New Books - December 2016

IN THE LOBBY

NON-FICTION

Abramovic, Marina - Walk through walls: a memoir (with James Kaplan)
Baker, Kevin - America the ingenious: how a nation of dreamers, immigrants, and tinkerers changed the world
Bennett, Alan - Keeping on keeping on
Bergreen, Laurence - Casanova: the world of a seductive genius
Brands, H. W. - The general vs. the president: MacArthur and Truman at the brink of nuclear war
Carr, Nicholas G. - Utopia is creepy: and other provocations
Cook, Blanche Wiesen - Eleanor Roosevelt
Cutler, Robin R. - Such mad fun: ambition and glamour in Hollywood's golden age
Davidson, Ian - The French Revolution: from enlightenment to tyranny
Dickey, Colin - Ghostland: an American history in haunted places
Evans, Richard J. - The pursuit of power: Europe 1815-1914
Fermor, Patrick Leigh - Dashing for the post: the letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (selected and edited by Adam Sisman)
Ferrante, Elena - Frantumaglia: a writer's journey (ebook available)
Ferrante, Elena - The beach at night (illustrations by Mara Cerri)
Foulkes, Julia L. - A place for us: "West Side story" and New York
Friedländer, Saul - Where memory leads: my life
Fussell, Betty Harper - Eat, live, love, die: selected essays (introduction by Alice Waters)
Gelb, Arthur & Barbara Gelb - By women possessed: a life of Eugene O'Neill
Gordon, Edmund - The invention of Angela Carter
Hood, Clifton - In pursuit of privilege: a history of New York City's upper class & the making of a metropolis
James, Henry - Travels with Henry James (foreword by Hendrik Hertzberg ; introduction by Michael Anesko)
Le Guin, Ursula K. - Words are my matter: writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week
Lindgren, Astrid - War diaries, 1939-1945 (translated from the Swedish)
Matzen, Robert D. - Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the fight for Europe
Morrison, Simon Alexander - Bolshoi confidential: secrets of the Russian ballet from the rule of the tsars to today
Moyle, Franny - Turner: the extraordinary life and momentous times of J.M.W. Turner
O'Reilly, Bill & Martin Dugard - Killing the rising sun: how America vanquished World War II Japan
Ohler, Norman - Blitzed: drugs in Nazi Germany (translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside)
Oshinsky, David M. - Bellevue: three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital
Quinn, Susan - Eleanor and Hick: the love affair that shaped a First Lady
Sager, Carole Bayer - They're playing our song: a memoir
Salle, David - How to see: looking, talking, and thinking about art
Santlofer, Joy - Food city: four centuries of food-making in New York
Sellers, Robert - Peter O'Toole: the definitive biography
Settis, Salvatore - If Venice dies/ Salvatore Settis (translated from the Italian by André Naffis-Sahely)
Simpson, J. A. - The word detective: searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English dictionary: a memoir
The 60s: the story of a decade (The New Yorker; edited by Henry Finder; introduction by David Remnick)
Smith, Douglas - Rasputin: faith, power, and the twilight of the Romanovs
Stourton, James - Kenneth Clark: life, art and Civilisation
Thomson, David - Television: a biography
Tower, Roni Beth - Miracle at midlife: a transatlantic romance: a memoir
Vargas, Elizabeth - Between breaths: a memoir of panic and addiction
Wilson, Laurie - Louise Nevelson: light and shadow
Witt, Emily - Future sex
Younge, Gary - Another day in the death of America: a chronicle of ten short lives
Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb - Moses: a human life

FICTION

Angell, Caroline - All the time in the world
Archer, Jeffrey - This was a man: the final volume of the Clifton Chronicles
Bennett, Brit - The mothers
Boyle, T. Coraghessan - The terranauts
Bradbury, Megan - Everyone is watching
Coelho, Paulo - The spy (translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry)
Colin, Beatrice - To capture what we cannot keep
Cussler, Clive - Odessa sea
Dermansky, Marcy - The red car
Di Benedetto, Antonio - Zama (translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen)
Günday, Hakan - More (translated from the Turkish by Zeynep Beler)
Hoffman, Alice - Faithful
Ide, Joe - IQ/ Joe Ide.
Jin, Ha - The boat rocker
Keneally, Thomas - Napoleon's last island
Lamb, Wally - I'll take you there: a novel
Murphy, Timothy - Christodora
Oz, Amos - Judas (translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange)
Savill, David - They are trying to break your heart
Smith, Ali - Autumn
Smith, Zadie. - Swing time (ebook available)

MYSTERIES

Baldacci, David - No man's land
Barclay, Linwood - The twenty-three: a Promise Falls novel
Beaufort, Simon - The killing ship
Chazin, Suzanne - No witness but the moon
Child, Lee - Night school: a Jack Reacher novel
Clark, Marcia - Moral defense: a Samantha Brinkman legal thriller
Clark, Mary Higgins & Alafair Burke - The Sleeping Beauty killer
Clarkson, John - Bronx requiem
Collins, Max Allan - Road to perdition: a novel (based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and illustrated by Richard Piers Rayner)
Connelly, Michael - The wrong side of goodbye
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Chaos: a Scarpetta novel
Dickinson, David - Death comes to the Ballets russes*
Eisler, Barry - Livia Lone
Evanovich, Janet - Turbo twenty-three: a Stephanie Plum novel
Finch, Charles - The inheritance*
Flynn, Vince - Order to kill: a Mitch Rapp novel
French, Nicci - Friday on my mind*
Higashino, Keigo - Under the midnight sun (translated by Alexander O. Smith with Joseph Reeder)
James, P. D. - The mistletoe murder: and other stories
Kelly, Jim - Death ship*
Maitland, Barry - Ash Island: a Belltree mystery
Mann, Jessica - The stroke of death*
McCoy, Ken - Dead or alive*
Mishani, Dror - The man who wanted to know everything (translated from Hebrew by Todd Hasak-Lowy)
Perry, Anne - A Christmas message
Ryan, Hank Phillippi - Say no more
Rydahl, Thomas - The hermit (translated from the Danish by K.E. Semmel)
Saunders, Kate - The secrets of Wishtide: a Laetitia Rodd mystery*
Thomas, Will - Hell Bay: a Barker & Llewelyn novel*
Yokoyama, Hideo - Six four (translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies)

SHORT STORIES

In sunlight or in shadow: stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper (edited by Lawrence Block)
Walser, Robert - Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories (translated from the German by Tom Whalen with Nicole Köngeter and Annette Wiesner)

POETRY

Adnan, Etel - Night
Ashbery, John - Commotion of the birds: new poems
Hammond, Mary Stewart - Entering history: poems
Ishikawa, Takuboku - On knowing oneself too well: selected poems (translated from the Japanese by Tamae K. Prindle)
Levine, Philip - The last shift (edited by Edward Hirsch)
Pinsky, Robert - At the foundling hospital
Plimpton, Sarah - The noise of the rain: collected poems
Wiman, Christian - Hammer is the prayer: selected poems

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

Garner, Helen - Everywhere I look
Gilliver, Peter - The making of the Oxford English dictionary
Hamid, Shadi - Islamic exceptionalism: how the struggle over Islam is reshaping the world
Makers of Jewish modernity: thinkers, artists, leaders, and the world they made (Jacques Picard, et al., eds.)
Milanovic, Branko - Global inequality: a new approach for the age of globalization
Myers, Marc - Anatomy of a song: the oral history of 45 iconic hits that changed rock, R&B and pop
Robinson, Chase F. - Islamic civilization in thirty lives: the first 1,000 years
Wilcox, Christie, - Venomous: how earth's deadliest creatures mastered biochemistry
Underground America: narratives of undocumented lives (Peter Orner, ed.)

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

Collini, Stefan - Common writing: essays on literary culture and public debate 820.9 C
A history of Korean literature (Peter H. Lee, ed.) 895 H
Horror: a literary history (Xavier Aldana Reyes, ed.) 809.3 H
King, Brendan - Beryl Bainbridge: love by all sorts of means: a biography 92 B1623 K
Levy, Michael - Children's fantasy literature: an introduction 809 L
Literary wonderlands: a journey through the greatest fictional worlds ever created (Laura Miller, ed.) 809.3 L
Murray, Albert - Collected essays & memoirs (Library of America) 824 M
Stach, Reiner - Kafka, the early years 92 K114 S
Wisniewski, Mary - Algren: a life 92 A3965 W

FICTION

Bernhard, Thomas - Walking: a novella (translated from the German) F B
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de - Exemplary novels (newly translated by Edith Grossman) F C
Chiang, Ted - Stories of your life and others F C
Kessel, Joseph - The crew (translated from the French; first published in 1923) F K
Stamm, Peter - Agnes (translated from the German) F S
Szabó, Magda - Iza's ballad (translation from the Hungarian) F S