Exit wounds

Author: Modan, Rutu

Title: Exit wounds

Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2007

Description: 172 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Suicide bombings -- Israel -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Fathers and sons -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• Celayo, Armando. "Rutu Modan. Exit Wounds." World Literature Today 82.1 (Jan-Feb 2008): 65
• Moffett, Matthew L. "Modan, Rutu. Exit Wounds." School Library Journal 53.5 (May 2007): 171
• "Exit Wounds." Publishers Weekly 254.7 (Feb 12, 2007): 69

Read: January 29, 2008

Golden palms

Author: Panar, Ed

Title: Golden palms

Published: Atlanta: J&L Books, 2007

Description: 1 v. :ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.

Note(s): Interview with photographer by Charlotte Cotton with title: Monkey wrench symbolism, and index of prints tipped in

Subject(s):

• Photography, Artistic
• Landscape photography -- California -- Los Angeles
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
• Panar, Ed

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: Janaury 28, 2008

Swimming sweet arrow: a novel

Author: Gibbon, Maureen

Title: Swimming sweet arrow: a novel

Published: Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co., 2001

Description: 205, [12] p. ; 21 cm.

Note: Includes : "A reading group guide." [12] p., 2001

Subject(s):

• Female friendship -- Fiction
• Young women -- Fiction
• Young women -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Meloy, Maile. "Careless love: a debut novel examines the friendship of two high school girls through their sexual exploits." The New York Times Book Review 105.23 (June 4, 2000): 28

Read: January 26, 2008

Cause for alarm

Author: Ambler, Eric, 1909-1998

Title: Cause for alarm

Published: New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2002

Description: 284 p. ; 21 cm.

Note: Originally published: New York, Knopf, 1939

Subject(s):

• Murder -- Fiction
• Spy stories

Review(s):

• Caterson, Simon. "ERIC AMBLER'S DARK FRONTIERS." Quadrant (Jan 2000): 87
• Evans, Julian. "Why British thriller writers of the 1930S, such as Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, offer a far better exploration of the nature of freedom than any other novelists. (Platform)." New Statesman (1996) 132.4628 (March 10, 2003): 55
• Rothstein, Edward. "The man who wrote the book on spies." The New York Times (August 17, 2002 col 1 (15 col): B9

Read: January 16, 2008

After the quake: stories

Author: Murakami, Haruki

Uniform Title: Kami no kodomotachi wa mina odoru. English

Title: After the quake: stories

Published: New York: Vintage, 2003

Description: 147 p. ; 21 cm.

Note: Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin

Subject(s):

• Japan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Short stories

Review(s):

• Lofgren, Erik R. "Haruki Murakami. After the Quake: Stories." World Literature Today 77.1 (April-June 2003): 99
• Picone, Jason. "Haruki Murakami. After the Quake." The Review of Contemporary Fiction 22.3 (Fall 2002): 157
• "After the Quake: Stories." Kirkus Reviews 70.11 (June 1, 2002): 763

Read: January 14, 2008

The myth of the Eastern Front: the Nazi-Soviet war in American popular culture

Author(s): Smelser, Ronald M. and Edward J. Davies II

Title: The myth of the Eastern Front: the Nazi-Soviet war in American popular culture

Published: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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

Bibliography: p. 261-317

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Public opinion
• Propaganda, German -- United States
• Germany -- Foreign public opinion, American
• Public opinion -- United States
• Myth

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: January 8, 2008

The Mamur Zapt

Author: Pearce, Michael

Title: The Mamur Zapt

Published: Scottsdale: Poison Pen Press, 2001-

Description: v. <1-15> ; 22 cm.

Contents:

• vol. 1 The Mamur Zapt & the return of the carpet

Subject(s):

• Owen, Gareth Cadwallader (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Police -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Fiction
• British -- Egypt -- Fiction
• Cairo (Egypt) -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Steinberg, Sybil. "The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet." Publishers Weekly 237.n38 (Sept 21, 1990): 66

Read:

• vol. 1 (January 6, 2008)

Driftless: photographs from Iowa

Author: Frazier, Danny Wilcox

Title: Driftless: photographs from Iowa

Published: Durham: Duke University Press, 2007

Description: 1 v. :ill. ; 33 cm.

Note(s): "Winner of the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book prize in photography"--P. facing t.p. Foreword by Robert Frank

Subject(s):

• Documentary photography -- Iowa
• Country life -- Iowa -- Pictorial works
• Frazier, Danny Wilcox, 1970-

Review(s):

• Olson, Ray. "Driftless: Photographs from Iowa." Booklist 104.7 (Dec 1, 2007): 12

Read: January 5, 2008

The foreign correspondent: a novel

Author: Furst, Alan

Title: The foreign correspondent: a novel

Published: New York: Random House Trade Pbks., 2006

Description: 273 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Journalists -- France -- Paris -- Fiction
• Underground newspapers -- France -- Paris -- Fiction
• Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
• Spies -- Fiction
• Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei -- Fiction
• Ovra (Organization : Italy) -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Carlson, Michael. "Grace under pressure." Spectator (Dec 30, 2006): NA
• "Furst, Alan: The Foreign Correspondent." Kirkus Reviews 74.9 (May 1, 2006): 426
• Gross, Ken. "Paris Noir." The New York Times Magazine (May 21, 2006): 148

Read: December 30, 2007