All About Books
267 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★ - 18 ratingsA weekly book review and discussion program hosted by Pat Leach. Updated on Thursdays.
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All About Books: “North of the Platte, South of the Niobrara.” by Brian Jones
December 11, 2019 16:00The Nebraska Sand Hills are a unique environment unlike any other. Nebraska author Brian L. Jones wanted to preserve the voices and history of this region's people. “All About Books” host Pat Leach talked with Jones about his book, “North of the Platte, South of the Niobrara.”
All About Books: Holiday Gift Giving Guide
December 04, 2019 16:00If you have holiday gifts to find, this week’s All About Books can help. Vicki Wood of Lincoln City Libraries joins host Pat Leach for the annual Holiday Gift Guide for books. There will be book suggestions for young readers and families on up.
All About Books: “Call Me American” by Abdi Nor Iftin.
November 20, 2019 16:00As a child growing up in Somalia, Abdi Nor Iftin fell in love with America and learned English through our music and movies. On this week’s “All About Books” a review of Iftin’s remarkable story of surviving the violence and poverty of Somalia and his successful immigration to the US in 2014. “Call...
All About Books: An interview with Larkin Powell author of "Great Plains Birds"
November 13, 2019 16:00There’s a lot to learn about the environment and people of our part of the Midwest. A series of books tackles this subject called, “Discover the Great Plains” “This week on All About Books host Pat Leach talks to UNL professors Larkin Powell and Richards Edwards about the series and Larkin’s book “G...
All About Books: “Say Nothing" by Patrick Keefe.
November 06, 2019 16:00Jean McConville was dragged from her home in front of her 10 children by masked men never to be seen again. This was Belfast 1972. This week on “All About Books” a review of, “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” by Patrick Keefe.
All About Books: Horror Literature Review
October 29, 2019 20:00The end of October is a great time to pick up a scary book, so on this week’s All About Books, host Pat Leach welcomes UNL lecturer Mike Page for his horror story suggestions. Classic and modern novels will be dug up for examination.
All About Books: “Dopesick" by Beth Macy
October 23, 2019 20:00It’s a problem so big and complicated it’s easy to become lost. The opioid crisis touches every US community rich and poor, where big Pharma marketing meets the local doctor’s office. NET Radio’s “All About Books” reviews journalist Beth Macy’s detailed look at the disaster, “Dopesick: Dealers, Doct...
All About Books: “After the Flood” by Kassandra Montag
October 16, 2019 20:00A hundred years in the future, global flooding transformed the world into suriving outposts on mountain tops. That’s the dark future told in a new novel by Omaha writer Kassandra Montag “After the Flood” is the story of a mother sailing into the far North in search of her missing daughter.
All About Books: “The Overstory” by Richard Powers.
October 09, 2019 20:00This year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to “The Overstory” by Richard Powers. A sweeping, impassioned novel about a handful of people who see the interconnected world of trees and the unfolding disaster of our environment
All About Books: “My Time Among the Whites” by Jennine Capó Crucet.
October 02, 2019 20:00On this week’s All About Books, host Pat Leach talks with Jennine Capó Crucet Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at UNL. She’s released a collection of essays exploring American culture and identity from her perspective as a Miami-born, Cuban-American, “My Time Among the Whites.”
All About Books: "A Single Light" by Tosca Lee
September 25, 2019 20:00Best-selling Nebraska author Tosca Lee has written a sequel to her thriller, “A Line Between.” Her latest novel is set in Western Nebraska where survivors of a global pandemic emerge from an abandoned missile silo into a world they didn’t expect to find. Hear an interview with author Tosca Lee about...
All About Books: “Dasher: How a Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever” by Ma
September 18, 2019 20:00A new children’s book introduces the story of a less well-known reindeer. “Dasher: How a Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever” by Matt Tavares. Dylan Teut Director of the Plum Creek Children’s Literacy Festival introduces it on this week’s “All About Books”
All About Books: “Washington Black” by Esi Edugyan
September 11, 2019 20:00Washington Black begins life as a slave on a sugar plantation in the Caribbean, but in the course of the novel, he travels the world as the talented assistant to a British naturalist. It’s a story exploring what personal freedom means on a journey exploring the natural world. Hear a review of the aw...
All About Books: The UNL project "Read for Resililence"
September 05, 2019 01:00The historic Nebraska floods have taken an emotional toll on the state- including children. A new program from UNL called “Read for Resilience” puts free books and support materials in the hands of parents and caregivers to help Nebraska children deal with stress and fear. Hear an interview with the...
All About Books: “There's No Crying in Newsrooms.”
August 28, 2019 20:00Newsrooms were not always welcoming places for women to practice journalism. Journalist and professor Kristin Gilger has co-written a new book documenting this long struggle in often hostile work environments right up to today’s digital newsrooms. Hear an interview with the author of, “There's No Cr...
All About Books: “Major: A Soldier Dog” by Trevor Jones
August 21, 2019 20:00Most people know about the World War 2 era sacrifices like scrap drives and rationing. Less well known was a program where American families volunteered their dogs to be trained for the military. The nation's center of dog training during the war was at Fort Robinson Nebraska. Trevor Jones of Histor...
All About Books: "The Mars Room" by Rachel Kushner.
August 14, 2019 23:00A work of fiction and non-fiction about prisons on this week's "All About Books." A life goes off the rails when a mother receives two consecutive life sentences in "The Mars Room" by Rachel Kushner. Then, award-winning journalist Shane Bauer went undercover as a guard at a for-profit prison in Loui...