August 2014
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Colquhoun, Kate - Did she kill him?: a Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
- Costa, James T. - Wallace, Darwin, and the origin of species
- Dogfight at the Pentagon: sergeant dogs, grumpy cats, wallflower wingmen, and other lunacy from The Wall Street Journal's "A-Hed" column
- Dry, Sarah - The Newton papers: the strange and true odyssey of Isaac Newton's manuscripts
- Epstein, Joseph - A literary education
- Garnier, Philippe - Goodis: a life in black and white
- Grant, Lee - I said yes to everything: a memoir
- Harvey, James - Watching them be: star presence on the screen from Garbo to Balthazar
- Heymann, C. David - Joe and Marilyn: legends in love
- Klein, Edward - Blood feud: the Clintons vs. the Obamas
- Macy, Beth - Factory man: how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town
- McGann, Jerome J. - A new republic of letters: memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction
- Mills, Marja - The mockingbird next door: life with Harper Lee
- Pleasures of the garden: a literary anthology
- Selz, Gabrielle - Unstill life: a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction
- Solnit, Rebecca - Men explain things to me
- Sutherland, John - How to be well read: a guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities
- Thompson, Donald N. - The supermodel and the Brillo box: back stories and peculiar economics from the world of contemporary art
- Vogel, Kenneth P. - Big money: 2.5 billion dollars, one suspicious vehicle, and a pimp : on the trail of the ultra-rich hijacking American politics
- Webb, James H. - I heard my country calling: a memoir
- Wilsey, Sean - More curious
- Ziegler, Philip - Olivier
FICTION
- Allen, Jeffery Renard - Song of the shank
- Apelfeld, Aharon - Suddenly, love
- Baricco, Alessandro - Mr. Gwyn & Three times at dawn
- Bishop, Bernardine - Hidden knowledge
- Black, Robin - Life drawing
- Carroll, James - Warburg in Rome
- Dovlatov, Sergei - Pushkin Hills
- Gould, Emily - Friendship
- Harkness, Deborah E. - The book of life
- Hunt, Rebecca - Everland
- Makkai, Rebecca - The hundred-year house
- Morris, Bill - Motor City burning
- Moses, Pamela - The appetites of girls
- Moyes, Jojo - One plus one
- Netzer, Lydia - How to tell Toledo from the night sky
- Ng, Celeste - Everything I never told you
- Pancol, Katherine - The yellow eyes of crocodiles
- Shaara, Jeff - A chain of thunder: a novel of the Siege of Vicksburg
- Shaara, Jeff - The smoke at dawn: a novel of the Civil War
- Siddons, Anne Rivers - The girls of August
- Sohn, Amy - The actress
- Willig, Lauren - That summer
- Wilson, Edward - The Whitehall mandarin
- Woodward, Gerard - Vanishing
MYSTERIES
- Abbott, Jeff - Inside man
- Bain, Donald - Margaret Truman's Undiplomatic murder: a Capital crimes novel
- Bouman, Tom - Dry bones in the valley: a novel
- Box, C. J. - Shots fired: stories from Joe Pickett Country
- Burke, James Lee - Wayfaring stranger
- Castillo, Linda - The dead will tell
- Clark, Marcia - The competition
- Coulter, Catherine - Power play
- Disher, Garry - Hell to pay
- Doiron, Paul - The bone orchard
- French, Nicci - Thursday's children*
- Galbraith, Robert - The silkworm
- Garrett, A. D. - Everyone lies*
- Hallinan, Timothy - Herbie's game
- Harvey, John - Darkness, darkness*
- Kelly, Erin - The ties that bind*
- Lawson, Michael - House reckoning
- MacNeal, Susan Elia - The prime minister's secret agent
- Muller, Marcia - The night searchers
- Oswald, James - Dead men's bones: a Detective Inspector McLean mystery*
- Patterson, Richard North - Eden in winter
- Pronzini, Bill - Strangers: a Nameless Detective novel
- Rollins, James - The kill switch
- Silva, Daniel - The heist
- Stevens, Chevy - That night
- Taylor, Brad - Days of rage: a Pike Logan thriller
- Thoft, Ingrid - Identity
- Verdon, John - Peter Pan must die
- White, Kate - Eyes on you: a novel of suspense
- Winspear, Jacqueline - The care and management of lies: a novel of the Great War
- Woods, Stuart - Cut and thrust
- Wright, Erica - The red chameleon
POETRY
- Ford, Mark - Selected poems
- Kleinzahler, August - The Hotel Oneira
- Lockwood, Patricia - Motherland, fatherland, homelandsexuals
- Stafford, William - Sound of the ax: aphorisms and poems
SHORT STORIES
- Gardam, Jane - The stories
- Vollmann, William T. - Last stories and other stories
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Beckett, Samuel, - Echo's bones (first publication of 1933 fiction) F B
- Calder, John - The garden of Eros: the story of the Paris expatriates and the post-war literary scene 820.9 C
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Taps at Reveille F. Scott Fitzgerald (James L.W. West III, ed.; first publication of restored, uncensored texts) F F
- Italoamericana: the literature of the great migration, 1880-1943 (Francesco Durante, ed.) 973 I
- Ker, I. T. - G.K. Chesterton: a biography 92 C5258 K
- Manchette, Jean-Patrick - The mad and the bad (classic French crime novel reprint from New York Review of Books) F M
- Roché, Henri Pierre, - Jules et Jim (translated from the French, afterword by Francois Truffaut) F R
- Sankovitch, Nina - Signed, sealed, delivered: celebrating the joys of letter writing 808.6 S
- Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe - The professor and the siren (New York Review of Books, newly translated short fiction) F T
ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
- Adamson, Glenn - Thinking through craft 745.5 A
- Art deco 1910-1939 709.04 A
- Crone, Rainer - Louise Bourgeois: the secret of the cells 709.2 C
- Haskell, Barbara - Elie Nadelman: sculptor of modern life 730.92 N
- Jones, Leslie - Drawing Surrealism 741 J
- Oppenheim, Meret - Meret Oppenheim: retrospective 759.9 O
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista - The prisons (Le carceri): the complete first and second states 769 P OVERSIZE
- Stimpson, Miriam F. - Modern furniture classics 749.2 S
- Summerson, John - Heavenly mansions: and other essays on architecture 720 S
- Upton, Dell - Architecture in the United States 720.973 U
- Vaughan, William - Romanticism and art 709 V
- Watt, James C. Y. - When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles 746 W
BIOGRAPHIES
- Balmer, Randall Herbert - Redeemer: the life of Jimmy Carter 92 C32365 B
- Drayton, Joanne - The search for Anne Perry: the hidden life of a bestselling crime writer 92 P4621 D
- Holmes, Rachel - Eleanor Marx: a life 92 A9482 H
- Koeneman, Keith - First son: the biography of Richard M. Daley 92 D1416 K
- Maunsell, Jerome B. - Susan Sontag 92 S6998 M
- Sackville-West, Robert - The disinherited: a story of love, family and betrayal 920 S1219 S
- Sharlin, Harold I. - Lord Kelvin: the dynamic Victorian 92 K2997 S
- Wilson, Jean Moorcroft - Siegfried Sassoon: soldier, poet, lover, friend 92 S2526 W
MUSIC
- Bradley, Lloyd - This is reggae music: the story of Jamaica's music 781.5 B
- Budiansky, Stephen - Mad music: Charles Ives, the nostalgic rebel 780.92 B
- Petrusich, Amanda - Do not sell at any price: the wild, obsessive hunt for the world's rarest 78 rpm records 789.9 P
FILM
- Prime, Rebecca - Hollywood exiles in Europe: the blacklist and cold war film culture 791.4 P
- Sitton, Robert - Lady in the dark: Iris Barry and the art of film 92 B2793
- Turan, Kenneth - Not to be missed: fifty-four favorites from a lifetime of film 791.4 T
- Varia, Kush - Bollywood: gods, glamour, and gossip 791.4 V
PUBLISHING
- Dempsey, James - The tortured life of Scofield Thayer 92 T372 D
- Gertzman, Jay A. - Samuel Roth: infamous modernist 92 R84582 G
- Lewis, Edward - The man from Essence: creating a magazine for black women 92 L67345 L
- Nelson, James G. - Elkin Mathews: publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound 92 M4291 N
HISTORY
- Bryce, Trevor - Ancient Syria: a three thousand year history 939.4 B
- Chandler, David P. - A history of Cambodia 959.6 C
- Corrigan, Gordon - A great and glorious adventure: a history of the Hundred Years War and the birth of Renaissance England 944.02 C
- Guéhenno, Jean - Diary of the dark years, 1940-1944: collaboration, resistance, and daily life in occupied Paris 92 G924 G
- Kasekamp, Andres - A history of the Baltic states 947 K
- McDonough, Susan Alice - Witnesses, neighbors, and community in late medieval Marseille 345.4 M
- Newman, Sharan - Defending the City of God: a medieval queen, the first Crusades, and the quest for peace in Jerusalem 956.94 N
- Niebuhr, Gustav - Lincoln's bishop: a president, a priest, and the fate of 300 Dakota Sioux warriors 323.1 N
- Schlögel, Karl - Moscow, 1937 947.084 S
- Sifton, Elisabeth - No ordinary men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, resisters against Hitler in church and state 943.085 S
- Sollors, Werner - The temptation of despair: tales of the 1940s 940.55 S
- Standiford, Les - Desperate sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the secret band of radicals who led the colonies to war 973.31 S
- Stavans, Ilan - A most imperfect union: A contrarian history of the United States 973 S
- Subtelny, Orest - Ukraine: a history 947.7 S
- Turner, James - Philology: the forgotten origins of the modern humanities 401 T
ANTIQUITY
- Bacchylides - Bacchylides: the poems and fragments 884.08 B
- Hall, Edith - Introducing the ancient Greeks: from Bronze Age seafarers to navigators of the Western mind 938 H
- Rohde, Erwin - Psyche: the cult of souls and belief in immortality among the Greeks 292 R
- Thucydides - The war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians 938 T
LANGUAGE
- Dictionary of untranslatables: a philosophical lexicon (Barbara Cassin, ed.) 103 D
- Humez, Alexander - Alpha to omega: the life & times of the Greek alphabet 481 H
PHILOSOPHY
- Brière, O. - Fifty years of Chinese philosophy, 1898-1950 181 B
- Cornford, Francis Macdonald - Principium sapientiæ: the origins of Greek philosophical thought 182 C
- Zaretsky, Robert - A life worth living: Albert Camus and the quest for meaning 194 Z
RELIGION
- Calderon, Ruth - A bride for one night: Talmud tales 296.1 C
- Coogan, Michael David - The ten commandments: a short history of an ancient text 222 C
- Liu, Yiming, - The inner teachings of Taoism , 299.51 L
- Stewart, Matthew - Nature's God: the heretical origins of the American republic 322.1 S
- Telushkin, Joseph - Rebbe: the life and teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the most influential Rabbi in modern history 92 S3585 T
MIDDLE EAST
- Goldman, Shalom - Zeal for Zion: Christians, Jews, & the idea of the Promised Land 956.94 G
- Pressfield, Steven - The lion's gate: on the front lines of the Six Day War 956.94 P
- Shindler, Colin - A history of modern Israel 956.94 S
POLITICS
- Fawcett, Edmund - Liberalism: the life of an idea 320.1 F
- Krauthammer, Charles - Things that matter: three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics 973.930 K
WAR
- Baime, A. J. - The arsenal of democracy: FDR, Detroit, and their epic quest to arm an America at war 940.5373 B
- Caddick-Adams, Peter - Monte Cassino: ten armies in Hell 940.542 C
- Fleche, Andre M. - The revolution of 1861: the American Civil War in the age of nationalist conflict 973.71 F
- Philpott, William James - War of attrition: fighting the First World War 940.4 P
- Roberts, Mary Louise - D-Day through French eyes: Normandy 1944 940.542 R
- Tooze, J. Adam - The deluge: the Great War and the remaking of global order 1916-1931 940.3 T
ESPIONAGE
- Burke, David - The Lawn Road Flats: spies, writers and artists 914.21 B
- Davis, Wes - The Ariadne objective: the underground war to rescue Crete from the Nazis 940.542 D
- Macrakis, Kristie - Prisoners, lovers, & spies: the story of invisible ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda 652 M
CRIME
- Kara, Siddharth - Sex trafficking: inside the business of modern slavery 364.1 K
- Ruderman, Wendy - Busted: a tale of corruption and betrayal in the city of brotherly love 364.1 R
- Stevens, Mark - Broadmoor revealed: Victorian crime and the lunatic asylum 362.2 S
LAW
- Epstein, Richard Allen - The classical liberal constitution: the uncertain quest for limited government 342.73 E
- Evans, E. P. - Animal trials (edited version of 19th century text, Criminal Persecution & Capital Punishment of Animals) 340 E
- Murphy, Bruce Allen - Scalia: a court of one 92 S2824 M
- Tribe, Laurence H. - Uncertain justice: the Roberts Court and the Constitution 347.99 T
PSYCHOLOGY
- Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara - Exit: the endings that set us free 155.2 L
- Phillips, Adam - One way and another: new and selected essays 131.34 P
ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
- Jaffe, Steven H. - Capital of capital: money, banking + power in New York City, 1784-2012 332.1 J
- Kwarteng, Kwasi - War and gold: a 500-year history of empires, adventures, and debt 332.4 K
TRAVEL
- Atkins, William - The moor: lives, landscape, literature 914.2 A
- Büren, Henri de - A voyage across the Americas: the journey of Henri de Büren, 1852-1853 910.4 B
- Edwards, Andrew - Sicily: a literary guide for travellers 914.58 E
- Goldman, Francisco - The interior circuit: a Mexico City chronicle 917.2 G
NEW YORK
- Byfield, Natalie P. - Savage portrayals: race, media, and the Central Park jogger story 364.1 B
- Gold, Roberta - When tenants claimed the city: the struggle for citizenship in New York City housing 333 G
- Hederman, Angela - The Little Bookroom guide to New York City with children: play, eat, shop 917.471 H
EDUCATION
- Bloomer, W. Martin - The school of Rome: Latin studies and the origins of liberal education 370.93 B
- Bok, Derek Curtis - Higher education in America 378 B
- Wilder, Craig Steven - Ebony & ivy: race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities 378 W
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Arndt, Ingo - Animal architecture 591.5 A
- Ball, Philip - Curiosity: how science became interested in everything 509 B
- Birkhead, T. R. - Ten thousand birds: ornithology since Darwin 598.2 B OVERSIZE
- Needham, Joseph - Order and life 570 N
MEDICINE
- Healy, David - Pharmageddon 338.4 H
- Lerner, Barron H. - The good doctor: a father, a son, and the evolution of medical ethics 174 L
- Ofri, Danielle - What doctors feel: how emotions affect the practice of medicine 610 O
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
- Courland, Robert - Concrete planet : the strange and fascinating story of the world's most common man-made material 620 C
- Miodownik, Mark - Stuff matters: exploring the marvelous materials that shape our man-made world 620 M
- Raskin, Molly Knight - No better time: the brief, remarkable life of Danny Lewin, the genius who transformed the Internet 92 L6721 R
- Seife, Charles - Virtual unreality: just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true? 004.678 S
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