Lincoln City Libraries -- Bennett Martin Public Library

This monthly mystery fiction discussion group will all be reading and discussing Robert B. Parker's "Trouble in Paradise" on this date, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Viewing of the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still, followed by discussion of the film and the short science fiction novella that it was based upon...Harry Bates' "Farewell to the Master" -- available ... (more)free online! Gathering should run from 2:00 to 5:15 in the afternoon.

Chaparral Poets read their work (Local poets reading original work)

Another Omaha resident, and this year's Nebraska Literary Heritage Association honorary author member, Sean Doolittle is the author of several suspense/crime novels including Dirt, Burn, Rain Dogs, and the most recent, The Cleanup.

Monthly mystery fiction discussion group that meets over desserts. This month's novel for discussion by the members is Dorothy Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vale novel Gaudy Night.

This is a book discussion meeting of the Lincoln, NE science fiction club Star Base Andromeda. At this meeting, members will be discussing Nalo Hopkinson's award-winning "Brown Girl in the Ring" (1998). Participants are encouraged to read this book and join us. [THIS IS NOT AN AUTHOR APPEARANCE]

Monthly mystery fiction discussion group that meets over desserts. This month's novel for discussion by the members is the recent Sherlock Holmes pastiche, Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith.

This is a book discussion meeting of the Lincoln, NE science fiction club Star Base Andromeda. At this meeting, members will be discussing James Tiptree Jr.'s (Alice Sheldon's) "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" short story collection. Participants are encouraged to read this book and join us. [THIS IS NOT ... (more)AN AUTHOR APPEARANCE]

Monthly mystery fiction discussion group that meets over desserts. This month's novel for discussion by the members is the Agatha Christie classic, Parker Pyne Investigates.

Monthly mystery fiction discussion group that meets over desserts. This month's novel for discussion by the members is the recent Joe Gunther series volume, St. Alban's Fire by Archer Mayor.

Monthly mystery fiction discussion group that meets over desserts. This month's novel for discussion by the members is the Nero Wolfe classic, Champagne for One, by Rex Stout.

Viewing of the movie Minority Report, followed by discussion of the film and the short science fiction novella that it was based upon...Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report". Gathering should run from 2:00 to 5:15 in the afternoon.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Amelia Montes has been a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the past ten years. She writes fiction, critical literary theory, non-fiction, and criticism. Most recently, she edited a nineteenth-century text, Who Would Have Thought It? by Maria Amparo Ruiz ... (more)de Burton as well as written the introduction, notes and translated letters.

An opportunity for One Book One Lincoln participants to discuss Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book with fellow readers. This is the final Courtyard Book Chats book group session for 2009, and will be held in the central courtyard patio of the Bennett Martin Public Library in downtown Lincoln, NE.

Amil Quayle hails from Idaho, near the Snake River. He earned a degree in sociology from the University of Utah, ranched in Nebraska for seven years and then received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska. He has taught English at Utah State University and at Idaho State University. ... (more)Grand Canyon and Other Selected Poems, which includes a photo of river rafting on the cover, is his latest work.

A freelance writer and fifth-generation Nebraskan who lives in Omaha, Jeff Barnes has been a newspaper reporter and editor, the past chairman of the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission, and the former marketing director of the Durham Western Heritage Museum. He has researched, photographed, and written ... (more)his first book, a guide entitled Forts of the Northern Plains, published by Stackpole Books.