New Books - February 2017
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Bates, Doreen - Diary of a wartime affair: the true story of a surprisingly modern romance
- Bianculli, David - The platinum age of television: from I love Lucy to The walking dead, how TV became terrific
- Blackburn, Elizabeth H. - The telomere effect: a revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer
- Dalai Lama XIV - The book of joy: lasting happiness in a changing world (with Archbishop Desmond Tutu & Douglas Abrams)
- Cartledge, Paul - Democracy: a life
- Chait, Jonathan - Audacity: how Barack Obama defied his critics and created a legacy that will prevail
- D'Antonio, Michael - A consequential president: the legacy of Barack Obama
- Daniels, J. D. - The correspondence
- Dann, Kevin T. - Expect great things: the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Dennison, Matthew - Over the hills and far away': the life of Beatrix Potter
- Fisher, Carrie - The princess diarist
- Gary, Amy - In the great green room: the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- Godfrey-Smith, Peter - Other minds: the octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness
- Gooch, Brad - Rumi's secret: the life of the Sufi poet of love
- Haley, James L. - The shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates
- Hayes, Bill - Insomniac city: New York, Oliver, and me
- King, Coretta Scott - My life, my love, my legacy
- Kinzer, Stephen - The true flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the birth of American empire
- Lévy, Bernard-Henri - The genius of Judaism
- Nixon, John - Debriefing the president: the interrogation of Saddam Hussein
- O'Shea, Stephen - The Alps: a human history from Hannibal to Heidi and beyond
- Orner, Peter - Am I alone here?: notes on living to read and reading to live
- Preston, Douglas J. - The lost city of the Monkey God: a true story
- Ricca, Brad - Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: the true story of New York City's greatest female detective and the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation
- Sax, David - The revenge of analog: real things and why they matter
- Schwalbe, Will - Books for living
- Singer, Peter - Ethics in the real world: 82 brief essays on things that matter
- Tallis, Nicola - Crown of blood: the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Taylor, D. J. - The new book of snobs
- Waldman, Ayelet - A really good day: how microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life
- What I told my daughter: lessons from leaders on raising the next generation of empowered women (Nina Tassler, ed.)
- White, Jerry - Mansions of misery: a biography of the Marshalsea debtors' prison
FICTION
- Aciman, André - Enigma variations
- Barry, Sebastian - Days without end: a novel
- Bitto, Emily - The strays: a novel
- Bohjalian, Chris - The sleepwalker: a novel
- Brown, Jennifer S. - Modern girls
- Coe, Jonathan - Number 11
- Cusk, Rachel - Transit (ebook available)
- Dumas, Alexandre - The Red Sphinx, or, The Comte de Moret (edited and translated from the French by Lawrence Ellsworth)
- Fridlund, Emily - History of wolves: a novel
- Handke, Peter - The Moravian night: a story (translated from the German)
- Harris, C. S. - Good time coming: a novel of the American Civil War
- Hoagland, Edward - In the country of the blind: a novel
- Johnson, Lee Clay - Nitro Mountain
- Kapur, Ratika - The private life of Mrs Sharma (ebook available)
- Kertes, Joseph - The afterlife of stars
- Khalifah, Khalid - No knives in the kitchens of this city (translated from the Arabic)
- Lakatos, Menyhért - The color of smoke: an epic novel of the Roma (translated from the Hungarian)
- Milosz, Czeslaw. - The mountains of Parnassus (translated from the Polish)
- Mitchard, Jacquelyn - Two if by sea
- Patrick, Phaedra - The curious charms of Arthur Pepper
- Peelle, Lydia - The midnight cool
- Pitoniak, Anna - The futures
- Poeppel, Amy - Small admissions
- Rosenfeld, Lucinda - Class: a novel
- Ruskovich, Emily - Idaho
- Saunders, Adelia. - Indelible
- Sillitoe, Alan - Moggerhanger: a novel
- Thubron, Colin - Night of fire: a novel
- Warren, Dianne - Liberty Street
- Williams, Beatriz - The wicked city
- Wilson, Kevin,- Perfect little world
MYSTERIES
- Airth, Rennie - The death of kings* (ebook avialable)
- Barry, Brunonia - The fifth petal: a novel
- Bauer, Belinda - The beautiful dead*
- Collett, Chris. - A good death: a D.I. Tom Mariner mystery/*
- Delaney, J P. - The girl before: a novel
- Dolan, Chris - Lies of the land: a Maddy Shannon mystery
- Dugoni, Robert - The trapped girl
- Flint, Emma - Little deaths: a novel
- Giambanco, V. M. - Blood and bone
- Grant, Linda - The dark circle*
- Grebe, Camilla. - The ice beneath her (translated from the Swedish)
- Griffiths, Elly - The blood card*
- Harper, Jane - The dry (ebook available)
- Harris, Joanne - Different class*
- Higgins, Jack - The midnight bell
- Hoffman, Patrick - Every man a menace
- Horowitz, Anthony - Magpie murders*
- Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew - The nowhere man
- Lescroart, John T. - Fatal: a novel
- MacRae, Molly - Plaid and plagiarism
- McCarthy, Rob - The hollow men*
- Muller, Marcia - The dangerous ladies affair (w/ Bill Pronzini)
- Nadel, Barbara - On the bone
- O'Mara, Tim - Nasty cutter
- Ohlsson, Kristina - The chosen: a novel
- Parker, Samuel - Purgatory road
- Perry, Thomas - The old man
- Petrie, Nicholas - Burning bright
- Rankin, Ian - Rather be the devil: a novel*
- Rollins, James - The seventh plague: a Sigma Force novel
- Thoft, Ingrid - Duplicity
- Woods, Stuart - Below the belt
- Yi, Chong-myong - The boy who escaped paradise (translated from the Korean)
SHORT STORIES
- Doctorow, E. L. - Doctorow: collected stories
- Gay, Roxane - Difficult women
- Moshfegh, Ottessa - Homesick for another world
POETRY
- Williams, C. K. - Falling ill: last poems
More poetry below in the stacks section of list
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Cohen, Ronald D. - Depression folk: grassroots music and left-wing politics in 1930s America
- Hell is a very small place: voices from solitary confinement (Jean Casella, et al., eds.)
- Sharpe, J. A. - A fiery & furious people: a history of violence in England
- Tarlo, Emma - Entanglement: the secret lives of hair
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Barnes, Djuna - Vivid and repulsive as the truth: the early works of Djuna Barnes 828.08 B
- DeWees, Shelley - Not just Jane: rediscovering seven amazing women writers who transformed British literature 820.9 D
- Fuentes, Carlos - The great Latin American novel 863 F
- Hens, Gregor - Nicotine (introduction by Will Self; translated from the German) 838 H
- James, Henry - The daily Henry James: a year of quotes from the work of the master 823 J
- Melville in his own time: a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates (Steve Olsen-Smith, ed.) 92 M531 M
- Modern Korean literature: an anthology (Peter H. Lee, ed.) 895 M
- Porte, Joel - The romance in America: studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James 823.08 P
- Suleiman, Susan Rubin - The Némirovsky question: the life, death, and legacy of a Jewish writer in twentieth-century France 92 N4348 S
- Vanity fair's writers on writers (Graydon Carter, ed.) 809 V
FICTION
- Anantha Murthy, U. R. - Samskara: a rite for a dead man (translated from the Kannada; NYRB Classics) F A
- Beaumont, Charles - Perchance to dream: selected stories (Penguin Classics) F B
- Borneman, Ernest - The face on the cutting-room floor(1937 mystery) F B
- Brunet, Raymond - The disappearance of Adèle Bedeau(translated from the French) F B
- Ferguson, Rachel - A harp in Lowndes Square(1936) F F
- Haderlap, Maja - Angel of oblivion (translated from the German) F H
- Reve, Gerard, - The evenings: a winter's tale (1947; translated from the Dutch) F R
MYTHS, LEGENTS, & TALES
- Gaiman, Neil - Norse mythology 389.2 G
- Long ago and far away: eight traditional fairy tales (foreword by Marina Warner) 398.2 L
- A treasury of American folklore: stories, ballads, and traditions of the people (B.A. Botkin, ed.) 398 T
POETRY
- Castro, Rosalía de - Selected poems (translated from the Galician and the Spanish) 861 C
- Cohen, Leonard, - Leonard Cohen: poems and songs 821 C
- Dickinson in her own time: a biographical chronicle of her life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates (Jane Donahue Eberwein, et al., eds.) 92 D553 D
- Housman, A. E. - The manuscript poems of A.E. Housman: eight hundred lines of hitherto uncollected verse from the author's notebooks 821 H
- Warner, Sylvia Townsend - New collected poems 821 W
SHAKESPEARE
- The Cambridge companion to Shakespearean comedy (Alexander Leggatt, ed.) 822.33 C
- Lake, Peter - How Shakespeare put politics on the stage: power and succession in the history plays 822.33 H
- Wells, Stanley - Shakespeare on page & stage: selected essays 822.33 C
ART
- Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) and the birth of impressionism (National Gallery of Art; Michel Hilaire and Paul Perrin, eds.) 759.4 B
- Freeland, Cynthia A. - Art theory: a very short introduction 701 F
- Hyman, Timothy - The world new made: figurative painting in the twentieth century 759 H
- Judd, Donald - Donald Judd: writings 730.92 J
- Katz, Karl - The exhibitionist: living museums, loving museums 069 K
- Koerner, Joseph Leo - Bosch and Bruegel: from enemy painting to everyday life 759.9 B
- Modern women: women artists at the Museum of Modern Art (Cornelia Butler and Alexandra Schwartz, eds.) 704 M
- Schendler, Sylvan - Eakins 759.1 E
PERFORMING ARTS
- Berlioz, Hector - A life of love & music: the memoirs of Hector Berlioz, 1803-1865 92 B5153 B
- Clover, Carol J. - Men, women, and chain saws: gender in the modern horror film 791.4 C
- Jones, Brian Jay - George Lucas: a life 92 L9335 J
- Rimler, Walter - The man that got away: the life and songs of Harold Arlen 780.92 A
- Shone, Tom - Woody Allen: a retrospective 791.4 S
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Abbott, Berenice - Berenice Abbott: Paris portraits, 1925-1930 770 A
- Real / ideal: photography in mid-nineteenth-century France (Karen Hellman, et al., eds.) 770 R
BIOGRAPHY
- Desan, Philippe - Montaigne: a life 92 M7613 D
- Garrett, Patrick - Of fortunes and war: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents 92 H7417 G
- Napoli, Lisa - Ray & Joan: the man who made the McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away 920 N219 R
- Saillant, John - Black Puritan, Black Republican: the life and thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 92 H4242 S
- Strong, Roy - Scenes and apparitions: diaries 1988-2003 92 S9242 S
- Xu, Hongci - No wall too high: one man's daring escape from Mao's darkest prison 92 X79 X
HISTORY
- Fuchs, Rachel Ginnis - Women in nineteenth-century Europe 305.4 F
- Gomes, Laurentino - 1808: the flight of the emperor : how a weak prince, a mad queen, and the British navy tricked Napoleon and changed the new world 946.06 G
- Hahn, Steven - A nation without borders: the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910 973.5 H
- Olusoga, David - Black and British: a forgotten history 942 O
- Scheidel, Walter - The great leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century 339.2 S
- Sonnino, Paul - The search for the man in the iron mask: a historical detective story 944.03 S
MILITARY SCIENCE & HISTORY
- The drone memos: targeted killing, secrecy, and the law (Jameel Jaffer, ed) 355.4 D
- Kazin, Michael - War against war: the American fight for peace, 1914-1918 940.312 K
- Moyar, Mark - Phoenix and the birds of prey: counterinsurgency and counterterrorism in Vietnam 959.704 M
- Parkinson, Robert G. - The common cause: creating race and nation in the American Revolution 973.31 P
- Scahill, Jeremy - The assassination complex: inside the government's secret drone warfare program 358.4 S
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- The Snowden reader (David Fidler, ed.) 327.12 S
- Whitney, Joel - Finks: how the CIA tricked the world's best writers 327.12 W
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS & FOREIGN POLICY
- Cohen, Eliot A. - The big stick: the limits of soft power and the necessity of military force 355.03 C
- Haass, Richard - A world in disarray: American foreign policy and the crisis of the old order 327.73 H
- Merritt, Giles - Slippery slope: Europe's troubled future 940.56 M
IMMIGRATION & THE REFUGEE CRISIS
- Bauer, Wolfgang - Crossing the sea: with Syrians on the exodus to Europe 956.9 B
- Kingsley, Patrick - The new odyssey: the story of Europe's refugee crisis 325.2 K
- Miller, David - Strangers in our midst: the political philosophy of immigration 325.2 M
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Doran, Peter B. - Breaking Rockefeller: the incredible story of the ambitious rivals who toppled an oil empire 338.2 D
- Kwak, James - Economism: bad economics and the rise of inequality 330 K
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- The Lewis and Clark journals: an American epic of discovery : the abridgment of the definitive Nebraska edition (Gary E. Moulton, ed.) 917.8 L
- Lewis-Jones, Huw - Explorers' sketchbooks: the art of discovery & adventure 910 L
- Tallack, Malachy - Sixty degrees north: around the world in search of home 910.4 T
CITIES
- Graham, Stephen - Vertical: the city from satellites to bunkers 307.76 G
- Graham, Wade. - Dream cities: seven urban ideas that shape the world 307.76 G
- Jacobs, Jane, - Vital little plans: the short works of Jane Jacobs 307.76 J
- Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 (Iain Boyd Whyte and David Frisby, eds.) 711 M
PSYCHOLOGY
- Herzog, Dagmar - Cold War Freud: psychoanalysis in an age of catastrophes 150 H
- Seigel, Jerrold E. - The idea of the self: thought and experience in western Europe since the seventeenth century155.2 S
HEALTH & MEDICINE
- Doherty, P. C. - Pandemics 614.4 D
- Lamb, Jonathan - Scurvy: the disease of discovery 616.9 L
- Moeller, Philip - Get what's yours for Medicare: maximize your coverage, minimize your costs 368 M
- Taubes, Gary - The case against sugar 613.2 T
PHILOSOPHY
- Drochon, Hugo - Nietzsche's great politics 320.1 D
- Hampson, Margaret Daphne - Kierkegaard: exposition and critique 198 H
- Hösle, Vittorio - A short history of German philosophy 193 H
RELIGION
- Freedman, Harry - The murderous history of Bible translations: power, conflict and the quest for meaning 220.4 F
- Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, - The ultimate ambition in the arts of erudition: a compendium of knowledge from the classical Islamic world 892.7 N
- Spencer, Nick - The evolution of the West: how Christianity has shaped our values 261 S
- Starr, Kevin - Continental ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America : the Colonial experience 282.73 S
NEW YORK
- Block, Alan A. - East side, west side: organizing crime in New York, 1930-1950 364 B
- Harmon, Katharine A., - You are here NYC: mapping the soul of the city 912 H
- Miller, Hillary - Drop dead: performance in crisis, 1970s New York 792.0973 M
- Shkuda, Aaron - The lofts of SoHo: gentrification, art, and industry in New York, 1950-1980 974.71 S
- Silent beaches untold stories: New York City's forgotten waterfront (Elizabeth Albert, ed.) 974.71 S OVERSIZE
WRITING
- Borel, Brooke - The Chicago guide to fact-checking HBR 001 B
- Germano, William P. - Getting it published: a guide for scholars and anyone else serious about serious books 070.5 G
- The resilient writer: tales of rejection and triumph from 23 top authors (Catherine Wald, ed.) 808 R