Abandoned cars

Author: Lane, Tim

Title: Abandoned cars

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2010

Description: 163 p. :chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 L353 A22 2010

Note(s): "Abandoned cars is Tim Lane's first collection of graphic short stories: noir-ish narratives united by their exploration of the vast American mythology by way of the desperate and haunted characters who populate its pages"--Cover p. [4]

Subject(s):

• Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels

Review(s):

• Hays, Carl. "Abandoned Cars." Booklist 105, no. 2 (September 15, 2008): 33

Read: August 19, 2010

The march to the sea and beyond: Sherman's troops in the Savannah and Carolinas campaigns

Author: Glatthaar, Joseph T., 1956-

Title: The march to the sea and beyond: Sherman's troops in the Savannah and Carolinas campaigns

Published: Baton Rouge: Louisianna State University Press, 1995

Description: xvi, 318 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: E476.69 G53 1995

Bibliography: p. 261-310

Note(s): Originally published: New York: New York University Press, 1985

Subject(s):

• Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
• Sherman's March to the Sea
• Sherman's March through the Carolinas
• North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns

Review(s):

• Barrett, John G. "The March to the Sea and Beyond (Book Review)." American Historical Review 91, no. 2 (April 1986): 469
• Miller, Randall M. "The March to the Sea and Beyond (Book)." Library Journal 110, no. 11 (June 15, 1985): 61

Read: August 16, 2010

Whirlwind: the air war against Japan, 1942-1945

Author: Tillman, Barrett

Title: Whirlwind: the air war against Japan, 1942-1945

Published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010

Description: xvii, 316 p., [16] p. of plates :ill., map ; 25 cm.

Call Number: D790 T624 2010

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan
• Bombing, Aerial -- Japan

Review(s):

• Muller, Richard R. "The Firestorm That Ended the War." World War II 25, no. 2 (July 2010): 68-69
• Hov, Sara. "Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-45." Army 60, no. 6 (June 2010): 82-84
• Murray, Williamson. "Flying into the Rising Sun." Military History 27, no. 1 (May 2010): 71-72 

Read: August 13, 2010

L.A. noir: the struggle for the soul of America's most seductive city

Author: Buntin, John

Title: L.A. noir: the struggle for the soul of America's most seductive city

Published: New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009

Description: xii, 419 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: HV 6795 L6 B86 2009

Bibliography p. 391-406

Note(s): A journalist and case writer presents a social history of Los Angeles, from Prohibition to the Watts riots, focusing on the long-running war between notorious gangster Mickey Cohen, and the man who would become the city's most famous police chief, William H. Parker. Originally published in hardcover by Harmony Books, 2009

Subject(s):

• Organized crime -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
• Cohen, Mickey, 1914-1976
• Parker, William H. (William Henry), 1902-1966
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century

Review(s):

• Spencer, Jeremy. "L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City." Library Journal 134, no. 12 (July 2009): 106-109
• "L.A. NOIR: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City." Kirkus Reviews 77, no. 12 (June 15, 2009): 639

Read: August 8, 2010

War

Author: Junger, Sebastian

Title: War

Published: New York: Twelve, 2010

Description: xii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: DS371.4123 K67 J86 2010

Bibliography: p. 269-281

Note(s): Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley

Subject(s):

• Afghan War, 2001- -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Korangal Valley
• United States. Army. Airborne Brigade, 173rd

Review(s):

• What is it good for?." Economist 395, no. 8683 (May 22, 2010): 89
• Nashawaty, Chris. "Sebastian Junger Goes to War." Entertainment Weekly no. 1103 (May 21, 2010): 76-77
• DEXTER, FILKINS. "'Nothing to Do but Kill and Wait'." New York Times Book Review (May 16, 2010): 13

Read: August 3, 2010

Stars in their courses: the Gettysburg campaign, June-July 1863

Author: Foote, Shelby

Title: Stars in their courses: the Gettysburg campaign, June-July 1863

Published: New York: Modern Library, 1994

Description: viii, 290 p. :maps ; 19 cm.

Call Number: E475.51 F66 1994

Note(s): "Originally published by Random House, Inc., as volume II of The Civil War, a narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian"--T.p. verso

Subject(s):

• Gettysburg Campaign, 1863

Review(s):

• Mitchell, Douglas. "The Conflict is Behind Me Now ": Shelby Foote Writes the Civil War." Southern Literary Journal 36, no. 1 (Fall2003 2003): 21-45
• Foote, Shelby. "THE NOVELIST'S VIEW OF HISTORY." Sewanee Review 99, no. 3 (Summer91 1991): 439
• White, Helen, and Redding Sugg. "A COLLOQUIUM WITH SHELBY FOOTE." Southern Humanities Review 15, no. 4 (September 1981): 281-299

Read: July 21, 2010

One more theory about happiness: a memoir

Author: Guest, Paul

Title: One more theory about happiness: a memoir

Published: New York: Ecco, 2010

Description: 202 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3607 U47 Z46 2010

Subject(s):

• Guest, Paul
• Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography
• Quadriplegics -- United States -- Biography

Review(s):

• "ONE MORE THEORY ABOUT HAPPINESS: A Memoir." Kirkus Reviews 78, no. 5 (March 2010): 182

Read: July 9, 2010

Maus II: a survivor’s tale: and here my troubles began

Author: Spiegelman, Art

Title: Maus II: a survivor’s tale: and here my troubles began

Published: New York: Pantheon Books, 1991

Description: 135 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: D804.3 S66 1991

Subject(s):

• Spiegelman, Vladek -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Spiegelman, Art -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Children of Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• McGlothin, Erin. "No Time Like the Present: Narrative and Time in Art Spiegelman's Maus." Narrative 11, no. 2 (May 2003): 177
• Halkin, H. "Inhuman comedy." Commentary 93, no. 2 (February 1992): 55
• Stone, L. "Chasing History." Nation 254, no. 1 (January 6, 1992): 28-2

Read: July 8, 2010

Paths of glory

Author: Cobb, Humphrey, 1899-1944

Title: Paths of glory

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2010

Description: xxviii, 190 p. ; 20 cm.

Call Number: PS3505 O1385 P37 2010

Note(s): Introduction by James H. Meredith; foreword by David Simon

Subject(s):

• World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
• Trials (Treason) -- France -- Fiction
• Mutiny -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Military discipline -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction
• War stories

Review(s):

• Smith, Julian. "A Source for Faulkner's A Fable." American Literature 40, no. 3 (November 1968): 394
• Codman, Florence. "The Other Kind of War Book." Nation 140, no. 3650 (June 19, 1935): 716

Read: July 7, 2010

Maus: a survivor’s tale

Author: Spiegelman, Art

Title: Maus: a survivor’s tale

Published: New York: Pantheon Books, 1986

Description: 159 p. :chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: D810 J4 S643 1986

Subject(s):

• Spiegelman, Vladek -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Spiegelman, Art -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Children of Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• Rifkind, Candida. "Drawn from Memory: Comics Artists and Intergenerational Auto/biography." Canadian Review of American Studies 38, no. 3 (October 2008): 399-427
• Loman, Andrew. "Well Intended Liberal Slop": Allegories of Race in Spiegelman's Maus." Journal of American Studies 40, no.3 (December 2006): 551-571
• Chute, Hillary. "The Shadow of a Past Time": History and Graphic Representation in Maus." Twentieth Century Literature 52, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 199-230

Read: June 20, 2010

It was the war of the trenches

Author: Tardi, Jacques

Uniform Title: C’était la guerre des tranchées. English

Title: It was the war of the trenches

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2010

Description: 118 p. :chiefly ill. ; 28 m.

Call Number: PN6747 T37 C4813 2010

Bibliography: p. 121

Filmography: p. 120

Note(s): Edited and translated by Kim Thompson

Subject(s):

• World War, 1914-1918 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Trench warfare -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- France -- Translations into English
• Graphic novels

Review(s):

• Cornog, Martha. "It Was the War of the Trenches." Library Journal 135, no. 9 (May 15, 2010): 66
• "It Was the War of the Trenches." Publishers Weekly 257, no. 17 (April 26, 2010): 95
• Flagg, Gordon. "It Was the War of the Trenches." Booklist 106, no. 15 (April 2010): 31

Read: June 9, 2010

Black passport

Author: Greene, Stanley

Title: Black passport

Published: New York: Aperture Foundation, 2009

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Call Number: TR820.6 G74 2009

Note(s): Compiled by Teun van der Heijden

Subject(s):

• Greene, Stanley
• War photography
• Photography, Artistic

Review(s):

• Murrmann, Mark. "Black Passport." Mother Jones 35, no. 3 (May 2010): 68

Read: May 28, 2010

Wilson

Author: Clowes, Daniel

Title: Wilson

Published: Montréal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2010

Description: 77 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 30 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 C56 W55 2010

Subject(s):

• Middle-aged men --Comic books, strips, etc. --Fiction
• American wit and humor, Pictorial
• Graphic novels

Review(s):

• Flagg, Gordon. "Wilson." Booklist 106, no. 19/20 (June 2010): 49
• Kois, Dan. "PANEL DISCUSSION DANIEL CLOWES COVERS CARTOON HISTORY IN ONE GRAPHIC NOVEL." New York 43, no. 15 (May 10, 2010): 108
• "Wilson." World Literature Today 84, no. 3 (May 2010): 8

Read: May 3, 2010

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