The handmaid’s tale

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

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

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

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