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.
Rescue
by Anita Shreve
Fiction — Shreve
by Christopher Cartmill
Biography — Cartmill
Bitter Legacy
by H. Terrell Griffin
Fiction — Griffin
Charlie Chan
by Yunte Huang
Non-Fiction — Huang (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights
by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
Non-Fiction — Jenkins (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by Elif Batuman
Non-Fiction — 891.7 Bat
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by Tom Franklin
Fiction — Franklin
by Deborah Underwood
Juvenile Picture Book — jP Underwood
The Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
by S.C. Gwynne
Fiction — AUTHOR
by Stephen Hawking
Non-Fiction — 530.142 Haw
by Steve Martin
Fiction — Martin.
The Network
by Jason Elliot
Fiction — Elliot (eAudiobook only)
The Emperor’s Tomb
by Steve Berry
Fiction — Berry
The Sherlockian
by Graham Moore
Fiction — Moore
Port Mortuary
by Patricia Cornwell
Fiction — Cornwell
An Amish Christmas
by Cynthia Keller
Fiction — Keller
The Solemn Lantern Maker
by Melinda Bobis
Fiction — Bobis (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
A Christmas Odyssey
by Anne Perry
Fiction — Perry
Stolen Horses
by Dan O’Brien
Fiction — O’Brien
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion
by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel
Biography — Brennan (eBook only)
Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart
Fiction — Shteyngart
Full Dark, No Stars
by Stephen King
Fiction — King
Worth Dying For
by Lee Child
Fiction — Child
Now I See the Moon: A Mother, A Son, A Miracle
by Elaine Hall
Non-Fiction — 618.928 Hal
Inside Out
by Barry Eisler
Fiction — Eisler
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
Non-Fiction — 307.76 Wil
Betrayer
by Bill Pronzini
Fiction — Pronzini
Moonlight Mile
by Dennis Lehane
Fiction — Lehane
The Violin of Auschwitz
by Maria Angels Anglada
Fiction — Anglada
Portobello
by Ruth Rendell
Fiction — Rendell
Great House
by Nicole Krauss
Fiction — Krauss
The Vertical Farm
by Dickson Dispommier
Non-Fiction — Dispommier (eAudiobook only)
Promise Me: How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer
by Nancy G. Brinker
Biography — Brinker
The Games That Changed the Game: The Evolution of the NFL in Seven Sundays
by Ron Jaworski w/ Greg Cosell and David Plaut
Non-Fiction — 796.332 Jaw
After America
by John Birmingham
Fiction — Birmingham
A Nose for Justice
by Rita Mae Brown
Fiction — Brown
Historic Photos of Nebraska
by Tad Stryker
Non-Fiction — 978.2 qStr
Squrrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
by David Sedaris
Fiction — Sedaris
The Reapers Are the Angels
by Alden Bell
Fiction — Bell
Beautiful Maria of My Soul
by Oscar Hijuelos
Fiction — Hijuelos (eAudiobook only)
Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War
by Andrew J. Bacevich
Non-Fiction — 355.033 Bac
The Hanging Tree
by Bryan Gruley
Fiction — Gruley
The Capitol Game
by Brian Haig
Fiction — Haig
The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing and the Science of Suffering
by Melanie Thernstrom
Non-Fiction — Thernstrom (eAudiobook only)
The Cabal
by David Hagberg
Fiction — Hagberg
Naked Heat
by “Richard Castle”
Fiction — Castle
The Only State: A History of Public Power in Nebraska
by Don Schaufelberger and Bill Beck
Non-Fiction — 333.793 qSch
Come to Win: Business Leaders, Artists, Doctors and Other Visionaries on How Sports Can Help You Top Your Profession
by Venus Williams
Non-Fiction — 796.01 Wil
Reviving Ophelia
by Mary Pipher
Non-Fiction — 305.235 Pip
Obama’s Wars
by Bob Woodward
Non-Fiction — 973.932 Woo
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
by Lola Shoneyin
Fiction — Shoneyin
Bodily Harm
by Robert Dugoni
Fiction — Dugoni
The Accidental Billionaires
by Ben Mezrich
Non-Fiction — 338.76 FacYm
Elegies for the Broken-Hearted
by Christie Hogden
Fiction — Hogden
Fever Dream
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Fiction — Preston and Child
Getting to Happy
by Terry McMillan
Fiction — McMillan
The Holy Thief
by William Ryan
Fiction — Ryan
The Ark
by Boyd Morrison
Fiction — Morrison
Ape House
by Sara Gruen
Fiction — Gruen
A Journey: My Political Life
by Tony Blair
Non-Fiction — Biography Blair
I’d Know You Anywhere
by Laura Lippman
Fiction — Lippman
Star Wars: Year by Year
by Lucy Dowling
Non-Fiction — Dowling (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
The Nobodies Album
by Carolyn Parkhurst
Fiction — Parkhurst
The Only Game in Town
by the editors of The New Yorker
Non-Fiction — New Yorker (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
by Jonathan Weiner
Non-Fiction — 612.68 Wei
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Game You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches From the Advertising War
by Jerry Della Famina
Non-Fiction — 659.1 Del
Faithful Place
by Tana French
Fiction — French
The I Hate to Cook Book — 50th anniversary
by Peg Bracken
Non-Fiction — 641.5 Bra
Rabbit, Run — 50th anniversary
by John Updike
Fiction — Updike
To Kill a Mockingbird — 50th anniversary
by Harper Lee
Fiction — Lee
Green Eggs and Ham — 50th anniversary
by Dr. Seuss
Fiction — jF Seuss
Damaged
by Alex Kava
Fiction — Kava
Tough Customer
by Sandra Brown
Fiction — Brown
A Question of Belief
by Donna Leon
Fiction — Leon
Here You Have My Story: Eyewitness Accounts of the 19th Century Central Plains
by Richard E. Jensen
Non-Fiction — 978.2 Jen
Their Last Supper: Legends of History and Their Final Meal
by Andrew Caldwell
Non-Fiction — Caldwell (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Veil of Night
by Linda Howard
Fiction — Howard
The Garden of Betrayal
by Lee Vance
Fiction — Vance
Lowcountry Summer
by Dorothea Benton Frank
Fiction — Frank
A Vintage Affair
by Isabel Wolff
Fiction — Wolff
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
by Meghan Daum
Non-Fiction — 814 Dau
Impact
by Douglas Preston
Fiction — Preston
Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography
by Andrew Morton
Biography — Jolie
Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Non-Fiction — 973.82 Phi
The Bride Collector
by Ted Dekker
Fiction — Dekker
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English
by Natasha Solomons
Fiction — Solomons (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell
Fiction — Mitchell
Deception
by Jonathan Kellerman
Fiction — Kellerman
The Killer
by Tom Hinshelwood
Fiction — Hinshelwood
Sonia Sotomayor: The True American Dream
by Antonia Felix
Biography — Sotomayor
House Justice
by Mike Lawson
Fiction — Lawson
Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers
by Dick J. Reavis
Non-Fiction — 331.544 Rea
Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won’t Do
by Gabriel Thompson
Non-Fiction — 331.62 Tho
Corked, a Memoir
by Kathryn Borel
Non-Fiction — Biography Borel
Go Mutants!
by Larry Doyle
Fiction — Doyle
The Left Hand of God
by Paul Hoffman
Fiction — Hoffman
Ice Cold
by Tess Gerritsen
Fiction — Gerritsen
Spies of the Balkans
by Alan Furst
Fiction — Furst
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
by Ben Macintyre
Non-Fiction — 940.548 Mac
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
by James Bradley
Non-Fiction — 973.911 Bra
Hitch 22: A Memoir
by Christopher Hitchens
Biography — Hitchens
Like No Other Place, the Sandhills of Nebraska, Photographs and Stories
by David A. Owen
Non-Fiction — 978.273 Owe
Imperial Bedrooms
by Bret Easton Ellis
Fiction — Ellis
So Cold the River
by Michael Koryta
Fiction — Koryta
Every Last One
by Anna Quindlen
Fiction — Quindlen
Bright Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Non-Fiction — 155.232 Ehr
Frankenstein: Lost Souls
by Dean Koontz
Fiction — Koontz
Apple Turnover Murderbr /> by Joanne Fluke
Fiction — Fluke
On Whitman
by C.K. Williams
Non-Fiction — Williams (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents
by Ian Buruma
Non-Fiction — Buruma (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War
by Ted Morgan
Non-Fiction — Morgan (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
The Scent of Rain and Lightning
by Nancy Pickard
Fiction — Pickard
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
Fiction — Cronin
The Black Cat: A Richard Jury Mystery
by Martha Grimes
Fiction — Grimes
Red Inferno: 1945
by Robert Conroy
Fiction — Conroy
I Am Not a Serial Killer
by Dan Wells
Fiction — Wells
The Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris
by George W. Norris
Biography — Norris
The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks
by Nicole LaPorte
Non-Fiction — LaPorte (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly
by Connie May Fowler
Fiction — Fowler
Heart of the Matter
by Emily Griffin
Fiction — Griffin
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
by John Grisham
Fiction — Grisham
Blockade Billy
by Stephen King
Fiction — King
I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter: The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1942-1965
edited by Kimberli A. Lee and John R. Wunder
Non-Fiction — [ On Order ]
Alligators Under My Bed and Other Nebraska Tales
by James D. Hager
Biography – Hager
61 Hours
by Lee Child
Fiction — Child
The Imperfectionists
by Tom Rachman
Fiction — Rachman
Hook, Line and Sinister: Mysteries to Reel You In
anthology edited by T. Jefferson Parker
Fiction — 813.08 Par
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
by Hampton Sides
Non-Fiction — 364.152 Sid
The Unnamed
by Joshua Ferris
Fiction — Ferris
The Fallen
by Mark Terry
Fiction — Terry (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
The God of the Hive
by Laurie King
Fiction — King
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee
by Sarah Silverman
Non-Fiction – Biography Silverman
Union Atlantic
by Adam Haslett
Fiction — Haslett
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
by Karl Marlantes
Fiction — Marlantes
The Uglies series
by Scott Westerfeld
Fiction — Westerfeld
Part of a focus article on Young Adult fiction
The Hunger Games series
by Suzanne Collins
Fiction — Collins
Part of a focus article on Young Adult fiction
Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow
Fiction — Doctorow
Part of a focus article on Young Adult fiction
Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld
Fiction — Westerfeld
Part of a focus article on Young Adult fiction
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Fiction — Zusak
Part of a focus article on Young Adult fiction.
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Fiction — Lowry
Part of a focus article on Young Adult fiction.
The Monstrumologist: William James Henry
by Rick Yancey
Fiction — Yancey
Part of a focus article on Young Adult fiction
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
by Ned Vizzini
Fiction — Vizzini
Part of a focus article on Young Adult fiction
Graceling
by Kristine Cashore
Fiction — Cashore
Part of a focus article on Young Adult fiction.
Historical Tweets: The Complete Unabridged and Ridiculously Brief History of the World
by Alan Bard and ALex McNayr
Non-Fiction — Bard (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Appetite for America: How Visionary Business Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Covered the American West
by Stephen Fried
Non-Fiction — Fried (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Tree of a Thousand Stems: A Book of Bark
by Sally Salsburg Stoddard
Non-Fiction — Stoddard (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samual Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain
by Roy Morris
Biography Clemens
The Last Summer of Louisa May Alcott
by Kelly O’Connor McNees
Fiction — McNees (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
The Midnight House
by Alex Berenson
Fiction — Berenson
Friends of the Family: The Inside Story of the Mafia Cop Case
by Tommy Dades
Non-Fiction — PB Dades
Sixteen Brides
by Stephanie Grace Whitson
Fiction — Whitson
Imperfect Birds
by Anne Lamott
Fiction — Lamott
The Broken Teaglass
by Emily Arsenault
Fiction — Arsenault (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
by David Remnick
Biography — Obama
How I Became a Famous Novelist
by Steve Hely
Fiction — Hely
Lay Down My Sword and Shield
by James Lee Burke
Fiction — Burke
Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball
by Mark Armour
Non-Fiction — Armour (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
1921: The Yankees, the Giants and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York
by Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg
Non-Fiction — Spatz (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
On a Clear Day They Could See Seventh Place: Baseball’s Worst Teams
by George Robinson and Charles Salzberg
Non-Fiction — Robinson (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
The Sheen on the Silk
by Anne Perry
Fiction — Perry
The Surrendered
by Chang-Rae Lee
Fiction — Lee
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett and the Epic Chase for Justice in the Old West
by Mark Lee Gardener
Non-Fiction — 978.02 Gar
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
Fiction — Simonson
Capitol Betrayal
by William Bernhardt
Fiction — Bernhardt
The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder
by David Thomson
Non-Fiction — Thomson (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
The White Garden: A Novel of Virginia Woolf
by Stephanie Barron
Fiction — Barron
Frame Up
by John Dobbyns
Fiction — Dobbyns
Anyone But Duane
by Noel Grove
Non-Fiction — Grove (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda
by Gretchen Peters
Non-Fiction — Peters (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Hard Rain
by David Rollins
Fiction — Rollins.
Jane Bites Back
by Michael Thomas Ford
Fiction — Ford (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Rare: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species
by Joel Sartore
Non-Fiction — 578.68 qSar
House Rules
by Jodi Picoult
Fiction — Picoult
La’s Orchestra Saves the World
by Alexander McCall-Smith
Fiction — McCall-Smith
Sherlock Holmes: The American Years
edited by Michael Kurland
Fiction — 813.08 Kur
Never Look Away
by Linwood Barclay
Fiction — Barclay
I, Sniper
by Stephen Hunter
Fiction — Hunter
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood With Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
by Lynne Olson
Non-Fiction — 940.532 Ols
Split Image
by Robert B. Parker
Fiction — Parker
Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend
by James S. Hirsch
Biography — Mays
The Wolf at the Door
by Jack Higgins
Fiction — Higgins
Roses
by Leila Meacham
Fiction — Meacham
Altar of Eden
by James Rollins
Fiction — Rollins
Ghost Railroads of Nebraska – A Pictorial
by Michael M. Bartels and James Reisdorff
Non-Fiction — 385 Bar
Staying True
by Jenny Sanford
Biography — Sanford
The First Rule
by Robert Crais
Fiction — Crais
Interesting Times: Writings From a Turbulent Decade
by George Packer
Non-Fiction — Packer (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, America’s Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine
by Henry E. Scott
Non-Fiction — Scott (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
The First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory
by John Eisenberg
Non-Fiction — Eisenberg (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier
Fiction — Chevalier
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Fiction — 528.432 Tys
The Golden City
by John Twelve Hawks
Fiction — Twelve Hawks
The Red Door
by Charles Todd
Fiction — Todd
Capitol Offense
by William Bernhardt
Fiction — Bernhardt
The Swan Thieves
by Elizabeth Kostova
Fiction — Kostova
If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government
by William Eggers and John O’Leary (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Nasty, Brutish and Long: Adventures in Old Age and the World of Eldercare
by Ira Rosofsky
Non-Fiction — 362.16 Ros
The Spiritualist
by Megan Chance
Fiction — Chance
Wyatt’s Revenge
by H. Terrell Griffin (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
Fiction — Kingsolver
Animal Magnetism: My Life With Creatures Great and Small
by Rita Mae Brown
Biography Brown
Talking About Detective Fiction
by P.D. James
Non-Fiction — 823 Jam
Sweeping Up Glass
by Carolyn D. Wall
Fiction — Wall.
Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed
by Gregg Easterbrook
Non-Fiction — Easterbrook (not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)