New Books - July 2015
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Benforado, Adam - Unfair: the new science of criminal injustice
- Berry, Amanda - Hope: a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- Betts, Kate - My Paris dream: an education in style, slang, and seduction in the great city on the Seine
- Boyce, James - Born bad: original sin and the making of the Western world
- Bremmer, Ian - Superpower: three choices for America's role in the world
- Curtis, Cathy - Restless ambition: Grace Hartigan, painter
- Cuthbertson, Ken - A complex fate: William L. Shirer and the American century
- Ford, Martin - Rise of the robots: technology and the threat of a jobless future
- Fry, Stephen - More fool me
- Gibson, D. W. - The edge becomes the center: an oral history of gentrification in the twenty-first century
- Hemming, Henry - The ingenious Mr. Pyke: inventor, fugitive, spy
- Jacobs, Charlotte - Jonas Salk: a life
- Jarausch, Konrad Hugo - Out of ashes: a new history of Europe in the twentieth century
- Jones, Richard - House guests, house pests : a natural history of animals in the home
- Kaiser, Charles - The cost of courage
- Keret, Etgar - The seven good years: a memoir (translated by from the Hebrew)
- Khlevniuk, O. V. - Stalin: new biography of a dictator (translated from the Russian)
- Kozol, Jonathan - The theft of memory: losing my father, one day at a time
- Laoutaris, Chris - Shakespeare and the Countess: the battle that gave birth to the Globe
- Link, E. Perry - An anatomy of Chinese : rhythm, metaphor, politics
- Lutz, Deborah - The Brontë cabinet: three lives in nine objects
- Luzzi, Joseph - In a dark wood: what Dante taught me about grief, healing, and the mysteries of love
- Martin, Wednesday - Primates of Park Avenue: a memoir (e-book available)
- Mezrich, Ben - Once upon a time in Russia: the rise of the oligarchs: a true story of ambition, wealth, betrayal, and murder
- Mitchell, George J. - The negotiator: a memoir
- Newkirk, Pamela - Spectacle: the astonishing life of Ota Benga
- Pessah, Jon - The game: inside the secret world of major league baseball's power brokers
- Roper, Robert - Nabokov in America: on the road to Lolita
- Silverman, Jacob - Terms of service: social media and the price of constant connection
- Styron, William - My generation: collected nonfiction
- Thaler, Richard H. - Misbehaving: the making of behavioral economics
- Vanhoenacker, Mark - Skyfaring: a journey with a pilot
- Zaleski, Philip - The fellowship: the literary lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
FICTION
- Attenberg, Jami - Saint Mazie
- Barrows, Annie - The truth according to us
- Blume, Judy - In the unlikely event (e-book available)
- Clark, Martin - The Jezebel remedy
- Clark, Mary Higgins - The melody lingers on
- Cocks, Heather - The royal we
- Cohen, Joshua - Book of numbers
- Collins, Jackie - The Santangelos
- Daoud, Kamel - The Meursault investigation (translated from the French)
- Dave, Laura - Eight hundred grapes
- Delbanco, Elena - The silver swan
- Delinsky, Barbara - Blueprints
- Durrant, Sabine - Remember me this way
- Frank, Dorothea Benton - All the single ladies
- Galassi, Jonathan - Muse (e-book available)
- Guo, Xiaolu - I am China
- Hall, Sarah - The wolf border
- Haruf, Kent - Our souls at night (e-book available)
- Hilderbrand, Elin - The rumor
- Hughes, Mary-Beth - The loved ones
- Jewell, Lisa - The third wife
- Johnson, Mat - Loving day
- King, Stephen - Finders keepers
- Kwan, Kevin - China rich girlfriend
- Nichols, Peter - The rocks
- Nović, Sara - Girl at war
- Park, Patricia - Re Jane
- Parry, Leslie - Church of Marvels
- Pitlor, Heidi - The daylight marriage
- Pope, Dan - Housebreaking
- Roiphe, Anne - Ballad of the black and blue mind
- Shorr, Victoria - Backlands
- Sneed, Christine - Paris, he said
- Stephenson, Neal - Seveneves
- Taylor, Katherine - Valley fever
- Vermes, Timur - Look who's back (translated from the German)
- Vida, Vendela - The diver's clothes lie empty
- Wagamese, Richard - Medicine walk
- Walbert, Kate- The sunken cathedral
- Watson, S. J. - Second life
MYSTERIES
- Billingham, Mark - Time of death*
- Blackwood, Grant - Tom Clancy Under fire
- Boyle, Gerry - Once burned
- Brown, Rita Mae - Tail gait: a Mrs. Murphy mystery
- Casey, Jane - The kill*
- Childs, Laura - Ming tea murder
- Clarke, Richard A. - Pinnacle event
- Crompton, Richard - Hell's gate
- Cussler, Clive - Piranha (w/Boyd Morrison)
- Dams, Jeanne M. - The gentle art of murder*
- Doiron, Paul - The precipice
- Dunn, Carola - Superfluous women: a Daisy Dalrymple mystery*
- Farrow, John - The storm murders
- Finder, Joseph - The fixer
- Flett-Giordano, Anne - Marry, kiss, kill
- Grecian, Alex - The harvest man: a novel of Scotland Yard's murder squad*
- Grippando, James - Cash landing
- Harvey, Michael T. - The governor's wife
- Housewright, David - Unidentified woman #15
- Ison, Graham - Exit stage left*
- Kingston, Charles - Murder in Piccadilly*
- Knoll, Jessica - Luckiest girl alive
- Leonard, Elmore - Charlie Martz and other stories: the unpublished stories
- MacBride, Stuart - The missing and the dead
- McGowan, Claire - The dead ground
- Manhattan mayhem (edited by Mary Higgins Clark)
- Matthews, Jason - Palace of treason
- Meltzer, Brad - The President's shadow
- Miller, Jax - Freedom's child
- Mosby, Steve - The nightmare place*
- Roy, Lori - Let me die in his footsteps
- Schenkel, Andrea Maria - Ice cold (translated from the German)
- Thomas, Will - Anatomy of evil*
- Viets, Elaine - Checked out: a dead-end job mystery
- White, Kate - The wrong man
- Wright, Tom - Blackbird
POETRY
- Salter, Mary Jo - Nothing by design
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SHORT STORIES
- Charyn, Jerome - Bitter Bronx: thirteen stories
- Kalfus, Ken - Coup de foudre: a novella and stories
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Beerbohm, Max - The prince of minor writers: the selected essays of Max Beerbohm
- Berry, Wendell - Our only world: ten essays
- Char, René - Hypnos: notes from the French Resistance, 1943-44 841 C
- A historical guide to Edgar Allan Poe (J. Gerald Kennedy,ed.) 828.09 P
- Pitol, Sergio - The art of flight (introduction by Enrique Vila-Matas) 863 P
- Walrond, Eric - Winds can wake up the dead: an Eric Walrond reader 828 W
- Walser, Robert - Fairy tales: dramolettes (translated from the German) 832 W
- Williams, Jeffrey - How to be an intellectual: essays on criticism, culture, and the university 804 W
POETRY
- Byron, George Gordon Byron - Byron's letters and journals: a new selection from Leslie A. Marchand's 12-volume edition (edited by Richard Lansdown) 92 B9963 B
- Martin, Wendy - The Cambridge introduction to Emily Dickinson 821.09 D
- Stallings, A. E - Olives: poems 821 S
- Vendler, Helen (ed.) - Poems, poets, poetry: an introduction and anthology 808.1 P
FICTION
- Chekhov, Anton - Selected stories of Anton Chekhov (translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) 891.73 C
- Collins, Wilkie & Charles Dickens - The perils of certain English prisoners F C
- Inoue, Yasushi - Life of a counterfeiter: and other stories (translated from the Japanese) F I
- Strindberg, August - The defence of a madman (translated from the French) F S
- Tabucchi, Antonio - Time ages in a hurry (translated from the Italian) F T
ART & DESIGN
- Aronson, Arnold - Ming Cho Lee: a life in design 792.9 A
- Baigell, Matthew - Social concern and left politics in Jewish American art 1880-1940 709.73 B
- Berenson, Bernard - My dear BB ...: the letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959 920 B489 M
- Broug, Eric - Islamic geometric design 745 B OVERSIZE
- De Waal, Edmund - 20th century ceramics 738 D
- Fay, Martha - Out of line: the art of Jules Feiffer 741.5 F
- Guy, John - Lost kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist sculpture of early Southeast Asia 730 G
- Mitter, Partha - Indian art 709.54 M
- Rasula, Jed - Destruction was my Beatrice: Dada and the unmaking of the twentieth century 709.04 R
- Varnedoe, Kirk - Northern light: realism and symbolism in Scandinavian painting, 1880-1910 759.8 V
- Winkfield, Trevor - Georges Braque and others: the selected art writings of Trevor Winkfield (1990-2009) 709 W
ARCHITECTURE
- Cheek, Richard - Selling the dwelling: the books that built America's houses, 1775-2000 728 C
- Lynch, Geoffrey - Manhattan classic: New York's finest prewar apartments 728.3 L
- Pollan, Michael - A place of my own: the architecture of daydreams 690 P
PERFORMING ARTS
- Cooper, David - Bela Bartók 780.92 B
- Leutwyler, Henry - Ballet: photographs of the New York City Ballet 792.8 L
- Symonds, Dominic - We'll have Manhattan: the early work of Rodgers and Hart 782.14 S
- Wells, Stanley - Great Shakespeare actors: Burbage to Branagh 792.09 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Canales, Jimena - The physicist and the philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time 115 C
- Gordon, Lewis R - What Fanon said: a philosophical introduction to his life and thought 92 F2144 G
- Russell, Bertrand - A pacifist at war: letters and writings of Bertrand Russell, 1914-1918 92 R9598 R
SCIENCE
- Angell, Tony - The house of owls 598.2 A
- Ward, Peter D. - A new history of life: the radical new discoveries about the origins and evolution of life on earth 576 W
- Weinberg, Steven - To explain the world: the discovery of modern science 509 W
- Witze, Alexandra - Island on fire: the extraordinary story of a forgotten volcano that changed the world 551.2 W
MATH
- Aczel, Amir D. - Finding zero: a mathematician's odyssey to uncover the origins of numbers 510.9 A
- Tegmark, Max - Our mathematical universe: my quest for the ultimate nature of reality 523.1 T
MEDICINE
- McCarthy, Matt - The real doctor will see you shortly: a physician's first year 610.7 M
- McGaugh, Scott - Surgeon in blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War doctor who pioneered battlefield care 973.77 M
BIOGRAPHY
- Aldersey-Williams, Hugh - In search of Sir Thomas Browne: the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind 92 B884 A
- Crapanzano, Vincent - Recapitulations 92 C893 C
- Dawson, Jane E. A. - John Knox 92 K745 D
- Marvel, William - Lincoln's autocrat: the life of Edwin Stanton 92 S7921 M
- Meeting the devil: a book of memoir from the London review of books (with a preface by Alan Bennett) 828.08 M
- Meyers, Jeffrey - Samuel Johnson: the struggle 92 J69 M
- Sullivan, Rosemary - Stalin's daughter: the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva 92 A4367 S
SOCIAL ISSUES
- Fernandez-Kelly, María Patricia - The hero's fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the shadow of the state 362.5 F
- Quinones, Sam - Dreamland: the true tale of America's opiate epidemic 363.45 Q
- Wittes, Benjamin - The future of violence: robots and germs, hackers and drones : confronting a new age of threat 303.6 W
HISTORY
- Alston, Richard - Rome's revolution: death of the republic and birth of the empire 937.06 A
- Church, Clive H. - A concise history of Switzerland 949.4 C
- Fairhead, James - The captain and "the cannibal": an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the Broadway stage 995 F
- Huston, James L. - Calculating the value of the Union: slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War 973.71 H
- Inskeep, Steve - Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a great American land grab 970.5 I
- Lewis, Daniel K. - The history of Argentina 982 L
- Losurdo, Domenico - Liberalism: a counter-history 320.9 L
- Nightingale, Steven - Granada: a pomegranate in the hand of God 946.8 N
- Starkey, David - Magna Carta: the true story behind the Charter 942.03 S
- Steiner, George - Idea of Europe: an essay 940.5 S
RELIGION
- Allen, John L - The Catholic church: what everyone needs to know 282 A
- Kitcher, Philip - Life after faith: the case for secular humanism 211 K
- Stern, Eliyahu - The genius: Elijah of Vilna and the making of modern Judaism 92 E4219 S
- Weitzman, Steven - Solomon: the lure of wisdom (Yale's Jewish Lives series) 221.92 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Brogaard, Berit - On romantic love: simple truths about a complex emotion 157 B
- Cantacuzino, Marina - The forgiveness project: stories for a vengeful age 155.9 C
- Canter, David V. - Forensic psychology: a very short introduction 614.1 C
SPORTS
- Algeo, Matthew - Pedestrianism: when watching people walk was America's favorite spectator sport 796.51 A
- Epstein, Joseph - Masters of the games: essays and stories on sport 796 E
- Kahn, Roger - Rickey & Robinson: the true, untold story of the integration of baseball 796.3 K
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Dobbs, Richard - No ordinary disruption: the four global forces breaking all the trends 337 D
- Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - Get what's yours: the secrets to maxing out your social security 332 K
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- De Waal, Thomas - Great catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the shadow of genocide 956.6 D
- Lippert, Kevin C. - War Plan Red: America's secret plan to invade Canada and Canada's secret plan to invade the U.S.327.73 L
- Menon, Rajan - Conflict in Ukraine: the unwinding of the post-Cold War order 947.7 M
- Roach, Stephen S. - Unbalanced: the codependency of America and China 337 R
AFRICA
- Gerard, E. - Death in the Congo: murdering Patrice Lumumba 967 G
- Smith, Mike - Boko Haram: inside Nigeria's unholy war 966 S
- Wilkinson, Toby A. H. - The Nile: a journey downriver through Egypt's past and present 962 W
WAR
- Blight, James G - The fog of war: lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara 327.73 B
- The Cambridge history of the First World War (3 volumes) (Jay Winter, ed.) 940.3 C
- Dreazen, Yochi - The invisible front: love and loss in an era of endless war 920 G7381 D
- Neiberg, Michael S. - Potsdam: the end of World War II and the remaking of Europe 940.5314 N
- Scott, James - Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the raid that avenged Pearl Harbor 940.544 S
- Sorley, Lewis - Westmoreland: the general who lost Vietnam 92 W5333 S
- Walther, Peter - The First World War in colour 940.3 W OVERSIZE
NEW YORK
- Gallo, Marcia M. - No one helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the myth of urban apathy 364.1 G
- McGruder, Kevin - Race and real estate: interracial conflict and co-existence in Harlem, 1890-1920 305.88 M
- Otis, Ginger Adams - Firefight: the century-long battle to integrate New York's bravest 352.3 O
- Ultan, Lloyd - The Bronx: the ultimate guide to New York City's beautiful borough 917.471 U
AUDIO
- James, Henry - Daisy Miller Audio-CD J
- Leon, Donna - Doctored evidence Audio-CD L
- Spark, Muriel - The prime of Miss Jean Brodie Audio-CD S
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