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.
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
by Ann Patchett
Non-Fiction — Biography Patchett
The Gods of Guilt
by Michael Connelly
Fiction — Connelly
Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II
by Ben H. Winters
Fiction — Winters
My Mistake: A Memoir
by Daniel Menaker
Non-Fiction — Menaker
The Great Heist: The Story of the Biggest Bank Robbery in History, and Why the Money Was Returned
by Jeff McArthur
Non-Fiction — 364.155 McA
Read Sandy W.’s review of The Great Heist in the April 2015 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
See the Nebraska Author Jeff McArthur resource page here on BookGuide
The Right Path: From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics – and Can Again
by Joe Scarborough
Non-Fiction — 324.273 Sca
Spirit of Steamboat
by Craig Johnson
Fiction — Johnson
Read Charlotte M.’s review of The Spirit of Steamboat in the December 2013 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
edited by Otto Penzler
Non-Fiction — 813.08 Pen
Read Scott C.’s review of The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries in the December 2014 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
Silent Night
by Robert B. Parker with Helen Brann
Fiction — Parker
Duck the Halls
by Donna Andrews
Fiction — Andrews
The Sound of Things Falling
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Fiction — Vasquez
Big Jim Exon: A Political Biography
by Charles M. Pallesen Jr. and Samuel Van Pelt
Non-Fiction — Biography Exon
Downfall
by Jeff Abbott
Fiction — Abbott
Deceived
by Randy Wayne White
Fiction — White
Brown Dog: Novellas
by Jim Harrison
Fiction — Harrison
The Valley of Amazement
by Amy Tan
Fiction — Tan
Custer, Cody and Grand Duke Alexis: Historical Archaeology of the Royal Buffalo
by Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed and Stephen Damm
Non-Fiction — 978.283 Sco
The Color War
by Jodi Picoult
Fiction — (an original e-novella only available for purchase online) ( not currently in the Lincoln City Libraries’ collection )
The Circle
by Dave Eggers
Fiction — Eggers
Double Down: Game Change 2012
by Mark Halperin and John Heileman
Non-Fiction — 324.973 Hal
Critical Mass
by Sara Paretsky
Fiction — Paretsky
Critical Mass was the selected title for discussion at the August 2016 Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group meeting.
Rendezvous With Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took American Into the War and Into the World
by Michael Fullilove
Non-Fiction — 973.917 Ful
The Signature of All Things
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Fiction — Gilbert
A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life
by James Bowen
Non-Fiction — Biography Bowen
Read Scott C.’s review of A Street Cat Named Bob in the September 2013 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
Dallas 1963
by Bill Minutaglio
Non-Fiction — 973.922 Min
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
Fiction — Tartt
Read Library Director Pat Leach’s review of The Goldfinch in her Firefly blog on May 15 2014 on the library’s website
The Double
by George Pelecanos
Fiction — Pelecanos
Sycamore Row
by John Grisham
Fiction — Grisham
The Death of Santini: The story of a Father and His Son
by Pat Conroy
Non-Fiction — Biography Conroy
The Final Cut
by Catherine Coulter
Fiction — Coulter
Skinnygirl Solutions: Your Straight-Up Guide to Home, Healthy, Family, Careers, Style and Sex
by Bethenny Frankel
Non-Fiction — 646.7 Fra
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
by Helen Fielding
Fiction — Fielding
Command and Control
by Eric Schlosser
Non-Fiction — 363.17 Sch
Wilson
by A. Scott Berg
Non-Fiction — Biography Wilson
Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence
edited by Laura Madeline Wiseman
Non-Fiction — 811.08 Wis
One Summer: America 1927
by Bill Bryson
Non-Fiction — 973.91 Bry
The Mayan Secrets: A Fargo Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry
Fiction — Cussler
Odds Against Tomorrow
by Nathaniel Rich
Fiction — Rich
Doctor Sleep
by Stephen King
Fiction — King
Read Scott C.’s review of the audiobook version of Doctor Sleep in the March 2014 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
Storm Front
by John Sandford
Fiction — Sandford
The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity and the Battle for America’s Future
by Michael Levi
Non-Fiction — Levi
Love by Drowning
by C.E. Poverman
Fiction — ( not currently in the Lincoln City Libraries’ collection )
MaddAddam
by Margaret Atwood
Fiction — Atwood
This Town — Two Parties and a Funeral — Plus Plenty of Valet Parking! in America’s Gilded Capital
by Mark Leibovich
Non-Fiction – 973.5 Lei
Never Go Back
by Lee Child
Fiction — Child
The Annals of Unsolved Crime
by Edward Jay Epstein
Non-Fiction — 364.152 Eps
Witch Wraith
by Terry Brooks
Fiction — Brooks
The Astronaut Wives Club
by Lily Koppel
Non-Fiction — 629.45 Kop
Read Tracy T.’s review of The Astronaut Wives Club in the April 2015 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
Love Potion Number 10
by Betsy Woodman
Fiction — Woodman
Bleeding Edge
by Thomas Pynchon
Fiction — Pynchon
Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and Bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America
by Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman
Non-Fiction — 363.325 Apu
Crossing Purgatory
by Gary Schanbacher
Fiction — Schanbacher
Mystery Girl
by David Gordon
Fiction — Gordon
Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
by Gyles Brandreth
Fiction — Brandreth
Rising Tide: Bear Bryant, Joe Namath and Dixie’s Last Quarter
by Randy Roberts and Ed Krzemienksi
Non-Fiction — 796.33 Rob
The Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World
by Adam LeBor
Non-Fiction — 332.1 Leb
The English Girl
by Daniel Silva
Fiction — Silva
A Tap on the Window
by Linwood Barclay
Fiction — Barclay
Night Film
by Marisha Pessl
Fiction — Pessl
Fantasy Life: The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports, From the Guy Who’s Lived It
by Matthew Berry
Non-Fiction — Berry
Choke Point
by Ridley Pearson
Fiction — Pearson
The Fame Thief
by Timothy Hallinan
Fiction — Berry
Trains and Lovers
by Alexander McCall-Smith
Fiction — McCall-Smith
The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies
by Jonathan Alter
Non-Fiction — Biography Obama
The Highway
by C.J. Box
Fiction — Box
Light of the World
by James Lee Burke
Fiction — Burke
The Innocence Game
by Michael Harvey
Fiction — Harvey
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
Fiction — Marra
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner
Non-Fiction — Biography Gardner
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
by Michael Moss
Non-Fiction — 613.2 Mos
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
by Denise Kiernan
Non-Fiction — 940.53 Kie
Read Kristen A.’s review of The Girls of Atomic City in the November 2016 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
The Oracle Code
by Charles Brokaw
Fiction — ( not currently in the Lincoln City Libraries’ collection )
Burlington Northern Branch Lines: The Nebraska Experience
by Jim Reisdorff
Non-Fiction — Reisdorff
The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space
by Michelle Evans
Non-Fiction — Evans
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
Fiction — Gaiman
Read Wyatt P.’s review of The Ocean at the End of the Lane in the August 2013 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
Death Zones & Darling Spies
by Beverly Deepe Keever
Non-Fiction — Keever
Death Zones & Darling Spies was the 2015 selection for One Book One Nebraska
Joyland
by Stephen King
Fiction — King
Read Tracy T.’s review of Joyland in the February 2015 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
The Third Bullet
by Stephen Hunter
Fiction — Hunter
Behind the Count
by Kent Krause
Non-Fiction — Krause
The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
by Mary Pipher
Non-Fiction — 303.4 Pip
See the Nebraska Author Mary Pipher resource page here on BookGuide
Losing the Ring in the River
by Marge Saiser
Non-Fiction — 811 Sai
The Kill Room
by Jeffery Deaver
Fiction — Deaver
Sisterland
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Fiction — Sittenfeld
Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns
by Lauren Weisberger
Fiction — Weisberger
The Suitors
by Cecile David-Weill
Fiction — David-Weill
The Heist
by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
Fiction — Evanovich
Bad Monkey
by Carl Hiaasen
Fiction — Hiaasen
Dakota, the Story of the Northern Plains
by Norman K. Risford
Non-Fiction — 978.3 Ris
The Polaris Effect: A Capelli and Ford Mystery
by A.E. Fairfield
Fiction — Fairfield
The King’s Deception
by Steve Berry
Fiction — Berry
Breaking Point
by C.J. Box
Fiction — Box
Zero Hour
by Clive Cussler
Fiction — Cussler
Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
Fiction — Rowell
See the Nebraska Author Rainbow Rowell resource page here on BookGuide
Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris and the Renegades of Nashville
by Michael Streissguth
Non-Fiction — Music 781.642 Str
Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal
by Jon Weiderhorn and Katherine Turman
Non-Fiction — ( not currently in the Lincoln City Libraries’ collection )
A Delicate Truth
by John LeCarre
Fiction — LeCarre.
The Ophelia Cut
by John Lescroart
Fiction — Lescroart.
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-45
by Rick Atkinson
Non-Fiction — 940.542 Atk.
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini
Fiction — Hosseini.
The Bughouse Affair
by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
Fiction — Muller
Read Scott C.’s review of The Bughouse Affair in the September 2015 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
My Beloved World
by Sonia Sotomayor
Non-Fiction — Biography Sotomayor
Inferno
by Dan Brown
Fiction — Brown
Little Green
by Walter Mosley
Fiction — Mosley
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh and America’s Fight Over World War II: 1939-1941
by Lynne Olson
Non-Fiction — 940.53 Ols
A Thousand Pardons
by Jonathan Dee
Fiction — Dee
Silken Prey
by John Sandford
Fiction — Sandford
Wave
by Sonali Deraniyagala
Non-Fiction — Biography Deraniyagala
From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism
by Eileen M. Wirth
Non-Fiction — 070.4 Wir
Night Moves
by Randy Wayne White
Fiction — White
Wise Men
by Stuart Nadler
Fiction — Nadler
Paris: The Novel
by Edward Rutherfurd
Fiction — Rutherfurd
The Blood Gospel
by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell
Fiction — Rollins.
The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think
by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
Non-Fiction — 636.7 Har
House of Earth: A Novel
by Woody Guthrie
Fiction — Guthrie
Brooklyn Zoo: The Education of a Psychotherapist
by Darcy Lockman
Non-Fiction — Biography Lockman
Six Years
by Harlan Coben
Fiction — Coben
Gulp
by Mary Roach
Non-Fiction — 612.3 Roa
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Non-Fiction — 629.4 Tys
Mom & Me & Mom
by Maya Angelou
Non-Fiction — Biography Angelou
Parishoner
by Walter Mosley
Fiction — Mosley (E-book only)
Ike & Dick
by Jeffrey Frank
Non-Fiction — 973.92 Fra
Coolidge
by Amith Shlaes
Non-Fiction — Biography Coolidge
The Intercept
by Dick Wolf
Fiction — Wolf
The Typewriter Girl
by Alison Atlee
Fiction — Atlee
The Night Ranger
by Alex Berenson
Fiction — Berenson
Ice Cold Kill
by Dana Haynes
Fiction — Haynes
Out of Order
by Sandra Day O’Connor
Non-Fiction — 347.732 Oco
Geronimo
by Robert Marshall Utley
Non-Fiction — Biography Geronimo
Middle C
by William H. Gass
Fiction — Gass
Haven’s Wake
by Ladette Randolph
Fiction — Randolph
Read Meredith M.’s review of Haven’s Wake in the September 2013 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History Making Race Around the World
by Matthew Goodman
Non-Fiction — 910.41 Goo
The Da Vinci Deception
by Thomas Swan
Fiction — Swan
The Cezanne Chase
by Thomas Swan
Fiction — Swan
The Final Faberge
by Thomas Swan
Fiction — Swan
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
by Glenn Frankel
Non-Fiction — 791.437 SeaYf
What Happened to Sophie Wilder
by Christopher Beha
Fiction — Beha
Standing Firmly By the Flag, Nebraska Territory and the Civil War, 1861-1867
by James E. Potter
Non-Fiction — 978.2 Pot
The Sound of Broken Glass
by Deborah Crombie
Fiction — Crombie.
Benediction
by Kent Haruf
Fiction — Haruf
See the Nebraska Author Kent Haruf resource page here on BookGuide
Read Meredith M.’s review of Benediction in the September 2013 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
Fiction — Picoult
Iscariot
by Tosca Lee
Fiction — Lee
See the Nebraska Author Tosca Lee resource page here on BookGuide
The Witch of Babylon
by D.J. McIntosh
Fiction — McIntosh
Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
Fiction — Sanders
Charles Dickens: A Life
by Claire Tomalin
Non-Fiction — Biography Dickens
After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story
by Michael Hainey
Non-Fiction — Biography Hainey
My Brother’s Book
by Maurice Sendak
Fiction — YA Sendak
The Pigeon Pie Mystery
by Julia Stuart
Fiction — Stuart
Touch & Go
by Lisa Gardner
Fiction — Gardner
Cover of Snow
by Jenny Milchman
Fiction — Milchner
Threat Vector
by Tom Clancy
Fiction — Clancy
The Drowning House
by Elizabeth Black
Fiction — Black
Detroit: An American Autopsy
by Charlie LeDuff
Non-Fiction — 977.434 Led
Wake of the Perdido Star
by Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan
Fiction — Hackman
Embracing Fry Bread: Confessions of a Wannabe Nebraska Author
by Roger Welsch
Non-Fiction — Biography Welsch
See the Nebraska Author Roger Welsch resource page here on BookGuide
Insane City
by Dave Barry
Fiction — Barry
1356
by Bernard Cornwell
Fiction — Cornwell
Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s King of Beers
by William Knoedelseder
Non-Fiction — 338.76 AnhYk
Good Prose: The Art of Non-Fiction
by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
Non-Fiction — 808.02 Kid
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?
by Jared Diamond
Non-Fiction — 303.4 Dia
Martyball
by Marty Schottenheimer with Jeffrey Flanagan
Non-Fiction — Biography Schottenheimer
Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty
by Jane Yolen
Fiction — j Yolen
Out of the Blue
by Victor Cruz
Non-Fiction — ( Libraries have Young Readers Edition, E-Book format only )
The Dallas Cowboys
by Joe Nick Patoski
Non-Fiction — Patoski (Not owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Luther: The Calling
by Neil Gross
Fiction — Gross
The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century
by Margaret Talbot
Non-Fiction — Biography Talbot
The Art Forger
by B.A. Shapiro
Fiction — Shapiro
The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
by Stephen Alford
Non-Fiction — 942.055 Alf
Back to Blood
by Tom Wolfe
Fiction — Wolfe
Both Flesh and Not: Essays
by David Foster Wallace
Non-Fiction — 814 Wal
A Memory of Light
by Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan
Fiction — Jordan
See the Nebraska Author Brandon Sanderson resource page here on BookGuide
Pro Bono
by Jeff McArthur
Non-Fiction — 364.152 McA
See the Nebraska Author Jeff McArthur resource page here on BookGuide
See the Murder on the Plains: Charles Starkweather resource page here on the Lincoln City Libraries’ website!
Non-Fiction — Biography Ward
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds
by Jim Sterba
Non-Fiction — 304.2 Ste