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NET – All About Books – 2020
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. Stephen retired from the show in 2015, and since August 2015, Pat Leach has served as host, with regular appearances by guest reviewers and interviews with regional authors. New episodes usually air every Wednesday 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 2020. 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.
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December 30, 2020
Title Discussed: The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich [Erdrich]
December 16, 2020
Title Discussed: Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
by Natasha Trethewey [Biography Trethewey]
Additional Participants: Hope Wabuke, UNL Assistant Professor of English
December 9, 2020
The annual “Gift Guide for Readers.” Great suggestions in many categories like: biographies, nature, fiction, Nebraska authors, even cookbooks
December 2, 2020
Additional Participant: Vicki Wood, Youth Services coordinator for the Lincoln City Libraries, with a list of books for gift-giving recommendations for young readers. [ See Vicki’s complete list for 2020. ]
November 18, 2020
Title Discussed: The King of Confidence
by Miles Harvey [364.163 Har]
November 11, 2020
Title Discussed: A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
by C.A. Fletcher [Fletcher]
Title Discussed: The Swallows
by Lisa Lutz [Lutz]
Two of this year’s winners of The Alex Award.
November 4, 2020
Title Discussed: Inge’s War
by Svenja O’Donnell [Biography Irmen]
October 28, 2020
Title Discussed: Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
by Derf Beckderf [YA 741.5 Der]
October 21, 2020
Title Discussed: The Salt Path
by Raynor Winn [Biography Winn]
October 14, 2020
Title Discussed: Undefeated
by Kwame Alexander [jP Alexander]
Title Discussed: The New Kid
by Jerry Craft [jPB (Series) Kraft]
Additional Participants: Vicki Wood, Youth Services Librarian — discusses the Caldecott and Newbery Winners for the latest year.
October 7 2020
Title Discussed: All Because You Matter
by Tami Charles [jP Charles]
September 30, 2020
Title Discussed: Elderhood
by Louise Aronson [362.6 Aro]
September 23, 2020
Title Discussed: Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
by Adam Higginbotham [363.179 Hig]
September 16, 2020
Title Discussed: Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli [Luiselli]
September 9, 2020
Title Discussed: Sabrina and Corina: Stories
by Kali Fajardo-Anstine [Fajardo-Anstine]
September 2, 2020
Title Discussed: Stranger Diaries
by Elly Griffiths [Griffiths]
August 26, 2020
Title Discussed: Everything Inside
by Edwidge Danticat [Danticat]
August 19, 2020
Titles Discussed: Travel Literature, including Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck, Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon, No Hurry to Get Home by Emily Hahn, The Art of Travel by Alain DeBotton, The Best American Travel Writing annual series (2002 to present), Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers edited by Jane Robinson (not in libraries), Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, and Wild by Cheryl Straye.
by various
Additional Participants: Becki Roberts, avid reader and non-profit fundraiser
August 12, 2020
Title Discussed: Leadership in Turbulent Times
by Doris Kearns Goodwin [973.09 Goo]
Additional Participants: Chris Sommerich, Executive Director of Humanities Nebraska
August 5, 2020
Title Discussed: The Yellow House
by Sarah Broom [Biography Broom]
July 29, 2020
Title Discussed: The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner [Lerner]
July 22, 2020
Title Discussed: The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
by Brenda Wineapple [Choi]
July 15, 2020
Title Discussed: Trust Exercise
by Susan Choi [Choi]
July 8, 2020
Title Discussed: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong [Vuong]
July 1, 2020
Title Discussed: Thick: And Other Essays
by Tressie McMillan Cottom [Biography Cottom]
June 24, 2020
Title Discussed: Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead [Whitehead]
June 17, 2020
More book suggestions for pandemic home reading, including The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin, Wrecked by Joe Ide, and Middlemarch by George Eliot.
Additional Participants: Stephen Buhler, UNL’s Aaron Douglass Professor of English
[Note: See the Pandemics & Plagues in Fiction, Non-Fiction and DVDs booklist here on BookGuide as well!]June 10, 2020
Titles Discussed: The three finalists for One Book – One Lincoln in 2020: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by Mark Carryrou, Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano, and The Dutch House by Ann Patchett.
June 3, 2020
Title Discussed: The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates [Coates]
May 27, 2020
Title Discussed: Lanny
by Max Porter [Porter]
May 20, 2020
Title Discussed: Normal People
by Salley Rooney [Rooney]
May 13, 2020
Title Discussed: Mama’s Last Hug
by Frans de Waal [599.885 Waa]
May 6, 2020
A variety of book suggestions for the pandemic home reader.
Additional Participants: Brent Spencer, from Creighton University
[Note: See the Pandemics & Plagues in Fiction, Non-Fiction and DVDs booklist here on BookGuide as well!]April 29, 2020
Title Discussed: Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernadine Evaristo [Biography Renkl]
April 22, 2020
Title Discussed: Late Migrations
by Margaret Renkl [Biography Renkl]
April 15, 2020
Title Discussed: Dominicana
by Angie Cruz [Cruz]
April 8, 2020
Title Discussed: Cherokee America
by Margaret Verbel [Verbel]
April 1, 2020
Title Discussed: Madness in the Crowds: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady [ not currently in the Lincoln City Libraries’ collection ]
by Denis Kitchen and Violet Kitchen
Additional Participants: Richard Graham, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln libraries
March 25, 2020
Title Discussed: Leaving the Witness
by Amber Scorah [Biography Scorah]
March 18, 2020
Title Discussed: Furious Hours
by Casey Cep [364.152 Cep]
March 11, 2020
Title Discussed: Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow
by Henry Louis Gates Jr. [973.04 Gat]
March 4, 2020
Title Discussed: In Our Other Lives [ not currently in the Lincoln City Libraries’ collection ]
by Theodore Wheeler [Wheeler]
Additional Participants: Theodore Wheeler, Omaha author
February 26, 2020
Title Discussed: American Spy
by Lauren Wilkinson [Wilkinson]
February 19, 2020
Title Discussed: The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Right to Vote
by Elaine Weiss [324.623 Wei]
Additional Participants: Lynn Roper, guest reviewer
January 29, 2020
Interview/Discussion with Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason, about what a State Poet does. 
Additional Participants: Matt Mason, current Nebraska State Poet
January 27, 2019
Title Discussed: Women Talking
by Miriam Toews [Toes]
January 15, 2019
Title Discussed: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
by David Blight [Biography Douglass]
Title Discussed: Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
by Stephen Fried [Biography Rush]
January 8, 2019
Title Discussed: Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren [Jahren]
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