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The Worst Hard Time

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The Lincoln City Libraries and the Lincoln Journal Star announced this morning, via today’s paper and the library web site, that Timothy Egan’s National Book Award-winning non-fiction title The Worst Hard Time has been selected for this year’s One Book — One Lincoln community-wide reading project.

Copies of this book are available in both print and book-on-CD editions. Special programs and events, based on the themes of The Worst Hard Time, are scheduled at various library branches and other locations throughout the city in September, October and November. And various opportunities for group discussions of the book will also be available throughout Lincoln.

All the information about this year’s events and discussions, as well as background information about the book, the author and the themes and subjects of The Worst Hard Time, are available on the official 2007 One Book — One Lincoln web site.

And the winning title is…

One Book - One LincolnThe title selected for this year’s One Book — One Lincoln citywide reading project will be announced in the paper and on the library’s web site tomorrow — August 27th.

Discussion topics will be posted here on the One Book blog on a regular basis following the announcement, to give readers discussion threads in which they can post their comments.

In the meantime, please feel free to voice any opinions or questions you may have about any of this year’s five finalists, or the One Book — One Lincoln process in general.