The man who loved books too much: the true story of a thief, a detective, and a world of literary obsession

Author: Bartlett, Allison Hoover

Title: The man who loved books too much: the true story of a thief, a detective, and a world of literary obsession

Published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2009

Description: 274 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: Z992.8 B37 2009

Bibliography: p. 264-274

Summary: Unrepentant book thief John Charles Gilkey has stolen a fortune in rare books from around the country. Yet unlike most thieves who steal for profit, Gilkey steals for love-the love of books. Perhaps equally obsessive is Ken Sanders, the self-appointed "bibliodick" who's driven to catch him. Following this eccentric cat-and-mouse chase with a mixture of suspense, insight and humor, Allison Hoover Bartlett plunges the reader deep into a rich world of fanatical book lust and considers what it is that makes some people stop at nothing to posses the titles they love

Subject(s):

• Gilkey, John, 1968-
• Sanders, Ken, 1951-
• Book collectors -- United States -- Biography
• Thieves -- United States -- Biography
• Book collecting
• Bibliomania
• Book thefts

Review(s):

• Cox, Richard J. "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession." Library & Archival Security 23, no. 1 (January 2010): 49-51
• Katona, Cynthia Lee. "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession." Magill Book Reviews (November 2009)
• CHRISTOPHER R., BEHA. "The Book Thief." New York Times Book Review (October 4, 2009): 20

Read: March 15, 2011

Sydney, cipher and search: solving the last great naval mystery of the Second World War

Author: Hore, Peter

Title: Sydney, cipher and search: solving the last great naval mystery of the Second World War

Published: Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009

Description: 314 p. :ill. (some col.) ;  22 cm.

Call Number: D775.5 S8 H67 2009

 

Bibliography: p. 299-303

Summary: In November 1941 the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, with a crew of 645, disappeared off the coast western Australia. Shipwrecked German sailors told an incredible tale of how their ship, had sunk the pride of the Australian navy. Almost at once conspiracy theories sprang up to explain the tragic loss of the ship and so many lives. Based on the author's decryption and interpretation of German Coded accounts, interviews with survivors from the raider, Kormoran, and other research, this book tells - insofar as it can ever be known - what really happened in the desperate fight to the death between the two ships, whose wrecks were finally located in March 2008

Subject(s):

• Sydney (Cruiser)
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Australian

Review(s):

• Higham, Robin. "Sydney, Cipher and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World War." Journal of Military History 74, no. 1 (January 2010): 287

Read: March 12, 2011

Beat to quarters

Author: Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966

Title: Beat to quarters

Published: Boston: Back Bay Books, 1999

Description: viii, 273 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PR6011 O56 B4 1999

Summary: June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders-even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley

Subject(s):

• Hornblower, Horatio (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction
• Sea stories
• War stories

Review(s):

• Grainger, John D. "Who Was Hornblower?." History Today 49, no. 10 (October 1999): 32
• Forester, C. S. "HORNBLOWER AND I." Saturday Evening Post 229, no. 45 (May 11, 1957): 27-141

Read: March 12, 2011

Endgame: Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall-- from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness

 

Author: Brady, Frank, 1934-

Title: Endgame: Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madness

Published: New York: Crown, 2011

Description: xi, 402 p., [8] p. of plates :ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: GV1439 F5 B68 2011

Bibliography: p. 379-384

Content(s):

• Loneliness to passion
• Childhood obsession
• Out of the heasd of Zeus
• The American wunderkind
• The Cold War gladiator
• The new Fischer
• Einstein's theory
• Legends clash
• The candidate
• The champion
• The wilderness years
• Fischer-Spassky redux
• Crossing borders
• Arrest and rescue
• Living and dying in Iceland

Summary: From an author who wrote one of the bestselling Bobby Fischer books ever and who was himself a friend of Fischer's comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time captures the complete, remarkable arc of the life of the chess master

Subject(s):

• Fischer, Bobby, 1943-2008
• Chess players -- United States -- Biography
• Chess -- Collections of games

 Review(s):

• Lewis, Leslie. "Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall--from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness." Library Journal 136, no. 3 (February 15, 2011): 117
• DYLAN LOEB, McCLAIN. "Solving Bobby Fischer." New York Times Book Review (February 13, 2011): 24
• Pitt, David. "Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall-from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness." Booklist 107, no. 9/10 (January 2011): 34

Read: March 6, 2011

Troll: a love story

 

Author: Sinisalo, Johanna, 1958-

Title: Troll: a love story

Published: New York: Grove Press, 2003

Description: 278 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PH355 S5445 S46 2003

Note(s): Translated from the Finnish by Herbert Lomas; previously published: Not before sundown. London: Peter Owen, 2003

Subject(s):

• Trolls -- Finland -- Fiction
• Gay men -- Finland -- Fiction
• Aphrodisiacs -- Finland -- Fiction
• Fantasy fiction

Review(s):

• Sallis, James. "Life/Troll: A Love Story/Camouflage." Fantasy & Science Fiction 109, no. 6 (December 2005): 38-43
• "TROLL: A Love Story (Book)." Publishers Weekly 251, no. 15 (April 12, 2004): 37
• "TROLL: A Love Story (Book)." Kirkus Reviews 72, no. 7 (April 2004): 295-296

Read: March 5, 2011

Negotiating with the dead: a writer on writing

 

Author: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Title: Negotiating with the dead: a writer on writing

Published: New York: Anchor Books, 2003

Description: xxvii, 219 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PR9199.3 A8 N44 2003

Bibliography: p. 197-207

Subject(s):

• Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
• Fiction -- Authorship
• Authorship

Review(s):

• Ingersoll, Earl G. "Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (Book)." Studies in the Novel 36, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 126-128
• St. Andrews, B. A. "Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (Book)." World Literature Today 77, no. 3/4 (October 2003): 99-100
• Irvine, Larna. "Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (Book)." American Review of Canadian Studies 33, no. 3 (September 2003): 433-435

Read: March 2, 2011

Atlas of remote islands: fifty islands I have never set foot on and never will

Author: Schalansky, Judith,1980-

Uniform Title: Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln. English

Title: Atlas of remote islands: fifty islands I have never set foot on and never will

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2010

Description: 143 p. :maps, ill. ; 27 cm.

Call Number: G500 S3313 2010

Note(s): Originally published in German as: Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln--T.p. verso. Translated from the German by Christine Lo

Summary: For each island, this book provides information on its distance from the mainland, whether its inhabited, its features, and the stories that have shaped its lore

Subject(s):

• Islands -- Description and travel
• Islands -- Maps
• Islands -- Maps

Review(s):

• Creech, Anna L. "Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will." Library Journal 135, no. 20 (December 2010): 130
• Flanagan, Margaret. "Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will." Booklist 107, no. 7 (December 2010): 12
• Belli, Brita. "ATLAS FREAK." E - The Environmental Magazine 21, no. 6 (November 2010): 51

Read: February 23, 2011

The Hilliker curse: my pursuit of women

Author: Ellroy, James, 1948-

Title: The Hilliker curse: my pursuit of women

Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010

Description: 203 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number:  PS3555 L6274 Z46 2010

Summary: The legendary crime writer unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought "Her."

Subject(s):

• Ellroy, James, 1948- -- Relations with women
• Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
• Mothers -- Death -- Psychological aspects

Review(s):

• Haywood, Thomas. "If you're an atheist when you're my age, you don't know shit." New Statesman 139, no. 5027 (November 15, 2010): 34-35
• "Killer instinct." Economist 397, no. 8703 (October 9, 2010): 121
• "THE HILLIKER CURSE: My Pursuit of Women." Kirkus Reviews 78, no. 14 (July 15, 2010): 652

Read: February 17, 2011

Ashes of honour

 

Author: La Mazière, Christian de

Uniform Title: Rêveur casque. English

Title: Ashes of honour

Published: London: Wingate, 1975

Description: 319 p. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: D757.85 L3513 1975

Note(s): Translated from the French by Francis Stuart

Subject(s):

• La Mazière, Christian de
• Waffen-SS. Waffen-Grenadier-Division "Charlemagne," 33
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French

Review(s):

• Carrard, Philippe. "From the Outcasts' Point of View: The Memoirs of the French Who Fought for Hitler." French Historical Studies 31, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 477-503

Read: February 12, 2011

Pushing ice

Author: Reynolds, Alastair, 1966-

Title: Pushing ice

Published: New York: Ace Books, 2007

Description: 580 p. ; 18 cm.

Call Number: PR6068 E95 P87 2007

Note(s): Originally published: Great Britain: Gollancz, 2005

Subject(s):

• Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
• Science fiction

Review(s):

• Hopper, Jimm. "It's a marvelous night for a moon dance -- but only if you can catch up with the orb." San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) 12 Nov. 2006, R,CO,C, BOOKS: BOOKS-7
• Cleaver, Fred. "SCIENCE FICTION - Thrill ride takes crew out of solar system." Denver Post, The (CO) 25 Jun. 2006, SUN SCENE, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: F-14
• FOLSOM, ROBERT. "Welcome to life aboard the Rockhopper - Alastair Reynolds' futuristic novel about first contact asks universal questions.." Kansas City Star, The (MO) 18 Jun. 2006, Photo: 10

Read: January 15, 2011

UFOs: generals, pilots, and government officials go on the record

Author: Kean, Leslie

Title: UFOs: generals, pilots, and government officials go on the record

Published: New York: Harmony Books, 2010

Description: xii, 335 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: TL789 K357 2010

Summary: An in-depth investigation into UFO phenomena documents the author’s survey of official extraterrestrial encounters as experienced by scientists, military heads, and aviators throughout the world, and evaluates government reactions

Subject(s):

• Unidentified flying objects -- Research
• Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters
• Public records

Review(s):

• Eberhart, George M. "UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record." College & Research Libraries News 71, no. 10 (November 2010): 566
• "5 Questions for Leslie Kean." USA Today, n.d.

Read: January 5, 2011

You’ll never know

Author: Tyler, Carol

Title: You’ll never know

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2009-

Description: v. :col. ill. ; 27 x 32 cm.

Call Number(s):

• PN6727 T95 Y68 2009 (Bk 1. A good and decent man )
• PN6727.T95 Y68 2010 (Bk 2. Collateral damage)

Note(s):

• Bk 1. A good and decent man
• Bk 2. Collateral damage

Summary: A good and decent man is the first of a 3-part graphic memoir chronicling the author’s relationship with her World War II veteran father, and how his war experience shaped her childhood and affected her relationships in adulthood

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Comic books, strips, etc
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• "You'll Never Know: A Graphic Memoir--Book Two: Collateral Damage." Publishers Weekly 257, no. 39 (October 4, 2010): 34
• "You'll Never Know: A Graphic Memoir, Book I: "A Good and Decent Man." Publishers Weekly 256, no. 23 (June 8, 2009): 33

Read:

• December 23, 2010 (Bk 1. A good and decent man )
• December 24, 2010 (Bk 2. Collateral damage)

How to understand Israel in 60 days or less

Author: Glidden, Sarah

Title: How to understand Israel in 60 days or less

Published: New York: Vertigo/DC Comics, 2010

Description: 206 p. :col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 G55 H6 2010

Bibliography: p. 206

Note(s): Letterer, Clem Robins

Subject(s):

• Americans -- Israel -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Israel -- Description and travel -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Israel -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels

Review(s):

• Tucker, Ken. "9. How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less." Entertainment Weekly no. 1134/1135 (December 24, 2010): 119
• Moon, Barbara M. "How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less." School Library Journal 56, no. 11 (November 2010): 147
• "HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS." Kirkus Reviews 78, no. 19 (October 2010): 975-976

Read: December 22, 2010

Panic in level 4: cannibals, killer viruses, and other journeys to the edge of science

Author: Preston, Richard, 1954-

Title: Panic in level 4: cannibals, killer viruses, and other journeys to the edge of science

Published: New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009

Description: xxxix, 194 p. :ill., ports., facs. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: RC81 P856 2009

Note(s): "Portions of this book appeared in different form in The New Yorker."

Subject(s):

• Medicine, Popular
• Science
• Science writers

Review(s):

• Marston, Will. "Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science." School Library Journal 54, no. 10 (October 2008): 179
• Castelvecchi, David. "Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science." Science News 174, no. 3 (August 2, 2008): 30
• Taylor, Gilbert. "Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science." Booklist 104, no. 18 (May 15, 2008): 13

Read: December 4, 2010

Casanova was a book lover: and other naked truths and provocative curiosities about the writing, selling, and reading of books

Author: Hamilton, John Maxwell

Title: Casanova was a book lover: and other naked truths and provocative curiosities about the writing, selling, and reading of books

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2001

Description: xiv, 351 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: Z1003 H194 2001

Bibliography: p. 283-319

Note(s): Originally published: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000

Subject(s):

• Books and reading
• Books and reading -- United States
• Authorship
• Authorship -- United States
• Publishers and publishing -- United States

Review(s):

• "Casanova Was a Book Lover (Book Review)." Virginia Quarterly Review 77, no. 1 (Winter 2001): 31
• Alexander, Jean M. "Casanova Was a Book Lover and Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About...(Book Review)." College & Research Libraries 62, no. 1 (January 2001): 93
• Lempert, , Karen E. "Casanova Was a Book Lover and Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling and Reading of Books." Library Journal 125, no. 7 (April 15, 2000): 90

Read: December 3, 2010

Visions of infamy: the untold story of how journalist Hector C. Bywater devised the plans that led to Pearl Harbor

Author: Honan, William H. (William Holmes)

Title: Visions of infamy: the untold story of how journalist Hector C. Bywater devised the plans that led to Pearl Harbor

Published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991

Description: xvi, 346 p. [16] p. of plates :ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Call Number: D767.9 H66 1991

Bibliography: p. 311-329

Subject(s):

• Bywater, Hector C. (Hector Charles), 1884-1940
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area -- Forecasting
• Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Journalists -- United States -- Biography

Review(s):

• Buruma, I. "Ghosts of Pearl Harbor." New York Review of Books 38, no. 21 (December 19, 1991): 9 
• Puffer, Raymond L. "Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That Led to Pearl Harbor." Library Journal 116, no. 13 (August 1991): 110
• Smith, Gaddis. "Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That Led to Pearl Harbor." Foreign Affairs 70, no. 5 (92 1991): 190
• Read: November 28, 2010

Kissing the witch

Author: Donoghue, Emma,1969-

Title: Kissing the witch

Published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1997

Description: 210 p. :ill. ; 19 cm.

Call Number: PZ8 D733 K47 1997

Summary: A collection of thirteen interconnected stories that give old fairy tales a new twist

Subject(s):

• Fairy tales -- England

Review(s):

• Orme, Jennifer. "Mouth to Mouth: Queer Desires in Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch." Marvels & Tales 24, no. 1 (May 2010): 116-130
• Schimel, Lawrence. "Bewitching kisses." Lambda Book Report 6, no. 6 (January 1998): 9
• Philip, Neil. "Sex and Cinderella." Times Educational Supplement no. 4220 (May 16, 1997): 9 

Read: November 21, 2010

A perfect red: empire, espionage, and the quest for the color of desire

Author: Greenfield, Amy Butler, 1968-

Title: A perfect red: empire, espionage, and the quest for the color of desire

Published: New York: Harper Perennial, 2006

Description: viii, 338 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. (some col.), ports. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: TP925 C63 G74 2006

Bibliography: p. 293-318

Note(s): "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers." -- T.p. verso

Subject(s):

• Cochineal -- History
• Dyes and dyeing -- Textile fibers -- Europe -- History
• Dyes and dyeing -- Mexico -- History
• Cochineal insect

Review(s):

• Marschall, Laurence A. "A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire." Natural History 114, no. 7 (September 2005): 48-50
• Dapson, Dick. "Book review." Biotechnic & Histochemistry 80, no. 3/4 (May 2005): 173
• Haggas, Carol. "A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (Book)." Booklist 101, no. 15 (April 2005): 1332

Read: November 10, 2010

Sex, bombs and burgers: how war, porn and fast food created technology as we know it

Author: Nowak, Peter

Title: Sex, bombs and burgers: how war, porn and fast food created technology as we know it

Published: Toronto: Viking Canada, 2010

Description: 364 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: T15 N69 2010

Subject(s):

• Technological innovations -- Social aspects
• Technology -- Social aspects
• Technology -- History
• Innovations -- Aspect social

Review(s):

• Timm, Jordan. "SEX, BOMBS AND BURGERS: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology As We Know It." Canadian Business 83, no. 6 (April 26, 2010): 71

Read: November 5, 2010

Nineteen seventy-four

Author: Peace, David

Title: Nineteen seventy-four

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2009

Description: 295 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PR6066 E116 N56 2009

Note(s): Originally published: London: Serpent's Tail, 1999

Subject(s):

• Journalists -- England -- Fiction
• Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
• Girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction
• Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction

Review(s):

• DARGIS, MANOHLA. "A Bleak Trilogy From Britain, in Which Men and Terror Run Wild." New York Times, February 05, 2010., 8

Read: October 30, 2010