March 2014
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Allen, Jonathan - HRC: state secrets and the rebirth of Hillary Clinton
- Berkin, Carol - Wondrous beauty: the life and adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
- Blum, Howard - Dark invasion: 1915 : Germany's secret war and the hunt for the first terrorist cell in America
- Campbell, Clare - Bonzo's war
- Cheever, Susan - E.E. Cummings: a life
- Clayton, Ewan - The golden thread: the story of writing
- Darling, Lynn - Out of the woods: a memoir of wayfinding
- De Queiroz, Alan - The monkey's voyage: how improbable journeys shaped the history of life
- Diaries of an unfinished revolution: voices from Tunis to Damascus (translated from the Arabic)
- Dow, David R. - Things I've learned from dying: a book about life
- Dyer, Geoff - The contest of the century: the new era of competition with China--and how America can win
- Feldstein, Ruth - How it feels to be free: black women entertainers and the civil rights movement
- Griffin, Nicholas - Ping-pong diplomacy: the secret history behind the game that changed the world
- Harding, Luke - The Snowden files: the inside story of the world's most wanted man
- Hayasaki, Erika - The death class: a true story about life
- Hornby, Nick - Ten years in the tub: a decade soaking in great books
- Itzkoff, Dave - Mad as hell: the making of Network and the fateful vision of the angriest man in movies
- Kolbert, Elizabeth - The sixth extinction: an unnatural history
- Lively, Penelope - Dancing fish and ammonites: a memoir
- Lodge, David - Lives in writing: essays
- MacLean, David - The answer to the riddle is me: a memoir of amnesia
- Majd, Hooman - The Ministry of Guidance invites you to not stay: an American family in Iran
- Miles, Barry - Call me Burroughs: a life
- Most, Doug - The race underground: Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America's first subway
- Reynolds, David - The long shadow: the great war and the twentieth century
- Rizzo, John Anthony - Company man: thirty years of controversy and crisis in the CIA
- Senior, Jennifer- All joy and no fun: the paradox of modern parenthood
- Siegel, Frederick F. - The revolt against the masses: how liberalism has undermined the middle class
- White, Edmund - Inside a pearl: my years in Paris
- White, John H. - Wet britches and muddy boots: a history of travel in Victorian America
- Whitelock, Anna - The queen's bed: an intimate history of Elizabeth's court
FICTION
- Abani, Christopher - The secret history of Las Vegas: a novel
- Acosta, Carlos - Pig's foot: a novel
- Alameddine, Rabih - An unnecessary woman
- Alcott, Kate - The daring ladies of Lowell
- Allende, Isabel - Ripper (translated from the Spanish)
- Buckley, Carla - The deepest secret: a novel
- Cash, Wiley - This dark road to mercy
- Chiaverini, Jennifer - Mrs. Lincoln's rival: a novel
- Collins, Jackie - Confessions of a wild child: Lucky : the early years
- Cornwell, Sarah - What I had before I had you: a novel
- Feldman, Joshua Max - The book of Jonah: a novel
- Griffith, Nicola - Hild
- Heivoll, Gaute - Before I burn
- Hoffman, Alice - The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a novel
- Jungersen, Christian - You disappear: a novel
- Lawhon, Ariel - The wife, the maid, and the mistress
- Magnuson, James - Famous writers I have known: a novel
- Martin, Valerie - The ghost of the Mary Celeste
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The forever girl
- McKinlay, Deborah - That part was true
- Miller, Mary - The last days of California: a novel
- Minot, Susan - Thirty girls
- Moore, Lisa - Caught
- Myers, Alex - Revolutionary
- Nguyen, Bich Minh - Pioneer girl
- Oliveira, Robin - I always loved you: a story of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas
- Pastan, Rachel - Alena
- Pataki, Allison - The traitor's wife: a novel : the woman behind Benedict Arnold and the plan to betray America
- Sternbergh, Adam - Shovel ready: a novel
- Theroux, Marcel - Strange bodies
- Tsiolkas, Christos - Barracuda
- Vanderbes, Jennifer - The secret of Raven Point: a novel
- Vapnyar, Lara - The scent of pine
- Zackheim, Michele - Last train to Paris
MYSTERIES
- Berenson, Alex - The counterfeit agent
- Bilal, Parker - The ghost runner: a Makana mystery
- Bingham, Harry - Love story, with murders: a novel
- Brody, Frances - Murder in the afternoon
- Durrant, Sabine - Under your skin: a novel*
- Gailey, Samuel W. - Deep winter: a novel
- Grossman, Paul - Brotherhood of fear: a Willi Kraus novel
- Hannah, Sophie - The orphan choir*
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Hard going*
- Jance, Judith A. - Moving target: a novel
- Kasasian, M. R. C. - The Mangle Street murders*
- Katzenbach, John - Red 1-2-3
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Killer: an Alex Delaware novel
- Kernick, Simon - Stay alive*
- Lee, Patrick - Runner
- Lippman, Laura - After I'm gone
- Muir, Frank - Tooth for a tooth
- Myers, Beverle Graves - Whispers of Vivaldi: a Tito Amato mystery
- Nesbø, Jo - Cockroaches
- Robb, J. D. - Concealed in death
- Smith, Lachlan - Lion plays rough: a Leo Maxwell mystery
- Straley, John - Cold Storage, Alaska
- Swanson, Peter - The girl with a clock for a heart
- USA noir: best of the Akashic noir series
- Wolf, Dick - The execution: a Jeremy Fisk novel
* indicates a British mystery.
SHORT STORIES
- Antopol, Molly - The UnAmericans: stories
- Blasim, Hasan - The corpse exhibition and other stories of Iraq
- MacLaverty, Bernard - Collected stories
- Marcus, Ben - Leaving the sea: stories
- Moore, Lorrie - Bark: stories
- Novak, B. J. - One more thing: stories and other stories
- Van den Berg, Laura - The Isle of Youth: stories
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Areté: a retrospective (Craig Raine, ed.) 828.08 A
- Buell, Lawrence. - The dream of the great American novel , 823.09 B
- Levy, Deborah - Things I don't want to know: a response to George Orwell's 1946 essay 'Why I write' 820.4 L
- McCulloh, Mark Richard - Understanding W.G. Sebald 833 S
- Metcalf, Paul C. - Where do you put the horse?: essays 820.4 M
- Noiville, Florence - Literary miniatures 809 N
- Paperno, Irina - Stories of the Soviet experience: memoirs, diaries, dreams 891.7 P
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - Where silence reigns: selected prose 828.08 R
- Tales of the German imagination: from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann F T
- Tsiang, H. T. - The hanging on Union Square: an American epic F T
- Zweig, Stefan - Letter from an unknown woman: and other stories (Anthea Bell, transl.) F Z
POETRY
- Char, René - Selected poems of René Char 841 C
- Hecht, Anthony - Selected poems 821 H
- Queneau, Raymond - Hitting the streets 841 Q
- Scannell, Vernon - Collected poems, 1950-1993 821 S
- Stott, Andrew McConnell - The vampyre family: passion, envy and the curse of Byron 920 S888 S
- Twentieth-century war poetry 821.09 T
ART
- Benton, Janetta Rebold - Art of the Middle Ages (Thames & Hudson World of Art) 709.395 B
- Cavallo, Adolph S. - The unicorn tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 746 C
- Durozoi, Gérard - History of the Surrealist movement 759 D
- Fries, Waldemar H. - The double elephant folio: the story of Audubon's Birds of America 096 F
- Harris, Neil - Capital culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience 069 H
- Honour, Hugh - The visual arts: a history 709 H
- Huntington, Susan L. - The art of ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain 709.39 H
- Moffitt, John F. - The arts in Spain 709.46 M
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ARCHITECTURE
- Gerst, Cole - Buckminster Fuller: poet of geometry 92 F9677 G
- Hollis, Edward - The memory palace: a book of lost interiors 728 H
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Boring postcards (Martin Parr collection) 741.7 B
- Charles Marville: photographer of Paris 779 M
- Adams, Ansel - Ansel Adams in color 770 A
- Leiter, Saul - Colors 779 L
CLASSIC & ANTIQUITY
- Hall, Edith - Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: a cultural history of Euripides' Black Sea tragedy 882.09 H
- Nagy, Gregory - The ancient Greek hero in 24 hours 880.9 N
- The Oxford anthology of Roman literature 870.8 O
- Richardson, Edmund - Classical Victorians: scholars, scoundrels and generals in pursuit of antiquity 942.08 R
BIOGRAPHY
- Belfort, Jordan - The wolf of Wall Street 92 B429 B
- Lachman, Charles - A secret life: the sex, lies, and scandals of President Grover Cleveland 92 C6354 L
- Mirsky, Yehudah - Rav Kook: mystic in a time of revolution 92 K8265 M
- Porter, Linda - Crown of thistles: the fatal inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots 92 M3937 P
- Trevor-Roper, H. R. - One hundred letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper 92 T8164 T
- Williams, Kate - Josephine: desire, ambition, Napoleon 92 J837 W
- Williams, Michael Vinson - Medgar Evers: Mississippi martyr 92 E936 W
FILM
- Evans, Robert - The fat lady sang 92 E9276 E
- Greene, Naomi - Pier Paolo Pasolini: cinema as heresy 791.4 G
- Sbardellati, John - J. Edgar Hoover goes to the movies: the FBI and the origins of Hollywood's Cold War 973.91 S
- Tiffin, George - All the best lines: an informal history of the movies 791.4 T
MUSIC & DANCE
- Hill, Constance Valis - Tap dancing America: a cultural history 793.3 H
- Kildea, Paul Francis - Benjamin Britten: a life in the twentieth century 780.92 B
- Moynahan, Brian - Leningrad: siege and symphony 940.5347 M
- Radcliffe, Philip - Mendelssohn (Oxford Master musicians series) 780.92 M
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THEATER
- Savran, David, - Breaking the rules: the Wooster Group 792.0973 S
- Shapiro, Eddie, - Nothing like a dame: conversations with the great women of musical theater 782 S
- Sokolove, Michael Y. - Drama high: the incredible true story of a brilliant teacher, a struggling town, and the magic of theater 792.0973 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Levine, Emily J. - Dreamland of humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg school 193 L
- MacIntyre, Alasdair C. - Three rival versions of moral enquiry: encyclopaedia, genealogy and tradition 171 M
- Williams, Bernard - Essays and reviews, 1959-2002 192 W
RELIGION
- Brown, Raymond Edward - The birth of the Messiah: a commentary on the infancy narratives in the gospels of Matthew and Luke 226 B
- Mitchell, Richard P. - The Society of the Muslim Brothers 320.9 M
- Siddiqui, Mona. - Christians, Muslims, and Jesus 290 S
ANIMALS
- Barkham, Patrick - Badgerlands: the twilight world of Britain's most enigmatic animal 636.9 B
- Fuller, Errol - Lost animals: extinction and the photographic record 575.7 F
- Waldau, Paul - Animal rights: what everyone needs to know 179 W
HEALTH & MEDICINE
- Jacobs, Lawrence R. - Health care reform and American politics: what everyone needs to know 362 J
- Williams, Gareth - Paralysed with fear: the story of polio 616.8 W
- Wolpert, L. - You're looking very well: the surprising nature of getting old 305.26 W
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Barone, Michael, et al., eds. - The Almanac of American politics Ref. 328.7 B
- Sagar, Rahul - Secrets and leaks: the dilemma of state secrecy 327.12 S
ECONOMICS
- Gilder, George F. - Knowledge and power: the information theory of capitalism and how it is revolutionizing our world 330.1 G
- Habermas, Jürgen - The crisis of the European Union: a response 320.4 H
WAR
- Percy, Jennifer - Demon camp: a soldier's exorcism (Iraq and Afghan Wars, PTSD) 616.8 P
- Richie, Alexandra - Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw uprising 940.53438 R
- Toye, Richard - The roar of the lion: the untold story of Churchill's World War II speeches 940.5342 T
- Tunstall, Graydon A. - Blood on the snow: the Carpathian winter war of 1915 940.42 T
- Walzer, Michael - Just and unjust wars: a moral argument with historical illustrations 172.4 W
HISTORY
- Davis, David Brion. - The problem of slavery in the age of emancipation 326 D
- Fernández-Armesto, Felipe - Our America: a Hispanic history of the United States 305.85 F
- Fischer, Claude S. - Still connected: family and friends in America since 1970 302.3 F
- Hillier, Bevis - The virgin's baby: the battle of the Ampthill succession 942.083 H
- Kertzer, David I. - The Pope and Mussolini: the secret history of Pius XI and the rise of Fascism in Europe 945.09 K
- Marsden, George M. - The twilight of the American enlightenment: the 1950s and the crisis of liberal belief 973.918 M
- Parissien, Steven. - The life of the automobile: a new history of the motor car 629.2 P
- Parkinson, R. B. - A little gay history: desire and diversity across the world 306.76 P
- Sparks, Randy J. - Where the Negroes are masters: an African port in the era of the slave trade 966 S
- Witgen, Michael J. - An infinity of nations: how the native New World shaped early North America 970.1 W
- Zeitz, Joshua - Lincoln's boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the war for Lincoln's image 973.7 Z
TRAVEL
- Lonely Planet's best in travel 2014: the best trends, destinations, journeys & experiences for the upcoming year 910.2 L
- Sundaram, Anjan. - Stringer: a reporter's journey in the Congo 916.7 S
- Wall, Siobhan. - Quiet London 914.21 W
SCIENCE & MATH
- Canfield, Donald E. - Oxygen: a four billion year history , 546 C
- Carey, Nessa. - The epigenetics revolution: how modern biology is rewriting our understanding of genetics, disease, and inheritance , 575.1 C
- Hand, D. J. - The improbability principle: why coincidences, miracles, and rare events happen every day , 510 H
- Nadis, Steven J. - A history in sum: 150 years of mathematics at Harvard (1825-1975) , 510.9 N
NEW YORK
- Deery, Phillip. - Red apple: Communism and McCarthyism in cold war New York 973.918 D
- Grumet, Robert Steven. - Manhattan to Minisink: American Indian place names in greater New York and vicinity 917.471 G
- New York and Amsterdam: immigration and the new urban landscape (Nancy Foner, et al., eds) 307.76 N
- Smith, Andrew F. - New York City: a food biography 394.1 S
AUDIO BOOKS
- García Márquez, Gabriel - One hundred years of solitude Audio-CD G
- O'Brien, Tim - The things they carried, Audio-CD O
- Roth, Philip - My life as a man, Audio-CD R
- Stout, Rex - Two Nero Wolfe mysteries;The golden spiders and Murder by the book Audio-CD S
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