Lincoln City Libraries director Pat Leach is the current host of All About Books, weekly book-review and discussion program on NET Radio (91.1 FM in the Lincoln area, and on various other stations across Nebraska) to discuss contemporary and classic literature.
Although it dates back over 40 years, in a variety of formats and venues, since 1991 All About Books has run on NET-Radio. For many years, Charles Stephen and Otis Young co-hosted, until Young’s passing in 2009, after which Stephen was the lone host. Since August 2015, Pat Leach has served as host, with regular appearances by guest reviewers and interviews with regional authors. New episodes air every Thursday at 12:04 p.m. local time, following the NPR news.
The following is a listing of books discussed on episodes of All About Books during 2013, during the Charles Stephen era. Episodes of All About Books are also available to be downloaded as audio Podcasts, via iTunes and various other web sources. All books owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider suggesting it as a purchase via our Suggest-a-Title online form, or ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.
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Title Discussed: Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
by Bill McKibbon
Additional Participants: Don Hanway
Title Discussed: Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
by Joseph Ellis
Title Discussed: The Good Thief’s Guide to Berlin
by Charles Ewan
Title Discussed: The Circle
by Dave Eggers
Additional Participants: David Williams
Title Discussed: Three Can Keep a Secret
by Archer Mayor
Title Discussed: The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present and Future of Rising Sea Levels
by Brian M. Fagan
Title Discussed: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen
Title Discussed: George Norris: Going Home — Reflections of a Progressive Statesman
by Gene Budig
Additional Participants: Don Walton — Interview with the co-author.
Title Discussed: The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies
by Jonathan Alter
Title Discussed: John Quincy Adams
by Harlow Giles Unger
Title Discussed: Tamarack County
by William Kent Krueger
Title Discussed: Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
by Ben McIntyre
Title Discussed: A Child’s Christmas in Wales (new illustrated edition)
by Dylan Thomas
Title Discussed: A Step Ahead of Death
by Scott McPherson
Additional Participants: Don Hanway
Title Discussed: October
by Henry David Thoreau
Title Discussed: Finding Higher Ground: Adaption in the Age of Warming
by Amy Seidel
Title Discussed: The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser
by Mary Stillwell
Additional Partipants: Mary Stillwell — Interview with the author
Title Discussed: Roosevelt’s Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in WWII
by Joseph Persico
Title Discussed: The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
Additional Participants: Jane Hood
Title Discussed: A Question of Honor
by Charles Todd
Title Discussed: Across the Pond: An Englishman’s View of America
by Terry Eagleton
Title Discussed: Death and the Olive Grove
by Marco Vichi
Title Discussed: The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind – and Changed the History of Free Speech in America
by Thomas Healy
Title Discussed: Losing the Ring in the River
by Marge Saiser
Title Discussed: Baseball’s New Frontier
by Fran Zimniuch
Title Discussed: Custer, Cody and Grand Duke Alexis
by Peter Bleed, Douglas Scott and Stephen Damm
Title Discussed: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm
by William Manchester and Paul Reid
Title Discussed: Letters to a Young Scientist
by Edward O. Wilson
Additional Participants: Bruce Stephen
Title Discussed: Friend of the Court
by Floyd Abrams
Title Discussed: The Guns at Last Light
by Rick Atkinson
Title Discussed: Diana’s Diary
by Lew Kaye-Skinner
Self-published
Additional Participants: Stephen Griffith
Title Discussed: The Tooth Tattoo
by Peter Lovesey
Title Discussed: Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II
by Philip Eade
Additional Participants: Pat Stephen
Title Discussed: The Last Battle
by Stephen Harding
Title Discussed: Ike’s Bluff
by Evan Thomas
Title Discussed: Ticked: A Medical Miracle, a Friendship, and the Weird World of Tourette Syndrome
by James Fussell and Jeff Matovic
Additional Participants: James Fussell and Jeff Matovic — Interview with the authors
Title Discussed: With or Without You
by Dominica Ruta
Title Discussed: The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
by Mary Pipher
Additional Participants: Mary Pipher — Interview with the author
Title Discussed: The Second Arab Awakening
by Adeed Dawisha
Title Discussed: Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg
Additional Participants: Jane Hood
Title Discussed: The Golden Egg
by Donna Leon
Title Discussed: My Beloved Brontosaurus
by Brian Switek
Title Discussed: Proof of Heaven
by Eben Alexander
Title Discussed: The Baker Street Translation
by Michael Robertson
Title Discussed: The Story of English in 100 Words
by David Crystal
Title Discussed: The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
by David Nasaw
Additional Participants: Tice Miller
Title Discussed: Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Message From Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
by Jonathan Rieder
Title Discussed: HHhH
by Laurent Binet
Additional Participants: David Williams
Title Discussed: Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touched Since High School
by Kevin Smokler
Title Discussed: Drama and Pride in the Gateway City: The 1964 Saint Louis Cardinals
by John Harry Stahl and Bill Nowlin
Title Discussed: Bridging Two Dynasties: The 1947 New York Yankees
by Lyle Spatz
Title Discussed: The Forgotten
by David Baldacci
Additional Participants: Don Hanway
Title Discussed: The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin and Willa Cather
by Lionel Rolfe
Title Discussed: The Secretary: A Journey With Hillary Clinton From Beirut to the Heart of American Power
by Kim Ghattas
Title Discussed: True Believers
by Kurt Anderson
Additional Participants: Jane Hood
Title Discussed: A Little History of Science
by William Bynum [Libraries have this only as a downloadable audiobook via our Hoopla digital service]
Title Discussed: Death on a Pale Horse: Sherlock Holmes on Her Majesty’s Secret Service
by Donald Thomas
Title Discussed: Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Atcheson: 1953-1971
by Harry S. Truman, Dean Acheson, Dr. Ray Geselbracht and David C. Acheson
Title Discussed: Dinner With Churchill: Policy Making at the Dinner Table
by Cita Stelzer
Lincoln City Libraries currently owns this only in downloadable ebook format.
Title Discussed: The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap
by Wendy Welch
Additional Particpants: Pat Stephen
Title Discussed: Ratlines
by Stuart Neville
Title Discussed: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Title Discussed: Embracing Fry Bread
by Roger Welsch
Additional Participants: Interview with Roger Welsch
Title Discussed: The Graves are Walking
by John Kelly
Title Discussed: The Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
by Timothy Egan [Biography Curtis]
Additional Participants: Curt Donaldson
Title Discussed: San Miguel
by T.C. Boyle
Title Discussed: Round About Earth: Circumnavigation From Magellan to Orbit
by Joyce Chaplin [910.41 Cha]
Title Discussed: The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
by David Halberstam
Title Discussed: Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year
by David Von Drehle
Title Discussed: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain
Additional Participants: David Williams
Title Discussed: The Great Divergence
by Timothy Noah
Title Discussed: Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans
by David Niose [211.6 Nio]
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