Lust: kinky online personal ads from Seattle's The Stranger

Author: Forney, Ellen

Title: Lust: kinky online personal ads from Seattle’s The Stranger

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2008

Description: 166 p. :ill. ; 17 cm.

Call Number: PN6231 P36 F67 2008

Subject(s):

• Personals --Humor
• Personals --Caricatures and cartoons
• Erotic comic books, strips, etc

Read: March 30, 2012

332nd Fighter Group: Tuskegee Airmen

Author: Bucholtz, Chris

Title: 332nd Fighter Group : Tuskegee Airmen

Published: Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2007

Description: 128 p. :ill. (some col.) ;  25 cm.

Call Number: D790.252 332nd B83 2007

Subject(s):

• United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd -- History
• United States. Army Air Forces -- African American troops
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front

Read: March 30, 2012

The sky over the Louvre

Author: Yslaire, 1957-

Title: The sky over the Louvre

Published: New York: NBM Comics Lit, 2011

Description: 66 p. :ill. ; 29 cm.

Call Number: PN6747 Y8 S59 2011

Note(s): Translated from the French. Translation by Joe Johnson

Subject(s):

• Musée du Louvre -- Comic books, strips, etc
• France -- History -- 1789-1793 -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: March 30, 2012

Andy and the lion

Author: Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-1974

Title: Andy and the lion

Published: New York, The Viking press, 1966

Description: 79 p. :ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: PZ8.2 D27 A66 1966

Note(s): Illustrated t.p. and lining papers. "First published April 1938."

Summary: In this retelling of Androcles and the Lion, Andy meets a lion on the way to school and wins his friendship for life by removing a thorn from his paw

Subject(s):

• Lion -- Juvenile fiction
• Human-animal relationships -- Juvenile fiction
• Kindness -- Juvenile fiction
• Gratitude -- Juvenile fiction
• Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
• Courage -- Juvenile fiction
• Fables -- Juvenile fiction

Read: March 30, 2012

What goes on: selected & new poems, 1995-2009

Author: Dunn, Stephen,1939-

Title: What goes on: selected & new poems, 1995-2009

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

Description: 203 p. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PS3554 U49 W47 2009

Note(s): "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"--Jacket

Subject(s):

• Poetry

Read: March 29, 2012

Flight. Volume eight

Title: Flight. Volume eight

Published: New York: Villard Trade Paperbacks, 2011

Description: 282 p. :ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6720 F65 2011

Content(s): Encore / Kosta Kiriakakis -- Kenneth Shuri & the wrong kill / JP Ahonen -- Riddle / Kyla Vanderklugt -- The clockmaker's daughter / Cory Godbey -- Echoes / Jason Caffoe -- The hollow men / Nicholas Kole -- The gift / Kazu Kibuishi -- The black fountain / Tony Cliff -- The collector / Leland Myrick -- New Year's Day / Sonny Liew -- Buttons and Jim in What's stopping the gravy train? / Katie and Steven Shanahan -- Jellaby: who need friends? / Kean Soo -- Igloo Head and Tree Head in "Accomplishments" / Scott Campbell -- Rematch! / Dermot Walshe -- Checkers / Jake Parker -- Migration / Der-shing Helmer -- Winged! / Grimaldi and Bannister -- Periwinkle in Try, try again / Matthew S. Armstrong

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):

• Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels

Read: March 28, 2012

The distinctly essential dresden codak primer

Author: Diaz, Aaron

Title: The distinctly essential dresden codak primer

Published: Easthampton: TopatoCo Books, 2011

Description: [52] p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6728 D74 D53 2011

Read: March 26, 2012

Double life

Author: Connell, Kelli,1974-

Title: Double life

Published: Seattle: Decode Books, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :chiefly col. ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.

Call Numebr: TR681 W6 C67352 2011

Note(s): "Limited to 1,500 casebound copies"--Colophon. Essay by Susan Bright; interview by Dawoud Bey

Subject(s):

• Connell, Kelli, 1974-
• Photography of women
• Photomontage
• Trick photography
• Lesbians -- Pictorial works

Read: March 26, 2012

Confirmed kill: heroic sniper stories from the jungles of Vietnam to the mountains of Afghanistan

Author: Cawthorne, Nigel,1951-

Title: Confirmed kill: heroic sniper stories from the jungles of Vietnam to the mountains of Afghanistan

Published: Berkley: Ulysses Press, 2012

Description: 264 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: UD330 C27 2012

Bibliography: p. 263-264

Subject(s):

• Snipers -- Anecdotes

Read: March 26, 2012

A gift from the lonely doll

Author: Wright, Dare

Title: A gift from the lonely doll

Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :ill. ; 32 cm.

Call Number: PZ7 W935 G5 2001

Summary: Edith and her teddy bears ready the house for Christmas

Subject(s):

• Dolls -- Fiction
• Teddy bears -- Fiction
• Scarves -- Fiction
• Christmas -- Fiction
• Gifts -- Fiction

Read: March 25, 2012

And then it's spring

Author: Fogliano, Julie

Title: And then it's spring

Published: New York :Roaring Brook Press, 2012

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: Unassigned

Note (s):  Illustrated by Erin E. Stead

Summary: Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green

Subject(s):

• Spring -- Fiction
• Gardens -- Fiction

Read: March 25, 2012

Blackout

Author: Rocco, John

Title: Blackout

Published: New York: Disney/Hyperion Books, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Call Number: Unassigned

Note(s): Caldecott Medal winner

Summary: When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once

Subject(s):

• Electric power failures -- Fiction
• Family life -- Fiction
• Electric power failures -- Fiction
• Family life -- Fiction

Read: March 25, 2012

The scar

Author: Moundlic, Charlotte

Uniform Title: Croûte. English

Title: The scar

Published: Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2011

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

Call Number: Unassigned

Note(s): Illustrations by Olivier Tallec

Summary: When his mother dies, a little boy is angry at his loss but does everything he can to hold onto the memory of her scent, her voice, and the special things she did for him, even as he tries to help his father and grandmother cope

Subject(s):

• Death -- Fiction
• Grief -- Fiction
• Mothers -- Fiction

Read: March 25, 2012

Waiting for the BiblioBurro

Author: Brown, Monica, 1969-

Title: Waiting for the BiblioBurro

Published: Berkeley: Tricycle Press, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: PS3552 R695 W35 2011  

Note(s):  Illustrations by John Parra

Summary: When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana's excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the BibliBurro to return. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a note on the true story of Columbia's BiblioBurro and mobile libraries in other countries

Subject(s):

• Colombia -- Fiction
• Soriano, Luis -- Juvenile fiction
• Biblioburro -- Juvenile fiction
• Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction
• Libraries -- Juvenile fiction
• Colombia -- Juvenile fiction

Read: March 25, 2012

Government issue: comics for the people, 1940s-2000s

Author: Graham, Richard (Richard Lukas Graham),1974-

Title: Government issue: comics for the people, 1940s-2000s

Published: New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2011

Description: 303 p. :ill. (chiefly col.) ;  28 cm.

Call Number: PN6714 G73 2011

Note(s): Foreword by Sid Jacobson

Summary: "Since the 1940s, federal and state government agencies have published comics to disseminate public information. Government Issue reproduces an important selection of these official comics in full-reading format, plus a broad range of excerpts and covers"-- Provided by publisher

Subject(s):

• Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Read: March 23, 2012

Firestorm

Author: Anderson, Taylor

Title: Firestorm

Published: New York: Roc, 2011

Description: 422 p. :maps ;  24 cm.

Call Number: PS3601 N5475 F57 2011

Note(s): "First published by Roc, an imprint of New American Library"--T.p. verso

Summary: Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS "Walker" find themselves caught between the nation they swore to defend and the allies they promised to protect

Subject(s):

• Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
• Destroyers (Warships) -- Fiction
• Naval battles -- Fiction
• Ocean liners -- Fiction
• Alternative histories (Fiction)
• Science fiction

Read: March 22, 2012

Hark! a vagrant

Author: Beaton, Kate,1983-

Title: Hark!: a vagrant

Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2011

Description: 166 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PN6733 B42 H37 2011

Summary: "Hark! A Vagrant" takes readers on a romp through history and literature--with dignity for few and cookies for all--with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures, all drawn in Kate Beaton’s pared-down, excitable style. This collection features favorite stories as well as new, previously unpublished content. Whether she’s writing about Nikola Tesla, Napoleon, or Nancy Drew, Beaton brings a refined sense of the absurd to every situation

Subject(s):

• World history -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Characters and characteristics in literature -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Canadian wit and humor, Pictorial
• Comic books, strips, etc

Read: March 18, 2012

Whatever happened to the world of tomorrow?: a graphic novel

Author: Fies, Brian

Title: Whatever happened to the world of tomorrow?: a graphic novel

Published: New York: H.N. Abrams, 2009

Description: vi, 201 p. :col. ill. ;  27 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 F483 W53 2009

Summary: "Whatever happened to the World of Tomorrow?, the long-awaited follow-up to Mom’s Cancer, tells the story of a boy’s relationship with his father. Spanning the period from the 1939 World’s Fair to the last Apollo space mission in 1975, it depicts an optimistic and ambitious era fueled by industry, engines, electricity, rockets, middle-class pop culture, and the atom bomb ... A lively trip through a half century of technological evolution, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? is also a perceptive look at the changing moods of our nation - and the enduring promise of the future."--P. [4] of cover

Subject(s):

• Technological innovations -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Fathers and sons -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States
• Graphic novels

Read: March 17, 2012

An exaltation of larks: or, The venereal game

Author: Lipton, James

Title: An exaltation of larks: or, The venereal game

Published: New York : Penguin Books, 1977

Description: 137 p. :ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PE1689 L5 1977

Subject(s):

• English language -- Terms and phrases

Read: March 16, 2012

Ruth and the Green Book

Author(s): Ramsey, Calvin A. and Gwen Strauss

Title: Ruth and the Green Book

Published: Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2010

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Call Number: PZ7 R145 R88 2010

Note(s): Includes a page on "The history of The Negro Motorist Green Book." Illustrations by Floyd Cooper

Summary: When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about "The Green Book"

Subject(s):

• Segregation -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• Automobile travel -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
• Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction

Read: March 16, 2012

Madlenka

Author: Sís, Peter, 1949-

Title: Madlenka

Published: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000

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

Call Number: PZ7 S6219 M33 2000

Summary: Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world

Subject(s):

• Geography -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Teeth -- Fiction

Read: March 14, 2012

Celluloid: an erotic graphic novel

Author: McKean, Dave

Title: Celluloid: an erotic graphic novel

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2011

Description 1 v. (unpaged) :chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 M35 C45 2011

Subject(s):

• Graphic novels
• Erotic comic books, strips, etc

Read: March 14, 2012

The secret of the stones: a folktale

Author: San Souci, Robert D.

Title: The secret of the stones: a folktale

Published: New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2000

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Call Number: PZ8.1 S227 S43 2000

Note(s): Pictures by James Ransome

Summary: When they try to find out who is doing their chores while they are working in the field, a childless couple discovers that the two stones they have brought home are actually two bewitched orphans

Subject(s):

• African Americans -- Folklore
• Folklore -- United States

Read: March 14, 2012

Rising tides

Author: Anderson, Taylor

Title: Rising tides

Published: New York: Roc, 2011

Description: xii, 433 p. :ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PS3601 N5475 R57 2011

Summary: Reddy and Jenks are united in their desire to hunt down the traitor who abducted two women both men would die to protect-- but first they have a new battle to win. They must navigate a tempest of politics, deception and betrayal when it becomes obvious that the ruthless Company is attempting to overthrow the Imperial Throne

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
• Alternative histories (Fiction)
• Science fiction

Read: March 14, 2012

Snow

Author: Shulevitz, Uri, 1935-

Title: Snow

Published: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.

Call Number: Unassigned

Summary As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything

Subject(s):

• Snow -- Juvenile fiction
• City and town life -- Juvenile fiction

Read: March 7, 2012

Darkroom: a memoir in black and white

Author: Weaver, Lila Quintero

Title: Darkroom: a memoir in black and white

Published: Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012

Description 254 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: CT275 W3497 A3 2012

Subject(s):

• Weaver, Lila Quintero
• Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
• Argentine Americans -- Alabama -- Biography
• Alabama -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Alabama -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
• Alabama -- Biography

Read: March 4, 2012

American sniper: the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history

Author(s): Kyle, Chris, 1974-, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice

Title: American sniper: the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history

Published: New York: W. Morrow, 2012

Description 381 p. :ill., map ; 24 cm.

Call Number: DS79.76 K95 2012

Summary: A member of Navy SEAL Team 3 describes his life as a father and husband, and as the serviceman with the most confirmed sniper kills in the history of the United States military while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan

Subject(s):

• Kyle, Chris, 1974-
• United States. Navy. SEALs -- Biography
• Iraq War, 2003- -- Personal narratives, American
• Snipers -- United States -- Biography

Read: March 4, 2012

Sniper rifles

Author: Pegler, Martin,1954-

Title: Sniper rifles

Published: Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2010

Description: 80 p. :ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Call Number: UD394 P44 2010

Bibliography: p. 79

Subject(s):

• Sniper rifles -- History
• Sniper rifles -- Design and construction -- History

Read: March 2, 2012

My very own room = Mi propio cuartito

Author: Pérez, Amada Irma

Title: My very own room = Mi propio cuartito

Published: San Francisco: Children’s Book Press, 2000

Description: 30 p. :col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PZ73 P4655 2000

Note(s): Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez

Summary: With the help of her family, a resourceful Mexican American girl realizes her dream of having a space of her own to read and to think

Subject(s):

• Bedrooms -- Fiction
• Mexican Americans -- Fiction
• Family life -- Fiction
• Spanish language materials -- Bilingual
• Bilingual books -- Spanish and English.

Read: March 1, 2012

Imperial Japanese Navy submarines, 1941-45

Author: Stille, Mark

Title: Imperial Japanese Navy submarines, 1941-45

Published: Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2007

Description: 48 p. :ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Call Number: V859 J3 S75 2007

Bibliography: p. 45

Note(s): Ilustrated by Tony Bryan

Subject(s):

• Submarines (Ships) -- Japan
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Submarine

Read: March 1, 2012

Italian Army elite units and special forces, 1940-43

Author(s): Crociani, Piero and Pier Paolo Battistelli

Title: Italian Army elite units and special forces, 1940-43

Published: Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2011

Description: 64 p. :ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Call Number: D794.5 C76 2011

Note(s): Illustrated by J. Shumate

Bibliography: p. 63

Subject(s):

• Italy. Esercito -- Commando troops -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Commando operations -- Italy
• Special operations (Military science) -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
• Commando troops

Read: February 29, 2012

Fa Mulan: the story of a woman warrior

Author: San Souci, Robert D.

Title Fa Mulan: the story of a woman warrior

Published: New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1998

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Call Number: PZ8.1 S227 F3 1998

Note(s): Illustrated by Jean & Mou-Sien Tseng

Summary: A retelling of the original Chinese poem in which a brave young girl masquerades as a boy and fights the Tartars in the Khan’s army

Subject(s):

• Hua, Mulan (Legendary character) -- Legends
• Folklore -- China

Read: February 29, 2012

San Francisco Berlin

Author: Ruiz, Stefan

Title: San Francisco Berlin

Published: London: Chris Boot, 2011

Description 95 p. :col. ill. ; 37 cm.

Call Number: TR681 H65 R859 2011

Subject(s):

• Portrait photography -- Germany -- Berlin
• Portrait photography -- California -- San Francisco
• Gay men -- Germany -- Berlin -- Pictorial works
• Gay men -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works

Read: February 29, 2012

Angels ride bikes and other fall poems = Los ángeles andan en bicicleta y otros poemas de otoño

Author: Alarcón, Francisco X.,1954-

Title: Angels ride bikes and other fall poems = Los ángeles andan en bicicleta y otros poemas de otoño

Published: San Francisco: Children’s Book Press, 1999

Description: 31 p. :col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: PS3551 L22 A84 1999

Note(s): Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez

Summary: A bilingual collection of poems in which the renowned Mexican American poet revisits and celebrates his childhood memories of fall in the city and growing up in Los Angeles

Subject(s):

• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Juvenile poetry
• Mexican American families -- California -- Los Angeles -- Juvenile poetry
• Children’s poetry, Hispanic American (Spanish) -- Translations into English
• Children’s poetry, American -- Translations into Spanish
• Families -- California -- Los Angeles -- Juvenile poetry
• Children’s poetry, American
• Autumn -- Juvenile poetry

Read: February 28, 2012

From the bellybutton of the moon and other summer poems = Del ombligo de la luna y otros poemas de verano

Author: Alarcón, Francisco X.,1954-

Title: From the bellybutton of the moon and other summer poems = Del ombligo de la luna y otros poemas de verano

Published: San Francisco: Children’s Book Press, 1998

Description: 31 p. :col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: PS3551 L22 F76 1998

Note(s): Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez

Summary: A bilingual collection of poems in which the renowned Mexican American poet revisits and celebrates his childhood memories of summers, Mexico, and nature

Subject(s):

• Mexico -- Juvenile poetry
• Children’s poetry, American
• Children’s poetry, American -- Translations into Spanish
• Summer -- Juvenile poetry

Read: February 28, 2012

Iguanas in the snow and other winter poems = Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas de invierno

Author: Alarcón, Francisco X.,1954-

Title: Iguanas in the snow and other winter poems = Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas de invierno

Published: San Francisco: Children’s Book Press, 2001

Description: 31 p. :col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: PS3551 L22 I39 2001

Note(s): Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez

Subject(s):

• California, Northern -- Juvenile poetry
• Winter -- Juvenile poetry
• Children’s poetry, American -- Translations into Spanish.

Read: February 28, 2012

Laughing tomatoes and other spring poems = Jitomates risueños y otros poemas de primavera: poems

Author: Alarcón, Francisco X.,1954-

Title: Laughing tomatoes and other spring poems = Jitomates risueños y otros poemas de primavera

Published: San Francisco: Children’s Book Press, 1997

Description: 32 p. :col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: PS3551 L22 L38 1997

Note(s): Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez

Summary: A bilingual collection of humorous and serious poems about family, nature, and celebrations by a renowned Mexican American poet

Subject(s):

• Children’s poetry, American
• Spring -- Juvenile poetry
• Nature -- Juvenile poetry
• Children’s poetry, American -- Translations into Spanish
• Children’s poetry, Hispanic American (Spanish) -- Translations into English

Read: February 28, 2012

British rifleman, 1797-1815

Author: Haythornthwaite, Philip J.

Title: British rifleman, 1797-1815

Published Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2002

Description: 64 p., A-J p. of plates :ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: UA650 H42 2002

Bibliography: p. 62-63

Note(s): Illustrated by Christa Hook

Subject(s):

• Great Britain. Army -- Gunners -- History
• Great Britain. Army -- History -- 19th century
• Rifles -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815

Read: February 28, 2012

Kamikaze: Japanese special attack weapons, 1944-45

Author: Zaloga, Steve

Title: Kamikaze: Japanese special attack weapons, 1944-45 

Published: Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2011

Description: 48 p. :ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Call Number: D792 J3 Z35 2011

Bibliography: p. 46-47

Note(s): Illustrated by Ian Palmer

Subject(s):

• Japan. Kaigun. Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai
• Kamikaze airplanes
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Japanese

Read: February 27, 2012

Skyjack: the hunt for D.B. Cooper

Author: Gray, Geoffrey

Title: Skyjack: the hunt for D.B. Cooper

Published: New York :Crown Publishers, 2011

Description: 302 p. :ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Call Number: HE9803 Z7 H5352 2011

Bibliography: p. 275

Summary: "Geoffrey Gray reopens one of the great unsolved criminal cases of the 20th century: the puzzling story of "D. B. Cooper," the only skyjacker never to be caught by authorities"--Provided by publisher

Subject(s):

• Cooper, D. B.
• Hijacking of aircraft -- United States
• Criminal investigation -- United States

Read: February 26, 2012

The Tiger tank story

Author: Healy, Mark,1953-

Title: The Tiger tank story

Published: Stroud: History Press, 2010

Description: 128 p. :ill. ; 14 x 20 cm.

Call Number: UG446.5 H38 2010

Bibliography: p. 128

Subject(s):

• Tiger (Tank) -- History
• Tiger (Tank) -- Design and construction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Tank warfare
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns

Read: February 26, 2012

Midway 1942: turning point in the Pacific

Author: Healy, Mark,1953-

Title: Midway 1942: turning point in the Pacific

Published Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1996

Description: 96 p. :ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Call Number: D774 M5 H4 1996

Bibliography: p. 93

Subject(s):

• Midway, Battle of, 1942

Read: February 25, 2012 

Revolution: the year I fell in love and went to join the Sandinistas

Author: Unferth, Deb Olin

Title: Revolution: the year I fell in love and went to join the Sandinistas

Published: New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2012

Description 208 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3621 N44 R48 2012

Note(s): "Originally published in hardcover format by Henry Holt"--T.p. verso. Includes an interview with the author

Subject(s):

• Unferth, Deb Olin -- Travel -- Central America
• Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
• Central America -- Description and travel

Read: February 23, 2012

The little death

Author: Nava, Michael

Title: The little death

Published: Boston: Alyson Publications, 1986

Description: 168 p. :geneal. table ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3564 A8746 L57 1986

Subject(s):

• Detective and mystery stories
• San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Fiction

Read: February 18, 2012

Bone sharps, cowboys, and thunder lizards: a tale of Edwin Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the gilded age of paleontology

Author(s): Ottaviani, Jim and Big Time Attic

Title: Bone sharps, cowboys, and thunder lizards: a tale of Edwin Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the gilded age of paleontology

Published: Ann Arbor: G.T. Labs, 2005

Description: 165 p. :ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.

Call Number: QE707 C63 O88 2005

Bibliography: p. 164

Summary: This is the story of Edwin Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, two scientists who found and fought for the bones exposed by the excavation of the Railroad company’s westward expansion, and the artist Charles R. Knight who almost single-handedly brought dinosaurs back to life for an awestruck public

Subject(s):

• Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Paleontologists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Paleontology -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels

Read: February 17, 2012

FAME: Suzanne Collins

Author: Grundell, Sara

Title: Suzzane Collins

Published: Vancouver: Bluewater Productions, 2011

Description: 1 v. :chiefly ill. (chiefly col.) ;  [cm. info NA]

Call Number: Unassigned

Subject(s):

• Collins, Suzanne -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile literature
• Women novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile literature
• Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile literature

Read: February 17, 2012

Less Vegas

Author(s): D’Agati, Mauro,1968- and Janette Ahrens

Title: Less Vegas

Published: New York: Ahrens Editions, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: F849 L35 D34 2011

Note(s): "The vacations photo album for ’fabulous’ Las Vegas was styled and photographed within a span of ten days in April of 2010"

Subject(s):

• Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Pictorial works
• Photography, Artistic

Read: February 16, 2012

Levitation: physics and psychology in the service of deception

Author(s): Ottaviani, Jim and Janine Johnston

Title: Levitation: physics and psychology in the service of deception

Published: Ann Arbor: G.T. Labs, 2007

Description: 71 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: GV1543 O88 2007

Bibliography: p. 61-63

Note(s): "A General Tektronics Labs production"--T.p. verso. Lettering by Tom Orzechowski

Summary: Presents the story of illusions, with such characters as The Scientist, The American, The Inventor, and The Heir

Subject(s):

• Maskelyne, John Nevil, 1839-1917 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Kellar, Harry, 1849-1922 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Jarrett, Guy -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Thurston, Howard, 1869-1936 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels
• Magic tricks -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Magicians -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Levitation -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: February 16, 2012

Dignifying science: stories about women scientists

Author: Ottaviani, Jim

Title Dignifying science: stories about women scientists

Published: Ann Arbor: G.T. Labs, 2009

Description 142 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: Q130 O88 2009

Note(s): Illlustrated by Donna Barr ... [et al.]

Summary: Stories from the lives of several women scientists presented in graphic novel format and illustrated by female artists

Subject(s):

• Women scientists -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Science -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: February 16, 2012

D is for dragon dance

Author: Compestine, Ying Chang

Title: D is for dragon dance

Published: New York: Holiday House, 2006

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

Call Number: GT4905 C65 2006

Note(s):  Illustrated by Yongsheng Xuan

Summary: See how kids greet the Chinese New Year by writing characters, getting haircuts, eating noodles, and honoring their families

Subject(s):

• Alphabet books -- United States -- 21st century -- Juvenile literature
• Picture books for children -- Juvenile literature
• Chinese New Year -- Juvenile literature

Read: February 15, 2012