The battle: a new history of Waterloo

Author: Barbero, Alessandro

Title: The battle: a new history of Waterloo

Published: New York: Walker & Company, 2006

Description: xii, 340 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 318-324

Note: Translated by John Cullen

Subject(s):

• Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
• Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- Belgium
• France -- History, Military -- 1789-1815

Review(s):

• Poremba, David Lee. "Barbero, Alessandro. The Battle: A New History of Waterloo." Library Journal 130.12 (July 1, 2005): 96
• "Barbero, Alessandro: The Battle: A New History of Waterloo." Kirkus Reviews 73.10 (May 15, 2005): 569
• "The Battle: A New History of Waterloo." Publishers Weekly 252.20 (May 16, 2005): 53

Read: February 24, 2007

In the miso soup

Author: Murakami, Ryu

Title: In the miso soup

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2006, 2003

Description: 217 p. ; 18 cm.

Note(s): Originally published: New York: Kodansha America, 2003. Translated by Ralph McCarthy

Subject(s):

• Tour guides (Persons) -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction
• Tokyo (Japan) -- Social conditions -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Samuel, Yoshiko Yokochi. "Ryu Murakami. In the Miso Soup." World Literature Today 78.3-4 (Sept-Dec 2004): 88
• "In the Miso Soup." Kirkus Reviews 71.22 (Nov 15, 2003): 1334

Read: February 20, 2007

Provocaciones: letters from the prettiest girl in Arvín

Author: Castro, Rafaela

Title: Provocaciones: letters from the prettiest girl in Arvín

Published: San Jose: Chusma House, 2006

Description: 162 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Mexican Americans -- California -- Biography
• Children of agricultural laborers -- California -- Biography
• Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Biography
• Castro, Rafaela, 1943- -- Childhood and youth

Read: February 19, 2007

The call of the weird: travels in American subcultures

Author: Theroux, Louis

Title: The call of the weird: travels in American subcultures

Published: Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2007, 2005

Description: xiv, 266 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Note: Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2005

Subject(s):

• Subculture -- United States
• Eccentrics and eccentricities -- United States -- Biography
• National characteristics, American
• United States -- Description and travel
• United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
• United States -- Biography
• United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
• Theroux, Louis -- Travel -- United States

Review(s):

• Hughes-Hallett, Lucy. "A bemused and amused bystander.(The Call of the Weird: Travels in America Subcultures)" Spectator 299.9246 (Oct 22, 2005): 46
• "The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures." Kirkus Reviews 74.22 (Nov 15, 2006): 1168

Read: February 18, 2007

Wrongful death: a medical tragedy

Author: Gilbert, Sandra M.

Title: Wrongful death: a medical tragedy

Published: New York: Norton, 1995

Description: 364 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Note: Subtitle of paperback ed.: a memoir

Bibliography: p. 355-364

Subject(s):

• Medical personnel -- Malpractice
• Malpractice -- Personal Narratives
• Gilbert, Elliot L.

Review(s):

• Demetrio, Thomas A. "Wrongful Death: A Medical Tragedy." Trial 31.n10 (Oct 1995): 90
• Alther, Lisa. "Wrongful Death: A Medical Tragedy." The Women's Review of Books 12.n10-11 (July 1995): 18
• Varnes, Kathrine. "Wrongful Death: A Medical Tragedy." Parnassus: Poetry in Review (Spring 1999): 317

Read: February 18, 2007

Drawing fire: a combat artist at war: Pacific, Europe, Korea, Indochina, Vietnam

Author: Brodie, Howard

Title: Drawing fire: a combat artist at war: Pacific, Europe, Korea, Indochina, Vietnam

Published: Los Altos: Portolá Press, 1996

Description: viii, 159 p. :ill. ; 26 cm.

Note: Foreword by Walter Cronkite

Subject(s):

• Artists -- United States -- Biography
• War in art
• Brodie, Howard

Read: February 15, 2007

Classics revisited

Author: Rexroth, Kenneth

Title: Classics revisited

Published: New York: New Directions, 1986, 1968

Description: ix, 214 p. ; 21 cm.

Note(s): Originally published: New York: Avon, 1968. Afterword by Bradford Morrow

Subject(s):

• Literature -- History and criticism

Read: February 12, 2007

El rompimiento amoroso en la poesía

Title: El rompimiento amoroso en la poesía

Published: México: Alforja, 2006

Description: 78 p. ; 16 cm.

Note: José Vicente Anaya (compilador)

Subject(s):

• Love poetry -- Translations into Spanish
• Love poetry, Spanish

Read: February 11, 2007

Voyeur

Title: Voyeur

Published: New York: HarperCollins, 1999

Description: 1 v. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Note: Edited by Charles Melcher and Steven Diamond

Subject(s):

• Photography, Erotic
• Voyeurism

Read: February 11, 2007

The devil's highway: a true story

Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto

Title: The devil's highway: a true story

Published: New York: Back Bay Books, 2005

Description: xvi, 239, 11 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Illegal aliens -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region
• United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
• Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
• Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions

Review(s):

• Childress, Boyd. "Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Devil's Highway." Library Journal 129.5 (March 15, 2004): 96
• "* Urrea, Luis Alberto The Devil's Highway: a True Story." Kirkus Reviews 72.3 (Feb 1, 2004): 124
• The Devil's Highway: a True Story." Publishers Weekly 251.10 (March 8, 2004): 66

Read: February 3, 2007

Rapture

Author: Duffy, Carol Ann

Title: Rapture

Published: London: Picador, 2005

Description: 62 p. ; 21 cm.

Note: "Poetry Book Society choice"--Cover

Subject(s):

• Love poetry, English

Read: February 2, 2007

Teenage lust: an autobiography

Author: Clark, Larry

Title: Teenage lust: an autobiography

Published: New York: Clark, 1983

Description: 148 p. :ill. ; 30 cm.

Subject(s):

• Photography, Artistic
• Clark, Larry

Read: February 1, 2007

Small rooms & hidden places

Author: Wohlauer, Ronald W.

Title: Small rooms & hidden places

Published: Boston: D.R. Godine, 2004

Description: 101 p. :ill. ; 23 x 25 cm.

Note(s): With a journal by Elizabeth Wohlauer; foreword by David Bayles

Subject(s):

• Landscape photography
• British Isles -- Pictorial works
• West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
• Photography, Artistic
• Photography of the nude
• Photography of women
• Wohlauer, Ronald W.

Read: January 31, 2007

Hopper

Author: Strand, Mark

Title: Hopper

Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001, 1994

Description: vii, 69 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation

Review(s):

• Kardokas, Laima. "The twilight zone of experience uncannily shared by Mark Strand and Edward Hopper.(Critical Essay)." Mosaic (Winnipeg) 38.2 (June 2005): 111
• "Hopper." Publishers Weekly 240.n48 (Nov 29, 1993): 47
• Miller, Nolan. "Hopper." The Antioch Review 54.n2 (Spring 1996): 245

Read: January 27, 2007

The night listener: a novel

Author: Maupin, Armistead

Title: The night listener: a novel

Published: New York: Perennial, 2001, 2000

Description: 342 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Radio broadcasters -- Fiction
• Adopted children -- Fiction
• Abused children -- Fiction
• Father figures -- Fiction
• Sick children -- Fiction
• Boys -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Marler, Regina. "Night moves: Armistead Maupin wrote The Night Listener after he was duped into a phone friendship with someone posing as an abused teenage boy. Now the book is a film. Maupin talks with Regina Marler about this "gritty little thriller".(Interview)." The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) 967 (July 18, 2006): 49
• Duralde, Alonso. "A new tale to tell.(Interview)." The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Oct 24, 2000): 96

Read: January 26, 2007

Feet of clay: saints, sinners, and madmen: a study of gurus

Author: Storr, Anthony

Title: Feet of clay: saints, sinners, and madmen: a study of gurus

Published: New York: Free Press, 1996

Description: xvii, 253 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 235-248

Subject(s):

• Gurus -- Biography
• Spiritual biography
• Cults -- Biography
• Gurus -- Psychology
• Authoritarianism -- Religious aspects
• Control (Psychology) -- Religious aspects
• Charisma (Personality trait)

Review(s):

• "Feet of Clay." The Economist (US) 340.n7975 (July 20, 1996): S12
• "Feet of Clay: The Power and Charisma of Gurus." Publishers Weekly 243.n27 (July 1, 1996): 51

Read: January 26, 2007

Shenzhen: a travelogue from China

Author: Delisle, Guy

Title: Shenzhen: a travelogue from China

Published: Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2006

Description: 148 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Note: First published in French under the title Shenzhen, Paris: L'Association, 2000

Subject(s):

• Canadian wit and humor, Pictorial (French) -- Québec (Province)
• Shenzhen (Guangdong Sheng, China : East) -- Fiction

Review(s):

• "Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China." Publishers Weekly 253.37 (Sept 18, 2006): 42
• Flagg, Gordon. "Delisle, Guy. Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China." Booklist 102.22 (August 1, 2006): 60
• "Delisle, Guy: Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China." Kirkus Reviews 74.14 (July 15, 2006): 701

Read: January 24, 2007

Four testimonies: poems

Author: Daniels, Kate

Title: Four testimonies: poems

Published: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998

Description: 100 p. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 99-100

Subject(s):

• Women -- Poetry

Review(s):

• Norris, Kathleen. "Four Testimonies." The Christian Century 115.n28 (Oct 21, 1998): 968
• Shomer, Enid. "Conflicting emotions.(poetry anthologies by Chana Bloch and Kate Daniels)." The Women's Review of Books 16.8 (May 1999): 13
• BECKER, ROBIN. "The Poetics of Engagement.(eight books by American women poets)." The American Poetry Review 30.6 (Nov-Dec 2001): 11

Read: January 15, 2007

Stalin’s folly: the tragic first ten days of World War II on the Eastern front

Author: Pleshakov, Konstantin

Title: Stalin’s folly: the tragic first ten days of World War II on the Eastern front

Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 2005

Description: 326 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Bibliography: p. 305-311

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front
• Stalin, Joseph

Review(s):

• Legvold, Robert. "Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front." Foreign Affairs 84.3 (May-June 2005): 146
• Doyle, Jim. "Pleshakov, Constantine. Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front." Library Journal 130.8 (May 1, 2005): 102
• "Pleshakov, Constantine: Stalin's Folly: the Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front.(Book Review)." Kirkus Reviews 73.6 (March 15, 2005): 340

Read: January 10, 2007

Abandon the old in Tokyo

Author: Tatsumi, Yoshihiro

Title: Abandon the old in Tokyo

Published: Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2006

Note: Translated by Yuji Oniki

Subject(s):

• Graphic novels
• Tatsumi, Yoshihiro-- Translations into English

Review(s):

• "Tatsumi, Yoshihiro: Abandon the Old in Tokyo: Stories." Kirkus Reviews 74.14 (July 15, 2006): 702
• Ramzy, Austin. "Drawn to the Dark Side.(Show Business; Books; Uncovered)(Abandon the Old in Tokyo)." Time International (Asia Edition) 168.11 (Sept 11, 2006): 48
• Flagg, Gordon. "Tatsumi, Yoshihiro. Abandon the Old in Tokyo." Booklist 103.1 (Sept 1, 2006): 70

Read: January 3, 2007

One life

Author: Lampert, Tom

Title: One life

Published: Orlando: Harcourt, 2004

Description: xi, 284 p. ; 21 cm.

Bibliography: p. 227-284

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• War criminals -- Germany -- Biography

Review(s):

• "Lampert, Tom: One Life." Kirkus Reviews 72.17 (Sept 1, 2004): 850
• Driscoll, Brendan. "Lampert, Tom. One Life." Booklist 101.4 (Oct 15, 2004): 383

Read: December 29, 2006

Gozo del sexo: antologia poética

Title: Gozo del sexo: antologia poética

Published: México: Alforja, 2006

Description: 78 p. ; 16 cm.

Note: José Vicente Anaya (compilador)

Subject(s):

• Erotic poetry -- Translations into Spanish
• Erotic poetry, Spanish

Read: December 29, 2006

Setting the desert on fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain’s secret war in Arabia, 1916-18

Author: Barr, James

Title: Setting the desert on fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain’s secret war in Arabia, 1916-18

Published: London: Bloomsbury, 2006

Description: xvi, 362 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 315-348

Subject(s):

• World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Arab countries
• Arab countries -- History -- Arab Revolt, 1916-1918
• Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1914-1945
• Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward)

Review(s):

• Rhodes, Fred. "Setting the Desert on Fire: The Arab Revolt of 1916." The Middle East 370 (August-Sept 2006): 64

Read: December 26, 2006

The immortal game: a history of chess or how 32 carved pieces on a board illuminated our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain

Author: Shenk, David

Title: The immortal game: a history of chess or how 32 carved pieces on a board illuminated our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain

Published: New York: Doubleday, 2006

Description: xvii, 327 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 287-313

Subject(s):

• Chess -- History

Review(s):

• "Shenk, David: The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science, and the Human Brain." Kirkus Reviews 74.12 (June 15, 2006): 626
• Taylor, Gilbert. "Shenk, David. The Immortal Game: A History of Chess; or, How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science, and the Human Brain." Booklist 103.1 (Sept 1, 2006): 49

Read: December 23, 2006

Hollywood: a novel

Author: Bukowski, Charles

Title: Hollywood: a novel

Published: New York: Ecco, 2002, 1989

Description: 239 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject(s):

• Motion picture industry -- Fiction
• Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction

Read: December 22, 2006

Beach red: a novel

Author: Bowman, Peter

Title: Beach red: a novel

Published: New York: Random house, 1945

Description: 122 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction

Read: December 18, 2006

In the middle distance: poems

Author: Gregg, Linda

Title: In the middle distance: poems

Published: Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006

Description: 66 p. ; 23 cm.

Review(s):

• Tyler, Meg. "In the Middle Distance: Poems." Harvard Review 31 (Dec 2006): 197
• Chiasson, Dan. "Eight takes.(COMMENT)(The Totality for Kids)(Sinner's Welcome)(In the Middle Distance)(Fiction)(As Long As It's Big)(Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems 1985-2005)(After)(District and Circle)." Poetry 188.5 (Sept 2006): 449

Read: November 24, 2006

March violets

Author: Kerr, Philip

Title: March violets

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2004, 1989

Description: 245 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject(s):

• Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Private investigators -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction
• Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction

Read: November 23, 2006

The Nimrod flip-out

Author: Keret, Etgar

Title: The Nimrod flip-out

Published: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006

Description: 176 p. ; 22 cm.

Note: Translated by Miriam Shlesinger and Sondra Silverston

Subject(s):

• Satire, Hebrew -- Translations into English
• Keret, Etgar, 1967- -- Translations into English

Review(s):

• Hubbard, Kim, Kyle Smith, Maria Speidel, and Josh Emmons. "Books.('Daniel Isn't Talking', 'Duchess of Nothing', 'Halfway House', 'Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France', 'Saving the World', 'The Book Thief', 'The Nimrod Flip Out', 'We Are All Welcome Here')." People Weekly 65.14 (April 10, 2006): 45

Read: November 17, 2006

What is this thing called love

Author: Addonizio, Kim

Title: What is this thing called love

Published: New York: W.W. Norton, 2005, 2004

Description: 128 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Poetry -- Man-woman relationships

Review(s):

• Seaman, Donna. "Addonizio, Kim. What Is This Thing Called Love." Booklist 100.8 (Dec 15, 2003): 720

Read: November 13, 2006

Spook: science tackles the afterlife

Author: Roach, Mary

Title: Spook: science tackles the afterlife

Published: New York: W.W. Norton, 2006

Description: 320 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Future life
• Religion and science

Review(s):

• Martinez, Greg. "The big sleep or just a nap?(Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife)." Skeptical Inquirer 30.4 (July-August 2006): 55
• "Roach, Mary: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife." Kirkus Reviews 73.15 (August 1, 2005): 835
• "Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife." Publishers Weekly 252.33 (August 22, 2005): 54

Read: November 12, 2006

Watchmen

Author(s): Moore, Alan, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins

Title: Watchmen

Published: New York: DC Comics, 2005

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

Note(s): "Originally published in single magazine form as Watchmen 1-12"--T.p. verso; "Includes 48 pages of supplemental material that has been out of print for nearly two decades, featuring a sampling of Alan Moore’s script pages and the original series proposal, plus tons of Dave Gibbons’s initial character designs, cover sketches, and promo pieces"--Slipcase

Subject(s):

• Graphic novels

Review(s):

• Fishbaugh, Brent. "Moore and Gibbons's 'Watchmen': exact personifications of science." Extrapolation 39.n3 (Fall 1998): 189
• Raiteri, Steve. "Graphic novels." Library Journal 131.1 (Jan 1, 2006): 86

Read: November 3, 2006

The ghosts of Iwo Jima

Author: Burrell, Robert S.

Title: The ghosts of Iwo Jima

Published: College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006

Description: xvii, 262 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 205-254

Subject(s):

• Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945
• Marines -- United States
• United States. Marine Corps -- History -- World War, 1939-1945

Read: October 23, 2006

The road

Author: McCarthy, Cormac

Title: The road

Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006

Description: 241 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject(s):

• Fathers and sons -- Fiction
• Voyages and travels -- Fiction
• Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction
• Survival skills -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Smee, Sebastian. "When all the clocks have stopped.(The Road)." Spectator (Nov 11, 2006): NA
• "McCarthy, Cormac: The Road." Kirkus Reviews 74.14 (July 15, 2006): 694

Read: October 15, 2006

Imaginary weapons: a journey through the Pentagon’s scientific underworld

Author: Weinberger, Sharon

Title: Imaginary weapons: a journey through the Pentagon’s scientific underworld

Published: New York: Nation Books, 2006

Description: xxviii, 276 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Military weapons -- Research -- United States
• Fraud in science -- United States
• Science -- Methodology

Review(s):

• Hecht, Jeff. "A perverse military strategy: the development of a new type of mini-nuke is a classic tale of fringe science making it onto the military research agenda, but Jeff Hecht wonders if there might have been more to it.(Imaginary Weapons : A Journey through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld)." New Scientist 190.2556 (June 17, 2006): 57
• "Imaginary Weapons: A Journey through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld.(Sharon Weinberger)." Publishers Weekly 253.15 (April 10, 2006): 53

Read: October 3, 2006

Japanese destroyer captain

Author(s): Hara, Tameichi, Fred Saito, and Roger Pineau

Title: Japanese destroyer captain

Published: New York: Ballantine books, 1961

Description: 311 p. :ill. ; 18 cm.

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Japanese
• Ship captains -- Japan -- Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese

Read: September 30, 2006

Articles of war: a novel

Author: Arvin, Nick

Title: Articles of war: a novel

Published: New York: Doubleday, 2005

Description: 178 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction
• Americans -- France -- Fiction
• Women refugees -- Fiction
• Cowardice -- Fiction
• Soldiers -- Fiction
• France -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Conroy, Robert. "Arvin, Nick. Articles of War." Library Journal 130.1 (Jan 1, 2005): 93
• "Arvin, Nick: Articles of War." Kirkus Reviews 72.23 (Dec 1, 2004): 1099

Read: September 24, 2006

The man who planted trees

Author: Giono, Jean

Title: The man who planted trees

Published: Boston: Shambhala, 1999, 1985

Description: 74 p. :ill. ; 12 cm.

Note: Originally published: Chelsea, VT: Chelsea Green Pub. Co., 1985. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy

Subject(s):

• Tree planting -- Fiction
• Ecology -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Giono, Jean. "The man who planted trees. (reprint from book of the same title)." Country Living 20.n3 (March 1997): 120

Read: September 21, 2006

The ghost that died at Sunda Strait

Author: Winslow, Walter G.

Title: The ghost that died at Sunda Strait

Published: Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984

Description: xx, 244 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 233-238

Subject(s):

• Java Sea, Battle of the, Indonesia, 1942
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American
• Sunda Strait, Battle of, Indonesia, 1942
• Houston (Cruiser : CA-30)

Read: September 18, 2006

Ham on rye: a novel

Author: Bukowski, Charles

Title: Ham on rye: a novel

Published: New York: Ecco Press, 2002, 1982

Description: 283 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Note: Originally published: Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1982

Subject(s):

• Teenage boys -- Fiction
• Alcoholics -- Fiction
• Authors -- Fiction
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction

Read: September 9, 2006

Hitler's African victims: the German Army massacres of Black French soldiers in 1940

Author: Scheck, Raffael

Title: Hitler's African victims: the German Army massacres of Black French soldiers in 1940

Published: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Description: xiii, 202 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Bibliography: p. 167-198

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- France
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
• Blacks -- Nazi persecution -- France
• Prisoners of war -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• Prisoners of war -- Africa, West --History -- 20th century

Review(s):

• "Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940." African Business 322 (July 2006): 65

Read: September 5, 2006

Most succinctly bred

Author: Vernon, Alex

Title: Most succinctly bred

Published: Kent: The Kent State University Press, 2006

Description: xii, 100 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject(s):

• Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Personal narratives, American
• Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Influence
• Vernon, Alex

Read: August 26, 2006

An Iliad

Author: Baricco, Alessandro

Title: An Iliad

Published: New York: Knopf, 2006

Description: xi, 158 p. ; 22 cm.

Note: "Originally published in Italy as Omero, Iliade by Feltrinelli, Milan, in 2004"--T.p. verso; translated by Ann Goldstein

Subject(s):

• Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English
• Achilles (Greek mythology) -- Poetry
• Trojan War -- Poetry

Review(s):

• "The Iliad." Publishers Weekly 253.10 (March 6, 2006): 45

Read: August 20, 2006

Zombie

Author: Oates, Joyce Carol

Title: Zombie

Published: New York: Dutton, 1995

Description: 181 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Serial murders -- Fiction
• Psychopaths -- Fiction
• Michigan -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Tompkins, Cynthia. "Zombie." World Literature Today 70.n3 (Summer 1996): 693
• Joyce, Alice. "Zombie." Booklist 92.n1 (Sept 1, 1995): 42

Read: August 6, 2006

Emplumada

Author: Cervantes, Lorna Dee

Title: Emplumada

Published: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981

Description: 68 p. ; 21 cm.

Review(s):

• Wallace, Patricia. "Divided loyalties: literal and literary in the poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cathy Song and Rita Dove. (Poetry and Poetics)." MELUS 18.n3 (Fall 1993): 3

Read: August 5, 2006

Blizzard of one

Author: Strand, Mark

Title: Blizzard of one

Published: London: Waywiser, 2005

Description: 95 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Poetry
• American poetry

Review(s):

• Brown, Ashley. "Blizzard of One." World Literature Today 73.2 (Spring 1999): 333
• Simic, Charles. "On the night train.(books of poet Mark Strand)." The New York Review of Books 47.13 (August 10, 2000): 52
• "Blizzard of One." Publishers Weekly 245.n17 (April 27, 1998): 62

Read: August 2, 2006

Ill lit: selected & new poems

Author: Wright, Franz

Title: Ill lit: selected & new poems

Published: Oberlin: Oberlin College Press, 1998

Description: 185 p. ; 23 cm.

Read: August 1, 2006

An accidental soldier: memoirs of a Mestizo in Vietnam

Author: Garcia, Manny

Title: An accidental soldier: memoirs of a Mestizo in Vietnam

Published: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003

Description: vi, 278 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Hispanic American
• Garcia, Manny

Read: July 28, 2006

Zen in the art of archery

Author: Herrigel, Eugen

Title: Zen in the art of archery

Published: New York: Pantheon Books, 1953

Description: 109 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Archery
• Zen Buddhism

Review(s):

• O'Brien Liam. "Zen in the art of archery: a practitioner's view." Middle Way 78.4 (Feb-April 2004): 195-204

Read: July 12, 2006

Origami bridges: poems of psychoanalysis and fire

Author: Ackerman, Diane

Title: Origami bridges: poems of psychoanalysis and fire

Published: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002

Description: xii, 147 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Psychotherapist and patient -- Poetry
• Psychoanalysis -- Poetry
• Psychology -- Poetry

Review(s):

• Seaman, Donna. "Ackerman, Diane. Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire." Booklist 99.1 (Sept 1, 2002): 48
• Steinman, Lisa Malinowski. "The personal lyric and the physical world.(Jab)(Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire)(The Evening Sun: A Journal in Poetry)(The Volcano Sequence)." Michigan Quarterly Review 43.1 (Wntr 2004): 117-132

Read: July 6, 2006