Goliath

Author: Gauld, Tom

Title: Goliath

Published: Montréal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2012

Description: 96 p. :col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PN6737 G35 G65 2011

Summary: This story reworks the David-and-Goliath myth. Goliath of Gath isn’t much of a fighter. Given half a choice, he would pick administrative work over patrolling in a heartbeat, to say nothing of his distaste for engaging in combat. Nonetheless, at the behest of the king, he finds himself issuing a twice daily challenge to the Israelites: "Choose a man. Let him come to me that we may fight. If he be able to kill me then we shall be your servants. But if I kill him, then you shall be our servants." Day after day he reluctantly repeats his speech, and the isolation of this duty gives him the chance to banter with his shield-bearer and reflect on the beauty of his surroundings. This is the story of David and Goliath as seen from Goliath’s side of the Valley of Elah. Quiet moments in Goliath’s life as a soldier are accentuated by the author’s drawing style, which contrasts minimalist scenery and near-geometric humans with densely crosshatched detail reminiscent of Edward Gorey. Goliath’s battle is simultaneously tragic and bleakly funny, as bureaucracy pervades even this most mythic of figures. Goliath displays a sensitive wit, a bold line, and a traditional narrative reworked, remade, and revolutionized.

Subject(s):

• Goliath (Biblical giant) -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: May 24, 2012

Angels of vengeance

Author: Birmingham, John, 1964-

Title: Angels of vengeance

Published: New York: Del Ray/Ballantine Books, 2012

Description: x, 530 pages ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PR9619.3 B5136 A83 2012

Note(s): "Originally published in Australia by Macmillan, a division of Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited, in 2011"--Title page verso.

Summary: "When an inexplicable wave of energy slammed into North America, millions died. In the rest of the world, wars erupted, borders vanished, and the powerful lost their grip on power. Against this backdrop, with a conflicted U.S. president struggling to make momentous decisions in Seattle and a madman fomenting rebellion in Texas, three women are fighting their own battles--for survival, justice, and revenge. Special agent Caitlin Monroe moves stealthily through a South American jungle. Her target: a former French official now held prisoner by a ruthless despot. To free the prisoner, Caitlin will kill anyone who gets in her way. And then she will get the truth about how a master terrorist escaped a secret detention center in French Guadeloupe to strike a fatal blow in New York City. Sofia Peiraro is a teenage girl who witnessed firsthand the murder and mayhem of Texas under the rule of General Mad Jack Blackstone. Sofia might have tried to build a life with her father in the struggling remnants of Kansas City--if a vicious murder hadn't set her on another course altogether: back to Texas, even to Blackstone himself. Julianne Balwyn is a British-born aristocrat turned smuggler. Shopping in the most fashionable neighborhood of Darwin, Australia--now a fantastic neo-urban frontier--Jules has a pistol holstered in the small of her lovely back. She is playing the most dangerous game of all: waiting for the person who is hunting her to show his face--so she can kill him first. Three women in three corners of a world plunged into electrifying chaos. Nation-states struggling for their survival. Immigrants struggling for new lives. John Birmingham's astounding new novel--the conclusion to the series begun in Without Warning and After America--is an intense adventure that races from the halls of power to shattered streets to gleaming new cities, as humanity struggles to grasp its better angels--and purge its worst demons"--Provided by publisher.

Subject(s):

• Suspense fiction
• Alternative histories (Fiction)

Read: May 21, 2012

A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Author: Bryson, Bill

Title: A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Published: New York: Broadway Books, 1999

Description:  284 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: F106 B92 1999

Bibliography: p. 275-276

Subject(s):

• Appalachian Trail -- Description and travel
• Bryson, Bill -- Journeys -- Appalachian Trail
• Natural history -- Appalachian Trail

Read: May 17, 2012

The mark of Abel

Author: Panas, Lydia

Title: The mark of Abel

Published: Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2011

Description: 95 p. :col. ill. ; 24 cm. x 30 cm.

Call Number: TR681 F28 P36 2011

Note(s): Texts by Maile Meloy and George Slade

Subject(s):

• Photography of families
• Families -- Pictorial works
• Portrait photography -- 21st century
• Photography, Artistic -- 21st century.

Read: May 14, 2012

Collected poems

Author: Gilbert, Jack,1925-

Uniform Title: Poems. Selections

Title: Collected poems

Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012

Description: xviii, 408 p. ;  24 cm.

Call Number: PS3557 I34217 A6 2012

Note(s): Includes indexes

Summary: "More than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert are gathered in this volume, from his Yale Younger Poets prizewinning volume to his glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work."--Jacket

Subject(s):

• American poetry
• Poetry

Read: May 13, 2012

Roswitha Hecke: Pigalle

Author: Hecke, Roswitha, 1944-

Title: Roswitha Hecke: Pigalle

Published: Köln: Walther König, 2007

Description: 127 p. :ports. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: TR681 T7 H43 2007

Note(s): Text in German and English. text by Joachim Sartorius

Subject(s):

• Hecke, Roswitha, 1944-
• Transvestites -- France -- Portraits

Read: May 9, 2012

Flight. Volume one

Title: Flight. Volume one

Published: New York: Villard Books, 2004

Description: 207 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6720 F65 2004

Content(s): Air and water / Enrico Casarosa -- Maiden voyage / Kazu Kibuishi -- Hugo Earheart / Jake Parker -- I wish-- / Vera Brosgol -- Paper and string / Jen Wang -- Taj Mahal / Neil Babra -- Formidable / Bengal -- Outside my window / Khang Le -- Untitled / Chris Appelhans -- Tumbleweed / Catia Chien -- Fall / Catia Chien -- Dummy brother / Jacob Magraw-Mickelson -- All-time low / Dylan Meconis and Bill Mudron -- The maiden and the river spirit / Derek Kirk Kim -- Beneath the leaves: jump / Rad Sechrist -- Tug McTaggart, circus detective / Phil Craven -- Deep blue / Phil Craven -- Wing / Joel Carroll -- Migrations / Kean Soo -- Faith / Erika Moen (colors by Hope Larson) -- The bowl / Clio Chiang -- Copper / Kazu Kibuishi -- Create / Erika Moen (colors by Kazu Kibuishi) -- The year that comics took flight / Scott McCloud

Note(s): Editor/art director, Kazu Kibuishi 

Summary: An anthology of short stories, by a variety of the international artists. Includes the full-color work of top animators at Pixar, DreamWorks, and other studios, emerging Web cartoonists, and established comic book and graphic novel creators

Subject(s):

• Short stories
• Fantasy fiction
• Comic books, strips, etc
• Fantasy comic books, strips, etc

Read: May 9, 2012

Flight. Volume two

Title: Flight. Volume two

Published: New York: Villard Books, 2005

Description: 431 p. :chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6720 F65 2005 

Content(s): Inner sanctum / Michel Gagne -- Solomon Fix / Doug TenNapel -- Jelly fruit / Catia Chien -- The robot and the sparrow / Jake Parker -- Dead soul's day out / Sonny Liew -- Monster slayers / Khang Le -- The golden temple / Neil Babra -- Dance of the sugar plums / Don Hertzfeldt -- Destiny xpress / Jen Wang -- The orange grove / Kazu Kibuishi -- Weather vain / Hope Larson -- Heads up / Becky Cloonan -- Tendergrass / Matthew Woodson -- Last things last / Kean Soo -- Cellmates / Phil Craven -- The ride / Rodolphe Guinoden -- Laika / Doug Holgate -- Ghost trolley / Rad Sechrist -- Wilford's stroll / Justin Ridge -- Impossible / Herval -- Dust on the shelves / Bannister -- This time! / Clio Chiang -- Blip pop / Ryan Sias -- Mouse trap / Johane Matte -- Sirius and Betelgeuse / Jeff Smith -- The flying bride / Giuseppe Ferrario -- The plank / Ben Hatke -- Icarus / Johane Matte -- A test for Cenri / Amy Kim Ganter -- La sonadora / Joana Carneiro -- Sky blue / Kness -- Beisbol / Richard Pose -- Salmoning / Vera Brosgol

Note(s): Editor/art director, Kazu Kibuishi 

Summary: An anthology of short stories, by a variety of the international artists. Includes the full-color work of top animators at Pixar, DreamWorks, and other studios, emerging Web cartoonists, and established comic book and graphic novel creators

Subject(s):

• Short stories
• Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels
• Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Good and evil -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: May 9, 2012

Flight. Volume three

Title: Flight. Volume three

Published: New York: Ballantine Books, 2006

Description: 351 p. :chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6720 F65 2006

Content(s): Underworld / Michael Gagné -- Old oak trees / Tony Cliff -- The edge / Ben Hatke -- Beneath the leaves: Lemming City / Rad Sechrist -- Hunter / Johane Matte -- Jellaby: the tea party / Kean Soo -- The rescue / Phil Craven -- The lumbering beast / Joey Weiser -- Saturday / Israel Sanchez -- The cloud / Bill Plympton -- Earl D. / Yoko Tanaka -- Polaris / Azad Injejikian -- In due time / Neil Babra -- Iron gate / Kazu Kibuishi -- Message in a bottle / Rodolphe Guenoden -- So far, so close / Bannister -- Voodoo / Matthew Forsythe -- Ad astra / Chuck BB -- Conquest / Becky Cloonan -- Tea / Reagan Lodge -- One little miracle for a hungry swarm / Alex Fuentes -- Wurmler of the west / Paul Harmon -- The brave sea / Steve Hamaker -- The great bunny migration / Dave Roman -- Snow cap / Matthew S. Armstrong -- Lala and the bean / Khang Le

Note(s): Editor/art director, Kazu Kibuishi 

Summary: An anthology of short stories, by a variety of the international artists. Includes the full-color work of top animators at Pixar, DreamWorks, and other studios, emerging Web cartoonists, and established comic book and graphic novel creators

Subject(s):

• Short stories
• Fantasy
• Flight -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Fantasy -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: May 6, 2012

Congress of the animals

Author: Woodring, Jim

Title: Congress of the animals

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :all ill. ;  25 cm.

Call Number: PN6728 F69 W676 2011

Summary: "An act of casual rudeness sets into motion a chain of events which propels Frank into a world where he is on his own at last; and like so many who leave home, Frank finds himself contending with realities of which he had no previous inkling."--Amazon.com

Subject(s):

• Frank (Fictitious character : Woodring) -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels -- United States
• Stories without words

Read: May 5, 2012

The armed garden and other stories

 Author: B., David,1959-

Title: The armed garden and other stories

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :chiefly ill. ;  27 cm.

Call Number: PN6747 B22 A76 2011

Content(s): Veiled prophet -- Armed garden -- Drum who fell in love

Note(s): "The first two stories were originally printed in the magazine Lapin, published by L’Association; the third was originally printed in the Le Jardin armé collection by Futuropolis. All three were printed in English in MOME magazine"--Collophon. Edited and translated by Kim Thompson

Summary: Three mythical stories from the 8th and 15th centuries, all based on historical fact, or at least historical legend, which include grand battles and great leaders

Subject(s):

• Imaginary wars and battles -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Heroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- France -- Translations into English
• Graphic novels

Read: May 5, 2012

Psychiatric tales: eleven graphic stories about mental illness

Author: Cunningham, Darryl

Title: Psychiatric tales: eleven graphic stories about mental illness

Published: New York: Bloomsbury, 2011

Description: x, 139 p. :chiefly ill. ;  22 cm.

Call Number: RC454.4 C86 2011

Content(s): Dementia ward -- Cut -- It could be you -- Darkness -- Anti-social personality disorder -- People with mental illness enrich our lives -- Blood -- Bipolar disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Suicide -- How I lived again

Note(s): First published: Blank Slate Books Limited, London, 2010

Summary(s): This book delves inside the mystery of mental disorders - presenting explanations and recollections using the cartoonist’s own experiences as both a psychiatric and care nurse and as someone who himself has suffered from depression

Subject(s):

• Mental illness -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Psychotherapy patients -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Psychiatric hospitals -- Employees -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Psychiatric hospitals -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Mental illness -- Treatment -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: May 4, 2012

The blue dragon

Author(s): Lepage, Robert,1957- and Marie Michaud

Uniform Title: Dragon bleu. English

Title: The blue dragon

Published: Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :chiefly col. ill. ;  31 cm.

Call Number: PN6733 L46 D7313 2011

Note(s): Translation of: Le dragon bleu. Illustrated by Fred Jourdain

Summary: In this adaptation of Robert Lepage and Marie Michaud’s play of the same name, East meets West, the personal meets the political, and old meets new. Claire, a Quebecoise art dealer, arrives in China to adopt a little girl. There she visits Pierre, her ex-husband, who after fifteen years in China has been absorbed into a life of bicycles, tea, and calligraphy and has begun to question the new directions his adopted country is going in. Claire and Pierre’s lover, the young Chinese artist Xiao Ling, become fast friends. Through this classic love triangle, "The Blue Dragon" looks at aging, cultural confusion, fertility, and creativity, and confronts some of modern China’s most intriguing paradoxes

Subject(s):

• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Man-woman relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Adoption -- Comic books, strips, etc
• China -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: May 4, 2012

Mister wonderful

Author: Clowes, Daniel

Title: Mister wonderful

Published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2011

Description: 77 p. :col. ill. ;  16 x 29 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 C565 M57 2011

Summary: "Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He’s been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie, and now he’s just feeling set up. She’s nine minutes late and counting. Who was he kidding anyway? Divorced, middle-aged, newly unemployed, with next to no prospects, Marshall isn’t exactly what you’d call a catch ... Then, after nearly an hour, when he’s long since given up hope, Natalie appears--breathless, apologizing profusely that she went to the wrong place. She takes a seat, to Marshall’s utter amazement. She’s too good to be true: attractive, young, intelligent, and she seems to be seriously engaged with what Marshall has to say. There has to be a catch. And, of course, there is. During the extremely long night that follows, Marshall and Natalie are emotionally tested in ways that two people who just met really should not be. Not, at least, if they want the prospect of a second date."--Publisher

Subject(s):

• Graphic novels
• Man-woman relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Dating (Social customs) -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: May 3, 2012

Flight. Volume four

Title: Flight. Volume four

Published: New York: Villard Trade PaperBooks, 2007

Description: 344 p. :chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6720 F65 2007

Content(s): The saga of Rex: castaway / Michael Gagné -- Food from the sea / Amy Kim Ganter -- Farewell, little Karla / Thomas Herpich -- Cyclops! / Israel Sanchez -- Little trouble in the big top / Vera Brosgol -- The window makers / Kazu Kibuishi -- And hope for the best / JP Ahonen -- The forever box / Sarah Mensinga -- The blue guitar / Neil Babra -- Igloo head and tree head / Scott Campbell -- The rabbit mayor : a Mayan folk tale / Jon Klassen -- Roomie-Pal! / Graham Annable -- From here to there / Joey Weiser -- Tripod / Bannister and Joel Carroll -- The vampyres of Salem / Azad Injejikian -- The storm / Pascal Campion -- Bigwheels / Ovi Nedelcu -- To Grandma's / Clio Chiang -- Dinosaur egg / Raina Telgemeier -- It's dangerous to sleep / Dave Roman -- Mystical monkey / Ryan Estrada -- The story of Binny / Lark Pien -- Cortina / Fábio Moon -- Twenty-four hours / Andrea Offermann -- The perfect spot / Phil Craven

Note(s): Editor, art director, Kazu Kibuishi

Summary: An anthology of short stories, by a variety of the international artists. Includes the full-color work of top animators at Pixar, DreamWorks, and other studios, emerging Web cartoonists, and established comic book and graphic novel creators

Subject(s):

• Short stories
• Fantasy fiction
• Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Good and evil -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Comic books, strips, etc
• Heroes -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: May 3, 2012

Flight. Volume five

Title: Flight. Volume five

Published: New York: Villard Trade Paperbacks, 2008
   
Description: 360 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6720 F65 2008

Content(s): The broken path / Michel Gagne -- Delilah Dirk and the aqueduct / Tony Cliff -- The dragon / Reagan Lodge -- Beisbol 2 / Richard Pose -- The courier / Kazu Kibuishi -- Malinky Robot / Sonny Liew -- Worry dolls / JP Ahonen -- Igloo head and tree head in disguise / Scott Campbell -- Evidence / Graham Annable -- N / Phil Craven -- The changeling / Sarah Mensinga -- Mountains / Matthew Bernier -- Big dome: flowers for mama / Paul Rivoche -- The chosen one / Dave Roman -- Jellaby: lost / Kean Soo -- Two kids / Bannister with colors by Steve Hamaker -- Scenes in which the earth stops spinning / John Martz and Ryan North -- Timecat / Joey Weiser -- Voyage / Kness and Made -- On the importance of space travel / Svetlana Chmakova -- Seasons: Frank and Frank / Chris Appelhans

Note(s):  Editor/art director, Kazu Kibuishi

Summary: An anthology of short stories, by a variety of international artists

Subject(s):

• Flight -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
• Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Good and evil -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Heroes -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: May 2, 2012

Flight. Volume six

 Title: Flight. Volume six

Published: New York: Villard Trade Paperbacks, 2009

Description: 283 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6720 F65 2009

Content(s): The saga of Rex: soulmates / Michel Gagne -- The excitedly mundane life of Kenneth Shuri / J.P. Ahonen -- Daisy Kutter: phantoms / Kazu Kibuishi -- Magnus the misfit / Graham Annable -- Dead at noon / Rodolphe Guenoden -- Epitaph / Phil Craven -- Walters / Cory Godbey -- Mate / Andrea Offermann -- Kidnapped / Rad Sechrist -- Cooking duel / Bannister -- Dead bunny / Justin Ridge -- The z's / Richard Pose -- Jellaby: hide and seek / Kean Soo -- Fish n chips: even the smallest creatures / Steve Hamaker -- Long-winded / Mike Dutton

Note(s): Editor/art director, Kazu Kibuishi

Summary: An anthology of short stories, by a variety of the international artists. Includes the full-color work of top animators at Pixar, DreamWorks, and other studios, emerging Web cartoonists, and established comic book and graphic novel creators

Subject(s):

• Comic books, strips, etc
• Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Good and evil -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Heroes -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: April 30, 2012

Dragonslippers: this is what an abusive relationship looks like

Author: Penfold, Rosalind B.

Title: Dragonslippers: this is what an abusive relationship looks like

Published: New York: Black Cat/Grove Press, 2005

Description: 257 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: HV6626.2 P46 2005

Note(s): "Originally published by Penguin Canada in 2005"--T.p. verso

Subject(s):

• Abused wives -- United States -- Psychology
• Psychological abuse -- United States
• Man-woman relationships -- United States

Read: April 27, 2012

After the echo: a survival guide for police & military snipers

Author: Clagett, Russ

Title After the echo: a survival guide for police & military snipers

Published: Shawnee Mission: Varro Press, 2003

Description 147 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: HV8080 S64 C53 2003

Content(s): A sniper's dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Dave Grossman -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The way it is -- Chapter 2. The shooting -- Chapter 3. Her background -- Chapter 4. My background -- Chapter 5. After the shot -- Chapter 6. Post shooting stress -- Chapter 7. Grand jury -- Chapter 8. Emotional and psychological issues -- Chapter 9. Lessons learned -- Chapter 10. Code of conduct -- Chapter 11. My vision of a perfect world -- Chapter 12. Some words for supervisors, team leaders, and administrators especially -- Chapter 13. Epilogue -- About the author

Summary: A rare look into the world of a police sniper who takes you on a heart-wrenching and frightening true story about the worst part of his job, taking a shot

Subject(s):

• Clagett, Russ
• Snipers -- United States -- Biography
• Police -- Special weapons and tactics units -- United States
• Sniping (Military science)

Read: April 27, 2012

Irene

Author: Hecke, Roswitha,1944-

Uniform Title: Liebes Leben. English

Title: Irene

Published: Zürich: Edition Patrick Frey, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :ill. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: TR681 P73 H4313 2011

Summary: Roswitha Hecke’s photo book Liebes Leben (Love Life) about the Zurich artist-muse and prostitute, Irene, also called "Lady shiva", was published for the first time in 1978. It became both a cult book and an international success. Reprinted many times and translated into several languages, it is finally available again. The new, revised volume put out by Edition Patrick Frey presents photos that have never before been published

Subject(s):

• Hecke, Roswitha, 1944-
• Prostitutes -- Portraits

Read: April 26, 2012

Planting the trees of Kenya: the story of Wangari Maathai

Author: Nivola, Claire A.

Title: Planting the trees of Kenya: the story of Wangari Maathai

Published: New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008

Description: [32] p. :col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Call Number: SB63 M22 N58 2008

Summary: "This is the story of Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari came home from college to find the streams dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. How could she alone bring back the trees and restore the gardens and the people?"--Dust jacket

Subject(s):

• Maathai, Wangari -- Juvenile literature
• Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya) -- Juvenile literature
• Tree planters (Persons) -- Kenya -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
• Women conservationists -- Kenya -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
• Women politicians -- Kenya -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
• Tree planters (Persons) -- Kenya -- Biography

Read: April 26, 2012

Secret views: Roswitha Hecke; Fotografien 1964 bis heute

Author: Hecke, Roswitha, 1944-

Title: Secret views: Roswitha Hecke; Fotografien 1964 bis heute

Published: München: Schirmer Mosel, 2007

Description: 150 p. :ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: TR647 H435 2007

Subject(s):

• Hecke, Roswitha, 1944- --Exhibitions
• Photography--Exhibitions

Read: April 26, 2012

Crossing the empty quarter and other stories

Author: Swain, Carol

Title: Crossing the empty quarter and other stories

Published: Milwaukie: Dark Horse, 2009

Description:: 197 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number:  PN6727 S965 C78 2009

   

Content(s): Black-and-white stories. -- Down town. -- History man. -- From arcade to beach. -- Drop off point. -- Dum dum day. -- Jig and reel. -- B movie. -- Terrific movie. -- Village idiot. -- Galleon's reach. -- A gone town. -- Sympathy for the devil. -- 2000 BC. -- Cargo cult. -- You got to laugh. -- Litter. -- The fire bug. -- The good mixer. -- True white brother. -- Durango. -- Come down town. -- Painted friends. -- Show time. -- Things washed up. -- Desert. -- Florida 11/7/00. -- Heaven. -- Hell. -- Color stories. -- Mood music. --- Jubilee. -- Filler. -- Been had. -- Family circus. -- Paid and displayed? -- Communicable disease. -- Nos da. -- Magnetic letters

Subject(s):

• Short stories, English
• Graphic novels

Read: April 19, 2012

Tina's mouth: an existential comic diary

Author: Kashyap, Keshni

Title: Tina's mouth: an existential comic diary

Published: New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011

Description: 242 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PN6727K278 T56 2011

Note(s): Illustrated by Mari Araki

Summary: Tina Malhotra, a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy in Southern California, creates an existential diary for an honors English assignment in which she tries to determine who she is and where she fits in

Subject(s):

• Graphic novels
• Individuality -- Fiction
• East Indian Americans -- Fiction
• High schools -- Fiction
• Schools -- Fiction
• California, Southern -- Fiction

Read: April 18, 2012

At the mountains of madness: a graphic novel

Author: Culbard, Ian

Title: At the mountains of madness: a graphic novel

Published: New York: Sterling, 2012

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

Call Number: PN6737 C85 A8 2012

Note(s): Adapted from the original novel by H.P. Lovecraft; text adapted and illustrated by I.N.J. Culbard. Originally published: London: SelfMadeHero, 2010

Summary: In graphic novel format, retells H.P. Lovecraft's classic horror story in which geologist William Dyer attempts to stop a research team from going to Antarctica, where he himself led a mission that uncovered terrifying evil

Subject(s):

• Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937--Adaptations--Comic books, strips, etc
• Fossils--Collection and preservation--Antarctica--Comic books, strips, etc
• Scientific expeditions--Antarctica--Comic books, strips, etc
• Supernatural--Comic books, strips, etc
• Horror comic books, strips, etc.--United States
• Comic books, strips, etc.--United States

Read: April 16, 2012

The lost books of the Odyssey

Author: Mason, Zachary, 1974-

Title: The lost books of the Odyssey: a novel

Published: New York: Picador, 2011

Description: ix, 228 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3613 A8185 L67 2011

Note(s): "First published, in somewhat different form, by Starcherone Books, New York"--T.p. verso

Summary: A reimagining of Homer's classic story about the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy

Subject(s):

• Odysseus (Greek mythology) -- Fiction
• Odysseus (Legendary character) -- Fiction

Read: April 16, 2012

Inside out & back again

Author: Lai, Thanhha

Title: Inside out & back again

Published: New York: Harper, 2011

Description: 262 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PZ7.5 L35 I57 2011

Summary: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama

Subject(s):

• Vietnamese American girls -- Juvenile fiction
• Ten-year-old girls -- Juvenile fiction
• Vietnamese immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
• Father-separated girls -- Juvenile fiction
• Seventies (20th century) -- Juvenile fiction
• Cultural differences -- Juvenile fiction
• Bullying and bullies -- Juvenile fiction
• Novels in verse -- Juvenile fiction
• Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction
• Vietnamese Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
• Alabama -- Juvenile fiction
• Vietnam -- History -- Juvenile fiction

Read: April 13, 2012

Native American code talker in World War II

Author: Gilbert, Oscar E.

Title: Native American code talker in World War II

Published: Oxford: Osprey, 2008

Description: 64 p. :ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Call Number: D810 C88 G55 2008

Bibliography: p. 63

Content(s): Introduction -- Chronology -- Enlistment -- Training -- Appearance and equipment -- Belief and belonging -- The early Pacific campaigns: Daily life in the Southwest Pacific ; Hastily into battle -- the Solomons and Tarawa -- The Central Pacific campaigns: Daily life in a rest camp -- Life on campaign -- Japanese attempts to break the Code -- European combat -- The Comanche -- Final cataclysms: Daily life -- reorganization ; The final battles -- Aftermath -- Museums and collections

Note(s): Illustrated by Raffaele Ruggeri

Subject(s):

• Navajo code talkers
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography

Read: April 12, 2012

Dead inside, do not enter: notes from the zombie apocalypse: a lost zombies book

Title: Dead inside, do not enter: notes from the zombie apocalypse: a lost zombies book

Published: San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PS648 Z64 D43 2011

Note(s): "A lost zombies book"

Summary: Part of an ongoing, collaborative, and experimental storytelling project called Lost Zombies, whose goal is to create a fictional world where zombies exist and document that world in print and film

Subject(s):

• Zombies -- Fiction
• Epidemics -- Fiction
• Horror tales, American

Read: April 11, 2012