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The Brain and What Can Go Wrong With It

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Vicki discusses books dealing with brain injuries and disorders.

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BookGuide's 'Casting About: 'Casting About is a regular Podcast featuring book reviews and commentary by staff throughout our Library System. Casting About, Program 51: What We Read When We Were Teens    Listen now - 14:26, 9.9 MB Casting About, Program 50: The Wind in the Willows, Brimstone, and Dream Park    Listen now - 20:25, 9.3 MB Casting About, Program 49: Born On a Blue Day, Hunter's Run, and Summer at Tiffany    Listen now - 19:14, 8.8 MB Casting About, Program 48: Death of a Cozy Writer, Body Movers, and The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu    Listen now - 14:20, 6.6 MB Casting About, Program 47: The One Book, One Lincoln Finalists    Listen now - 23:26, 10.7 MB Casting About, Program 46: The One Book, One Lincoln Selection Process    Listen now - 16:29, 7.5 MB Casting About, Program 45: A Lantern in Her Hand, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Little Brother, and The Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors    Listen now - 11:43, 5.4 MB Casting About, Program 44: DaVinci's Inquest and The Prince of Frogtown    Listen now - 17:08, 7.8 MB Casting About, Program 43: The Voice    Listen now - 10:39, 4.9 MB 'Casting About, Program 42: Wishful Drinking, A Question of Blood, and The Housekeeper and the Professor    Listen now - 12:29, 5.7 MB 'Casting About, Program 41: Batman: The Killing Joke, Jodhaa Akbar, and Zorro    Listen now - 20:44, 9.5 MB 'Casting About, Program 40: Eat, Pray, Love and Animals Make Us Human    Listen now - 8:25, 3.9 MB 'Casting About, Program 39: Keeping Faith, A New Leash on Life, Dear American Airlines, and Outliers    Listen now - 10:23, 4.8 MB 'Casting About, Program 38: Favorites of 2008    Listen now - 15:17, 7.0 MB 'Casting About, Program 37: The Bennett Martin Public Library Teen Advisory Board    Listen now - 11:16, 7.7 MB 'Casting About, Program 36: The Pigeon, The Palace, and Fledgling    Listen now - 23:15, 10.6 MB 'Casting About, Program 35: Knitting Under the Influence, A Deadly Yarn, The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society, and The Quilter's Apprentice    Listen now - 10:59, 5.0 MB 'Casting About, Program 34: American Lightning, All the Names, and The Dead Beat    Listen now - 21:03, 9.6 MB 'Casting About, Program 33: The History of the Hobbit and Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography    Listen now - 18:34, 8.5 MB 'Casting About, Program 32: Books: a Memoir, No Opportunity Wasted, and Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1    Listen now - 17:32, 8.0 MB 'Casting About, Program 31: The Psychic Eye, Turing Hopper, and Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Series    Listen now - 25:09, 11.5 MB 'Casting About, Program 30: Moscow Rules and Watership Down    Listen now - 16:53, 7.7 MB 'Casting About, Program 29: An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, Things the Grandchildren Should Know, and Wesley the Owl    Listen now - 19:43, 9.0 MB 'Casting About, Program 28: Crowdsourcing, Dewey, and How Doctors Think    Listen now - 18:23, 8.4 MB 'Casting About, Program 27: The Snow Queen, Schooled, and Freak    Listen now - 12:23, 5.7 MB 'Casting About, Program 26: the Ladies' Detective Agency series    Listen now - 11:49, 5.4 MB 'Casting About, Program 25: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, The Last Days of Summer, and The Confessions of a Teen Sleuth    Listen now - 9:19, 4.3 MB 'Casting About, Program 24, Part 2: Star Trek vs. Star Wars    Listen now - 16:30, 7.6 MB 'Casting About, Program 24, Part 1: Star Trek vs. Star Wars    Listen now - 16:52, 7.7 MB 'Casting About, Program 23: Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and The Invisible Wall    Listen now - 8:03, 3.7 MB 'Casting About, Program 22: Cooking, Gardening, and Art    Listen now - 19:21, 8.9 MB 'Casting About, Program 21: Sookie Stackhouse and Other "Fanged Fiction"    Listen now - 18:33, 8.5 MB 'Casting About, Program 20: What Remains, Mistaken Identity, and Trouble    Listen now - 14:02, 6.4 MB 'Casting About, Program 19: Historical Romances    Listen now - 25.03, 11.4 MB 'Casting About, Program 18: Mr. Perfect, Master of the Delta, and Natural Born Charmer    Listen now - 14:51, 6.8 MB 'Casting About, Program 17: The Thirteenth Tale    Listen now - 19:44, 9.0 MB 'Casting About, Program 16: In the Woods, Can't Remember What I Forgot, and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle    Listen now - 17:56, 8.2 MB 'Casting About, Program 15: A Book of Bees, The Broken Window, and Predictably Irrational    Listen now - 19:41, 9.0 MB 'Casting About, Program 14: Tony Visconti: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy, If Chins Could Kill, and Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way    Listen now - 18:58, 13.0 MB 'Casting About, Program 13: The Mercy Thompson series and The Name of the Wind    Listen now - 18:06, 8.3 MB 'Casting About, Program 12: The Gallery of Regrettable Food, Gastroanomalies, and The Dangerous Book for Dogs    Listen now - 14:32, 6.7 MB 'Casting About, Program 11: The Little Lady Agency, Blood Trail, and Legends of the Chelsea Hotel    Listen now - 15:14, 7 MB 'Casting About, Program 10: The Last Kashmiri Rose, Organize Your Corpses, and Holmes On the Range    Listen now - 14:20, 6.6 MB 'Casting About, Program 9: Gertrude Bell, The 47th Samurai, and Guitar: An American Life    Listen now - 16:10, 7.4 MB 'Casting About, Program 8: One Book - One Lincoln Finalists    Listen now - 30:18, 13.8 MB 'Casting About, Program 7: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, What is the What, and The Forgery of Venus    Listen now - 21:03, 9.6 MB 'Casting About, Program 6: The Curse of the Narrows, Fatherland, and A Crack in the Edge of the World    Listen now - 14:49, 6.8 MB 'Casting About, Program 5: Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Canon    Listen now - 13:52, 6.3 MB 'Casting About, Program 4: Game of Thrones, The Beekeeper's Apprentice and Small Favor    Listen now - 16:36, 7.6 MB 'Casting About, Program 3: The Invisible Garden, The Whistling Season and The Lady Elizabeth    Listen now - 11:26, 5.2 MB 'Casting About, Program 2: The Book of General Ignorance and Not Quite What I Was Planning    Listen now - 16:02, 7.3 MB 'Casting About, Program 1: Summer Reading Programs at Lincoln City Libraries    Listen now - 12:29, 5.7 MB		Books Talk: Books Talk features live recordings of presentations by Library Staff and special guests. Courtyard Book Chat - July 28, 2009: "The Brain and What Can Go Wrong With It"    Listen now - 31:34, 14.4 MB Courtyard Book Chat - July 21, 2009: "Authors I've Met, Books I've Loved"    Listen now - 25:01, 11.4 MB A Treacherous and Deceptive Path: The Journey of Stolen Art    Listen now - 67:07, 30.7 MB Courtyard Book Chat - June 23, 2009: "Bess Streeter Aldrich - Nebraska Author"    Listen now - 30:12, 13.8 MB Courtyard Book Chat - June 9, 2009: "East Coast Crime"    Listen now - 42:37, 19.5 MB The Crossroads of a Journey: All Roads Lead to Sarajevo: One Book - One Lincoln    Listen now - 54:28, 24.9 MB Gere Books Talk - April 13, 2009: "I'll Just Have Water, Thank You!"    Listen now - 66:32, 30.4 MB Gere Books Talk - April 6, 2009: "An Assortment of Authors"    Listen now - 35:12, 16.1 MB An Interfaith Journey Toward Peace: A Discussion: One Book - One Lincoln    Listen now - 61:25, 28.1 MB Gere Books Talk - March 23, 2009: "Silence Means Security"    Listen now - 41:59, 19.2 MB Gere Books Talk - March 9, 2009: "Susan's Picks"    Listen now - 57:47, 26.4 MB A Step Back in Time: A One Book - One Lincoln Program, September 29, 2009    Listen now - 51:37, 23.6 MB Lunch @ the Library, March 4, 2009    Listen now - 31:51, 14.5 MB One Book, One Lincoln Preview Discussion - July 19, 2009    Listen now - 52:16, 23.9 MB Gere Books Talk - March 2, 2009, Part 2: "Do You Remember These?"    Listen now - 29:23, 13.4 MB Gere Books Talk - March 2, 2009, Part 1: "Do You Remember These?"    Listen now - 37:06, 16.9 MB People of the Book: KZUM's BookTalk Discussion    Listen now - 22:54, 10.4 MB One Book, One Lincoln Preview Discussion - July 24, 2009    Listen now - 44:14, 20.2 MB Courtyard Book Chat: July 7, 2009 Listen now - 29:36, 13.5 MB Bethany Books Talk - May 29, 2009: "Tempting, Tantalizing, Enticing Titles"    Listen now - 37:57, 17.3 MB Bethany Books Talk - May 1, 2009, Part 2: "Susan's Picks, Spring 2009"    Listen now - 44:18, 20.2 MB Bethany Books Talk - May 1, 2009, Part 1: "Susan's Picks, Spring 2009"    Listen now - 44:18, 20.2 MB Gere Books Talk - April 27, 2009, Part 2: "Creature Comforts"    Listen now - 42:16, 19.3 MB Gere Books Talk - April 27, 2009, Part 1: "Creature Comforts"    Listen now - 37:10, 17.0 MB Gere Books Talk - March 30, 2009: "Eat, Drink and Be Merry"    Listen now - 47:18, 21.6 MB Gere Books Talk - February 2, 2009, Part 2: "The History of the Victorian Age Will Never be Written: We Know Too Much About It"    Listen now - 37:16, 17.0 MB Gere Books Talk - February 2, 2009, Part 1: "The History of the Victorian Age Will Never be Written: We Know Too Much About It"    Listen now - 30:12, 13.8 MB Gere Books Talk - December 8, 2008, Part 2: "Marcy’s Recent Reads"    Listen now - 18:54, 8.7 MB Gere Books Talk - December 8, 2008, Part 1: "Marcy’s Recent Reads"    Listen now - 44:38, 20.4 MB Bethany Books Talk - November 14, 2008, Part 2: "Susan's Picks"    Listen now - 36:52, 16.8 MB Bethany Books Talk - November 14, 2008, Part 1: "Susan's Picks"    Listen now - 30:50, 14.1 MB Lunch @ the Library, November 5, 2008    Listen now - 33:34, 15.3 MB Gere Books Talk - October 13, 2008: "Vampire Fiction, Classic and Modern"    Listen now - 50:43, 23.2 MB The Haunting of Olin Hall    Listen now - 54:38, 25.0 MB Buried in Books: The Amazing Library of Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick    Listen now - 1:19:00, 36.1 MB Hispanic Heritage Read-In, October 8, 2008    Listen now - 20:40, 9.5 MB Lunch @ the Library, October 1, 2008    Listen now - 42:11, 19.3 MB It Was a Dark and Stormy Read - Part 2 (One Book - One Lincoln Program, Sept. 28, 2008)    Listen now - 38:02, 17.4 MB It Was a Dark and Stormy Read - Part 1 (One Book - One Lincoln Program, Sept. 28, 2008)    Listen now - 47:47, 21.8 MB Notable Books - September 17, 2008: "ALA Notable Books, 2008"    Listen now - 26:25, 12.0 MB Gere Books Talk - September 8, 2008: "Recent Book Club Books"    Listen now - 77:48, 35.6 MB Courtyard Book Chat - July 29, 2008: "Looking to Score" (adult themes)    Listen now - 30:21, 13.9 MB One Book - One Lincoln Preview at Barnes & Noble-SouthPointe    Listen now - 41:57, 19.2 MB One Book - One Lincoln Preview at Barnes & Noble-"O" Street    Listen now - 43:18, 19.8 MB Courtyard Book Chat - July 22, 2008: "LibraryThing"    Listen now - 31:21, 14.3 MB One Book - One Lincoln Preview at A Novel Idea    Listen now - 43:28, 19.9 MB Courtyard Book Chat - July 1, 2008: "The Mean Magical Streets"    Listen now - 36:32, 16.7 MB Courtyard Book Chat - June 17, 2008: "John H. Ames Authors"    Listen now - 35:28, 16.2 MB Courtyard Book Chat - June 10, 2008: "Passport to Peril"    Listen now - 33:47, 15.4 MB Books Talk at Lux Middle School - May 29, 2008: "Sarah's Teen Book List, Spring 2008"    Listen now - 46:02, 21.0 MB Bethany Books Talk - May 2, 2008: "Susan's Picks"    Listen now - 64:28, 29.5 MB Bethany Books Talk - April 18, 2008: "Women In Islam"    Listen now - 62:16, 28.5 MB Gere Books Talk - April 7, 2008: "The Good, the Gritty, a Sure Thing and the Witty"    Listen now - 46:13, 21.1 MB Bethany Books Talk - March 21, 2008: "One Book One Nebraska"    Listen now - 60:36, 27.7 MB Bethany Books Talk - February 15, 2008: "Love for Sale" (adult themes)    Listen now - 51:12, 23.4 MB Bethany Books Talk - February 1, 2008: "Young Adult, Entertaining and Style"    Listen now - 19:38, 9 MB

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Books listed are chosen to represent the wide world of literature. While there is something for everyone, not every title listed will be of interest to, or appropriate for, every reader. Check with your librarian for more suggestions.

Check out these new booklists - two of our new Books, Movies & More pages!

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YALSA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults: 2010 Finalists

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2009

Best Books for Young Adults From the American Library Association

The Hot List! Check the most popular items on the teen advance reservations list!

Susan's Picks, Winter 2008 Also available as a two-part audio podcast; the podcasts also include books for adults:

  Part 1
  Part 2 

Good Youth Books for Gifts, 2008 (This list includes books for younger readers)

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2008

Fanged Fiction

Sarah's Teen Book List, Spring 2008 An audio podcast based on this list is also available: 

Susan's Picks, Spring 2008 Also available as an audio podcast: 

Good Youth Books for Gifts, 2007 (This list includes books for younger readers)

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2007

Books for Young People: A Gere Branch Books Talk Presentation - Feb 5, 2007

Award Winning Books

Game On! Fiction for Gaming Fans

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2006

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2005

Susan's Picks - March 2005

Susan's Picks - 2004

Young Adult Booktalks, Spring 2004

Golden Sower Award Nominees From the Past

Teen Book Club
The online Teen Book Club is one of eleven online book clubs available through Lincoln City Libraries. Sign up and you'll receive brief daily sections of the books in your specified categories via your e-mail account. Each day's entry will be approximately 5 minutes worth of reading material. Click the book cover image to get more information.

Please note: The presence of a link on this site does not constitute an endorsement by Lincoln City Libraries. Be advised that not all sources on the Internet provide accurate, complete or current information. Users should carefully judge the worth of these sources of information as they would any other resource. Just as libraries do not vouch for or endorse the viewpoints of written material in their collections, they do not do so for electronic information. Web sites may change or disappear without notice. Lincoln City Libraries is not responsible for the content of external sites linked to its Web site.

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• Writers' Resources
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General Literature Resources

• a.k.a. (author pseudonyms, etc.)
• Author Name Pronunciation Guide (focus on children's authors)
• AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information
• Based on the Book (movies based on books since 1980)
• Book Sense 76 (noteworthy new and recent books)
• BookBrowser
• BookGuide
• Books and Book Reviews on the Web
• British and Irish Authors on the Web
• The British Literature Index
• The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Home Page
• Critical Reading: A Guide
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Fearless Reviews (reviews of books from independent publishers)
• FictionDB.com (reader's advisory site)
• FreeBooknotes
• Great Books of the Great Plains
• If You Like ...
• Imaginary Lands (children's literature)
• Legends
• Literary Calendar
• The Literature Network
• Literature Page (from Cornell University)
• MysteryGuide.com
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• Prairie Schooner
• The Quotations Page
• Romance Fiction Resources (BookGuide)
• Science Fiction & Fantasy Resources (BookGuide)
• Scottish Writers
• Stop, You’re Killing Me!
• What's Next (search for adult fiction in series)
• whichbook.net (book recommendations)
• Who Reads What? - Celebrity Reading List

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Poetry

• About Poetry
• The Academy of American Poets
• American Verse Project
• British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
• British Women Romantic Poets Project
• Electronic Poetry Center
• Introduction to Representative Poetry On-line (from the University of Toronto)
• Lost Poets of the Great War
• Moontown Café
• Poetry Daily
• Poetry Resources (from Cornell University)

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Specific Authors

• The Republic of Pemberley (Jane Austen)
• Lewis Carroll home page
• Willa Cather
• Willa Cather Archive
• Agatha Christie: The Official Online Home
• The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive
• The Dickens Page
• The Emily Dickinson International Society
• The Arthur Conan Doyle Society
• Sherlockian.Net (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Thomas Hardy Society
• The Hemingway Resource Center
• Timeless Hemingway
• Into the Wardrobe: The C. S. Lewis Web Site
• H.P. Lovecraft
• The Life and Works of Herman Melville
• Middle English Literature (Chaucer, Langland, Malory, etc.)
• John Milton
• Pembroke College Winnie The Pooh Society (A. A. Milne)
• Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
  • Complete Works
• The Robert Louis Stevenson Home Page
• The Dylan Thomas Collection
• J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Encyclopedia of Arda
• Anthony Trollope
• The Edith Wharton Society
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• William Wordsworth

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Electronic Texts

(see also the Poetry section)

• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
• American Literary Classics
• Bartleby.com
• Bibliomania
• BookGlutton ( a new way to read online)
• BooksShouldBeFree.com (public domain audio books)
• Bulfinch's Mythology
• ClassicReader
• The eBook Directory
• Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia)
• Electronic Texts and Primary Sources
• The ETEXT Archives
• Librivox.org (Free audio books from texts in the public domain)
• Literature Collection
• Literature for Children
• Luminarium: Medieval, Renaissance, & 17th Century texts
• Manybooks.net (free public domain eBooks specially formatted for portable devices)
• The Naked Word
• Open Library (a website devoted to giving every book a webpage)(many full-text books)
• The On-line Books Page
• Online Literature Library
• Project Gutenberg
• Short Stories at East of the Web
• Tales of Wonder (folk and fairy tales from around the world)
• Wright American Fiction (19th-century American fiction)
• Wowio (free fiction, non-fiction, and comics ebooks)

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Quotation Sources

• Annabelle's Quotation Guide
• The Literature Network - Advanced Search
• LitQuotes
• The Quotations Page
• Quoteland.com
• Quotez
• Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations

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Writers' Resources

• Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
• Book Marketing Update
• Citation guides for online sources:
  • Citing Sources on the World Wide Web (University of Mary Washington Library)
  • Citation Style Guides (Syracuse University Library)
  • Columbia Guide to Online Style
  • Common Errors in English
  • Electronic Style Guides
  • Guide for Citing Electronic Information
  • Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides
  • ONLINE! Citation Styles
• Dictionary.com Writing Resources
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• National Writers Union
• Lincoln Writers
• Nebraska Center for Writers
• Romance Writers of America
  • Nebraska Romance Writers
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
• Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
• WorksCited4U (MLA bibliography composer)
• WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary
• Writers on the Net
• Writer's Resource Center

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Reading Group Resources

• Book Group Resources (from the Nebraska Library Commission)
• Book Group Resources (from Salt Lake County Library)
• Reader's Circle
• Reading Group Choices
• Reading Group Guides

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Sources for Buying Books and Book Supplies

• New:
  • Amazon.com
  • Barnes and Noble
  • Lee Booksellers
  • Powell's Books
  • The Tattered Cover
• Used/Out of Print:
  • AddALL.com - Used and Out of Print
  • Advanced Book Exchange
  • Alibris
  • Bibliofind
  • BookFinder.com
  • ChooseBooks (used book search)
  • Powell's Books
  • TomFolio.com (used book search)
• College Textbooks:
  • Bigwords.com
  • Bookbyte
  • StudentMarket.com
  • Textbook Coupons
  • TextbookLand
  • VarsityBooks.com
• Price comparison sites:
  • AddALL.com
  • BooksPrice.com
• Book Supplies
  • Your Home Library

Authors I've Met, Books I've Loved

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Special guest Kit Keller discusses titles she's enjoyed, by some of the authors she's has the chance to meet and/or interview on the air.

A booklist based on this talk is available on our BookGuide site.


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