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Lincoln Journal Star Book Reviews – 2004
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.
2004 Selections, June to December
Books reviewed in December
The News From Paraguay
by Lily Tuck
Fiction — Tuck
Ten Days to D-Day: Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion
by David Stafford
Non-Fiction — 940.542 Sta
The Curse of the Singles Table: A True Story of 1001 Nights Without Sex
by Suzanne Schlosberg
Non-Fiction (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Our Kind
by Kate Walbert
Fiction — Walbert (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Jaywalking With the Irish
by David Monagan
Non-Fiction — 914.15 Mon
Nebraska: Simply Beautiful
by Mike Whye 
Non-Fiction — 917.82 qWhy
Life Expectancy
by Dean Koontz
Fiction — Koontz.
Audio Gift Book Ideas
The following audiobooks or books-on-CD were recommended in an article on holiday gift ideas: (hotlinked entries indicate the libraries own this audiobook version of this title)
Hallelujah! The Welcome Table by Maya Angelou
Recipes From My Life by Pat Conroy
Bringing Tuscany Home by Frances and Edward Mayes
The James Herriot Collection by James Herriot
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (read by Sir John Gielgud) — the libraries don’t have this specific edition on audio
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (read by Jim Dale)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (read by Frank Muller) — the libraries don’t have this specific edition on audio
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (read by Patrick Stewart) — the libraries don’t have this specific edition on audio
The Christmas Thief by Carol Higgins Clark and Mary Higgins Clark
A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore (on CD)
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Whiteout by Ken Follett (on CD)
Chronicles: Volume 1 by Bob Dylan (on CD)
Redbird Christmas
by Fannie Flagg
Fiction — Flagg
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt
Non-Fiction — 822.33 ShaBg
Christmas in the Great Plains
by Dorothy Dodge Robbins and Kenneth Robbins
Non-Fiction — 394.26 ChrYr
The Surrogate Thief
by Archer Mayor
Fiction — Mayor
The Children’s Blizzard
by David Laskin
Non-Fiction — 551.555 Las
Hawke’s Harbor
by S.E. Hinton
Fiction — Hinton
A Life With Dogs
by Roger Welsch
Non-Fiction — 636.7 Wel
See the Nebraska Author Roger Welsch page here on BookGuide!
Books reviewed in November
Little Men: Novellas and Stories
by Gerald Shapiro
Fiction — Heritage Shapiro
Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
Fiction — Pamuk
Florence of Arabia
by Christopher Buckley
Fiction — Buckley
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
Fiction — Clarke
Previously reviewed in October 2004.
Delights and Shadows Delights & Shadows: Poems
by Ted Kooser
Poetry — 811 Koo
In the Land of Second Chances
by George Shaffner
Fiction — Shaffner
See Patty L.’s review of In the Land of Second Chances in the May 2005 Staff Recommendations on BookGuide!
The Double
by Jose Saramago
Fiction — Saramago
Previously reviewed in October 2004.
One Man’s Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dream
by Phyllis Vine
Non-Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Broken For You
by Stephanie Kallos
Fiction — Kallos
See the Nebraska Author Stephanie Kallos page here on BookGuide!
Queen of the Big Time
by Adriana Trigiani
Fiction — Trigiani
Previously reviewed in July 2004.
Bitch Creek
by William Tapply
Fiction — Tapply
Books reviewed in October
The Love Wife
by Gish Jen
Fiction — Jen (currently only available as downloadable audiobook)
Blackbird House
by Alice Hoffman
Fiction — Hoffman
Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West
edited by Linda Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier & Nancy Curtis
Non-Fiction — 810.098 Has
Nebraska 24/7
by Rick Smolan and the editors of www.America24-7.com
Non-Fiction — 917.82 QSmo
The Sunday Philosophy Club
by Alexander McCall-Smith
Fiction — McCall-Smith
by Tom Wolfe
Fiction — Wolfe
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
Fiction — Clarke
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
Fiction — Roth
The Grim Grotto
by Lemony Snicket
Fiction — j Snicket
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
by Seymour Hersh
Non-Fiction — 973.931 Her
Devil in the Details: Scenes From an Obsessive Girlhood
by Jennifer Traig
Non-Fiction — 616.852 Tra
Confessions of an Heiress
by Paris Hilton
Non-Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Runaway: Stories
by Alice Munro
Fiction — Munro
The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
by Kitty Kelley
Biography — B B9504k
The Double
by Jose Saramago
Fiction — Saramago
America on Trial
by Alan M. Dershowitz
Non-Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Four Souls
by Louise Erdrich
Fiction — Erdrich
Death Match
by Lincoln Child
Fiction — Child
Books reviewed in September
A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers
by Ladette Randolph [ed.]
Non-Fiction — 813.08 Ran.
See Meredith M.’s review of A Different Plain in the September 2012 Staff Recommendations on BookGuide.
The Egyptologist
by Arthur Phillips
Fiction — Phillips.
Outside Valentine
by Liza Ward
Fiction — Ward.
This book also appears on the Starkweather: Murder on the Plains page, part of the Lincoln City Libraries’ Reference Services archives.
To Walt Whitman: America
by Kenneth Price
Non-Fiction (Hoopla E-book only)
Rural Voices: Place Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing
by Robert E. Brooke
Non-Fiction — Heritage 372.623 Bro
Last Call
by K.L. Cook
Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Leopold’s Maneuvers
by Cortney Davis
Poetry (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Stumbling Through the Stars
by Fredrick Zydek
Poetry — Heritage 811 Zyd
Medicine Creek Journals
by D. Jean Smith
Non-Fiction (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
by David Wishart
Non-Fiction — 978.2 qWis
The Tyrant’s Novel
by Thomas Keneally
Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Tarnished Eye
by Judith Guest
Fiction — Guest
Artifacts
by Mary Anna Evans
Fiction — (available from the libraries only in E-book and Downloadable Audio formats)
American Soldier
by Gen. Tommy Franks
Non-Fiction — B F855
The Final Frontiersman: Heimo North and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness
by James Campbell
Non-Fiction — 917.98 Cam
The Madman’s Tale
by John Katzenbach
Fiction — Katzenbach
Books reviewed in August
The Winter Queen and Murder on the Leviathan
by Boris Akunin
Fiction — Akunin [M]
Sunrise, Dayglow, Sunset, Moon
by William Kloefkorn
Poetry — 811 Klo
See the Nebraska Poet William Kloefkorn page here on BookGuide.
Walking the Campus and Fielding Imaginary Grounders
by Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn
Poetry — Compact Disc 811 Klo and 811 Klo
See the Nebraska Poet William Kloefkorn page here on BookGuide.
Sleeping With Schubert
by Bonnie Marson
Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Game
by Laurie King
Fiction — King [M]
Cafe Haiku
by Zenbu Nometa & Jeffrey Goldsmith
Non-Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Evolution’s Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
by Peter Nicholls
Biographies — B F579n
Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk
by Maureen Dowd
Non-Fiction — 973.921 Dow
Skinny Dip
by Carl Hiaasen
Fiction — Hiaasen [M]
Read Charlotte M.’s review of Skinny Dip in the July 2005 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide!
Little Scarlet
by Walter Mosley
Fiction — Mosley [M].
My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Love in Idleness
by Amanda Craig
Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Full Cupboard of Life
by Alexander McCall-Smith
Fiction — McCall-Smith [M].
The Snow Pit
by Reuben Bercovich
Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Adventures of the Artificial Woman
by Thomas Berger
Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Truth and Beauty
by Ann Patchett
Non-Fiction — 616.994 Pat
Ten Big Ones
by Janet Evanovich
Fiction — Evanovich [M]
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time: Wit and Wisdom From the Popular “On Language” Column in The New York Times Magazine
by William Safire
Non-Fiction — 428 Saf
One False Move
by Alex Kava
Fiction — Kava
See the Nebraska Author Alex Kava page here on BookGuide!
A Good Year
by Peter Mayle
Fiction — Mayle
Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America
by Mark Perry
Biography — B G76p
Books reviewed in July
Scenes of Visionary Enchantment
by Dayton Duncan
Non-Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies)
by Laurie Nataro
Non-Fiction 817 Not
Queen of the Big Time
by Adriana Trigiani
Fiction — Trigiani
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
by Tony Hendra
Biography — B H379
If We Could Only Come to America — A Story of Swedish Immigrants in the Midwest
by Robert J. Nelson
Non-Fiction — B C1872n
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
by Helen Fielding
Fiction — Fielding
The Fractal Murders
by Mark Cohen
Fiction — Cohen [M]
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War
by Evan Wright
Non-Fiction — 956.704 Wri
Eventide
by Kent Haruf
Fiction — Haruf
Companion work to Lincoln’s 2002 One Book One Lincoln title, Plainsong.
See the Nebraska Author Kent Haruf page here on BookGuide.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
Non-Fiction — 817 Sed
Founding Mothers
by Cokie Roberts
Non-Fiction — 973.3 Rob
Books reviewed in June
Wakefield
by Andrei Codrescu
Fiction — ( only available in E-book and downloadable audio formats )
Aloft
by Chang-rae Lee
Fiction — Lee
Can You Keep a Secret
by Sophie Kinsella
Fiction — Kinsella
Goat: A Memoir
by Brad Land
Non-Fiction — 362.88 Lan
Death in Vienna
by Daniel Silva
Fiction — Silva
Rule of Four
by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
Fiction — Caldwell
Loud and Clear
by Anna Quindlen
Non-Fiction — 081 Qui
Don’t Look Back
by Karin Fossum
Fiction — ( only available in E-book format )
The Return of the Dancing Master
by Henning Mankell
Fiction — Mankell
Nothing Lost
by John Gregory Dunne
Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Something’s Down There
by Mickey Spillane
Fiction — Spillane
Memories of Summer
by Roger Kahn
Non-Fiction — (only available in E-book format)
You’ve Got to Have Balls to Make it in This League: My Life as an Umpire
by Pam Postema & Gene Wojciechowski
Non-Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia
by Joseph A. Reaves
Non-Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Ted Williams: A Baseball Life
by Michael Seidel
Non-Fiction — 796.357 WilYs
Port Mungo
by Patrick McGrath
Fiction — (available as a downloadable audiobook only)
Battle Ready
by Tom Clancy
Non-Fiction — 359.96 Cla
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour
by James D. Hornfischer
Non-Fiction — 940.542 Hor
Transits of Venus
by William Sheehan & John Edward Westfall
Non-Fiction — (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)