Further discussion with the "Travelling Pens" (Tosca Lee, Nicole Baart and Kimberly Stuart) on the challenges of the contemporary publishing world.

A woman of 65 has blown through her money and flees New York for friends in Paris with her apathetic 32-year old son and cat named "Small Frank". The dark comedy "French Exit" by Patrick DeWitt is reviewed on the next "All About Books."

After her husband and children were asleep journalist Michele McNamara would use her laptop computer to methodically investigate a serial rapist and murder who terrorized northern California back in the 70’s and 80’s. The result is a True Crime classic, “I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsess...

Almost no one has read every classic novel- even librarians and book reviewers. "All About Books" host Pat Leach reveals on this weeks' show she read "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the first time only a few months ago. She compares notes with guest Becki Roberts, a life-long fan of the book.

It's a fast-paced novel with vivid, evolving characters that easily bridges the categories of historical, spy and women’s fiction. Hear a review of “The Alice Network” by Kate Quinn

1940’s New York- the mob rules, war is coming, and a young woman becomes the first female deep sea diver in the Navy ship yards. “Manhattan Beach” by Jennifer Egan.

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books have been loved by children for generations. On this week’s All About Books, host Pat Leach reviews the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner for biography “Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder” by Carolyn Fraser.

The annual holiday gift guide. Lincoln Public Libraries’ Youth Services Supervisor, Vicki Wood has book suggestions for young people and adults.

An interview with human rights activist Father Patrick Desbois about his new book detailing the YazidI genocide and efforts to help. “The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror.”

Two-time Newbery Medal winner for Children’s Literature, Kate DiCamillo is the guest on this week’s “All About Books.” She joins host Pat Leach to talk about her new book where a young girl and her Grandmother leave everything behind in the middle of the night, “Louisiana’s Way Home.”