last updated January 2, 2008

2007 Selections

Books reviewed in December

	End Games by Michael Dibdin Fiction -- Dibdin.
	The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman Non-Fiction -- 940.531 Ack. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]
	Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Fiction -- Lehane. [Also available in unabridged audiotape format.]
	Christmas Lights by Christine Pisera Naman Fiction -- Naman. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
	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 Atlas of the Planet Earth by the editors of The Onion Non-Fiction -- 817 qOni.
	The Mark by Jason Pinter Fiction -- Pinter. (only a paperback spinner rack edition exists in the library collection)
	Terminal by Andrew Vachss Fiction -- Vachss.
	Thursday Next in First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde Fiction -- Fforde. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	The Sacred Place by David Black Fiction -- Black. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
	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 Fiction -- 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. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio and book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]

Books reviewed in November

	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. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	Killing Che by Chuck Pfarrer Fiction -- Pfarrer.
	The Circumference of Darkness by Jack Henderson Fiction -- Henderson.
	Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish Non-Fiction -- [ On Order ].
	The Cleaner by Brett Battles Fiction -- Battles.
	Innocent as Sin by Elizabeth Lowell Fiction -- Lwell. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]
	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. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America by Hanna Rosin Non-Fiction -- Rosin. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
	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. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir Fiction -- Grey.

Books reviewed in October

	Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis Biography -- B Sch75m.
	Living Blue in the Red States by David Stackey Non-Fiction -- Stackey. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
	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 Fiction -- Shumaker.
	Exit Ghost by Philip Roth Fiction -- Roth.
	Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli Non-Fiction -- 338.272 Mar.
	Secret Asset by Stella Rimington Fiction -- Rimington. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]
	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 -- Davenport.
	FDR by Jean Edward Smith Biography -- B R655s. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio and book-on-CD formats.]
	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 -- McFadyen. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]

Books reviewed in September

	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. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	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. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio and book-on-CD formats.]
	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.
	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. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]
	Brush With Death by Hailey Lind Fiction -- Lind.

Books reviewed in August

	God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens Non-Fiction -- 211.8 Hit. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]
	Free Fire by C.J. Box Fiction -- Box.
	The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard Fiction -- Pickard. [Also available in Large Print format.]
	Requiem for an Assassin by Barry Eisler Fiction -- Eisler. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]
	Strike Force by Dale Brown Fiction -- Brown.
	Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith Fiction -- Smith. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	Dead Ex by Harley Jane Kozak   Fiction -- Kozak. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	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 -- 973.82 Mar.
	True Tales of the Prairies and Plains by David Dary Non-Fiction -- [ On Order ].
	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 Akil Reinhardt Non-Fiction -- Reinhardt. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
	After Dark by Haruki Murakami Fiction -- Murakami. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]
	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver Non-Fiction -- 630 Kin. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]
	Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver Fiction -- Deaver. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	The Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell Fiction -- Rendell. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	The Woods by Harlan Coben Fiction -- Coben. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio and book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]
	Restitution by Lee Vance Fiction -- Vance. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]

Books reviewed in July

	On Kingdom Mountain by Howard Frank Mosher Fiction -- Mosher.
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling Fiction -- Rowling. [Also available in unabridged audiotape and book-on-CD formats.]
	Too Late to Say Goodbye by Ann Rule Non-Fiction -- 364.152 Rul.
	Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje Fiction -- Ondaatje. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]
	North River by Pete Hamill Fiction -- Hamill. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier Non-Fiction -- 500 Ang.
	1945 by Robert Conroy Fiction -- Conroy. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
	The Echelon Vendetta by David Stone Fiction -- Stone.
	Prophets Reborn by Gary Gabelhouse Fiction -- Gabelhouse.
	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 -- [ On Order ].
	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 -- [ On Order ].
	The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay Fiction -- Hay. [Also available in unabridged audiotape format.]
	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. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]
	Whitewash by Alex Kava   Fiction -- Kava. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]

Books reviewed in June

	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. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio and book-on-CD formats.]
	The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall-Smith Fiction -- McCall-Smith. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]
	The Echo Maker by Richard Powers Fiction -- Powers. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio and book-on-CD formats.]
	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. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	The Overlook by Michael Connelly Fiction -- Connelly. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio and book-on-CD formats.]
	Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child Fiction -- Child. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio and book-on-CD formats.]
	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. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise by Michael Grunwald Non-Fiction -- 975.939 Gru.

Books reviewed in May

	At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA by George Tenet Non-Fiction -- 327.12 Ten. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD 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 -- 327.51 Mac. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	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.

Books reviewed in April

	Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Biography -- B Ei6i. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult Fiction -- Picoult. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	The Better Angels of Our Nature by S.C. Gylanders Fiction -- Gylanders.
	Changing Light by Nora Gallagher Fiction -- Gallagher.
	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. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]
	Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Biography -- B H6223.
	The Treasure of Khan by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler Fiction -- Cussler. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley Fiction -- Smiley. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	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. [Also available in unabridged Large Print format.]
	A False Mirror by Charles Todd Fiction -- Todd.
	The Watchman by Robert Crais Fiction -- Crais. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio and book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]
	Another Green Wolrd by Richard Grant Fiction -- [ On Order ].
	Happiness: A History by Darrin McMahon Non-Fiction -- [ On Order ].
	The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation by Stephen Flynn Non-Fiction -- [ On Order ].
	Deep Storm by Lincoln Child Fiction -- Child. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio and book-on-CD formats.]

Books reviewed in March

	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. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	Surveillance by Jonathan Raban Fiction -- Raban.
	Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier Fiction -- Chevalier.
	The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory Fiction -- Gregory. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]
	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.
	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 -- 363.349 McQ.
	Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh Fiction -- Wambaugh. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]
	The Man in the Middle by Brian Haig Fiction -- Haig. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	The Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy Fiction -- Levy.

Books reviewed in February

	Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison   Fiction -- Harrison.
	The Corpse in the Koryo by James Church Fiction -- Church.
	American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever Non-Fiction -- 810.903 Che.
	After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away by Joyce Carol Oates Fiction -- j Oates.
	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. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio format.]
	On Agate Hill by Lee Smith Fiction -- Smith. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson Fiction -- Atkinson.
	The Boss by Stanley Pottinger Fiction -- Pottinger.
	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 Time, Fires of War by Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice Fiction -- Bond.

Books reviewed in January

	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. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD format.]
	Echo Park by Michael Connelly Fiction -- Connelly. [Also available in unabridged audiotape and book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]
	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.
	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.
	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. [Also available in unabridged book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]
	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. [Also available in unabridged downloadable audio, book-on-CD and Large Print formats.]
	The View From Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro Fiction -- Munro. [Also available in unabridged audiotape format.]

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