Hot Topics for November 2019

November is ...

• American Diabetes Month
• American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
• COPD Awareness Month
• National Novel Writing Month
• National Picture Book Month
• National Pomegranate Month
• Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month

Other Interesting Tidbits ...

• Find a Flu Shot
• One Book One Nebraska:  This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm by Ted Genoways is the joint 2019 One Book One Nebraska and All Iowa Reads selection.  
• Thanksgiving History  from the History Channel
• Thanksgiving Recipes  from All.recipes
• Winter Tips  from the EPA

Today is ...

• October 6 - November 16  Fall Chrysanthemum Show  Omaha
• November 1  All Saints Day 
• November 1  National Family Literacy Day
• November 1-2  Breeders Cup
• November 3  Daylight Saving Time  (first Sunday in November)
• November 3  New York Marathon
• November 3-9  International Games Week@ your library
• November 3-9  National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week (first full week in November)
• November 4  National Common Sense Day
• November 9  Berlin Wall Opened, 1989
• November 10-16  National Young Readers Week (second week in November)
• November 11  Veterans Day 
• November 13  Country Music Awards
• November 15  America Recycles Day
• Mid-November-January 5  Omaha’s Holiday Lights Festival
• November 16  Tellabration  The annual storytelling celebration day
• November 16-24  National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week
• November 17  Homemade Bread Day
• ovember 19  International Men's Day
• November 20  Universal Children's Day
• November 20  National Book Awards announced
• November 20-21 Gateway Farm Expo, Kearney
• November 24-30  National Family Week (observed during the week of Thanksgiving)
• November 24-30 National Game and Puzzle Week (observed during the week of Thanksgiving)
• November 25  Andrew Carnegie Birth Anniversary, 1835
• November 28  Thanksgiving
• November 28  Thanksgiving By the Numbers
• November 29  Buy Nothing Day  The Friday after Thanksgiving in the US

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