New Books - August 2015
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Amore, Anthony M. - The art of the con: the most notorious fakes, frauds, and forgeries in the art world
- Bingham, Emily - Irrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham (e-book available)
- Castor, Helen - Joan of Arc: a history
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi - Between the world and me
- Diliberto, Gioia - Diane von Furstenberg: a life unwrapped
- Finnegan, William - Barbarian days : a surfing life
- Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon - The rival queens : Catherine de' Medici, her daughter Marguerite De Valois, and the betrayal that ignited a kingdom
- Green, Kristen - Something must be done about Prince Edward County: a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle
- Hemingway, Mariel - Out came the sun: overcoming the legacy of mental illness, addiction, and suicide in my family
- Hoffman, David E. - The billion dollar spy : a true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal
- Hughes, Charles L. - Country soul : making music and making race in the American South
- Kershaw, Alex - Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris
- Kingstone, Heidi - Dispatches from the Kabul Café
- Kirshenbaum, Richard - Isn't that rich? : life among the 1 percent
- Kumin, Maxine - The pawnbroker's daughter: a memoir
- Lacey, Robert - Model woman: Eileen Ford and the business of beauty
- Leff, Lisa Moses - The archive thief: the man who salvaged French Jewish history in the wake of the Holocaust
- Lythcott-Haims, Julie - How to raise an adult : break free of the overparenting trap and prepare your kid for success
- Marx, Patricia - Let's be less stupid: an attempt to maintain my mental faculties
- McDermid, Val - Forensics: what bugs, burns, prints, DNA, and more tell us about crime
- McDonald, Deborah - A very dangerous woman : the lives, loves and lies of Russia's most seductive spy
- McLynn, Frank - Genghis Khan: his conquests, his empire, his legacy
- Mlodinow, Leonard - The upright thinkers: the human journey from living in trees to understanding the cosmos
- Neiman, Susan - Why grow up?: subversive thoughts for an infantile age
- Oren, Michael B. - Ally: my journey across the American-Israeli divide
- Princenthal, Nancy - Agnes Martin: her life and art
- Robbins, Alexandra - The nurses: a year of secrets, drama, and miracles with the heroes of the hospital
- Ropper, Allan H. - Reaching down the rabbit hole: a renowned neurologist explains the mystery and drama of brain disease
- Rose, Alexander - Men of war: the American soldier in combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima
- Saviano, Roberto - Zero zero zero / Roberto Saviano (translated from the Italian by Virginia Jewiss)
- Schickel, Richard - Keepers: the greatest films--and personal favorites--of a moviegoing lifetime
- Scottoline, Lisa - Does this beach make me look fat?
- Sherman, Scott - Patience and Fortitude: power, real estate, and the fight to save a public library
- Sky, Emma - The unraveling: high hopes and missed opportunities in Iraq
- Svrluga, Barry - The grind: inside baseball's endless season
- Thomas, Evan - Being Nixon: a man divided
- Weiner, Tim - One man against the world: the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- Werth, Léon - 33 days (introduction by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; translated from the French by Austin Denis Johnston) (e-book available)
- Zeldin, Theodore - The hidden pleasures of life: a new way of remembering the past and imagining the future
FICTION
- Acevedo, Chantel - The distant marvels
- Antrim, Taylor - Immunity
- Arango, Sascha - The truth and other lies (translated from the German by Imogen Taylor)
- Bushnell, Candace - Killing Monica
- Connell, John A. - Ruins of war
- Evanovich, Janet - Wicked charms
- Friedland, Elyssa - Love and miss communication
- Green, Jane - Summer secrets
- Hughes, Andrew - The convictions of John Delahunt
- Jarvis, Stephen - Death and Mr. Pickwick
- Jones, Kaylie - The anger meridian
- Khadra, Yasmina - The African equation (translated from the French by Howard Curtis)
- Kundera, Milan - The festival of insignificance (translated from the French by Linda Asher)
- Lee, Harper - Go set a watchman (e-book available)
- McManus, Sophie - The unfortunates
- Milchman, Jenny - As night falls
- Mitchell, Maggie - Pretty is
- Osborne, Lawrence - Hunters in the dark
- Palma, Félix J. - The map of chaos (translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor)
- Panowich, Brian - Bull Mountain
- Pierpont, Julia - Among the ten thousand things
- Sahota, Sunjeev - The year of the runaways
- Samson, Polly - The kindness
- Schoeman, Karel - This life (translated from the Afrikaans by Else Silke)
- Sheers, Owen - I saw a man
- Singer, P. W. - Ghost fleet: a novel of the next world war
- Stern, Steve - The Pinch: a history
- Stewart, Leah - The new neighbor
- Vincenzi, Penny - A perfect heritage
- Williams, Beatriz - Tiny little thing
- Xiaobai - French concession (translated from the Chinese by Chenxin Jiang)
MYSTERIES
- Adler, Elizabeth - One way or another
- Arnaldur Indriðason - Oblivion (translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb)
- Aspe, Pieter - From Bruges with love (translated from the Flemish by Brian Doyle)
- Bannalec, Jean-Luc - Death in Brittany (translated from the German by Sorcha McDonagh)
- Brett, Simon - Mrs. Pargeter's principle: a Mrs. Pargeter mystery*
- Bruen, Ken - Green hell: a Jack Taylor novel
- Bude, John - The Sussex Downs murder*
- Castillo, Linda - After the storm
- Coulter, Catherine - Nemesis
- Crofts, Freeman Wills - Antidote to venom*
- Dahl, Julia - Run you down
- Ellis, Kate - Walking by night*
- Eriksson, Kjell - Open grave (translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlen)
- Garrett, A. D - Believe no one
- Goddard, Robert - The ends of the Earth
- Hobbs, Roger - Vanishing games
- Karjel, Robert - The Swede (translated from the Swedish by Nancy Pick and Robert Karjel)
- Lawson, Michael - House rivals
- Levine, Laura - Death by tiara
- Lotz, Sarah - Day four
- Lovesey, Peter - Down among the dead men: a Peter Diamond investigation* (e-book available)
- MacLean, Harry N. - The joy of killing
- Mark, David John - Taking pity*
- Mawer, Simon - Tightrope
- McCafferty, Keith - Crazy mountain kiss: a Sean Stranahan mystery
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The novel habits of happiness*
- McCauley, Terrence - Sympathy for the devil
- McGee, James - The blooding*
- Mogford, Thomas - Sleeping dogs
- Parks, Brad - The fraud
- Rector, John - Ruthless
- Reich, Christopher - Invasion of privacy
- Reichs, Kathy - Speaking in bones
- Rich, A. J. - The hand that feeds you
- Richtel, Matt - The Doomsday equation
- Rosenfelt, David - Who let the dog out?
- Silva, Daniel - The English spy
- Stroby, Wallace - The devil's share
- Thoft, Ingrid - Brutality
- Walters, Minette - The cellar*
- Wilson, Laura - The wrong girl*
- Winslow, Don - The cartel
- Woods, Stuart - Naked greed
POETRY
- Andrade, Carlos Drummond de- Multitudinous heart: selected poems (a bilingual edition; translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith)
- City Lights pocket poets anthology (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed.)
- Simic, Charles- The lunatic
SHORT STORIES
- Alvar, Mia - In the country: stories
- Makkai, Rebecca - Music for wartime: stories
- Shishkin, Mikhail - Calligraphy lesson : the collected stories (translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz, Leo Shtutin, Sylvia Maizell, and Mariya Bashkatova)
- Zambra, Alejandro - My documents (translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Brontë, Emily - The annotated Wuthering Heights 823 B
- Cameron, Ardis - Unbuttoning America: a biography of "Peyton Place" 823 M
- Davis, Clark - It starts with trouble: William Goyen and the life of writing 92 G7243 D
- Harriott, Esther - Writers and age: essays on and interviews with five authors 820.9 H
- Maxwell, William J. - F.B. eyes: how J. Edgar Hoover's ghostreaders framed African American literature 820.9 M
- McDiarmid, Lucy - Poets & the peacock dinner: the literary history of a meal 821.09 M
- Person, Leland S. - The Cambridge introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne 823 H
- Peters, John G. - The Cambridge introduction to Joseph Conrad 823 C
- Reitter, Paul - Bambi's Jewish roots: and other essays on German-Jewish culture 828 R
- Tabbi, Joseph - Nobody grew but the business: on the life and work of William Gaddis92 G1236 T
- Woods, Michelle - Kafka translated: how translators have shaped our reading of Kafka 833 K
FICTION
- Alternative Alices: visions and revisions of Lewis Carroll's Alice books: an anthology F A
- Bloy, Léon - Disagreeable tales (translated from the French by Erik Butler; first published 1894) F B
- Butts, Mary - Mary Butts: the complete stories F B
- La Bern, Arthur J. - It always rains on Sunday (classic East End London novel, first published 1945) F L
- Ocampo, Silvina - Thus were their faces: stories (translated from the Spanish by Daniel Balderston) F O
- Topol, Jáchym - The devil's workshop (translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker) F T
GRAPHIC NOVELS & COMICS
- Birmant, Julie - Pablo (biography of Picasso) 709.2 P
- Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five years of contemporary cartooning, comics, and graphic novels (Tom Devlin, et al., eds) 741.5 D
- Williams, Ian - The bad doctor: the troubled life and times of Dr. Iwan James F W
ART & ARCHITECTURE
- Anderson, Christy - Renaissance architecture 724 A
- Byatt, A. S. - Edmund de Waal (with contributions from Emma Crichton–Miller, Colm Toibin, Peter Carey, AS Byatt) 738 B
- Heller, Steven - Edward Gorey: his book cover art & design 741.64 H
- Ives, Colta Feller - Daumier drawings 741.3 D
- Masterpieces of Chinese painting, 700-1900 (Zhang Hongxing, ed.; Victoria & Albert Museum Catalog) 759.95 M
- Ormond, Richard - Sargent: portraits of artists and friends (Richard Ormond, et al., eds.; Metropolitan Museum of Art catalog) 759.1 S
- Painting in Latin America: 1550-1820 (Luisa Elena Alcalà and Jonathan Brown, eds.) 759.98 P
- Rosenthal, Mark - Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo in Detroit 709.73 R
- Weston, Richard - 100 ideas that changed architecture 720.9 W
CLASSICS
- Chapman's Homeric hymns and other Homerica (Allardyce Nicoll, ed.) 883.1 H
- Heraclitus - Heraclitus: the cosmic fragments (G.S. Kirk, ed.) 182 H
- Kennedy, George A. - A new history of classical rhetoric 808 K
PERFORMING ARTS
- Anderson, Zoë - The ballet lover's companion 792.8 A
- Kramer, Joan - In the company of legends 791.4 K
- Petrus, Stephen - Folk city: New York and the American folk music revival 780.973 P
- Suchet, David - Poirot and me 791.4 S
- Witt, Stephen - How music got free: the end of an industry, the turn of the century, and the Patient Zero of piracy 780.9 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Flynn, Thomas R. - Existentialism: a very short introduction 111 F
- Fraenkel, Carlos - Teaching Plato in Palestine: philosophy in a divided world Carlos Fraenkel foreword by Michael Walzer 112 F
- Ogien, Ruwen - Human kindness and the smell of warm croissants: an introduction to ethics 170 O
SCIENCE
- Falkowski, Paul G. - Life's engines: how microbes made Earth habitable 589.95 F
- Randall, David K. - Dreamland: adventures in the strange science of sleep 612.8 R
- Scales, Helen - Spirals in time: the secret life and curious afterlife of seashells 594 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Berrigan, Frida - It runs in the family: on being raised by radicals and growing into rebellious motherhood 920 B5337 B
- First ladies: presidential historians on the lives of 45 iconic American women (Susan Swain, ed.) 920 F5271 F
- Goldberg, Michelle - The goddess pose: the audacious life of Indra Devi, the woman who helped bring yoga to the West 92 D492 G
- Goodman, Fred - Allen Klein: the man who bailed out the Beatles, made the Stones, and transformed rock & roll 92 K641 G
- Middlekauff, Robert - Washington's revolution: the making of America's first leader 92 W318 M
HISTORY
- Beezley, William H. - Mexico in world history 972 B
- DuVal, Kathleen - Independence lost: lives on the edge of the American Revolution 973.3 D
- Hajari, Nisid - Midnight's furies: the deadly legacy of India's partition 954 H
- Hodgson, Godfrey - JFK and LBJ: the last two great presidents 973.923 H
- Hofmann, Reto - The fascist effect: Japan and Italy, 1915-1952 327.52 H
- Lieven, D. C. B. - Towards the flame: empire, war and the end of Tsarist Russia 947.084 L
- Malcolm, Noel - Agents of empire: knights, corsairs, Jesuits and spies in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world 940.22 M
- Ranelagh, John - A short history of Ireland 941.5 R
- Stone, Dan - The liberation of the camps: the end of the Holocaust and its aftermath 940.5315 S
RELIGION
- Deen, Shulem - All who go do not return: a memoir 92 D312 D
- Haselby, Sam - The origins of American religious nationalism 277.3 H
- Reston, James - Luther's fortress: Martin Luther and his Reformation under siege 270.6 R
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Berkin, Carol - The Bill of Rights: the fight to secure America's liberties 342.73 B
- Maisel, Louis Sandy - American political parties and elections: a very short introduction 324 M
- Pasley, Jeffrey L. - The first presidential contest: 1796 and the founding of American democracy 973.4 P
- Sehat, David - The Jefferson rule: how the Founding Fathers became infallible and our politics inflexible 320.9 S
ISLAMIC STATE
- Lister, Charles R. - The Islamic State: a brief introduction 956 L
- Weiss, Michael - Isis: inside the army of terror 956 W
FRANCE
- Eatwell, Piu Marie - They eat horses, don't they?: the truth about the French 914.4 E
- Hazareesingh, Sudhir - How the French think: an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people 94 H
- Lilti, Antoine - The world of the salons: sociability and worldliness in eighteenth-century Paris 944.36 L
CRIME & VICE
- Anthony, Barry - Murder, mayhem and music hall: the dark side of Victorian London 942.1 A
- Montillo, Roseanne - The wilderness of ruin: a tale of madness, fire, and the hunt for America's youngest serial killer 364.1 M
- Thompson, Laura - A different class of murder: the story of Lord Lucan 364.1 T
WAR
- Bassett, Richard - For God and kaiser: the Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918943.6 B
- Davenport, Matthew J - First over there: the attack on Cantigny, America's first battle of World War I 940.42 D
- Hart-Davis, Duff - Our land at war: a portrait of rural Britain 1939-45 942.083 H
- Jamieson, Perry D. - Spring 1865: the closing campaigns of the Civil War 973.73 J
- Müller, Rolf-Dieter - Enemy in the East: Hitler's secret plans to invade the Soviet Union 940.532 M
- Napoleon - Napoleon on war (Bruno Colson, ed.; Gregory Elliott, translator) 355 N
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Armitage, Simon - Walking away: further travels with a troubadour on the South West Coast Path 914.2 A
- Buck, Rinker - The Oregon Trail: a new American journey 978 B
- Butler, Brin-Jonathan - The domino diaries: my decade boxing with Olympic champions and chasing Hemingway's ghost in the last days of Castro's Cuba 92 B9852 B
- Herzog, Werner - Of walking in ice: Munich-Paris, 23 November-14 December 1974 92 H5829 H
NEW YORK
- Browne, Arthur - One righteous man: Samuel Battle and the shattering of the color line in New York 92 B3359 B
- Day, Leslie - Field guide to the neighborhood birds of New York city 598.2 D
- Moses, Paul - An unlikely union: the love-hate story of New York's Irish and Italians 305.8 M
- Onofri, Adrienne - Walking Queens: 30 tours for discovering the diverse communities, historic places, and natural treasures of New York city's largest borough 917.47 O
- Saving place: 50 years of New York City landmarks (Donald Albrecht, et al., eds.) 974.71 S
AUDIO
- Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca Audio-CD D
- Ferrante, Elena - The story of a new name Lobby Audio-CD F
- Maugham, W. Somerset - The moon and sixpence Audio-CD M
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of grass Audio-CD 821 W
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