On beauty: a novel

Author: Smith, Zadie

Title: On beauty: a novel

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2006

Description: 445 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• College teachers -- Fiction
• Massachusetts -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Heim, David. "Language games." The Christian Century 123.9 (May 2, 2006): 38
• Fisher, Susan Alice. "The shelter of each other." The Women's Review of Books 23.2 (March-April 2006): 30
• Pepper, Tara. "The Beauty Within; Zadie Smith's triumphant new novel updates the exploration of class relations found in 'Howards End.'." Newsweek International (Sept 19, 2005): 61

Read: March 20, 2008

Neighbors: the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland

Author: Gross, Jan Tomasz

Uniform title: Sąsiedzi. English

Title: Neighbors: the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2002

Description: xxii, 214 p. :ill. ; 20 cm.

Bibliography: p. 155-200

Note(s): Originally published: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. With new afterword. Translation of: Sąsiedzi: historia zlałady żydowskiego miasteczka

Subject(s):

• Jews -- Poland -- Jedwabne -- History
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Jedwabne
• Jedwabne (Poland) -- Ethnic relations

Review(s):

• Charns, Alexander. "MY POLISH GRANDFATHER: A dark history, with flashes of light." Commonweal 129.1 (Jan 11, 2002): 16
• Wert, Hal Elliott. "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland." The Journal of Military History 66.2 (April 2002): 603
• Hoffert, Barbara, Heather McCormack, Rebecca Miller, Mirela Roncevic, Nathan Ward, and Wilda Williams. "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. (Best Books of 2001)." Library Journal 127.1 (Jan 2002): 49

Read: March 9, 2008

I was a child of Holocaust survivors

Author: Eisenstein, Bernice

Title: I was a child of Holocaust survivors

Published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2006

Description: 187 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Jews -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Children of Holocaust survivors -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Holocaust survivors -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Toronto (Ont.) -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Eisenstein, Bernice, 1949- -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• Waldman, Debby. "PW talks with Bernice Eisenstein: 'Holocaust Anonymous'." Publishers Weekly 253.20 (May 15, 2006): 56
• "I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors." Kirkus Reviews 74.12 (June 15, 2006): 613
  Read: February 25, 2008
• Cohen, George. "Eisenstein, Bernice. I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors." Booklist 102.19-20 (June 1, 2006): 20

Read: February 25, 2008

Spent

Author: Matt, Joe

Title: Spent

Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2007

Description: 124 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Cartoonists -- United States -- Fiction -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels
• Matt, Joe, 1963- -- Diaries -- Fiction -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• "Spent." Publishers Weekly 254.10 (March 5, 2007): 46
• Flagg, Gordon. "Matt, Joe. Spent." Booklist 103.12 (Feb 15, 2007): 46
• "Matt, Joe: Spent." Kirkus Reviews 75.3 (Feb 1, 2007): 99

Read: February 14, 2008

Cinema panopticum

Author: Ott, Thomas

Title: Cinema panopticum

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2005

Description: 102 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject(s):

• Carnivals -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Carnivals -- Fiction
• Graphic novels
• Horror comic books, strips, etc

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: February 12, 2008

Mendel’s daughter

Author(s): Lemelman, Gusta and Martin Lemelman

Title: Mendel’s daughter

Published: New York: Free Press, 2006

Description: 217 p. :ill. ; 28 cm.

Subject(s):

• Jews -- Ukraine -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Jews -- Ukraine -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Personal narratives
• Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Ukraine -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Ukraine -- Biography
• Lemelman, Gusta, d. 1996 -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• Hays, Carl. "Lemelman, Martin. Mendel's Daughter: A Memoir." Booklist 103.2 (Sept 15, 2006): 36
• "Mendel's Daughter: A Memoir." Publishers Weekly 253.31 (August 7, 2006): 39

Read: January 31, 2008

Exit wounds

Author: Modan, Rutu

Title: Exit wounds

Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2007

Description: 172 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Suicide bombings -- Israel -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Fathers and sons -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• Celayo, Armando. "Rutu Modan. Exit Wounds." World Literature Today 82.1 (Jan-Feb 2008): 65
• Moffett, Matthew L. "Modan, Rutu. Exit Wounds." School Library Journal 53.5 (May 2007): 171
• "Exit Wounds." Publishers Weekly 254.7 (Feb 12, 2007): 69

Read: January 29, 2008

Golden palms

Author: Panar, Ed

Title: Golden palms

Published: Atlanta: J&L Books, 2007

Description: 1 v. :ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.

Note(s): Interview with photographer by Charlotte Cotton with title: Monkey wrench symbolism, and index of prints tipped in

Subject(s):

• Photography, Artistic
• Landscape photography -- California -- Los Angeles
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
• Panar, Ed

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: Janaury 28, 2008

Swimming sweet arrow: a novel

Author: Gibbon, Maureen

Title: Swimming sweet arrow: a novel

Published: Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co., 2001

Description: 205, [12] p. ; 21 cm.

Note: Includes : "A reading group guide." [12] p., 2001

Subject(s):

• Female friendship -- Fiction
• Young women -- Fiction
• Young women -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Meloy, Maile. "Careless love: a debut novel examines the friendship of two high school girls through their sexual exploits." The New York Times Book Review 105.23 (June 4, 2000): 28

Read: January 26, 2008

Cause for alarm

Author: Ambler, Eric, 1909-1998

Title: Cause for alarm

Published: New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2002

Description: 284 p. ; 21 cm.

Note: Originally published: New York, Knopf, 1939

Subject(s):

• Murder -- Fiction
• Spy stories

Review(s):

• Caterson, Simon. "ERIC AMBLER'S DARK FRONTIERS." Quadrant (Jan 2000): 87
• Evans, Julian. "Why British thriller writers of the 1930S, such as Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, offer a far better exploration of the nature of freedom than any other novelists. (Platform)." New Statesman (1996) 132.4628 (March 10, 2003): 55
• Rothstein, Edward. "The man who wrote the book on spies." The New York Times (August 17, 2002 col 1 (15 col): B9

Read: January 16, 2008

After the quake: stories

Author: Murakami, Haruki

Uniform Title: Kami no kodomotachi wa mina odoru. English

Title: After the quake: stories

Published: New York: Vintage, 2003

Description: 147 p. ; 21 cm.

Note: Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin

Subject(s):

• Japan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Short stories

Review(s):

• Lofgren, Erik R. "Haruki Murakami. After the Quake: Stories." World Literature Today 77.1 (April-June 2003): 99
• Picone, Jason. "Haruki Murakami. After the Quake." The Review of Contemporary Fiction 22.3 (Fall 2002): 157
• "After the Quake: Stories." Kirkus Reviews 70.11 (June 1, 2002): 763

Read: January 14, 2008

The myth of the Eastern Front: the Nazi-Soviet war in American popular culture

Author(s): Smelser, Ronald M. and Edward J. Davies II

Title: The myth of the Eastern Front: the Nazi-Soviet war in American popular culture

Published: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Description: xii, 327 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 261-317

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Public opinion
• Propaganda, German -- United States
• Germany -- Foreign public opinion, American
• Public opinion -- United States
• Myth

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: January 8, 2008

The Mamur Zapt

Author: Pearce, Michael

Title: The Mamur Zapt

Published: Scottsdale: Poison Pen Press, 2001-

Description: v. <1-15> ; 22 cm.

Contents:

• vol. 1 The Mamur Zapt & the return of the carpet

Subject(s):

• Owen, Gareth Cadwallader (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Police -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Fiction
• British -- Egypt -- Fiction
• Cairo (Egypt) -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Steinberg, Sybil. "The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet." Publishers Weekly 237.n38 (Sept 21, 1990): 66

Read:

• vol. 1 (January 6, 2008)

Driftless: photographs from Iowa

Author: Frazier, Danny Wilcox

Title: Driftless: photographs from Iowa

Published: Durham: Duke University Press, 2007

Description: 1 v. :ill. ; 33 cm.

Note(s): "Winner of the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book prize in photography"--P. facing t.p. Foreword by Robert Frank

Subject(s):

• Documentary photography -- Iowa
• Country life -- Iowa -- Pictorial works
• Frazier, Danny Wilcox, 1970-

Review(s):

• Olson, Ray. "Driftless: Photographs from Iowa." Booklist 104.7 (Dec 1, 2007): 12

Read: January 5, 2008

The foreign correspondent: a novel

Author: Furst, Alan

Title: The foreign correspondent: a novel

Published: New York: Random House Trade Pbks., 2006

Description: 273 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Journalists -- France -- Paris -- Fiction
• Underground newspapers -- France -- Paris -- Fiction
• Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
• Spies -- Fiction
• Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei -- Fiction
• Ovra (Organization : Italy) -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Carlson, Michael. "Grace under pressure." Spectator (Dec 30, 2006): NA
• "Furst, Alan: The Foreign Correspondent." Kirkus Reviews 74.9 (May 1, 2006): 426
• Gross, Ken. "Paris Noir." The New York Times Magazine (May 21, 2006): 148

Read: December 30, 2007

Special operations in the age of chivalry, 1100-1550

Author: Harari, Yuval N.

Title: Special operations in the age of chivalry, 1100-1550

Published: Rochester: Boydell Press, 2007

Description: xi, 224 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 186-211

Subject(s):

• Military history, Medieval
• Espionage -- History -- To 1500
• Middle Ages

Review(s):

• Murray, Alan. "The ancient art of fighting dirty.(Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550)." Times Higher Education Supplement 1810 (Sept 7, 2007): 22

Read: December 28, 2007

The daughters of Juárez: a true story of serial murder south of the border

Author(s): Rodríguez, Teresa, Diana Montané, and Lisa Pulitzer

Title: The daughters of Juárez: a true story of serial murder south of the border

Published: New York: Atria Books, 2007

Description: xvii, 316 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Serial murders -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez
• Murder -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez
• Women -- Crimes against -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez
• Women -- Violence against -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez
• Missing persons -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez
• Murder victims -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez
• Political corruption -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez
• Transnational crime -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- Mexico
• Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) -- Politics and government -- 20th century

Review(s):

• "The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border." Florida Bar Journal 81.10 (Nov 2007): 47
• Cruz-Lugo, Victor. "When truth is more horrific than fiction.(The Daughters of Juarez)." Hispanic 20.3 (March 2007): 76

Read: December 27, 2007

Classics for pleasure

Author: Dirda, Michael

Title: Classics for pleasure

Published: Orlando: Harcourt, 2007

Description: x, 341 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Literature -- History and criticism
• Canon (Literature)

Review(s):

• Hooper, Brad. "Classics for Pleasure." Booklist 104.1 (Sept 1, 2007): 37
• "Dirda, Michael: CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE." Kirkus Reviews (Sept 1, 2007)
• "Classics for Pleasure." Publishers Weekly 254.33 (August 20, 2007): 57

Read: December 25, 2007

Gut symmetries

Author: Winterson, Jeanette

Title: Gut symmetries

Published: New York: Vintage, 1998

Description: 223 p. ; 21 cm.

Note: First published 1997

Subject(s):

• Women physicists -- Fiction
• Bisexual women -- Fiction
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
• Alchemy -- Fiction

Review(s):

• McClellan, Ann. "Science fictions: British women scientists and Jeanette Winterson's Gut Symmetries." Women's Studies 33.8 (Dec 2004): 1057-1081
• Litovitz, Malca. "Passion and comfort (Jeanette Winterson)." Queen's Quarterly 104.2 (Summer 1997): 333-41
• Holcomb, Shannon. "Gut Symmetries." Lambda Book Report 6.n3 (Oct 1997): 32

Read: December 24, 2007

Roy Arden: against the day

Author: Arden, Roy

Title: Roy Arden: against the day

Published: Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2007

Description: 159 p. :ill. ; 29 cm.

Note(s): Essays by Dieter Roelstraete and Russell Ferguson; texts by Roy Arden...[et al.]

Subject(s):

• Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions
• Vancouver (B.C) -- In art -- Exhibitions
• Arden, Roy, 1957- -- Exhibitions
• Arden, Roy, 1957- -- Expositions

Review(s): Forthcoming

Read: December 23, 2007