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The Nebraska Library Commission encourages all Nebraskans to read a particular book each year to encourage a shared dialogue throughout the state. This year they chose The Meaning of Names [2014] by Karen Gettert Shoemaker. The author loosely tells the story of her grandmother’s family who homesteaded near Stuart, Nebraska. Gerda and Fritz Vogel contend with everything 1918 has to offer, including anti-German prejudices and the dread that surrounds World War I as well as the horrors of the flu p
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Gerda and Fritz Vogel live in a small Nebraskan town at the beginning of World War II. Between pandemic influenza and anti German sentiment, the manage to scrape by on a small farm. Gods character development.
