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.
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by Michael Crichton
Fiction — Crichton
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
by John Mortimore
Fiction — Mortimore
Beyond 9 to 5: Your Life in Time
by Sarah Norgate
Non-Fiction — Norgate (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Phony Marine
by Jim Lehrer
Fiction — Lehrer
A Field of Darkness
by Cornelia Read
Fiction — Read (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Prairie Suite: A Celebration – Poems
by Twyla Hansen
Poetry — 811 Han
Firstlight: Early Inspirational Writings
by Sue Monk Kidd
Non-Fiction — 232 Kid
Brother Odd
by Dean Koontz
Fiction — Koontz
by Diane Emley
Fiction — Emley
Santa Cruise
by Carol Higgins Clark and Mary Higgins Clark
Fiction — Clark
by Anne Perry
Fiction — Perry
by Mary Kay Andrews
Fiction — Andrews
The Drummer Boy: A Christmas Tale
by Ted Dekker
Fiction — Dekker (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Yellow Dog, A Man’s Head (a.k.a. A Battle of Nerves) and Lock 14 (a.k.a. The Crime at Lock 14)
by Georges Simenon
Fiction — Simenon (Not all titles currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Killer Dreams
by Iris Johansen
Fiction — Johansen
The Man Time Forgot
by Isiah Wilner
Non-Fiction — 070.92 Wil
The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half Century of Washington Commentary
by Mary McGrory
Non-Fiction — McGrory (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Fire With Fire
by Allen Kahane
Fiction — Kahane (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Cleanup
by Sean Doolittle
Fiction — Doolittle
The Cleanup was the selected title under discussion by the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group in February 2010
See also: The Nebraska Author Sean Doolittle resource page here on BookGuide
The Ines of My Soul
by Isabel Allende
Fiction — Allende
The Fourth Bear
by Jasper Fforde
Fiction — Fforde
The Expected One
by Kathleen McGowan
Fiction — McGowan
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks
Non-Fiction — 956.704 Ric
The Interpretation of Murder
by Jed Rubenfeld
Fiction — Rubenfeld
The Right Attitude to Rain
by Alexander McCall-Smith
Fiction — McCall-Smith
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Fiction — McCarthy
Abundance
by Sena Jeter Naslund
Fiction — Naslund
The Hounds and the Fury
by Rita Mae Brown
Fiction — Brown
The Driftless Area
by Tom Drury
Fiction — Drury
Casino Royale
by Ian Fleming
Fiction — Fleming
See Scott C.’s review of the series of James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, in the December 2006 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
For One More Day
by Mitch Albom
Fiction — Albom
Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
Non-Fiction — 364.152 Lar
Lisey’s Story
by Stephen King
Fiction — King
Thanksgiving Night
by Richard Bausch
Fiction — Bausch
Truck: A Love Story
by Michael Perry
Non-Fiction — 629.224 Per
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
Fiction — Setterfield
The Thirteenth Tale was the winning selected title used for the 2008 One Book – One Lincoln citywide reading program!
A Trout in the Sea of Cortez
by John Salter
Fiction — Salter
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by John Grisham
Non-Fiction — 345.05 Gri
The Assassins Gallery
by David L. Robbins
Fiction — Robbins.
Too Darn Hot
by Sandra Scoppetone
Fiction — Scoppetone
Close to Home
by John Spence
Fiction — Spence (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Stripped
by Brian Freeman
Fiction — Freeman
Thirteen Moons
by Charles Frazier
Fiction — Frazier
The House: The History of the House of Representatives
by Robert Remini
Non-Fiction — 328.73 Rem
A Spot of Bother
by Mark Haddon
Fiction — Haddon
Whispering in the Giant’s Ear: A Frontline Chronicle From Bolivia’s War on Globalization
by William Powers
Non-Fiction — Powers (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Man Camp
by Adrienne Brodeur
Fiction — Brodeur
The Alibi Club
by Francine Matthews
Fiction — Matthews
Back to Bologna
by Michael Dibdin
Fiction — Dibdin
Rise and Shine
by Anna Quindlen
Fiction — Quindlen
The Cinderella Pact
by Sarah Strohmeyer
Fiction — Strohmeyer
The Prisoner of Guantanamo
by Dan Fesperman
Fiction — Fesperman
The Second Perimeter
by Mike Lawson
Fiction — Lawson
Takedown
by Brad Thor
Fiction — Thor
AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America’s Upper Classes From the Military and How It Hurts Our Country
by Kathy Roth-Doguet and Frank Schaeffer
Non-Fiction — 355.223 Rot
The Afghan
by Frederick Forsyth
Fiction — Forsyth
Death Without Company
by Craig Johnson
Fiction — Johnson
On, Off
by Colleen McCullough
Fiction — McCullough
Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward
by Charlyne Berens
Non-Fiction — B H117b
Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny
by Robert J. Miller
Non-Fiction — Miller (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Friend Who Got Away
by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell
Non-Fiction — 158.25 Off
Shadow Man
by Cody McFayden
Fiction — McFayden
Doc Holliday: The Life and the Legend
by Gary L. Roberts
Non-Fiction — B H718r
I Die, But My Memory Lives On
by Henning Mankell
Fiction — Mankell (owned only in digital format by the libraries)
Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Non-Fiction — 363.738 Kol
The Whole World Over
by Julia Glass
Fiction — Glass
Love in the Present Tense
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Fiction — Hyde
The Death of Achilles
by Boris Akunin
Fiction — Akunin
The End of Iraq: How the United States Unintentionally Broke up Iraq and Changed the Middle East
by Peter W. Galbraith
Non-Fiction — 956.704 Gal
What is Mine
by Anne Holt
Fiction — Holt
Vanishing Point
by Marcia Muller
Fiction — Muller
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
by Gordon Dahlquist
Fiction — Dahlquist (Only available as a digital audiobook from the libraries.)
The General and the Jaguar: Pershing’s Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge
by Eileen Welsome
Non-Fiction — 972.081 Wel
The Joy of Doing Things Badly
by Veronica Chambers
Non-Fiction — 305.242 Cha
Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis & Clark’s Missouri River
by Bill Lambrecht
Non-Fiction — 978 Lam
Never Fear
by Scott Frost
Fiction — Frost [Only available as a digital audiobook from the libraries.]
The Black Panther is an African Cat: Poems of Exploration and Testimony
by Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen we Langa
Poetry — we Langa (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Crime Scene: The Definitive Guide to the World Behind the Yellow Tape
by Richard Platt
Non-Fiction — Platt (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Organized Crime: An Inside Guide to the World’s Most Successful Industry
by Paul Lunde
Non-Fiction — Lunde (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Ultimate Spy
by H. Keith Melton
Non-Fiction — 327.12 qMel
The Ultimate Special Forces
by Hugh McManners
Non-Fiction — 356.16 qMcM (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Pegasus Descending
by James Lee Burke
Fiction — Burke
Angels Fall
by Nora Roberts
Fiction — Roberts
The Poe Shadow
by Matthew Pearl
Fiction — Pearl
Citizen Vince
by Jess Walter
Fiction — Walter
Wolves in Chic Clothing
by Carrie Karasyov
Fiction — Karasyov (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails
by Michael L. Tate
Non-Fiction — 978.02 Tat
The First Men In: U.S. Paratroopers and the Fight to Save D-Day
by Ed Ruggero
Non-Fiction — 940.542 Rug
Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven
by Fannie Flagg
Fiction — Flagg
Espresso Tales
by Alexander McCall-Smith
Fiction — McCall-Smith
Walking Zen: Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the Prime Meridian
by Chet Raymo
Non-Fiction — Raymo (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
We Are All Welcome Here
by Elizabeth Berg
Fiction — Berg
The Wrong Hostage
by Elizabeth Lowell
Fiction — Lowell
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
Fiction — Gruen
See Ann F.’s review of Water for Elephants in the September 2006 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide!
The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril
by Paul Malmont
Fiction — Malmont (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Broidered Garment: The Love Story of Mona Martinsen and John G. Neihardt
by Hilda Neihardt Petri
Non-Fiction — B N31p
12 Sharp
by Janet Evanovich
Fiction — Evanovich
The Faithful Spy
by Alex Berenson
Fiction — Berenson
See Sean S.’s review of The Faithful Spy in the September 2007 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide!
Nebraska Doppelganger
by Thomas J. Morrow
Fiction — Morrow (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
This Book Will Save Your Life
by A.M. Homes
Fiction — Homes
Circle of Grace
by Penelope J. Stokes
Fiction — Stokes (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Theft: A Love Story
by Peter Carey
Fiction — Carey
White Shadow
by Ace Atkins
Fiction — Atkins
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
by Candice Millard
Biography — B R67m
See Rayma S.’s review of The River of Doubt in the December 2007 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide!
See Pat L.’s review of The River of Doubt in a July 2009 entry in her Firefly Blog!
A Strong West Wind: A Memoir
by Gail Caldwell
Non-Fiction — 070.924 Cal
Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food
by Eric Schlosser
Non-Fiction — j641.3 Sch
Telegraph Days
by Larry McMurtry
Fiction — McMurtry
The Man of My Dreams
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Fiction — Sittenfeld
The Husband
by Dean R. Koontz
Fiction — Koontz
See Charlotte M.’s review of The Husband in the October 2013 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide!
Falling in Love With Nastassia
by Anna Monardo
Fiction — Monardo (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
A Long Way Down
by Nick Hornby
Fiction — Hornby
Kingfish
by Richard D. White Jr.
Non-Fiction — White (Libraries only own in digital audiobook format.)
Terrorist
by John Updike
Fiction — Updike
A Writer’s Life
by Gay Talese
Non-Fiction — 070.924 Tal (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Badwater
by Clinton McKinzie
Fiction — McKinzie (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Cobraville
by Carsten Stroud
Fiction — Stroud (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Angels of Wrath
by Larry Bond
Fiction — Bond
Blown
by Francine Mathews
Fiction — Mathews (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Digging to America
by Anne Tyler
Fiction — Tyler
Everyman
by Philip Roth
Fiction — Roth
A Travel Guide to the Plains Indians Wars
by Stan Hoig
Non-Fiction — Hoig (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Oh, What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890
by Larry McMurtry
Non-Fiction — 978.02 McM
Charmed Thirds
by Megan McCafferty
Juvenile Fiction — j McCafferty (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Blue Shoes and Happiness
by Alexander McCall-Smith
Fiction — McCall-Smith
Malinche
by Laura Esquivel
Fiction — Esquivel
Gone
by Lisa Gardner
Fiction — Gardner
Blood Hunt
by Ian Rankin
Fiction — Rankin
Writing to Change the World
by Mary Pipher
Non-Fiction — 808.02 Pip
See also: The Nebraska Author Mary Pipher resource page here on BookGuide!
The Big Bamboo
by Tim Dorsey
Fiction — Dorsey
Abide With Me
by Elizabeth Strout
Fiction — Strout
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
by Kevin Phillips
Non-Fiction — 322.1 Phi
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Fiction — j Zusak
See Susan S.’s review of The Book Thief in the November 2006 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide!
Lost
by Michael Robotham
Non-Fiction — Robotham
See Tammy T.’s review of Lost in the July 2007 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide!
The Two Minute Rule
by Robert Crais
Fiction — Crais
First in Thirst: How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat Into a Cultural Phenomenon
by Darren Rovell
Non-Fiction — Rowell (Libraries only own this in digital format.)
The Madonnas of Leningrad
by Debra Dean
Fiction — Dean
A Hilltop in Tuscany
by Stephanie Grace Whitson
Fiction — Whitson
See also: The Nebraska Author Stephanie Grace Whitson resource page here on BookGuide!
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
by Michael Kazin
Non-Fiction — B B83k
Love Walked In
by Marisa de los Santos
Fiction — de los Santos
Orbit
by John Nance
Fiction — Nance
The Old Wine Shades
by Martha Grimes
Fiction — Grimes
Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism
by John F. Stacks
Non-Fiction — 070.92 Sta (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Tin God
by Terese Svoboda
Fiction — Svoboda
Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer
by James L. Swanson
Non-Fiction — 364.152 Swa
See Rayma S.’s review of Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer in the April 2006 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide!
Brooklyn Follies
by Paul Auster
Fiction — Auster
Death of a Dreamer
by M.C. Beaton
Fiction — Beaton
Nothing But Trouble
by Michael McGarrity
Fiction — McGarrity
One Part Angel
by George Shaffner
Fiction — Shaffner
A Necessary Evil
by Alex Kava
Fiction — Kava
See Charlotte M.’s review of A Necessary Evil in the May 2013 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide!
See also: The Nebraska Author Alex Kava resource page here on BookGuide!
Fifty Degrees Below
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Fiction — Robinson
America Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
by Bernard-Henri Levi
Non-Fiction — Levi (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Best People in the World
by Justin Tussing
Fiction — Tussing
Weed ‘Em and Reap
by Roger Welsch
Non-Fiction — 641.562 Wel
See also: The Nebraska Author Roger Welsch resource page here on BookGuide!
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
by Kenji Toshino
Non-Fiction — Toshino (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Usual Mistakes
by Erin Flanagan
Fiction — Flanagan (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Cinnamon Kiss
by Walter Mosley
Fiction — Mosley
Cell
by Stephen King
Fiction — King
The World According to Mimi Smartypants
by Mimi Smartypants
Fiction — Smartypants
Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
by Norak Vincent
Non-Fiction — 305.31 Vin
Dean & Me (A Love Story)
by Jerry Lewis
Non-Fiction — 791.092 Lew
S is for Silence
by Sue Grafton
Fiction — Grafton
Canaan’s Tongue
by John Wray
Fiction — Wray
The Good Life
by Jay McInerny
Fiction — McInerny
Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold’s March to Quebec, 1775
by Thomas A. Desjardin
Non-Fiction — 973.331 Des
Facing Rushmore
by David Lozell Martin
Fiction — Martin (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Da Vinci Diet
by Stephen Lanzalotta
Non-Fiction — Lanzalotta (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Rain Dogs
by Sean Doolittle
Fiction — Doolittle
See also: The Nebraska Author Sean Doolittle resource page here on BookGuide!
Single Woman of a Certain Age: 29 Women Writers on the Unmarried Midlife — Romantic Escapades, Heavy Petting, Empty Nests, Shifting Shapes and Serene Independence
edited by Jane Ganahl
Non-Fiction — 305.42 Gan
Marley & Me
by John Grogan
Non-Fiction — 636.752 Gro
See Rianne S.’s review of Marley & Me in the May 2010 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide!
Pomegranate Soup
by Marsha Mehran
Fiction — Mehran (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America
by Harm de Blij
Non-Fiction — 909.83 Deb
Europe Central
by William T. Vollmann
Fiction — Vollmann
Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
by Michael Schumacher
Fiction — Schumacher (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Curse of the Narrows
by Laura R. MacDonald
Non-Fiction — 940.3 Mac
See Becky W.C.’s review of Curse of the Narrows in the February 2008 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide!
Purity of Blood
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Fiction — Perez-Reverte (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
Arthur and George
by Julian Barnes
Fiction — Barnes
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
Fiction — Maguire
Son of a Witch
by Gregory Maguire
Fiction — Maguire
Forever Odd
by Dean Koontz
Fiction — Koontz
These Trespasses
by Jim Reese
Poetry — Heritage 811 Ree
13 Steps Down
by Ruth Rendell
Fiction — Rendell
Remains Silent
by Michael Baden and Linda Kenney
Fiction — Baden
Adored
by Tilly Bagshawe
Fiction — Bagshawe
How to Be Lost
by Amanda Eyre Ward
Fiction — Ward
Saving Fish From Drowning
by Amy Tan
Fiction — Tan
Dog Days
by Ana Marie Cox
Fiction — Cox
The Lighthouse
by P.D. James
Fiction — James
Nelson’s Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World
by Roy Adkins
Non-Fiction — 940.27 Adk
Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Food
by George Pyle
Non-Fiction — Pyle (Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries.)
The Sea
by John Banville
Fiction — Banville