[OPLINLIST] One Book, One Community: Friday Night Lights

[gillja@oplin.org]

The public libraries of Tuscarawas County, Ohio (Dover Public Library,
Claymont Public Library, Gnadenhutten Public Library, and the Tuscarawas
County Public Library System) are very excited to announce that Pulitzer
Prize winning author H.G. Bissinger will be coming to New Philadelphia for
an author program and book signing on Tuesday, October 20th 2009 at 7 PM
at Kent State Tuscarawas to discuss his contemporary classic, Friday Night
Lights: A Town, A Team, and A Dream.

"Closed-up movie theaters.  Empty store fronts.  For-sale signs
everywhere.  This is Odessa, Texas.  But although it has seen better days,
Odessa still has a dream.  That dream comes to life once a week every
fall, when the Panthers of Permian High School take the football field
under the Friday Night Lights.  MO-JO!  MO-JO!  The haunting cheer rocks
the stadium filled with 20,000 fans, who are there not only to root for
their beloved team, but to live out their own dreams.  In this remarkable
book, Pultizer Prize-winning journalist H.G. Bissinger chronicles a season
in the life of Odessa: the coaches, the mothers and fathers, the teachers,
the ministers, the politicians--and most of all the players, who carry an
entire city's image of itself on their young shoulders."
-Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.

For a complete listing of book discussion dates, specials events and
programs go to:  http://onebooktusc.blogspot.com/

Special Note:  This year's One Book, One Community planning committee will
be giving a way an authentic Schutt Dillon Panthers football helmet signed
by Kyle Chandler, Taylor Kitsch, and other cast members from the hit NBC
television show, Friday Night Lights.  Raffle tickets are $1 and can be
purchased at any of the Special Events this fall.  Winning entry will be
drawn by author H.G. Bissinger at the author event on October 20th.


Jim Gill
Extension & Technical Services Manager
Tuscarawas County Public Library
121 Fair Avenue NW
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
Ph (330) 364-4474
Fax(330) 364-8217
gillja at oplin.org

"The Tuscarawas County Public Library provides library users of all ages
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