This week, we talk with Nebraska Library Commission's Tessa Timperley, and local author, Tosca Lee.

Happening at the Library

• Imagine, Write, Explore! with Danielle Herzog | Saturday, Nov. 8, from 1 to 2 p.m. at Benson Branch
• Repujado Art Workshop | Saturday, Nov. 8, from 1 to 2 p.m. at South Omaha Library
• It’s All Relative Book Club Monday | Nov. 10, 6 to 7 p.m. at Genealogy & Local History Room

Explore all upcoming events at omahalibrary.org/events.

All the books and resources we talk about in this episode can be found below!  
“The Book With No Pictures” and “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories” by B.J. Novak

Nebraska Celebration of Books on Nov. 15 

Nebraska Center for the Book: centerforthebook.nebraska.gov 

Nebraska Celebration of Books: bookfestival.nebraska.gov/2025/index.aspx 

One book One Nebraska: onebook.nebraska.gov/2025/index.aspx 

Tosca Lee: toscalee.com

“The Long March Home: A World War II Novel of the Pacific” by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee

Tosca’s Book Recs

“K-Jane” by Lydia Kang

“Where He Left Me” by Nicole Baart

“Circle of Days” by Ken Follett 

“The Egypt Game” by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

“Midnight Creed” by Alex Kava

“Parents Weekend” by Alex Finlay

Tessa’s Book Recs

“That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You” by Elyse Myers

The English Patient” by Michael Ondaatje

Amy’s Book Recs

“Ted Kooser: More Than A Local Wonder” by Carla Ketner  

“The Antidote” by Karen Russell

“Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky” by Joel Sartore

“North Woods” by Daniel Mason

“Gumbo Life Tales From the Roux Bayou” by Ken Wells

“The Bookshop: a History of the American Bookstore” by 
Evan Friss 

“Night Watch” by Jayne Anne Phillips

Query of the Week Responses

The Big Short movie

“The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” by Michael Lewis

“Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed” by Maureen Callahan

“Everything Is Tuberculosis: the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection” by John Green

“Death March: The Survivors of Bataan” by Donald Knox

Join the conversation for the next episode!
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