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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.
Jaywalking With the Irish
by David Monagan
Fiction — Monagan. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
Nebraska: Simply Beautiful
by Mike Whye 
Non-Fiction [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
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 have either an audiotape or CD 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)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (read by Jim Dale) also on CD
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (read by Frank Muller)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (read by Patrick Stewart)
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 — Robbins. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
The Surrogate Thief
by Archer Mayor
Fiction — Mayor [M].
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
Books reviewed in November
Little Men: Novellas and Stories
by Gerald Shapiro
Fiction — 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.
Land of Sea and Changes
by George Schaffner
Fiction — Schaffner. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
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 Phillis Vine
Non-Fiction — 305.8 AfrYv.
Broken For You
by Stephanie Kallos
Fiction — Kallos.
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.
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 the editors of www.America24-7.com
Non-Fiction. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
The Sunday Philosophy Club
by Alexander McCall-Smith
Fiction — McCall-Smith.
I Am Charlotte Simmons
by Tom Wolfe
Fiction — Wolfe.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
Fiction — Clarke.
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
Non-Fiction — [On Order].
The Grim Grotto
by Lemony Snicket
Fiction — jSnicket.
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 — 790 Hil.
Runaway: Stories
by Alice Munro
Fiction — Munro.
The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
by Kitty Kelley
Non-Fiction — B B9504k.
The Double The Double
by Jose Saramago
Fiction — Saramago.
America on Trial
by Alan M. Dershowitz
Non-Fiction — 345 Der.
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.
The Egyptologist
by Arthur Phillips
Fiction — Phillips.
Outside Valentine
by Liza Ward
Fiction — Ward.
To Walt Whitman: America
by Kenneth Price
Non-Fiction. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
Rural Voices: Place Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing
by Robert E. Brooke
Non-Fiction. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
Last Call
by K.L. Cook
Fiction — Cook. [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. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
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. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
The Tyrant’s Novel
by Thomas Keneally
Fiction — Keneally.
The Tarnished Eye
by Judith Guest
Fiction — Guest.
Artifacts
by Mary Anna Evans
Fiction — Evans. [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
American Soldier
by Gen. Tommy Franks
Non-Fiction — B F855
The Final Frontiersman
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.
Walking the Campus and Fielding Imaginary Grounders
by Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn
Poetry. [These collections not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
Sleeping With Schubert
by Bonnie Marson
Fiction — Marson.
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].
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 — Craig.
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 — Berger.
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
by William Safire
Non-Fiction — 428 Saf.
One False Move
by Alex Kava
Fiction — Kava.
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 — E-book.
I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies)
by Laurie Nataro
Non-Fiction (essays). [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.]
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.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
Non-Fiction — 817 Sed.
Founding Mothers
by Cokie Roberts
Non-Fiction — 973.3 Rob [book is On Order, tape is circulating].
Books reviewed in June
Fiction Wakefield by Andrei Codrescu
Fiction — Lee Aloft by Chang-rae Lee
Fiction — Kinsella Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella
Non-Fiction — 362.88 Lan Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land
Fiction — Silva Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva
Fiction — Caldwell Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
Non-Fiction — 081 Qui Loud and Clear by Anna Quindlen
Fiction Don’t Look Back by Karin Fossum
Fiction The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
Fiction — Dunne Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne
Fiction — Spillane Something’s Down There by Mickey Spillane
Non-Fiction — 796.357 Kah Memories of Summer by Roger Kahn
Non-Fiction — 796.357 Pos You’ve Got to Have Balls to Make it in This League: My Life as an Umpire by Pam Postema & Gene Wojciechowski
Non-Fiction Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia by Joseph A. Reaves
Non-Fiction — 796.357 WilYs Ted Williams: A Baseball Life by Michael Seidel
Fiction — McGrath Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath
Non-Fiction — 359.96 Cla Battle Ready by Tom Clancy
Non-Fiction — 940.542 Hor Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer
Non-Fiction Transits of Venus by William Sheehan & John Edward Westfall
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