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A weekly book review and discussion program hosted by Pat Leach. Updated on Thursdays.
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A holiday gift guide for very young readers.
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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The annual gift guide for book lovers.
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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“Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave” by Mariana Enriquez
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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“What Art Does: an Unfinished Theory" by Brian Eno
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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“Goethe’s Oak: a Holocaust Memorial” by John Price
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelly
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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“Whiskey Tender" by Deborah Jackson Taffa
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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“Wilder Weather" by Dr. Barbara Boustead.
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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“Challenger" by Adam Higginbotham.
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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“I’ll Be Right Here". by Amy Bloom
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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“Good Soil:The Education of an Accidental Farmhand” by Jeff Chu
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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“James” by Percival Everett
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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“The Unauthorized Biography of Lincoln, NE” by Matt Steinhausen
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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“On the Hippie Trail" by Rick Steves
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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“Clutch” An Education at Work”.by Linda Pawlenty
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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"The Hidden Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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“Becoming Earth” by Ferris Jabr
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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“Tell Me Everything” by Elizabeth Strout
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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“Martyr!” by Kaveh Akbar
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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“Robert F. Kennedy:The Road Not Taken” by Dennis &Laura Crawford
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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“Feeding Ghosts” by Tessa Hulls
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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An introduction to Nebraska author, Loren Eiseley
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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“A Refiner’s Fire” by Donna Leon
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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“Mrs Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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“Inside Nebraska Courthouses" by Settle & Grossbart
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Guest reviewer Richard Graham on new graphic novels
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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“Wandering Stars” by Tommy Orange
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May 28, 2025 |
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Guest reviewer Kiersten Hill on the current Romance genre.
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May 21, 2025 |
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Bill Kelly on the "Once Again" podcast series
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May 14, 2025 |
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“Why We Remember” by Dr. Charan Ranganath
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May 07, 2025 |
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“1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America" by Ross Benes
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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PBS documentary film maker Dawn Logsdon on "Free for All"
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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“Meditations for Mortals" by Oliver Burkeman
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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“Anita de Monte Laughs Last: a Novel” by Xochitl Gonzalez
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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The AI technology race. "Supremacy" by Parmy Olson.
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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“Black Woods, Blue Sky" by Eowyn Ivey
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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“The Golden Gate” by Amy Chua
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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“Reagan: His Life and Legend” by Max Boot
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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“Whale Fall” by Elizabeth O’Connor
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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“Book and Dagger” by Elyse Graham.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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“The Mighty Red”, a novel by Louise Erdrich,
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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“A Different Metaphor” by Kevin Shinn
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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“Orbital: a Novel” by Samantha Harvey,
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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“The Safe Keep” by Yael van der Wouden
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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“The House of Doors” by Tan Twan Eng
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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“How to Read a Book: a Novel” by Monica Wood
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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“Hidden Libraries" by Diana Helmuth
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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"Long Island" by Colm Toibin
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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“The Wren, The Wren” by Anne Enright
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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The annual holiday gift guide for readers.
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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“The Exceptions" by Kate Zernike
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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“Foot Soldier: New and Selected Poems” by John Stevens Berry
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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"The Talk" a graphic novel by Darrin Bell
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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“Into Whooperland" by Michael Forsberg
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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"The Mystery Guest" by Nita Prose
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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“A Fever in the Heartland” Timothy Eagans
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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“The Biography of X” by Catherine Lacey
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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“Mott Street” by Ava Chin.
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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An interview with author and illustrator Amy Tan.
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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“The Berry Pickers” by Amanda Peters
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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"How to Say Babylon” by Safiya Sinclair
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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An Interview with James Locklear. “In the Country of the Kaw"
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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“The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride.
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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“Life Lessons from a Parasite" by Dr. John Janovy
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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“The Peacock and the Sparrow” by J.S. Berry,
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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“The Yellow Bus” by Loren Long
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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“North Woods” by Daniel Mason.
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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“Moonrise Over New Jessup” by Jamila Minnicks
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Introduction to the Mystery Genre pt. 2: Author and Title Guide
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Introduction to the Mystery Genre Pt. 1
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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"Somehow: Thoughts on Love" by Anne Lamott
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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“In Memoriam” by Alice Winn
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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“Dancing with the Octopus" by Debora Harding
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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“Creative Genius: The Art of the Nebraska Capitol”
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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“Not the End of the World" by Hannah Ritchie
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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"The Nebraska Sandhills” from the University of NE Press
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May 29, 2024 |
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“Blaze Me a Sun” by Christoffer Carlsson
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May 22, 2024 |
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“The Titanic Survivors Book Club” by Timothy Schaffert
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May 15, 2024 |
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“King: a Life” by Jonathan Eig.
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May 08, 2024 |
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"The Last Devil to Die" by Richard Osman
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May 01, 2024 |
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Guest reader Amy Mather of Omaha Public Libraries
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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“Foster” by Claire Keegan
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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An interview with Sarah McCammon, her book is "The Exvangelicals
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Dr. Dolores Simpson-Kirkland shares the books she re-reads.
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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"Enchantment" by Katherine May & "Awe" by Dacher Keltner
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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“The War Begins in Paris”. by Ted Wheeler
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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“A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold.
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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“How Can I Help You” by Laura Sims
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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“Portrait of a City: Lincoln, Nebraska" by Bruce Pauley
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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“Chasing Bright Medusas” by Benjamin Taylor
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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"Tell Me Everything" by Erika Krouse
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Guest reader Rev. Dr. Jim Keck on re reading religious texts
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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“The End of Drum Time” by Hanna Pylväinen
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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“Dinners with Ruth" by Nina Totenberg
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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"The Mysteries" by Bill Watterson
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Part 2 of our conversation with UNL English Prof. Steve Buhler
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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UNL Professor of English Stephen Buhler on why we re-read.
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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"All My Knotted Up Life" by Beth Moore
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Guest reader Eric Buchanan on his favorite books to read again
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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An introduction to Agatha Christie and her works by Scott Clark
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Leslie Huerta returns with book suggestions for holiday gifts.
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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“Ted Kooser: More Than a Local Wonder" by C. Ketner & P. Wallace
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Guest reader Mary Kay Roth on sharing books with adult children.
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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An interview with John J Waters about his novel "River CIty One"
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Nebraska State Peot Matt Mason on re-reading his favorite books.
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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“It Goes So Fast: the Year of No Do Overs.” by Mary Louise Kelly
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Author Tosca Lee on her favorite books she returns to.
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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An interview with Bison rancher and writer Dan O'Brien
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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“In Old God’s Time” by Sebastian Barry.
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Guest reader JoAnne Young talks about why she re-reads
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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“His Name is George Floyd" by Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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“The Best Strangers in the World” by Ari Shapiro
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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"The Mystery of Hunting's End" by Mignon Eberhart
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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“The Crane Wife: a Memoir in Essays” by C.J. Hauser
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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“Nebraska Volleyball: The Origin Story” by John Mabry
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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“Bitch: On the Female of the Species” by Lucy Cooke
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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“Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus.
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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“Birding While Indian: a Mixed Blood Memoir” by Thomas Gannon
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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“Horse” by Geraldine Brooks
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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An interview with Michael James about Alzheimer's caregiving.
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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“Trust” by Hernan Diaz
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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"Easy Beauty" by Chloe Cooper Jones
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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"Elsewhere: a Novel" by Alexis Shaitkin
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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An interview with Nebraska author Tosca Lee
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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“Take All to Nebraska” by Sophus Keith Winter
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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"The Rabbit Hutch" by Tess Gunty
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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“Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories” by Sindya Bhanoo.
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May 31, 2023 |
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Rachel Olsen talks about the 68th Annual Cather Conference
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May 24, 2023 |
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"The Maid" by Nita Prose
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May 17, 2023 |
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“The Blue Window” by Suzanne Berne
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May 10, 2023 |
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“Under the Skin” by Linda Villarosa
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May 03, 2023 |
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An interview with history professor and author Jim Downs
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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“The Escape Artist" by Jonathan Freeland
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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“The Furrows” by Namwali Serpell
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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"The Swimmers" by Julie Otsuka
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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“Also a Poet” by Ada Calhoun
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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"Bad Actors" by Mick Herron
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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An interview with "My Nebraska" author Bob Wirz
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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“Pickard County Atlas” by Chris Harding Thornton.
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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"The Memory of Souls" by Cliff Taylor
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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"Ducks" by Kate Deaton and "Acting Class" by Nick Drnaso.
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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“Constructing a Nervous System” by Margo Jefferson
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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An inverview with Ladette Randolph,author of "Private Way"
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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“Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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“Prairie Up!” by Benjamin Vogt
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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“Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St John Mandel
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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“Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape” by Dana Fritz
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Guest Don Macke offers his ideas for the This is Nebraska series
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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“Bittersweet" by Susan Cain
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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"The Marriage Portrait" by Maggie O’Farrell
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Clark Whitehorn of UNL Press on books that tell Nebraska's story
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Holiday gift suggestions for younger readers
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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The annual Holiday Gift Guide for book lovers
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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"Confluence" a biography of John Gottschalk by George Ayoub
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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A History / True Crime book, "Hell's Half Acre" by Susan Jonusas
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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“The Evening Hero” by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Dan Nieman offers suggestions for One Book - One Nebraska
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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“The Sweet Remnants of Summer” by Alexander McCall Smith
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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"Sleepwalk" by Dan Chaon
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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“How the Word is Passed” by Clint Smith
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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"Accelerated" by Brian Ardinger
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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"French Braid" by Anne Tyler
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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“Lucy by the Sea” by Elizabeth Strout
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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“Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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“Trailed" by Kathryn Miles
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Omaha writer Ted Wheeler on contemporary Nebraska authors
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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"Rebel with a Clause" by Ellen Jovin
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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"Deer Season" by Erin Flanagan
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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“This is Nebraska – Books that Tell Our Story”
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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A look back at Willa Cather's 1922 novel "One of Ours"
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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"Poet Warrior: A Memoir" by Joy Harjo
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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“The People of Lincoln” by Randy Bretz
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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“The Five Wounds” by Kirstin Valdez-Quade
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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“A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence” by Mary Pipher
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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“75 Years on 4 Strings” by UNL Professor Hans Sturm
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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“Pastoral Song” by James Rebanks
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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“At the Corner of Fantasy and Main” by Matt Mason
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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The One Book-One Lincoln finalists.
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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“Matrix” by Lauren Groff
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May 25, 2022 |
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“Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life.” by Suzanne Ohlmann
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May 18, 2022 |
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"The Wrong End of the Telescope" by Rabih Alameddine
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May 11, 2022 |
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“The Doctors Blackwell" by Janice Nimura
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May 04, 2022 |
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“Now Is the Time for Trees" by Dan Lambe
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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“Eat Your Woolly Mammoths!" by James Solheim
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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An interview with author B.J. Hollars and his son Henry.
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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A look at the epidemic of loneliness“Seek You” by Kristen Radtke
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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"Lincoln" from the Postcard History Series. E. Zimmer & J. McKee
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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“A World on the Wing" by Scott Weidensaul.
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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“Painting Time” by Maylis de Kerengal
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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“Oh William!” by Elizabeth Strout
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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"Relcamation" by Lisa Tschauner
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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“The Future We Choose" by Figueres and Rivett-Carnac
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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"Velvet Was the Night" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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"On Juneteenth" by Annette Gordon-Reed
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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“Red Comet” by Heather Clark
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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“Rhinos in Nebraska” by Alison Pearce Stevens
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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“Libertie” by Kaitlyn Greenidge.
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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“Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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“A Town Called Solace” by Mary Lawson
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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"Yellow Bird" by Sierra Crane Murdoch
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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“Zorrie” by Laird Hunt,
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Holiday gift ideas for adult readers
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Holiday Gift ideas for young readers with Vicky Wood
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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“The Lincoln Highway: a Novel” by Amor Towles
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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“China Room” by Sunjeev Sahota
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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“Cokie: A Life Well Lived.” by Steve Roberts
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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“The Splendid and the Vile” by Erik Larsen.
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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“The Secret to Super Human Strength” by Alison Bechdel
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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“Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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"Nebraska History Moments" by David Bristow
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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"The Perfume Thief" by Timothy Schaffert
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennet
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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“The Only Wonderful Things" by Melissa Homestead
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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The “Friend Zone” series by Abby Jimenez.
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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“Carville's Cure: by Pam Fessler”
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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“Tomatoes for Neela” by Padma Lakshmi
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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“Temporary” by Hillary Leichter
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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"The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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"A Knock at Midnight” by Brittany Barnett
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Introduction to Nebraska author, Mari Sandoz
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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"Oak Flat" by Lauren Redniss.
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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"Hamnet: the Story of a Plague" by Maggie O'Farrell
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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UNL English Professor Stephen Buhler's summer reading list.
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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“Leave the World Behind” by Rumaan Alam
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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“Code Girls” by Liza Mundy.
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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"Wilmington's Lie" by David Zucchino
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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“Deacon King Kong” by James McBride.
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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"Breasts and Eggs" by Mieko Kawakami.
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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"Transcendent Kingdom" by Yaa Gyasi.
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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“Children of the Land”, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
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May 26, 2021 |
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“Rural Rebellion" by Ross Benes
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May 19, 2021 |
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“Interior Chinatown” by Charles Yu
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May 12, 2021 |
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“Pickard County Atlas” by Chris Harding Thorton
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May 05, 2021 |
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“Hidden Prairie" by Chris Helzer
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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“Hidden Valley Road” by Robert Kolker.
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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"The Least Interesting Place." by Matt Steinhousen
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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“Run Me to Earth” by Paul Yoon
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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"More in Time" a tribute to NE poet Ted Kooser
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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“Becoming Wild” by Carl Safina
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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“The Lives of Edie Pritchard” by Larry Watson
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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The secret life of birds. "The Bird Way" by Jennifer Ackerman.
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Author Steven Wingate and his new novel "The Leave-Takers"
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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“Afterlife” by Julia Alvarez
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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"Redhead by the Side of the Road: a Novel" by Anne Tyler.
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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. “The Confessions of Frannie Langton” by Sara Collins
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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“Minor Feelings” by Cathy Park Hong
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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“Here We Are” by Graham Swift
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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“Paper Bullets” by Jeffrey Jackson
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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“The Less You Know About Us” by Axton Betz-Hamilton
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Jan 06, 2021 |