June 2012 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Abad Faciolince, HÈctor JoaquÌn - Oblivion: a memoir
- Appel, Martin - Pinstripe empire: the New York Yankees from before the Babe to after the Boss
- Benfey, Christopher E. G. - Red brick, Black Mountain, white clay: reflections on art, family, and survival
- Bergen, Peter L. - Manhunt: the ten-year search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
- Bissell, Tom - Magic hours: essays on creators and creation
- Bissinger, H. G - Father's day: a journey into the mind and heart of my extraordinary son
- Brady, Tim - Twelve desperate miles: the epic WWII voyage of the SS Contessa
- Burroughs, Augusten - This is how: proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude & more-- for young and old alike
- Coll, Steve - Private empire: ExxonMobil and American power
- Conversations at the American Film Institute with the great moviemakers: the next generation
- Dabhoiwala, Faramerz - The origins of sex: a history of the first sexual revolution
- Davis, Deborah - Guest of honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House dinner that shocked a nation
- Deford, Frank - Over time: my life as a sportswriter
- Dietrich, William - The emerald storm: an Ethan Gage adventure William Dietrich.
- Draper, Robert - Do not ask what good we do: inside the U.S. House of Representatives
- Findlay, Michael - The value of art: money, power, beauty
- Forrest, Susanna - If wishes were horses: a memoir of equine obsession
- Gay, Timothy M - Assignment to Hell: the war against Nazi Germany with correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle
- Gibbs, Nancy - The presidents club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity
- Gubar, Susan - Memoir of a debulked woman: enduring ovarian cancer
- Herman, Arthur - Freedom's forge: how American business produced victory in World War II
- Holland, Tom - In the shadow of the sword: the birth of Islam and the rise of the global Arab empire
- Huang, Wenguang - The little red guard: a family memoir
- Humes, Edward - Garbology: our dirty love affair with trash
- Jones, Thai - More powerful than dynamite: radicals, plutocrats, progressives, and New York's year of anarchy
- Kessler-Harris, Alice - A difficult woman: the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
- Krugman, Paul R - End this depression now!
- Lubbock, Tom - Until further notice, I am alive
- Mack, Doug - Europe on 5 wrong turns a day: one man, eight countries, one vintage travel guide
- Mann, Thomas E - It's even worse than it looks: how the American constitutional system collided with the new politics of extremism
- Marshall, Garry - My happy days in Hollywood: a memoir
- Nicholl, Charles - Traces remain: essays and explorations
- Popkin, Samuel L - The candidate: what it takes to win, and hold, the White House
- Rutkow, Eric - American canopy: trees, forests, and the making of a nation
- Sandel, Michael J - What money can't buy: the moral limits of markets
- Scott, Rebecca J - Freedom papers: an Atlantic odyssey in the age of emancipation
- Silver, Charlotte - Charlotte au chocolat: memories of a restaurant girlhood
- Sweet, Victoria - God's hotel: a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine
- Sykes, Bryan - DNA USA: a genetic portrait of America
- Talbot, David - Season of the witch: enchantment, terror, and deliverance in the City of love
- Tanitch, Robert - London stage in the nineteenth century
- Taraborrelli, J. Randy - After Camelot: a personal history of the Kennedy family: 1968 to the present
- Walkowitz, Judith R - Nights out: life in cosmopolitan London
- Wasserstein, Bernard - On the eve: the Jews of Europe before the Second World War
- Wulf, Andrea - Chasing Venus: the race to measure the heavens
FICTION
- Archer, Jeffrey - The sins of the father
- Barnes, Kim - In the kingdom of men
- Binet, Laurent - HHhH
- BolaÒo, Roberto - The secret of evil
- Buckley, Christopher - They eat puppies, don't they?
- Carey, Peter - The chemistry of tears
- Coonts, Stephen - The sea witch: [three novellas]
- Davey, Janet - By Battersea Bridge
- DeSanti, Carole - The unruly passions of EugÈnie R.
- Erdal, Jennie - The missing shade of blue
- Falco, Edward - The family Corleone
- Flanery, Patrick - Absolution
- Fountain, Ben - Billy Lynn's long halftime walk
- Freudenberger, Nell - The newlyweds
- Haimoff, Michelle - These days are ours
- Hensher, Philip - Scenes from early life
- Hrabal, Bohumil - Gaps
- Irving, John - In one person
- James, E. L - Fifty shades darker
- James, E. L - Fifty shades freed
- Jones, Sadie - The uninvited guests
- King, Stephen - The wind through the keyhole
- KnausgÂrd, Karl Ove - My struggle
- Leyner, Mark - The sugar frosted nutsack
- Manea, Norman - The lair
- Mantel, Hilary - Bring up the bodies
- Mawer, Simon - Trapeze
- McLarty, Ron - The Dropper
- Moore, Christopher - SacrÈ bleu: a comedy d'art
- Morrison, Toni - Home
- M¸ller, Herta - The hunger angel
- O'Melveny, Regina - The book of madness and cures
- Rogers, Jane - The testament of Jessie Lamb
- Roy, Anuradha - The folded earth
- Sada, Daniel - Almost never
- Thayil, Jeet - Narcopolis
- Tilghman, Christopher - The right-hand shore
- Urquhart, Jane - Sanctuary line
- Vann, David - Dirt
- Vincenzi, Penny - More than you know
- Vyleta, Dan - The quiet twin
SHORT STORIES
- McGregor, Jon - This isn't the sort of thing that happens to someone like you: stories
- The weird: a compendium of strange and dark stories
POETRY
- The FSG book of twentieth-century Italian poetry: an anthology
- Gioia, Dana - Pity the beautiful: poems
- Jennings, Elizabeth - New collected poems
- Kendall, Tim - The art of Robert Frost
MYSTERIES
- Allan, Barbara - Antiques disposal
- Atherton, Nancy - Aunt Dimity and the village witch*
- Atkins, Charles - Vultures at twilight*
- Berry, Steve - The Columbus affair
- Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney - Oscar Wilde and the Vatican murders*
- Clark, Marcia - Guilt by degrees
- Cutler, Judith - Guilt trip: a Lina Townend mystery
- Downing, David - Lehrter station
- Freeman, Brian - Spilled blood
- Goldenbaum, Sally - A fatal fleece: a seaside knitters mystery
- Goldstein, Paul - Havana Requiem
- Graves, Sarah - Dead level
- Harris, Charlaine - Deadlocked
- Jackson, Lisa - Afraid to die
- Johnson, Craig - As the crow flies
- Johnston, Paul - The silver stain
- Lewis, Simon - Border run
- MacDonald, Patricia J - Missing child
- Olshan, Joseph - Cloudland
- Page, Katherine Hall - The body in the boudoir
- Patterson, James - 11th hour
- Qiu, Xiaolong - Don't cry, Tai Lake
- Quinn, Spencer - The dog who knew too much
- Regan, Linda - Street girls*
- Robertson, Imogen - Island of bones
- Runcie, James - Sidney Chambers and the shadow of death*
- Sandford, John - Stolen prey
- Smith, Mark Allen - The inquisitor
- Taylor, D. J - Secondhand daylight: a James Ross mystery
- Thompson, Victoria - Murder on Fifth Avenue
- Tope, Rebecca - Malice in the Cotswolds*
- Turnbull, Peter - The altered case*
- Viets, Elaine - Final sail: a dead-end job mystery
- Wan, Michelle - When I kill you
- Woods, Stuart - Unnatural acts: a Stone Barrington novel
* indicates a British mystery
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Avishai, Bernard - Promiscuous: Portnoy's complaint and our doomed pursuit of happiness , 823 R
- Brainard, Joe - The collected writings of Joe Brainard , 828 B
- The Cambridge companion to Thomas Pynchon , 823 P
- Camus, Catherine - Albert Camus: solitude and solidarity , 92 C2115 C OVERSIZE
- Cerquiglini-Toulet, Jacqueline - A new history of medieval French literature , 840.9 C
- Essayists on the essay: Montaigne to our time , 808.84 E
- Kreyling, Michael - The South that wasn't there: postsouthern memory and history , 820.9 K
- Nelson, Victoria - Gothicka: vampire heroes, human gods, and the new supernatural , 823.09 N
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Lantern-bearers: and other essays , 824 S
POETRY
- Bernstein, Charles - Attack of the difficult poems: essays and inventions , 808.1 B
- Masefield, John - Spunyarn: sea poetry and prose , 820.81 M
- Swirszczynska, Anna - Talking to my body , 891.85 S
- Words of protest, words of freedom: poetry of the American civil rights movement and era: an anthology , 821.08 W
ART
- Aelst, Willem van - Elegance and refinement: the still-life paintings of Willem van Aelst , 758 A
- Alberti, Leon Battista - On painting , 750.1 A
- Baskind, Samantha - Jewish art: a modern history , 709 B
- Chevlowe, Susan - Common man, mythic vision: the paintings of Ben Shahn , 759.1 S
- Eksteins, Modris - Solar dance: Van Gogh, forgery, and the eclipse of certainty , 943.085 E
- Hirshler, Erica E - Dennis Miller Bunker: American impressionist , 759.1 B
- Hoffman, Katherine - Alfred Stieglitz: a legacy of light , 92 S8555 H
- Reed, Christopher - Art and homosexuality: a history of ideas , 709 R
- Reynolds, Joshua - The letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 92 R4635 R
- Rubin, William Stanley - A curator's quest: building the collection of painting and sculpture of the Museum of Modern Art, 1967-1988 , 708.1 R
- Treasures of heaven: saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe , 704.948 T
FILM
- Bruzzi, Stella - New documentary, 791.4 B
- Deneuve, Catherine - Close up and personal: the private diaries of Catherine Deneuve , 92 D39264 D
- Weales, Gerald Clifford - Canned goods as caviar: American film comedy of the 1930s , 791.4 W
- Wood, Robin - Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and beyond, 791.4 W
DRAMA
- Bradby, David - Modern French drama, 1940-1990 , 842.09 B
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Zora Neale Hurston: collected plays , 822 H
MUSIC
- Horowitz, Joseph - Moral fire: musical portraits from America's fin de siËcle , 780.973 H
- Jacobson, Marion S - Squeeze this!: a cultural history of the accordion in America , 788 J
- Rosen, Charles - Freedom and the arts: essays on music and literature , 780.9 R
- Tanner, Michael - The Faber pocket guide to Wagner , 780.92 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Adorno, Theodor W. - Towards a new manifesto , 193 A
- Buddhist philosophy: essential readings , 181 B
- Just the arguments: 100 of the most important arguments in Western philosophy , 190 J
- Kupperman, Joel - Classic Asian philosophy: a guide to the essential texts , 181 K
BIOGRAPHY
- Biddle, Flora Miller - Embers , 92 B58424 B
- Hirst, Michael - Michelangelo., 92 M623 H
- Pearce, Joseph - Solzhenitsyn: a soul in exile , 92 S6924 P
- Robinson, Andrew - Cracking the Egyptian code: the revolutionary life of Jean-FranÁois Champollion , 92 C4536 R
- Salmond, Anne - Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas , 92 B6484 S
- Sontag, Susan - As consciousness is harnessed to flesh: journals and notebooks, 1964-1980 , 92 S6988 S
- Svenson, Sally E - Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854-1909): a portrait with husbands , 92 M3474 S
- Thompson, Augustine - Francis of Assisi: a new biography , 92 F8157 T
- Wharton, Edith - My dear governess: the letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann , 92 W5534 W
CRIME & VICE
- Ferrara, Eric - Manhattan Mafia guide: hits, homes and headquarters , 364.1 F
- Snowdon, Christopher - The art of suppression: pleasure, panic and prohibition since 1800 , 178 S
- Tejada, Susan Mondshein - In search of Sacco and Vanzetti: double lives, troubled times, and the Massachusetts murder case that shook the world , 364.1 T
LAW
- Dorsen, David M. - Henry Friendly: greatest judge of his era , 92 F9117 D
- Feinman, Jay M - Law 101 , 347 F
- Hutchinson, Allan C. - Is eating people wrong?: great legal cases and how they shaped the world, 340 H
RELIGION
- The Apocryphal Gospels: texts and translations , 229 A
- The poetry of Kabbalah: mystical verse from the Jewish tradition , 296.4 P
- Smith, Huston - The Huston Smith reader , 200 S
- Smith, Richard J - The I Ching: a biography , 299.51 S
- Vernon, Mark - How to be an agnostic , 211 V
PSYCHOLOGY
- Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel - The Freud files: an inquiry into the history of psychoanalysis , 150 B
- Kagan, Jerome - Psychology's ghosts: the crisis in the profession and the way back , 150 K
- Toohey, Peter - Boredom: a lively history , 155.2 T
SCIENCE
- Attlee, James - Nocturne: a journey in search of moonlight , 523.3 A
- Histories of scientific observation , 507 H
- Hockey, Thomas A - How we see the sky: a naked-eye tour of day & night , 520 H
- Mann, Michael E. - The hockey stick and the climate wars: dispatches from the front lines , 551.6 M
- Peck, Robert McCracken - A glorious enterprise: the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the making of American science , 574 P OVERSIZE
- Stephan, Paula E - How economics shapes science , 500 S
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
- Bristow, Nancy K. - American pandemic: the lost worlds of the 1918 influenza epidemic , 616.9 B
- Hidden treasure: the National Library of Medicine , 026 H OVERSIZE
HISTORY
- AkÁam, Taner - The Young Turks' crime against humanity: the Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire , 956.6 A
- America's forgotten founders , 920 A5128 A
- A concise companion to history , 907 C
- Frankopan, Peter - The First Crusade: the call from the East , 940.1 F
- Pinkus, Karen - The Montesi scandal: the death of Wilma Montesi and the birth of the paparazzi in Fellini's Rome , 945.6 P
- Plakans, Andrejs - A concise history of the Baltic States , 947 P
- Sandbrook, Dominic - Seasons in the sun: the battle for Britain, 1974-1979 , 942.085 S
- Silbey, David - The Boxer Rebellion and the great game in China , 951 S
- Smith, James McCune - The works of James McCune Smith: Black intellectual and abolitionist , 973.7 S
- Vulliamy, Ed - The war is dead, long live the war: Bosnia: the reckoning , 949.7 V
- Xenophon - A history of my times (Hellenica) , 938 X
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Barone, Michael - The almanac of American politics 2012: the senators, the representatives and the governors: their records and election results, their states and districts, Ref. 328.73 B
- Blanchot, Maurice - Political writings, 1953-1993 , 848 B
- Gray, John - Mill on liberty: a defence, 323.4 G
- Marshall, Peter H. - Demanding the impossible: a history of anarchism , 338.5 M
MIDDLE EAST
- Gelvin, James L. - The Arab uprisings: what everyone needs to know , 956 G
- Noueihed, Lin - The battle for the Arab Spring: revolution, counter-revolution and the making of a new era , 956 N
- Which path to Persia?: options for a new American strategy toward Iran , 327.73 W
WAR
- Barkley, John Lewis - Scarlet fields: the combat memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor hero , 940.48 B
- Borneman, Walter R. - The admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--the five-star admirals who won the war at sea , 920 B7364 A
- Lee, Steven - Ethics and war: an introduction , 172.4 L
- SÈgur, Philippe-Paul - Defeat: Napoleon's Russian campaign , 940.27 S
- Smith, Craig B - Counting the days: POWs, internees, and stragglers of World War II in the Pacific , 940.5472 S
- War since 1900 , 355 W OVERSIZE
FOOD & DRINK
- Pepys, Samuel - The joys of excess , 394.1 P
- Willan, Anne - The cookbook library: four centuries of the cooks, writers, and recipes that made the modern cookbook , 641.5 W OVERSIZE
NEW YORK
- Armstrong, Michael F. - They wished they were honest: the Knapp Commission and New York City police corruption , 363 A
- Margolies, Edward - New York and the literary imagination: the city in twentieth century fiction and drama , 823.09 M
- Schulman, Sarah - The gentrification of the mind: witness to a lost imagination, 362.1 S
- Schuyler, David - Sanctified landscape: writers, artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820-1909 , 974.73 S OVERSIZE
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Gray, Edward G. - The making of John Ledyard: empire and ambition in the life of an early American traveler , 92 L4764 G
- Jamie, Kathleen - Sightlines , 914.1 J
- The new Granta book of travel , 808.8 N
- Potts, Rolf - Marco Polo didn't go there: stories and revelations from one decade as a postmodern travel writer: with special commentary track, 910.4 P
AUDIO
- Cather, Willa - The song of the lark, Audio-CD C
- Christie, Agatha - 4:50 from Paddington;a Miss Marple mystery, Audio-CD C
- Hardy, Thomas - The mayor of Casterbridge, Audio-CD H
- Macdonald, Ross - The underground man, Audio-CD M
- Melville, Herman - Bartleby, the scrivener;[a story of Wall Street], Audio-CD M