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  • Prepub Alert
    By Barbara Hoffert - 06/15/2009
    FICTION Alexie, Sherman. War Dances. Grove.Oct. 2009. 256p. ISBN 978-0-8021-1919-3. $23. Alexie's writing is like the swooping owl featured in one of the stories in this collection—encounter it once, and you'll never forget it. I've already promoted this work in LJ's BookSmack! e-newsletter as a featured galley giveaway at BEA, but I'm glad to plug it again. More
  • For Future Reference
    By Traci Avet, Ask a Librarian Virtual Reference Coordinator, Tampa Bay Lib. Consortium - 06/01/2009
    If your patrons are looking for government information, this column is for you. Facts On File is launching U.S. Government Online, an attractive database offering news articles, essays, primary source documents, maps, and tons of multimedia. Columbia Books announced the publication of The Original U. More
  • Free Reference
    By Barry X. Miller, Acquisitions Librarian, Austin P.L. - 06/01/2009
    The first thing you need to know about the URBAN DICTIONARY (UD) is that it isn't your stepdad's ("a complete jerkoff and abuses his power over his step children") dictionary. Introduced ten years ago by Cal Tech übernerd Aaron Peckham, this lexicon boasts a repository of close to four million definitions and is driven by the wikified egalitarian concept that anyone can do fine work or def... More
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    By Barbara Hoffert - 06/01/2009
    Fiction Ackroyd, Peter. The Case of Victor Frankenstein. Nan A. Talese: Doubleday. Oct. 2009. 368p. ISBN 978-0-385-53084-2. $26.95. The monster lit craze goes literary with Whitbread/Guardian prize winner Ackroyd's take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Persuaded by Oxford buddy Percy Bysshe Shelley to drop his regard for conventional religion, Victor Frankenstein launches a daring experiment to ... More
  • Prepub Mystery
    By Anna Katterjohn - 06/01/2009
    Armstrong, David. Written Out. Severn House. Oct. 2009. 224p. ISBN 978-0-7278-6779-7. $28.95. Is a novelist's disappearance an evil plot or an innocent affair? Detectives Frank Kavanagh and Jane Salt return after A Kind of Acquaintance to take the case. Beaton, M.C. There Goes the Bride. Minotaur: St. More
  • Prepub Alert
    By Barbara Hoffert - 05/15/2009
    FICTION Ballard, J.G. The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard. Norton. Sept. 2009. 1216p. ISBN 978-0-393-07262-4. $35. Anyone who recalls Steven Spielberg's vivid Empire of the Sun will both regret the recent death of Ballard, author of the novel on which the film was based, and rejoice that his stories are now available here in their entirety. More
  • For Future Reference
    By Traci Avet, Ask a Librarian Virtual Reference Coordinator, Tampa Bay Lib. Consortium - 05/01/2009
    This is definitely a month for the history buffs! We are so stoked about Oxford's launch of Oxford Biblical Studies Online (see review, p. 100), which offers access to six Oxford staples, including the Oxford Study Bible, Jewish Study Bible, Catholic Study Bible, and the Authorized King James Bible with Apocrypha. More
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