New Books - October 2015
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Beevor, Antony - Ardennes 1944: Hitler's last gamble
- Beran, Michael Knox - Murder by candlelight: the gruesome crimes behind our romance with the macabre
- Berkowitz, Eric - The boundaries of desire: a century of bad laws, good sex, and changing identities
- Bikont, Anna - The crime and the silence: confronting the massacre of Jews in wartime Jedwabne (translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles)
- Brown, Nancy Marie - Ivory Vikings: the mystery of the most famous chessmen in the world and the woman who made them
- Buchmann, Stephen L. - The reason for flowers: their history, culture, biology, and how they change our lives
- Cheney, Richard B. - Exceptional: why the world needs a powerful America (with Liz Cheney)
- Copeland, Cyrus - Off the radar: a father's secret, a mother's heroism, and a son's quest
- Edin, Kathryn J. - $2.00 a day: living on almost nothing in America
- Faderman, Lillian - The gay revolution: the story of the struggle
- Gilbert, Elizabeth - Big magic: creative living beyond fear
- Gjelten, Tom - A nation of nations: a great American immigration story
- Goldberg, Rita - Motherland: growing up with the Holocaust
- Goodman, Simon - The Orpheus clock: the search for my family's art treasures stolen by the Nazis
- Hastings, Max - The secret war: spies, ciphers and guerrillas 1939-45
- Heller, Anne Conover - Hannah Arendt: a life in dark times
- Heller, Caroline E. - Reading Claudius: a memoir in two parts
- Hirshman, Linda R. - Sisters in law: how Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world
- Jackson, Tom - Chilled: how refrigeration changed the world, and might do so again
- Jefferson, Margo - Negroland: a memoir
- Kellow, Brian - Can I go now?: the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Kelly, Raymond W. - Vigilance: my life serving America and protecting its Empire City
- Lahr, John - Joy ride: show people and their shows
- Lee, Erika - The making of Asian America: a history
- Linden, David J. - Touch: the science of hand, heart, and mind
- Lipszyc, Rywka - Rywka's Diary: the writings of a Jewish girl from the Lodz ghetto, found at Auschwitz in 1945 and published seventy years later (translated from the Polish by Malgorzata Markoff; annotations by Ewa Wiatr)
- Manzano, Sonia - Becoming Maria: love and chaos in the South Bronx
- Maraniss, David - Once in a great city: a Detroit story
- Meyer, Elizabeth - Good mourning: a memoir
- Oates, Joyce Carol - The lost landscape: a writer's coming of age
- Payne, David - Barefoot to Avalon: a brother's story
- The pleasure of reading (edited by Antonia Fraser; with Edna O'Brien, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Ruth Rendell, Jane Gardam, et al.)
- Plumb, Christopher - The Georgian Menagerie: exotic animals in eighteenth-century London
- Prothero, Donald R. - The story of life in 25 fossils: tales of intrepid fossil hunters and the wonders of evolution
- Raphael, Frederic - Going up: to Cambridge and beyond: a writer's memoir
- Rivlin, Gary - Katrina: after the flood
- Roth, Joseph - The hotel years: wanderings in Europe between the wars (edited, translated and introduced by Michael Hofmann)
- Russakoff, Dale - The prize: who's in charge of America's schools?
- Shane, Scott - Objective Troy: a terrorist, a president, and the rise of the drone
- Silberman, Steve - Neurotribes: the legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity (foreword by Oliver Sacks)
- Stavans, Ilan - Quixote: the novel and the world
- Tett, Gillian - The silo effect: the peril of expertise and the promise of breaking down barriers
- Tweedy, Damon - Black man in a white coat: a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Ward, Nathan - The lost detective: becoming Dashiell Hammett
FICTION
- Baggott, Julianna - Harriet Wolf's seventh book of wonders
- Bakopoulos, Dean - Summerlong
- Banville, John - The blue guitar
- Barker, Pat - Noonday
- Barker, Susan - The incarnations
- Bialosky, Jill - The prize
- Boyd, William - Sweet caress: the many lives of Amory Clay (ebook available)
- Clegg, Bill - Did you ever have a family (e-book available)
- deWitt, Patrick - Undermajordomo Minor
- Egan, Elisabeth - A window opens: a novel
- Evison, Jonathan - This is your life, Harriet Chance!
- Ferrante, Elena - The story of the lost child: maturity, old age (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein) (e-book available)
- Goolrick, Robert - The fall of princes
- Gottlieb, Eli - Best boy: a novel
- Gregory, Philippa - The taming of the queen
- Groff, Lauren - Fates and furies (e-book available)
- Hall, Louisa - Speak
- Ham, Rosalie - The dressmaker
- Jong, Erica - Fear of dying
- Kurniawan, Eka - Beauty is a wound (translated by Annie Tucker)
- Luiselli, Valeria - The story of my teeth (translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney)
- Mallon, Thomas - Finale: a novel of the Reagan years
- Modiano, Patrick - Occupation trilogy: La place de l'étoile; The night watch; Ring roads (translated from the French by Caroline Hillier, Patricia Wolf, and Frank Wynne)
- Modiano, Patrick- So you don't get lost in the neighborhood (translated from the French by Euan Cameron)
- Moore, Meg Mitchell - The admissions
- Moss, Sarah - Signs for lost children
- Moulin, Jules - Ally Hughes has sex sometimes
- Ostlund, Lori - After the parade
- Rash, Ron - Above the waterfall
- Roy, Anuradha - Sleeping on Jupiter
- Rushdie, Salman - Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights
- Toltz, Steve - Quicksand
- Tuck, Lily - The double life of Liliane
- Williams, Naomi J. - Landfalls
MYSTERIES
- Adler-Olsen, Jussi - The hanging girl (translated from the Danish by William Frost)
- Albert, Susan Wittig - The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'clock Lady
- Bain, Donald - Margaret Truman's internship in murder: a capital crimes novel
- Beaton, M. C. - Dishing the dirt: an Agatha Raisin mystery*
- Belfoure, Charles - House of thieves
- Bell, Ted - Patriot
- Benn, James R. - The white ghost
- Bingham, Harry - This thing of darkness*
- Black, Saul - The killing lessons
- Block, Lawrence - The girl with the deep blue eyes
- Booth, Stephen - The murder road*
- Brookes, Adam - Spy games*
- Camilleri, Andrea - A beam of light (translated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli)
- Castle, Richard - Driving heat
- Child, Lee - Make me: a Jack Reacher novel (e-book available)
- Coleman, Reed Farrel - Robert B. Parker's The Devil wins: a Jesse Stone novel
- Coulter, Catherine - The end game
- Craig, James - A man of sorrows: an inspector Carlyle mystery*
- Cussler, Clive - The Solomon curse
- Ellis, Robert - City of echoes
- Evanovich, Janet - The scam: a Fox and O'Hare novel
- Fossum, Karin - The drowned boy (translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson)
- Goodfellow, Richard - Collector of secrets
- Grafton, Sue - X
- Gregson, J. M. - The skeleton plot: a Lambert & Hook police procedural*
- Harrison, Cora - A shameful murder
- Heaberlin, Julia - Black-eyed Susans: a novel of suspense
- Horowitz, Anthony - Trigger mortis: a James Bond novel (with original material by Ian Fleming)
- Hunt, Andrew E. - A killing in Zion
- Jance, Judith A. - Dance of the bones: a J.P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker novel
- Keller, Julia - Last ragged breath
- Kernick, Simon - The final minute*
- Lagercrantz, David - The girl in the spider's web (translated from the Swedish by George Goulding)
- Longworth, M. L. - The mystery of the lost Cézanne: a Verlaque and Bonnet mystery
- Marrison, James - The drowning ground
- Meier, Leslie - Candy corn murder: a Lucy Stone mystery
- Nesser, Håkan - The living and the dead in Winsford* (translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson)
- Neville, Stuart - Those we left behind*
- Parsons, Tony - The slaughter man
- Penny, Louise - The nature of the beast (e-book available)
- Perry, Anne - Corridors of the night: a William Monk novel*
- Pryor, Mark - Hollow man
- Qiu, Xiaolong - Shanghai redemption
- Robb, J. D. - Devoted in death
- Roberts, Les - The Ashtabula hat trick
- Robinson, Peter - No cure for love*
- Roosevelt, Kermit - Allegiance
- Stewart, Amy - Girl waits with gun
- Todd, Charles - A pattern of lies
- Tran, Vu - Dragonfish: a novel
- Upson, Nicola - London rain*
POETRY
- Six poets: Hardy to Larkin: an anthology (by Alan Bennett)
More poetry titles below "in the stacks."
SHORT STORIES
- Constantine, David - In another country: selected stories
- Everett, Percival - Half an inch of water: stories
- Martin, Valerie - Sea lovers: selected stories
- New American stories (edited by Ben Marcus)
- Sait Faik - A useless man: selected stories (translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe)
- Williams, Joy - The visiting privilege: new and collected stories
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Allestree, Ann - Barbara Pym: a passionate force 92 P9964 A
- The Bloomsbury introduction to popular fiction (Christine Berberich, ed.) 823.09 B
- Eby, Margaret - South toward home: travels in Southern literature
- Finch, Alison - Proust's additions: the making of A la recherche du temps perdu843 P
- Hainsworth, Peter - Italian literature: a very short introduction 850.9 H
- Karr, Mary - The art of memoir 808 K
- Kong, Shangren - The peach blossom fan 895.1 K
- Nooteboom, Cees - Letters to Poseidon 839.31 N
- Scheerbart, Paul - The perpetual motion machine: the story of an invention (Imagining Science) 834 S
FICTION
- Grimm, Hans Herbert - Schlump: the story of a German soldier (1929; translated from the German) F G
- Kestin, Hesh - The iron will of Shoeshine Cats (2009) F K
- Remarque, Erich Maria - The promised land (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann) F R
- Rosenkrantz, Linda - Talk (1968) F R
- Ross, Fran - Oreo (1974) F R
- Women crime writers: four suspense novels of the 1940s (Library of America; Sarah Weinman, ed.) F W
- Women crime writers: four suspense novels of the 1950s (Library of America; Sarah Weinman, ed.) F W
POETRY
- Gregerson, Linda - Prodigal: new and selected poems, 1976-2014 821 G
- James, Clive - Sentenced to life: poems 2011-2014 821 J
- Morrison, Blake - Shingle Street 821 M
- Quinn, Justin - The Cambridge introduction to modern Irish poetry, 1800-2000 821.09 Q
ART
- A dictionary of art quotations (Ian Crofton, ed.) 703 D
- Lampert, Catherine - Frank Auerbach: speaking and painting 750.92 L
- O'Hear, Natasha - Picturing the apocalypse: the book of Revelation in the arts over two millennia 704.94 O
- Oles, James - Art and architecture in Mexico 709.72 O
- Thoenes, Christof - Raphael, 1483-1520: the invention of the High Renaissance 759.5 R
- Valli, Marc - A brush with the real: figurative painting today 759 V
ARCHITECTURE
- Aslet, Clive - An exuberant catalogue of dreams: the Americans who revived the country house in Britain 728.8 A
- Goldberger, Paul - Building art: the life and work of Frank Gehry 720.92 G
- Rybczynski, Witold - Mysteries of the mall: and other essays 711 R
- Stephenson, David - Visions of heaven: the dome in European architecture 726 S
ANCIENT CULTURE & CIVILIZATION
- Budge, E. A. Wallis - An introduction to ancient Egyptian literature 893 B
- Finkel, Irving L. - Cuneiform 417 F
- Morris, John - Londinivm: London in the Roman Empire 913.42 M
- Roberts, David - The lost world of the Old Ones: discoveries in the ancient Southwest 978 R
PHILOSOPHY
- Ayer, A. J. - Hume: a very short introduction 192 A
- Critchley, Simon - Infinitely demanding: ethics of commitment, politics of resistance 172 C
- Gray, John - The soul of the marionette: a short inquiry into human freedom 123 G
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Lane, Nick - The vital question: energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life 576 L
- O'Toole, Christopher - Bees: a natural history 595.799 O OVERSIZE
- Schwartz, Casey - In the mind fields: exploring the new science of neuropsychoanalysis 612.8 S
- Wulf, Andrea - The invention of nature: Alexander von Humboldt's new world 92 H919 W
CHINA
- Ming: 50 years that changed China (Craig Clunas and Jessica Harrison-Hall, eds.) 951 M OVERSIZE
- Keightley, David N - These bones shall rise again: selected writings on early China 931 K
- Shepard, Wade - Ghost cities of China: the story of cities without people in the world's most populated country 307.76 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Amestoy, Jeffrey L. - Slavish shore: the odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. 92 D1697 A
- Bingham, Sallie - The blue box: three lives in letters 920 B6132 B
- Clark, Adrian - Queer saint: the cultured life of Peter Watson, who shook Twentieth-century art and shocked high society 92 W3415 C
- Kristof, Agota - The illiterate 92 K9343 K
- Reed, Roy - Beware of limbo dancers: a correspondent's adventures with the New York Times 92 R326 R
- Wharton, Clifton R. - Privilege and prejudice: the life of a black pioneer 92 W553 W
HISTORY
- Berlin, Ira - The long emancipation: the demise of slavery in the United States 326 B
- Casanova, Julián - Twentieth-century Spain: a history 946.08 C
- Deák, István - Europe on trial: the story of collaboration, resistance, and retribution during World War II 940.53 D
- Mansel, Philip - The eagle in splendour: inside the court of Napoleon 944.05 M
- McSmith, Andy - Fear and the muse kept watch: the Russian masters—from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein—under Stalin 947.084 M
- Moore, Susanna - Paradise of the Pacific: approaching Hawaii 996.9 M
- Parker, Matthew - Willoughbyland: England's lost colony 988 P
- Snyder, Timothy - Black earth: the holocaust as history and warning 940.5318 S
- Winik, Jay - 1944: FDR and the year that changed history 940.5373 W
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Grandin, Greg - Kissinger's shadow: the long reach of America's most controversial statesman 327.2 G
- Hedges, Chris - Wages of rebellion: the moral imperative of revolt 303.4 H
- Hont, Istvan - Politics in commercial society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith 330.1 H
RELIGION
- Collins, John J. - The Dead Sea scrolls: a biography 296.1 C
- Gregg, Robert C. - Shared stories, rival tellings: early encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims 290 G
- Harrison, Peter - The territories of science and religion 215 H
- Ra Yeshé Sengé - The all-pervading melodious drumbeat: the life of Ra Lotsawa (Translated from the Tibetan) 294 Y
NEW YORK
- Bloom, Nicholas Dagen - The metropolitan airport: JFK International and modern New York 387.7 B
- Dearstyne, Bruce W. - The spirit of New York: defining events in the Empire State's history 974.7 D
- Lindner, Christoph - Imagining New York City: literature, urbanism, and the visual arts, 1890-1940 307.76 L
- Miller, Tom - Seeking New York: the stories behind the historic architecture of Manhattan--one building at a time 917.471 M
WAR
- Jones, Michael K. - Bosworth, 1485: the battle that transformed England 942.04 J
- Karnad, Raghu - Farthest field: an Indian story of the Second World War 940.5354 K
- Preston, David L. - Braddock's defeat: the Battle of the Monongahela and the road to revolution 973.31 P
- Prior, Robin - When Britain saved the West: the story of 1940 940.5342 P
- Woods, Chris - Sudden justice: America's secret drone wars 355.4 W
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Barkham, Patrick - Coastlines: the story of our shore (Great Britain) 914.2 B
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Writing across the landscape: travel journals 1960-2010 92 F359 F
- Hare, John - Mysteries of the Gobi: searching for wild camels and lost cities in the heart of Asia 915.17 H
- Payás, Dolores - Drink time!: in the company of Patrick Leigh Fermor: a memoir 92 F361 P
AUDIO
- Atkinson, Kate - A God in ruins Lobby Audio-CD A
- Puzo, Mario - The godfather Lobby Audio-CD P
- Salter, James - All that is Lobby Audio-CD S
- Tóibín, Colm - Mothers and sons Lobby Audio-CD T
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