Meet the 2019 Choice!
One Book One Community organizers once again asked readers to vote for the 2019 One Book, One Community book selection! The public vote initiative is a way to promote community involvement in the selection of the title, rather than handing over a single title each year. This year there were five titles on the ballot. The 2019 OBOC regional campaign represents collaboration between 40 public and academic libraries in Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry and York counties.
The official campaign launch of the OBOC Campaign will take place in January 2019. Multiple copies of the winning title will be available at your participating local library beginning in January 2019. Programs at public libraries will begin in February during Library Lovers’ Month and Book Lovers’ Month!
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
David Grann thoroughly explores a tragic little known and shameful piece of modern United States history. 1920-1924 Murders in the Osage Tribal Lands and J.Edgar Hoover’s Young FBI is charged with solving the case.
Read the book. Discuss the issues.
Summary:
Between 1920 and 1924 nearly two dozen people were murdered on the Osage tribal lands in
Oklahoma, both tribe members and white investigators died, becoming what was known as the
Osage Reign of Terror. Why these murders occurred soon became one of J. Edgar Hoover’s first
tests for his young Federal Bureau of Investigation. What was the primary reason for this bloody
time? Oil under the Osage territories had made the tribe members the richest people per capita in
the world, taking in nearly $400 million in today’s dollars, as well as targets for rampant greed
and senseless violence.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and Birth of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation by David Grann will be available at participating libraries beginning in January
2019.
The official campaign launch of the OBOC Campaign will take place in January 2019. Multiple copies of the winning title will be available at your participating local library beginning in January 2019. Programs at public libraries will begin in February during Library Lovers’ Month and Book Lovers’ Month!
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
David Grann thoroughly explores a tragic little known and shameful piece of modern United States history. 1920-1924 Murders in the Osage Tribal Lands and J.Edgar Hoover’s Young FBI is charged with solving the case.
Read the book. Discuss the issues.
Summary:
Between 1920 and 1924 nearly two dozen people were murdered on the Osage tribal lands in
Oklahoma, both tribe members and white investigators died, becoming what was known as the
Osage Reign of Terror. Why these murders occurred soon became one of J. Edgar Hoover’s first
tests for his young Federal Bureau of Investigation. What was the primary reason for this bloody
time? Oil under the Osage territories had made the tribe members the richest people per capita in
the world, taking in nearly $400 million in today’s dollars, as well as targets for rampant greed
and senseless violence.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and Birth of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation by David Grann will be available at participating libraries beginning in January
2019.