September 2012 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Baker, Nicholson - The way the world works: essays
- Barofsky, Neil M - Bailout: an inside account of how Washington abandoned Main Street while rescuing Wall Street
- Bennett, Amanda - The cost of hope: a memoir
- Caulfield, Timothy A. - The cure for everything: untangling twisted messages about health, fitness, and happiness
- Cusk, Rachel - Aftermath: on marriage and separation
- Dratch, Rachel - Girl walks into a bar--: comedy calamities, dating disasters, and a midlife miracle
- Dryansky, G. Y - Coquilles, calva, & crËme: exploring France's culinary heritage: a love affair with real French food
- Everitt, Anthony - The rise of Rome: the making of the world's greatest empire
- Fine, Doug - Too high to fail: cannabis and the new green economic revolution
- HÈlion, Jean - They shall not have me (Ils ne m'auront pas): the capture, forced labor, and escape of a French prisoner in World War II Jean HÈlion ; introduction by Deborah Rosenthal ; afterword by Jacqueline HÈlion.
- Klinkenborg, Verlyn - Several short sentences about writing
- Macintyre, Ben - Double cross: the true story of the D-day spies
- Manheimer, Eric - Twelve patients: life and death at Bellevue Hospital
- Murphy, Paul Thomas - Shooting Victoria: madness, mayhem, and the rebirth of the British monarchy
- Petroski, Henry - To forgive design: understanding failure
- Popoff, Alexandra - The wives: the women behind Russia's literary giants
- Ronald, Susan - Heretic queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the wars of religion
- Shircore, Ian Elliott - Conspiracy!: 49 reasons to doubt, 50 reasons to believe
- Skinner, Jeffrey - The 6.5 practices of moderately successful poets: a self-help memoir
- Talty, Stephan - Agent Garbo: the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day
- Waller, Maureen - A family in wartime: how the Second World War shaped the lives of a generation
- Zuckerman, Peter - Buried in the sky: the extraordinary story of the Sherpa climbers on K2's deadliest day
FICTION
- Abbott, Megan E. - Dare me
- Coake, Christopher - You came back
- Cohen, Joshua - Four new messages
- Corman, Leela - Unterzakhn
- Garwood, Julie - Sweet talk
- Greenfeld, Karl Taro - Triburbia
- Gregory, Philippa - The kingmaker's daughter
- Itani, Frances - Requiem
- Joyce, Graham - Some kind of fairy tale
- Joyce, Rachel - The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry
- Khair, Tabish - The thing about thugs
- Klaussmann, Liza - Tigers in red weather
- Kleypas, Lisa - Dream Lake
- Lippman, Laura - And when she was good
- Motion, Andrew - Silver: return to Treasure Island
- Neill, Fiona - What the nanny saw
- Pekkanen, Sarah - These girls
- Perkins, Emily - The Forrests
- Powell, Padgett - You & me
- Ratner, Vaddey - In the shadow of the banyan
- Rich, Simon - What in God's name
- Richman, Alyson - The lost wife
- Semple, Maria - Where'd you go, Bernadette
- Sohn, Amy - Motherland
- Stedman, M. L - The light between oceans
- Taylor, Elizabeth - Complete short stories
- Tsukiyama, Gail - A hundred flowers
- Vincent, Norah - Thy neighbor
- Wagner, Bruce - Dead stars: an entertainment
- Williams, Kate - The pleasures of men
MYSTERIES
- Arsenault, Emily - Miss me when I'm gone
- Black, Benjamin - Vengeance*
- Brown, Rita Mae - Sneaky pie for president
- Cain, Chelsea - Kill you twice
- Castro, Joy - Hell or high water
- Cook, Thomas H - The crime of Julian Wells
- Cooper, N. J - Vengeance in mind*
- Cumming, Charles - A foreign country*
- Dunnett, Kaitlyn - Bagpipes, brides, and homicides
- Fossum, Karin - The caller
- Griffin, W. E. B - The spymasters
- Guttridge, Peter - The thing itself*
- Hooper, Kay - Haven
- Jackson, Lisa - You don't want to know
- Koontz, Dean R - Odd apocalypse: an Odd Thomas novel
- Koryta, Michael - The prophet
- Millar, Louise - The playdate*
- Mogford, Thomas - Shadow of the rock: A Spike Sanguinetti novel
- Morris, Roger - Summon up the blood*
- Nesser, HÂkan - M¸nster's case: an Inspector Van Veeteren mystery
- ÷stlundh, HÂkan - The viper
- Owen, Howard - Oregon Hill
- Pirro, Jeanine - Sly fox: a Dani Fox novel
- Rendell, Ruth - The St. Zita Society*
- Robards, Karen - The last victim
- Rosenfelt, David - Leader of the pack
- Thomason, Dustin - 12.21
- Thor, Brad - Black list: a thriller
- Tracy, P. J - Off the grid
- Vonnegut, Norb - Top producer
* indicates a British mystery
CHILDREN'S LIBRARY
YOUNGER READERS
- Cameron, Ann - Spunky tells all
- Carnesi, Monica - Little dog lost: the true story of a brave dog named Baltic
- Haas, Jessie - Bramble and Maggie: horse meets girl
- Hopkinson, Deborah - A boy called Dickens
- Kent, Allegra - Ballerina swan
- Na, Il Sung - Hide & seek
- Parr, Todd - The family book
- Prelutsky, Jack - I've lost my hippopotamus: more than 100 poems
- Rosenstock, Barbara - The camping trip that changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and our national parks
- Winthrop, Elizabeth - Maia and the monster baby
OLDER READERS
- Babbitt, Natalie - The moon over high street
- Clayton, Sally Pomme - Persephone
- Feiffer, Kate - Signed by Zelda
- Lin, Grace - Dumpling days: a novel
- McKendry, Joe - One Times Square: a century of change at the crossroads of the world
- Oliver, Lauren - Liesl & Po
- Palacio, R.J. - Wonder
- Pringle, Lauren P. - Billions of years, amazing changes: the story of evolution
- Scattergood, Augusta - Glory be
- Tunnell, Michael O. - Candy bomber: the story of the Berlin Airlift's Chocolate Pilot
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Burn, Stephen - David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest: a reader's guide, 823 W
- Burroughs, William S - Rub out the words: the letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974, 92 B97285 B
- Cambridge companion to American fiction after 1945, 823.09 C
- Classical literary criticism, 801 C
- Hardyment, Christina - Writing Britain: wastelands to wonderlands, 820.9 H
- Morson, Gary Saul - The long and short of it: from aphorism to novel, 808.8 M
- Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century American literature, 820.9 O
- Ray, Robert B - Walden x 40: essays on Thoreau, 828.09 T
- Spender, Stephen - New selected journals, 1939-1995, 92 S7469 S
- Weschler, Lawrence - Uncanny valley: and other adventures in the narrative, 824 W
POETRY
- Landino, Cristoforo - Poems, 871.9 L
- Lucretius Carus, Titus - The nature of things, 871.1 L
- New anthology of American poetry (3 volumes), st09
- Sidney, Philip - Major works, 821 S
- Violi, Paul - Breakers: selected poems, 821 V
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
- Cambridge companion to the classic Russian novel, 891.73 C
- Fennell, John Lister Illingworth - Early Russian literature, 891.7 F
- Girard, RenÈ - Resurrection from the underground: Feodor Dostoevsky, 891.73 D
- Kelly, Catriona - A history of Russian women's writing, 1820-1992, 891.7 K
- Kelly, Catriona - Russian literature: a very short introduction, 891.7 K
ARTS & CRAFTSMANSHIP
- 112 Greene Street: the early years (1970-1974), 709.7471 O
- Bayer, Andrea - Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: North Italian paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, 759.5 B
- Craft reader, 745.5 C
- Griffiths, Antony - Prints and printmaking: an introduction to the history and techniques, 760 G
- Mouly, FranÁoise - Blown covers: New Yorker covers you were never meant to see, 741.64 M
- Patch, Diana Craig - Dawn of Egyptian art, 709.32 P
- Roberts-Jones, Philippe - Pieter Bruegel, 759.9 B
- Whitehouse, David - Glass: a short history, 748 W
- Yayoi Kusama, 709.2 K
ARCHITECTURE
- Hahn, Alexander - Mathematical excursions to the world's great buildings, 720 H
- K¸hl, Isabel - Architecture: the groundbreaking moments, 720.9 K
MUSIC
- Gioia, Ted - The jazz standards: a guide to the repertoire, 016.78 G
- Hischak, Thomas S - The Oxford companion to the American musical: theatre, film, and television, 782 H
- Hoppin, Richard H - Medieval music, 780.9 H
- Winer, Deborah Grace - The night and the music: Rosemary Clooney, Barbara Cook, and Julie Wilson inside the world of cabaret, 780.921 W
THEATER
- Lane, Stewart F - Jews on Broadway: an historical survey of performers, playwrights, composers, lyricists and producers, 790 L
- Rueff, Suze - I knew Sarah Bernhardt, 92 B527 R
- Schoenfeld, Gerald - Mr. Broadway: the inside story of the Shuberts, the shows, and the stars, 792.0973 S
FILM
- Dickos, Andrew - Street with no name: a history of the classic American film noir, 791.4 D
- Dika, Vera - The (moving) pictures generation: the cinematic impulse in downtown New York art and film, 709.7471 D
- Hoberman, J - Film after film: or, what became of 21st-century cinema?, 791.4 H
- Jackson, Julian - La grande illusion, 791.4 J
- Kanin, Garson - Hollywood: stars and starlets, tycoons and flesh-peddlers, moviemakers and moneymakers, frauds and geniuses, hopefuls and has-beens, great lovers and sex symbols, 92 K1683 K
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Nathan Lyons: selected essays, lectures, and interviews, 770 L
- Maier, Vivian - Vivian Maier: street photographer, 770 M
JOURNALISM
- Second read: writers look back at classic works of reportage, 828.09 S
- Robinson, W. Sydney - Muckraker: the scandalous life and times of W.T Stead, Britain's first investigative journalist, 92 S7992 R
FOLKLORE
- Six fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, 398.2 K
- The New Penguin book of English folk songs, 784.4 N
- Sivadasa - The five-and-twenty tales of the genie (translated from the Sanskrit by Chandra Rajan), 398 S
- Wald, Elijah - The dozens: a history of rap's mama, 398 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Cooper, John M - Pursuits of wisdom: six ways of life in ancient philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus, 180 C
- Foot, Philippa - Virtues and vices and other essays in moral philosophy, 170 F
- Magill, R. Jay - Sincerity: how a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern art, hipster chic, and the curious notion that we all have something to say (no matter how dull), 179 M
DEATH & DYING
- The inevitable: contemporary writers confront death, 824.08 I
- Kagan, Shelly - Death, 128 K
- Seeman, Erik R - Death in the New World: cross-cultural encounters, 1492-1800, 393 S
RELIGION
- Lynch, John - New worlds: a religious history of Latin America, 278 L
- Moore, R. I - The war on heresy, 272 M
- Wills, Garry - Font of life: Ambrose, Augustine and the mystery of baptism, 270 W
THE OCCULT
- Horowitz, Mitch - Occult America: the secret history of how mysticism shaped our nation, 133 H
- Nostradamus - The prophecies: a dual-language edition with parallel text, 133.3 N
- Shumaker, Wayne - The occult sciences in the Renaissanceo: a study in intellectual patterns, 133 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Aylon, HelÈne - Whatever is contained must be released: my Jewish orthodox girlhood, my life as a feminist artist, 92 A9795 A
- Broadwater, Jeff - James Madison: a son of Virginia & a founder of the nation, 92 M1825 B
- Domoslawski, Artur - Ryszard Kapuscinski: a life, 92 K178 D
- Gay American autobiography:;writings from Whitman to Sedaris , 920 G285 G
- Hadfield, Andrew - Edmund Spenser: a life, 92 S748 H
- Hale, Sheila - Titian: his life, 92 T618 H
HISTORY
- Hansen, Valerie - The Silk Road: a new history, 950 H
- Higman, B. W. - A concise history of the Caribbean, 972.9 H
- McGlynn, Sean - Blood cries afar: the forgotten invasion of England 1216, 942.03 M
- Mortimer, Ian - The time traveller's guide to Elizabethan England, 942.05 M
- Stanford, Dennis J - Across Atlantic ice: the origin of America's Clovis culture, 970.1 S OVERSIZE
- Thompson, Dorothy J. - Memphis under the Ptolemies, 932 T
- White, Jerry - London in the eighteenth century: a great and monstrous thing, 942.1 W
- Williams, R. Hal - Realigning America: McKinley, Bryan, and the remarkable election of 1896, 973.8 W
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POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Althusser, Louis - Politics and history, 320.1 A
- Beauvoir, Simone de - Political writings, 844 B
- Frisk, David B - If not us, who?: William Rusher, National review, and the conservative movement, 92 R95345 F
- Gilens, Martin - Affluence and influence: economic inequality and political power in America, 320.9 G
- Harvey, David - A companion to Marx's Capital, 335.4 H
- Jefferson, Thomas - Selected writings, 308 J
SOCIOLOGY
- Aronowitz, Stanley - Taking it big: C. Wright Mills and the making of political intellectuals, 301.15 A
- Invalid format: an anthology of Triple Canopy, 306 I
- Social class and changing families in an unequal America, 306.8 S
CHINA
- Boyd, Julia - A dance with the dragon: the vanished world of Peking's foreign colony, 951 B
- Fenby, Jonathan - Tiger head, snake tails: China today, how it got there and where it is heading, 951 F
- Intellectual history of modern China, 951 I
ECONOMICS
- Backhouse, Roger - Capitalist revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes, 330.1 B
- The 4% solution: unleashing the economic growth America needs, 330.973 F
WAR
- Guelzo, Allen C - Fateful lightning: a new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 973.7 G
- Jonas, Raymond Anthony - The Battle of Adwa: African victory in the age of empire, 963 J
- McGuire, Judith W - Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 973.78 M
- Smith, Michael - The secrets of Station X: how the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war, 940.5486 S
- Spears, Edward - Liaison 1914: a narrative of the great retreat, 940.42 S
- Stahel, David - Kiev 1941: Hitler's battle for supremacy in the East, 940.542 S
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Kiser, Joy M. - America's other Audubon, 598.2 K OVERSIZE
- Kuhn, Thomas S - The structure of scientific revolutions, 501 K
- Scharf, Caleb A. - Gravity's engines: how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos, 523 S
- Thurston, Harry - The Atlantic coast: a natural history, 574 T OVERSIZE
MATH
- Aczel, Amir D - A strange wilderness: the lives of the great mathematicians , 510.9 A
- Masters, Alexander - Simon: the genius in my basement, 92 N88874 M
- Merzbach, Uta C. - A history of mathematics, 510.9 M
AUDIO
- Leon, Donna - Drawing conclusions, Audio-CD L
- Sayers, Dorothy L - Gaudy night;a Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane mystery, Audio-CD S
- Wharton, Edith - The custom of the country, Audio-CD W
- Wodehouse, P. G - The code of the Woosters, Audio-CD W