NEW BOOKS:
NON-FICTION
- Aczel, Amir D - The artist and the mathematician: the story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who never existed
- Bakke, Kit - Miss Alcott's e-mail: yours for reforms of all kinds : a bio-memoir
- Bennett, Sara - The case against homework: how homework is hurting our children and what we can do about it
- Book that changed my life: 71 remarkable writers celebrate the books that matter most to them
- Brizendine, Louann - The female brain
- Buchwald, Art - Too soon to say goodbye
- Burleigh, Michael - Sacred causes: religion and politics from the European dictators to Al Qaeda
- Cahill, Thomas - Mysteries of the Middle Ages: the rise of feminism, science, and art from the cults of Catholic Europe
- Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, patron of the avant-garde, 759 C
- Cohen, Stanley - Execution of Officer Becker: the murder of a gambler, the trial of a cop, and the birth of organized crime
- Crosby, Molly Caldwell - The American plague: the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history
- Dalrymple, William - The last Mughal: the fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857
- Dukakis, Kitty - Shock: the healing power of electroconvulsive therapy
- Fisher, M. F. K - A stew or a story: an assortment of short works by M.F.K. Fisher
- FitzGerald, Michael C - Picasso and American art
- Fraser, Antonia - Love and Louis XIV: the women in the life of the Sun King
- Gabler, Neal - Walt Disney: the triumph of the American imagination
- Goldstein, Judith S - Inventing Great Neck: Jewish identity and the American dream
- Guiliano, Mireille - French women for all seasons: a year of secrets, recipes & pleasure
- Hampl, Patricia - Blue arabesque: a search for the sublime
- Hornby, Nick - Housekeeping vs. the dirt
- Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos - On becoming fearless: in love, work, and life
- IIf, Ilya & Evgeny Petrov - Ilf and Petrov's American road trip: the 1935 travelogue of two Soviet writers
- Khalidi, Rashid - The iron cage: the story of the Palestinian struggle for statehood
- Kirschner, Ann - Sala's gift: my mother's Holocaust story
- Korda, Michael - Journey to a revolution: a personal memoir and history of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- Kuczynski, Alex - Beauty junkies: inside our $15 billion obsession with cosmetic surgery
- Lanpher, Katherine - Leap days: chronicles of a midlife move
- Mamet, David - The wicked son: anti-Semitism, self-hatred, and the Jews
- Marshall, Alex - Beneath the metropolis: the secret lives of cities
- Marton, Kati - The great escape: nine Jews who fled Hitler and changed the world
- Max, D. T - The family that couldn't sleep: a medical mystery
- McGovern, George S - Out of Iraq: a practical plan for withdrawal now
- McInerney, Jay - A hedonist in the cellar: adventures in wine
- Mitford, Jessica - Decca: the letters of Jessica Mitford
- New York Botanical Garden, 338.7 F
- Peril, Lynn - College girls: bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now
- Peterson, Dale - Jane Goodall: the woman who redefined man
- Pollock, Lindsay - The girl with the gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert and the making of the modern art market
- Pryce-Jones, David - Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews
- Puls, Mark - Samuel Adams: father of the American Revolution
- Richardson, Robert D - William James: in the maelstrom of American modernism
- Ruhlman, Michael - The reach of a chef: beyond the kitchen
- Satrapi, Marjane - Chicken with plums
- Schor, Esther H - Emma Lazarus
- Sherr, Lynn - Outside the box: a memoir
- Sonnino, Piera - This has happened: an Italian family in Auschwitz
- Steyn, Mark - America alone: the end of the world as we know it
- Uglow, Jennifer S - Nature's engraver: a life of Thomas Bewick
- Vidal, Gore - Point to point navigation: a memoir, 1964 to 2006
- Virgil - The Aeneid
- Weisskopf, Michael - Blood brothers: among the soldiers of Ward 57
- Williams, Emma - It's easier to reach heaven than the end of the street: a Jerusalem memoir
- Williams, Kate - England's mistress: the infamous life of Emma Hamilton
FICTION
- Allende, Isabel - Ines of my soul
- Anthony, Piers - Stork naked
- Connolly, John - The book of lost things
- Coupland, Douglas - JPod: a novel
- Daley, Robert - Pictures
- DeMille, Nelson - Wild fire: a novel
- Evans, Richard Paul - Finding Noel
- Flynn, Michael - Eifelheim
- French, Marilyn - In the name of friendship
- Hope, Christopher - My mother's lovers
- Kalla, Daniel - Rage therapy
- Kehlmann, Daniel - Measuring the world
- Ledgard, J. M - Giraffe
- Lehrer, James - The phony marine: a novel
- Maine, David - The book of Samson
- O'Brien, Edna - The light of evening
- Powers, Richard - The echo maker
- Pynchon, Thomas - Against the day
- Shaara, Jeff - The rising tide: a novel of World War II
- Sparks, Nicholas - Dear John
- Steel, Danielle - H.R.H.
- Thomas, Scarlett - The end of Mr. Y
- Turner, Frederick W. - Redemption:
- Ward, Kyle Roy - History in the making: an absorbing look at how American history has changed in the telling over the last 200 years
- Watts, Peter - Blindsight
MYSTERIES
- Arnaldur Indrioason - Voices
- Barbieri, Maggie - Murder 101
- Black, Benjamin - Christine Falls
- Cauley, Harry - Millersburg
- Chan, Cassandra - Village affairs*
- Church, James - A corpse in the Koryo
- Clark, Mary Higgins - Santa cruise: a holiday mystery at sea
- Estep, Maggie - Flamethrower: a Ruby Murphy mystery
- Freedman, J. F - A killing in the valley: a novel
- Frei, Pierre - Berlin: a novel
- Hiaasen, Carl - Nature girl
- Hillerman, Tony - The shape shifter
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Capital crimes
- O'Shaughnessy, Perri - Keeper of the keys
- Parker, Robert B. - Hundred-dollar baby
- Patterson, James - Cross
- Perry, Anne - A Christmas secret: a novel*
- Rankin, Ian - Bleeding hearts: a novel*
- Rankin, Ian - The naming of the dead*
- Ripley, Ann - Death in the orchid garden: a gardening mystery
- Robb, J. D. - Born in death
- Starr, Jason - Lights out
- Taylor, Andrew - Naked to the hangman
- Thornton, Betsy - A whole new life
- Truman, Margaret - Murder at the opera: a capital crimes novel
- Turow, Scott - Limitations
- Wambaugh, Joseph - Hollywood station: a novel
- Wilson, Robert - The hidden assassins
* indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Conrad: the critical heritage, 823 C
- Dante Alighieri - Dante in English, 851.09 D
- Hazlitt, William - On the pleasure of hating, 824 H
- Putnam, Michael C. J - Poetic interplay: Catullus and Horace, 874.1 P
- Sorrentino, Gilbert - Something said, 809 S
- Twain, Mark - Mark Twain: the complete interviews, 92 T9694 T
POETRY
- American religious poems: an anthology, 821.08 A
- Bunting, Basil - Basil Bunting on poetry, 821.09 B
- Chiasson, Dan - Natural history: poems, 821 C
- Macha, Karel Hynek - May, 891.86 M
- Murray, Les A. - The biplane houses: poems, 821 M
- Notley, Alice - Grave of light: new and selected poems, 1970-2005, 821 N
- Ondaatje, Michael - The cinnamon peeler: selected poems, 821 O
BOOKS & READING
ART
- Brown, David Alan - Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian painting, 759.5 B
- Chapman, Hugo - Michelangelo drawings: closer to the master, 741.3 M
- Cowling, Elizabeth - Visiting Picasso : the notebooks and letters of Roland Penrose, 759.6 P
- Foister, Susan - Holbein and England, 759.3 H
- Tuttle, Richard - The art of Richard Tuttle, 709.2 T
- Wolff, Justin P - Richard Caton Woodville: American painter, artful dodger, 759.1 W
- Zurier, Rebecca - Picturing the city: urban vision and the Ashcan School, 759.1 Z
ARCHITECTURE
PHOTOGRAPHY
MUSIC
- Cantwell, Robert - Bluegrass breakdown: the making of the old southern sound, 781.5 C
- Don Giovanni moment: essays on the legacy of an opera, 782.1 D
- Messing, Scott - Schubert in the European imagination, 780.92 S
- Moore, Jerrold Northrop - Elgar on record: the composer and the gramophone, 780.92 E
- Rose, Gilbert J. - Between couch and piano: psychoanalysis, music, art and neuroscience, 780.1 R
PHILOSOPHY & ETHICS
- Bowman, James - Honor: a history, 170 B
- Hauser, Marc D - Moral minds: how nature designed our universal sense of right and wrong, 171 H
- Kant, Immanuel - Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime, 193 K
- Kenny, Anthony John Patrick - Ancient philosophy, 180 K
- Wiggins, David - Ethics: twelve lectures on the philosophy of morality, 170 W
BIOGRAPHY & LETTERS
- Cornwell, John - Seminary boy, 92 C82184 C
- Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith - Caesar: the life of a colossus, 92 C128 G
- Moore, Lucy - Liberty: the lives and times of six women in Revolutionary France, 920 M8224 L
- Olson, Charles - Selected letters, 92 O526 O
- To marry an Indian: the marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in letters, 1823-1839, 920 B7566 T
HISTORY
- Charny, Geoffroi de - A knight's own book of chivalry : Geoffroi De Charny, 394.7 C
- Fursenko, A. A - Khrushchev's cold war: the inside story of an American adversary, 327.47 F
- I wish I'd been there: twenty historians bring to life dramatic events that changed America, 973 I
- MacFarquhar, Roderick - Mao's last revolution, 951 M
- Margolius, Ivan - Reflections of Prague: journeys through the 20th century, 943.71 M
- Rappleye, Charles - Sons of Providence: the Brown brothers, the slave trade, and the American Revolution, 326 R
- Roberts, Andrew - A history of the English-speaking peoples since 1900, 942 R
- Sokol, Jason - There goes my everything: white Southerners in the age of civil rights, 1945-1975, 305.8 S
- Tyerman, Christopher - God's war: a new history of the Crusades, 940.1 T
MILITARY
- Berthon, Simon - Warlords: an extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, 940.532 B
- Groom, Winston - Patriotic fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans, 973.52 G
- Nelson, James L - Benedict Arnold's navy: the ragtag fleet that lost the Battle of Lake Champlain but won the American Revolution, 973.33 N
- Operation homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the words of U.S. troops and their families, 956.704 O
- Wortman, Marc - The millionaires' unit: the aristocratic flyboys who fought the Great War and invented America's airpower, 940.44 W
MIDDLE EAST
AFRICA
- Campbell, James T - Middle passages: African American journeys to Africa, 1787-2005, 916 C
- Denti di Pirajno, Alberto - A cure for serpents: a doctor in Africa, 916.1 D
- Flint, Julie - Darfur: a short history of a long war, 962 F
- Greene, Melissa Fay - There is no me without you: one woman's odyssey to rescue Africa's children, 362.7 G
- Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall - The old way: a story of the first people, 968 T
NEW YORK CITY
NATURAL HISTORY
- Cutright, Paul Russell - Lewis and Clark: pioneering naturalists, 574 C
- Linne, Carl von - Linnaeus' Philosophia botanica, 580 L
- Ogilvie, Brian W - The science of describing: natural history in Renaissance Europe, 509 O
- Owen, David - Tasmanian devil: a unique and threatened animal, 599 O
- Tudge, Colin - The tree: a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter, 582 T
SCIENCE
RELIGION
PSYCHOLOGY
SPIRITUALISM & THE OCCULT
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Ahmad, Eqbal - The selected writings of Eqbal Ahmad, 327 A
- Dean, John W - Conservatives without conscience, 320.1 D
- Dworkin, R. M - Is democracy possible here?: principles for a new political debate, 321.8 D
- Linker, Damon - The theocons: secular America under siege, 322.1 L
- Porter, Bernard - Empire and superempire: Britain, America and the world, 325.3 P
TERRORISM
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
AUDIO
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