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

 

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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