New Books - May 2016

IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

Bacevich, Andrew J. - America's war for the greater Middle East: a military history
Blanning, T. C. W. - Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
Buckley, Gail Lumet - The Black Calhouns: from Civil War to civil rights with one African American family
Cesarani, David - Disraeli: the novel politician
Cicero, Marcus Tullius - How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life (translated and with an introduction by Philip Freeman)
Cooper, Anderson - The rainbow comes and goes: a mother and son on life, love, and loss
Daloz, Kate - We are as gods: back to the land in the 1970s on the quest for a new America
Duneier, Mitchell - Ghetto: the invention of a place, the history of an idea
Fair, Eric - Consequence: a memoir
Gabler, Neal - Barbra Streisand: redefining beauty, femininity, and power
Gordon-Reed, Annette - "Most blessed of the patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
Guy, J. A. - Elizabeth : the forgotten years
Haag, Pamela - The gunning of America: business and the making of American gun culture
Hacker, Jacob S. - American amnesia: how the war on government led us to forget what made America prosper
Hammer, Joshua - The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
Harrison, Kathryn - True crimes: a family album
Hart, Tom - Rosalie Lightning
Hauser, Brooke - Enter Helen: the invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the rise of the modern single woman
Hochschild, Adam - Spain in our hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (ebook available)
Hoffman, Adina - Till we have built Jerusalem: architects of a new city
Jahren, Hope - Lab girl
Jaques, Susan - The empress of art: Catherine the Great and the transformation of Russia
Khalilzad, Zalmay - The envoy: from Kabul to the White House, my journey through a turbulent world
Leaming, Barbara - Kick Kennedy: the charmed life and tragic death of the favorite Kennedy daughter
Lyons, Daniel - Disrupted: my misadventure in the start-up bubble
Mariani, Paul L. - The whole harmonium: the life of Wallace Stevens
McBride, James - Kill 'em and leave: searching for James Brown and the American soul
Miranda, Lin-Manuel - Hamilton: the revolution: being the complete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation, and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America
Nussbaum, Abraham M. - The finest traditions of my calling: one physician's search for the renewal of medicine
Piketty, Thomas - Why save the bankers?: and other essays on our economic and political crisis (translated from the French by Seth Ackerman)
Robison, John Elder - Switched on: a memoir of brain change and emotional awakening John Elder Robison
Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow - Green metropolis: the extraordinary landscapes of New York City as nature, history, and design
Sengupta, Somini - The end of karma: hope and fury among India's young
Solomon, Andrew - Far and away: reporting from the brink of change: seven continents, twenty-five years
Stahl, Lesley - Becoming grandma: the joys and science of the new grandparenting
Thomas, Louisa - Louisa: the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
Thoreau, Henry David - Thoreau's wildflowers Henry David Thoreau (illustrated by Barry Moser; edited by Geoff Wisner)
Waal, F. B. M. - Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
Wegner, Daniel M. - The mind club: who thinks, what feels, and why it matters
Zacks, Richard - Chasing the last laugh: Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
Zwonitzer, Mark - The statesman and the storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the rise of American imperialism

FICTION

Bachelder, Chris - The throwback special
Beverly, Bill - Dodgers
Bock, Charles - Alice & Oliver
Cantor, Rachel - Good on paper
Charles, Christopher - The exiled
Corthron, Kia - The castle cross the magnet carter
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee - Before we visit the goddess
Dunmore, Helen - Exposure
Dutton, Danielle - Margaret the first
Faye, Lyndsay - Jane Steele: a confession
Feldman, Ellen - Terrible virtue
Fesperman, Dan - The letter writer (ebook available)
Grossman, Paul - Terrible swift sword
Haigh, Jennifer - Heat and light
Hamilton, Jane - The excellent Lombards
Kadare, Ismail - A girl in exile: requiem for Linda B. Ismail Kadare (translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson)
Kelly, Martha Hall - Lilac girls
Kennedy, Douglas - The blue hour
Knausgård, Karl Ove - My struggle: Book five (translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett)
Kutsukake, Lynne - The translation of love
Mahajan, Karan - The association of small bombs
Marías, Javier - Thus bad begins (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
Means, David - Hystopia
Poliner, Elizabeth - As close to us as breathing
Prentiss, Molly - Tuesday nights in 1980
Preston, John - The dig
Quindlen, Anna - Miller's Valley (ebook available)
Redondo, Dolores - The invisible guardian (translated from the Spanish by Isabelle Kaufeler)
Rindell, Suzanne - Three-martini lunch
Roberts, Nora - The obsession
Rogan, Charlotte - Now and again
Schulman, Sarah - The cosmopolitans
Simonson, Helen - The summer before the war (ebook available)
Sittenfeld, Curtis - Eligible (ebook available)
Smith, Dominic - The last painting of Sara de Vos (ebook available)
Svensson, Anton - The father: made in Sweden: part 1
Swift, Graham - Mothering Sunday: a romance (ebook available)
White, Edmund - Our young man

MYSTERIES

Albert, Susan Wittig - Blood orange
Axelrod, Steven - Nantucket grand
Baldacci, David - The last mile
Begley, Louis - Kill and be killed
Berry, Steve - The 14th colony
Clark, Mary Higgins - As time goes by
De Giovanni, Maurizio - The bastards of Pizzofalcone (translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar)
Dufresne, John - I don't like where this is going
Hallinan, Timothy - King maybe: a Junior Bender mystery
Hand, Elizabeth - Hard light: a Cass Neary crime novel
Harrison, Cora - A fatal inheritance
Helton, Peter - Soft summer blood*
Hilton, L. S. - Maestra
James, Bill - First fix your alibi*
Kerr, Philip - The other side of silence (ebook available)
King, Laurie R. - The murder of Mary Russell: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes*
Kisor, Henry - Tracking the beast: a Steve Martinez mystery
Lagercrantz, David. - Fall of man in Wilmslow (translated from the Swedish by George Goulding)
McPherson, Catriona - Quiet neighbors
Morgan Jones, Chris - The searcher
Oldham, Nick - Onslaught: a Steve Flynn thriller*
Patterson, James - Private Paris (w/ Mark Sullivan)
Quick, Amanda. - Til death do us part*
Quirk, Matthew - Cold barrel zero
Robards, Karen - Darkness
Robinson, Peter - No cure for love
Robotham, Michael - Close your eyes
Sandford, John - Extreme prey
Scottoline, Lisa - Most wanted
Sedgwick, Marcus - A love like blood
Segura, Alex - Down the darkest street
Smith, Cote - Hurt people
Smith, Lachlan - Panther's prey
Sykes, S. D. - Butcher bird: a Somershill Manor mystery*
Taylor, David C. - Night work
Wells, William - Detective fiction
Winspear, Jacqueline - Journey to Munich* (ebook available)
Woods, Stuart - Family jewels

* Indicates a British mystery

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

The Cambridge history of Japanese literature (Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, eds.) 895.6 C
Flesh and the mirror: essays on the art of Angela Carter (Lorna Sage, ed.; introduction by Ali Smith)
Krystal, Arthur. - This thing we call literature 809 K
Mikics, David - Bellow's people: how Saul Bellow made life into art 823 B
Walton, John - The legendary detective: the private eye in fact and fiction 351.74 W
Upstairs at the Strand: writers in conversation at the legendary bookstore (jessica Strand & Andrea Aguilar,eds.) 808 U
Wilder, Laura Ingalls - The selected letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder 92 W6732 W
Zweig, Stefan - Messages from a lost world: Europe on the brink (translated from the German) 834 Z

FICTION

Benedetti, Mario - The truce: the diary of Martín Santomé (newly translated from the Spanish; originally published 1960) F B
Castellanos Moya, Horacio - The dream of my return (translated from the Spanish) F C
Gibbons, Stella - Pure Juliet F G
Khoury, Elias - Broken mirrors: Sinalcol (translated from the Arabic) F K
Schnitzler, Arthur - Late fame (translated from the German) F S