The forever war

Author: Haldeman, Joe W.

Title: The forever war

Published: New York: EOS, 2003

Description: 277 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3558 A353 F67 2003

Note(s): "The author's preferred ed. of the groundbreaking SF classic"--Cover

Subject(s):

• Space warfare -- Fiction
• Space and time -- Fiction
• Aging -- Fiction
• Science fiction

Review(s):

• "Readers of Joe Haldeman's 1975 novel The Forever War, which described military life and manners in an imagined future, will recall that enlisted soldiers were expected to respond to the commands of their drill instructors with a loud and clear "F*** YOU, SIR!".(The Week ...)." National Review 57.17 (Sept 26, 2005): 12
• Hantke, Steffen. "Surgical strikes and prosthetic warriors: the soldier's body in contemporary science fiction." Science Fiction Studies 26.3 (Nov 1998): 495
• Blackmore, Tim. "Warring stories: fighting for truth in the science fiction of Joe Haldeman." Extrapolation 34.n2 (Summer 1993): 131

Read: October 24, 2010

Forget sorrow: an ancestral tale

Author: Yang, Belle

Title: Forget sorrow: an ancestral tale

Published: New York: W. W. Norton, 2010

Description: 250 p. :chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.

Call Number: PS3575 A53 Z46 2010

Summary: "When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents' home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China. The history she'd ignored while growing up became a source of comfort and inspiration, and narrowed the gap separating her--an independent, Chinese-American woman--from her Old World Chinese parents. In Forget Sorrow, Yang makes her debut into the graphic form with the story of her father's family, reunited under the House of Yang in Manchuria during the Second World War and struggling--both together and individually--to weather poverty, famine, and, later, Communist oppression. The parallels between Belle Yang's journey of self-discovery and the lives and choices of her grandfather, his brothers, and their father (the Patriarch) speak powerfully of the conflicts between generations--and of possibilities for reconciliation" -- from publisher's web site

Subject(s):

• Yang, Belle -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Yang, Belle -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Chinese American authors -- Biography

Review(s):

• "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale." Kirkus Reviews 78, no. 14 (July 15, 2010): 13
• Goldsmith, Francisca. "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale." Booklist 106, no. 18 (May 15, 2010): 25
• Chai, May-Lee. "A Review of “Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale”." Asian Affairs: An American Review 37, no. 2 (May 2010): 103-104

Read: October 21, 2010

Body of work: meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab

Author: Montross, Christine

Title: Body of work: meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2008

Description: 295 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: QM 28 M66 2008

Bibliography: p. 293-295

Content(s): Preface: mystery -- Bone box -- First cut -- Breath and blood -- Anatomical precedence -- Origins of a corpse -- In pursuit of wonder -- The bodies of strangers -- Toll -- The discomfort of doctoring -- An unsteady balance -- Pelvis -- Dismantled -- Epilogue: good-bye

Note(s): "A revelatory memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cut her open"--P. [4] of cover

Subject(s):

• Montross, Christine
• Medical students -- Anecdotes
• Women medical students -- Anecdotes
• Dead -- Anecdotes
• Mortality -- Anecdotes
• Human anatomy -- Anecdotes
• Human dissection -- Anecdotes

Review(s):

• Ross, Callum F. "BODY OF WORK: MEDITATIONS ON MORTALITY FROM THE HUMAN ANATOMY LAB." Quarterly Review of Biology 83, no. 3 (September 2008): 326
• Raizman, Noah. "Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab." Lancet 370, no. 9600 (November 17, 2007): 1682
• "BODY OF WORK: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab." Science News 172, no. 4 (July 28, 2007): 63

Read: October 13, 2010

The house on Mango Street

Author: Cisneros, Sandra

Title: The house on Mango Street

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 1991

Description: x, 110 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3553 I78 H6 1991

Content(s): The house on Mango Street -- Hairs -- Boys & girls -- My name -- Cathy queen of cats -- Our good day -- Laughter -- Gil’s furniture bought & sold -- Meme Ortiz -- Louie, his cousin & his other cousin -- Marin -- Those who don’t -- There was an old woman she had so many children she didn’t know what to do -- Alicia who sees mice -- Darius & the clouds -- And some more -- The family of little feet -- A rice sandwich -- Chanclas -- Hips -- The first job -- Papa who wakes up tired in the dark -- Born bad -- Elenita, cards, palm, water -- Geraldo no last name -- Edna’s Ruthie -- The Earl of Tennessee -- Sire -- Four skinny trees -- No speak English -- Rafaela who drinks coconut & papaya juice on Tuesdays -- Sally -- Minerva writes poems -- Bums in the attic -- Beautiful & cruel -- A smart cookie -- What Sally said -- The monkey garden -- Red clowns -- Linoleum roses -- The three sisters -- Alicia & I talking on Edna’s steps -- A house of my own -- Mango says goodbye sometimes

Subject(s):

• Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Mexican Americans -- Fiction
• Girls -- Fiction
• Literature, Modern -- United States
• Mexican Americans -- Chicago
• Adolescent -- Chicago

Review(s):

• Dubb, Christina Rose. "Adolescent Journeys: Finding Female Authority in The Rain Catchers and The House on Mango Street." Children's Literature in Education 38, no. 3 (September 2007): 219-232
• Wissman, Kelly. "“Writing Will Keep You Free”: Allusions to and Recreations of the Fairy Tale Heroine in The House on Mango Street." Children's Literature in Education 38, no. 1 (March 2007): 17-34
• Doyle, Jacqueline. "More room of her own: Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street." MELUS 19, no. 4 (Winter 1994): 6

Read: October 11, 2010

Anansi boys

Author: Gaiman, Neil

Title: Anansi boys

Published: New York: Harper Perennial, 2008

Description: 336, 18 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PR6057 A319 A53 2008

Subject(s):

• Anansi (Legendary character) -- Fiction
• Fathers and sons -- Fiction
• Brothers -- Fiction

Review(s):

• De Lint, Charles. "Anansi Boys." Fantasy & Science Fiction 110, no. 3 (March 2006): 33-34
• Kim, Ann. "Anansi Boys." Library Journal 130, no. 13 (August 15, 2005): 67
• "ANANSI BOYS." Kirkus Reviews 73, no. 14 (July 15, 2005): 754

Read: September 26, 2010

Graphic novels and comics in libraries and archives: essays on readers, research, history and cataloging

Title: Graphic novels and comics in libraries and archives: essays on readers, research, history and cataloging

Published: Jefferson: McFarland, 2010

Description: xi, 276 p. :ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: Z692 G7 G7 2010

Note(s): Edited by Robert G. Weiner; forewords by Elizabeth Figa and Derek Parker Royal; afterword by Stephen Weiner

Content(s): 1. A librarian's guide to the history of graphic novels / Alicia Holston -- 2. Manga in Japanese libraries: a historical overview / David Hopkins -- 3. How librarians learned to love the graphic novel / Amy Kiste Nyberg -- 4. The development of a school library graphic novel collection / Heidi K. Hammond -- 5. Balancing popular high-circulation works with works of merit in elementary school library collections / Diana P. Maliszewski -- 6. Creative shelving: placement in library collections / Amy Hartman -- 7. Graphic novels at Los Angeles public / Rachel Kitzmann -- 8. Teen-led revamp / Erica Segraves -- 9. Selection and popular culture in large academic libraries: taking the temperature of your research community / Charlotte Cubbage -- 10. Maus goes to college: graphic novels on reserve at an academic library / Anne-Marie Davis -- 11. The library after dark: the promotion of collections and services / Gwen Evans -- 12. So many options, so little money: building a selective collection for the academic library / Liorah Anne Golomb -- 13. The spinner rack in the big red and ivory tower: establishing a comics and graphic novels collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln / Richard Graham -- 14. Comic art collection at the Michigan State University libraries / Randall W. Scott -- 15. Interview with Randall W. Scott / Nicholas Yanes and Robert G. Weiner -- 16. The perils of Doctor Strange: preserving Pennsylvania-centered comics at the State Library of Pennsylvania / William T. Fee -- 17. Graphic novels and the untapped audience / Ruth Boyer -- 18. Comic relief in libraries: motivating male adolescent readers / Karen Gavigan -- 19. "Forty-one-year-old female academics aren't supposed to like comics!" the value of comic books to adult readers / Sarah Ziolkowska and Vivian Howard -- 20. Graphics let teens own the library / Christian Zabriskie -- 21. The only thing graphic is your mind: reconstructing the reference librarian's view of the genre / Amanda Stegall-Armour -- 22. What's in a name: nomenclature and libraries / Francisca Goldsmith -- 23. The ontology of art and what libraries should buy / Ruth Tallman and Jason Southworth -- 24. Meta-comics and libraries: should libraries buy them? / Adam J. Noble -- 25. Webcomics and libraries / Amy Thorne -- 26. Cataloging and problems with Dewey: creativity, collaboration and compromise / Laurel Tarulli -- 27. An example of an in-house cataloging system / Robert G. Weiner -- 28. Drawing comics into Canadian libraries / Rachel Collins -- 29. Graphic novel holdings in academic libraries / Eric Werthmann

Summary: "This book, full of practical advice and innovative ideas for librarians, educators, and archivists, provides a look at how graphic novels and comics can be used in educational settings. An established component of library and archive collections across the globe, graphic novels are proving to be one of the last vestiges of the printed form gaining in popularity"--Provided by publisher

Subject(s):

• State Library of Pennsylvania
• Libraries -- Special collections -- Graphic novels
• Graphic novels -- History and criticism
• Libraries -- Special collections -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
• School libraries -- Graphic novels
• Cataloging -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Classification -- Books -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• Cornog, Martha. "Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History, and Cataloging." Library Journal 135, no. 12 (July 2010): 67

Read: September 24, 2010

Samurai!

Author: Sakai, Saburō, 1916-

Title: Samurai!

Published: Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1978

Description 316 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: D792 J3 S3 1978

Notes(s): Reprint of the 1957 ed. with new illus; Book Club ed. Co-written with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito

Subject(s):

• Sakai, Saburō, 1916-
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese

Review(s):

• NEIL, GENZLINGER. "TELEVISION REVIEW; Recreating an Aerial Duel Over Guadalcanal, Mystery on Board." New York Times, November 08, 2006., 8
• DOUGLAS, MARTIN. "Saburo Sakai Is Dead at 84; War Pilot Embraced Foes." New York Times, October 08, 2000., 45
• Stevens Jr., Francis R. "My father and I and Saburo Sakai." American Heritage 49, no. 8 (December 1998): 69

Read: September 19, 2010

Bigfoot: the life and times of a legend

Author: Buhs, Joshua Blu

Title: Bigfoot: the life and times of a legend

Published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009

Description: xv, 279 p. :ill. photographs ; 24 cm.

Call Number: QL89.2 S2 B84 2009

Bibliography: p. 255-267

Note(s): Joshua Blu Buhs traces the wild and woolly story of America’s favourite homegrown monster. Writing with a scientist’s scepticism, but an enthusiast’s deep engagement, Buhs invests the story of Bigfoot with the detail and power of a novel, while at the same time explaining why the monster has inspired such a devoted following

Subject(s):

• Sasquatch

Review(s):

• Bindernagel, John. "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend/Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot." Journal of Scientific Exploration 24, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 319-322
• "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend." Journal of Popular Culture 42, no. 6 (December 2009): 1137-1139
• Ravalli, Richard. "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend by Joshua Blu Buhs and Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot by Michael McLeod." Journal of American Culture 32, no. 4 (December 2009): 345-346

Read: September 14, 2010

Motel of the mysteries

Author: Macaulay, David

Title: Motel of the mysteries

Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979

Description: 95 p. :ill. ; 29 cm.

Call Number: PN6231 C46 M3 1979

Subject(s):

• North America -- Antiquities -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc
• Civilization, Modern -- 1950- -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc

Review(s):

• Gerhardt, Lillian N. "Motel of the Mysteries (Book Review)." School Library Journal 26, no. 8 (April 1980): 136

Read: September 13, 2010

Buda's wagon: a brief history of the car bomb

Author: Davis, Mike

Title: Buda’s wagon: a brief history of the car bomb

Published: London: Verso, 2008

Description: x, 228 p. :ill. ; 20 cm.

Call Number: TP270 D367 2008

Bibliography: p. 196-220

Note(s): "First published by Verso 2007"--T.p. verso

Subject(s):

• Vehicle bombs -- History
• Vehicle bombs -- Social aspects
• Terrorism -- History
• Terrorism -- Social aspects
• Sociology, Urban

Review(s):

• Egan, Daniel. "Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb." Critical Sociology (Sage Publications, Ltd.) 34, no. 2 (March 2008): 291-293
• Molin, Peter. "BUDA'S WAGON: A Brief History of the Car Bomb." Military Review 87, no. 6 (November 2007): 117-118
• Matthewman, Steve. "Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb." Thesis Eleven no. 90 (August 2007): 131-136

Read: September 10, 2010

Occupied city

Author: Peace, David

Title: Occupied city

Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010

Description: 275 p. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PR6066 E116 O25 2010

Bibliography: p. 273-274

Note(s): On January 26, 1948, a man identifying himself as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. He explains that there has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat everyone who might have been exposed to the disease. Soon after drinking the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, four are unconscious, and the "official" has fled. Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. Each voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a city and a people making their way out of a war-induced hell. First published: London: Faber and Faber, 2009

Subject(s):

• Hirasawa, Sadamichi, 1892-1987 -- Fiction
• Criminals -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction
• Serial murders -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction
• Bank robberies -- Fiction
• Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction
• Historical fiction

Review(s):

• Morris, Gregory L. "Occupied City." Magill Book Reviews (May 2010)
• JUSTIN, CARTWRIGHT. "Tokyo Vice." New York Times Book Review (March 21, 2010): 18
• Walden, George. "Capital offences." New Statesman 138, no. 4962 (August 17, 2009): 44-45

Read: August 31, 2010

Operation Mincemeat: how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an allied victory

Author: Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

Title: Operation Mincemeat: how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an allied victory

Published: New York: Harmony Books, 2010

Description: x, 400 p., [16] p. of plates :ill., plans ; 25 cm.

Call Number: D810 S7 M246 2010

Bibliography: p. 385-387

Note(s): From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose

Subject(s):

• Operation Mincemeat
• Montagu, Ewen, 1901-1985
• Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain
• Deception -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Deception -- Spain -- Atlantic Coast -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Spain -- Atlantic Coast
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy -- Sicily
• Sicily (Italy) -- History, Military -- 20th century
• Atlantic Coast (Spain) -- History, Military -- 20th century

Review(s):

• Scovil, Sheri Beth. "Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured Allied Victory." Library Journal 135, no. 13 (August 2010): 94
• Gladwell, Malcolm. "PANDORA'S BRIEFCASE." New Yorker 86, no. 12 (May 10, 2010): 72-78
• JENNET, CONANT. "The Man Who Never Was." New York Times Book Review (May 16, 2010): 12

Read: August 28, 2010

Have a nice doomsday: why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world

Author: Guyatt, Nicholas, 1973-

Title: Have a nice doomsday: why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world

Published: New York: Harper Perennial, 2007

Description: 276, 18 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: BT877 G89 2007

Bibliography: p. 271-274

Note(s): A study of apocalyptic Christianity assesses the beliefs of the fifty million Americans who believe that the apocalypse will occur during their lifetimes and their involvement in debates over gay rights, foreign policy, and abortion

• Subject(s):End of the world -- Political aspects
• Judgment Day -- Political aspects
• Prophecy -- Christianity -- Political aspects
• Public opinion -- United States
• Religion and state -- United States

Review(s):

• Burgeson, John W. "HAVE A NICE DOOMSDAY: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World." Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith 60, no. 2 (June 2008): 139
• Adams, Nancy E. "Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World." Library Journal 132, no. 19 (November 15, 2007): 63
• Sharlet, Jeff. "Preachers of doom." New Statesman 136, no. 4854 (July 23, 2007): 56-57

Read: August 26, 2010

After America

Author: Birmingham, John, 1964-

Title: After America

Published: New York: Del Ray/Ballantine Books, 2010

Description: 465 p. :maps ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PR9619.3 B5136 A69 2010

Subject(s):

• Natural disasters -- Fiction
• Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction
• United States -- Fiction
• Texas -- Fiction
• Political fiction
• Suspense fiction

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: August 23, 2010