February 2012 Books
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
- RÛzewicz, 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
- Cort·zar, 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
- MauriËs, 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, Gˆran - 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