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NET – All About Books – 2015
Lincoln City Libraries director Pat Leach is the current host of All About Books, a weekly book-review and discussion program on NET Radio (91.1 FM in the Lincoln area, and on various other stations across Nebraska) to discuss contemporary and classic literature.
Although it dates back over 40 years, in a variety of formats and venues, since 1991 All About Books has run on NET-Radio. For many years, Charles Stephen and Otis Young co-hosted, until Young’s passing in 2009, after which Stephen was the lone host. Since August 2015, Pat Leach has served as host, with regular appearances by guest reviewers and interviews with regional authors. New episodes air every Thursday at 12:04 p.m. local time, following the NPR news.
The following is a listing of books discussed on episodes of All About Books during 2015. Episodes of All About Books are also available to be downloaded as audio Podcasts, via iTunes and various other web sources. All books owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider suggesting it as a purchase via our Suggest-a-Title online form, or ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.
Click here to visit the official NET: All About Books web site!
December 18, 2015
Host Pat Leach tells how a special book, passed down several generations, comes alive each Christmas when family gather together to read to each other.
December 15, 2015
Title Discussed: Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
by Jonathan Eig
December 9, 2015
Title Discussed: Her Appearing
by Don Hanway
Additional Participants: Don Hanway
December 1, 2015
Title Discussed: “Good Books for Giving”; a selection of books for children and adults just in time for the holidays
by AUTHOR
Additional Participants: Vicki Wood, Youth Services Coordinator for Lincoln City Libraries
November 18, 2015
Title Discussed: The Turnip
by Jan Brett
Additional Participants: Dylan Teut Executive Director of the “Plum Creek Children’s Literacy Festival” held at Concordia University in Seward
November 11, 2015
Title Discussed: The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough
Additional Participants: former host Charles Stephen
November 3, 2015
Title Discussed: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
October 27, 2015
Title Discussed: The Collectors Society
by Heather Lyons
Additional Participants: Guest reviewer, Kiersten Hill
October 22, 2015
Title Discussed: The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses
by Kevin Birmingham
October 14, 2015
Title Discussed: In Cold Storage: Sex and Murder on the Plains
by Jim Hewitt
Additional Participants: Jim Hewitt, lawyer, history professor and now author
October 7, 2015
Title Discussed: All My Puny Sorrows
by Miriam Toews
September 29, 2015
Title Discussed: The Fisherman
by Chigozie Obioma
Additional Participants: Chigozie Obioma, Assistant Professor of English at UN-L
September 22, 2015
“Letters About Literature” is a nation-wide contest open to school-aged writers who compose a letter to any author whose work is important to them. Pat Leach welcomes Ashely Xiques, one of the 2015 Nebraska winners, who will share the winning work and her personal story behind it.
September 15, 2015
Title Discussed: Yours, Willa Cather
Documentary produced for NET — now available online
Additional Participants: Erin Willis, curator of the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors
August 12, 2015
The new regular host of All About Books, Pat Leach, talks with Pete Allman, author of several books dealing with life lessons with a focus on uniting the human and spiritual natures of people.
August 5, 2015
Title Discussed: Orfeo: A Novel
by Richard Powers
Additional Participants: Guest host Pat Leach
July 28, 2015
Title Discussed: No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and U.S. Surveillance State
by Glenn Greenwald
July 22, 2015
Additional Participants: Guest host Pat Leach talks with Brian Ardinger, who educates and advises start-up companies in Lincoln Nebraska. They discussed two books helpful for both new entrepreneurs and experienced business owners
July 15, 2015
Title Discussed: Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
by Rick Bragg
Additional Participants: Guest host Pat Leach
June 24, 2015
Title Discussed: Target Tokyo: James Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
by James Scott
Title Discussed: Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair
by Graydon Carter
June 17, 2015
Title Discussed: Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by Jon Krakauer
Title Discussed: Explore the Cosmos Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson: A Space Science Journey
by Cap Saucier
Additional Participants: Guest reviewer David Williams
June 10, 2015
Title Discussed: Princes at War
by Deborah Cadbury [Libraries own only as a downloadable audiobook via our Hoopla digital service]
Additional Participants: Guest reviewer Pat Stephen
June 4, 2015
Title Discussed: Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
by Mary Norris
May 27, 2015
Title Discussed: Building Resistance to Stress and Aging: The Toughness Model
by Richard Diensbier
Additional Participants: Richard Diensbier, Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Psychology Department at UNL
May 20, 2015
Title Discussed: The Good Luck of Right Now
by Matthew Quick
Titles Discussed: Some of the Pulitzer Prize winners this year.
Additional Participants: Guest reviewer Don Hanway
May 11, 2015
Title Discussed: George W. Bush
by James Mann
May 6, 2015
Title Discussed: All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
April 29, 2015
Title Discussed: This Changes Everything: Capitalism and the Climate
by Naomi Klein
Additional Participants: Guest reviewer Susan Stephen
April 21, 2015
Title Discussed: The Secret History of Wonder Woman
by Jill Lepore
April 15, 2015
Title Discussed: Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David
by Lawrence Wright
April 9, 2015
Title Discussed: Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
by Anita Anand
Additional Participants: Guest reviewer Pat Stephen
April 2, 2015
Title Discussed: Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Additional Participants: Guest reader Stephen Buhler
March 26, 2015
Title Discussed: This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon”
by Nancy Plain
Title Discussed: A Fine Summer’s Day
by Charles Todd
March 18, 2015
Title Discussed: The Paying Guests
by Sarah Waters
Title Discussed: The Laws of Murder
by Charles Finch
Additional Participants: Guest reviewer David Williams
March 11, 2015
A look at the “Lost Writers of the Plains” project, the website, and free iBook download.
March 5, 2015
Title Discussed: Devil in a Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley
Additional Participants: Guest reader Kwakiutl Dreher
Febraury 25, 2015
Title Discussed: Gateway to Freedom: the Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
by Eric Foner
Title Discussed: Etta and Otto and Russell and James
by Emma Hooper
February 11, 2015
Title Discussed: Lisette’s List
by Susan Vreeland
Title Discussed: John Marshall
by Harlow Giles Unger [Libraries own only as a downloadable audiobook via our Hoopla digital service]
Additional Participants
February 4, 2015
UNL Professor of English and Editor of the Prairie Schooner, Kwame Dawes recounts how studying the works of a poet far removed from his own world, inspired him to his career and helped reconcile questions he had about art and faith.
January 28, 2015
Title Discussed: Why Homer Matters
by Adam Nicholson [Libraries own only as a downloadable audiobook via our Hoopla digital service]
January 21, 2015
Title Discussed: Claire of the Sea Light
by Edwidge Dandicat
Title Discussed: Johnny Cash: The Life
by Robert Hilburn
January 14, 2015
Title Discussed: Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
Title Discussed: Year Zero: A History of 1945
by Ian Buruma
January 8, 2015
Title Discussed: Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
by Linda Tirado
Title Discussed: Close Call
by Stella Rimington
Additional Participants: Guest reviewer Don Hanway
January 8, 2015
Title Discussed: Lincoln’s Boys:John Hay, John Nicolay and the War for Lincoln’s Image
by Joshua Zeitz
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