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About The Show
A weekly book review and discussion program hosted by Pat Leach.
The program currently broadcasts Thursdays at 12:04 p.m. (CT) and during Friday Live, Fridays at 10 a.m. (CT).
Latest Episodes
"French Braid" by Anne Tyler
09/22/2022 | 7m
“Lucy by the Sea” by Elizabeth Strout
09/15/2022 | 7m
“Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr
09/08/2022 | 8m
“Trailed" by Kathryn Miles
09/01/2022 | 7m
Omaha writer Ted Wheeler on contemporary Nebraska authors
08/23/2022 | 13m
"Rebel with a Clause" by Ellen Jovin
08/18/2022 | 16m
"Deer Season" by Erin Flanagan
08/11/2022 | 9m
“This Is Nebraska – Books That Tell Our Story”
08/04/2022 | 16m
A look back at Willa Cather's 1922 novel "One of Ours"
07/28/2022 | 16m
"Poet Warrior: A Memoir" by Joy Harjo
07/21/2022 | 8m
“The People of Lincoln” by Randy Bretz
07/14/2022 | 15m
“The Five Wounds” by Kirstin Valdez-Quade
07/07/2022 | 8m
“A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence” by Mary Pipher
06/30/2022 | 14m
“75 Years on 4 Strings” by UNL Professor Hans Sturm
06/23/2022 | 18m
“Pastoral Song” by James Rebanks
06/16/2022 | 9m
“At the Corner of Fantasy and Main” by Matt Mason
06/09/2022 | 13m
One Book-One Lincoln Finalists.
06/02/2022 | 15m
“Matrix” by Lauren Groff
05/26/2022 | 8m
“Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life” by Suzanne Ohlmann
05/19/2022 | 16m
"The Wrong End of the Telescope" by Rabih Alameddine
05/12/2022 | 7m
“The Doctors Blackwell" by Janice Nimura
05/05/2022 | 16m
“Now Is the Time for Trees" by Dan Lambe
04/28/2022 | 11m
“Eat Your Woolly Mammoths!" by James Solheim
04/21/2022 | 13m
An interview with author B.J. Hollars and his son Henry.
04/14/2022 | 14m
A look at the epidemic of loneliness“Seek You” by Kristen Radtke
04/07/2022 | 7m
"Lincoln" from the Postcard History Series by E. Zimmer & J. McKee
03/31/2022 | 17m
“A World on the Wing" by Scott Weidensaul
03/24/2022 | 8m
“Painting Time” by Maylis de Kerangal
03/17/2022 | 9m
“Oh William!” by Elizabeth Strout
03/10/2022 | 7m
"Reclamation" by Lisa Tschauner
03/03/2022 | 15m
“The Future We Choose" by Figueres and Rivett-Carnac
02/24/2022 | 7m
"Velvet Was the Night" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
02/17/2022 | 7m
"On Juneteenth" by Annette Gordon-Reed
02/10/2022 | 7m
“Red Comet” by Heather Clark
02/03/2022 | 7m
“Rhinos in Nebraska” by Alison Pearce Stevens
01/27/2022 | 12m
“Libertie” by Kaitlyn Greenidge
01/20/2022 | 7m
“Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo
01/13/2022 | 7m
“A Town Called Solace” by Mary Lawson
01/06/2022 | 6m
"Yellow Bird" by Sierra Crane Murdoch
12/30/2021 | 7m
“Zorrie” by Laird Hunt
12/23/2021 | 8m
Holiday gift ideas for adult readers
12/16/2021 | 14m
Holiday Gift ideas for young readers with Vicky Wood
12/09/2021 | 12m
“The Lincoln Highway: a Novel” by Amor Towles
12/02/2021 | 8m
“China Room” by Sunjeev Sahota
11/18/2021 | 8m
“Cokie: A Life Well Lived” by Steve Roberts
11/11/2021 | 15m
“The Splendid and the Vile” by Erik Larson.
11/04/2021 | 13m
“The Secret to Super Human Strength” by Alison Bechdel
10/28/2021 | 13m
“Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke
10/21/2021 | 7m
"Nebraska History Moments" by David Bristow
10/14/2021 | 15m
"The Perfume Thief" by Timothy Schaffert
10/05/2021 | 14m
The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennet
09/29/2021 | 6m
“The Only Wonderful Things" by Melissa Homestead
09/23/2021 | 15m