Roberto's Book Picks

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

2011-11-18T10:36:00.001-08:00

Author: Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-

Title: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Published: New York: Broadway Paperbacks, 2011

Description: xiv, 381 p., plates :ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Call Number: RC265.6 L24 S55 2011

Note(s): "Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form ... by Crown Publishers ... in 2010"--T.p. verso. "Reading group guide"--P. [379]-381

Subject(s):

Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951--Health
Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Biography
African American women--History
Human experimentation in medicine--United States--History
HeLa cells
Cancer--Research
Cell culture
Medical ethics

Review(s):

Sands, Jon M. "THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS." Jurimetrics: The Journal Of Law, Science & Technology 51, no. 2 (Winter 2011): 131-139
Littlefield, Melissa M., and Anne Pollock. "Review essay: Troubling with ‘the ethics of the thing’ in Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." Social Studies Of Science (Sage Publications, Ltd.) 41, no. 4 (August 2011): 609-618
Scannell, Kate. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." Journal Of Legal Medicine 31, no. 4 (October 2010): 493-498

Read: November 18, 2011

Death traps: the survival of an American armored division in World War II

2011-11-10T14:00:00.001-08:00

Author: Cooper, Belton Y.

Title: Death traps: the survival of an American armored division in World War II

Published: New York: Ballantine Books, 2003

Description: xxiv, 355 p. :ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Call Number: D793 C66 2003

Note(s): Originally published by Random House, 1998. Foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose

Summary: The survival of an American armored division in World War II is told from the point of view of an American junior officer, a member of the famous 3rd Armored Division assigned to keep the tanks in Nazi-occupied Europe on the front lines

Subject(s):

Cooper, Belton Y.
United States. Army--Ordnance and ordnance stores
United States. Army--Biography
World War, 1939-1945--Tank warfare
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Sherman tank
Soldiers--United States--Biography

Review(s):

Pounder, Gary. "Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II (Book Review)." Aerospace Power Journal 15, no. 2 (Summer2001 2001): 112
Burnham, Robert. "Adult Books for Young Adults: Nonfiction." School Library Journal 45, no. 4 (April 1999): 162
"Forecasts: Nonfiction." Publishers Weekly 245, no. 37 (September 14, 1998): 59

Read: November 10, 2011

The poisoner's handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York

2011-11-06T22:57:00.000-08:00

Author: Blum, Deborah,1954-

Title: The poisoner’s handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York

Published: New York: Penguin Press, 2010

Description: 319 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: HV6555 U62 N373 2010

Bibliography: p. 286-287

Summary: The untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. A pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist Alexander Gettler investigate a family mysteriously stricken bald, factory workers with crumbling bones, a diner serving poisoned pies, and many others. Each case presents a deadly new puzzle and Norris and Gettler create revolutionary experiments to tease out even the wiliest compounds from human tissue. From the vantage of their laboratory it also becomes clear that murderers aren’t the only toxic threat--modern life has created a kind of poison playground, and danger lurks around every corner

Subject(s):

Poisoning -- New York (State) -- History
Forensic toxicology -- New York (State) -- History
Forensic sciences -- New York (State) -- History

Review(s):

"The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine In Jazz Age New York." Publishers Weekly 257, no. 18 (May 3, 2010): 46-47
Taylor, Gilbert. "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York." Booklist 106, no. 11 (February 2010): 12
Collins, Paul. "How Manhattan's nicest murderers met their match." New Scientist 205, no. 2746 (February 6, 2010): 47

Read: November 6, 2011

The last mission of the Wham Bam boys: courage, tragedy, and justice in World War II

2011-11-06T22:45:00.000-08:00

Author: Freeman, Gregory A.

Title: The last mission of the Wham Bam boys: courage, tragedy, and justice in World War II

Published: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Call Number: D757.9 R87 F74 2011

Description: x, 236 p. :ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 230-233

Subject(s):

United States. Army Air Forces -- Airmen
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany -- Rüsselsheim
Lynching -- Germany -- Rüsselsheim
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany
Bombing, Aerial -- Moral and ethical aspects
Civilians in war -- Germany -- Rüsselsheim
Rüsselsheim (Germany) -- History -- 20th century

Review(s):

"THE LAST MISSION OF THE WHAM BAM BOYS Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II." Kirkus Reviews 79, no. 3 (February 2011): 182

Read: October 29, 2011

Paying for it: a comic-strip memoir about being a john

2011-11-06T22:42:00.000-08:00

Author: Brown, Chester, 1960-

Title: Paying for it: a comic-strip memoir about being a john

Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2011

Description: viii, 280 p. :chiefly ill. ; 20 cm.

Call Number: PN6733 B76 P39 2011

Bibliography: p. 279-280

Summary: "Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but also a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics--prostitution. Paying For It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work--from the timid john who rides his bike to meet his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transactions complete with online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of cliches street corners, drugs, or primps"--From publisher's web site

Subject(s):

Brown, Chester, 1960- -- Sexual behavior -- Comic books, strips, etc
Brown, Chester, 1960- -- Comic books, strips, etc
Prostitution -- Canada -- Comic books, strips, etc
Prostitutes' customers -- Canada -- Comic books, strips, etc
Sexual ethics -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Canada
Prostitution -- Canada
Sexual ethics
Graphic novels

Review(s):

ANNIE, SPRINKLE. "A John's Story." New York Times Book Review (July 3, 2011): 15
Cornog, Martha. "Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John." Library Journal 136, no. 12 (July 2011): 63-64
Flagg, Gordon. "Paying for It: A Comic-strip Memoir about Being a John." Booklist 107, no. 18 (May 15, 2011): 37

Read: October 29, 2011

The death-ray

2011-11-06T22:28:00.000-08:00

Author: Clowes, Daniel

Title: The death-ray

Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2011

Description: 40 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 32 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 C65 D42 2011

Note(s): Originally published in Eightball #23, 2004

Summary: Andy, a miserable high-schooler in 1970s Chicago, has only one friend, an angry fellow outcast named Louie. He’s desperately in love with a girl he met in California who won’t return his letters and he’s filled with shame at the constant taunts of his classmates. When he achieves super strength from smoking cigarettes he uses it for neither good nor evil but in a brutal playground showdown

Subject(s):

Teenagers -- Comic books, strips, etc
Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
High schools -- Comic books, strips, etc
Nineteen seventies -- Comic books, strips, etc
Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Review(s):

Köhler, Nicholas. "THE DEATH-RAY." Maclean's 124, no. 41 (October 24, 2011): 75
Flagg, Gordon. "The Death-Ray." Booklist 108, no. 4 (October 15, 2011): 34
MACDONALD, HEIDI. "Classics New and Old." Publishers Weekly 258, no. 26 (June 27, 2011): 32-36

Read: October 25, 2011

And then came the liberators

2011-11-06T22:20:00.000-08:00

Author: Jaern, Albert

Uniform Title: Og så kom befrierne. English

Title: And then came the liberators

Published: Madison: Borderland Books, 2011

Description: 102,17 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: D811.5 J3413 2011

Note(s): Translation of: Og så kom befrierne. First published as: Og så kom befrierne : utdrag av min dagbok gjennom 5 år. Norway: Ekko, 1945. Illustrated by the author’s own woodcuts. Translated from the Norwegian by Solveig Schavland; with an afterword by Kathleen Stokker; edited by Richard Quinney

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Norwegian

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: October 15, 2011

Churchill

2011-11-06T22:11:00.000-08:00

Author: Johnson, Paul, 1928-

Title: Churchill

Published: New York: Penguin, 2010

Description: 180 p. ; 20 cm.

Call Number: DA566.9 C5 J64 2010

Note(s): Originally published: New York: Viking, 2009

Subject(s):

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century

Review(s):

Rector, Henry M. "PAUL JOHNSON'S BRIEF LIFE OF CHURCHILL." Naval War College Review 63, no. 4 (September 2010): 148-150
Arnn, Larry P. "Young Thruster, Old Sage." Commentary 129, no. 4 (April 2010): 61-62
Linklater, Andro. "Man of the Hour, Not the Century." American Conservative 8, no. 14 (November 2009): 48-50

Read: September 19, 2011

Extra lives: why video games matter

2011-11-06T21:51:00.000-08:00

Author: Bissell, Tom, 1974-

Title: Extra lives: why video games matter

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2011

Description: xiv, 242 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: GV1469.3 B55 2011

Note(s): Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2010. With new appendix

Subject(s):

Video games -- History
Video games -- Social aspects

Review(s):

Fehrman, Craig. "Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter." Christian Science Monitor, June 29, 2010., N.PAG
GARNER, DWIGHT. "In Defense of Video Games: A Player's Manifesto on the Sublime Buzz." New York Times (June 23, 2010): 7
Philips, Jen. "Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter." Mother Jones 35, no. 3 (May 2010): 72

Read: September 11, 2011

The little stranger

2011-11-06T21:42:00.000-08:00

Author: Waters, Sarah, 1966-

Title: The little stranger

Published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2009

Description: 512 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PR6073 A828 L58 2009

Subject(s):

Domestic fiction
Ghost stories
Families -- England -- Warwickshire -- Fiction
Warwickshire (England) -- Fiction

Review(s):

Crapo, Trish. "All-Day Reading." Women's Review Of Books 27, no. 1 (January 2010): 20-22
Bourke, Joanna. "Sacred Hearts/Hodd/The Little Stranger." History Today 59, no. 10 (October 2009): 55
Block, Allison. "The Little Stranger." Booklist 105, no. 22 (August 2009): 85

Read: September 8, 2011

The circuit: stories from the life of a migrant child

2011-11-06T21:30:00.000-08:00

Author: Jiménez, Francisco,1943-

Title: The circuit: stories from the life of a migrant child

Published: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997

Description: x, 134 p. ; 18 cm.

Call Number: PS3560 I55 C57 1997

Subject(s):

Mexican Americans -- California -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- Fiction

Review(s):

Betty Christine Eng, et al. "Part V: Guide to New Resources." Multicultural Perspectives 10, no. 3 (July 2008): 175-181
Goldsmith, Francisca. "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child." School Library Journal 47, no. 10 (October 2001): 94
"'Your Story Is the Story of Our Family'." Writing 23, no. 5 (February 2001): 3

Read: September 2, 2011

Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America

2011-11-06T21:17:00.000-08:00

Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara

Title: Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America

Published: New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001

Description: 221 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: HD4918 E375 2001

Subject(s):

Minimum wage -- United States
Unskilled labor -- United States
Poverty -- United States

Review(s):

Belle, Deborah. "Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College/ Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America/ The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values/ The Widening Gap: Why America's Working Families are in Jeopardy and What Can be Done .." Analyses Of Social Issues & Public Policy 2, no. 1 (December 2002): 279-283
Petschauer, Peter. "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America." NWSA Journal 14, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 34
Early, Steve. "Prole Like Me." Nation 272, no. 23 (June 11, 2001): 52-53

Read: August 29, 2011

The psychopath test: a journey through the madness industry

2011-11-06T21:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Ronson, Jon, 1967-

Title: The psychopath test: a journey through the madness industry

Published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2011

Description: 275 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: HV33 R66 2011

Summary: "In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges"-- Provided by publisher

Subject(s):

Psychopaths

Review(s):

PAUL, BLOOM. "I'm O.K., You're a Psychopath." New York Times Book Review (June 19, 2011): 31
Murphy, Samantha. "The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry." Scientific American Mind 22, no. 3 (July 2011): 69
"THE PSYCHOPATH TEST A Journey Through the Madness Industry." Kirkus Reviews 79, no. 9 (May 2011): 757-758

Read: August 14, 2011

The phantom father: a memoir

2011-11-06T20:54:00.000-08:00

Author: Gifford, Barry,1946-

Title: The phantom father: a memoir

Published: New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997

Description: 257 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3557 I25 Z47 1997

Note (s): "Some of the material was originally published in: A good man to know. Clark City Press, in 1992"--T.p. verso

Subject(s):

Gifford, Barry, 1946- -- Homes and haunts -- Illinois -- Chicago
Gifford, Barry, 1946- -- Childhood and youth
Gifford, Barry, 1946- -- Family
Winston, Rudy
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
Gangsters -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
Fathers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs

Review(s):

Bonomo, Joe. "`Mystery every time': Memoirs and the search for `we'." Georgia Review 52, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 572-581
ICHIKO, KAKUTANI. "He Remembers Papa, Or Does He Really?." New York Times, June 27, 1997., 29
Gargan, William. "The Phantom Father: A Memoir." Library Journal 122, no. 8 (May 1997): 103-104

Read: August 11, 2011

The sojourn

2011-11-06T20:45:00.000-08:00

Author: Krivak, Andrew

Title: The sojourn

Published: New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2011

Description: 191 p. ; 19 cm.

Call Number: PS3561 R569 S65 2011

Summary: Uprooted from a nineteenth century mining town in Colorado by a shocking family tragedy, young Jozef Vinich returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd's life in rural Austria-Hungary. When war comes, Jozef is sent as a sharpshooter to the southern front, where he must survive the killing trenches, a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps, and capture by a victorious enemy

Subject(s):

World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Soldiers -- Austria -- Fiction
Historical fiction

Review(s):

Chadwell, Faye A. "The Sojourn." Library Journal 136, no. 8 (May 2011): 76
"The Sojourn." Publishers Weekly 258, no. 6 (February 7, 2011): 33-34

Read: August 9, 2011

Field gray: a Bernie Gunther novel

2011-11-06T20:32:00.000-08:00

Author: Kerr, Philip

Title: Field gray: a Bernie Gunther novel

Published: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011

Description: 435 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PR6061 E784 F54 2011

Note(s): "A Marian Wood book."

Summary: It's 1954 and Bernie finds himself flown back to Berlin to work for the French or hang for murder. Bernie's job is simple: to meet and greet POWs returning from Germany and snag one Edgard de Boudel, a French war criminal and member of the French SS. But Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him -- in a way he could never have foreseen

Subject(s):

Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Private investigators -- Fiction
Mystery fiction
Spy stories
Historical fiction

Review(s):

BETHUNE, BRIAN. "Midnight in the garden of evil." Maclean's 124, no. 18 (May 16, 2011): 143
Keymer, David. "Field Gray: A Bernie Gunther Novel." Library Journal 136, no. 5 (March 15, 2011): 108-109
"Field Gray." Publishers Weekly 258, no. 8 (February 21, 2011): 110

Read: July 22, 2011

Lying awake

2011-07-05T16:39:00.000-07:00

Author: Salzman, Mark

Title: Lying awake

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2001

Description: 181 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3569 A4627 L95 2001

Note(s): California Gold: The Sacramento Valley Chapter of REFORMA Book Club (Selection)

Summary: In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, Sister John of the Cross experiences visions of such dazzling power and insight that she is considered a spiritual master. But they are accompanied by powerful headaches, and when a doctor reveals they may be dangerous, she faces a devastating choice since she fears a "cure" may end her spiritual gifts

Subject(s):

Carmelite Nuns Fiction
Epileptics--Fiction
Visions--Fiction
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction

Review(s):

Burkhart, Marian. "EPILEPSY OR ECSTASY?." Commonweal 128, no. 7 (April 6, 2001): 25
Vivian, Tim. "Lying Awake (Book Review)." Anglican Theological Review 83, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 340
Weschler, Lawrence. "THE NOVELIST AND THE NUN." New Yorker 76, no. 29 (October 2, 2000): 74

Read: July 4, 2011

Sex on the Moon: the amazing story behind the most audacious heist in history

2011-07-05T16:32:00.000-07:00

Author: Mezrich, Ben, 1969-

Title: Sex on the Moon: the amazing story behind the most audacious heist in history

Published: New York: Doubleday, 2011

Description 308 p. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: HV6248 R585M49 2011

Summary: In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA's precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts' downfall

Subject(s):

Roberts, Thad, 1977-
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center -- History -- 21st century
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography
Theft -- United States -- Case studies
Theft -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 21st century
Lunar petrology -- History -- 21st century
Thieves -- Texas -- Houston -- Biography
Scientists -- United States -- Biography
Interns -- United States -- Biography

Review(s):

Bob, Minzesheimer. "Ben Mezrich." USA Today, n.d.
Pitt, David. "Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story behind the Most Audacious Heist in History." Booklist 107, no. 19/20 (June 15, 2011): 10
"Stealing the Moon." Publishers Weekly 258, no. 16 (April 18, 2011): 1

Read: July 1, 2011

Tamar: a novel of espionage, passion, and betrayal

2011-07-05T16:26:00.000-07:00

Author: Peet, Mal

Title: Tamar: a novel of espionage, passion, and betrayal

Published: Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2007

Description: 424 p. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PZ7 P3564 T36 2007

Summary: In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family

Subject(s):

Grandfathers -- Fiction
Guilt -- Fiction
Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands -- Fiction
England -- Fiction

Review(s):

Sutton, Roger. "Tamar." Horn Book Magazine 83, no. 2 (March 2007): 200-201
"Tamar." Kirkus Reviews 75, no. 5 (March 2007): 9-10
Zvirin, Stephanie. "Tamar." Booklist 103, no. 11 (February 2007): 47

Read: June 22, 2011

The odyssey: a graphic novel

2011-06-16T10:20:00.000-07:00

Author: Hinds, Gareth,1971-

Title The odyssey: a graphic novel

Published: Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2010

Description: 248 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: PZ7.7 H56 O39 2010

Summary: Retells, in graphic novel format, Homer’s epic tale of Odysseus, the ancient Greek hero who encounters witches and other obstacles on his journey home after fighting in the Trojan War

Subject(s):

Homer. Odyssey -- Adaptations
Odysseus (Greek mythology) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Heroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
Odysseus (Greek mythology) -- Fiction
Mythology, Greek -- Fiction
Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
Heroes -- Fiction
Graphic novels

Review(s):

Gorman, Michele. "GETTING GRAPHIC : TALL TALES, MYTHS, AND LEGENDS." Library Media Connection 29, no. 2 (October 2010): 40

Read: June 9, 2011

The forge of God

2011-06-16T10:12:00.000-07:00

Author: Bear, Greg, 1951-

Title: The forge of God

Published: New York: Tor, 2001

Description: 473 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3552 E163 F67 2001

Subject(s):

Science fiction, American

Review(s):

J.C. "The Force of God (Book)." Library Journal 112, no. 15 (September 15, 1987): 97

Read: June 5, 2011

The glass castle: a memoir

2011-06-16T10:02:00.000-07:00

Author: Walls, Jeannette

Title: The glass castle: a memoir

Published: New York: Scribner, 2005

Description: 288 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: HV 5132 W215 2005

Summary: In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities

Subject(s):

Walls, Jeannette
Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
Children of alcoholics -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography
Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies
Dysfunctional families -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Case studies
Poor -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography
Homeless persons -- Family relationships -- New York (State) -- New York

Review(s):

Hockett, Jessica A. "Book Review." Gifted Child Quarterly 52, no. 3 (Summer2008): 269-270
Walls, Jeannette. "Truth and Consequences." Publishers Weekly 252, no. 37 (September 19, 2005): 74
Zvirin, Stephanie. "The Glass Castle (Book)." Booklist 101, no. 11 (February 2005): 923

Read: May 27, 2011

Nowhere but here

2011-06-16T09:43:00.000-07:00

Author: Lee, Jocelyn,1962-

Title: Nowhere but here

Published: Göttingen: Steidl, 2010

Description: 133 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Call Number: TR647 L44 2010

Note(s): "This book published on the occasion of the exhibition: Jocelyn Lee: nowhere but here, May 6-June 12, 2010, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York"--Colophon. Foreward by Sharon Olds; afterword by Lydia Neuman

Subject(s):

Photography, Artistic

Review(s):

Forthcoming

Read: May 22, 2011

Known to evil

2011-04-27T16:49:00.000-07:00

Author: Mosley, Walter

Title: Known to evil

Published New York: Riverhead Books, 2010

Description: 325 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PS3563 O88456 K58 2010

Summary: Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind- the-throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control every little thing that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can’t fix--and he’s come to Leonid McGill for help. It seems a young woman has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to Rinaldo to track her down

Subject(s):

Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
Political corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Suspense fiction

Review(s):

Graff, Keir. "Known to Evil." Booklist 106, no. 12 (February 15, 2010): 4
"Known to Evil." Publishers Weekly 257, no. 4 (January 25, 2010): 100
"KNOWN TO EVIL." Kirkus Reviews 78, no. 2 (January 15, 2010): 65

Read: April 27, 2011

Monsters of the Gevaudan: the making of a beast

2011-04-27T16:43:00.000-07:00

Author: Smith, Jay M.,1961-

Title: Monsters of the Gevaudan: the making of a beast

Published: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011

Description: 378 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: DC611 G4 S64 2011

Bibliography: https://monstersofthegevaudan.web.unc.edu/bibliography/

Content(s):

Introduction: The beast and its world
Sounding the alarm
Monsters real and imagined
Digesting defeat
A star is born
The perils of publicity
Heroes and skeptics
Exaggerated expectations and extraordinary endings
Narrative echoes past and present
Conclusion: The beast in history
Note on place names

Subject(s):

Gevaudan (France) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Popular culture -- France -- Gevaudan -- History -- 18th century
Beast of Gevaudan -- History
Wolf attacks -- France -- Gevaudan -- History -- 18th century
Wolves -- France -- Gevaudan -- Folklore
Monsters -- France -- Gevaudan -- Folklore
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- France -- History
Discourse analysis, Narrative

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: April 24, 2011

The kindly ones: a novel

2011-04-15T11:47:00.000-07:00

Author: Littell, Jonathan, 1967-

Title: The kindly ones: a novel

Published: New York: Harper Perennial, 2010

Description: 983 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PQ3939 L58 B513 2010

Note(s): Translated by Charlotte Mandell. Originally published as: Les beinveilantes. Paris: Éditons Gallimard, 2006. Winner of Prix Goncourt, 2006, Grand Prix du roman, 2006

Summary: Fictional memoir of Dr. Max Aue, a former Nazi officer who survived the war and has reinvented himself, many years later, as a middle-class entrepreneur and family man in northern France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews in graphic, disturbingly precise detail from the dark and disturbing point of view of the executioner rather than the victim. During the period from June 1941 through April 1945, Max is posted to Poland, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus; he is present at the Battle of Stalingrad, at Auschwitz and Cracow; he visits occupied Paris and lives through the chaos of the final days of the Nazi regime in Berlin. Although Max is a totally imagined character, his world is peopled by real historical figures, such as Eichmann, Himmler, Goring, Speer, Heydrich, Hoss, and Hitler himself

Subject(s):

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel -- Fiction
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei -- Fiction
Nazis -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Fiction
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
Bisexual men -- Germany -- Fiction
Historical fiction

Review(s):

LACAPRA, DOMINICK. "HISTORICAL AND LITERARY APPROACHES TO THE 'FINAL SOLUTION': SAUL FRIEDLÄNDER AND JONATHAN LITTELL." History & Theory 50, no. 1 (February 2011): 71-97
Razinsky, Liran. "Not the Witness We Wished For: Testimony in Jonathan Littell's "Kindly Ones.." In Modern Language Quarterly, 175-196. 2010
Theweleit, Klaus. "On the German Reaction to Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes." New German Critique no. 106 (Winter 2009): 21-34
Franklin, Ruth. "NIGHT AND COG." New Republic 240, no. 5 (April 2009): 38-43
MOYN, SAMUEL. "A Nazi Zelig." Nation 288, no. 11 (March 23, 2009): 31-34

Read: April 13, 2011

Another bullshit night in Suck City: a memoir

2011-03-28T22:50:00.000-07:00

Author: Flynn, Nick, 1960-

Title: Another bullshit night in Suck City: a memoir

Published: New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005

Description: 357 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3556 L894 Z464 2005

Subject(s):

Flynn, Nick, 1960-Flynn, Nick, 1960---Family
Poets, American--20th century--Biography
Poets, American--20th century--Family relationships
Homeless persons--Massachusetts--Boston
Fathers and sons--Massachusetts--Boston
Boston (Mass.)--Biography

Review(s):

Foster, Patricia. "Sideswiped." Antioch Review 64, no. 4 (Fall 2006): 810-816
"Fathers and Sons." Booklist 102, no. 19/20 (June 2006): 26
Gornick, Vivian. "It's All in the Art." Poetry 186, no. 2 (May 2005): 161-164

Read: March 27, 2011

The war that killed Achilles: the true story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War

2011-03-25T17:02:00.000-07:00

Author: Alexander, Caroline,1956-

Title: The war that killed Achilles: the true story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War

Published: New York: Viking, 2009

Description: xix, 296 p. :map ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PA4037 A5955 2009

Bibliography: p. 229-277

Content(s):

Landscape of the Trojan War
The things they carried
Chain of command
Terms of engagement
Enemy lines
Land of my fathers
In God we trust
Man down
No hostages
The death of Hektor
Everlasting glory

Summary: Many have forgotten that the subject of the "Illiad" was war--not merely the poetical romance of the war at Troy, but war, in all its enduring devastation. This groundbreaking reading of Homer’s epic poem restores the poet’s vision of the tragedy of war, addressing many of the central questions that define the war experience of every age

Subject(s):

Homer. Iliad
War in literature
Trojan War -- Literature and the war
Achilles (Greek mythology)

Review(s):

Cooksey, T. L. "The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War." Library Journal 134, no. 18 (November 2009): 66
STEVE, COATES. "Where Men Won Glory." New York Times Book Review (October 18, 2009): 16
Taylor, Gilbert. "The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War." Booklist 106, no. 3 (October 2009): 16

Read: March 25, 2011

Vietnamerica: a family's journey

2011-03-21T22:01:00.000-07:00

Author: Tran, G. B.(Gia-Bao), 1976-

Title: Vietnamerica: a family’s journey

Published: New York: Villard Books, 2010

Description: [279] p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: E184 V53 T73 2010

Summary: A memoir in graphic novel format about the author’s experiences as the son of Vietnamese immigrants who fled to America during the fall of Saigon describes how he learned his tragic ancestral history and the impact of the Vietnam War on his family while visiting their homeland years later

Subject(s):

Tran, G. B. (Gia-Bao), 1976- -- Comic books, strips, etc
Tran, G. B. (Gia-Bao), 1976- -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc
Vietnamese Americans -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Refugees -- Vietnam -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Refugees -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

Cornog, Martha. "Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey." Library Journal 136, no. 1 (January 2011): 71-72
"Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey." Publishers Weekly 257, no. 47 (November 29, 2010): 36

Read: March 19, 2011

The man who loved books too much: the true story of a thief, a detective, and a world of literary obsession

2011-03-21T21:53:00.000-07:00

Author: Bartlett, Allison Hoover

Title: The man who loved books too much: the true story of a thief, a detective, and a world of literary obsession

Published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2009

Description: 274 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: Z992.8 B37 2009

Bibliography: p. 264-274

Summary: Unrepentant book thief John Charles Gilkey has stolen a fortune in rare books from around the country. Yet unlike most thieves who steal for profit, Gilkey steals for love-the love of books. Perhaps equally obsessive is Ken Sanders, the self-appointed "bibliodick" who's driven to catch him. Following this eccentric cat-and-mouse chase with a mixture of suspense, insight and humor, Allison Hoover Bartlett plunges the reader deep into a rich world of fanatical book lust and considers what it is that makes some people stop at nothing to posses the titles they love

Subject(s):

Gilkey, John, 1968-
Sanders, Ken, 1951-
Book collectors -- United States -- Biography
Thieves -- United States -- Biography
Book collecting
Bibliomania
Book thefts

Review(s):

Cox, Richard J. "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession." Library & Archival Security 23, no. 1 (January 2010): 49-51
Katona, Cynthia Lee. "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession." Magill Book Reviews (November 2009)
CHRISTOPHER R., BEHA. "The Book Thief." New York Times Book Review (October 4, 2009): 20

Read: March 15, 2011

Sydney, cipher and search: solving the last great naval mystery of the Second World War

2011-03-21T21:34:00.000-07:00

Author: Hore, Peter

Title: Sydney, cipher and search: solving the last great naval mystery of the Second World War

Published: Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009

Description: 314 p. :ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Call Number: D775.5 S8 H67 2009

Bibliography: p. 299-303

Summary: In November 1941 the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, with a crew of 645, disappeared off the coast western Australia. Shipwrecked German sailors told an incredible tale of how their ship, had sunk the pride of the Australian navy. Almost at once conspiracy theories sprang up to explain the tragic loss of the ship and so many lives. Based on the author's decryption and interpretation of German Coded accounts, interviews with survivors from the raider, Kormoran, and other research, this book tells - insofar as it can ever be known - what really happened in the desperate fight to the death between the two ships, whose wrecks were finally located in March 2008

Subject(s):

Sydney (Cruiser)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Australian

Review(s):

Higham, Robin. "Sydney, Cipher and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World War." Journal of Military History 74, no. 1 (January 2010): 287

Read: March 12, 2011

Beat to quarters

2011-03-21T21:17:00.000-07:00

Author: Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966

Title: Beat to quarters

Published: Boston: Back Bay Books, 1999

Description: viii, 273 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PR6011 O56 B4 1999

Summary: June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders-even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley

Subject(s):

Hornblower, Horatio (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction
Sea stories
War stories

Review(s):

Grainger, John D. "Who Was Hornblower?." History Today 49, no. 10 (October 1999): 32
Forester, C. S. "HORNBLOWER AND I." Saturday Evening Post 229, no. 45 (May 11, 1957): 27-141

Read: March 12, 2011

Endgame: Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall-- from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness

2011-03-08T14:52:00.000-08:00

Author: Brady, Frank, 1934-

Title: Endgame: Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness

Published: New York: Crown, 2011

Description: xi, 402 p., [8] p. of plates :ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: GV1439 F5 B68 2011

Bibliography: p. 379-384

Content(s):

Loneliness to passion
Childhood obsession
Out of the heasd of Zeus
The American wunderkind
The Cold War gladiator
The new Fischer
Einstein's theory
Legends clash
The candidate
The champion
The wilderness years
Fischer-Spassky redux
Crossing borders
Arrest and rescue
Living and dying in Iceland

Summary: From an author who wrote one of the bestselling Bobby Fischer books ever and who was himself a friend of Fischer's comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time captures the complete, remarkable arc of the life of the chess master

Subject(s):

Fischer, Bobby, 1943-2008
Chess players -- United States -- Biography
Chess -- Collections of games

Review(s):

Lewis, Leslie. "Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall--from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness." Library Journal 136, no. 3 (February 15, 2011): 117
DYLAN LOEB, McCLAIN. "Solving Bobby Fischer." New York Times Book Review (February 13, 2011): 24
Pitt, David. "Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall-from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness." Booklist 107, no. 9/10 (January 2011): 34

Read: March 6, 2011

Troll: a love story

2011-03-08T14:49:00.000-08:00

Author: Sinisalo, Johanna, 1958-

Title: Troll: a love story

Published: New York: Grove Press, 2003

Description: 278 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PH355 S5445 S46 2003

Note(s): Translated from the Finnish by Herbert Lomas; previously published: Not before sundown. London: Peter Owen, 2003

Subject(s):

Trolls -- Finland -- Fiction
Gay men -- Finland -- Fiction
Aphrodisiacs -- Finland -- Fiction
Fantasy fiction

Review(s):

Sallis, James. "Life/Troll: A Love Story/Camouflage." Fantasy & Science Fiction 109, no. 6 (December 2005): 38-43
"TROLL: A Love Story (Book)." Publishers Weekly 251, no. 15 (April 12, 2004): 37
"TROLL: A Love Story (Book)." Kirkus Reviews 72, no. 7 (April 2004): 295-296

Read: March 5, 2011

Negotiating with the dead: a writer on writing

2011-03-08T14:41:00.000-08:00

Author: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Title: Negotiating with the dead: a writer on writing

Published: New York: Anchor Books, 2003

Description: xxvii, 219 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PR9199.3 A8 N44 2003

Bibliography: p. 197-207

Subject(s):

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
Fiction -- Authorship
Authorship

Review(s):

Ingersoll, Earl G. "Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (Book)." Studies in the Novel 36, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 126-128
St. Andrews, B. A. "Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (Book)." World Literature Today 77, no. 3/4 (October 2003): 99-100
Irvine, Larna. "Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (Book)." American Review of Canadian Studies 33, no. 3 (September 2003): 433-435

Read: March 2, 2011

Atlas of remote islands: fifty islands I have never set foot on and never will

2011-02-23T20:28:00.000-08:00

Author: Schalansky, Judith,1980-

Uniform Title: Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln. English

Title: Atlas of remote islands: fifty islands I have never set foot on and never will

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2010

Description: 143 p. :maps, ill. ; 27 cm.

Call Number: G500 S3313 2010

Note(s): Originally published in German as: Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln--T.p. verso. Translated from the German by Christine Lo

Summary: For each island, this book provides information on its distance from the mainland, whether its inhabited, its features, and the stories that have shaped its lore

Subject(s):

Islands -- Description and travel
Islands -- Maps
Islands -- Maps

Review(s):

Creech, Anna L. "Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will." Library Journal 135, no. 20 (December 2010): 130
Flanagan, Margaret. "Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will." Booklist 107, no. 7 (December 2010): 12
Belli, Brita. "ATLAS FREAK." E - The Environmental Magazine 21, no. 6 (November 2010): 51

Read: February 23, 2011

The Hilliker curse: my pursuit of women

2011-02-23T19:45:00.000-08:00

Author: Ellroy, James, 1948-

Title: The Hilliker curse: my pursuit of women

Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010

Description: 203 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3555 L6274 Z46 2010

Summary: The legendary crime writer unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought "Her."

Subject(s):

Ellroy, James, 1948- -- Relations with women
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
Mothers -- Death -- Psychological aspects

Review(s):

Haywood, Thomas. "If you're an atheist when you're my age, you don't know shit." New Statesman 139, no. 5027 (November 15, 2010): 34-35
"Killer instinct." Economist 397, no. 8703 (October 9, 2010): 121
"THE HILLIKER CURSE: My Pursuit of Women." Kirkus Reviews 78, no. 14 (July 15, 2010): 652

Read: February 17, 2011

Ashes of honour

2011-02-15T15:18:00.000-08:00

Author: La Mazière, Christian de

Uniform Title: Rêveur casque. English

Title: Ashes of honour

Published: London: Wingate, 1975

Description: 319 p. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: D757.85 L3513 1975

Note(s): Translated from the French by Francis Stuart

Subject(s):

La Mazière, Christian de
Waffen-SS. Waffen-Grenadier-Division "Charlemagne," 33
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French

Review(s):

Carrard, Philippe. "From the Outcasts' Point of View: The Memoirs of the French Who Fought for Hitler." French Historical Studies 31, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 477-503

Read: February 12, 2011

Pushing ice

2011-01-15T14:44:00.000-08:00

Author: Reynolds, Alastair, 1966-

Title: Pushing ice

Published: New York: Ace Books, 2007

Description: 580 p. ; 18 cm.

Call Number: PR6068 E95 P87 2007

Note(s): Originally published: Great Britain: Gollancz, 2005

Subject(s):

Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
Science fiction

Review(s):

Hopper, Jimm. "It's a marvelous night for a moon dance -- but only if you can catch up with the orb." San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) 12 Nov. 2006, R,CO,C, BOOKS: BOOKS-7
Cleaver, Fred. "SCIENCE FICTION - Thrill ride takes crew out of solar system." Denver Post, The (CO) 25 Jun. 2006, SUN SCENE, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: F-14
FOLSOM, ROBERT. "Welcome to life aboard the Rockhopper - Alastair Reynolds' futuristic novel about first contact asks universal questions.." Kansas City Star, The (MO) 18 Jun. 2006, Photo: 10

Read: January 15, 2011

UFOs: generals, pilots, and government officials go on the record

2011-01-06T17:15:00.000-08:00

Author: Kean, Leslie

Title: UFOs: generals, pilots, and government officials go on the record

Published: New York: Harmony Books, 2010

Description: xii, 335 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: TL789 K357 2010

Summary: An in-depth investigation into UFO phenomena documents the author’s survey of official extraterrestrial encounters as experienced by scientists, military heads, and aviators throughout the world, and evaluates government reactions

Subject(s):

Unidentified flying objects -- Research
Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters
Public records

Review(s):

Eberhart, George M. "UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record." College & Research Libraries News 71, no. 10 (November 2010): 566
"5 Questions for Leslie Kean." USA Today, n.d.

Read: January 5, 2011

You’ll never know

2011-01-06T17:11:00.000-08:00

Author: Tyler, Carol

Title: You’ll never know

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2009-

Description: v. :col. ill. ; 27 x 32 cm.

Call Number(s):

PN6727 T95 Y68 2009 (Bk 1. A good and decent man )
PN6727.T95 Y68 2010 (Bk 2. Collateral damage)

Note(s):

Bk 1. A good and decent man
Bk 2. Collateral damage

Summary: A good and decent man is the first of a 3-part graphic memoir chronicling the author’s relationship with her World War II veteran father, and how his war experience shaped her childhood and affected her relationships in adulthood

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Comic books, strips, etc
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

"You'll Never Know: A Graphic Memoir--Book Two: Collateral Damage." Publishers Weekly 257, no. 39 (October 4, 2010): 34
"You'll Never Know: A Graphic Memoir, Book I: "A Good and Decent Man." Publishers Weekly 256, no. 23 (June 8, 2009): 33

Read:

December 23, 2010 (Bk 1. A good and decent man )
December 24, 2010 (Bk 2. Collateral damage)

How to understand Israel in 60 days or less

2011-01-06T17:03:00.000-08:00

Author: Glidden, Sarah

Title: How to understand Israel in 60 days or less

Published: New York: Vertigo/DC Comics, 2010

Description: 206 p. :col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 G55 H6 2010

Bibliography: p. 206

Note(s): Letterer, Clem Robins

Subject(s):

Americans -- Israel -- Comic books, strips, etc
Israel -- Description and travel -- Comic books, strips, etc
Israel -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Review(s):

Tucker, Ken. "9. How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less." Entertainment Weekly no. 1134/1135 (December 24, 2010): 119
Moon, Barbara M. "How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less." School Library Journal 56, no. 11 (November 2010): 147
"HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS." Kirkus Reviews 78, no. 19 (October 2010): 975-976

Read: December 22, 2010

Panic in level 4: cannibals, killer viruses, and other journeys to the edge of science

2011-01-06T16:50:00.000-08:00

Author: Preston, Richard, 1954-

Title: Panic in level 4: cannibals, killer viruses, and other journeys to the edge of science

Published: New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009

Description: xxxix, 194 p. :ill., ports., facs. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: RC81 P856 2009

Note(s): "Portions of this book appeared in different form in The New Yorker."

Subject(s):

Medicine, Popular
Science
Science writers

Review(s):

Marston, Will. "Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science." School Library Journal 54, no. 10 (October 2008): 179
Castelvecchi, David. "Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science." Science News 174, no. 3 (August 2, 2008): 30
Taylor, Gilbert. "Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science." Booklist 104, no. 18 (May 15, 2008): 13

Read: December 4, 2010

Casanova was a book lover: and other naked truths and provocative curiosities about the writing, selling, and reading of books

2011-01-06T16:46:00.000-08:00

Author: Hamilton, John Maxwell

Title: Casanova was a book lover: and other naked truths and provocative curiosities about the writing, selling, and reading of books

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2001

Description: xiv, 351 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: Z1003 H194 2001

Bibliography: p. 283-319

Note(s): Originally published: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000

Subject(s):

Books and reading
Books and reading -- United States
Authorship
Authorship -- United States
Publishers and publishing -- United States

Review(s):

"Casanova Was a Book Lover (Book Review)." Virginia Quarterly Review 77, no. 1 (Winter 2001): 31
Alexander, Jean M. "Casanova Was a Book Lover and Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About...(Book Review)." College & Research Libraries 62, no. 1 (January 2001): 93
Lempert, , Karen E. "Casanova Was a Book Lover and Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling and Reading of Books." Library Journal 125, no. 7 (April 15, 2000): 90

Read: December 3, 2010

Visions of infamy: the untold story of how journalist Hector C. Bywater devised the plans that led to Pearl Harbor

2011-01-06T16:38:00.000-08:00

Author: Honan, William H. (William Holmes)

Title: Visions of infamy: the untold story of how journalist Hector C. Bywater devised the plans that led to Pearl Harbor

Published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991

Description: xvi, 346 p. [16] p. of plates :ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Call Number: D767.9 H66 1991

Bibliography: p. 311-329

Subject(s):

Bywater, Hector C. (Hector Charles), 1884-1940
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area -- Forecasting
Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Journalists -- United States -- Biography

Review(s):

Buruma, I. "Ghosts of Pearl Harbor." New York Review of Books 38, no. 21 (December 19, 1991): 9
Puffer, Raymond L. "Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That Led to Pearl Harbor." Library Journal 116, no. 13 (August 1991): 110
Smith, Gaddis. "Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That Led to Pearl Harbor." Foreign Affairs 70, no. 5 (92 1991): 190
Read: November 28, 2010

Kissing the witch

2011-01-06T16:33:00.000-08:00

Author: Donoghue, Emma,1969-

Title: Kissing the witch

Published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1997

Description: 210 p. :ill. ; 19 cm.

Call Number: PZ8 D733 K47 1997

Summary: A collection of thirteen interconnected stories that give old fairy tales a new twist

Subject(s):

Fairy tales -- England

Review(s):

Orme, Jennifer. "Mouth to Mouth: Queer Desires in Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch." Marvels & Tales 24, no. 1 (May 2010): 116-130
Schimel, Lawrence. "Bewitching kisses." Lambda Book Report 6, no. 6 (January 1998): 9
Philip, Neil. "Sex and Cinderella." Times Educational Supplement no. 4220 (May 16, 1997): 9

Read: November 21, 2010

A perfect red: empire, espionage, and the quest for the color of desire

2011-01-06T16:28:00.000-08:00

Author: Greenfield, Amy Butler, 1968-

Title: A perfect red: empire, espionage, and the quest for the color of desire

Published: New York: Harper Perennial, 2006

Description: viii, 338 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. (some col.), ports. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: TP925 C63 G74 2006

Bibliography: p. 293-318

Note(s): "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers." -- T.p. verso

Subject(s):

Cochineal -- History
Dyes and dyeing -- Textile fibers -- Europe -- History
Dyes and dyeing -- Mexico -- History
Cochineal insect

Review(s):

Marschall, Laurence A. "A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire." Natural History 114, no. 7 (September 2005): 48-50
Dapson, Dick. "Book review." Biotechnic & Histochemistry 80, no. 3/4 (May 2005): 173
Haggas, Carol. "A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (Book)." Booklist 101, no. 15 (April 2005): 1332

Read: November 10, 2010

Sex, bombs and burgers: how war, porn and fast food created technology as we know it

2011-01-06T16:23:00.000-08:00

Author: Nowak, Peter

Title: Sex, bombs and burgers: how war, porn and fast food created technology as we know it

Published: Toronto: Viking Canada, 2010

Description: 364 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: T15 N69 2010

Subject(s):

Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Technology -- Social aspects
Technology -- History
Innovations -- Aspect social

Review(s):

Timm, Jordan. "SEX, BOMBS AND BURGERS: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology As We Know It." Canadian Business 83, no. 6 (April 26, 2010): 71

Read: November 5, 2010

Nineteen seventy-four

2011-01-06T16:19:00.000-08:00

Author: Peace, David

Title: Nineteen seventy-four

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2009

Description: 295 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PR6066 E116 N56 2009

Note(s): Originally published: London: Serpent's Tail, 1999

Subject(s):

Journalists -- England -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction

Review(s):

DARGIS, MANOHLA. "A Bleak Trilogy From Britain, in Which Men and Terror Run Wild." New York Times, February 05, 2010., 8

Read: October 30, 2010

The forever war

2010-10-28T09:45:00.000-07:00

Author: Haldeman, Joe W.

Title: The forever war

Published: New York: EOS, 2003

Description: 277 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3558 A353 F67 2003

Note(s): "The author's preferred ed. of the groundbreaking SF classic"--Cover

Subject(s):

Space warfare -- Fiction
Space and time -- Fiction
Aging -- Fiction
Science fiction

Review(s):

"Readers of Joe Haldeman's 1975 novel The Forever War, which described military life and manners in an imagined future, will recall that enlisted soldiers were expected to respond to the commands of their drill instructors with a loud and clear "F*** YOU, SIR!".(The Week ...)." National Review 57.17 (Sept 26, 2005): 12
Hantke, Steffen. "Surgical strikes and prosthetic warriors: the soldier's body in contemporary science fiction." Science Fiction Studies 26.3 (Nov 1998): 495
Blackmore, Tim. "Warring stories: fighting for truth in the science fiction of Joe Haldeman." Extrapolation 34.n2 (Summer 1993): 131

Read: October 24, 2010

Forget sorrow: an ancestral tale

2010-10-21T12:35:00.000-07:00

Author: Yang, Belle

Title: Forget sorrow: an ancestral tale

Published: New York: W. W. Norton, 2010

Description: 250 p. :chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.

Call Number: PS3575 A53 Z46 2010

Summary: "When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents' home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China. The history she'd ignored while growing up became a source of comfort and inspiration, and narrowed the gap separating her--an independent, Chinese-American woman--from her Old World Chinese parents. In Forget Sorrow, Yang makes her debut into the graphic form with the story of her father's family, reunited under the House of Yang in Manchuria during the Second World War and struggling--both together and individually--to weather poverty, famine, and, later, Communist oppression. The parallels between Belle Yang's journey of self-discovery and the lives and choices of her grandfather, his brothers, and their father (the Patriarch) speak powerfully of the conflicts between generations--and of possibilities for reconciliation" -- from publisher's web site

Subject(s):

Yang, Belle -- Comic books, strips, etc
Yang, Belle -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc
Chinese American authors -- Biography

Review(s):

"Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale." Kirkus Reviews 78, no. 14 (July 15, 2010): 13
Goldsmith, Francisca. "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale." Booklist 106, no. 18 (May 15, 2010): 25
Chai, May-Lee. "A Review of “Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale”." Asian Affairs: An American Review 37, no. 2 (May 2010): 103-104

Read: October 21, 2010

Body of work: meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab

2010-10-19T11:22:00.000-07:00

Author: Montross, Christine

Title: Body of work: meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2008

Description: 295 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: QM 28 M66 2008

Bibliography: p. 293-295

Content(s): Preface: mystery -- Bone box -- First cut -- Breath and blood -- Anatomical precedence -- Origins of a corpse -- In pursuit of wonder -- The bodies of strangers -- Toll -- The discomfort of doctoring -- An unsteady balance -- Pelvis -- Dismantled -- Epilogue: good-bye

Note(s): "A revelatory memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cut her open"--P. [4] of cover

Subject(s):

Montross, Christine
Medical students -- Anecdotes
Women medical students -- Anecdotes
Dead -- Anecdotes
Mortality -- Anecdotes
Human anatomy -- Anecdotes
Human dissection -- Anecdotes

Review(s):

Ross, Callum F. "BODY OF WORK: MEDITATIONS ON MORTALITY FROM THE HUMAN ANATOMY LAB." Quarterly Review of Biology 83, no. 3 (September 2008): 326
Raizman, Noah. "Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab." Lancet 370, no. 9600 (November 17, 2007): 1682
"BODY OF WORK: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab." Science News 172, no. 4 (July 28, 2007): 63

Read: October 13, 2010

The house on Mango Street

2010-10-19T11:04:00.000-07:00

Author: Cisneros, Sandra

Title: The house on Mango Street

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 1991

Description: x, 110 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3553 I78 H6 1991

Content(s): The house on Mango Street -- Hairs -- Boys & girls -- My name -- Cathy queen of cats -- Our good day -- Laughter -- Gil’s furniture bought & sold -- Meme Ortiz -- Louie, his cousin & his other cousin -- Marin -- Those who don’t -- There was an old woman she had so many children she didn’t know what to do -- Alicia who sees mice -- Darius & the clouds -- And some more -- The family of little feet -- A rice sandwich -- Chanclas -- Hips -- The first job -- Papa who wakes up tired in the dark -- Born bad -- Elenita, cards, palm, water -- Geraldo no last name -- Edna’s Ruthie -- The Earl of Tennessee -- Sire -- Four skinny trees -- No speak English -- Rafaela who drinks coconut & papaya juice on Tuesdays -- Sally -- Minerva writes poems -- Bums in the attic -- Beautiful & cruel -- A smart cookie -- What Sally said -- The monkey garden -- Red clowns -- Linoleum roses -- The three sisters -- Alicia & I talking on Edna’s steps -- A house of my own -- Mango says goodbye sometimes

Subject(s):

Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
Bildungsromans
Mexican Americans -- Fiction
Girls -- Fiction
Literature, Modern -- United States
Mexican Americans -- Chicago
Adolescent -- Chicago

Review(s):

Dubb, Christina Rose. "Adolescent Journeys: Finding Female Authority in The Rain Catchers and The House on Mango Street." Children's Literature in Education 38, no. 3 (September 2007): 219-232
Wissman, Kelly. "“Writing Will Keep You Free”: Allusions to and Recreations of the Fairy Tale Heroine in The House on Mango Street." Children's Literature in Education 38, no. 1 (March 2007): 17-34
Doyle, Jacqueline. "More room of her own: Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street." MELUS 19, no. 4 (Winter 1994): 6

Read: October 11, 2010

Anansi boys

2010-10-19T10:59:00.000-07:00

Author: Gaiman, Neil

Title: Anansi boys

Published: New York: Harper Perennial, 2008

Description: 336, 18 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PR6057 A319 A53 2008

Subject(s):

Anansi (Legendary character) -- Fiction
Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Brothers -- Fiction

Review(s):

De Lint, Charles. "Anansi Boys." Fantasy & Science Fiction 110, no. 3 (March 2006): 33-34
Kim, Ann. "Anansi Boys." Library Journal 130, no. 13 (August 15, 2005): 67
"ANANSI BOYS." Kirkus Reviews 73, no. 14 (July 15, 2005): 754

Read: September 26, 2010

Graphic novels and comics in libraries and archives: essays on readers, research, history and cataloging

2010-10-19T10:27:00.000-07:00

Title: Graphic novels and comics in libraries and archives: essays on readers, research, history and cataloging

Published: Jefferson: McFarland, 2010

Description: xi, 276 p. :ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: Z692 G7 G7 2010

Note(s): Edited by Robert G. Weiner; forewords by Elizabeth Figa and Derek Parker Royal; afterword by Stephen Weiner

Content(s): 1. A librarian's guide to the history of graphic novels / Alicia Holston -- 2. Manga in Japanese libraries: a historical overview / David Hopkins -- 3. How librarians learned to love the graphic novel / Amy Kiste Nyberg -- 4. The development of a school library graphic novel collection / Heidi K. Hammond -- 5. Balancing popular high-circulation works with works of merit in elementary school library collections / Diana P. Maliszewski -- 6. Creative shelving: placement in library collections / Amy Hartman -- 7. Graphic novels at Los Angeles public / Rachel Kitzmann -- 8. Teen-led revamp / Erica Segraves -- 9. Selection and popular culture in large academic libraries: taking the temperature of your research community / Charlotte Cubbage -- 10. Maus goes to college: graphic novels on reserve at an academic library / Anne-Marie Davis -- 11. The library after dark: the promotion of collections and services / Gwen Evans -- 12. So many options, so little money: building a selective collection for the academic library / Liorah Anne Golomb -- 13. The spinner rack in the big red and ivory tower: establishing a comics and graphic novels collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln / Richard Graham -- 14. Comic art collection at the Michigan State University libraries / Randall W. Scott -- 15. Interview with Randall W. Scott / Nicholas Yanes and Robert G. Weiner -- 16. The perils of Doctor Strange: preserving Pennsylvania-centered comics at the State Library of Pennsylvania / William T. Fee -- 17. Graphic novels and the untapped audience / Ruth Boyer -- 18. Comic relief in libraries: motivating male adolescent readers / Karen Gavigan -- 19. "Forty-one-year-old female academics aren't supposed to like comics!" the value of comic books to adult readers / Sarah Ziolkowska and Vivian Howard -- 20. Graphics let teens own the library / Christian Zabriskie -- 21. The only thing graphic is your mind: reconstructing the reference librarian's view of the genre / Amanda Stegall-Armour -- 22. What's in a name: nomenclature and libraries / Francisca Goldsmith -- 23. The ontology of art and what libraries should buy / Ruth Tallman and Jason Southworth -- 24. Meta-comics and libraries: should libraries buy them? / Adam J. Noble -- 25. Webcomics and libraries / Amy Thorne -- 26. Cataloging and problems with Dewey: creativity, collaboration and compromise / Laurel Tarulli -- 27. An example of an in-house cataloging system / Robert G. Weiner -- 28. Drawing comics into Canadian libraries / Rachel Collins -- 29. Graphic novel holdings in academic libraries / Eric Werthmann

Summary: "This book, full of practical advice and innovative ideas for librarians, educators, and archivists, provides a look at how graphic novels and comics can be used in educational settings. An established component of library and archive collections across the globe, graphic novels are proving to be one of the last vestiges of the printed form gaining in popularity"--Provided by publisher

Subject(s):

State Library of Pennsylvania
Libraries -- Special collections -- Graphic novels
Graphic novels -- History and criticism
Libraries -- Special collections -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
School libraries -- Graphic novels
Cataloging -- Comic books, strips, etc
Classification -- Books -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

Cornog, Martha. "Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History, and Cataloging." Library Journal 135, no. 12 (July 2010): 67

Read: September 24, 2010

Samurai!

2010-10-19T10:24:00.000-07:00

Author: Sakai, Saburō, 1916-

Title: Samurai!

Published: Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1978

Description 316 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: D792 J3 S3 1978

Notes(s): Reprint of the 1957 ed. with new illus; Book Club ed. Co-written with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito

Subject(s):

Sakai, Saburō, 1916-
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese

Review(s):

NEIL, GENZLINGER. "TELEVISION REVIEW; Recreating an Aerial Duel Over Guadalcanal, Mystery on Board." New York Times, November 08, 2006., 8
DOUGLAS, MARTIN. "Saburo Sakai Is Dead at 84; War Pilot Embraced Foes." New York Times, October 08, 2000., 45
Stevens Jr., Francis R. "My father and I and Saburo Sakai." American Heritage 49, no. 8 (December 1998): 69

Read: September 19, 2010

Bigfoot: the life and times of a legend

2010-10-19T10:17:00.000-07:00

Author: Buhs, Joshua Blu

Title: Bigfoot: the life and times of a legend

Published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009

Description: xv, 279 p. :ill. photographs ; 24 cm.

Call Number: QL89.2 S2 B84 2009

Bibliography: p. 255-267

Note(s): Joshua Blu Buhs traces the wild and woolly story of America’s favourite homegrown monster. Writing with a scientist’s scepticism, but an enthusiast’s deep engagement, Buhs invests the story of Bigfoot with the detail and power of a novel, while at the same time explaining why the monster has inspired such a devoted following

Subject(s):

Sasquatch

Review(s):

Bindernagel, John. "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend/Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot." Journal of Scientific Exploration 24, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 319-322
"Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend." Journal of Popular Culture 42, no. 6 (December 2009): 1137-1139
Ravalli, Richard. "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend by Joshua Blu Buhs and Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot by Michael McLeod." Journal of American Culture 32, no. 4 (December 2009): 345-346

Read: September 14, 2010

Motel of the mysteries

2010-10-19T10:11:00.000-07:00

Author: Macaulay, David

Title: Motel of the mysteries

Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979

Description: 95 p. :ill. ; 29 cm.

Call Number: PN6231 C46 M3 1979

Subject(s):

North America -- Antiquities -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc
Civilization, Modern -- 1950- -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc

Review(s):

Gerhardt, Lillian N. "Motel of the Mysteries (Book Review)." School Library Journal 26, no. 8 (April 1980): 136

Read: September 13, 2010

Buda's wagon: a brief history of the car bomb

2010-10-19T10:08:00.000-07:00

Author: Davis, Mike

Title: Buda’s wagon: a brief history of the car bomb

Published: London: Verso, 2008

Description: x, 228 p. :ill. ; 20 cm.

Call Number: TP270 D367 2008

Bibliography: p. 196-220

Note(s): "First published by Verso 2007"--T.p. verso

Subject(s):

Vehicle bombs -- History
Vehicle bombs -- Social aspects
Terrorism -- History
Terrorism -- Social aspects
Sociology, Urban

Review(s):

Egan, Daniel. "Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb." Critical Sociology (Sage Publications, Ltd.) 34, no. 2 (March 2008): 291-293
Molin, Peter. "BUDA'S WAGON: A Brief History of the Car Bomb." Military Review 87, no. 6 (November 2007): 117-118
Matthewman, Steve. "Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb." Thesis Eleven no. 90 (August 2007): 131-136

Read: September 10, 2010

Occupied city

2010-10-19T10:03:00.000-07:00

Author: Peace, David

Title: Occupied city

Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010

Description: 275 p. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PR6066 E116 O25 2010

Bibliography: p. 273-274

Note(s): On January 26, 1948, a man identifying himself as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. He explains that there has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat everyone who might have been exposed to the disease. Soon after drinking the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, four are unconscious, and the "official" has fled. Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. Each voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a city and a people making their way out of a war-induced hell. First published: London: Faber and Faber, 2009

Subject(s):

Hirasawa, Sadamichi, 1892-1987 -- Fiction
Criminals -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction
Serial murders -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction
Bank robberies -- Fiction
Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction
Historical fiction

Review(s):

Morris, Gregory L. "Occupied City." Magill Book Reviews (May 2010)
JUSTIN, CARTWRIGHT. "Tokyo Vice." New York Times Book Review (March 21, 2010): 18
Walden, George. "Capital offences." New Statesman 138, no. 4962 (August 17, 2009): 44-45

Read: August 31, 2010

Operation Mincemeat: how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an allied victory

2010-10-19T09:54:00.000-07:00

Author: Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

Title: Operation Mincemeat: how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an allied victory

Published: New York: Harmony Books, 2010

Description: x, 400 p., [16] p. of plates :ill., plans ; 25 cm.

Call Number: D810 S7 M246 2010

Bibliography: p. 385-387

Note(s): From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose

Subject(s):

Operation Mincemeat
Montagu, Ewen, 1901-1985
Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain
Deception -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Deception -- Spain -- Atlantic Coast -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Spain -- Atlantic Coast
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy -- Sicily
Sicily (Italy) -- History, Military -- 20th century
Atlantic Coast (Spain) -- History, Military -- 20th century

Review(s):

Scovil, Sheri Beth. "Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured Allied Victory." Library Journal 135, no. 13 (August 2010): 94
Gladwell, Malcolm. "PANDORA'S BRIEFCASE." New Yorker 86, no. 12 (May 10, 2010): 72-78
JENNET, CONANT. "The Man Who Never Was." New York Times Book Review (May 16, 2010): 12

Read: August 28, 2010

Have a nice doomsday: why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world

2010-10-19T09:47:00.000-07:00

Author: Guyatt, Nicholas, 1973-

Title: Have a nice doomsday: why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world

Published: New York: Harper Perennial, 2007

Description: 276, 18 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: BT877 G89 2007

Bibliography: p. 271-274

Note(s): A study of apocalyptic Christianity assesses the beliefs of the fifty million Americans who believe that the apocalypse will occur during their lifetimes and their involvement in debates over gay rights, foreign policy, and abortion

Subject(s):End of the world -- Political aspects
Judgment Day -- Political aspects
Prophecy -- Christianity -- Political aspects
Public opinion -- United States
Religion and state -- United States

Review(s):

Burgeson, John W. "HAVE A NICE DOOMSDAY: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World." Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith 60, no. 2 (June 2008): 139
Adams, Nancy E. "Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World." Library Journal 132, no. 19 (November 15, 2007): 63
Sharlet, Jeff. "Preachers of doom." New Statesman 136, no. 4854 (July 23, 2007): 56-57

Read: August 26, 2010

After America

2010-10-19T09:41:00.000-07:00

Author: Birmingham, John, 1964-

Title: After America

Published: New York: Del Ray/Ballantine Books, 2010

Description: 465 p. :maps ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PR9619.3 B5136 A69 2010

Subject(s):

Natural disasters -- Fiction
Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction
United States -- Fiction
Texas -- Fiction
Political fiction
Suspense fiction

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: August 23, 2010

Abandoned cars

2010-08-19T10:18:00.000-07:00

Author: Lane, Tim

Title: Abandoned cars

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2010

Description: 163 p. :chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 L353 A22 2010

Note(s): "Abandoned cars is Tim Lane's first collection of graphic short stories: noir-ish narratives united by their exploration of the vast American mythology by way of the desperate and haunted characters who populate its pages"--Cover p. [4]

Subject(s):

Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Review(s):

Hays, Carl. "Abandoned Cars." Booklist 105, no. 2 (September 15, 2008): 33

Read: August 19, 2010

The march to the sea and beyond: Sherman's troops in the Savannah and Carolinas campaigns

2010-08-19T10:13:00.000-07:00

Author: Glatthaar, Joseph T., 1956-

Title: The march to the sea and beyond: Sherman's troops in the Savannah and Carolinas campaigns

Published: Baton Rouge: Louisianna State University Press, 1995

Description: xvi, 318 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: E476.69 G53 1995

Bibliography: p. 261-310

Note(s): Originally published: New York: New York University Press, 1985

Subject(s):

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March through the Carolinas
North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns

Review(s):

Barrett, John G. "The March to the Sea and Beyond (Book Review)." American Historical Review 91, no. 2 (April 1986): 469
Miller, Randall M. "The March to the Sea and Beyond (Book)." Library Journal 110, no. 11 (June 15, 1985): 61

Read: August 16, 2010

Whirlwind: the air war against Japan, 1942-1945

2010-08-19T10:08:00.000-07:00

Author: Tillman, Barrett

Title: Whirlwind: the air war against Japan, 1942-1945

Published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010

Description: xvii, 316 p., [16] p. of plates :ill., map ; 25 cm.

Call Number: D790 T624 2010

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan
Bombing, Aerial -- Japan

Review(s):

Muller, Richard R. "The Firestorm That Ended the War." World War II 25, no. 2 (July 2010): 68-69
Hov, Sara. "Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-45." Army 60, no. 6 (June 2010): 82-84
Murray, Williamson. "Flying into the Rising Sun." Military History 27, no. 1 (May 2010): 71-72

Read: August 13, 2010

L.A. noir: the struggle for the soul of America's most seductive city

2010-08-09T09:00:00.000-07:00

Author: Buntin, John

Title: L.A. noir: the struggle for the soul of America's most seductive city

Published: New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009

Description: xii, 419 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: HV 6795 L6 B86 2009

Bibliography p. 391-406

Note(s): A journalist and case writer presents a social history of Los Angeles, from Prohibition to the Watts riots, focusing on the long-running war between notorious gangster Mickey Cohen, and the man who would become the city's most famous police chief, William H. Parker. Originally published in hardcover by Harmony Books, 2009

Subject(s):

Organized crime -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
Cohen, Mickey, 1914-1976
Parker, William H. (William Henry), 1902-1966
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century

Review(s):

Spencer, Jeremy. "L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City." Library Journal 134, no. 12 (July 2009): 106-109
"L.A. NOIR: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City." Kirkus Reviews 77, no. 12 (June 15, 2009): 639

Read: August 8, 2010

War

2010-08-03T12:14:00.000-07:00

Author: Junger, Sebastian

Title: War

Published: New York: Twelve, 2010

Description: xii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: DS371.4123 K67 J86 2010

Bibliography: p. 269-281

Note(s): Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley

Subject(s):

Afghan War, 2001- -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Korangal Valley
United States. Army. Airborne Brigade, 173rd

Review(s):

What is it good for?." Economist 395, no. 8683 (May 22, 2010): 89
Nashawaty, Chris. "Sebastian Junger Goes to War." Entertainment Weekly no. 1103 (May 21, 2010): 76-77
DEXTER, FILKINS. "'Nothing to Do but Kill and Wait'." New York Times Book Review (May 16, 2010): 13

Read: August 3, 2010

Stars in their courses: the Gettysburg campaign, June-July 1863

2010-08-03T12:03:00.000-07:00

Author: Foote, Shelby

Title: Stars in their courses: the Gettysburg campaign, June-July 1863

Published: New York: Modern Library, 1994

Description: viii, 290 p. :maps ; 19 cm.

Call Number: E475.51 F66 1994

Note(s): "Originally published by Random House, Inc., as volume II of The Civil War, a narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian"--T.p. verso

Subject(s):

Gettysburg Campaign, 1863

Review(s):

Mitchell, Douglas. "The Conflict is Behind Me Now ": Shelby Foote Writes the Civil War." Southern Literary Journal 36, no. 1 (Fall2003 2003): 21-45
Foote, Shelby. "THE NOVELIST'S VIEW OF HISTORY." Sewanee Review 99, no. 3 (Summer91 1991): 439
White, Helen, and Redding Sugg. "A COLLOQUIUM WITH SHELBY FOOTE." Southern Humanities Review 15, no. 4 (September 1981): 281-299

Read: July 21, 2010

One more theory about happiness: a memoir

2010-07-10T00:26:00.000-07:00

Author: Guest, Paul

Title: One more theory about happiness: a memoir

Published: New York: Ecco, 2010

Description: 202 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3607 U47 Z46 2010

Subject(s):

Guest, Paul
Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography
Quadriplegics -- United States -- Biography

Review(s):

"ONE MORE THEORY ABOUT HAPPINESS: A Memoir." Kirkus Reviews 78, no. 5 (March 2010): 182

Read: July 9, 2010

Maus II: a survivor’s tale: and here my troubles began

2010-07-10T00:19:00.000-07:00

Author: Spiegelman, Art

Title: Maus II: a survivor’s tale: and here my troubles began

Published: New York: Pantheon Books, 1991

Description: 135 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: D804.3 S66 1991

Subject(s):

Spiegelman, Vladek -- Comic books, strips, etc
Spiegelman, Art -- Comic books, strips, etc
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Children of Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

McGlothin, Erin. "No Time Like the Present: Narrative and Time in Art Spiegelman's Maus." Narrative 11, no. 2 (May 2003): 177
Halkin, H. "Inhuman comedy." Commentary 93, no. 2 (February 1992): 55
Stone, L. "Chasing History." Nation 254, no. 1 (January 6, 1992): 28-2

Read: July 8, 2010

Paths of glory

2010-07-10T00:11:00.000-07:00

Author: Cobb, Humphrey, 1899-1944

Title: Paths of glory

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2010

Description: xxviii, 190 p. ; 20 cm.

Call Number: PS3505 O1385 P37 2010

Note(s): Introduction by James H. Meredith; foreword by David Simon

Subject(s):

World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Trials (Treason) -- France -- Fiction
Mutiny -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Military discipline -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction
War stories

Review(s):

Smith, Julian. "A Source for Faulkner's A Fable." American Literature 40, no. 3 (November 1968): 394
Codman, Florence. "The Other Kind of War Book." Nation 140, no. 3650 (June 19, 1935): 716

Read: July 7, 2010

Maus: a survivor’s tale

2010-07-10T00:03:00.000-07:00

Author: Spiegelman, Art

Title: Maus: a survivor’s tale

Published: New York: Pantheon Books, 1986

Description: 159 p. :chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: D810 J4 S643 1986

Subject(s):

Spiegelman, Vladek -- Comic books, strips, etc
Spiegelman, Art -- Comic books, strips, etc
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Children of Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

Rifkind, Candida. "Drawn from Memory: Comics Artists and Intergenerational Auto/biography." Canadian Review of American Studies 38, no. 3 (October 2008): 399-427
Loman, Andrew. "Well Intended Liberal Slop": Allegories of Race in Spiegelman's Maus." Journal of American Studies 40, no.3 (December 2006): 551-571
Chute, Hillary. "The Shadow of a Past Time": History and Graphic Representation in Maus." Twentieth Century Literature 52, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 199-230

Read: June 20, 2010

It was the war of the trenches

2010-07-09T15:40:00.000-07:00

Author: Tardi, Jacques

Uniform Title: C’était la guerre des tranchées. English

Title: It was the war of the trenches

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2010

Description: 118 p. :chiefly ill. ; 28 m.

Call Number: PN6747 T37 C4813 2010

Bibliography: p. 121

Filmography: p. 120

Note(s): Edited and translated by Kim Thompson

Subject(s):

World War, 1914-1918 -- Comic books, strips, etc
World War, 1914-1918 -- Trench warfare -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc. -- France -- Translations into English
Graphic novels

Review(s):

Cornog, Martha. "It Was the War of the Trenches." Library Journal 135, no. 9 (May 15, 2010): 66
"It Was the War of the Trenches." Publishers Weekly 257, no. 17 (April 26, 2010): 95
Flagg, Gordon. "It Was the War of the Trenches." Booklist 106, no. 15 (April 2010): 31

Read: June 9, 2010

Black passport

2010-07-09T15:32:00.000-07:00

Author: Greene, Stanley

Title: Black passport

Published: New York: Aperture Foundation, 2009

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Call Number: TR820.6 G74 2009

Note(s): Compiled by Teun van der Heijden

Subject(s):

Greene, Stanley
War photography
Photography, Artistic

Review(s):

Murrmann, Mark. "Black Passport." Mother Jones 35, no. 3 (May 2010): 68

Read: May 28, 2010

Wilson

2010-07-09T15:18:00.001-07:00

Author: Clowes, Daniel

Title: Wilson

Published: Montréal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2010

Description: 77 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 30 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 C56 W55 2010

Subject(s):

Middle-aged men --Comic books, strips, etc. --Fiction
American wit and humor, Pictorial
Graphic novels

Review(s):

Flagg, Gordon. "Wilson." Booklist 106, no. 19/20 (June 2010): 49
Kois, Dan. "PANEL DISCUSSION DANIEL CLOWES COVERS CARTOON HISTORY IN ONE GRAPHIC NOVEL." New York 43, no. 15 (May 10, 2010): 108
"Wilson." World Literature Today 84, no. 3 (May 2010): 8

Read: May 3, 2010

The 188th Crybaby Brigade: a skinny Jewish kid from Chicago fights Hezbollah: a memoir

2010-04-19T12:27:00.000-07:00

Author: Chasnoff, Joel

Title: The 188th Crybaby Brigade: a skinny Jewish kid from Chicago fights Hezbollah: a memoir

Published: New York: Free Press, 2010

Description: ix, 269 p. :ill., 1 map ; c 24 cm.

Call Number: U55 C475 A3 2010

Subject(s):

Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel -- Biography
Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel -- Military life
Soldiers -- Israel -- Biography
Americans -- Israel -- Biography
Arab-Israeli conflict --1993- -- Personal narratives, Jewish
Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Personal narratives, American
Hizballah (Lebanon)
Jewish youth -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
Chasnoff, Joel

Review(s):

"THE 188TH CRYBABY BRIGADE: A Skinny Jewish Kid, from Chicago Fights Hezbollah." Kirkus Reviews 77, no. 24 (December 15, 2009): 1266

Read: April 15, 2010

If the dead rise not: a Bernie Gunther novel

2010-04-19T12:06:00.000-07:00

Author: Kerr, Philip

Title: If the dead rise not: a Bernie Gunther novel

Published: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010

Description: 437 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PR6061 E784 I4 2010

Subject(s):

Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Private investigators -- Germany -- Fiction
Nazis -- Fiction
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction
Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction
Havana (Cuba) -- Fiction

Review(s):

"IF THE DEAD RISE NOT." Kirkus Reviews 78, no. 4 (February 15, 2010): 105
Terpening, Ron. "If the Dead Rise Not: A Bernie Gunther Novel." Library Journal 135, no. 2 (February 2010): 57
"If the Dead Rise Not: A Bernie Gunther Novel." Publishers Weekly 257, no. 3 (January 18, 2010): 28-29

Read: April 4, 2010

The man who went up in smoke: a Martin Beck mystery

2010-04-19T12:00:00.000-07:00

Author(s): Sjöwall, Maj and Per Wahlöö

Uniform Title: Mannen som gick upp i rök. English

Title: The man who went up in smoke: a Martin Beck mystery

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2008

Description: xiii, 183 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PT9876.29 J63 M313 2008

Note(s): Introduction by Val McDermid. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate

Subject(s):

Beck, Martin (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Police -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Stockholm (Sweden) -- Fiction

Review(s):

Ott, Bill. "It Began with Beck." Booklist 103, no. 17 (May 2007): 112
Nelson, William. "Art Where You Least Expect It: Myth and Ritual in the Detective Series." Modern Fiction Studies, 29, no. 3 (1983): 463-474
Williams, Thomas. "Martin Beck: The Swedish Version of Barney Miller without the Canned Laughter." Clues 1.1 (1980): 123-128

Read: February 23, 2010

Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: masters of war

2010-04-16T15:57:00.000-07:00

Author: Brighton, Terry

Title: Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: masters of war

Published: New York: Crown, 2009

Description: xix, 426 p. , 12 p. of plates :ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Call Number: D736 B73 2008

Bibliography: p. 407-411

Note(s): Originally published in Great Britain as Masters of battle: Monty, Patton and Rommel in 2008

Subject(s):

Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount, 1887-1976
Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945
Rommel, Erwin, 1891-1944
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe
World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography
Generals -- Germany -- Biography
Generals -- United States -- Biography
Marshals -- Great Britain -- Biography

Review(s):

Zabecki, David T. "Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War." Journal of Military History 74, no. 2 (April 2010): 626-627
Taylor, Gilbert. "Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War." Booklist 106, no. 4 (October 15, 2009): 19
"Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War." Publishers Weekly 256, no. 36 (September 7, 2009): 38-39

Read: February 13, 2010

The ticking is the bomb: a memoir

2010-04-16T15:00:00.000-07:00

Author: Flynn, Nick

Title: The ticking is the bomb: a memoir

Published: New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010

Description: 283 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3556 L894 Z468 2010

Subject(s):

Poets, American -- Biography
Fatherhood
Flynn, Nick, 1960-

Review(s):

"The Ticking Is the Bomb." New Yorker 86, no. 1 (February 15, 2010): 141
Shea, Mike. "THE TICKING IS THE BOMB." Texas Monthly 38, no. 1 (January 2010): 56
"THE TICKING IS THE BOMB: A Memoir." Kirkus Reviews 77, no. 21 (November 2009): 1147

Read: January 20, 2010

Footnotes in Gaza

2010-04-16T14:51:00.000-07:00

Author: Sacco, Joe

Title: Footnotes in Gaza

Published: New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009

Description: xi, 418 p. :chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: DS119.7 S29 2009

Subject(s):

Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1948-1967
Violence -- Gaza Strip -- Rafah -- History -- 20th century
Massacres -- Gaza Strip -- Khān Yūnus -- History -- 20th century
Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1948-1967 -- Personal narratives, Palestinian
Interviews -- Gaza Strip -- Rafah
Interviews -- Gaza Strip -- Khān Yūnus
Egypt -- History -- Intervention, 1956
Rafah -- History -- 20th century
Khān Yūnus -- History -- 20th century
Egypt -- History -- Intervention, 1956 -- Personal narratives, Palestinian
Graphic Novel

Review(s):

Chamy, Adam. "Footnotes in Gaza." Washington Report on Middle East Affairs 29, no. 2 (March 2010): 56
PATRICK, COCKBURN. "'They Planted Hatred in Our Hearts'." New York Times Book Review (December 27, 2009): 13
"A Return to Gaza." Kirkus Reviews 77, no. 13 (July 2009): 9

Read: January 11, 2010

The impostor's daughter: a true memoir

2010-04-16T14:42:00.000-07:00

Author: Sandell, Laurie

Title: The impostor's daughter: a true memoir

Published: New York: Little, Brown, 2009

Description: 247 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PN4874 S2687 A3 2009

Subject(s):

Sandell, Laurie -- Comic books, strips, etc
Journalists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

Goldsmith, Francisca. "The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir." Booklist 105, no. 21 (July 2009): 47
"THE IMPOSTOR'S DAUGHTER." Kirkus Reviews 77, no. 10 (May 15, 2009): 78

Read: January 9, 2010

San Martín: Argentine soldier, American hero

2010-01-08T11:13:00.000-08:00

Author: Lynch, John

Title: San Martín: Argentine soldier, American hero

Published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009

Description: xiv, 265 p., [8] p. of plates :ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Call Number: F2235.4 L95 2009

Bibliography: p. 250-255

Subject(s):

South America -- History -- Wars of Independence, 1806-1830
San Martín, José de, 1778-1850

Review(s):

ANNA, TIMOTHY E. "San Martín: Argentine Soldier, American Hero." Americas (00031615) 66, no. 2 (October 2009): 268-269
Feinberg, Richard. "San Martín: Argentine Soldier, American Hero." Foreign Affairs 88, no. 5 (September 2009): 157-158
"Forgotten strongman." Economist 390, no. 8628 (April 25, 2009): 87

Read: January 5, 2010

Isaac's storm: a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history

2010-01-08T11:09:00.000-08:00

Author: Larson, Erik

Title: Isaac's storm: a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2000

Description: 323 p. :ill ; 21 cm.

Note: Based on the diaries of Isaac Monroe Cline and on contemporary accounts

Bibliography: p. 307-313

Subject(s):

Galveston (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century
Hurricanes -- Texas -- Galveston -- History -- 20th century
Floods -- Texas -- Galveston -- History -- 20th century
Cline, Isaac Monroe, 1861-1955
Galveston (Tex.) -- Biography

Review(s):

Knox, John. "Isaac's Storm (Book Review)." National Forum 81, no. 1 (Winter2001 2001): 43
Bluestein, Howard B. "A meteorologist's nightmare." Nature 404, no. 6776 (March 23, 2000): 332
Foege, Alec, et al. "Bad Judgement Day." People 52, no. 17 (November 1999): 113

Read: December 29, 2009

Logicomix

2010-01-08T10:56:00.000-08:00

Author(s): Doxiadis, Apostolos and Christos H. Papadimitriou

Title: Logicomix

Published: New York: Bloomsbury, 2009

Description: 347 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Note(s): Art, Alecos Papadatos; color, Annie Di Donna

Subject(s):

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Logicians -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Mathematicians -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

"LOGICOMIX: AN EPIC SEARCH FOR TRUTH." Print 64, no. 1 (February 2010): 82
Papadatos, Alecos, Annie Di Donna, and Mike Holderness. "Holiday books: Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou, art." New Scientist 204, no. 2737 (December 5, 2009): 53
JIM, HOLT. "Algorithm and Blues." New York Times Book Review (September 27, 2009): 14

Read: December 21, 2009

Roseanna: a Martin Beck mystery

2009-12-15T13:53:00.000-08:00

Author(s): Sjöwall, Maj and Per Wahlöö

Uniform Title: Roseanna. English

Title: Roseanna: a Martin Beck mystery

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2008

Description: x, 212 p. : 21 cm.

Note(s): "With a new introduction by Henning Mankell"--P. [1] of cover./ "The first Martin Beck mystery"--P. [1] of cover./ "Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Subject(s):

Beck, Martin (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Police -- Sweden -- Stockholm -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Stockholm (Sweden) -- Fiction

Review(s):

Ott, Bill. "It Began with Beck." Booklist 103, no. 17 (May 2007): 112
Nelson, William. "Art Where You Least Expect It: Myth and Ritual in the Detective Series." Modern Fiction Studies, 29, no. 3 (1983): 463-474
Williams, Thomas. "Martin Beck: The Swedish Version of Barney Miller without the Canned Laughter." Clues 1.1 (1980): 123-128

Read: December 14, 2009

Stitches: a memoir...

2009-12-15T13:37:00.000-08:00

Author: Small, David

Title: Stitches : a memoir...

Published: New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009

Description: 329 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

Small, David, 1945- -- Comic books, strips, etc
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Artists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Cancer -- Patients -- Biography

Review(s):

Goldsmith, Francisca. "Stitches: A Memoir." School Library Journal 55, no. 9 (September 2009): 193
"Stitches: A Memoir." Publishers Weekly 256, no. 32 (August 10, 2009): 42
"Stitches: A Memoir." Kirkus Reviews 77, no. 13 (July 2009): 13

Read: December 12, 2009

What's the matter with Kansas?: how conservatives won the heart of America

2009-12-15T11:43:00.000-08:00

Author: Frank, Thomas

Title: What's the matter with Kansas?: how conservatives won the heart of America

Published: New York: Metropolitan/Owl Book, 2005

Description x, 322 p. : map, ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

Conservatism -- Kansas
Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1951-

Review(s):

Frank, Thomas, and James E. Sherow. "What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America." Kansas History 28, no. 3 (September 2005): 225
Mead, Walter Russell. "What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (Book)." Foreign Affairs 83, no. 6 (November 2004): 151
Gessen, Keith. "Winning Hearts, Losing Souls." Dissent (00123846) 51, no. 4 (Fall2004 2004): 104-106

Read: December 4, 2009

Down these mean streets

2009-12-15T11:26:00.000-08:00

Author: Thomas, Piri

Title: Down these mean streets

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 1997

Description: x, 340 p. ; 21 cm.

Note(s): Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. With new afterword

Subject(s):

Thomas, Piri, 1928-
Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography

Review(s):

Caminero-Santangelo, Marta. "Puerto Rican Negro": Defining Race in Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets." MELUS 29, no. 2 (Summer2004 2004): 206-226
Greenberg, Dorothee von Huene. "Piri Thomas: An Interview." MELUS 26, no. 3 (Fall2001 2001): 71
Stavans, Ilan. "Race and mercy: A conversation with Piri Thomas." Massachusetts Review 37, no. 3 (September 1996): 344

Read: November 11, 2009

Regeneration trilogy

2009-12-15T11:17:00.000-08:00

Author: Barker, Pat

Title: The Regeneration trilogy

Published: London: Viking, 1991

Description: 592 p. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 591-592

Contents:

Regeneration
The eye in the door
The ghost road

Subject(s):

Rivers, W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers), 1864-1922 -- Fiction
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967 -- Fiction
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Fiction
Anthropologists -- Fiction
Psychiatrists -- Fiction
War neuroses -- Fiction
Soldiers -- Fiction
Poets -- Fiction
England -- Fiction

Review(s):

Brannigan, John. "an interview with Pat Barker." Contemporary Literature 46, no. 3 (Fall2005 2005): 367-392
Johnson, Patricia E. "Embodying Losses in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy." Critique 46, no. 4 (Summer2005 2005): 307-319
Nickerson, Katherine G., and Steven Shea. "WHR Rivers: Portrait of a great physician in Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy." Lancet 350, no. 9072 (July 19, 1997): 205

Read:

Regeneration (October 22, 2009)
The eye in the door (November 3, 2009)
The ghost road (November 17, 2009)

The book of Genesis

2009-12-15T10:39:00.000-08:00

Uniform Title: Bible. O.T. Genesis. English. Alter-Crumb. 2009

Title: The book of Genesis

Published: New York: W.W. Norton, 2009

Description: 1 v. :ill ; 29 cm.

Note(s): From Genesis: translation and commentary, translated by Robert Alter, 1996; revised and illustrated by Robert Crumb

Subject(s):

Graphic novels

Review(s):

Flagg, Gordon. "The Book of Genesis Illustrated." Booklist 106, no. 4 (October 15, 2009): 33
"THE BOOK OF GENESIS ILLUSTRATED." Kirkus Reviews 77, no. 18 (September 15, 2009): 84
"The Book of Genesis Illustrated." Publishers Weekly 256, no. 37 (September 14, 2009): 33

Read: October 24, 2009

Payback: debt and the shadow side of wealth

2009-12-15T10:06:00.000-08:00

Author: Atwood, Margaret

Title: Payback: debt and the shadow side of wealth

Published: Toronto: Anansi, 2008

Description: 230 p. ; 21 cm.

Bibliography: p. 215-219

Note: Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt, exploring debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies

Subject(s):

Debt -- Social Aspects
Debt in literature

Review(s):

Pringle, Diana. "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth." Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis 20, no. 2 (July 2009): 370-372
"LIFE AND DEBT." Canadian Business 81, no. 20 (November 24, 2008): 31-33
"The creditor's tale." Economist 389, no. 8602 (October 18, 2008): 96

Read: October 17, 2009

The handmaid’s tale

2009-09-27T20:13:00.000-07:00

Author: Atwood, Margaret

Title: The handmaid’s tale

Published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1986

Description: 324 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

Misogyny -- Fiction
Women -- Fiction

Review(s):

Neuman, Shirley. "'Just a Backlash': Margaret Atwood, Feminism, and The Handmaid's Tale." University of Toronto Quarterly 75, no. 3 (Summer2006 2006): 857-868
Sullivan, Rosemary. "What If? Writing The Handmaid's Tale." University of Toronto Quarterly 75, no. 3 (Summer2006 2006): 850-856
Thomas, Deborah A. ""DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN": ECHOES OF HARD TIMES IN THE HANDMAID'S TALE." Dickens Quarterly 25, no. 2 (June 2008): 90-97

Read: September 26, 2009

The defense of Jisr al-Doreaa: with E.D. Swinton's the Defence of Duffer's Drift

2009-09-27T20:02:00.000-07:00

Author(s): Burgoyne, Michael L. and Albert J. Marckwardt

Title: The defense of Jisr al-Doreaa: with E.D. Swinton’s the Defence of Duffer’s Drift

Published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009

Description: xvii, 156 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 155-156

Note(s): Foreword by John A. Nagl. Includes full text reprint of E.D. Swinton’s the Defence of Duffer’s Drift

Subject(s):

Counterinsurgency
Guerrilla warfare
Tactics
Iraq War, 2003-
South African War, 1899-1902
Didactic literature

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: September 9, 2009

The wind-up bird chronicle

2009-09-27T19:47:00.000-07:00

Author: Murakami, Haruki

Uniform Title: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. English

Title: The wind-up bird chronicle

Published: New York: Vintage International, 1998

Description: 609 p. ; 21 cm.

Bibliography: p. 609

Note(s): "This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin

Subject(s):

Japan -- Fiction
Japan -- Politics and government -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Fiction

Review(s):

Fisher, Susan. "An Allegory of Return: Murakami Haruki's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle." Comparative Literature Studies 37, no. 2 (June 2000): 155
Ty Lai, Amy. "Memory, Hybridity, and Creative Alliance in Haruki Murakami's Fiction." . 163-179
Iyer, Pico. "Tales of the living dead." Time 150, no. 18 (November 03, 1997): 114

Read: September 7, 2009

A quiet flame

2009-09-27T19:31:00.000-07:00

Author: Kerr, Philip

Title: A quiet flame

Published: New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2009

Description: 389 p. ; 24 cm.

Note(s): "A Marian Wood book." Originally published: London: Quercus, 2008

Subject(s):

Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Private investigators -- Fiction
Undercover operations -- Fiction
Nazis -- Fiction
Girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Argentina -- Politics and government -- 1943-1955 -- Fiction
Argentina -- History -- 1943-1955 -- Fiction
Mystery fiction
Historical fiction

Review(s):

Noir, Nazi, and Bill Ott. "ROUSING READS." American Libraries 40, no. 4 (April 2009): 65
"A QUIET FLAME." Kirkus Reviews 77, no. 5 (March 2009): 38
Ott, Bill. "A Quiet Flame." Booklist 105, no. 11 (February 2009): 5

Read: August 15, 2009

The red tree

2009-08-13T19:27:00.001-07:00

Author: Tan, Shaun

Title: The red tree

Published: Vancouver: Simply Read Books, 2003

Description: 1 v. :ill. ; 32 cm.

Subject(s):

Depression, Mental -- Juvenile fiction
Loneliness -- Juvenile fiction
Hope -- Juvenile fiction

Review(s):

Jones, Trevelyn E. et al. "The Red Tree (Book)." School Library Journal 49, no. 4 (April 2003): 140
Roback, Diane et al. "THE RED TREE (Book)." Publishers Weekly 250, no. 4 (January 27, 2003): 259
"THE RED TREE (Book)." Kirkus Reviews 71, no. 2 (January 15, 2003): 148

Read: August 7, 2009

American gods: the author's preferred text

2009-08-13T19:05:00.001-07:00

Author: Gaiman, Neil

Title: American gods: the author's preferred text

Published: London: Headline Review, 2005

Description: 640 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject(s):

Spiritual warfare -- Fiction
Ex-convicts -- Fiction
Widowers -- Fiction

Review(s):

De Lint, Charles. "BOOKS TO LOOK FOR." Fantasy & Science Fiction 101, no. 3 (September 2001): 96
Kim, Ann. "American Gods (Book Review)." Library Journal 126, no. 11 (June 15, 2001): 102
Zaleski, Jeff. "AMERICAN GODS (Book review)." Publishers Weekly 248, no. 22 (May 28, 2001): 46

Read: July 27, 2009

Deutsche Bilder--eine Spurensuche 1992-2008

2009-08-13T18:46:00.000-07:00

Author: Leitolf, Eva

Title: Deutsche Bilder--eine Spurensuche 1992-2008

Published: Köln: Snoeck, 2008

Description: 88 p. :ill. ; 32 cm.

Note: "Dieses Buch erscheint parallel zur Ausstellung "Eva Leitolf. Deutsche Bilder - eine Spurensuche", Pinakothek der Moderne, München, 25.07.2008-19.10.2008."--Colophon

Subject(s):

Documentary photography -- Germany -- Exhibitions
Aliens -- Violence against -- Germany -- Exhibitions
Foreign workers -- Violence against -- Germany -- Exhibitions
Crime scenes -- Germany -- Exhibitions
Leitolf, Eva -- Exhibitions

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: July 22, 2009