====PAGE-LEVEL METADATA==== University Daily Kansan Page 0471_2 from reel: NP 16286 (2013-08-22 to 2013-12-16) https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-udk/20868 Title: Next Year's Common Book Will Hit Close to Home Summary: University professor Laura Moriarty's novel "The Center of Everything" selected as 2014-2015 Common Book for incoming first-year students, focusing on themes of poverty, religion, and family in fictional Kansas town. Category: features/profiles Subjects: university programs; academic events; literature Named Entities: Moriarty, Laura [professor]; Graham, Howard [Office of First-Year Experience] Confidence: 0.85 Title: Photo: Laura Moriarty With Book Summary: Photo of University English professor Laura Moriarty holding her book "The Center of Everything" which was selected as next year's Common Book. Category: photos/graphics Subjects: author profiles; literary events; university faculty Named Entities: Moriarty, Laura [English professor] Confidence: 0.9 Title: [advertisements] Advertisers include: KU Bookstore Category: advertisements Confidence: 0.9 Note: Descriptive metadata for this item has been generated in part using AI (artificial intelligence) technologies and may be incomplete, misleading, or inaccurate. Please contact the Kenneth Spencer Research Library with specific questions or concerns.