July 2013 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Abbott, Alysia - Fairyland: a memoir of my father
- Agee, James - Cotton tenants: three families
- Alter, Jonathan - The center holds: Obama and his enemies
- Altman, Elissa - Poor man's feast: a love story of comfort, desire, and the art of simple cooking
- Bailey, Catherine - The secret rooms: a true Gothic mystery
- A book of voyages
- Brook, Daniel - A history of future cities
- Brown, Daniel - The boys in the boat: nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- Bullough, Oliver - The last man in Russia: the struggle to save a dying nation
- Carlson, Peter - Junius and Albert's adventures in the Confederacy: a Civil War odyssey
- Clavin, Thomas - The DiMaggios: three brothers, their passion for baseball, their pursuit of the American dream
- Collins, Paul - Duel with the devil: the true story of how Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr teamed up to take on America's first sensational murder mystery
- Connors, Jimmy - The outsider: a memoir
- Corkin, Suzanne - Permanent present tense: the unforgettable life of the amnesic patient, H.M.
- Currey, Mason - Daily rituals: how artists work
- D'Antonio, Michael - Mortal sins: sex, crime, and the era of Catholic scandal
- Dreyfuss, Barbara - Hedge hogs: the cowboy traders behind wall street's largest hedge fund disaster
- Duff, Turney - The buy side: a Wall Street trader's tale of spectacular excess
- Eagleton, Terry - Across the pond: an Englishman's view of America
- Ellis, Joseph J - Revolutionary summer: the birth of American independence
- Emmerson, Charles - 1913: in search of the world before the Great War
- Eubanks, W. Ralph - The house at the end of the road: the story of three generations of an interracial family in the American South
- Ferguson, Niall - The great degeneration: how institutions decay and economies die
- Fleming, Thomas J - A disease in the public mind: a new understanding of why we fought the Civil War
- Foege, Alec - The tinkerers: the amateurs, DIYers, and inventors who make America great
- Fraser, Antonia - Perilous question: reform or revolution?: Britain on the brink, 1832
- Friedkin, William - The Friedkin connection: a memoir
- Gibb, Lorna - West's world: the extraordinary life of Dame Rebecca West
- Glass, Charles - The deserters: a hidden history of World War II
- Guelzo, Allen C - Gettysburg: the last invasion
- Haass, Richard - Foreign policy begins at home: the case for putting America's house in order
- Halpern, Sue - A dog walks into a nursing home: lessons in the good life from an unlikely teacher
- Hazareesingh, Sudhir - In the shadow of the general: modern France and the myth of De Gaulle
- Hessler, Peter - Strange stones: dispatches from East and West
- I wasn't strong like this when I started out: true stories of becoming a nurse
- Kavanagh, Julie - The girl who loved camellias: the life and legend of Marie Duplessis
- Kelly, Linda - Holland House: a history of London's most celebrated salon
- Koppel, Lily - The astronaut wives club: a true story
- Matchar, Emily - Homeward bound: why women are embracing the new domesticity
- Moore, Charles - Margaret Thatcher: the authorized biography.
- Moreno, Rita - Rita Moreno: a memoir
- Morozov, Evgeny - To save everything, click here: the folly of technological solutionism
- O'Brien, Geoffrey - Stolen glimpses, captive shadows: writing on film, 2002-2012
- Parks, Tim - Italian ways: on and off the rails from Milan to Palermo
- Rose, Andrew - The woman before Wallis: Prince Edward, the Parisian courtesan, and the perfect murder
- Rubin, Richard - The last of the doughboys: the forgotten generation and their forgotten world war
- Schneps, Leila - Math on trial: how numbers get used and abused in the courtroom
- Snowe, Olympia J - Fighting for common ground: how we can fix the stalemate in Congress
- Solnit, Rebecca - The faraway nearby
- Thomas, M. E - Confessions of a sociopath: a life spent hiding in plain sight
- Walter, Chip - Last ape standing: the seven-million-year story of how and why we survived
- Wisse, Ruth R - No joke: making Jewish humor
- Worthington, Ian - Demosthenes of Athens and the fall of classical Greece
FICTION
- Amend, Allison - A nearly perfect copy: a novel
- Andrews, Mary Kay - Ladies' night
- Beukes, Lauren - The shining girls
- Caletti, Deb - He's gone: a novel
- Delinsky, Barbara - Sweet salt air
- DiSclafani, Anton - The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for girls
- Fowler, Karen Joy - We are all completely beside ourselves
- Frank, Dorothea Benton - The last original wife
- Gaiman, Neil - The ocean at the end of the lane
- Greenman, Ben - The slippage: a novel
- Hadley, Tessa - Clever girl
- Holt, Elliott - You are one of them
- Kelly, Elizabeth - The last summer of the Camperdowns
- Knausgård, Karl Ove - My struggle.
- Kwan, Kevin - Crazy rich Asians
- Lapidus, Jens - Never fuck up
- Lehmann, Stephanie - Astor Place Vintage
- Leskov, N. S - The enchanted wanderer and other stories
- Ma, Jian - The dark road
- McCall Smith, Alexander - Trains and lovers
- McCann, Colum - Transatlantic: a novel
- Meyer, Philipp - The son
- Miller, Derek - Norwegian by night
- Nakamura, Fuminori - Evil and the mask
- O'Farrell, Maggie - Instructions for a heatwave
- Robinson, Roxana - Sparta
- Roy, Lori - Until she comes home
- Shriver, Lionel - Big brother: a novel
- Specktor, Matthew - American dream machine: a novel
- Stevens, Chevy - Always watching
- Sullivan, J. Courtney - The engagements: a novel
- Thomson, Rupert - Secrecy
- Waite, Urban - The carrion birds
- Walls, Jeannette - The silver star: a novel
- Wascom, Kent - The blood of heaven
- Weisberger, Lauren - Revenge wears Prada: the Devil returns
MYSTERIES
- Adler-Olsen, Jussi - A conspiracy of faith
- Aspe, Pieter - The square of revenge
- Atkins, Ace - The broken places
- Berry, Steve - The king's deception: a novel
- Blair, Peggy J - The beggar's opera
- Bolton, S. J - Lost*
- Brett, Simon - A decent interval: a Charles Paris novel*
- Burke, Alafair - If you were here: a novel of suspense
- Carlotto, Massimo - At the end of a dull day
- Castillo, Linda - Her last breath
- Castle, Richard - Storm front
- Coonts, Deborah - Lucky bastard
- Corley, Elizabeth - Requiem Mass*
- Cussler, Clive - Zero hour: a novel from the NUMA files
- Dams, Jeanne M - Murder at the castle*
- Davis, Lindsey - The Ides of April
- Deaver, Jeffery - The kill room: a Lincoln Rhyme novel
- Downing, David - Masaryk Station
- Estleman, Loren D - The confessions of Al Capone
- Grecian, Alex - The black country*
- Haines, Carolyn - Smarty bones
- Hammer, Lotte - The hanging: a thriller
- Hart, Carolyn G - Escape from Paris
- Harwood, John - The asylum*
- Hiaasen, Carl - Bad monkey
- Hoag, Tami - The 9th girl
- Holt, Jonathan - The abomination: a novel
- Housewright, David - The last kind word
- James, Bill - Play dead*
- Johnson, Craig - A serpent's tooth
- Kahn, Michael A - The flinch factor: a Rachel Gold mystery
- Kallentoft, Mons - Summer death: a thriller
- Kernick, Simon - Siege: a thriller*
- King, Stephen - Joyland
- Lange, Richard - Angel baby: a novel
- Longworth, M. L - Death in the vines: a Verlaque and Bonnet Provençal mystery
- MacBride, Stuart - Close to the bone*
- Matthews, Jason - Redsparrow: a novel
- McPherson, Catriona - As she left it: a novel*
- Nickson, Chris - At the dying of the year: a Richard Nottingham book*
- Pearson, Ridley - Choke point
- Pryor, Mark - The crypt thief: a Hugo Marston novel
- Qiu, Xiaolong - Enigma of China
- Rhodes, Kate - Crossbones yard*
- Robertson, Imogen - Circle of shadows
- Sherez, Stav - A dark redemption*
- Smith, Dan - The child thief
- Smith, Frank - Night fall*
- Stanley, Michael - Deadly harvest
- Stevens, Taylor - The doll: a novel
- Thoft, Ingrid - Loyalty
- Widen, Gregory - Blood makes noise
SHORT STORIES
- O'Connor, Joseph - Where have you been?: stories and a novella
- Silber, Joan - Fools
POETRY
- Phillips, Carl - Silverchest
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IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Calvino, Italo - Italo Calvino: letters, 1941-1985 92 C1686 C
- The Cambridge companion to Philip Roth 823 R
- Crow, Charles L - American Gothic 823.09 C
- Jameson, Fredric - The cultural turn: selected writings on the postmodern, 1983-1998 809.9 J
- Knight, Sabina - Chinese literature: a very short introduction 895.1 K
- Messent, Peter B - The crime fiction handbook 809.3 M
- Moretti, Franco - The bourgeois: between literature and history 809.9 M
- The recognition of Edgar Allan Poe: selected criticism since 1829 828.09 P
- Walser, Robert - A little ramble with Robert Walser 830.81 W
POETRY
- Amichai, Yehuda - The selected poetry of Yehuda Amichai , 892.4 A
- Levin, Phillis - May day , 821 L
- Merwin, W. S - Collected poems 1952-1993 , 821 M
- Merwin, W. S - Collected poems 1996-2011 , 821 M
- Peters, Margot - Lorine Niedecker: a poet's life , 92 N666 P
- Pound, Ezra - PoundLewis: the letters of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis , 920 P8768 P
SHAKESPEARE
- Living with Shakespeare: essays by writers, actors, and directors , 822.33 C
- The Oxford companion to Shakespeare , 822.33 D OVERSIZE
MYTHOLOGY, LEGENDS, AND TALES
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius - The nature of the gods , 292 C
- Doniger, Wendy - The implied spider: politics and theology in myth , 291 D
- Warner, Marina - From the beast to the blonde: on fairy tales and their tellers , 398.2 W
- Witzel, Michael - The origins of the world's mythologies , 291 W
ESSAYS
- Harrigan, Stephen - The eye of the mammoth: selected essays , 824 H
- Izzo, Jean-Claude - Garlic, mint & sweet basil: essays on Marseilles, Mediterranean cuisine, and noir fiction , 844 I
ART & DESIGN
- Chiu, Melissa - Art and China's revolution , 709.51 C
- Clark, T. J - Picasso and truth: from Cubism to Guernica , 759.6 P
- Dark Romanticism: from Goya to Max Ernst , 709.4 S
- The essential Dürer , 759.3 D
- Holly, Michael Ann - The melancholy art , 707 H
- Remington, R. Roger - American Modernism: graphic design 1920 to 1960 , 741.7 R
- Renaissance bodies: the human figure in English culture, c. 1540-1660 , 704.942 R
- Todd, Pamela - The arts & crafts companion , 709 T
- Wilson, Thomas D - The Oglethorpe Plan: Enlightenment Design in Savannah and Beyond , 309.2 W
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ARCHITECTURE
- Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1950-1962 , 720.92 S
- Architecture theory since 1968 , 720 A
- Hardy, Hugh - Theater of architecture , 720.92 H
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Klein, William - William Klein: ABC , 770 K
- Pepper, Terence - Man Ray portraits , 779 M
- Stillman, Andrea Gray - Looking at Ansel Adams: the photographs and the man , 92 A211 S OVERSIZE
FILM
- Elder, Robert K - The best film you've never seen: 35 directors champion the forgotten or critically savaged movies they love , 791.4 E
- Ray, Satyajit - Satyajit Ray on cinema , 791.4 R
- Wanger, Walter - My life with Cleopatra: the making of a Hollywood classic , 791.4 W
MUSIC
- Birnbaum, Larry - Before Elvis: the prehistory of rock 'n' roll , 784.6 B
- The Cambridge companion to opera studies , 782.1 C
- Millington, Barry - The sorcerer of Bayreuth: Richard Wagner, his work, and his world , 780.92 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Blackburn, Simon - Practical tortoise raising: and other philosophical essays , 192 B
- Critchley, Simon - Ethics-politics-subjectivity: essays on Derrida, Levinas and contemporary French thought , 194 C
- Dubnov, Arie - Isaiah Berlin: the journey of a Jewish liberal , 192 D
BIOGRAPHIES
- Amor, Anne Clark - The real Alice: Lewis Carroll's dream child , 92 H2795 A
- Carlson, W. Bernard - Tesla: inventor of the electrical age , 92 T337 C
- Margolick, David - Dreadful: the short life and gay times of John Horne Burns , 92 B9668 M
- Meyers, Jeffrey - Remembering Iris Murdoch: letters and interviews , 92 M9744 M
- Stach, Reiner - Kafka, the years of insight , 92 K114 S
- Sugden, John - Nelson: the sword of Albion , 92 N4263 S
- Worth, Jennifer - Farewell to the East End , 92 W9326 W
SCIENCE
- Fagan, Brian M - The attacking ocean: the past, present, and future of rising sea levels , 551.4 F
- Scerri, Eric R - A tale of seven elements (Oliver Sacks, preface), 546 S
- Toomey, David M - Weird life: the search for life that is very, very different from our own , 570 T
GARDENS
- Frieze, Charlotte M - Private paradise: contemporary American gardens , 712 F
- Holway, Tatiana M - The flower of empire: An Amazonian water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it created , 727 H
- Welty, Eudora - Tell about night flowers: Eudora Welty's gardening letters, 1940-1949 , 92 W464 W
NEW YORK CITY
- Attie, Alice - Harlem on the verge , 917.471 A OVERSIZE
- Prosterman, Daniel O - Defining democracy: electoral reform and the struggle for power in New York City , 974.71 P
LAW
- Bravin, Jess - The terror courts: rough justice at Guantanamo Bay , 341.3 B
- Coyle, Marcia - The Roberts Court: the struggle for the constitution , 342.73 C
POLITICS
- Andrew, John A - The other side of the sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the rise of conservative politics , 320.9 A
- Gosse, Van - The movements of the New Left, 1950-1975: a brief history with documents , 320.9 G
- May, Gary - Bending toward justice: the Voting Rights Act and the transformation of American democracy , 324 M
- Nye, Joseph S - Presidential leadership and the creation of the American era , 353.03 N
FOREIGN RELATIONS
- Anderson, Terry H - Bush's wars , 973.931 A
- Davies, John Paton - China Hand: an autobiography , 92 D2563 D
- Isaacson, Walter - The wise men: six friends and the world they made , 920 S797 I
- Way, John T - The Mayan in the mall: globalization, development and the making of modern Guatemala , 972.8 W
Religion
- Brooks, Joanna - The Book of Mormon girl: a memoir of an American faith , 289.3 B
- Calvert, John - Sayyid Qutb and the origins of radical Islamism , 320.9 C
- Gilbert, James Burkhart - Redeeming culture: American religion in an age of science , 306.4 G
- Massa, Mark Stephen - The American Catholic revolution: how the sixties changed the church forever , 282.73 M
- Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen - Judaism despite Christianity: the letters on Christianity and Judaism between Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig , 296.3 R
- Wiman, Christian - My bright abyss: meditation of a modern believer , 824 W
HISTORY
- Collins, Paul - The birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the creation of Europe in the tenth century , 940.1 C
- Fergusson, James - The world's most dangerous place (Somalia), 967 F
- Hobsbawm, E. J - Fractured times: culture and society in the twentieth century , 306 H
- Linebaugh, Peter - The many-headed hydra: sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic , 909 L
- O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson - The men who lost America: British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire , 973.32 O
- Simms, Brendan - Europe: the struggle for supremacy, from 1453 to the present , 940.2 S
- Stewart, Graham - Bang!: a history of Britain in the 1980s , 942.085 S
- Zuccotti, Susan - Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish rescue: how a French priest together with Jewish friends saved thousands during the Holocaust , 92 M3343 Z
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ANTIQUITY
- Cartledge, Paul - After Thermopylae: the oath of Plataea and the end of the Graeco-Persian Wars , 938 C
- Kemp, Barry J - The city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and its people , 932 K
- Marchant, Jo - The shadow king: the bizarre afterlife of king Tut's mummy , 932 M
- Mithen, Steven J - Thirst: water and power in the ancient world , 333.9 M
WAR
- Appleton, Edith - A nurse at the front: the Great War diaries of Sister Edith Appleton , 940.475 A
- Bradley, Mark L - Last stand in the Carolinas: the Battle of Bentonville , 973.73 B
- Geoghegan, John J - Operation Storm: Japan's top secret submarines and its plan to change the course of World War II , 940.545 G
- Harmsen, Peter - Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze , 951 H
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Battersby, Christine - Gender and genius: towards a feminist aesthetics , 151 B
- An evening when alone: four journals of single women in the South, 1827-67 , 305.4 E
- Women's work: an anthology of African-American women's historical writings from antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance , 973 W
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Cahill, Susan Neunzig - Hidden gardens of Paris: a guide to the parks, squares, and woodlands of the City of Light , 712 C
- Day, David - Antarctica: a biography , 919.9 D
- Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow - Learning Las Vegas: portrait of a northern New Mexican place , 978.9 R OVERSIZE
AUDIO
- Atkinson, Kate - Life after life, Audio-CD A
- Baldwin, James - Giovanni's room, Audio-CD B
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - The remains of the day, Audio-CD I
- Sedaris, David - Let's explore diabetes with owls;essays, etc. , Audio-CD 827 S
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