Burma chronicles

Author: Delisle, Guy

Uniform Title: Chroniques birmanes. English

Title: Burma chronicles

Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2008

Description 1 v. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Note: Translation by Helge Dascher

Subject(s):

• Delisle, Guy -- Travel -- Burma
• Cartoonists -- Canada -- Biography
• Burma -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Burma -- Politics and government -- 1988- -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Burma -- Description and travel -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Burma -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: December 17, 2009

Crush depth

Author: Spence, Michael

Title: Crush depth

Published: Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009

Description: x, 67 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Fathers and sons -- Poetry
• United States. Navy -- Officers -- Poetry

Read: December 14, 2009

Stitches: a memoir...

Author: Small, David

Title: Stitches : a memoir...

Published: New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009

Description: 329 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Small, David, 1945- -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Artists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Cancer -- Patients -- Biography

Read: December 12, 2009

Noir: a collection of crime comics

Title: Noir: a collection of crime comics

Published: Milwaukie: Dark Horse, 2009

Description: 115 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

• Stray bullets: open the goddamn box / written and illustrated by David Lapham; lettered by Clem Robins
• The old silo / written, illustrated, and lettered by Jeff Lemire
• Mister X: yacht on the Styx / written, illustrated, and lettered by Dean Motter
• The last hit / written by Chris Offutt; illustrated by Kano and Stefano Gaudiano; lettered by Clem Robins
• Fracture / written by Alex De Campi; illustrated by Hugo Petrus; lettered by Ryan Hill
• The Albanian / written, illustrated, and lettered by M.K. Perker
• Kane: the card player / written, illustrated, and lettered by Paul Grist
• Blood on my hands / written, illustrated, and lettered by Rick Geary
• Trustworthy / written by Ken Lizzi; illustrated by Joëlle Jones
• The new me / written by Gary Phillips; illustrated by Eduardo Barreto; lettered by Tom Orzechowski
• Lady's choice / written, illustrated, and lettered by Matthew and Shawn Fillbäch
• Criminal: 21st century noir / written by Ed Brubaker; illustrated and lettered by Sean Phillips
• The bad night / written by Brian Azzarello; illustrated and lettered by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá

Subject(s):

• Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
• Noir fiction, American

Read: December 13, 2009

Roseanna: a Martin Beck mystery

Author(s): Sjöwall, Maj and  Per Wahlöö

Uniform Title: Roseanna. English

Title: Roseanna: a Martin Beck mystery

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2008

Description: x, 212 p. : 21 cm.

Note(s): "With a new introduction by Henning Mankell"--P. [1] of cover./ "The first Martin Beck mystery"--P. [1] of cover./ "Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Subject(s):

• Beck, Martin (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Police -- Sweden -- Stockholm -- Fiction
• Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
• Stockholm (Sweden) -- Fiction

Read: December 14, 2009

Trotsky: a graphic biography

Author: Geary, Rick

Title: Trotsky: a graphic biography

Published: New York: Hill and Wang: Serious Comics, 2009

Description: 103 p. :ill., ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 103

Subject(s):

• Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Revolutionaries -- Soviet Union -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Statesmen -- Soviet Union -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Exiles -- Russia -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Communism -- Soviet Union -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels

Read: December 11, 2009

Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie

Title Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie

Published: Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2008

Description: 111 p. :ill. ; 14 x 18 cm.

Note(s): Introduction by Andrew Roberts. Subtitle on cover: Images of the Berlin Wall

Subject(s):

• Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 -- Pictorial works
• Postcards -- Germany -- Berlin

Read: November 23, 2009

Postcards of political icons: leaders of the twentieth century

Title: Postcards of political icons: leaders of the twentieth century

Published: Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2008

Description: 111 p. :ill. ; 14 x 18 cm.

Note: Introduction by Andrew Roberts

Subject(s):

• History, Modern -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
• Politicians -- Biography

Read: November 23, 2009

What's the matter with Kansas?: how conservatives won the heart of America

Author: Frank, Thomas

Title: What's the matter with Kansas?: how conservatives won the heart of America

Published: New York: Metropolitan/Owl Book, 2005

Description x, 322 p. : map, ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Conservatism -- Kansas
• Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1951-

Read: December 4, 2009

Pleased to see me: 69 very sexy poems

Title: Pleased to see me: 69 very sexy poems

Published: Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe, 2002

Description: 96 p. ; 17 cm.

Note: Edited by Neil Astley

Subject(s):

• Love poetry, English
• Erotic poetry, English
• Love poetry, American
• Erotic poetry, American.

Read: December 7, 2009

The ghost road

Author: Barker, Pat

Title: The ghost road

Published: New York: Plume, 1996

Description: 278 p. ; 21 cm.

Bibliography:  p. 278

Note(s): "A William Abrahams book." "Previously published in a Dutton edition"--T.p. verso. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize

Subject(s):

• World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Fiction
• Psychiatrists--Great Britain--Fiction
• Poets, English--20th century--Fiction
• Soldiers--Great Britain--Fiction 
• Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918--Fiction
• Rivers, W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers), 1864-1922--Fiction

Read: November 17, 2009

Down these mean streets

Author: Thomas, Piri

Title: Down these mean streets

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 1997

Description: x, 340 p. ; 21 cm.

Note(s): Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. With new afterword

Subject(s):

• Thomas, Piri, 1928-
• Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
• New York (N.Y.) -- Biography

Read: November 11, 2009

The world cruise of the Great White Fleet: honoring 100 years of global partnerships and security

Title: The world cruise of the Great White Fleet: honoring 100 years of global partnerships and security

Published: Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2008

Description: ix, 106 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Note(s): Edited by Michael J. Crawford; with a foreword by Donald C. Winter

Subject(s):

• United States. Navy -- Cruise, 1907-1909
• United States. Navy -- History -- 20th century
• United States -- History, Naval -- 20th century
• Voyages around the world
• United States -- Foreign relations -- 1901-1909
• National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Read: November 11, 2009

The Soviet submarine fleet: a photographic survey

Author: Berg, John 

Uniform Title: Nærbilde av Sovjets ubåter. English

Title: The Soviet submarine fleet: a photographic survey

Published: London: Jane's, 1985

Description: 80 p. :ill. ; 22 x 30 cm.

Note(s):  Introduction by John E. Moore.  Translation of: Naerbilde av Sovjets ubåter, Oslo, 1984

Subject(s):

• Submarines (Ships) -- Soviet Union

Read: November 10, 2009