August 2013 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Achorn, Edward - The summer of beer and whiskey: how brewers, barkeeps, rowdies, immigrants, and a wild pennant fight made baseball America's game
- Adams, John M - The millionaire and the mummies: Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings
- Aldersey-Williams, Hugh - Anatomies: a cultural history of the human body
- Alexandrov, Vladimir E - The Black Russian
- Always apprentices: the Believer magazine presents twenty-two conversations between writers
- Aslan, Reza - Zealot: the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth
- Balding, Clare - My animals and other family
- Barra, Allen - Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the parallel lives of baseball's golden age
- Berg, David - Run, brother, run: a memoir of a murder in my family
- Bergner, Daniel - What do women want?: adventures in the science of female desire
- Brunton, Finn - Spam: a shadow history of the Internet
- Buchanan, Jessica - Impossible odds: the kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and her dramatic rescue by SEAL Team Six
- Caputo, Philip - The longest road: overland in search of America from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
- Carr, Sarah - Hope against hope: three schools, one city, and the struggle to educate America's children
- Carroll, Andrew - Here is where: discovering America's great forgotten history
- Caryl, Christian - Strange rebels: 1979 and the birth of the 21st century
- Christensen, Kate - Blue plate special: an autobiography of my appetites
- Churchwell, Sarah Bartlett - Careless people: murder, mayhem and the invention of The Great Gatsby
- Clarke, Thurston - JFK's last hundred days: the transformation of a man and the emergence of a great president
- Corchado, Alfredo - Midnight in Mexico: a reporter's journey through a country's descent into darkness
- Coster, Theo - We all wore stars: memories of Anne Frank from her classmates
- Coughlin, Con - Churchill's first war: young Winston and the fight against the Taliban
- Critchley, Simon - Stay, illusion!: the Hamlet doctrine
- Crystal, David - Spell it out: the curious, enthralling and extraordinary story of English spelling
- Daly, Michael - Topsy: the startling story of the crooked-tailed elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American wizard, Thomas Edison
- Dear Mark Twain: letters from his readers
- Downing, Ben - Queen bee of Tuscany: the redoubtable Janet Ross
- Eisler, Benita - The red man's bones: George Catlin, artist and showman
- Evans, Peter - Ava Gardner: the secret conversations
- Everett, Rupert - Vanished years
- Fox, Charles - Uncommon youth: the gilded life and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III
- Fullilove, Michael - Rendezvous with destiny: how Franklin D. Roosevelt and five extraordinary men took America into the War and into the world
- Geragos, Mark - Mistrial: an inside look at how the criminal justice system works-- and sometimes doesn't
- Glass, Loren - Counterculture colophon: Grove press, the Evergreen review, and the incorporation of the avant-garde
- Golay, Michael - America 1933: the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal
- Golden, Eve - John Gilbert: the last of the silent film stars
- Graeber, David - The democracy project: a history, a crisis, a movement
- Graham, Peter - Anne Perry and the murder of the century
- Griswold, Mac K - The manor: three centuries at a slave plantation on Long Island
- Grosz, Stephen - The examined life: how we lose and find ourselves
- Hafner, Katie - Mother, daughter, me: a memoir
- Hanson, Victor Davis - The savior generals: how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq
- Hattersley, Roy - The Devonshires: the story of a family and a nation
- Horowitz, Joseph - "On my way": the untold story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess
- Hubbard, R. Glenn - Balance: the economics of great powers from ancient Rome to modern America
- Ilgunas, Ken - Walden on wheels
- Jager, Sheila Miyoshi - Brothers at war: the unending conflict in Korea
- Jaglom, Henry - My lunches with Orson: conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
- Kenney, Charles - No ordinary life: the biography of Elizabeth J. McCormack
- King, Dean - The feud: the Hatfields & McCoys : the true story
- Koerner, Brendan I - The skies belong to us: love and terror in the golden age of hijacking
- Kolker, Robert - Lost girls: an unsolved American mystery
- Kurlansky, Mark - Ready for a brand new beat: how "Dancing in the street" became the anthem for a changing America
- Kuttner, Robert - Debtors' prison: the politics of austerity versus possibility
- Lacey, James - Moment of battle: the twenty clashes that changed the world
- LeBor, Adam - Tower of Basel: the shadowy history of the secret bank that runs the world
- Leibovich, Mark - This town: two parties and a funeral--plus, plenty of valet parking!--in America's gilded capital
- Livio, Mario - Brilliant blunders: from Darwin to Einstein : colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe
- Lyons, Jonathan - The Society for Useful Knowledge: how Benjamin Franklin and friends brought the Enlightenment to America
- Mackrell, Judith - Flappers: six women of a dangerous generation
- Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor - Big data: a revolution that will transform how we live, work, and think
- McDade, Travis - Thieves of Book Row: New York's most notorious rare book ring and the man who stopped it
- Montross, Christine - Falling into the fire: a psychiatrist's encounters with the mind in crisis
- Mooallem, Jon - Wild ones: a sometimes dismaying, weirdly reassuring story about looking at people looking at animals in America
- Moore, Lucy - Nijinsky
- Nadeau, Jean-Benoît - The story of Spanish
- Nadis, Fred - The man from Mars: Ray Palmer's amazing pulp journey
- The New York review abroad: fifty years of international reportage
- Nichols, John - Dollarocracy: how the money-and-media election complex is destroying America
- Norman, Howard A - I hate to leave this beautiful place
- Offit, Paul A - Do you believe in magic?: the sense and nonsense of alternative medicine
- Omar, Qais Akbar - A fort of nine towers: an Afghan family story
- Pipher, Mary Bray - The green boat: reviving ourselves in our capsized culture
- Quinn, Christine - With patience and fortitude: a memoir
- Raghavan, Anita - The billionaire's apprentice: the rise of the Indian-American elite and the fall of the Galleon hedge fund
- Raine, Adrian - The anatomy of violence: the biological roots of crime
- Sales, Nancy Jo - The bling ring: how a gang of fame-obsessed teens ripped off Hollywood and shocked the world
- Sandler, Lauren - One and only: the freedom of having an only child, and the joy of being one
- Schneider, Nathan - God in proof: the story of a search, from the ancients to the Internet
- Segrave, Elisa - The girl from Station X: my mother's unknown life
- Snow, Richard - I invented the modern age: the rise of Henry Ford
- Stein, Ellin - That's not funny, that's sick: the National lampoon and the comedy insurgents who captured the mainstream
- Sunstein, Cass R - Simpler: the future of government
- Tanenbaum, Robert - Echoes of my soul
- Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall - A million years with you: a memoir of life observed
- Urban, Mark - The tank war: the men, the machines and the long road to victory
- Wharton, William - Shrapnel: a memoir
- Willis, Deborah - Envisioning emancipation: Black Americans and the end of slavery
- Wolf, Peter M - My New Orleans, gone away: a memoir of loss and renewal
- Zemeckis, Leslie Harter - Behind the Burly Q: the story of Burlesque in America
FICTION
- Altai (Wu Ming - writers collective)
- Aw, Tash - Five star billionaire: a novel
- Bagshawe, Tilly - Sidney Sheldon's The tides of memory
- Banks, Iain - The quarry
- Barry, Max - Lexicon
- Begley, Louis - Memories of a marriage
- Bohjalian, Chris - The light in the ruins: a novel
- Boswell, Robert - Tumbledown: a novel
- Bulawayo, NoViolet - We need new names: a novel
- Burnard, Bonnie - Suddenly
- Carlson, Ron - Return to Oakpine
- Carpenter, Lea - Eleven days
- Clanchy, Kate - Meeting the English
- De Giovanni, Maurizio - The crocodile
- De Kretser, Michelle - Questions of travel: a novel
- Dinsdale, Robert - Little exiles
- Dunant, Sarah - Blood & beauty: the Borgias : a novel
- Fagan, Jenni - The panopticon: a novel
- Freeman, Ru - On Sal Mal Lane: a novel
- Georget, Philippe - Summertime, all the cats are bored
- Gilbert, David - & sons: a novel
- Gregory, Philippa - The white princess
- Hall, Louisa - The carriage house: a novel
- Hamilton-Paterson, James - Under the radar: a novel
- Hiebert, Michael - Dream with little angels
- Hilderbrand, Elin - Beautiful day: a novel
- Kalotay, Daphne - Sight reading: a novel
- Koslow, Sally - The widow waltz
- Lin, Tao - Taipei: a novel
- Mack, Karen - Freud's mistress
- Makine, Andreï - Brief loves that live forever
- Maksik, Alexander - A marker to measure drift
- Mankell, Henning - A treacherous paradise
- McCleen, Grace - The professor of poetry
- Newman, Charles - In partial disgrace
- Piccirilli, Tom - The last whisper in the dark: a novel
- Pochoda, Ivy - Visitation street
- Pron, Patricio - My fathers' ghost is climbing in the rain
- Roth, Gabriel - The unknowns: a novel
- Ryan, Donal - The spinning heart
- Sackville, Amy - Orkney
- Salter, James - Collected stories
- Schine, Cathleen - Fin & Lady
- Shah, Saira - The mouse-proof kitchen: a novel
- Shepard, Karen - The Celestials: a novel
- Shishkin, Mikhail - The light and the dark
- Silver, Elizabeth L - The execution of Noa P. Singleton: a novel
- Sittenfeld, Curtis - Sisterland: a novel
- Sutton, Henry - My criminal world
- Taylor, Patrick - Pray for us sinners
- Vásquez, Juan Gabriel - The sound of things falling
- Waldman, Adelle - The love affairs of Nathaniel P.: a novel
- Willett, Jincy - Amy falls down: a novel
- Wilson, Paul - Mouse and the cossacks
- Winthrop, Elizabeth Hartley - The why of things: a novel
MYSTERIES
- Abbott, Jeff - Downfall
- Adler, Elizabeth - Please don't tell
- Ashford, Jeffrey - Damned by logic*
- Aykol, Esmahan - Baksheesh
- Booth, Stephen - Already dead*
- Burke, James Lee - Light of the world: a Dave Robicheaux novel
- Clark, Marcia - Killer ambition: a novel
- Coulter, Catherine - Bomb shell
- Cox, Christopher R - A good death
- Dailey, Janet - Bannon brothers: triumph
- Delaney, Luke - Cold killing*
- Doughty, Louise - Apple tree yard*
- Evanovich, Janet - The heist: a novel
- Fairstein, Linda A - Death angel
- Freeman, Brian - The cold nowhere: a Jonathan Stride novel
- Freemantle, Brian - Red star falling: a thriller*
- French, Nicci - Waiting for Wednesday*
- Gaus, Paul L - The names of our tears: an Amish-country mystery
- Goddard, Robert - The ways of the world*
- Gordon-Smith, Dolores - Blood from a stone: a Jack Haldean mystery*
- Graves, Sarah - A bat in the belfry: a home repair is homicide mystery
- Gray, Alex - The Swedish girl
- Gregson, J. M - Brothers' tears*
- Hamilton, Steve - Let it burn
- Hill Gumbao, Toni - The good suicides
- Huston, Charlie - Skinner
- Jackson, Lisa - Tell me
- Johansen, Iris - Hunting Eve
- Jones, J. Sydney - The keeper of hands
- Kava, Alex - Stranded
- Kepler, Lars - The fire witness
- Koontz, Dean R - Deeply Odd: an Odd Thomas novel
- Kuhns, Eleanor - Death of a dyer
- Lawson, Michael - House odds: a Joe Demarco thriller
- Millar, Louise - Accidents happen: a novel
- Nesser, Håkan - The weeping girl: an Inspector Van Veeteren mystery
- Newman, Sharan - The outcast dove
- Patterson, James - 12th of never
- Patterson, James - Second honeymoon
- Pattison, Eliot - Original death: a mystery of colonial America
- Pearce, Michael - The bride box
- Phillips, Scott - Rake: a novel
- Rollins, James - Bloodline: a Sigma Force novel
- Ryan, William - The twelfth department
- Sakey, Marcus - Brilliance
- Sedley, Kate - The Christmas wassail*
- Siegel, Sheldon - The terrorist next door: a David Gold mystery
- Silva, Daniel - The English girl: a novel
- Slaughter, Karin - Unseen: a novel
- Thor, Brad - Hidden order: a thriller
- Turnbull, Peter - Gift wrapped*
- Whellams, David - The drowned man: a Peter Cammon mystery*
* indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Lee, Rebecca - Bobcat: & other stories
- Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe - Childhood memories and other stories
- Willis, Connie - The best of Connie Willis: award-winning stories.
POETRY
- Auden, W. H - For the time being: a Christmas oratorio
- Black, Sophie Cabot - The exchange: poetry
- Bolaño, Roberto - The unknown university
- Dimoula, Kiki - The brazen plagiarist: selected poems
- Goldsmith, Kenneth - Seven American deaths and disasters
- Krog, Antjie - Skinned
- Maxwell, Glyn - Pluto
- Orr, Gregory - River inside the river: three lyric sequences
- Rakoff, David - Love, dishonor, marry, die, cherish, perish: a novel
- Robertson, Robin - Hill of doors
- Tolkien, J. R. R - The fall of Arthur
- Walker, Alice - The world will follow joy: turning madness into flowers (new poems)
More poetry titles below in the stacks.
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- The Brontës: the critical heritage 823.08 B
- Davenport, Guy - The Guy Davenport reader 828 D
- Leopardi, Giacomo - Zibaldone 195 L
- Massie, Allan - Life & letters: the Spectator columns 824 M
- Moby-Dick as doubloon: essays and extracts, 1851-1970 (Hershel Parker, ed.) 823 M
- Woolf, Virginia - The Charleston bulletin supplements 828 W
- Zambreno, Kate - Heroines 809 Z
POETRY
- Egremont, Max - Siegfried Sassoon: a poet & his library 002 E
- Eyres, Harry - Horace and me: life lessons from an ancient poet 874.5 E
- Green, Karen L - Bough down 821 G
- Holocaust poetry 808.81 H
- The Oxford companion to modern poetry 821.09 O
WRITING
- Detz, Joan - How to write & give a speech: a practical guide for executives, PR people, the military, fund-raisers, politicians, educators, and anyone who has to make every word count 808.5 D
- Goldberg, Natalie - The true secret of writing: connecting life with language 808 G
- Sullivan, Hannah - The work of revision 820.9 S
ART & DESIGN
- Biro, Matthew - Anselm Kiefer 709.2 B
- Crookshank, Anne - Ireland's painters, 1600-1940 759.2 C
- Dunn, Michael - Traditional Japanese design: five tastes 745 D
- Heller, Steven - Euro deco: graphic design between the wars 741.7 H
- Irvin, Kate - Artist, rebel, dandy: men of fashion 391.1 I OVERSIZE
- Marrinan, Michael - Romantic Paris: histories of a cultural landscape, 1800-1850 709.44 M
- Tazartes, Maurizia - Vermeer 759.9 V
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FILM
- Doherty, Thomas Patrick - Pre-code Hollywood: sex, immorality, and insurrection in American cinema, 1930-1934 791.4 D
- Pedullà, Gabriele - In broad daylight: movies and spectators after the cinema 302 P
- Shields, David S - Still: American silent motion picture photography 791.4 S
MUSIC
- Dunaway, David King - Singing out: an oral history of America's folk music revivals 784.4 D
- Haas, Michael - Forbidden music: the Jewish composers banned by the Nazis 780.94 H
- McCarthy, Kerry Robin - Byrd 780.92 B
PHILOSOPHY
- Bobbitt, Philip - The garments of court and palace: Machiavelli and the world that he made 320.1 M
- Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de - Essay on the origin of human knowledge 121 C
- Nadler, Steven M - The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of Descartes 194 N
BIOGRAPHY
- Gelb, Norman - Herod the Great 933 G
- Henry, Nancy - The life of George Eliot: a critical biography 92 E425 H
- Lemkin, Raphael - Totally unofficial: the autobiography of Raphael Lemkin 92 L553 L
PSYCHOLOGY
- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5. Ref. 616.8 D
- Smith, Richard H - The joy of pain: schadenfreude and the dark side of human nature 157 S
NEW YORK
- Nippoldt, Robert - Jazz: New York in the roaring twenties : a book 780.973 N OVERSIZE
- One out of three: immigrant New York in the twenty-first century 325.73 O
- Robinson, Jolly - Urban impressions: the changing face of New York in the 1970s 770 R
POLITICS
- MacNeil, Neil - The American Senate: an insider's history 328.73 M
- Parker, Christopher S - Change they can't believe in: the Tea Party and reactionary politics in America 322.4 P
CHINA
- Karl, Rebecca E - Mao Zedong and China in the twentieth-century world: a concise history 951 K
- Liao, Yiwu - For a song and a hundred songs: a poet's journey through a Chinese prison 92 L6934 L
- Schell, Orville - Wealth and power: China's long march to the twenty-first century 951 S
- Yang, Rae - Spider eaters: a memoir 951 Y
RELIGION
- Hart, D. G - Calvinism: a history 284 H
- Lopez, Donald S - From stone to flesh: a short history of the Buddha 294 L
- Nonomura, Kaoru - Eat sleep sit: my year at Japan's most rigorous Zen Temple 294 N
- Wickham, Carrie Rosefsky - The Muslim Brotherhood: evolution of an Islamist movement 320.9 W
- Zakovitch, Yair - Jacob: unexpected patriarch 222 Z
HISTORY
- Bernstein, Richard B - The Founding Fathers reconsidered 973.3 B
- Cochrane, Feargal - Northern Ireland: the reluctant peace 941.5 C
- Fischer, Steven R - A history of the Pacific Islands 990 F
- Fleming, John V - The dark side of the Enlightenment: wizards, alchemists, and spiritual seekers in the Age of Reason 940.25 F
- Hamel, Debra - Reading Herodotus: a Guided tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History 938 H
- Helfferich, Tryntje - The Iron Princess: Amalia Elisabeth and the Thirty Years War 92 A4825 H
- Kynaston, David - Modernity Britain: opening the box, 1957-59 942.085 K
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WAR
- Buttar, Prit - Between giants: the battle for the Baltics in World War II 940.53496 B
- Hunt, Michael H - Arc of empire: America's wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam 355 H
- The New York Times: disunion: 106 articles from The New York Times Opinionator 973.7 N
- Spaulding, Oliver Lyman - Ancient and medieval warfare 355 S
TRAVEL
- Baxter, John - The most beautiful walk in the world: a pedestrian in Paris 914.436 B
- Burgin, Robert - Going places: a reader's guide to travel narratives Ref. 016.9 B
- Maillart, Ella - The cruel way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939 915 M
AUDIO
- Baldwin, James - Go tell it on the mountain Lobby- Audio-CD B
- Bennett, Alan - Smut;two unseemly stories Lobby Audio-CD B
- The spoken word: Irish poets and writers., Audio-CD 820.81 S
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