Every Sunday morning issue of the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper includes the “The (402) 411” section. Included in that section of the paper each week are regular author profiles and book reviews, by both local reviewers and national review services. Due to the regular popularity of the titles reviewed in the paper, we’ve designed this page of the Lincoln City Libraries’ Web site as a simple listing of the books recently reviewed in the Lincoln Journal Star, with links into the library’s holdings for all the listed books which are currently in the collection. If a title below is not hotlinked, this is an indication that the library does not currently own that book, but you may consider requesting the title through the services of our Interlibrary Loan department, or suggesting that we purchase it via our on-line Suggest-a-Title form.
End Games
by Michael Dibdin
Fiction — Dibdin
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
Non-Fiction — 940.531 Ack
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
Fiction — Lehane.
Christmas Lights
by Christine Pisera Naman
Fiction — Naman (currently available from the libraries only in eBook format)
LIFE: America the Beautiful: A Photographic Journey Coast to Coast…and Beyond
by Time
Non-Fiction — SOS 917.3 fTim
Marking Time: Nebraska’s Historic Places
by Bobbi and Steve Olson
Non-Fiction — 978.2 qOls
“The Doomsters” in collection Archer in Jeopardy
by Ross Macdonald
Fiction — Macdonald
“The Barbarous Coast” in collection Archer in Hollywood
by Ross Macdonald
Fiction — Macdonald
The Christmas Promise
by Donna VanLiere
Fiction — VanLiere
Our Dumb World – The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth
by the editors of The Onion
Non-Fiction — 817 qOni
The Mark
by Jason Pinter
Fiction — (currently only available from the libraries as an eAudiobook)
Terminal
by Andrew Vachss
Fiction — Vachss
First Among Sequels
by Jasper Fforde
Fiction — Fforde
The Sacred Place
by David Black
Fiction — (currently only available from the libraries as an eAudiobook)
The Genesis Code
by Christopher Forrest
Fiction — Forrest
A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginnings of the Civil Rights Revolution
by David A. Nichols
Non-Fiction — 973.921 Nic
Tales From the Teachers Lounge
by Robert Wilder
Non-Fiction — 371.1 Wil
The Florist’s Daughter
by Patricia Hampl
Non-Fiction — B 8185 Hampl
Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the 20th Century
by David Reynolds
Non-Fiction — 327.2 Rey
Gentlemen of the Road
by Michael Chabon
Fiction — Chabon
False Fortune
by Twist Phelan
Fiction — Phelan
Stone Cold
by David Baldacci
Fiction — Baldacci
Last Night at the Lobster
by Stewart O’Nan
Fiction — O’Nan
Flawless
by Joshua Sponagle
Fiction — Sponagle
Unlearning to Fly
by Jennifer Brice
Fiction — Brice (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Patriot Acts
by Greg Rucka
Fiction — Rucka
Dance With the Dragon
by David Hagberg
Fiction — Hagberg
Rebel Island
by Rick Riordan
Fiction — Riordan
The Almost Moon
by Alice Sebold
Fiction — Sebold
Killing Che
by Chuck Pfarrer
Fiction — (currently only available from the libraries in an eAudiobook format)
The Circumference of Darkness
by Jack Henderson
Fiction — Henderson (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Non-Fiction — Biography Kalish
The Cleaner
by Brett Battles
Fiction — Battles
Innocent as Sin
by Elizabeth Lowell
Fiction — Lowell
Ludlow: A Verse-Novel
by David Mason
Fiction — Mason (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Bridge of Sighs
by Richard Russo
Fiction — Russo
God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America
by Hanna Rosin
Non-Fiction — Rosin (currently available from the libraries only in eBook and eAudiobook formats)
The Spirits of Nature
by Michelle Post
Non-Fiction — Post (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
by Sally Jenkins
Non-Fiction — 796.332 Jen
Songs Without Words
by Ann Packer
Fiction — Packer
Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
by Alison Weir
Fiction — Grey
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
by David Michaelis
Biography — B Sch75m
Living Blue in the Red States
by David Stackey
Non-Fiction — 320.5 Star
One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life: A Story of Race and Secrets
by Bliss Broyard
B B8223b
The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington
by Robert D. Novak
Non-Fiction — 070.092 Nov
The Coup
by James Malanowski
Fiction — Malanowski (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Just Breathe Normally
by Peggy Shumaker
Non-Fiction — Biography Shumaker
Exit Ghost
by Philip Roth
Fiction — Roth
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
by Lisa Margonelli
Non-Fiction — (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Secret Asset
by Stella Rimington
Fiction — Rimington
Run
by Ann Patchett
Fiction — Patchett
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
by Brock Clarke
Fiction — Clarke
The 47th Samurai
by Stephen Hunter
Fiction — Hunter
House of Many Gods
by Kiana Davenport
Fiction — (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
FDR
by Jean Edward Smith
Biography — B R665s
The Night Ferry
by Michael Robotham
Fiction — Robotham
The Book of Air and Shadows
by Michael Gruber
Fiction — Gruber
The Face of Death
by Cody McFadyen
Fiction — (currently only available from the libraries in eBook format)
Upstream Metropolis: An Urban Biography of Omaha and Council Bluffs
by Lawrence H. Larsen
Non-Fiction — 978.225 Lar
Summer People
by Brian Groh
Fiction — Groh
The Careful Use of Compliments
by Alexander McCall-Smith
Fiction — McCall-Smith
Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Non-Fiction — Fernandez-Armesto (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Last Known Victim
by Erica Spindler
Fiction — Spindler
The Not-So-Big House
by Sarah Susanka
Non-Fiction — 728.375 Sus
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
by O.J. Simpson
Non-Fiction — 364.152 If
The Rest of Her Life
by Laura Moriarty
Fiction — Moriarty
The River Wife
by Jonis Agee
Fiction — Agee.
Queenpin
by Megan Abbott
Fiction — Abbott (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Leopards Kill
by Jim DeFelice
Fiction — DeFelice
The Pentagon: A History
by Steve Vogel
Non-Fiction — 355.6 Vog
The Witch of Portobello
by Paulo Coelho
Fiction — Coelho
Thunder Bay
by William Kent Krueger
Fiction — Krueger
The Secret Servant
by Daniel Silva
Fiction — Silva
Three Versions of the Truth
by Amy Knox Brown
Fiction — Brown (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Clinical Death
by Patricia A. Bremmer
Fiction — Bremmer (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Jacob’s List
by Stephanie Grace Whitson
Fiction — Whitson
Nuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn’t be Bought
by Susan Cragin
Non-Fiction — ( On Order )
In the Driver’s Seat: Stories
by Helen Simpson
Fiction — Simpson (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Tin Roof Blowdown
by James Lee Burke
Fiction — Burke
Brush With Death
by Hailey Lind
Fiction — Lind (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
Non-Fiction — 211.8 Hit
Free Fire
by C.J. Box
Fiction — Box
The Virgin of Small Plains
by Nancy Pickard
Fiction — Pickard
Requiem for an Assassin
by Barry Eisler
Fiction — Eisler
Strike Force
by Dale Brown
Fiction — Brown
Stalin’s Ghost
by Martin Cruz Smith
Fiction — Smith
Dead Ex
by Harley Jane Kozak
Fiction — Kozak
Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court
by James W. Hewitt
Non-Fiction — 347.782 Hew
Dog Days: Dispatches From Bedlam Farm
by Jon Katz
Non-Fiction — 630.201 Kat
The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and its Responsibility for 9/11
by Dinesh D’Souza
Non-Fiction — 320.513 Dso
Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie
by James F. Hoy
Non-Fiction — Hoy (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn
by Joseph M. Marshall III
Non-Fiction — (currently available from the libraries only as an eAudiobook)
True Tales of the Prairies and Plains
by David Dary
Non-Fiction — Dary (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Niobrara: A River Running Through Time
by Paul Johnsgard
Non-Fiction — 508.782 Joh
Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee
by Akim Reinhardt
Non-Fiction — Reinhardt (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
After Dark
by Haruki Murakami
Fiction — Murakami
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver
Non-Fiction — 630 Kin
Sleeping Doll
by Jeffrey Deaver
Fiction — Deaver
The Water’s Lovely
by Ruth Rendell
Fiction — Rendell
The Woods
by Harlan Coben
Fiction — Coben
Restitution
by Lee Vance
Fiction — (currently available from the libraries only in eAudiobook format)
On Kingdom Mountain
by Howard Frank Mosher
Fiction — Mosher
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J.K. Rowling
Fiction — Rowling
Too Late to Say Goodbye
by Ann Rule
Non-Fiction — 364.152 Rul
Divisadero
by Michael Ondaatje
Fiction — Ondaatje
North River
by Pete Hamill
Fiction — Hamill
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier
Non-Fiction — 500 Ang
1945
by Robert Conroy
Fiction — (currently available from the libraries only in eAudiobook format)
The Echelon Vendetta
by David Stone
Fiction — Stone (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Prophets Reborn
by Gary Gabelhouse
Fiction — Gabelhouse (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
by Lynne Olson
Non-Fiction — 941.084 Ols
The Hellfire Conspiracy
by Will Thomas
Fiction — Thomas
Marching With the First Nebraska, a Civil War Diary
by August Schernekau
Non-Fiction — 973.781 Sch
The Shadow Catcher
by Marianne Wiggins
Fiction — Wiggins
Hick
by Andrea Portes
Fiction — Portes
Storm From the East: The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian East
by Milton Viorst
Non-Fiction — 956 Vio
The Secret of Lost Things
by Sheridan Hay
Fiction — Hay
The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented The Constitution
by David O. Stewart
Non-Fiction — 342.73 Ste
Homesick Creek
by Diane Hammond
Fiction — Hammon
What’s So Funny?
by Donald Westlake
Fiction — Westlake
Christine Falls
by Benjamin Black
Fiction — Black
Whitewash
by Alex Kava
Fiction — Kava
Demon: A Memoir
by Tosca Lee
Fiction — Lee
The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Non-Fiction Writers
edited by Ladette Randolph
Non-Fiction — 810.098 Ran
On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwan
Fiction — McEwan
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
by Alexander McCall-Smith
Fiction — McCall-Smith
The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers
Fiction — Powers
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
by Chalmers A. Johnson
Non-Fiction — 355.033 Joh
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Fiction — Hosseini
The Overlook
by Michael Connelly
Fiction — Connelly
Bad Luck and Trouble
by Lee Child
Fiction — Child
The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren mystery
by Hakan Nesser
Fiction — Nesser
Red Cat
by Peter Spiegelman
Fiction — Spiegelman
Devils in the Sugar Shop
by Timothy Schaffert
Fiction — Schaffert
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
by Michael Chabon
Fiction — Chabon
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
by Michael Grunwald
Non-Fiction — 975.939 Gru
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
by George Tenet
Non-Fiction — (currently available from the libraries only in eAudiobook format)
Little Pink Slips
by Sally Koslow
Fiction — Koslow
The Naming of the Dead: An Inspector Rebus Novel
by Ian Rankin
Fiction — Rankin
Sixty Days and Counting
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Fiction — Robinson
The Children of Hurin
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Fiction — Tolkien
The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians
by David Wishart
Non-Fiction — 970.48 Wis
Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison
by Ken Zontek
Non-Fiction — Zontek (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life
by Kingsley M. Bray
Non-Fiction — 970.2 CraYb
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan
Non-Fiction — Compact Disc 327.51 Mac or eAudiobook
Los Angeles Noir
by Denise Hamilton
Fiction Anthology — 813.08 Ham
Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape and a House in Marseilles
by Rosemary Sullivan
Non-Fiction — 940.534 Sul
Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
Biography — B Ei6i
Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult
Fiction — Picoult
The Better Angels of Our Nature
by S.C. Gylanders
Fiction — Gylanders
Changing Light
by Nora Gallagher
Fiction — Gallagher (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Heyday
by Kurt Andersen
Fiction — Andersen
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America’s Deadliest Avalanche
by Gary Krist
Non-Fiction — 385 Kri
The Shape Shifter
by Tony Hillerman
Fiction — Hillerman
Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Biography — B H6223
The Treasure of Khan
by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
Fiction — Cussler
Ten Days in the Hills
by Jane Smiley
Fiction — Smiley
Black Monday
by R. Scott Reiss
Fiction — Reiss
Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari
by Betty Levitov
Non-Fiction — 916.8 Lev
When the Light Goes
by Larry McMurtry
Fiction — McMurtry
A False Mirror
by Charles Todd
Fiction — Todd
The Watchman
by Robert Crais
Fiction — Crais
Another Green World
by Richard Grant
Fiction — Grant (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Happiness: A History
by Darrin McMahon
Non-Fiction — McMahon (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation
by Stephen Flynn
Non-Fiction — 363.35 Fly
Deep Storm
by Lincoln Child
Fiction — Child
What Becomes You
by Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz
Non-Fiction — Link
A Far Country
by Daniel Mason
Fiction — Mason
The Alexandria Link
by Steve Berry
Fiction — Berry
Surveillance
by Jonathan Raban
Fiction — Raban
Burning Bright
by Tracy Chevalier
Fiction — Chevalier
The Boleyn Inheritance
by Philippa Gregory
Fiction — Gregory
Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution
by David A. Clary
Biography — B L13c
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
Fiction — Desai
A Title to Murder, a Carhenge Mystery
by James C. Work
Fiction — Work (not currently in the libraries’ collection)
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
by Boris Akunin
Fiction — Akunin
Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms
by John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein
Non-Fiction — (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Hollywood Station
by Joseph Wambaugh
Fiction — Wambaugh
The Man in the Middle
by Brian Haig
Fiction — Haig
The Fruit of the Lemon
by Andrea Levy
Fiction — Levy.
Returning to Earth
by Jim Harrison
Fiction — Harrison
The Corpse in the Koryo
by James Church
Fiction — Church
Non-Fiction — (currently available from the libraries only in eAudiobook format)
After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
by Joyce Carol Oates
Fiction — j Oates (currently available from the libraries online in eBook format)
Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words
by Douglas L. Wilson
Non-Fiction — B L63w
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
by James Oakes
Biography — B D75o
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession and the President’s War Powers
by James F. Simon
Non-Fiction — 973.7 Sim
The Night Gardener
by George Pelecanos
Fiction — Pelecanos
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero
by William Kalush and Larry Sloman
Non-Fiction — B H796k
Getting Sober: A Practical Guide to Getting Through the First 30 Days
by Kelly Madigan Erlandson
Non-Fiction — 363.292 Erl
Skylight Confessions
by Alice Hoffman
Fiction — Hoffman
On Agate Hill
by Lee Smith
Fiction — Smith
One Good Turn
by Kate Atkinson
Fiction — Atkinson
The Boss
by Stanley Pottinger
Fiction — Pottinger (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Kidnapped
by Jan Burke
Fiction — Burke
Crimson Portrait
by Jody Shields
Fiction — Shields
Measuring the World
by Daniel Kehlmann
Non-Fiction — Kehlmann (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Larry Bond’s First Team: Fires of War
by Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice
Fiction — Bond
Hawk
by William Willis
Fiction — Willis (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Hannibal Rising
by Thomas Harris
Fiction — Harris
I Feel Bad About My Neck
by Nora Ephron
Non-Fiction — 305.244 Eph
Echo Park
by Michael Connelly
Fiction — Connelly
The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
by Julia Navarro
Fiction — Navarro
About Alice
by Calvin Trillin
Non-Fiction — 616.994 Tri
A Tale of Two Sisters
by Anna Maxted
Fiction — Maxted
Willow Field
by William Kittredge
Fiction — Kittredge (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Fatal Heir
by Lois Lewandowski
Fiction — Lewandowski
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
Non-Fiction — 211.8 Daw
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
by Edward O. Wilson
Non-Fiction — 333.95 Wil
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
by Neal Gabler
Non-Fiction — 791.437 DisYg
Mask Market
by Andrew Vachss
Fiction — Vachss
Severance: Stories
by Robert Olen Butler
Fiction — Butler (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Welcome to Yesterday
by Ian Spiegelman
Fiction — Spiegelman (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
by Hampton Sides
Non-Fiction — 978.02 Sid
Forty Acres and a Fool: How to Live in the Country and Still Keep Your Sanity
by Roger Welsch
Non-Fiction — 630 Wel
Nature Girl
by Carl Hiaasen
Fiction — Hiaasen
The View From Castle Rock: Stories
by Alice Munro
Fiction — Munro