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2024 Reading Challenge Ready to take on a challenge in 2024? OPL’s annual Reading Challenge is back with 12 new themes designed to help push you out of your reading comfort zone. Tackle one per month, or whatever pace you’d like throughout the year. Simply read one book that fits each of the 12 themes presented. Reading recommendations for each month’s theme will be available at omahalibrary.org. If you need additional recommendations, feel free to ask the staff at your neighborhood branch or request a Custom Reading List at omahalibrary.org/find-your-next-read. Want to swap out a challenge? Reach out to request a new challenge at readingchallenge@omahalibrary.org.
Volume 30 • Issue 4 • Winter 2023-2024
CHALLENGE CHECKLIST
2024
□ Read a book about or featuring technology & culture.
□ Read a book about or featuring social justice. □ Read a book by, about, or featuring a refugee or immigrant.
□ Read a book from OPL’s Top Shelf. □ Read a book about or featuring mythology. □ Read a book about or featuring LGBTQIA+ families.
Beginning in January 2024, visit your local branch to pick up a Reading Challenge notebook (while supplies last), which contains the challenge details as well as a place to track your reading throughout the year.
□ Read a book by, about, or featuring a person
Once completed, fill out a paper form or submit your entry online for a chance to win a gift card to a local bookstore. Everyone who turns in a paper form or submits the online form will also receive a pin for completing the challenge.
□ Read a book mentioned on The Book Drop. □ Read a book with a color in the title. □ Read a book by, about, or featuring a 20th
Be sure to share what you’re reading on social media by tagging @omahalibrary on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Find more information at omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.
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□ Read a book by, about, or featuring a veteran. □ Read a book about or featuring spirituality.
New Winter Titles Enjoy these titles being added to OPL’s collection December 2023—February 2024. Familia by Lauren E. Rico In San Juan, a genealogy test will change the course of two women’s lives as they find each other across cultures. Two sisters are reunited, one longing to meet the other and the other insisting it is an impossible mistake. As they aim to discover the truth, other secrets about who they are unfold before them.
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan In an older estate off of the coast of South Africa, a once thriving space is in disrepair, a home to misfits wanting to disconnect from society. Sana finds herself enthralled by the history of the place and starts wandering through a mystery of something that happened a hundred years ago to Meena who is now a spirit waiting for the secrets of her death to be uncovered.
Every Black Girl Dances by Candice Y. Johnson Hollywood sensation JC Burke is experiencing all the privileges of being famous and wealthy, but all is not as perfect as it seems. As she leaves her latest project amidst a strained relationship with her producing partner, she returns home and reconsiders the price of her success.
Ours by Phillip B. Williams An enigmatic woman named Saint has been able to create a community free from the world of slavery that is magically hidden. She has rescued people from plantations in Arkansas and taken them there to safety. Soon she encounters the vulnerability of her magic, and the possible incursion by others with their own magic, and the safety of their community is becoming its own kind of prison.