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#BookFaceFriday “Fable” by Adrienne Young
This week’s #BookFaceFriday really tells a story! New additions to our Book Club Kit collection are always worth a mention. Especially when they have beautiful, spooky covers, perfect for an October...
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#BookFaceFriday “Love & Other Curses” by Michael Thomas Ford
Let this #BookFaceFriday cast a spell on you! This week was the Nebraska Library Association Fall Conference, and this #BookFace, “Love & Other Curses” by Michael Thomas Ford (HarperTeen, 2019),...
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#BookFaceFriday “Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich” by Adam Rex
This #BookFaceFriday might ruin your dinner! You think you’ve got problems? They don’t hold a dripping black candle to those of the monsters in this week’s #BookFace, “Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich...
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#BookFaceFriday “Every Which Way But Dead” by Kim Harrison
It’s a witchy woman kinda #BookFaceFriday! Woo hoo witchy woman! We are totally here for this Halloween #BookFace! “Every Which Way But Dead” by Kim Harrison (Harper Collins, 2009) is a part of the...
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#BookFaceFriday “The Forest of Hands and Teeth” by Carrie Ryan
This #BookFaceFriday is something to write about! It’s November, which means it’s time for #NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month! This annual challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel has...
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#BookFaceFriday “Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie”
There’s nothing like a slice of #BookFaceFriday! Nebraska Library Commission staff celebrated early with our annual Thanksgiving pot luck this week. Which brought up the question, how early is too...
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#BookFaceFriday “The Library at the Edge of the World”
Take the plunge with #BookFaceFriday! The Nebraska Library Commission is in the process of updating Nebraska’s LSTA state program! This week we welcomed Sally Reed to meet with staff, Commissioners,...
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#BookFaceFriday “Taste” by Stanley Tucci
Get your taste buds ready for this #BookFaceFriday! I’m sure we’re all trying to forget exactly how much we ate yesterday, so take a break and read about some food instead! We thought “Taste: My Life...
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#BookFaceFriday “The Storyteller” by Dave Grohl
There goes my hero, he’s #BookFaceFriday. I mean honestly, does it get any better than Dave Grohl?! We are head over heels for all the amazing memoirs and nonfiction works out right now, we couldn’t...
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#BookFaceFriday “A Winter’s Love” by Madeleine L’Engle
#BookFace it’s cold outside! Well, it’s sort of cold outside, so we’re going with it! Check out “A Winter’s Love: A Novel” by Madeleine L’Engle (Open Road Media, 2017) it’s available as an eBook in...
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#BookFaceFriday – Book Drive!
Happy #BookFaceFriday to all the young readers out there! No matter the book, whether it’s about Christmas, Hanukkah, or Halloween, we want it for our annual Children/YA book drive! Just like one of...
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