October 2012 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Adler, Stella - Stella Adler on America's master playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
- Amar, Akhil Reed - America's unwritten constitution: the precedents and principles we live by
- Annan, Kofi A - Interventions: a life in war and peace
- Arab spring dreams: the next generation speaks out for freedom and justice from North Africa to Iran
- Auster, Paul - Winter journal
- Barlett, Donald L - The betrayal of the American dream
- Bellesiles, Michael A - A people's history of the U.S. military: ordinary soldiers reflect on their experience of war, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
- Byrne, David - How music works
- Castner, Brian - The long walk: a story of war and the life that follows
- Cha, Victor D. - The impossible state: North Korea, past and future
- Chafe, William Henry - Bill and Hillary: the politics of the personal
- Conde Nast Traveler book of unforgettable journeys: great writers on great places.
- Crespino, Joseph - Strom Thurmond's America
- Crumpton, Henry A - The art of intelligence: lessons from a life in the CIA's clandestine service
- De Courcy, Anne - The fishing fleet: husband-hunting in the Raj
- Eichenwald, Kurt - 500 days: secrets and lies in the terror wars
- Erdman, Andrew L. - Queen of vaudeville: the story of Eva Tanguay
- Fest, Joachim C. - Not me: memoirs of a German childhood
- Fox, Julia - Sister queens: the noble, tragic lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
- Freeman, Joshua Benjamin - American empire: the rise of a global power, the democratic revolution at home, 1945-2000
- Gill, A. A. - The golden door: letters to America
- Gimbel, Steven - Einstein's Jewish science: physics at the intersection of politics and religion
- Gorra, Michael Edward - Portrait of a novel: Henry James and the making of an American masterpiece
- Guy, John - Thomas Becket: warrior, priest, rebel : a nine-hundred-year-old story retold
- Hitchens, Christopher - Mortality
- Hornby, Nick - More baths, less talking
- House, Karen Elliot - On Saudi Arabia: its people, past, religion, fault lines-- and future
- Johnson, Joyce - The voice is all: the lonely victory of Jack Kerouac
- Johnson, Steven - Future perfect: the case for progress in a networked age
- Keizer, Garret - Privacy
- Kelly, John - The graves are walking: the great famine and the saga of the Irish people
- Kemper, Steve - A labyrinth of kingdoms: 10,000 miles through Islamic Africa
- Kimball, Roger - The fortunes of permanence: culture and anarchy in an age of amnesia
- Krist, Gary - City of scoundrels: the twelve days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago
- Kurin, Richard - Madcap May: mistress of myth, men & hope
- Logevall, Fredrik - Embers of war: the fall of an empire and the making of America's Vietnam
- Marton, Kati - Paris: a love story : a memoir
- Max, D. T - Every love story is a ghost story: a life of David Foster Wallace
- McFarland, Philip James - Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century
- McThenia, Tal - A case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation
- Mendez, Antonio J - Argo: how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history
- Mishra, Pankaj - From the ruins of empire: the intellectuals who remade Asia
- Montgomery, David R. - The rocks don't lie: a geologist investigates Noah's flood
- Morris, Errol - A wilderness of error: the trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
- Negron, Ray - Yankee miracles: life with the boss and the Bronx Bombers
- Nelson, Scott Reynolds - A nation of deadbeats: an uncommon history of America's financial disasters
- Olubas, Brigitta - Shirley Hazzard: literary expatriate and cosmopolitan humanist
- Owen, Mark - No easy day: the autobiography of a Navy SEAL : the firsthand account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden
- Pearl, Nancy - Book lust to go: recommended reading for travelers, vagabonds, and dreamers
- Phillips, Warren - Newspaperman: inside the news business at the Wall Street journal
- Polisi, Salvatore - The Sinatra Club: my life inside the New York mafia
- Povich, Lynn - The good girls revolt: how the women of Newsweek sued their bosses and changed the workplace
- Powell, Colin L - It worked for me: in life and leadership
- Provine, Robert R - Curious behavior: yawning, laughing, hiccupping, and beyond
- Randall, David K - Dreamland: adventures in the strange science of sleep
- Reiss, Tom - The Black Count: glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo
- Roiphe, Katie - In praise of messy lives: essays
- Rosenfeld, Seth - Subversives: the FBI's war on student radicals, and Reagan's rise to power
- Rushdie, Salman - Joseph Anton: a memoir
- Saro-Wiwa, Noo - Looking for Transwonderland: travels in Nigeria
- Shriver, Mark K - A good man: rediscovering my father, Sargent Shriver
- Singer, Barry - Churchill style: the art of being Winston Churchill
- Souder, William - On a farther shore: the life and legacy of Rachel Carson
- Spitz, Bob - Dearie: the remarkable life of Julia Child
- Stahr, Walter - Seward: Lincoln's indispensable man
- Stern, Herbert Jay - Diary of a DA: the true story of the prosecutor who took on the mob, fought corruption, and won
- Strand, Ginger Gail - Killer on the road: violence and the American interstate
- Thomas, Evan - Ike's bluff: President Eisenhower's secret battle to save the world
- Torregrosa, Luisita Lopez - Before the rain: a memoir of love and revolution
- Tough, Paul - How children succeed: grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character
- Tuckman, Jo - Mexico: democracy interrupted
- Turner, John G - Brigham Young: pioneer prophet
- Ujifusa, Steven - A man and his ship: America's greatest naval architect and his quest to build the S.S. United States
- Unger, Harlow G. - John Quincy Adams
- Westad, Odd Arne - Restless empire: China and the world since 1750
- Wolf, Naomi - Vagina: a new biography
- Woods, Stuart - Blue water, green skipper: a memoir of sailing alone across the Atlantic
- Woodward, Bob - The price of politics
FICTION
- Albom, Mitch - The time keeper
- Aldridge, Kitty - A trick I learned from dead men
- Amis, Martin - Lionel Asbo: state of England
- Andrews, Sarah - Rock bottom
- Barker, Nicola - The yips
- Bauer, Ann - The forever marriage: a novel
- Beauman, Ned - The teleportation accident
- Beha, Christopher R - What happened to Sophie Wilder: a novel
- Brown, Sandra - Low pressure
- Chabon, Michael - Telegraph Avenue: a novel
- Chen, Pauline - The red chamber
- Coplin, Amanda - The orchardist: a novel
- Diaz, Junot - This is how you lose her
- Dean, Debra - The mirrored world: a novel
- Doig, Ivan - The bartender's tale
- Evison, Jonathan - The revised fundamentals of caregiving: a novel
- Fields, Jennie - The age of desire: a novel
- Follett, Ken - Winter of the world
- Freveletti, Jamie - Robert Ludlum's The Janus reprisal
- Gillham, David R - City of women
- Grenville, Kate - Sarah Thornhill
- Harding, Georgina - Painter of silence: a novel
- Heller, Peter - The dog stars
- Jewell, Lisa - The making of us: a novel
- Kitamura, Katie M - Gone to the forest: a novel
- Lam, Vincent - The headmaster's wager: a novel
- Lapeyre, Patrick - Life is short and desire endless: a novel
- MacMahon, Kathleen - This is how it ends: a novel
- Majors, Inman - Love's winning plays
- Mattison, Alice - When we argued all night: a novel
- Moore, Alison - The lighthouse
- NDiaye, Marie - Three strong women: a novel
- Novak, Chase - Breed
- Palin, Michael - The truth
- Palma, Felix J - The map of the sky: a novel
- Piperno, Alessandro - Persecution: the friendly fire of memories
- Powers, Kevin - The yellow birds: a novel
- Pylvainen, Hanna - We sinners
- Read, Cornelia - Valley of ashes
- Ringwald, Molly - When it happens to you: a novel in stories
- Self, Will - Umbrella
- Serber, Natalie - Shout her lovely name
- Siegel, Mark - Sailor Twain: or, the mermaid in the Hudson
- Smilevski, Goce - Freud's sister: a novel
- Smith, Zadie - NW
- Soli, Tatjana - The forgetting tree
- Tan, Twan Eng - The garden of evening mists: a novel
- Thilliez, Franck - Syndrome E
- Tropper, Jonathan - One last thing before I go
- Vila-Matas, Enrique - Dublinesque
- Wiesel, Elie - Hostage: a novel
- Zeidner, Lisa - Love bomb
MYSTERIES
- Adler-Olsen, Jussi - The absent one
- Albert, Susan Wittig - The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate rose
- Barclay, Linwood - Trust your eyes
- Beaton, M. C - Hiss and hers: an Agatha Raisin mystery
- Benn, James R - Death's door: a Billy Boyle World War II mystery
- Brandman, Michael - Robert B. Parker's Fool me twice
- Cain, James M - The cocktail waitress
- Castle, Richard - Frozen heat
- Chercover, Sean - The trinity game: a novel
- Child, Lee - A wanted man: a Jack Reacher novel
- Cleverly, Barbara - Not my blood*
- Coben, Harlan - Seconds away: a Mickey Bolitar novel
- Cussler, Clive - The tombs
- Delany, Vicki - More than sorrow: a mystery
- Disher, Garry - Port Vila blues
- Dobson, Joanne - Face of the enemy: a New York in wartime mystery
- Doiron, Paul - Bad Little Falls
- Duffy, David L - In for a ruble
- Dugoni, Robert - The conviction: a novel
- Ellis, Kate - Watching the ghosts*
- Fesperman, Dan - The double game
- Fossum, Karin - In the darkness
- French, Nicci - Tuesday's gone*
- Gapper, John - A fatal debt: a novel
- George, Kathleen - Simple
- Gerritsen, Tess - Last to die: a novel
- Ginsberg, Debra - What the heart remembers
- Haas, Wolf - Brenner and God
- Heley, Veronica - Murder in mind*
- Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew - The survivor
- Izner, Claude - In the shadows of Paris
- Jerkins, Grant - The ninth step
- Johnson, D. E - Detroit breakdown
- Kardos, Michael - The three-day affair
- Keller, Julia - A killing in the hills
- King, Laurie R - Garment of shadows: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes*
- Knight, Bernard - Dead in the dog
- Krajewski, Marek - Death in Breslau
- Krueger, William Kent - Trickster's point: a novel
- Levine, Laura - Death of a neighborhood witch
- Lustbader, Eric - Father night
- Meyer, Deon - 7 days
- Nadel, Barbara - Dead of night
- Narozny, Christopher - Jonah man
- O'Brien, Martin - The dying minutes: a Daniel Jacquot novel
- Patterson, James - Zoo
- Penny, Louise - The beautiful mystery
- Perry, Anne - A sunless sea: a William Monk novel*
- Quinn, Spencer - A fistful of collars: a Chet and Bernie mystery
- Reichs, Kathy - Bones are forever
- Robb, J. D. - Delusion in death
- Robinson, Peter - Watching the dark*
- Rotenberg, Robert - The guilty plea
- Rowland, Laura Joh - The incense game
- Scerbanenco, Giorgio - A private venus
- Steiner, Peter - The resistance: a thriller
- Stuart, Julia - The pigeon pie mystery
- Toyne, Simon - Sanctus
- Vachss, Andrew H - Blackjack: a Cross novel
- Webster, Jason - A death in Valencia
- White, Randy Wayne - Gone
- White, Stephen - Line of fire
- Woods, Stuart - Severe clear: a Stone Barrington novel
* indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- 20th century in poetry
- Le Guin, Ursula K. - Finding my elegy: new and selected poems 1960-2010
- London: a history in verse
- Olds, Sharon - Stag's leap
- Open door: one hundred poems, one hundred years of Poetry magazine
- Stern, Gerald - In beauty bright
- Supervielle, Jules - Homesick for the earth: poems
- Trethewey, Natasha D. - Thrall: poems
SHORT STORIES
- James, Tania. - Aerogrammes: and other stories
- Levy, Deborah - Swimming home
- Madrid tales
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Black dahlia & white rose
- Schlink, Bernhard - Summer lies
- Stamm, Peter - We're flying: stories
- Watkins, Claire Vaye - Battleborn
CHILDREN'S LIBRARY
YOUNGER READERS
- Beskow, Elsa Maartman - Princess Sylvie
- Coville, Bruce - Amber Brown is tickled pink
- Davey, Owen - Night Knight
- Dowson, Nick - North : the amazing story of Arctic migration
- Godden, Rumer - The mousewife
- Ibbotson, Eva - One dog and his boy
- Isaacs, Anne - Dust devil
- Isadora, Rachel - Bea at ballet
- Meisel, Paul - See me run
- Willems, Mo - Listen to my trumpet!
OLDER READERS
- Adler, David A - Frederick Douglass: a noble life
- Cashore, Kristin - Bitterblue
- DeCristofano, Carolyn Cinami - A black hole is not a hole
- Foley, Lizzie K - Remarkable: a novel
- Frazier, Sundee Tucker - The other half of my heart
- Pullman, Philip - Two crafty criminals!: and how they were captured by the daring detectives of the New Cut Gang : including Thunderbolt's waxwork & the gas-fitters' ball
- Schlitz, Laura Amy - Splendors and glooms
- Stead, Rebecca - Liar and Spy
- Stewart, Trenton Lee - The extraordinary education of Nicholas Benedict
- Turnbull, Ann - Greek myths
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Allen, Michael - Charles Dickens and the blacking factory , 92 D5484 A
- Cambridge companion to popular fiction , 809.3 C
- Douglass, Frederick - In the words of Frederick Douglass: quotations from liberty's champion , 808.8 D
- Forshaw, Barry - Death in a cold climate: a guide to Scandinavian crime fiction /, 839.5 F
- Hass, Robert - What light can do: essays on art, imagination, and the natural world, 809 H
- Historical guide to Henry James , 823 J
- Keen, Suzanne - Empathy and the novel , 808.3 K
- Powys, Llewelyn - A struggle for life: selected essays of Llewelyn Powys, 824 P
- Schnitzler, Arthur - My youth in Vienna , 92 S3615 S
BOOKS & READING
- Price, Leah - How to do things with books in Victorian Britain , 028 P
- Read this!: handpicked favorites from America's indie booksellers, 028 R
POETRY
- Abrams, M. H - The fourth dimension of a poem: and other essays, 808.1 A
- Maxwell, Glyn - On poetry , 808.1 M
- Newcomb, John Timberman - How did poetry survive?: the making of modern American verse, 821.09 N
- Three poets of the First World War: Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen, 821.08 T
ART
- Antin, David - Radical coherency: selected essays on art and literature, 1966 to 2005, 709 A
- Baetjer, Katharine - Pastel portraits: images of 18th-century Europe , 741.3 B
- Cork, Richard - The healing presence of art: a history of western art in hospitals, 725 C
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich - The philosophy of art , 701 H
- La Farge, Phyllis - Painted walls of Mexico =;Paredes pintadas de MÈx[ico] , 751.1 L
- Traylor, Bill - Bill Traylor, 1854-1949: deep blues , 759.1 T
MUSIC & DANCE
- Camille Saint-SaÎns and his world edited by Jann Pasler., 780.92 S
- Franko, Mark - Martha Graham in love and war: the life in the work, 793.3 F
- Harnum, Jonathan - Basic music theory: how to read, write, and understand written music, 781.2 H
- Sachs, Joel - Henry Cowell: a man made of music, 92 C87495 S
FILM
- Dixon, Wheeler W. - A history of horror , 791.4 D
- Kracauer, Siegfried - Siegfried Kracauer's American writings: essays on film and popular culture, 791.4 K
PHILOSOPHY
- Israel, Jonathan I - Enlightenment contested: philosophy, modernity, and the emancipation of man, 1670-1752, 190 I
- Rosen, Michael - Dignity: its history and meaning, 179 R
- Sloterdijk, Peter - The art of philosophy: wisdom as a practice, 100 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Ackroyd, Peter - Dickens , 92 D5484 A
- Allgor, Catherine - Dolley Madison: the problem of national unity, 92 M1822 A
- Molesworth, Charles - And bid him sing: a biography of CountÈe Cullen, 92 C96747 M
- Schlesinger, Marian Cannon - I remember: a life of politics, painting and people, 92 S3427 S
- Wright, Thomas - Circulation: William Harvey's revolutionary idea, 92 H3426 W
ANTIQUITIES
- Kriwaczek, Paul - Babylon: Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization, 935 K
- Parker Pearson, Michael - Stonehenge: exploring the greatest Stone Age mystery , 913.42 P
- Wells, Peter S - How ancient Europeans saw the world: vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times, 936 W
LANGUAGE
- Crystal, David - English as a global language , 420 C
- Little, Elizabeth - Trip of the tongue: cross-country travels in search of America's languages , 306.4 L
MIDDLE EAST
- Ajami, Fouad - The Syrian rebellion , 956.9 A
- Harris, William W - Lebanon: a history, 600-2011 , 956.9 H
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Lofgren, Mike - The party is over: how Republicans went crazy, Democrats became useless, and the middle class got shafted, 324.273 L
- Mazower, Mark - Governing the world: the history of an idea, 341.1 M
RELIGION
- Botticini, Maristella - The chosen few: how education shaped Jewish history, 70-1492, 909.4 B
- Cambridge companion to John Calvin , 284 C
- Chehab, Zaki - Inside Hamas: the untold story of the militant Islamic movement, 322.4 C
- Fields, Rick - How the swans came to the lake: a narrative history of Buddhism in America, 294 F
HISTORY
- Darley, Gillian - Vesuvius , 945.7 D
- Ferraro, Joanne Marie - Venice: history of the floating city, 945.3 F
- Marshall, P. J - Remaking the British Atlantic: the United States and the British Empire after American Independence, 942.07 M
- Masur, Louis P - Lincoln's hundred days: the Emancipation Proclamation and the war for the union, 973.7 M
- Rexroth, Kenneth - Communalism: from its origins to the twentieth century, 335.9 R
- Sixsmith, Martin - Russia: a 1,000 year chronicle of the wild east, 947 S
The Library recently expanded its Project MUSE database with almost 2,500 university press e-books on history topics. For more information, please ask at the reference desk or search our online catalog for Project Muse as the author to bring up a list of these e-books.
EDUCATION
- Biondi, Martha - The Black revolution on campus , 378 B
- Slaughter, Sheila - Academic capitalism and the new economy: markets, state, and higher education, 378 S
SPORTS
- Cambridge companion to baseball , 796.3 C
- Faulkner, Neil - A visitor's guide to the ancient Olympics , 796.4 F
- Lorge, Peter Allan - Chinese martial arts: from antiquity to the twenty-first century, 796.8 L
WRITING
- Berg, Elizabeth - Escaping into the open: the art of writing true, 808.3 B
- Couser, G. Thomas - Memoir: an introduction /, 808 C
- Thomas, Francis-NoÎl - Clear and simple as the truth : writing classic prose , 808 T
FOREIGN POLICY
- Dueck, Colin - Hard line: the Republican Party and U.S. foreign policy since World War II , 327.73 D
- Nichols, Christopher McKnight - Promise and peril: America at the dawn of a global age, 327.73 N
TRAVEL
- American tourism: constructing a national tradition, 917.3 A
- Tyler, Daniel - A guide to Dickens' London , 823 D
AUDIO
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays, Audio-CD 824 E
- Trollope, Anthony - The Duke's children, Audio-CD T
- Welty, Eudora - The ponder heart, Audio-CD W