IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Allen, Arthur - The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl: how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis
• Asquith, Margot - Margot Asquith's Great War diary 1914-1916: the view from Downing Street selected and edited by Michael and Elanor Brock ; with the assistance of Mark Pottle.
• Beard, Mary - Laughter in ancient Rome: on joking, tickling, and cracking up
• Blanding, Michael - The map thief: the gripping story of an esteemed rare-map dealer who made millions stealing priceless maps
• Croke, Vicki - Elephant Company: the inspiring story of an unlikely hero and the animals who helped him save lives in World War II
• Devine, Jack - Good hunting: an American spymaster's story
• Dolnick, Edward - The rush: America's fevered quest for fortune, 1848-1853
• Duffy, Peter - Double agent: the first hero of World War II and how the FBI outwitted and destroyed a Nazi spy ring
• Franks, Lucinda - Timeless: love, Morgenthau, and me Lucinda Franks.
• Halper, Daniel - Clinton, Inc.: the audacious rebuilding of a political machine 
• Ham, Paul - Hiroshima, Nagasaki: the real story of the atomic bombings and their aftermath
• Levitin, Daniel J. - The organized mind: thinking straight in the age of information overload
• Lewis, Charles - 935 lies: the future of truth and the decline of America's moral integrity
• Macintyre, Ben - A spy among friends: Kim Philby and the great betrayal 
• Mendelsund, Peter - What we see when we read: a phenomenology (with illustrations Peter Mendelsund)
• Meredith, Andrew - The removers: a memoir 
• Perlstein, Rick - The invisible bridge: the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan 
• Shiffman, John - Operation Shakespeare: the true story of an elite international sting 
• Sides, Hampton - In the kingdom of ice: the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS
• Skyhorse, Brando - Take this man: a memoir 
• Stanley, Bob - Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: the story of pop music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé 
• Swafford, Jan - Beethoven : anguish and triumph: a biography
• Thorpe, Helen - Soldier girls: the battles of three women at home and at war 
• Windrow, Martin - The owl who liked sitting on Caesar: living with a tawny owl Martin Windrow; illustrations by Christa Hook

FICTION

• Akhtiorskaya, Yelena - Panic in a suitcase: a novel 
• Barker, Nicola - In the approaches
• Bausch, Richard - Before, during, after
• Beauman, Sally - The visitors 
• Bennett, Vanora - The White Russian 
• Bitov, Andrei - The symmetry teacher Andrei Bitov (translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon)
• Bloom, Amy - Lucky us
• Bohjalian, Chris  - Close your eyes, hold hands
• Canobbio, Andrea - Three light-years Andrea Canobbio (translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel)
• Carter, Stephen L. - Back channel
• Fesperman, Dan - Unmanned 
• Flanagan, Richard - The narrow road to the deep north
• Fremantle, Elizabeth - Sisters of treason
• Gabaldon, Diana - Written in my own heart's blood
• Gaffney, Elizabeth - When the world was young
• Galgut, Damon - Arctic summer
• Garwood, Julie - Fast track
• Gee, Maggie - Virginia Woolf in Manhattan
• Goodwin, Daisy - The fortune hunter
• Grossman, Lev - The magician's land
• Gwyn, Aaron - Wynne's war 
• Hellenga, Robert  - The confessions of Frances Godwin
• Johnston, Bret Anthony - Remember me like this
• Lacey, Catherine - Nobody is ever missing
• Lawson, Mary - Road ends
• Lerner, Ben - 10:04
• Ma, Kathryn - The year she left us
• MacVeagh, Lincoln - Paisley mischief
• Maum, Courtney - I am having so much fun here without you
• Moriarty, Liane - Big little lies
• Murakami, Haruki - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage (translated by Philip Gabriel)
• Row, Jess - Your face in mine
• Rowell, Rainbow - Landline
• Seiffert, Rachel - The walk home
• Steel, Danielle - A perfect life
• Weil, Josh - The great glass sea
• Williams, Beatriz - The secret life of Violet Grant
• Williams, Niall - History of the rain

MYSTERIES

• Airth, Rennie - The reckoning
• Andrews, Donna - The good, the bad, and the emus: a Meg Langslow mystery
• Arsenault, Emily - What strange creatures
• Atkins, Ace - The forsaken
• Börjlind, Cecilia - Spring tide (translated by Rod Bradbury)
• Bowen, Rhys - Queen of hearts
• Cain, Chelsea - One Kick
• Carcaterra, Lorenzo - The wolf
• Cleeland, Anne - Murder in retribution
• Cumming, Charles - A colder war*
• Davis, Lindsey - Enemies at home
• De Giovanni, Maurizio - By my hand: the Christmas of Commissario Ricciardi (translated from the Italian by Anthony Shugaar)
• Downie, Ruth - Tabula rasa : a crime novel of the Roman Empire*
• Fossum, Karin - I can see in the dark (translated from the Norwegian by James Anderson)
• Fuller, Samuel - Brainquake
• Greaney, Mark - [Tom Clancy] Support and defend: a Campus novel
• Griffin, W. E. B. - Top secret (with William E. Butterworth IV)
• Harkaway, Nick - Tigerman
• Jance, Judith A. - Remains of innocence
• Johansen, Iris - Sight unseen
• Krueger, William Kent - Windigo Island
• Lashner, William - Bagmen: a Victor Carl novel
• Lin, Ed - Ghost month
• Mark, David John - Sorrow bound: a Detective Sergeant McAvoy novel*
• Maron, Margaret - Designated daughters
• McCall Smith, Alexander - Sunshine on Scotland Street: a 44 Scotland Street novel
• McGrath, M. J. - The bone seeker
• McIlvanney, William - Laidlaw
• Mishani, Dror - A possibility of violence (translated from the Hebrew by Todd Hasak-Lowy)
• Murphy, Yannick - This is the water
• Penny, Louise - The long way home
• Preston, Douglas J. - The lost island
• Rader-Day, Lori - The black hour 
• Rimington, Stella - Close call : a Liz Carlyle novel*
• Ripley, Mike - Mr Campion's farewell *
• Rooney, Jennie - Red Joan
• Tanenbaum, Robert - Fatal conceit
• Thor, Brad - Act of war
• Ulfelder, Steve - Wolverine Bros. freight & storage: a Conway Sax mystery
• Villiers, Gérard de - The madmen of Benghazi (translated from the French by William Rodarmor)
• Yates, Christopher J. - Black chalk*

* Indicates a British mystery

POETRY

• Fairchild, B. H. - The blue buick : new and selected poems
• Hillman, Brenda - Seasonal works with letters on fire
• McLane, Maureen N. - This blue
• Williams, C. K.  - All at once
• Young, Kevin - Book of hours

SHORT STORIES

• Grand Central: original stories of postwar love and reunion with an introduction by Kristin Hannah.
• Dybek, Stuart - Ecstatic cahoots : fifty short stories
• Gordon, Mary - The liar's wife
• Livings, Jack - The dog
• Piercy, Marge - The cost of lunch, etc.
• Swift, Graham - England and other stories

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• Abbott, H. Porter - The Cambridge introduction to narrative 808.3 A
• Franz Kafka: narration, rhetoric, and reading (ed. by Jakob Lothe, et. al) 833 K
• Johnson, Barbara - A life with Mary Shelley 823.09 J
• Le Faye, Deirdre - Jane Austen's country life: uncovering the rural backdrop to her life, her letters and her novels 823 A
• MD: Marguerite Duras world premiere: The dogs of Prague, the Jewish Theatre, Stockholm 2007 (Pia Forsgren and Barbro Schultz Lundestam, eds.) 843 D
• Smart, John - Tarantula's web: John Hayward, T.S. Eliot and their circle 92 H4275 S
• Steinbeck, John - Conversations with John Steinbeck 823 S
• Watt, Adam A. - Marcel Proust 92 P9686 W
• Willis, Ellen - The essential Ellen Willis 824 W

POETRY

• Levertov, Denise - Collected poems 821 L
• Mayakovsky, Vladimir - Vladimir Mayakovsky: selected poems 891.71 M
• Olson, Charles - Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: a modern correspondence92 O526 O
• Villon, François - The testament and other poems 841 V

ART

• Léger: modern art and the metropolis 759.4 L
• Allen, Christopher - French painting in the Golden Age (17th century) 759.4 A
• Hammer, Martin - Francis Bacon 709.2 B
• Johnson, Ray - Not nothing: selected writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994 92 J686 R
• Nuttall, Paula - Face to face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance painting 759.9 N
• Troy, Nancy J. - The afterlife of Piet Mondrian 759.9 M
• Unger, Miles - Michelangelo: a life in six masterpieces 709.2 M
• Williams, R. John - The Buddha in the machine: art, technology, and the meeting of East and West 327.5 W

DRAMA

• The Methuen drama guide to contemporary American playwrights (Martin Middeke, et. al) 822.09 M
• Rutter, Tom - The Cambridge introduction to Christopher Marlowe 822.09 M
• Sweet, Jeffrey - The O'Neill: transformation of modern American theater 792.0973 S

FILM

• Killer images: documentary film, memory and the performance of violence (Joram Ten Brink & Joshua Oppenheimer, eds.) 302 K
• Mizruchi, Susan L. - Brando's smile: his life, thought, and work , 92 B819 M
• Prinzler, Hans Helmut. - Sirens & sinners: a visual history of Weimar film, 1918-1933 , 791.4 P

MUSIC

• Lambert, Philip - Alec Wilder 780.921 L
• Osborne, Charles - The complete operas of Puccini: a critical guide 782.1 O
• Selvin, Joel - Here comes the night: the dark soul of Bert Berns and the dirty business of rhythm & blues 784.6 S

FICTION

• Carpenter, Don - The true life story of Jody McKeegan F C
• Chevallier, Gabriel - Fear: a novel of World War I (translated from the French by Malcolm Imrie) F C
• Fallada, Hans - Tales from the underworld: selected shorter fiction (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann) F F
• Giono, Jean - To the slaughterhouse ( translated from the French by Norman Glass) F G

BOOKS & READING

• The humanities and public life (Peter Brooks, ed.) 001 H
• The library as an agency of culture (Thomas Augst, ed.) 021 L
• Hebron, Stephen - Marks of genius: masterpieces from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries 708 H

BIOGRAPHY

• Conrad, Joseph - A personal record: some reminiscences 92 C754 C
• Lewis, David L. - The pleasures of being out of step: Nat Hentoff on journalism, jazz and the First Amendment: an oral history 92 H5277 L
• Röhl, John C. G. - Wilhelm II: into the abyss of war and exile, 1900-1941 92 W6782 R
• Scharnhorst, Gary - Julian Hawthorne: the life of a prodigal son 92 H3991 S
• Toussaint Louverture - The memoir of general Toussaint Louverture 92 T7345 T
• Wyndham, Joan - Love lessons: a wartime diary 92 W9859 W
• Zahniser, Jill Diane - Alice Paul: claiming power 92 P3241 Z

HISTORY

• Benjamin, Vernon - The history of the Hudson River Valley: from wilderness to the Civil War 974.7 B
• Confino, Alon. - A world without Jews: the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide 940.5318 C
• Early American abolitionists: a collection of anti-slavery writings, 1760-1820 326 E
• Furstenberg, François - When the United States spoke French: five refugees who shaped a nation 973.4 F
• Hansen, Randall - Disobeying Hitler: German resistance after Valkyrie 943.086 H
• Horne, Gerald - The counter-revolution of 1776: slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America 973.31 G
• Huret, Romain - American tax resisters 336.2 H
• Hutchinson, Robert - The Spanish Armada 942.05 H
• The Nixon tapes, 1971-1972 (Douglas Brinkley, ed.) 973.924 N

ANTIQUITY

• Freeman, Charles - Egypt, Greece, and Rome: civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean 930 F
• Smith, Christopher John - The Etruscans: a very short introduction 937 S

PHILOSOPHY

• Downing, Lisa - The Cambridge introduction to Michel Foucault 194 D
• Irvine, William Braxton - A guide to the good life: the ancient art of Stoic joy 188 I
• Lachman, Gary - Swedenborg: an introduction to his life and ideas 92 S974 L
• White, David Gordon - The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: a biography 181 W

SPORTS & RECREATION

• Hoffer, Richard - Bouts of mania: Ali, Frazier, and Foreman and an America on the ropes 796.8 H
• Will, George F. - A nice little place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at one hundred 796.3 W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Mulloy, D. J. - The world of the John Birch Society: conspiracy, conservatism, and the Cold War 322.4 M
• Ryan, Alan - On Marx: revolutionary and utopian 335.4 R

MIDDLE EAST

• Marozzi, Justin - Baghdad: city of peace, city of blood 956.7 M
• Mousavian, Seyyed Hossein - Iran and the United States: an insider's view on the failed past and the road to peace 327.73 M
• Shapira, Anita - Israel: a history 956.94 S

RELIGION

• Harline, Paula Kelly - The polygamous wives writing club: from the diaries of Mormon pioneer women 289.3 H
• Koudounaris, Paul - Heavenly bodies: cult treasures & spectacular saints from the catacombs 235 K
• Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca - Simone Weil and theology 210 R
• Satlow, Michael L. - How the Bible became holy 220.1 S
• Spencer, Nick - Atheists: the origin of the species 211 S

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Pisani, Elizabeth - Indonesia etc.: exploring the improbable nation 959.8 P
• Rogers, John - This other London: adventures in the overlooked city 914.21 R
• Szczygiel, Mariusz - Gottland: mostly true stories from half of Czechoslovakia 943.7 S
• Youngs, Tim - The Cambridge introduction to travel writing 808 Y

FOOD & DRINK

• Frankel, Charles - Land and wine: the French terroir 634.8 F
• Teicholz, Nina - The big fat surprise: why butter, meat, and cheese belong in a healthy diet 394.1 T

WAR

• Adams, Michael C. C. - Living hell: the dark side of the Civil War 973.74 A
• Jenkins, Philip - The great and holy war: how World War I became a religious crusade 940.3 J
• Knight, R. J. B. - Britain against Napoleon: the organization of victory, 1793-1815 940.27 K
• Porch, Douglas - Counterinsurgency: exposing the myths of the new way of war 355 P
• Rosbottom, Ronald C. - When Paris went dark: the City of Light under German occupation, 1940-1944 944.081 R
• Smith, Lorenzo N. - Lingo of no man's land: a World War I slang dictionary 355.1 S

MYTHOLOGY & LEGEND

• The classic of mountains and seas (translated from the Chinese by Anne Birrell) 398.2 S
• Kroonenberg, Salomon Bernard - Why hell stinks of sulfur: mythology and geology of the underworld 551 K

VINTAGE NOIR

• Braly, Malcolm - Shake him till he rattles & It's cold out there (two novels in one volume) F B
• Chaze, Elliott - Black wings has my angel F C
• Curtis, James - They drive by night F C
• Ritt, Brian - Paperback confidential: crime writers of the paperback era 820.3 R
• Simenon, Georges - The carter of La Providence (David Coward, transl.) & The hanged man of Saint-Pholien (Linda Coverdale, transl.) F S
• Williams, Charles - Nothing in her way & River Girl (two novels in one volume) & The hot spot F W

SCIENCE

• Humboldt, Alexander von - Views of nature 574 H
• Nestor, James - Deep: freediving, renegade science, and what the ocean tells us about ourselves 797.2 N

NEW YORK

• Fuller, Samuel - New York in the 1930s 917.471 F
• Payne, Christopher - North Brother Island: the last unknown place in New York City 974.71 P
• Susser, Ida - Norman street: poverty and politics in an urban neighborhood (Greenpoint, Brooklyn) 307.76 S

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