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It’s an imaginative new take on the great American road trip. A family in quiet crisis journeys to the Mexican border to see where the last Apache tribes made their last stand. Hear a review of “Lost Children Archive: a Novel” by Valeria Luiselli.

Sabrina and Corina are two Latina characters of indigenous ancestry who appear in a collection of stories set in Denver, Colorado. The two characters and their stories are a loving tribute to the resilient and unbreakable native women of the West. "Sabrina and Corina" by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Mystery novels are always popular escape reading. This week’s All About Books features the Edgar Award winner, “Stranger Diaries” by Elly Griffiths. The story features an English teacher who specializes in Gothic Lit. and the novel itself is a modern Gothic thriller.

If you have more free time to read lately, but find it difficult concentrating for long periods- short stories may be ideal. On this week’s All About Books, a collection of emotionally absorbing stories. “Everything Inside” by Edwidge Danticat

The pandemic has made many things more difficult– including vacation travel. A safer and less expensive alternative is travel books. This week on “All About Books”, guest reader Becki Roberts introduces travel literature- from American back roads with John Steinbeck to world exploration in the 1920’...

How did Lincoln, Lyndon Johnson and the Roosevelts develop the leadership skills they needed to handle crisis in both their lives and Presidency? NET Radio’s “All About Books” welcomes guest reviewer Chris Sommerich, Executive Director of Humanities Nebraska. He reviews “Leadership in Turbulent Time...

Sarah Broom’s mother bought a small house in East New Orleans in 1961. The Broom family grew up and both the neighborhood and the yellow house would change. This week on “All About Books”, the story of a black family and of a part New Orleans tourists don’t see. “The Yellow House: a Memoir” by Sarah...

An educated family of privilege struggles to raise their son even with their many advantages. Set in 1990’s Kansas, the novel details a crisis of identity for young white men. “The Topeka School” by Ben Lerner

The nation was incredibly fragile after the civil war. White Southerners wanted to restore pre-war society without slavery. The President seemed to share these goals. A new book looks at these dangerous times, “The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson” by Brenda Wineapple.

A teenage romance is observed and manipulated by a charismatic drama teacher at a highly competitive performing arts high school in the 1980’s. "Trust Exercise" by Susan Choi is a multi-layered novel of unreliable memory, friendship and truth.

The novel is a letter from a son to his mother who cannot read. “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong tells the brutally honest story of a young Vietnamese man and his immigrant family.

"Thick", is a collection of 80 very personal essays on beauty, race, gender and the media from African American writer and scholar Tressie McMillan Cottom.

The novel “Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead was inspired by an actual reform school that operated in Tallahassee Florida for over one hundred years. This week on “All About Books” host Pat Leach reviews this story of a black teenager unfairly sent to the brutal school in the 1960’s where boys were a...

More great book suggestions for reading in difficult times. This week’s All About Books offers another in the Pandemic Home Reader series, this time with UNL’s Aaron Douglass Professor of English, Stephen Buhler. He offers timely essays, detective fiction and a classic.

The 3 finalists have been named in the "One Book - One Lincoln" community reading project. The titles include novels by Anne Patchett and Anne Napolitano as well as a non-fiction story of corporate fraud and greed in Silicon Valley rivaling any novel.Davis Smith of the selection committee joins host...