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The 2023 One Book Siouxland selection is....
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Read the book. Join the conversation The 2023 One Book Siouxland selection is Accidental Rancher by Eliza Blue. In Accidental Rancher, Blue shares a collection of short stories about her life on the high plains, bringing a new voice and a musician's grace to the culture of rural America. As Accidental Rancher is locally published by South Dakota magazine, it is currently only available for check out in regular print. |
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Read the book and then attend events that complement Accidental Rancher. Participate in the Stamp Your Quilt challenge. Pick up a One Book Siouxland Guide at any Siouxland Libraries location and mark off events that you attend and other challenges that you complete. Get four stamps and return it to any library by April 28 to be entered to win a prize! One Book Events One Book Siouxland Kick-Off: Sustainability Expo Pioneer Experience A History of Traditional Western Music by Allen and Jill Kirkham: A Musical Performance An Introduction to Common Roots Seed Library Songs from the Soil: Author Talk with Eliza Blue |
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About the Author |
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When Eliza Blue first moved to northwestern South Dakota, she didn't plan on staying long. But then she fell in love with a Perkins County rancher -- and the land, the wind, the livestock and the giant blue expanse of a West River |
The 2022 One Book Siouxland selection was David Heska Wanbli Weiden's award winning Winter Counts, a thriller set in and around South Dakota’s Rosebud Indian Reservation with complex characters, believable conflicts, and an urgent message about Native culture, as well as, the inequities in education opportunities and criminal justice.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the 2021 One Book Siouxland took place in September. Two books were selected: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff.
The 2020 One Book Siouxland selection was Kristin Hannah's bestselling The Great Alone, a gripping portrayal of a family seeking a fresh beginning in Alaska in the 1970s.
In 2019, participants read Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Prairie Fires won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, as well as being named to New York Times' "10 Best Books of the Year.
In 2018, One Book Siouxland participants read Fredrik Backman's best-selling book, A Man Called Ove. Library staff, in partnership with local library users, selected this story because of its theme--"people can change, even if they are set in their ways"--as well as the strong Swedish and Scandinavian heritage that is part of this region and the book.
