What's Roberto Reading These Days?

Number the stars

2011-12-09T05:39:00.003-08:00

Author: Lois Lowry

Title: Number the stars

Published: New York: Yearling Book, 2005

Description: 137 p. ; 20 cm.

Call Number: PZ7 L921 N9 2005

Note(s): Newbery Medal, 1990

Summary: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- Denmark -- Juvenile fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Denmark -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction
Denmark -- Fiction

Read: December 8, 2011

Clean kill: a sniper novel

2011-12-09T05:39:00.001-08:00

Author(s): Coughlin, Jack,1966- and Donald A. Davis

Title: Clean kill: a sniper novel

Published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010

Description: 315 p. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PS3603 O878 C57 2010

Summary: Just as Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson is about to deal with foreign operatives bent on assassinating Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and sabotaging a peace agreement, his old nemesis Juba resurfaces to exact revenge on the man who nearly took his life

Subject(s):

International relations -- Fiction
Undercover operations -- Fiction
Terrorists -- Fiction
Suspense fiction

Read: December 7, 2011

Dumb but lucky!: confessions of a P-51 fighter pilot in World War II

2011-12-09T05:38:00.007-08:00

Author: Curtis, Richard Kenneth, 1924-

Title: Dumb but lucky!: confessions of a P-51 fighter pilot in World War II

Published: New York: Ballantine Books, 2005

Description: xiv, 338 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. ; 18 cm.

Call Number: D790.252 52nd C87 2005

Bibliography: p. 327-328

Subject(s):

Curtis, Richard Kenneth, 1924-
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 52nd
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Fighter pilots--United States--Biography

Read: December 3, 2011

The Turk: the life and times of the famous eighteenth-century chess-playing machine

2011-12-09T05:38:00.005-08:00

Author: Standage, Tom

Title: The Turk: the life and times of the famous eighteenth-century chess-playing machine

Published: New York: Walker & Co., 2001

Description: 272 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: GV1447 S74 2002

Bibliography: p. 255-260

Subject(s):

Kempelen, Wolfgang von, 1734-1804
Mälzel, Johann Nepomuk, 1772-1838
Automaton chess players

Read: November 29, 2011

Habibi

2011-12-09T05:38:00.003-08:00

Author: Thompson, Craig,1975-

Title: Habibi

Published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2011

Description: 655 p. :chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 T48 H33 2011

Summary: "Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (not unlike our own) fueled by fear, lust, and greed; and as they discover the extraordinary depth-- and frailty-- of their connection. At once contemporary and timeless, Habibi gives us a love story of astounding resonance: a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and, most potently, the magic of storytelling" -- dust jacket wrap

Subject(s):

Slaves -- Comic books, strips, etc
Refugees -- Comic books, strips, etc
Interpersonal relations -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States
Graphic novels

Read: November 20, 2011

The wall: growing up behind the Iron Curtain

2011-12-09T05:38:00.001-08:00

Author: Sís, Peter, 1949-

Title: The wall: growing up behind the Iron Curtain

Published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

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

Call Number: NC975.5 S57 A2 2007

Note(s): "Caldecott Honor Book", "The Robert F. Sibert Medal", "Frances Foster books."

Summary: I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news from the West slowly filtered into the country. Sís learned about beat poetry, rock 'n' roll, blue jeans, and Coca-Cola. He let his hair grow long, secretly read banned books, and joined a rock band. Then came the Prague Spring of 1968, and for a teenager who wanted to see the world and meet the Beatles, this was a magical time. It was short-lived, however, brought to a sudden and brutal end by the Soviet-led invasion. But this brief flowering had provided a glimpse of new possibilities - creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed

Subject(s):

Sís, Peter, 1949- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature
Illustrators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Czech Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Czechoslovakia -- Social conditions -- 1945-1992 -- Juvenile literature
Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1945-1992 -- Juvenile literature
Picture books for children

Read: November 19, 2011

Green River killer: a true detective story

2011-12-09T05:37:00.001-08:00

Author: Jensen, Jeff

Title: Green River killer: a true detective story

Published: Milwaukie: Dark Horse Books, 2011

Description: 233 p. :chiefly ill., map ; 24 cm.

Call Number: HV6533 W2 J46 2011

Note(s): Artist, Jonathan Case; letters, Nake Piekos of Blambot

Summary: Presents the ultimate insider’s account of America’s most prolific serial killer--the Green River Killer, the man responsible for the murders of dozens of women

Subject(s):

Ridgway, Gary Leon, 1949- -- Comic books, strips, etc
Green River Valley (King County, Wash.) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels -- United States
Detectives -- Washington (State) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Serial murders -- Washington (State) -- Green River Valley (King County)
Serial murderers -- Washington (State) -- Green River Valley (King County)

Read: November 19, 2011

On rumors: how falsehoods spread, why we believe them, what can be done

2011-12-09T05:36:00.001-08:00

Author: Sunstein, Cass R.

Title: On rumors: how falsehoods spread, why we believe them, what can be done

Published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

Description: 100 p. ; 20 cm.

Call Number: HM1241 S85 2009

Subject(s):

Rumor
Social psychology

Read: November 19, 2011

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

2011-11-18T10:00:00.001-08:00

Author: Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-

Title: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Published: New York: Broadway Paperbacks, 2011

Description: xiv, 381 p., plates :ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Call Number: RC265.6 L24 S55 2011

Note(s): "Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form ... by Crown Publishers ... in 2010"--T.p. verso. "Reading group guide"--P. [379]-381

Subject(s):

Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951--Health
Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Biography
African American women--History
Human experimentation in medicine--United States--History
HeLa cells
Cancer--Research
Cell culture
Medical ethics

Read: November 18, 2011

Death traps: the survival of an American armored division in World War II

2011-11-10T13:51:00.001-08:00

Author: Cooper, Belton Y.

Title: Death traps: the survival of an American armored division in World War II

Published: New York: Ballantine Books, 2003

Description: xxiv, 355 p. :ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Call Number: D793 C66 2003

Note(s): Originally published by Random House, 1998. Foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose

Summary: The survival of an American armored division in World War II is told from the point of view of an American junior officer, a member of the famous 3rd Armored Division assigned to keep the tanks in Nazi-occupied Europe on the front lines

Subject(s):

Cooper, Belton Y.
United States. Army--Ordnance and ordnance stores
United States. Army--Biography
World War, 1939-1945--Tank warfare
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Sherman tank
Soldiers--United States--Biography

Read: November 10, 2011

The poisoner's handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York

2011-11-06T20:00:00.000-08:00

Author: Blum, Deborah,1954-

Title: The poisoner’s handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York

Published: New York: Penguin Press, 2010

Description: 319 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: HV6555 U62 N373 2010

Bibliography: p. 286-287

Summary: The untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. A pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist Alexander Gettler investigate a family mysteriously stricken bald, factory workers with crumbling bones, a diner serving poisoned pies, and many others. Each case presents a deadly new puzzle and Norris and Gettler create revolutionary experiments to tease out even the wiliest compounds from human tissue. From the vantage of their laboratory it also becomes clear that murderers aren’t the only toxic threat--modern life has created a kind of poison playground, and danger lurks around every corner

Subject(s):

Poisoning -- New York (State) -- History
Forensic toxicology -- New York (State) -- History
Forensic sciences -- New York (State) -- History

Read: November 6, 2011

Fortune's bones: the manumission requiem

2011-11-05T00:58:00.000-07:00

Author: Nelson, Marilyn,1946-

Title: Fortune’s bones: the manumission requiem

Published: Asheville: Front Street, 2004

Description: 32 p. :ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PS3573 A4795 F64 2004

Contents: Preface -- Spoken -- Dinah’s lament -- Contralto -- On Abrigador Hill -- Baritone I and choir -- Kyrie of the bones -- Choir with solos -- Not my bones -- Baritone II with choir -- Sanctus -- Choir -- Afterword -- Notes and sources

Note(s): Notes and annotations by Pamela Espeland

Summary: Fortune was a slave who lived in Waterbury, Conn., in the late 1700s. He was married and the father of 4 children. When Fortune died in 1798, his master, Dr. Porter, preserved his skeleton to further the study of anatomy. Now the skeleton is in the Mattatuck Museum where it is still being studied. There is a skeleton on display in the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. Over time, the bones became the subject of stories and speculation in Waterbury. In 1996 a group of community-based volunteers, working in collaboration with the museum staff, discovered that the bones were those of a slave named Fortune who had been owned by a local doctor. After Fortune’s death, the doctor dissected the body, rendered the bones, and assembled the skeleton. A great deal is still not known about Fortune, but it is known that he was baptized, was married, and had four children. He died at about the age of 60, sometime after 1797

Subject(s):

Slaves -- Poetry
Slavery -- Poetry
Connecticut -- Poetry
African Americans -- Poetry
Young adult poetry, American

Read: November 4, 2011

Free fall: a sniper's story from Chechnya

2011-11-05T00:49:00.000-07:00

Author: Lilin, Nicolai, 1981-

Uniform Title: Caduta libera. English

Title: Free fall: a sniper's story from Chechnya

Published: Edinburgh: Canongate, 2011

Description: 404 pages ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PQ4912 I55 C3313 2011

Note(s): "First published in Italy in 2010 as Caduta libera by Guilio Einaudi editore, s.p.a., Torino"

Subjects:

Snipers -- Russia (Federation) -- Chechn︠i︡a -- Fiction
Special forces (Military science) -- Russia (Federation) -- Chechn︠i︡a -- Fiction
Chechn︠i︡a (Russia) -- History -- Civil War, 1994- -- Fiction

Read: November 2, 2011

Paradise

2011-11-05T00:33:00.000-07:00

Author: Morrison, Toni

Title: Paradise

Published: New York: Plume Putnam Inc., 1999

Description: 319 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3563 O8749 P37 1999

Subject(s):

African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Fiction
Communal living -- Oklahoma -- Fiction
Women -- Oklahoma -- Fiction
Historical fiction, American
Domestic fiction, American
Oklahoma -- Fiction

Read: October 31, 2011

Bake sale

2011-11-05T00:27:00.000-07:00

Author: Varon, Sara

Title: Bake sale

Published: New York: First Second, 2011

Description: 157 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 V385 B35 2011

Summary: Cupcake runs a successful bakery with his best friend, Eggplant, but dreams of going abroad to meet his idol, Turkish Delight, who is the most famous pastry chef in the world

Subject(s):

Bakeries -- Comic books, strips, etc
Cupcakes -- Comic books, strips, etc
Food -- Comic books, strips, etc
Friendship -- Comic books, strips, etc
Bakeries -- Fiction
Cupcakes -- Fiction
Food -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction
Cartoons and comics
Graphic novels

Read: October 30, 2011

The last mission of the Wham Bam boys: courage, tragedy, and justice in World War II

2011-11-05T00:16:00.000-07:00

Author: Freeman, Gregory A.

Title: The last mission of the Wham Bam boys: courage, tragedy, and justice in World War II

Published: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Call Number: D757.9 R87 F74 2011

Description: x, 236 p. :ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 230-233

Subject(s):

United States. Army Air Forces -- Airmen
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany -- Rüsselsheim
Lynching -- Germany -- Rüsselsheim
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany
Bombing, Aerial -- Moral and ethical aspects
Civilians in war -- Germany -- Rüsselsheim
Rüsselsheim (Germany) -- History -- 20th century

Read: October 29, 2011

Paying for it: a comic-strip memoir about being a john

2011-11-05T00:10:00.000-07:00

Author: Brown, Chester, 1960-

Title: Paying for it: a comic-strip memoir about being a john

Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2011

Description: viii, 280 p. :chiefly ill. ; 20 cm.

Call Number: PN6733 B76 P39 2011

Bibliography: p. 279-280

Summary: "Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but also a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics--prostitution. Paying For It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work--from the timid john who rides his bike to meet his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transactions complete with online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of cliches street corners, drugs, or primps"--From publisher's web site

Subject(s):

Brown, Chester, 1960- -- Sexual behavior -- Comic books, strips, etc
Brown, Chester, 1960- -- Comic books, strips, etc
Prostitution -- Canada -- Comic books, strips, etc
Prostitutes' customers -- Canada -- Comic books, strips, etc
Sexual ethics -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Canada
Prostitution -- Canada
Sexual ethics
Graphic novels

Read: October 29, 2011

The death-ray

2011-11-04T23:35:00.000-07:00

Author: Clowes, Daniel

Title: The death-ray

Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2011

Description: 40 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 32 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 C65 D42 2011

Note(s): Originally published in Eightball #23, 2004

Summary: Andy, a miserable high-schooler in 1970s Chicago, has only one friend, an angry fellow outcast named Louie. He’s desperately in love with a girl he met in California who won’t return his letters and he’s filled with shame at the constant taunts of his classmates. When he achieves super strength from smoking cigarettes he uses it for neither good nor evil but in a brutal playground showdown

Subject(s):

Teenagers -- Comic books, strips, etc
Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
High schools -- Comic books, strips, etc
Nineteen seventies -- Comic books, strips, etc
Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Read: October 25, 2011

The Battle of Cape Esperance: encounter at Guadalcanal

2011-11-04T23:28:00.000-07:00

Author: Cook, Charles O. (Charles Olney), 1911-2001

Title: The Battle of Cape Esperance: encounter at Guadalcanal

Published: Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1992

Description: xiv, 156 p., [10] p. of plates :ill. ; 22cm.

Call Number: D767.98 C6 1992

Note(s): Originally published: New York: Crowell, 1968

Subject(s):

Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Solomon Islands -- Esperance, Cape
Esperance, Cape (Solomon Islands) -- History

Read: October 23, 2011

Infidel

2011-11-04T23:13:00.000-07:00

Author: Hetherington, Tim

Title: Infidel

Published: London: Chris Boot, 2010

Description: 237 p. :chiefly ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.

Call Number: DS371.4123 K67 H48 2010

Note(s): Introduction by Sebastian Junger

Summary: 'Infidel' is an intimate portrait of a close band of warriors - a small battalion of US soldiers, posted to an outpost in the Korengal Valley and considered one of the most dangerous Afghan postings in the war against the Taliban. It documents the battalion, who model themselves on the Spartans, over the course of a year

Subject(s):

Afghan War, 2001- -- Photography
War photography -- Afghanistan -- Korangal Valley
Afghan War, 2001- -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Korangal Valley -- Pictorial works
Soldiers in art
Tattooing in art

Read: October 18, 2011

Blackbird

2011-11-04T23:05:00.000-07:00

Author: Duplechan, Larry

Title Blackbird

Published: Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006

Description: 252 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3554 U55 B56 2006

Subject(s):

Gay teenagers -- California -- Fiction
African American teenagers -- California -- Fiction.

Read: October 16, 2011

Like a sniper lining up his shot

2011-11-04T22:55:00.000-07:00

Author: Tardi, Jacques

Uniform Title: Position du tireur couché. English

Title: Like a sniper lining up his shot

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2011

Description: 96 p. :ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: PN6747 T374 P6813 2011

Note(s): Based on La position du tireur couché. Adapted by Jacques Tardi; from the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette; edited and translated by Kim Thompson

Summary: "Martin Terrier, ice-cold mercenary-turned-contract-killer, has his future all mapped out: He has just executed what he intends to be his final job and is ready to move on to the next phase of his life, which involves discreet retirement accompanied by a long-lost girlfriend. But Terrier’s employers are emphatically not pleased with his decision, old enemies begin to re-emerge, and soon Terrier is forced to once again ply his brutal trade."--Cover, p. 4

Subject(s):

Murder -- Comic books, strips, etc
Witnesses -- Comic books, strips, etc
Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
Assassins -- Comic books, strips, etc
War criminals -- Comic books, strips, etc
Suspense comic books, strips, etc
France -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc
Mystery fiction
Graphic novels -- United States
Graphic novels -- France

Read: October 15, 2011

And then came the liberators

2011-11-04T22:40:00.000-07:00

Author: Jaern, Albert

Uniform Title: Og så kom befrierne. English

Title: And then came the liberators

Published: Madison: Borderland Books, 2011

Description: 102,17 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: D811.5 J3413 2011

Note(s): Translation of: Og så kom befrierne. First published as: Og så kom befrierne : utdrag av min dagbok gjennom 5 år. Norway: Ekko, 1945. Illustrated by the author’s own woodcuts. Translated from the Norwegian by Solveig Schavland; with an afterword by Kathleen Stokker; edited by Richard Quinney

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Norwegian

Read: October 15, 2011

Line of departure: Tarawa

2011-11-04T22:14:00.000-07:00

Author: Russ, Martin

Title: Line of departure: Tarawa

Published: Garden City: Doubleday, 1975

Description: viii, 201 p. :illus. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: D767.917 R87 1975

Bibliography: p. 198-199

Note(s): Maps drawn by Rafael Palacios

Subject(s):

Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943

Read: October 14, 2011

Dead shot: a sniper novel

2011-11-04T22:05:00.000-07:00

Author(s): Coughlin, Jack,1966- and Donald A. Davis

Title: Dead shot: a sniper novel

Published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009

Description: 309 p. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PS3603 O878 D43 2009

Summary: In this follow-up to the highly successful Kill Zone, former Marine sniper Kyle Swanson faces his most deadly enemy yet, a legendary enemy sniper working with a fringe Islamic organization that has created a terrifying new weapon of mass destruction. In Baghdad’s Green Zone, an Iraqi scientist is murdered just before he is to reveal the monstrous secret that Saddam Hussein took to his grave: the Palace of Death, home to a chemical weapon that Islamic militants quietly have been developing and whose formula is nearly complete. The assassination is the work of a mysterious sniper called Juba, who was originally trained by the British but now works with a twisted mastermind determined to wrest leadership of the terrorist world from Al Qaeda. Kyle Swanson, once the top sniper in the Marine Corps, has become the key member in a secret special operations team known as Task Force Trident. When Juba tests the new weapon by killing hundreds of people at a British royal wedding in London, Swanson is assigned to hunt down his old special ops rival. The birth of a new reign of global terror can be stopped only by a confrontation between the two best snipers in the world, a duel in which the first shot wins. Usually.

Subject(s):

Terrorists -- Fiction
Snipers -- Fiction
Undercover operations -- Fiction
Suspense fiction

Read: October 13, 2011

Point Omega: a novel

2011-11-04T09:42:00.000-07:00

Author: DeLillo, Don

Title: Point Omega: a novel

Published: New York: Scribner, 2010

Description: 117 p. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PS3554 E4425 P65 2010

Summary: Three unusual people--"defense intellectual" Richard Elster, who was involved in the management of the country’s war machine; young documentary filmmaker Jim Finley, who is intent on documenting Elster’s experience; and Elster’s daughter Jessica, who behaves like an "otherworldly" woman from New York--train their binoculars on the desert landscape of California and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws everything into question

Subject(s):

Official secrets -- Fiction
Documentary films -- Production and direction -- Fiction

Read: October 9, 2011

Travels with my aunt

2011-11-04T09:29:00.000-07:00

Author: Greene, Graham, 1904-1991

Title: Travels with my aunt

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2004

Description: xvi, 254 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PR6013 R44 T7 2004

Note(s): "Graham Greene centennial, 1904-2004"--Cover; introduction by Gloria Emerson

Summary: Aunt Augusta, in her late 70's embroils her bachelor nephew, an utterly respectable, dahlia-growing, retired bank manager, in a series of wild escapades. The action moves from London, across the European continent to Istanbul, and ends in Paraguay. Most of the characters are from Aunt Augusta's somewhat murky past, although there are contemporary figures as a CIA agent and his hippie daughter, and Wordsworth from Sierra Leone, who lives with Aunt Augusta as her valet

Subject(s):

British -- Foreign countries -- Fiction
Women travelers -- Fiction
Older women -- Fiction
Travelers -- Fiction
Retirees -- Fiction
Aunts -- Fiction
Humorous stories

Read: October 6, 2011

The orchid boat: women poets of China

2011-11-04T09:24:00.000-07:00

Title: The orchid boat: women poets of China

Published: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972

Description: xv, 150 p. 22 cm.

Call Number: PL2658 E3 R43 1972

Bibliography: p.148-150

Note(s): Translated and edited by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Subject(s):

Chinese poetry -- Translations into English
English poetry
Chinese poetry -- Women authors

Read: October 3, 2011

X'ed out

2011-11-04T09:18:00.000-07:00

Author: Burns, Charles, 1955-

Title: X'ed out

Published: New York: Pantheon, 2010

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :ill. ; 30 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 B87 X43 2010

Note(s): "The first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color" -- p. [4] of cover

Subject(s):

Dystopias -- Comic books, strips, etc
Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Read: October 2, 2011

Reaching out

2011-11-04T09:13:00.000-07:00

Author: Jiménez, Francisco, 1943-

Title: Reaching out

Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008

Description: vi, 196 p., [4] p. of plates :ill. ; 19 cm.

Call Number: PS3560 I55 R43 2008

Note(s): Sequel to: Breaking through and The circuit

Subject(s):

Mexican Americans -- Fiction

Read: October 1, 2011

Breaking through

2011-11-04T06:52:00.000-07:00

Author: Jiménez, Francisco,1943-

Title: Breaking through

Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001

Description: 195 p. :ill. ; 19 cm.

Call Number: PS3560.I55 B37 2001

Note(s): Sequel to: The Circuit

Summary: Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education

Subject(s):

Mexican Americans -- Fiction

Read: September 30, 2011

Kill zone: a sniper novel

2011-11-04T06:46:00.000-07:00

Author(s): Coughlin, Jack,1966- and Donald A. Davis

Title: Kill zone: a sniper novel

Published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007

Description: 314 p. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: PS3603 O878 K55 2007

Summary: Dispatched on a secret mission to Iraq to rescue a hostage general whose captors speak perfect American English, Marine Corps sniper Kyle Swanson discovers that American mercenaries are working with the White House for total control over the military

Subject(s):

Snipers -- Fiction
Kidnapping -- Fiction
Conspiracies -- Fiction

Read: September 28, 2011

Anne Frank: the Anne Frank House authorized graphic biography

2011-11-04T06:39:00.000-07:00

Author(s): Jacobson, Sidney and Ernie Colón

Title: Anne Frank: the Anne Frank House authorized graphic biography

Published: New York: Hill and Wang, 2010

Description: 152 p. :ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.

Call Number: DS135 N6 F73357 2010

Bibliography: p. 149

Subject(s):

Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 -- Comic books, strips, etc
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Jews -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Read: September 25, 2011

Chew: just desserts

2011-11-03T22:17:00.000-07:00

Author: Layman, John, 1967-

Title: Chew: just desserts

Published: Berkeley: Image Comics, 2010

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

Call Number: PN6728 C44 L39 2010 v. 3

Note(s): "Originally published in single magazine form as CHEW #11-15 by Image Comics"--T.p. verso; drawn & coloured by Rob Guillory

Summary: Things are looking up for Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from the things he eats. He's got a girlfriend. He's got a partner he trusts. He even seems to be getting along with his jerk boss. But his ruthless ex-partner is still out there, operating outside of the law, intending to make good on his threats against Tony and everybody Tony cares about. It's just a matter of time before their investigations collide, blood spills and-inevitably-body parts are eaten

Subject(s):

Detectives -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Psychics -- Comic books, strips, etc
Murder -- Investigation -- Comic books, strips, etc
Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Read: September 24, 2011

War is boring: bored stiff, scared to death in the world's worst war zones

2011-11-03T22:08:00.000-07:00

Author(s): Axe, David and and Matt Bors

Title: War is boring: bored stiff, scared to death in the world's worst war zones

Published: New York: New American Library, 2010

Description: viii, 124 p. :chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PN4823 A94 2010

Note(s): "Loosely based on the Web comic of the same name, with extensive new material"--P. [4] of cover

Subject(s):

Axe, David -- Comic books, strips, etc
War correspondents -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Read: September 24, 2011

The Bronx kill

2011-11-03T22:00:00.000-07:00

Author: Milligan, Peter

Title: The Bronx Kill

Published: New York: D.C. Comics, 2009

Description: 181 p. :chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 M56 B76 2009

Note(s): "Vertigo crime"--Cover; art, James Romberger; letters, Clem Robins

Summary: Martin Keane's father wanted him to follow in the family tradition and become a police officer, but Martin wanted to be a writer. After critics thrash his second novel, Martin decides to write a cop thriller as a way to connect with his father and find success as an author. But when he returns from a fact-finding trip to Ireland, his wife has disappeared without a trace. Finding himself as the prime suspect, Martin learns of a place known as the Bronx Kill where his great-grandfather may have been murdered and the gateway to his family's turbulent history--his own father

Subject(s):

Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Missing persons -- Fiction
Family secrets -- Fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Graphic novels

Read: September 24, 2011

Chew: international flavor

2011-11-03T09:02:00.000-07:00

Author: Layman, John, 1967-

Title Chew: international flavor

Published: Berkeley: Image Comics, 2010

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

Call Number: PN6728 C44 L39 2010 v. 2

Note(s): "Created by John Layman & Rob Guillory"--T.p. "Originally published in single magazine form as Chew #6-10."

Subject(s):

Psychics -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels -- United States
Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc

Read: September 23, 2011

Stark's war

2011-11-03T08:53:00.000-07:00

Author: Hemry, John G.

Title: Stark's war

Published: New York: Berkley Pub. Group, 2000

Description: 261 p. ; 18 cm.

Call Number: PS3558 E5 296 S72 2000

Note(s): Cover art by Cliff Miller

Subject(s):

Moon -- Fiction
Science fiction

Read: September 21, 2011

Churchill

2011-11-03T08:46:00.000-07:00

Author: Johnson, Paul, 1928-

Title: Churchill

Published: New York: Penguin, 2010

Description: 180 p. ; 20 cm.

Call Number: DA566.9 C5 J64 2010

Note(s): Originally published: New York: Viking, 2009

Subject(s):

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century

Read: September 19, 2011

Extra lives: why video games matter

2011-10-24T21:31:00.000-07:00

Author: Bissell, Tom, 1974-

Title: Extra lives: why video games matter

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2011

Description: xiv, 242 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: GV1469.3 B55 2011

Note(s): Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2010. With new appendix

Subject(s):

Video games -- History
Video games -- Social aspects

Read: September 11, 2011

Hagakure: the code of the Samurai

2011-10-24T21:22:00.000-07:00

Author: Wilson, Seán Michael

Uniform Title: Hagakure. English

Title: Hagakure: the code of the Samurai

Published: Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2010

Description: 143 p. :chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: BJ971 B8 W5513 2010

Note(s): Translation of: Hagakure. Based on the book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo; adapted by Sean Michael Wilson; illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada; with an afterword by William Scott Wilson. Translated from the Japanese

Subject(s):

Bushido -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels -- Japan
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan

Read: September 10, 2011

The executor

2011-09-09T06:38:00.000-07:00

Author: Evans, Jon, 1973-

Title: The executor

Published: New York: DC Comics, 2010

Description: 196 p. :chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 E95 E94 2010

Note(s): "A graphic mystery"--Spine. Art, Andrea Mutti; letters, Clem Robins

Summary: "As a star enforcer in the NHL, Joe Ullen was the biggest thing ever to come out of the backwater town of Elohra, New York. But, when he is unexpectedly named the executor of his high school sweetheart's will, he decides to return to his hometown and see what's changed. What he finds is that a dark secret from his past has come back to haunt him in a big way. Will Joe's desire to uncover the truth of her death force him to reveal his own buried secrets? Or will he simply become a brutal killer's next victim..."--P. [4] cover

Subject(s):

Executors and administrators -- Comic books, strips, etc
Wills -- Comic books, strips, etc
Murder -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: September 9, 2011

The little stranger

2011-09-08T22:40:00.000-07:00

Author: Waters, Sarah, 1966-

Title: The little stranger

Published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2009

Description: 512 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PR6073 A828 L58 2009

Subject(s):

Domestic fiction
Ghost stories
Families -- England -- Warwickshire -- Fiction
Warwickshire (England) -- Fiction

Read: September 8, 2011

The circuit: stories from the life of a migrant child

2011-09-07T10:17:00.000-07:00

Author: Jiménez, Francisco,1943-

Title: The circuit: stories from the life of a migrant child

Published: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997

Description: x, 134 p. ; 18 cm.

Call Number: PS3560 I55 C57 1997

Subject(s):

Mexican Americans -- California -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- Fiction

Read: September 2, 2011

Chew: taster's choice

2011-09-07T10:04:00.000-07:00

Author: Layman, John, 1969-

Title: Chew: taster's choice

Published: Berkeley: Image Comics, 2009

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

Call Number: PN6728 C44 L39 2009

Note(s): Drawn & coloured by Rob Guillory. "Originally published in single magazine format as Chew #1-5" -- verso

Summary: "Tony Chu is a detective. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he's a good detective, as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why." -- p. [4] of cover

Subject(s):

Police -- Comic books, strips, etc
Psychics -- Comic books, strips, etc
United States. Food and Drug Administration -- Comic books, strips, etc
Food law and legislation -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc\
Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States
Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc

Read: September 7, 2011

Che: a graphic biography

2011-09-02T11:46:00.000-07:00

Author: Spain (Cartoonist)

Title Che : a graphic biography

Published: New York: Verso, 2008.

Description: 106 p. :chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.

Note(s): Edited by Paul Buhle

Summary: Since his death in 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into his story and struggle. Spain Rodriguez's powerful artwork illuminates Che's life and the experiences that shaped him, from his motorcycle journey through Latin America, his rise to prominence as a leader in Fidel Castro's revolutionary movement, his travels in Africa, his involvement in the insurgency that led to his death in Bolma, and his extraordinary legacy. -- Back cover

Subject(s):

Guevara, Ernesto, 1928-1967 -- Comic books, strips, etc
Revolutionaries -- Latin America -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Guerrillas -- Latin America -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Revolutionaries -- Cuba -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: August 31, 2011

A wreath for Emmett Till

2011-09-02T11:40:00.000-07:00

Author: Nelson, Marilyn,1946-

Title: A wreath for Emmett Till

Published: Boston :Houghton Mifflin, 2005

Description: 34 p. :col. ill. ; 20 x 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3573 A4795 W73 2005

Bibliography: p. 34

Note(s): Illustrated by Philippe Lardy

Subject(s):

Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Juvenile poetry
Mississippi -- Juvenile poetry
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Juvenile poetry
African American teenage boys -- Juvenile poetry
Trials (Murder) -- Juvenile poetry
Murder victims -- Juvenile poetry
Hate crimes -- Juvenile poetry
Lynching -- Juvenile poetry
Children’s poetry, American

Read: August 30, 2011

Secret messages: concealment, codes, and other types of ingenious communication

2011-09-02T11:33:00.000-07:00

Author(s): Butler, William S. and L. Douglas Keeney

Title: Secret messages: concealment, codes, and other types of ingenious communication

Published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001

Description: 192 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: Z103 B88 2001

Bibliography: p. 179-181

Subject(s):

Cryptography
Ciphers

Read: August 30, 2011

Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America

2011-09-02T11:28:00.000-07:00

Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara

Title: Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America

Published: New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001

Description: 221 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: HD4918 E375 2001

Subject(s):

Minimum wage -- United States
Unskilled labor -- United States
Poverty -- United States

Read: August 29, 2011

Freeway

2011-09-02T10:51:00.000-07:00

Author: Kalesniko, Mark

Title: Freeway

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2011

Description: 414 p. :chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6727.K2715 F74 2011

Summary: "Alex Kalienka is in an awful jam. Literally, a traffic jam-- but figuratively, his whole life is a mess. A dream job turned nightmare at the biggest animation studio in the world. A love affair that is not what he imagined. And possibly someone with a life-threatening grudge against him. In his first new graphic novel since 2001’s acclaimed Mail Order Bride, Mark Kalesniko compresses an entire life into a single day as the frustrated animator, stewing on a pitiless California freeway, alternately rages, reminisces, fantasizes, and hallucinates-- intercut with a series of imagined moments from two generations ago, the Golden Age of animation, when an earlier Alex made his entry into a much different professional world. Loaded with fascinating insider gossip and historical details on two different eras of animators, skipping seamlessly among the present and several different pasts, reality and fantasy, Freeway is another step forward for a major cartooning talent" -- from publisher’s web site

Subject(s):

Animators -- Comic books, strips, etc
Traffic congestion -- California -- Comic books, strips, etc
California -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States
Graphic novels
Comic books, strips, etc

Read: August 24, 2011

Reunion

2011-09-02T10:41:00.000-07:00

Author: Girard, Pascal

Title: Reunion

Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2011

Description: 155 p. :chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PN6733 G57 R49 2011

Note(s): Translation by Helge Dascher

Summary: "Reunion is a semi-autobiographical book that recounts the events of the summer of 2009, when Pascal Girard received an invitation to attend his ten-year high school reunion. Initially dismissing the idea of attending, he quickly changes his mind when he receives an email from Lucie Coté, the girl he had a huge crush on in high school. She tells Pascal that she will be at the reunion and wonders if he would like to accompany her. Pascal becomes flustered with joy, except two problems remain: he must keep his almost uncontrollable infatuation a secret from his girlfriend, Julie, and he must do something about his weight. At 252 pounds, he frets that his weight will put him in the 'loser' category among his former classmates, but most of all, he must do something to impress Lucie. He decides on a drastic plan of action: he takes up jogging every day until he reaches his goal of shedding fifty pounds. Three months pass as Pascal dutifully jogs and fantasizes about meeting Lucie, until finally he reaches his weight goal on the eve of the reunion. The now-slender Pascal arrives at the big event, full of fervent anticipation. However, one by one, his fantasies of moving into the 'winner' category become cruelly deflated with each conversation he has with his former classmates" -- from publisher's web site

Subject(s):

Male insecurity -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Canada -- Translations into English
Class reunions -- Comic books, strips, etc
Interpersonal relations -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: August 23, 2011

Level up

2011-09-02T10:32:00.000-07:00

Author: Yang, Gene Luen

Title: Level up

Published: New York: First Second, 2011

Description: 160 p. :col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 Y36 L48 2011

Note(s): Illustrated by Thien Pham

Summary: Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path

Subject(s):

Video games -- Comic books, strips, etc
Families -- Comic books, strips, etc
Immigrants -- Comic books, strips, etc
Chinese Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc
Family life -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: August 22, 2011

Empire State: a love story (or not)

2011-09-02T10:24:00.000-07:00

Author: Shiga, Jason

Title: Empire State: a love story (or not)

Published: New York: Abrams Comic Arts, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :chiefly col. ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 S493 E56 2011

Note(s): Colors by John Pham

Subject(s):

New York (N.Y.) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Man-woman relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: August 22, 2011

Pinocchio

2011-09-02T10:09:00.000-07:00

Author: Winshluss, 1970-

Title: Pinocchio

Published: San Francisco: Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2011

Description 187 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 30 cm.

Call Number: PN6748 P5 W56 2011

Note(s): "The following story has been very freely adapted from the eponymous novel by Carlo Collodi"--p. [4]. Colored by Cizo, assisted by Frederic Boniaud, Thomas Bernard, and Frederic Felder

Summary: "In this dark rendition of a classic tale, a greedy Geppetto builds Pinocchio as a metallic weapon of war, while Jiminy Cockroach is a homeless squatter living the good life in Pinocchio's skull"--Publisher

Subject(s):

Collodi, Carlo, 1826-1890 -- Adaptations
Puppets -- Comic books, strips, etc
Fairy tales -- Comic books, strips, etc
Pinocchio (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: August 20, 2011

When a woman loves a man: poems

2011-09-02T10:03:00.000-07:00

Author: Lehman, David,1948-

Title: When a woman loves a man: poems

Published: New York: Scribner, 2005

Description: xi, 123 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3562.E428 W47 2005

Read: August 20, 2011

Rasl: the drift

2011-09-02T09:57:00.000-07:00

Author: Smith, Jeff, 1960 Feb. 27-

Title: Rasl: the drift

Published: Columbus: Cartoon Books, 2008

Description: 111 p. :chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 S65 R3 2008

Note(s): "The chapters in this book were orginally published in the comic book: RASL"--T.p. verso

Summary: RASL, a dimension jumping art thief with a tattoo of a woman's name (Maya) on his left arm, is wandering in a desert battered and bloody. He recollects his memories on a job where he steals a Picasso painting (The Old Guitarist) from a tall house during a thunderstorm. After tagging the location of the painting, RASL escapes from the police by using an immersion suit to enter the Drift, a place where he is able to travel to other dimensions

Subject(s):

Assassins -- Comic books, strips, etc
Thieves -- Comic books, strips, etc
Adventure comic books, strips, etc

Read: August 20, 2011

Onward towards our noble deaths

2011-08-20T16:01:00.000-07:00

Author: Mizuki, Shigeru, 1922-

Title: Onward towards our noble deaths

Published: Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2011

Description: 372 p. :chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PN6790 J33 M59914 2011

Note(s): "With an introduction by Frederick L. Schodt" -- p. [4] of cover. Translation by Jocelyne Allen

Summary: "[A] semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War Two. The soldiers are instructed that they must go into battle and die for the honor of their country, with certain execution facing them if they return alive" -- from publisher's web site

Subject(s):

Soldiers -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- New Guinea -- Comic books, strips, etc
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- Translations into English
Graphic novels

Read: August 20, 2011

Dread

2011-08-18T10:10:00.000-07:00

Author: Ai, 1947-2010

Title: Dread

Published: New York: W.W. Norton, 2003

Description: 123 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3551 I2 D74 2003

Read: August 18, 2011

The best American erotic poems: from 1800 to the present

2011-08-16T15:24:00.000-07:00

Title: The best American erotic poems: from 1800 to the present

Published: New York: Scribner Poetry, 2008

Description: xxv, 300 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS595 E76 B47 2008

Note(s): Edited by David Lehman. Includes indexes

Subject(s):

Erotic poetry, American

Read: August 16, 2011

Valentine place: poems

2011-08-14T20:56:00.000-07:00

Author: Lehman, David,1948-

Title: Valentine place: poems

Published: New York: Scribner, 1996

Description: 94 p. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PS3562 E428 V35 1996

Read: August 14, 2011

Scenes from an impending marriage: a prenuptial memoir

2011-08-14T13:15:00.000-07:00

Author: Tomine, Adrian, 1974-

Title: Scenes from an impending marriage: a prenuptial memoir

Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2011

Description: 54 p. :chiefly ill. ; 16 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 T64 S24 2010

Summary: At the behest of his soon-to-be wife, Adrian Tomine set out to create a wedding favor for their guests that would be funnier and more personal than the typical chocolate bars and picture frames. What started out as a simple illustrated card soon grew into a full-fledged comic book: a collection of short strips chronicling the often absurd process of getting married. A loose, cartoony departure from Tomine’s previous work, Scenes from an Impending Marriage is a sweet-natured, laugh out-loud skewering of the modern marriage process, including hiring a DJ, location scouting, trips to the salon, suit fittings, dance lessons, registering for gifts, and managing familial demands. The most personal and autobiographical work of Tomine’s career, Scenes from an Impending Marriage is a charming, delightful token of love

Subject(s):

Weddings -- Comic books, strips, etc
Man-woman relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Marriage -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novel

Read: August 14, 2011

The psychopath test: a journey through the madness industry

2011-08-14T13:08:00.000-07:00

Author: Ronson, Jon, 1967-

Title: The psychopath test: a journey through the madness industry

Published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2011

Description: 275 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: HV33 R66 2011

Summary: "In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges"-- Provided by publisher

Subject(s):

Psychopaths

Read: August 14, 2011

The country nurse

2011-08-12T14:16:00.000-07:00

Author: Lemire, Jeff

Title: The country nurse

Published: Atlanta: Top Shelf, 2008

Description: 127 p. :chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PN6733 L45 C68 2008

Series: Essex County; v. 3

Summary: The Country Nurse & Other Rural Legends, Myths, and Half-Truths follows a day in the life of Anne Morgan, the peculiar farming communities traveling nurse. As Anne checks in on her favorite patients we are introduced to such rural legends as the boy called Jimmy-Elelphant-Ears, and the Essex Farmer's Boxing Club! The story delves deeper into Essex County's mythology and finally reveals how all three volumes stitch together, quilting a portrait of how loss and regret push and pull at the fabric of family in small town life. The Country Nurse is the final volume in the critically acclaimed Essex County trilogy of graphic novels set in a fictionalized version of Lemire's hometown in Ontario, Canada

Subject(s):

Orphans -- Comic books, strips, etc
Farm life -- Comic books, strips, etc
Ontario -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Read: August 11, 2011

Ghost stories

2011-08-12T14:08:00.000-07:00

Author: Lemire, Jeff

Title: Ghost stories

Published: Atlanta: Top Shelf, 2007

Description: 223 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PN6733 L45 G46 2007

Series: Essex County; v. 2

Summary: The second volume in a trilogy of graphic novels set in a fictionalized version of Lemire's hometown of Essex County, Ontario, Ghost Story follows the lives and relationship of brothers Lou and Vince Lebeuf over the course of nearly seven decades. In this volume, eldest brother Lou, now a deaf and lonely man, lives out his final days on his farm full of guilt and regret for the decisions he made that tore his family apart. From their childhood on the farm, to Toronto in the 1950's (where they both played professional hockey), Lou is left to revisit his life, his decisions and his regrets. A silent observer, haunted by his own memories

Subject(s):

Farm life -- Comic books, strips, etc
Hockey -- Comic books, strips, etc
Orphans -- Comic books, strips, etc
Ontario -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Read: August 11, 2011

Tales from the farm

2011-08-12T11:51:00.000-07:00

Author: Lemire, Jeff

Title: Tales from the farm

Published: Atlanta: Top Shelf, 2008

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

Call Number: PN6733 L45 T35 2008

Series: Essex County; v. 1

Summary: Xeric Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire (Lost Dogs) illustrates the tale of Lester, an orphaned 10-year-old who goes to live on his Uncle's farm. Their relationship grows increasingly strained and Lester befriends the town's gas station owner, and damaged former hockey star Jimmy Lebeuf. The two escape into a private fantasy world of super-heroes, alien invaders and good old-fashioned pond Hockey. Tales from the Farm is the first volume in a trilogy of graphic novels set in a fictionalized version of Lemire's hometown of Essex County, Ontario

Subject(s):

Hockey--Comic books, strips, etc
Farm life--Comic books, strips, etc
Super-heroes--Comic books, strips, etc

Read: August 11, 2011

Defiance

2011-08-12T08:22:00.000-07:00

Author: Jablonski, Carla

Title: Defiance

Published: New York : First Second, 2011

Description: 124 p. :chiefly ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 22 cm.

Call Number: Unassigned

Note(s): Art by Leland Purvis; color by Hilary Sycamore

Summary: In 1943, as the German occupation of France continues, the Tessier siblings increase their involvement in the Resistance while staying out of the way of the Millice, the Vichy military police. Includes facts about Charles De Gaulle and his support of resistance movements

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Juvenile fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Juvenile fiction
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Read: August 11, 2011

The phantom father: a memoir

2011-08-12T08:15:00.000-07:00

Author: Gifford, Barry,1946-

Title: The phantom father: a memoir

Published: New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997

Description: 257 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3557 I25 Z47 1997

Note (s): "Some of the material was originally published in: A good man to know. Clark City Press, in 1992"--T.p. verso

Subject(s):

Gifford, Barry, 1946- -- Homes and haunts -- Illinois -- Chicago
Gifford, Barry, 1946- -- Childhood and youth
Gifford, Barry, 1946- -- Family
Winston, Rudy
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
Gangsters -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
Fathers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs

Read: August 11, 2011

Walking words

2011-08-12T07:54:00.000-07:00

Author: Galeano, Eduardo H., 1940-

Uniform Title: Palabras andantes. English

Title: Walking words

Published: New York: W.W. Norton, 1997

Description: 328 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PQ8520.17 A4 P2913 1997

Note (s): Translation of: Palabras andantes. Woodcuts by José Francisco Borges; translated by Mark Fried.

Subject(s):

Latin America -- Fiction

Read: August 10, 2011

The sojourn

2011-08-12T07:46:00.000-07:00

Author: Krivak, Andrew

Title: The sojourn

Published: New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2011

Description: 191 p. ; 19 cm.

Call Number: PS3561 R569 S65 2011

Summary: Uprooted from a nineteenth century mining town in Colorado by a shocking family tragedy, young Jozef Vinich returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd's life in rural Austria-Hungary. When war comes, Jozef is sent as a sharpshooter to the southern front, where he must survive the killing trenches, a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps, and capture by a victorious enemy

Subject(s):

World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Soldiers -- Austria -- Fiction
Historical fiction

Read: August 9, 2011

Terminal world

2011-08-12T07:37:00.000-07:00

Author: Reynolds, Alastair,1966-

Title: Terminal world

Published: New York: Ace Books, 2010

Description: 487 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PR6068 E95 T47 2010

Summary: In a far distant future, an enforcement agent named Quillon has been living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, his world is wrenched apart. For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint’s Celestial Levels, and with the dying body comes bad news--to save the angel’s life, Quillon must leave his home and travel into the cold and hostile lands beyond the city

Subject(s):

Science fiction, English
Technology and civilization -- Fiction
Angels -- Fiction
Life on other planets -- Fiction
Science fiction

Read: August 8, 2011

Page by Paige

2011-08-12T07:31:00.000-07:00

Author: Gulledge, Laura Lee

Title: Page by Paige

Published: New York: Amulet Books, 2011

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

Call Number: PS3607 U45 P34 2011

Summary: When Paige Turner and her family move to New York City from rural Virginia, she tries to make sense of her new life through her sketchbook, and it helps bring her true personality into the open, a process that is equal parts terrifying and rewarding

Subject(s):

Artists -- Comic books, strips, etc
Teenagers -- Comic books, strips, etc
New York (N.Y.) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels
Artists -- Fiction
High schools -- Fiction
Schools -- Fiction
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction

Read: August 6, 2011

Demo

2011-08-12T07:23:00.000-07:00

Author: Wood, Brian, 1972-

Title: Demo

Published: New York: DC Comics, 2008

Description: 323 p. :ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 W59 D53 2008

Note(s): Illustrated by Becky Cloonan. "Originally published in single magazine form as Demo 1-12."--T.p. verso

Summary: "Twelve stories of young people standing at a crossroads, each faced with a life-altering decision in a world where merely living is hard enough."--P. [4] of cover

Subject(s):

Youth -- Comic books, strips, etc
Young adults -- Comic books, strips, etc
Horror comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Read: August 6, 2011

Hesitation kills: a female Marine officer's combat experience in Iraq

2011-08-12T07:13:00.000-07:00

Author: Blair, Jane, 1972-

Title: Hesitation kills: a female Marine officer’s combat experience in Iraq

Published: Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011

Description: xii, 297 p., [12] p. of plates :ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: DS79.766 B53 A3 2011

Subject(s):

Blair, Jane, 1972-
United States. Marine Corps -- Officers -- Biography
Iraq War, 2003- -- Personal narratives, American
Women marines -- United States -- Biography

Read: August 5, 2011

MOME

2011-07-29T23:53:00.000-07:00

Title: MOME

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2005-

Description: v. <1-> :ill. ; 23 cm.

Note(s): "Mome (mõm), n. Archaic, a fool; blockhead. Mome is a quarterly anthology showcasing the best new talent of this decade's rising cartoon generation. Anchored by a core roster of contributors, the series is gorgeously designed by Jordan Crane. This full-color series also features an interview with one of the Mome contributors in each volume." Issues 1- Edited by Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds

Content(s):

No 1: Summer 2005
No 2: Fall 2005
No 3: Winter 2006
No 4: Spring/Summer 2006
No 5: Fall 2006
No 6: Winter 2007
No 7: Spring 2007
No 8: Summer 2007
No 9: Fall 2007
Volume 10: Winter/Spring 2008
Volume 11: Summer 2008
Volume 12: Fall 2008
Volume 13: Winter 2009
Volume 14: Spring 2009
Volume 15: Summer 2009
Volume 16: Fall 2009

Subject(s):

Comic books, strips, etc. -- Periodicals
Graphic novels -- Periodicals

Review(s):

For additional info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A10125064

Interview(s):

Interview 1: Paul Hornschemeier: http://www.fantagraphics.com/content/view/419/87/
Interview 2: Gabrielle Bell: http://www.fantagraphics.com/content/view/453/87/
Interview 3: Kurt Wolfgang: http://www.fantagraphics.com/content/view/500/87/
Interview 4: Jonathan Bennett: http://www.fantagraphics.com/content/view/540/87/
Interview 5: Andrice Arp: http://www.fantagraphics.com/content/view/596/87/
Interview 6: Tim Hensley: http://www.fantagraphics.com/content/view/651/87/

Read:

No 1 (March 16, 2008)
No 2 (March 20, 2008)
No 3 (March 21, 2008)
No 4 (March 22, 2008)
No 5 (March 22, 2008)
No 6 (March 26, 2009)
No 7 (July 29, 2011)
No 8 (July 30, 2011)
No 9 (July 30, 2011)
Volume 10 (July 30, 2011)
Volume 11 (July 31, 2011)
Volume 12 (August 1, 2011)
Volume 13 (August 1, 2011)
Volume 14 (August 2, 2011)
Volume 15 (August 2, 2011)
Volume 16 (August 2, 2011)

Yummy: the last days of a Southside Shorty

2011-07-29T23:27:00.000-07:00

Author: Neri, Greg

Title: Yummy: the last days of a Southside Shorty

Published: New York: Lee & Low Books, 2010

Description: 94 p. :chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: F548.9.N4 N47 2010

Bibliography: p. 94

Note(s): Illustrated by Randy DuBurke

Summary: "A graphic novel based on the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who shot a young girl and was then shot by his own gang members"--Provided by publisher

Subject(s):

Sandifer, Robert -- Comic books, strips, etc
African American youth -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
African American youth -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc
Gang members -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Gangs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Comic books, strips, etc
Violence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Comic books, strips, etc
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc
Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels
Graphic novels -- United States

Read: July 29, 2011

Lewis & Clark

2011-07-29T23:24:00.000-07:00

Author: Bertozzi, Nick

Title: Lewis & Clark

Published: New York: First Second, 2011

Description: 136 p. :chiefly ill., 28 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 B4765 L49 2011

Bibliography: p. 138

Summary: Presents, in graphic novel format, the adventures of explorers Lewis and Clark during their journey from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean

Subject(s):

Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 -- Comic books, strips, etc
Clark, William, 1770-1838 -- Comic books, strips, etc
Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 -- Cartoons and comics
Clark, William, 1770-1838 -- Cartoons and comics
Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) -- Cartoons and comics
Explorers -- Cartoons and comics
Cartoons and comics

Read: July 29, 2011

Sweet tooth: out of the deep woods

2011-07-29T23:14:00.000-07:00

Author: Lemire, Jeff

Title Sweet tooth: out of the deep woods

Published: New York: DC Comics, 2010

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

Call Number: PN6733 L45 S95 2010

Note(s): Colors, Jose Villarrubia, letters, Pat Brosseau. Originally published in single magazine form as Sweet Tooth 1-5

Subject(s):

Plague -- Comic books, strips, etc
End of the world -- Comic books, strips, etc
Animal mutation -- Comic books, strips, etc
Survival -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

Read: July 28, 2011

Life with Mr. Dangerous: a cartoon

2011-07-29T23:06:00.000-07:00

Author: Hornschemeier, Paul, 1977-

Title: Life with Mr. Dangerous: a cartoon

Published: New York: Villard, 2011

Description: 153 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 H675 L54 2011

Summary: "Somewhere in the Midwest, Amy Breis is going nowhere. Amy has a job she hates, a creep boyfriend she's just dumped, and a best friend she can't reach on the phone. But at least her (often painfully passive-aggressive) mother bought her a pink unicorn sweatshirt for her birthday. Pink. Unicorn. For her twenty-sixth birthday. Gliding through the daydreams and realities of a young woman searching for definition..." -- p. [4] of cover

Subject(s):

Single women -- Comic books, strips, etc
Young women -- Comic books, strips, etc\
Graphic novels

Read: July 28, 2011

Resistance

2011-07-29T23:01:00.000-07:00

Author: Jablonski, Carla

Title: Resistance

Published: New York: First Second, 2010

Description: 121 p. :col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 B378 J33 R47 2010

Note(s): Art by Leland Purvis; color by Hilary Sycamore

Summary: Paul and Marie's bucolic French town is almost untouched by the ravages of WWII. When the Jewish parents of their friend Henri disappear, and Henri goes into hiding, Paul and Marie realize they must take a stand

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- France -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
Friendship -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
Cartoons and comics

Read: July 28, 2011

Our army at war. Volume one

2011-07-29T22:51:00.000-07:00

Title: Our army at war. Volume one

Published: New York: DC Comics, 2010

Description: 512 p. :chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6728 O86 O87 2010

Note(s): Writer, Dave Wood ... et al.; artist, Frank Giacoia ... et al. "Originally published in single magazine form in Our army at war #1-20."

Subject(s):

Soldiers--United States--Comic books, strips, etc
War comic books, strips, etc

Read: July 25, 2011

The Arctic marauder

2011-07-29T22:41:00.000-07:00

Author: Tardi, Jacques

Uniform Title: Démon des glaces. English

Title: The Arctic marauder

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2011

Description: 63 p. :chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: PN6747 T374 D4513 2011

Note(s): Originally published in 1974. Edited and translated by Kim Thompson

Summary: In 1889, Jérôme Plumier investigates a series of explosive shipwrecks in the Arctic Ocean that occur after the crew spots a ghost ship among icebergs

Subject(s):

Graphic novels -- France

Read: July 23, 2011

Field gray: a Bernie Gunther novel

2011-07-29T22:31:00.000-07:00

Author: Kerr, Philip

Title: Field gray: a Bernie Gunther novel

Published: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011

Description: 435 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PR6061 E784 F54 2011

Note(s): "A Marian Wood book."

Summary: It's 1954 and Bernie finds himself flown back to Berlin to work for the French or hang for murder. Bernie's job is simple: to meet and greet POWs returning from Germany and snag one Edgard de Boudel, a French war criminal and member of the French SS. But Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him -- in a way he could never have foreseen

Subject(s):

Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Private investigators -- Fiction
Mystery fiction
Spy stories
Historical fiction

Read: July 22, 2011

Beyond the frontier: dreadnaught

2011-07-29T13:07:00.000-07:00

Author Campbell, Jack

Title: Beyond the frontier: dreadnaught

Published: New York: Ace Hardcover, 2011

Description: x, 356 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PS3553 A4637 L66 2011

Summary: "The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people--and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens occupying the far side of Syndic space and to determine how much of a threat they represent to the Alliance. And while the Syndic Worlds are no longer united, individually they may be more dangerous than ever before. Geary knows that members of the military high command and the government question his loyalty to the Alliance and fear his staging a coup--so he can't help but wonder if the fleet is being deliberately sent on a suicide mission.."-- Provided by publisher

Subject(s):

Space ships -- Fiction
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
Science fiction

Read: July 16, 2011

Anya's ghost

2011-07-29T12:49:00.000-07:00

Author: Brosgol, Vera

Title: Anya's ghost

Published: New York: First Second, 2011

Description: 221 p. :chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 B757 A59 2011

Summary: Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse

Subject(s):

Interpersonal relations -- Comic books, strips, etc
Self-esteem -- Comic books, strips, etc
Ghosts -- Comic books, strips, etc
Schools -- Comic books, strips, etc
Russian Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: July 16, 2011

Omega: the unknown

2011-07-12T11:07:00.000-07:00

Author: Lethem, Jonathan

Title: Omega: the unknown

Published: New York: Marvel, 2008

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

Call Number: PN6738 O43 2008

Note(s): Karl Rusnak, words and story; Farel Dalrymple, art and letters; Paul Hornschemeir, colors and chaper six mink art; Gary Panter, chapter seven omega art

Summary: Presents the first ten volumes of the "Omega: The Unknown" comic, which features the adventures of a mute, reluctant super hero and the teenage boy who shares his destiny

Subject(s):

Superheroes -- Fiction
Teenagers -- Fiction
Graphic novels

Read: July 9, 2011

Lying awake

2011-07-05T16:11:00.000-07:00

Author: Salzman, Mark

Title: Lying awake

Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2001

Description: 181 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PS3569 A4627 L95 2001

Note(s): California Gold: The Sacramento Valley Chapter of REFORMA Book Club (Selection)

Summary: In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, Sister John of the Cross experiences visions of such dazzling power and insight that she is considered a spiritual master. But they are accompanied by powerful headaches, and when a doctor reveals they may be dangerous, she faces a devastating choice since she fears a "cure" may end her spiritual gifts

Subject(s):

Carmelite Nuns -- Fiction
Epileptics -- Fiction
Visions -- Fiction
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction

Read: July 4, 2011

Sex on the Moon: the amazing story behind the most audacious heist in history

2011-07-05T15:46:00.000-07:00

Author: Mezrich, Ben, 1969-

Title: Sex on the Moon: the amazing story behind the most audacious heist in history

Published: New York: Doubleday, 2011

Description 308 p. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: HV6248 R585M49 2011

Summary: In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA's precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts' downfall

Subject(s):

Roberts, Thad, 1977-
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center -- History -- 21st century
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography
Theft -- United States -- Case studies
Theft -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 21st century
Lunar petrology -- History -- 21st century
Thieves -- Texas -- Houston -- Biography
Scientists -- United States -- Biography
Interns -- United States -- Biography

Read: July 1, 2011

This book is overdue!: how librarians and cybrarians can save us all

2011-07-05T15:36:00.000-07:00

Author: Johnson, Marilyn, 1954-

Title: This book is overdue!: how librarians and cybrarians can save us all

Published: New York: Harper Perennial, 2011

Call Number: Z716.4 J64 2011

Note(s): Originally published: New York: Harper, 2010

Bibliography: p. 277-282

Summary: In a celebration of libraries and the dedicated people who staff them, the author argues that librarians are more important than ever, and discusses a new breed of visionary professionals who use the Web to link people and information

Subject(s):

Libraries and society
Libraries and the Internet
Librarians -- Effect of technological innovations on
Libraries -- Anecdotes
Librarians -- Anecdotes
Library science -- Anecdotes

Read: June 30, 2011

"21": the story of Roberto Clemente: a graphic novel

2011-07-05T12:10:00.000-07:00

Author: Santiago, Wilfred

Title "21": the story of Roberto Clemente: a graphic novel

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PN6727 S255 T84 2011

Summary: Presents the story of baseball star Roberto Clemente and his journey from an impoverished childhood to fame and fortune, as he strives to go the distance for respect

Subject(s):

Clemente, Roberto, 1934-1972 -- Comic books, strips, etc
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc

Read: June 29, 2011

Tamar: a novel of espionage, passion, and betrayal

2011-07-05T12:06:00.000-07:00

Author: Peet, Mal

Title: Tamar: a novel of espionage, passion, and betrayal

Published: Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2007

Description: 424 p. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PZ7 P3564 T36 2007

Summary: In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.

Subject(s):

Grandfathers -- Fiction
Guilt -- Fiction
Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands -- Fiction
England -- Fiction

Read: June 22, 2011

When the thrill is gone

2011-06-21T14:52:00.000-07:00

Author: Mosley, Walter

Title: When the thrill is gone

Published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2011

Description: 359 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PS3563 O88456 W45 2011

Summary: A beautiful young woman walks into PI Leonid McGill’s office with a stack of cash. She’s an artist, she tells Leonid, who’s escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid’s help. Will sorting out the woman’s crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death’s door?

Subject(s):

McGill, Leonid (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Mystery fiction

Read: June 21, 2011

Aviation's most wanted: the top 10 book of winged wonders, lucky landings, and other aerial oddities

2011-06-16T13:46:00.000-07:00

Author: Ruffin, Steven A.

Title: Aviation's most wanted: the top 10 book of winged wonders, lucky landings, and other aerial oddities

Published: Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, Inc., 2005

Description: xvi, 313 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: TL553 R843 2005

Bibliography: p. 279-284

Subject(s):

Aeronautics -- Miscellanea
Aeronautics -- Records -- Miscellanea
Stunt flying -- Miscellanea
Curiosities and wonders -- Miscellanea
Air pilots -- Miscellanea

Read: June 16, 2011

Nowhere but here

2011-06-16T09:40:00.000-07:00

Author: Lee, Jocelyn,1962-

Title: Nowhere but here

Published: Göttingen: Steidl, 2010

Description: 133 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Call Number: TR647 L44 2010

Note(s): "This book published on the occasion of the exhibition: Jocelyn Lee : nowhere but here, May 6-June 12, 2010, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York"--Colophon. Foreward by Sharon Olds; afterword by Lydia Neuman

Subject(s):

Photography, Artistic

Read: May 22, 2011

William Eggleston: before color

2011-06-16T09:27:00.000-07:00

Author: Eggleston, William,1939-

Title: William Eggleston: before color

Published: Göttingen: Steidl, 2010

Description: 209 p. :ill. ; 26 cm.

Call Number: Shields Library TR654 E344 2010

Note(s): Edited by Chris Burnside ... [et al].; essay by by Dave Hickey

Subject(s):

Eggleston, William, 1939-
Black-and-white photography

Read: May 22, 2011

West coast blues

2011-06-16T09:00:00.000-07:00

Author: Tardi, Jacques

Uniform Title: Petit bleu de la côte Ouest. English

Title: West coast blues

Published: Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2009

Description: 71 p. :ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: PN6747 T37 P4813 2009

Note(s): Translation of: Le petit bleu de la côte ouest. Adapted by Jacques Tardi from the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette; edited and translated by Kim Thompson

Summary: "George Gerfaut, aimless young executive and desultory family man, witnesses a murder and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. Adapting to the exigencies of his new life on the run with shocking ease, Gerfaut abandons his comfortable middle-class life for several months (including a sojourn in the countryside after an attempt to ride the rails turns spectacularly bad) until, joined with a new ally, he finally returns to settle all accounts-- with brutal, bloody interest"--Publisher’s web site

Subject(s):

Murder -- Comic books, strips, etc
Witnesses -- Comic books, strips, etc
Assassins -- Comic books, strips, etc
War criminals -- Comic books, strips, etc
France -- Comic books, strips, etc
Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
Suspense comic books, strips,etc
Comic books, strips,etc

Read: June 11, 2011

Retratos de familia

2011-06-10T15:11:00.000-07:00

Author: Grobet, Lourdes

Title: Retratos de familia

Published: México, D. F. : RM, 2009.

Description: 76 p. :col. il. ; 28 x 29 cm.

Call Number: TR681 F28 G76 2009

Note(s): Introduction by Rafael Tonatiuh

Subject(s):

Photographers -- Mexico
Wrestlers -- Mexico -- Pictorial works

Read: June 10, 2011

The odyssey: a graphic novel

2011-06-10T14:44:00.000-07:00

Author: Hinds, Gareth,1971-

Title The odyssey: a graphic novel

Published: Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2010

Description: 248 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Call Number: PZ7.7 H56 O39 2010

Summary: Retells, in graphic novel format, Homer’s epic tale of Odysseus, the ancient Greek hero who encounters witches and other obstacles on his journey home after fighting in the Trojan War

Subject(s):

Homer. Odyssey -- Adaptations
Odysseus (Greek mythology) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Heroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
Odysseus (Greek mythology) -- Fiction
Mythology, Greek -- Fiction
Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
Heroes -- Fiction
Graphic novels

Read: June 9, 2011

Go the F**k to Sleep

2011-06-10T14:33:00.000-07:00

Author: Mansbach, Adam, 1976-

Title: Go the fuck to sleep

Published: New York: Akashic Books, 2011

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) :ill. ; 17 x 22 cm.

Call Number: Unassigned

Note(s): Illustrated by Ricardo Cortés

Summary: "[A] bedtime book for parents who live in the real world ... profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar--and unspoken--tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. ... You probably should not read it to your children"--P. [4] of cover

Subject(s):

Bedtime -- Humor
Parenting -- Humor
American wit and humor

Read: June 7, 2011

The forge of God

2011-06-10T14:16:00.000-07:00

Author: Bear, Greg, 1951-

Title: The forge of God

Published: New York: Tor, 2001

Description: 473 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PS3552 E163 F67 2001

Subject(s):

Science fiction, American

Read: June 5, 2011

The glass castle: a memoir

2011-06-10T13:59:00.000-07:00

Author: Walls, Jeannette

Title: The glass castle: a memoir

Published: New York: Scribner, 2005

Description: 288 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: HV 5132 W215 2005

Summary: In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities

Subject(s):

Walls, Jeannette
Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
Children of alcoholics -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography
Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies
Dysfunctional families -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Case studies
Poor -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography
Homeless persons -- Family relationships -- New York (State) -- New York

Read: May 27, 2011