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Every Sunday morning issue of Lincoln's 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.

last updated May 19, 2013

2013 Selections

Books reviewed in May

book cover  Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh and America's Fight Over World War II: 1939-1941
by Lynne Olson

Non-Fiction -- 940.53 Ols.
book cover  A Thousand Pardons
by Jonathan Dee

Fiction -- Dee.
book cover  Silken Prey
by John Sandford

Fiction -- Sandford.
book cover  Wave
by Sonali Deraniyagala

Novel -- Deraniyagala.
book cover  From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism
by Eileen M. Wirth

Non-Fiction -- [ On Order ].
book cover  Night Moves
by Randy Wayne White

Fiction -- White.
book cover  Wise Men
by Stuart Nadler

Fiction -- Nadler.
book cover  Paris: The Novel
by Edward Rutherfurd

Fiction -- Rutherfurd.
book cover  The Blood Gospel
by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell

Fiction -- Rollins.
book cover  The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think
by Brian hare and Vanessa Woods

Non-Fiction -- 636.7 Har.

Books reviewed in April

book cover  House of Earth: A Novel
by Woody Guthrie

Fiction -- Guthrie.
book cover  Brooklyn Zoo: The Education of a Psychotherapist
by Darcy Lockman

Non-Fiction -- Lockman.
book cover  Six Years
by Harlan Coben

Fiction -- Coben.
book cover  Gulp
by Mary Roach

Non-Fiction -- 612.3 Roa.
book cover  Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Non-Fiction -- 629.4 Tys.
book cover  Mom & Me & Mom
by Maya Angelou

Non-Fiction -- Biography Angelou.
book cover  Parishoner
by Walter Mosley

Fiction -- Mosley.
book cover  Ike & Dick
by Jeffrey Frank

Non-Fiction -- [ On Order ].
book cover  Coolidge
by Amith Shlaes

Non-Fiction -- Biography Coolidge.
book cover  The Intercept
by Dick Wolf

Fiction -- Wolf.
book cover  The Typewriter Girl
by Alison Atlee

Fiction -- Atlee.
book cover  The Night Ranger
by Alex Berenson

Fiction -- Berenson.
book cover  Ice Cold Kill
by Dana Haynes

Fiction -- Haynes.

Books reviewed in March

book cover  Out of Order
by Sandra Day O'Connor

Non-Fiction -- Biography O'Connor.
book cover  Geronimo
by Robert Marshall Utley

Non-Fiction -- [ On Order ].
book cover  Middle C
by William H. Gass

[only available as an electronic download]
book cover  Haven's Wake
by Ladette Randolph

Fiction -- Randolph.
book cover  Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History Making Race Around the World
by Matthew Goodman

Fiction -- AUTHOR.
book cover  The Da Vinci Deception
by Thomas Swan

Fiction -- Swan.
book cover  The Cezanne Chase
by Thomas Swan

Fiction -- Swan.
book cover  The Final Faberge
by Thomas Swan

Fiction -- Swan.
book cover  The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
by Glenn Frankel

Non-Fiction -- [ On Order ].
book cover  What Happened to Sophie Wilder
by Christopher Beha

Non-Fiction -- [ On Order ].
book cover  Standing Firmly By the Flag, Nebraska Territory and the Civil War, 1861-1867
byJames E. Potter  Nebraska Author

Non-Fiction -- 978.2 Pot.
book cover  The Sound of Broken Glass
by Deborah Crombie

Fiction -- Crombie.
book cover  Benediction
by Kent Haruf

Fiction -- Haruf.
book cover  The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult

Fiction -- Picoult.
book cover  Iscariot
by Tosca Lee

Fiction -- Lee.
book cover  The Witch of Babylon
by D.J. McIntosh

Fiction -- McIntosh.
book cover  Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders

Fiction -- Sanders.
book cover  Charles Dickens: A Life
by Claire Tomalin

Non-Fiction -- Biography Dickens.
book cover  After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story
by Michael Hainey

Non-Fiction -- Hainey.

Books reviewed in February

book cover  My Brother's Book
by Maurice Sendak

Fiction -- AUTHOR.
book cover  The Pigeon Pie Mystery
by Julia Stuart

Fiction -- Stuart.
book cover  Touch & Go
by Lisa Gardner

Fiction -- Gardner.
book cover  Cover of Snow
by Jenny Milchman

Fiction -- Milchner.
book cover  Threat Vector
by Tom Clancy

Fiction -- Clancy.
book cover  The Drowning House
by Elizabeth Black

Fiction -- Black.
book cover  Detroit: An American Autopsy
by Charlie LeDuff

Non-Fiction -- LeDuff.
book cover  Wake of the Perdido Star
by Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan

Fiction -- Hackman.
book cover  Embracing Fry Bread: Confessions of a Wannabe  Nebraska Author
by Roger Welsch

Non-Fiction -- Welsch.
book cover  Insane City
by Dave Barry

Fiction -- Barry.
book cover  1356
by Bernard Cornwell

Fiction -- Cornwell.
book cover  Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's King of Beers
by William Knoedelseder

Non-Fiction -- 338.76 AnhYk.
book cover  Good Prose: The Art of Non-Fiction
by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd

Non-Fiction -- 808.02 Kid.
book cover  The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?
by Jared Diamond

Non-Fiction -- 303.4 ia.

Books reviewed in January

book cover  Martyball
by Marty Schottenheimer with Jeffrey Flanagan

Non-Fiction -- Schottenheimer.
book cover  Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty
by Jane Yolen

Fiction -- Yolen.
book cover  Out of the Blue
by Victor Cruz

Non-Fiction -- Cruz.
book cover  The Dallas Cowboys
by Joe Nick Patoski

Non-Fiction -- Patoski.
book cover  Luther: The Calling
by Neil Gross

Fiction -- Gross.
This item not currently owned by Lincoln City Libraries  The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century
by Margaret Talbot

Non-Fiction -- Talbot.
[Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
book cover  The Art Forger
by B.A. Shapiro

Fiction -- Shapiro.
book cover  The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
by Stephen Alford

Non-Fiction -- 942.055 Alf.
book cover  Back to Blood
by Tom Wolfe

Fiction -- Wolfe.
book cover  Both Flesh and Not: Essays
by David Foster Wallace

Non-Fiction -- 814 Wal.
book cover  A Memory of Light
by Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan

Fiction -- Jordan.

Check out our Nebraska Author Brandon Sanderson booklist for for information about his works!

book cover  Pro Bono
by Jeff McArthur

Non-Fiction -- 364.152 McA.
book cover  A Disposition to be Rich: How a Small Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States
by Geoffrey Ward

Non-Fiction -- Ward [currently only available in downloadable audio and ebook formats].
book cover  Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds
by Jim Sterba

Non-Fiction -- 304.2 Ste.

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