Nancy Rips

NANCY RIPS is a longtime bookseller and book reviewer based in Omaha, Nebraska, known as the Book Maven of the Midwest. Her recent books include Noah and the Eight Trucks of Hanukkah, Hanukkah Stories: Thoughts on Family, Celebration and Joy and High Holiday Stories: Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur.

Rips has conducted regular book review segments on radio and television, including on Omaha’s CBS-TV affiliate, and has served on the Omaha Public Library Board of Trustees.

When she’s not writing, Rips draws on her years in bookselling and her work as a reviewer. Much of her writing explores Jewish holiday themes and personal storytelling.

Nancy lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

Nancy Rips’s books are published by Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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