Chess bitch: women in the ultimate intellectual sport

Author: Shahade, Jennifer

Title: Chess bitch: women in the ultimate intellectual sport

Published: Los Angeles: Siles Press, 2005

Description: x, 320 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 314-316

Subject(s):

• Women chess players -- Biography

Review(s):

• Hoffman, Paul. "Chess queen: at 22, Jennifer Shahade is the strongest American-born woman chess player ever." Smithsonian 34.5 (August 2003): 72

Read: May 25, 2007

Out of danger

Author: Fenton, James

Title: Out of danger

Published: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994

Description: 104 p. ; 22 cm.

Review(s):

• Stark, Ellen Kreger. "An American's confession: on reading James Fenton's 'Out of Danger.'." Critical Quarterly 36.n2 (Summer 1994): 106
• Bogen, Don. "Out of Danger." The Nation 259.n13 (Oct 24, 1994): 464
• "Out of Danger." Publishers Weekly 241.n26 (June 27, 1994): 67

Read: May 22, 2007

The pale criminal

Author: Kerr, Philip

Title: The pale criminal

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2005, 1990

Description: 272 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject(s):

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

Review(s):

• Altinel, Savkar. "The Pale Criminal." Times Literary Supplement n4552 (June 29, 1990 n4552): 704

Read: May 14, 2007

Murder city: the bloody history of Chicago in the twenties

Author: Lesy, Michael

Title: Murder city: the bloody history of Chicago in the twenties

Published: New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007

Description: 344 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 311-321

Subject(s):

• Homicide -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies
• Murder -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies
• Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions

Review(s):

• "Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties." Kirkus Reviews 74.22 (Nov 15, 2006): 1163

Read: May 12, 2007

Epileptic

Author: B., David

Title: Epileptic

Published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2005

Description: 361 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Note(s): "Originally published in France in six volumes as L’ascension du haut-mal, by L’Association, Paris, 1996-2004. Volumes 1, 2, and 3 were originally published in a single volume in English as Epileptic 1, by L’Association, Paris, in 2002"--T.p. verso. Translated by Kim Thompson

Subject(s):

• Graphic novels

Review(s):

• Gould, Tony. "Fits and starts." Spectator 297.9210 (Feb 12, 2005): 38
• Flagg, Gordon. "B., David. Epileptic." Booklist 101.8 (Dec 15, 2004): 716
• "B., David: Epileptic." Kirkus Reviews 72.23 (Dec 1, 2004): 1117

Read: May 9, 2007

A coffin for Dimitrios

Author: Ambler, Eric

Title: A coffin for Dimitrios

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2001, 1937

Description: 304 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Novelists -- Fiction
• British -- Balkan Peninsula -- Fiction
• Suspense fiction
• Spy stories
• Balkan Peninsula -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Bernard, Andre. "A Coffin for Dimitrios." The Kenyon Review 29.1 (Wntr 2007): 6

Read: May 2, 2007