March 2013 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Al-Maria, Sophia - The girl who fell to Earth: a memoir
- Almond, Philip C - The Lancashire Witches: a chronicle of sorcery and death on Pendle Hill
- Ball, Edward - The inventor and the tycoon: a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures
- Basinger, Jeanine - I do and I don't: a history of marriage in the movies
- Blinder, Alan S - After the music stopped: the financial crisis, the response, and the work ahead
- Blume, Mary - The master of us all: Balenciaga, his workrooms, his world
- Byrne, Paula - The real Jane Austen: a life in small things
- Corera, Gordon - The art of betrayal: the secret history of MI6
- Dana, Rebecca - Jujitsu rabbi and the godless blonde: a true story
- Felt, Hali - Soundings: the story of the remarkable woman who mapped the ocean floor
- Fort, Adrian - Nancy: the story of Lady Astor
- Frank, Jeffrey - Ike and Dick: portrait of a strange political marriage
- Giddens, Anthony - The politics of climate change
- Gore, Albert - The future: six drivers of global change
- Grand Central Terminal: 100 years of a New York landmark
- Holloway, Marguerite - The measure of Manhattan: the tumultuous career and surprising legacy of John Randel Jr., cartographer, surveyor, inventor
- Howe, Sean - Marvel Comics: the untold story
- Kaplan, Fred M - The insurgents: David Petraeus and the plot to change the American way of war
- Kennedy, Paul M. - Engineers of victory: the problem solvers who turned the tide in the Second World War
- Konnikova, Maria - Mastermind: how to think like Sherlock Holmes
- Lasdun, James - Give me everything you have: on being stalked
- Lesch, David W - Syria: the fall of the house of Assad
- Lopate, Phillip - Portrait Inside My Head: Essays
- Lord, Sterling - Lord of publishing
- Lubbock, Tom - Great works: 50 paintings explored
- Montillo, Roseanne - The lady and her monsters: a tale of dissections, real-life Dr. Frankensteins, and the creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
- Morris, Roy - Declaring his genius: Oscar Wilde in North America
- Prioleau, Elizabeth Stevens - Swoon: great seducers and why women love them
- Roberts, David - Alone on the ice: the greatest survival story in the history of exploration
- Schaap, Rosie - Drinking with men
- Shaffer, Andrew - Literary rogues: a scandalous history of wayward authors
- Shields, David - How literature saved my life
- Smith, Ali - Artful
- Sotomayor, Sonia - My beloved world
- Stashower, Daniel - The hour of peril: the secret plot to murder Lincoln before the Civil War
- Streever, Bill - Heat: adventures in the world's fiery places
- Theoharis, Jeanne - The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
- Wheelan, Charles J - Naked statistics: stripping the dread from the data
- Wilson, Andrew - Mad girl's love song: Sylvia Plath and life before Ted
FICTION
- Askew, Rilla - Kind of kin
- Baricco, Alessandro - Emmaus
- Barry, Dave - Insane city
- Bauermeister, Erica - The lost art of mixing
- Benjamin, Melanie - The aviator's wife: a novel
- Berwin, Margot - Scent of darkness
- Binchy, Maeve - A week in winter
- Coady, Lynn - The antagonist
- Collins, Jackie - The Power Trip
- Daheim, Mary - The Alpine Xanadu: an Emma Lord mystery
- Dean, Michael - I, Hogarth
- Guthrie, Woody - House of earth: a novel
- Harrar, George - Reunion at Red Paint Bay
- Kadare, Ismail - The fall of the stone city
- Kincaid, Jamaica - See now then
- Koch, Herman - The dinner: a novel
- Mo, Yan - Sandalwood death: a novel
- Nadler, Stuart - Wise men: a novel
- Nothomb, Amélie - Life Form Amélie Nothomb translated from the French by Alison Anderson.
- O'Donnell, Lisa - The death of bees: a novel
- Roberts, Michele - Ignorance: a novel
- Rosenfeld, Lucinda - The pretty one: a novel about sisters
- Russell, Karen - Vampires in the lemon grove: stories
- Sloss, Aria Beth - Autobiography of us: a novel
- Steel, Danielle - Until the end of time: a novel
- Suri, Manil - The city of Devi
- Walter, Jess - We live in water: stories
- Yan, Lianke - Lenin's kisses
MYSTERIES
- Barber, Ros - The Marlowe papers: a novel*
- Bradley, C. Alan - Speaking from among the bones: a Flavia de Luce novel*
- Seymour, Gerald - A deniable death*
- Todd, Charles - Proof of guilt*
- Berenson, Alex - The night ranger
- Block, Lawrence - Hit me: a Keller novel
- Dobbs, Michael - A sentimental traitor
- Dobyns, Stephen - The burn palace
- Gardner, Lisa - Touch & go: a novel
- Gould, Heywood - Green light for murder
- Greenwood, Kerry - Unnatural habits: a Phryne Fisher mystery
- Hall, Parnell - Arsenic and old puzzles: a puzzle lady mystery
- Henry, Sara J - A cold and lonely place: a novel
- Hobbs, Roger - Ghostman
- Hunt, Andrew E. - City of saints
- Jance, Judith A - Deadly stakes: a novel
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Guilt: an Alex Delaware novel
- Mason, Jamie - Three graves full
- Meier, Leslie - Easter bunny murder
- Pope, Barbara Corrado - The missing Italian girl
- Tursten, Helene - The Golden Calf
* indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Haigh, Jennifer - News from heaven: the Bakerton stories
- Hall, Sarah - Beautiful indifference: stories
- Ogawa, Yoko - Revenge: eleven dark tales
- Petrushevskaia, Ludmila - There once lived a girl who seduced her sister's husband, and he hanged himself: love stories
- Wickersham, Joan - The news from Spain: seven variations on a love story
POETRY
- Blanco, Richard - Looking for the Gulf Motel
- Lit from inside: 40 years of poetry from Alice James Books
- Ronk, Martha Clare - Partially kept
- Shaughnessy, Brenda - Our Andromeda
CHILDREN'S LIBRARY
- Agee, Jon - The Other Side of Town
- Beil, Michael D. - Summer at Forsaken Lake
- Branford, Anna - Violet Mackerel’s BrilliantPplot
- Burn, Doris - Andrew Henry’s Meadow
- Dyer, Hadley - Potatoes on the Rooftop
- Fleming, Candace - Oh No!
- Jenkins, Steve - The Beetle Book
- Kelly, Jacqueline - Return to the Willows
- Markle, Sandra - Octopuses
- McKizzack, Patricia - Never Forgotten
- Murray, Alison - One Two That's My Shoe!
- Sandler, Martin W. - The Impossible Rescue
- Umansky, Kaye - Clover Twig and the Magical Cottage
- Sutton, Sally - Demolition
- Zappa, Marcia - Caves
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Adorno, Rolena - Colonial Latin American literature: a very short introduction , 860.9 A
- Ballard, J. G. - Extreme metaphors: selected interviews with J.G. Ballard, 1967-2008, 823 B
- Barker, Elspeth - Dog days: selected writings, 809 B
- Bloch-Dano, Evelyne - The last love of George Sand: a literary biography, 920 B6514 L
- Dabashi, Hamid - The world of Persian literary humanism, 891.5 D
- Gifford, Justin - Pimping fictions: African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing, 823.09 G
- Head, Dominic - The Cambridge introduction to J.M. Coetzee , 823 C
- Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy: a casebook , 823 S
- Place within: portraits of the American landscape by twenty contemporary writers, 820.8 P
- Saltzman, Arthur M - Understanding Raymond Carver , 823 C
- Shklovskii, Viktor - Shklovsky: witness to an era, 891.7 S
- Volpe, Edmond Loris - A reader's guide to William Faulkner: the short stories , 823 F
POETRY
- Cambridge companion to American poetry since 1945, 821.09 C
- Carroll, Lewis - Jabberwocky and other nonsense: collected poems, 821.08 C
- Corn, Alfred - The poem's heartbeat: a manual of prosody, 808.1 C
- Historical guide to Emily Dickinson, 823 D
- Incorrigibly plural: Louis MacNeice and his legacy , 821.09 M
- Maas, Henry - A. E. Housman: spoken and unspoken love, 821.09 H
- Mathews, Harry - The new tourism, 821 M
- Murray, Les A. - Killing the black dog: a memoir of depression, 821 M
- Social poetry of the 1930s: a selection, 821.08 S
DRAMA
- Bernhard, Thomas - Heldenplatz, 832 B
- Griffin, Alice - Understanding Tennessee Williams , 822.09 W
- Sophocles - Antigonick, 882.2 S
SHAKESPEARE
- Eagleton, Terry - William Shakespeare, 822.33 C
- Holderness, Graham - Nine lives of William Shakespeare, 822.33 92 H
- Swift, Daniel - Shakespeare's common prayers: the Book of common prayer and the Elizabethan age, 822.33 C
- Wills, Garry - Verdi's Shakespeare: men of the theater, 822.33 L
ART & DESIGN
- Bird, Alan - A history of Russian painting, 759.7 B
- Blaszczyk, Regina Lee - The color revolution, 658.8 B
- Gay, Walter - Impressions of interiors: gilded age paintings by Walter Gay, 759.1 G
- Jury, David - Graphic design before graphic designers: the printer as designer and craftsman 1700-1914, 655.2 J OVERSIZE
- Perl, Jed - Magicians & charlatans, 709.04 P
- Roberts, Allen F. - Animals in African art: from the familiar to the marvelous, 704.94 R
- Stourton, James - The British as art collectors: from the Tudors to the present, 708.2 S
- Verrocchio's Christ and St. Thomas: a masterpiece of sculpture from Renaissance Florence, 730.92 V
- Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine, 759.1 H
- Wrightsman Galleries for French decorative arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 745 M
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BOOKS & READING
- Natural histories: extraordinary rare book selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library, 016.5 N CS
- Smith, Walter E. - Charles Dickens: a bibliography of his first American editions 1836-1870: with photographic reproductions of bindings and title pages: the novels, with Sketches by Boz , 016.82 D OVERSIZE
PSYCHOLOGY
- Freud and the humanities, 150 F
- Friedman, Lawrence Jacob - The lives of Erich Fromm: love's prophet, 92 F9323 F
PHILOSOPHY
- The Cambridge companion to Feminism in philosophy , 305.4 C
- Gutting, Gary - Foucault: a very short introduction, 194 G
- Schwartz, Daniel B. - The first modern Jew: Spinoza and the history of an image , 199 S
- Zimmer, Heinrich Robert - Philosophies of India, 181Z
BIOGRAPHY
- Boyd, Joseph H - Oreos & Dubonnet: remembering Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, 92 R6828 B
- David, Deirdre - Olivia Manning: a woman at war, 92 M28465 D
- Forcellino, Antonio - Raphael: a passionate life, 92 R217 F
- King, Edmund - King Stephen , 92 S8282 K
- Schiavone, Aldo - Spartacus, 937.02 S
- Tesla, Nikola - My inventions and other writings, 92 T337 T
- Wojnarowicz, David - Close to the knives: a memoir of disintegration , 92 W847775 W
CRIME
- Cuneo, Michael W - Almost midnight: an American story of murder and redemption, 364.1 C
- Doherty, P. C - The great crown jewels robbery of 1303: the extraordinary story of the first big bank raid in history, 364.1 D
CULTURES
- Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel - Handbook to life in the Aztec world, 972 A
- Chagnon, Napoleon A. - Noble savages: my life among two dangerous tribes-- the Yanamamö and the anthropologists, 301.2 C
- Goldstein, Melvyn C - Nomads of western Tibet: the survival of a way of life, 915.15 G OVERSIZE
- Raffles, Hugh - In Amazonia : a natural history , 306 R
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Kirkpatrick, Melanie - Escape from North Korea: the untold story of Asia's underground railroad, 325.2 K
- Manela, Erez - The Wilsonian moment: self-determination and the international origins of anticolonial nationalism, 323.1 M
RELIGION
- Cuneo, Michael W - American exorcism: expelling demons in the land of plenty, 265 C
- Heschel, Susannah - The Aryan Jesus: Christian theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany, 274.3 H
- Meyers, Eric M - Alexander to Constantine: archaeology of the land of the Bible., 220.9 M
SCIENCE
- Berlinski, David - The king of infinite space: Euclid and his Elements, 513 B
- Fara, Patricia - Erasmus Darwin: sex, science, and serendipity, 92 D2286 F
- Massa, Lou - Science & the written word: science, technology, and society, 504 M
- Watson, James D. - The annotated and illustrated double helix, 575.1 W
NEW YORK
- Anderson, David - On Wall Street: architectural photographs of lower Manhattan, 1980-2000, 770 A
- Iceland, Reuben - From our springtime: literary memoirs and portraits of Yiddish New York, 92 I155 I
- Pieces of a decade: Brooklyn Rail nonfiction 2000-2010, 974.71 P
HISTORY
- Abrahamian, Ervand - The coup: 1953, the CIA, and the roots of modern U.S.-Iranian relations, 955 A
- Burt, John - Lincoln's tragic pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and moral conflict, 973.6 B
- Hanioglu, M. Sükrü - A brief history of the late Ottoman empire, 956 H
- Hölbl, Günther - History of the Ptolemaic empire , 932 H
- Jones, Marian Moser - The American Red Cross: from Clara Barton to the New Deal, 361 J
- Newmyer, R. Kent - The treason trial of Aaron Burr: law, politics, and the character wars of the new nation, 342.73 N
- Price, T. Douglas - Europe before Rome: a site-by-site tour of the Stone, Bronze, and Iron ages , 936 P
- Schulten, Susan - Mapping the nation: history and cartography in nineteenth-century America , 526.9 S OVERSIZE
- Shenton, Caroline - The day Parliament burned down , 942.1 S
- Stanwood, Owen - The Empire reformed: English America in the age of the Glorious Revolution, 973.2 S
- Waterfield, Robin - Xenophon's retreat: Greece, Persia, and the end of the Golden Age, 938 W
- Wise, Sarah - Inconvenient people: lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England , 362.2 W
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WAR
- Bennett, Martyn - The civil wars in Britain and Ireland, 1638-1651, 942.06 B
- Kulka, Otto Dov - Landscapes of the metropolis of death: reflections on memory and imagination, 940.5315 K
- McLynn, Frank - The Burma campaign: disaster into triumph, 1942-45, 940.542 M
- Neiberg, Michael S - Dance of the furies: Europe and the outbreak of World War I, 940.311 N
- Tucker, Anne - Warphotography: images of armed conflict and its aftermath, 779 T
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Lovegrove, Roger - Islands beyond the horizon: the life of twenty of the world's most remote places, 575.3 L
- Morris, Larry E. - The perilous West: seven amazing explorers and the founding of the Oregon Trail, 917.8 M
- Peary, Josephine Diebitsch - My arctic journal: a year among ice-fields and Eskimos, 919.8 P
- Subrahmanyam, Sanjay - The career and legend of Vasco da Gama, 92 G1844 S
AUDIO
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Audio-CD A
- Classic women's short stories, Audio-CD C
- Eliot, George - Scenes of clerical life, Audio-CD E
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Five by Fitzgerald, Audio-CD F
- Wodehouse, P. G - Jeeves & Wooster;the collected radio dramas, Audio-CD W
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