FEBRUARY 2012 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

IN THE LOBBY:

NON-FICTION

• Alford, Henry - Would it kill you to stop doing that?: a modern guide to manners
• Anesko, Michael - Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the politics of modern literary scholarship
• Battersby, Eileen - Ordinary dogs: a story of two lives
• Bradshaw, John - In defence of dogs
• Canton, James - From Cairo to Baghdad: British travellers in Arabia
• Carnarvon, Fiona - Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey: the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
• Cohen, Patricia - In our prime: the invention of middle age
• Collins, Gail - William Henry Harrison
• Curtis, James - Spencer Tracy: a biography
• Denton, Sally - The plots against the president: FDR, a nation in crisis, and the rise of the American right
• Derr, Mark - How the dog became the dog: from wolves to our best friends
• Diski, Jenny - What I don't know about animals
• Fagan, Brian M - Elixir: a history of water and humankind
• Feinstein, John - One on one: behind the scenes with the greats in the game
• Frank, Thomas - Pity the billionaire: the hard-times swindle and the unlikely comeback of the Right
• Greatest grid: the master plan of Manhattan 1811-2011
• Hilton, Lisa - The horror of love
• Iyer, Pico - The man within my head
• Jackson, Robert W - Highway under the Hudson: a history of the Holland Tunnel
• Jump, Frank - Fading ads of New York City
• Kabaservice, Geoffrey M - Rule and ruin: the downfall of moderation and the destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party
• Kantor, Jodi - The Obamas
• Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell - A universe from nothing: why there is something rather than nothing
• Laqueur, Walter - After the fall: the end of the European dream and the decline of a continent
• Leith, Sam - You talkin' to me?: rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
• Lessig, Lawrence - Republic, lost: how money corrupts Congress--and a plan to stop it
• Levi, Erik - Mozart and the Nazis: how the Third Reich abused a cultural icon
• Marr, Andrew - The real Elizabeth: an intimate portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
• Massie, Allan - The royal Stuarts: a history of the family that shaped Britain
• Mellen, Joan - A farewell to justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's assassination, and the case that should have changed history
• Miller, Karl - Tretower to Clyro: essays
• New York diaries: 1609 to 2009
• Rosenblatt, Roger - Kayak morning: reflections on love, grief, and small boats
• Scheeres, Julia - A thousand lives: the untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown
• Scott-Heron, Gil - The last holiday: a memoir
• Shulman, Nicola - Graven with diamonds: the many lives of Thomas Wyatt: courtier, poet, assassin, spy
• Skocpol, Theda - The Tea Party and the remaking of Republican conservatism
• Small, Gary W - The Alzheimer's prevention program: keep your brain healthy for the rest of your life
• Smith, Sally Bedell - Elizabeth the Queen: the life of a modern monarch
• Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer - On rereading
• Trevor-Roper, H. R - The wartime journals
• Wynn, Thomas Grant - How to think like a Neandertal

FICTION

• Akhtar, Ayad - American dervish: a novel
• Auslander, Shalom - Hope: a tragedy: a novel
• Avery, Ellis - The last nude
• Barry, Dave - Lunatics
• Bondurant, Matt - The night swimmer: a novel
• Cornwell, Bernard - Death of kings: a novel
• Daitch, Susan - Paper conspiracies
• Delaney, Edward J - Broken Irish
• Houellebecq, Michel - The map and the territory
• Johnson, Adam - The orphan master's son: a novel
• Kay, Francesca - The translation of the bones
• Marani, Diego - New Finnish grammar
• Mercier, Pascal - Perlmann's silence
• Moran, Michelle - Madame Tussaud: a novel of the French revolution
• Nobbs, David - It had to be you
• Perlman, Elliot - The street sweeper
• Petterson, Per - It's fine by me
• Rosenbaum, Lisa Pearl - A day of small beginnings: a novel
• Saville, Guy - The Afrika Reich
• Snodin, David - Iago: a novel
• Stachniak, Eva - The Winter Palace: a novel of Catherine the Great
• Tsiolkas, Christos - Dead Europe
• Umrigar, Thrity N - The world we found: a novel
• Urrea, Luis Alberto - Queen of America: a novel
• Vanderhaeghe, Guy - A good man

SHORT STORIES

• Athill, Diana - Midsummer night in the workhouse

POETRY

• Rózewicz, Tadeusz - Sobbing superpower: selected poems of Tadeusz R?zewicz
• Tanning, Dorothea - Coming to that: poems

MYSTERIES

• Alexander, Tasha - A crimson warning*
• Baer, Neal - Kill switch
• Barbieri, Maggie - Physical education
• Barnard, Robert - A charitable body*
• Barr, Nevada - The rope
• Bates, Quentin - Cold comfort
• Burdett, John - Vulture peak
• Clark, Mary Jane Behrends - The look of love
• Connolly, John - The burning soul: a thriller
• Crais, Robert - Taken
• Dams, Jeanne M - The evil that men do: a Dorothy Martin mystery*
• Evanovich, Janet - Love in a nutshell
• Gage, Leighton - A vine in the blood
• George, Elizabeth - Believing the lie*
• Gorman, Edward - Blindside
• Griffin, W. E. B - Covert warriors
• Grippando, James - Need you now: a novel
• Haas, Derek - Dark men
• Haywood, Gar Anthony - Assume nothing
• Higgins, Jack - A devil is waiting
• Hoag, Tami - Down the darkest road
• Karp, Larry - A perilous conception
• Kellerman, Faye - Gun games
• Khoury, Raymond - The devil's elixir
• King, Jonathon - Midnight guardians: a Max Freeman thriller
• Knightly, Robert - The cold room
• Lescroart, John T - The hunter: a novel
• McInerny, Ralph - The compassion of Father Dowling
• Meier, Leslie - Chocolate covered murder: a Lucy Stone mystery
• Mosley, Walter - All I did was shoot my man
• Newton, Charlie - Start shooting: a novel
• O'Connell, Carol - The chalk girl
• Pajer, Bernadette - A spark of death
• Paretsky, Sara - Breakdown
• Parker, T. Jefferson - The jaguar: a Charlie Hood novel
• Preston, Douglas J - Gideon's corpse
• Robards, Karen - Sleepwalker
• Roslund, Anders - Cell 8
• Ryan, William - The bloody meadow
• Ryan, William - The darkening field
• Smith, Tom Rob - Agent 6
• Stevens, Taylor - The innocent: a Vanessa Michael Munroe novel
• Swierczynski, Duane - Hell and gone
• Todd, Charles - The confession*

* indicates a British mystery

IN THE STACKS:

LITERATURE

• Baldwin, James - Conversations with James Baldwin, 828.09 B
• Baudrillard, Jean - Fragments: cool memories III, 1990-1995, 848 B
• Cambridge companion to the literature of London , 820.9 C
• Cortázar, Julio - From the observatory , 868 C
• Dickie, Simon - Cruelty and laughter: forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental eighteenth century , 827.09 D
• Du Maurier, Daphne - The doll: the lost short stories , F D
• Gass, William H - Life sentences: literary judgments and accounts , 824 G
• Gordimer, Nadine - Life times: stories, 1952-2007, F G
• Locke, Richard - Critical children: the use of childhood in ten great novels , 823.08 L
• Miron, Dan - From continuity to contiguity: toward a new Jewish literary thinking , 809 M
• Penguin book of Victorian women in crime: forgotten cops and private eyes from the time of Sherlock Holmes, F P
• Roth, Joseph - Joseph Roth: a life in letters , 92 R8454 R
• Turner, Frederick W - Renegade: Henry Miller and the making of Tropic of Cancer , 823 M
• Visions and divisions: American immigration literature, 1870-1930, 808.9 V OVERSIZE
• Zweig, Stefan - The governess and other stories, F Z

POETRY

• Brunner, Edward - Cold War poetry , 821.09 B
• Charles Olson at Goddard College: April 12-14, 1962, Plainfield, Vermont , 821.09 O
• Leibowitz, Herbert A - Hart Crane: an introduction to the poetry, 821.09 C
• Leopardi, Giacomo - Leopardi: selected poems, 851 L
• T.S. Eliot: the contemporary reviews , 821.09 E
• Twentieth-century French poetry: a critical anthology , 841.09 T

ART

• Dickerman, Leah - Diego Rivera: murals for the Museum of Modern Art, 759.97 R
• Galassi, Susan Grace - Picasso's drawings, 1890-1921: reinventing tradition, 759.6 P
• Kusama, Yayoi - Infinity net: the autobiography of Yayoi Kusama , 92 K976 K
• Ozment, Steven E - The serpent & the lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the making of the Reformation, 759.3 C
• Postmodernism: style and subversion, 1970-1990, 709.04 P
• Renaissance portrait: from Donatello to Bellini, 704.942 R
• Treuherz, Julian - Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite pioneer, 759.2 B

ARCITECTURE & DESIGN

• A-Z of modern design, 745 A
• Ascher, Kate - The heights: anatomy of a skyscraper, 720 A
• Colquhoun, Alan - Modern architecture , 724 C
• Kemble, Celerie - Black & white (and a bit in between): timeless interiors, dramatic accents, and stylish collections, 747 K
• Kenny, Peter M - Duncan Phyfe: master cabinetmaker in New York, 749 K
• Naylor, David - Railroad stations: the buildings that linked the nation , 725 N
• Vitruvius Pollio - Vitruvius on architecture, 720 V

MUSEUMS & COLLECTIONS

• Cuno, James B - Museums matter: in praise of the encyclopedic museum , 069 C
• Higonnet, Anne - A museum of one's own: private collecting, public gift, 708 H
• Mauričs, Patrick - Cabinets of curiosities, 069 M OVERSIZE

JOURNALISM

• Marx, Karl - Dispatches for the New York Tribune: selected journalism of Karl Marx , 824 M
• Paterson, Peter - Much more of this, old boy-- ?: scenes from a reporter's life , 92 P2977 P

MUSIC

• Berry, Helen - The castrato and his wife , 920 B5344 C
• Gramophone classical music guide 2012, 780 G

FILM

• Bickerton, Emilie - A short history of Cahiers du cinema , 791.4 B
• Hansen, Marian Bratu - Cinema and experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno , 791.4 H
• Roberts, Jerry - The complete history of American film criticism, 791.4 R
• Sitney, P. Adams - Visionary film: the American avant-garde, 1943-2000 , 791.4 S
• Taub, Eric - Gaffers, grips, and best boys , 791.4 T

PHILOSOPHY

• Crompton, Samuel Etinde - Emanuel Swedenborg , 92 S974 C
• Ferry, Luc - A brief history of thought: a philosophical guide to living , 100 F
• What is Enlightenment?: eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions , 190 W

PSYCHOLOGY

• Bourke, Joanna - What it means to be human: reflections from 1791 to the present , 151.3 B
• McGinn, Colin - The meaning of disgust, 152 M
• Winter, Alison - Memory: fragments of a modern history , 154 W

BIOGRAPHY

• Birzer, Bradley J - American Cicero: the life of Charles Carroll , 92 C3192 B
• Blaugrund, Annette - Dispensing beauty in New York & beyond: the triumphs and tragedies of Harriet Hubbard Ayer , 92 A9763 B
• Brewster, Harry - The cosmopolites: a nineteenth-century family drama, 920 B8486 C
• Donaldson, Ian - Ben Jonson: a life , 92 J81 D
• Hollis, Matthew - Now all roads lead to France: the last years of Edward Thomas, 92 T4553 H
• James, Jamie - Rimbaud in Java: the lost voyage , 92 R5753 J
• Longerich, Peter - Heinrich Himmler , 92 H6585 L
• Simonetta, Marcello - Napoleon and the rebel: a story of brotherhood, passion, and power , 92 B6987 S
• Smith, Nigel - Andrew Marvell: the chameleon, 92 M3895 S
• Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the world, 92 B7246 U
• Volkov, Shulamit - Walther Rathenau: Weimar's fallen statesman , 92 R2344 V

RELIGION

• Vook of common prayer: the texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 , 264.03 C
• Goldstein, Phyllis - A convenient hatred: the history of antisemitism , 296.9 G
• Guibert - Monodies ;and, On the relics of saints: the autobiography and a manifesto of a French monk from the time of the crusades, 92 G944 G

ETHICS

• Bazerman, Max H - Blind spots: why we fail to do what's right and what to do about it, 174 B
• Hope, R. A - Medical ethics: a very short introduction, 174 H

SCIENCE

• Burnett, D. Graham - The sounding of the whale: science & cetaceans in the twentieth century , 599 B
• Fortey, Richard A - Survivors: the animals and plants that time has left behind , 560 F
• Gribbin, John R - Alone in the universe: why our planet is unique , 523.1 G
• Levine, George Lewis - Darwin the writer , 576 L

ECONOMICS

• Graham, Carol - The pursuit of happiness: an economy of well-being , 330 G
• Legrain, Philippe - Aftershock: reshaping the world economy after the crisis , 330.9 L
• Roberts, Keith - The origins of business, money, and markets , 330.9 R

LABOR

• McCartin, Joseph Anthony - Collision course: Ronald Reagan, the air traffic controllers, and the strike that changed America , 331.89 M
• Richards, Lawrence - Union-free America: workers and antiunion culture, 331.88 R

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Farris, Scott - Almost president: the men who lost the race but changed the nation , 324 F
• Mann, Robert - Daisy petals and mushroom clouds: LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the ad that changed American politics, 324 M
• Therborn, Göran - What does the ruling class do when it rules?: state apparatuses and state power under feudalism, capitalism and socialism , 320.1 T

SOCIOLOGY

• Hicks, Donna - Dignity: the essential role it plays in resolving conflict , 323.4 H
• Nicolson, Adam - The gentry: stories of the English, 305.5 N
• Sennett, Richard - Together: the rituals, pleasures, and politics of cooperation , 302 S

HISTORY

• Campbell, J. B - The Romans and their world, 937 C
• Davies, Norman - Vanished kingdoms: the rise and fall of states and nations , 940 D
• Evans, Martin - Algeria: France's undeclared war , 965 E
• Gundle, Stephen - Death and the dolce vita: the dark side of Rome in the 1950s , 945.6 G
• Hatton, Barry - The Portuguese: a modern history , 946.9 H
• Judt, Tony - A grand illusion?: an essay on Europe , 940.5 J
• Koselleck, Reinhart - Futures past: on the semantics of historical time , 901 K
• Philbrick, Nathaniel - Away off shore: Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890 , 974.4 P
• Siler, Julia Flynn - Lost kingdom: Hawaii's last queen, the sugar kings and America's first imperial adventure , 996.9 S
• Yokota, Kariann Akemi - Unbecoming British: how revolutionary America became a postcolonial nation , 973.3 Y

WAR

• Cohen, Eliot A - Conquered into liberty: two centuries of battles along the great warpath that made the American way of war, 355 C
• Edgerton, David - Britain's war machine: weapons, resources, and experts in the Second World War, 355.26 E
• Henderson, Timothy J - A glorious defeat: Mexico and its war with the United States, 973.62 H
• Taubman, Philip - The partnership: five cold warriors and their quest to ban the bomb , 355.4 T
• Thompson, Julian - Dunkirk: retreat to victory, 940.542 T

MIDDLE EAST

• Barr, James - A line in the sand: the Anglo-French struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948 , 956 B
• Blanford, Nicholas - Warriors of God: inside Hezbollah's thirty-year struggle against Israel , 956.9 B
• Silver, Eric - Dateline: Jerusalem: reporting the Middle East 1967-2008 , 956.94 S

INDIA

• Bose, Sugata - His majesty's opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's struggle against empire , 92 B7435 B
• Deb, Siddhartha - The beautiful and the damned: a portrait of the new India, 954 D
• Tully, Mark - India: the road ahead, 954 T

NEW YORK

• Plasse, Jon - The stadium: images and voices of the original Yankee Stadium , 796.3 P
• Ribak, Gil - Gentile New York: the images of non-Jews among Jewish immigrants , 305.86 R
• Rohs, Edward - Raised by the Church: growing up in New York City's Catholic orphanages , 362.7 R
• Yee, Shirley J - An immigrant neighborhood: interethnic and interracial encounters in New York before 1930 , 305.8 Y

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

• Bird, Isabella L - Korea and her neighbours /, 915.19 B
• Blythe, Ronald - At the yeoman's house , 914.26 B
• Robinson, Tim - Connemara: a little Gaelic kingdom , 914.15 R

AUDIO

• Agee, James - A death in the family, Audio-CD A
• Du Maurier, Daphne - Jamaica Inn, Audio-CD D
• Lovecraft, H. P - The call of Cthulhu and other stories, Audio-CD L
• Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich - The stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Audio-CD N
• Wallace, David Foster - Selected essays from Consider the lobster and other essays, Audio-CD 824 W

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