New Books - June 2015
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Ackroyd, Peter - Alfred Hitchcock
- Alexander, Elizabeth - The light of the world: a memoir / Elizabeth Alexander
- Bergen, Candice - A fine romance (e-book available)
- Bittman, Mark - A bone to pick: the good and bad news about food, with wisdom, insights, and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more
- Blom, Philipp - Fracture: life & culture in the west, 1918-1938
- Bogosian, Eric - Operation Nemesis: the assassination plot that avenged the Armenian genocide
- Bolick, Kate - Spinster: making a life of one's own
- Brands, H. W. - Reagan: the life
- Brokaw, Tom - A lucky life interrupted: a memoir of hope
- Crane, David - Went the day well?: Witnessing Waterloo
- Dartnell, Lewis - The knowledge: how to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm
- Davenport-Hines, R. P. T. - Universal man: the lives of John Maynard Keynes
- Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert - The story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the secret history of Wonderland
- Edwards, Martin - The golden age of murder: the mystery of the writers who invented the modern detective story
- Ellis, Joseph J - The quartet: orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- Everett, Michael - The rise of Thomas Cromwell: power and politics in the reign of Henry VIII
- Gordon, Charlotte - Romantic outlaws: the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley
- Gornick, Vivian - The odd woman and the city: a memoir (e-book available)
- Halpern, Paul - Einstein's dice and Schrödinger's cat: how two great minds battled quantum randomness to create a unified theory of physics
- Krakauer, Jon - Missoula: rape and the justice system in a college town
- Kunkel, Thomas - Man in profile: Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker
- Leader, Zachary - The life of Saul Bellow: to fame and fortune, 1915-1964
- Levy, Reynold - They told me not to take that job: tumult, betrayal, heroics, and the transformation of Lincoln Center
- Mann, Sally - Hold still: a memoir with photographs
- Mays, Andrea E. - The millionaire and the bard: Henry Folger's obsessive hunt for Shakespeare's First folio
- McCullough, David G. - The Wright brothers (e-book available)
- Monro, Alexander - The paper trail: an unexpected history of the world's greatest invention
- Morgan, Ann - The world between two covers: reading the globe
- Mulgrew, Kate - Born with teeth: a memoir
- Nelson, Maggie - The argonauts
- Osborne, Steve - The job: true tales from the life of a New York City cop
- Palfrey, John G. - Biblio tech: why libraries matter more than ever in the age of Google
- Parks, Tim - Where I'm reading from: the changing world of books
- Perino, Dana - And the good news is—: lessons and advice from the bright side
- Posada, Jorge - The journey home: my life in pinstripes (with Gary Brozek)
- Rebanks, James - The shepherd's life: modern dispatches from an ancient landscape
- Rowling, J. K - Very good lives: the fringe benefits of failure and the importance of imagination
- Sacks, Oliver W. - On the move: a life (e-book available)
- Schultz, Kevin M. - Buckley and Mailer: the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Schwartz, A. Brad - Broadcast hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the worlds and the art of fake news
- Schweizer, Peter - Clinton cash: the untold story of how and why foreign governments and businesses helped make Bill and Hillary rich
- Seierstad, Åsne - One of us: the story of Anders Breivik and the massacre in Norway (translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Death)
- Shapiro, Beth Alison - How to clone a mammoth: the science of de-extinction
- Vance, Ashlee - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Vinogradova, Luba - Defending the motherland: the Soviet women who fought Hitler's aces (with an introduction by Antony Beevor; translated from the Russian by Arch Tait)
- Wood, James - The nearest thing to life
- Young, Ralph F. - Dissent: the history of an American idea
FICTION
- Acampora, Lauren - The wonder garden
- Andrews, Mary Kay - Beach town
- Atkinson, Kate - A god in ruins
- Berg, Elizabeth - The dream lover
- Bhutto, Fatima - The shadow of the crescent moon
- Bollen, Christopher - Orient
- Cadwallader, Robyn - The anchoress
- Druon, Maurice - The king without a kingdom (translated from French by Andrew Simpkin)
- Dubow, Charles - Girl in the moonlight
- Flournoy, Angela - The Turner house
- Freeman, Anna - The fair fight
- Gattis, Ryan - All involved
- Genova, Lisa - Inside the O'Briens
- Hemon, Aleksandar - The making of Zombie wars
- Holsinger, Bruce W. - The invention of fire
- Hunter, Aislinn - The world before us
- Kennedy, Eliza - I take you
- Knausgård, Karl Ove - My struggle. Book four (translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett)
- Lent, Jeffrey - A slant of light
- MacDonald, Ann-Marie - Adult onset
- Mahin, Shanna - Oh! You pretty things
- Miller, Andrew - The faithful couple
- Mitchell, Judith Claire - A reunion of ghosts: a novel
- O'Doherty, Brian - The crossdresser's secret
- Ohanesian, Aline - Orhan's inheritance
- Pearl, Matthew - The last bookaneer
- Reisman, Nancy - Trompe l'oeil
- Robinson, Christopher Gerald - War of the encyclopaedists (with Gavin Kovite)
- Shepard, Jim - The book of Aron
- Smiley, Jane - Early warning
- Sykes, Lucy - The knockoff
- Thayer, Nancy - The guest cottage
- Thirlwell, Adam - Lurid & cute
- Vincent, Norah - Adeline: a novel of Virginia Woolf
- Zink, Nell - Mislaid
MYSTERIES
- Arnaldur Indriðason - Reykjavik nights (translated from the Icelandic) (e-book available)
- Atkins, Ace - Robert B. Parker's kickback
- Bolton, S. J - Little black lies*
- Brookmyre, Christopher - Dead girl walking*
- Cameron, Stella - Folly*
- Carter, Miranda - The infidel stain*
- Child, Lincoln - The forgotten room
- Cotterill, Colin - Six and a half deadly sins*
- Crosby, Ellen - Ghost image: a Sophie Medina mystery
- Deaver, Jeffery - Solitude creek: a Kathryn Dance novel
- DeMille, Nelson - Radiant angel
- Emery, Anne - Ruined abbey
- Estleman, Loren D. - The long high noon
- Faye, Lyndsay - The fatal flame
- Fowler, Christopher - Bryant & May: the burning man*
- Gazan, S.J. - The arc of the swallow (translated from the Danish)
- Griffiths, Elly - The ghost fields*
- Haldane, Seán - The devil's making*
- Harris, Charlaine - Day shift
- Hart, Carolyn G. - Don't go home
- Hayes, Samantha - What you left behind
- Hunter, Stephen - I, Ripper: a novel*
- Jardine, Quintin - Last resort*
- Johansen, Iris - Your next breath
- Johnson, Craig - Dry bones
- Knight, Renee - Disclaimer*
- Lemaître, Pierre - Camille (translated from the French)
- Lescroart, John T. - The fall
- Lutz, Lisa - How to start a fire
- MacBride, Stuart - 22 dead little bodies*
- Mackay, Malcolm - The necessary death of Lewis Winter*
- Martini, Steve - The enemy inside: a Paul Madriani novel
- Mosley, Walter - And sometimes I wonder about you
- Page, Katherine Hall - The body in the birches: a Faith Fairchild mystery
- Patterson, James - NYPD Red 3
- Phelan, Tom - Lies the mushroom pickers told
- Ripley, Mike - Margery Allingham's Albert Campion returns in Mr Campion's fox*
- Runcie, James - Sidney Chambers and the forgiveness of sins*
- Sandford, John - Gathering prey
- Simmons, Dan - The fifth heart*
- Stone, Jonathan - The teller
- Strugat︠s︡ky, Arkady - The dead mountaineer's inn (w/ Boris Strugat︠s︡ky) (translated from the Russian)
- Thompson, Victoria - Murder on Amsterdam Avenue: a gaslight mystery
- Tremayne, S. K. - The ice twins
- Walker, Martin - The children return
POETRY
- Jamie, Kathleen - Waterlight: selected poems
- Willis, Elizabeth - Alive: new and selected poems
SHORT STORIES
- Gates, David - A hand reached down to guide me: stories and a novella
- O'Brien, Edna - The love object: selected stories (introduction by John Banville)
- Taylor, D. J. - Wrote for luck: stories
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Bloom, Harold - The daemon knows: literary greatness and the American sublime 820.9 B
- Doody, Margaret Anne - Jane Austen's names: riddles, persons, places 823 A
- Forrester, Viviane - Virginia Woolf: a portrait 92 W9127 F
- A historical guide to Mark Twain (Shelley Fisher Fishkin, ed.) 828.09 T
- Hokum: an anthology of African-American humor (Paul Beatty, ed.) 827.08 H
- Huyssen, Andreas - Miniature metropolis: literature in an age of photography and film 809.9 H
- Kumar, Amitava - Lunch with a bigot: the writer in the world 824 K
- Moretti, Franco - Atlas of the European novel, 1800-1900 914 M
POETRY
- Bartlett, Jennifer - (A) lullaby without any music 821 B
- Holdeman, David - The Cambridge introduction to W.B. Yeats 821.09 Y
- Jeffers, Robinson - The selected poetry of Robinson Jeffers 821 J
- Lehman, David - The state of the art: a chronicle of American poetry, 1988-2014 821.09 L
- Vendler, Helen - The ocean, the bird, and the scholar: essays on poets and poetry 828 H
FICTION
- Ervine, St. John G. - The wayward man (1927, Ireland) F E
- Morand, Paul - The man in a hurry (1941, translated from the French by Euan Cameron) F M
- Pla, Josep - Life embitters (1967, translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush) F P
- Ross, James - They don't dance much (1940, rural noir) F R
ART
- Amory, Dita - Madame Cézanne 759.4 C
- Blackburn, Julia - Threads: the delicate life of John Craske 759.2 C
- The Blaue Reiter almanac (Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, ed.) 759.3 B
- Charney, Noah - The art of forgery: the minds, motives and methods of master forgers 708 C
- Cooper, Bernard - My avant-garde education: a memoir 92 C7763 C
- Cormack, Robin - Byzantine art , 709.495 C
- Foresta, Merry A. - Artists unframed: snapshots from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art 709.2 F
- Heller, Steven - 100 ideas that changed graphic design 745.4 H
- Masereel, Frans - Passionate journey: a novel in 165 woodcuts 761 M
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Abbott, Brett - Wynn Bullock: revelations 770 B
- Meyerowitz, Joel - Joel Meyerowitz: retrospective 779 M
FILM
- Forshaw, Barry - Sex and film: the erotic in British, American and world cinema 791.4 F
- Jackson, Russell - Shakespeare and the English-speaking cinema 822.33 L
FOOD
- Camporesi, Piero - The magic harvest: food, folklore and society 641 C
- Koenig, Leah - Modern Jewish cooking: recipes & customs for today's kitchen 641.5 K
- The Oxford companion to sugar and sweets (Darra Goldstein, ed.) 641.86 O
BIOGRAPHY
- Alford, Stephen - Edward VI: the last boy king (New UK series: Penguin Monarchs. Other titles available) 92 E256 A
- Banean, Ganik - Goodbye, Antoura: a memoir of the Armenian genocide 92 B214 B
- Birnbaum, Pierre - Léon Blum: prime minister, socialist, zionist 92 B6584 B
- Bundock, Michael - The fortunes of Francibiographys Barber: the true story of the Jamaican slave who became Samuel Johnson's heir 92 B2343 B
- Jobb, Dean - Empire of deception: the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation 92 K8424 J
- Longerich, Peter - Goebbels: a biography 92 G593 L
- Miller, Peter N. - Peiresc's Mediterranean world 92 P3783 M
- Thomasson, Anna - A curious friendship: the story of a bluestocking and a bright young thing (Rex Whistler & Edith Olivier) 920 T462 C
ANTIQUITY
- Hoyos, B. D. - Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at war 937.02 H
- Ober, Josiah - The rise and fall of classical Greece 938 O
- Richlin, Amy - Arguments with silence: writing the history of Roman women 396 R
HISTORY
- Burns, Eric - 1920: the year that made the decade roar 973.91 B
- Hoyland, Robert G. - In God's path: the Arab conquests and the creation of an Islamic empire 909 H
- Hunt, Lynn - Writing history in the global era 907 H
- Polasky, Janet L. - Revolutions without borders: the call to liberty in the Atlantic world 940.25 P
- Vick, Brian E - The Congress of Vienna: power and politics after Napoleon 940.27 V
- Wickham, Chris - Framing the early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 940.1 W
- Zelizer, Julian E. - The fierce urgency of now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the battle for the Great Society 973.923 Z
RELIGION
- Brown, Peter - The ransom of the soul: afterlife and wealth in early western Christianity , 270.1 B
- Guardini, Romano - The end of the modern world 261 G
- Rawls and religion (Tom Bailey and Valentine Gentile, eds.) 201 R
PSYCHOLOGY
- Corballis, Michael C. - The wandering mind: what the brain does when you're not looking 153 C
- Dalrymple, Theodore - Admirable evasions: how psychology undermines morality 150 D
- Van der Kolk, Bessel A. - The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma 616.8 V
SOCIAL & CULTURAL HISTORY
- Harrison, Robert Pogue - Juvenescence: a cultural history of our age 305.2 H
- Hartman, Andrew - A war for the soul of America: a history of the culture wars 306 H
- Kibler, M. Alison - Censoring racial ridicule: Irish, Jewish, and African American struggles over race and representation, 1890-1930 305.8 K
- Kruse, Kevin Michael - One nation under God: how corporate America invented Christian America 322.1 K
- Mintz, Steven - The prime of life: a history of modern adulthood 305.24 M
- Watkins, C. - Trees, woods and forests: a social and cultural history 333.7 W
SCIENCE
- Bauer, S. Wise - The story of science: from the writings of Aristotle to the big bang theory 509 B
- Eldredge, Niles - Eternal ephemera: adaptation and the origin of species, from the nineteenth century through punctuated equilibria and beyond 575 E
- Goulson, Dave - A buzz in the meadow: the natural history of a French farm 630 G
ECONOMICS
- Authers, John - Europe's financial crisis: a short guide to how the euro fell into crisis, and the consequences for the world 330.94 A
- Levitt, Steven D. - When to rob a bank: ... and 131 more warped suggestions and well-intended rants 330 L
- Stiglitz, Joseph E. - The great divide: unequal societies and what we can do about them 339.2 S
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Baxter, John - Five nights in Paris: after dark in the City of Light 914.436 B
- City by city: dispatches from the American metropolis (N+1; Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb, eds.) 307.76 C
- Stavans, Ilan - Reclaiming travel 910 S
WAR
- Allport, Alan - Browned off and bloody-minded: the British soldier goes to war, 1939-1945 940.5342 A
- Beyer, Rick - The Ghost Army of World War II: how one top-secret unit deceived the enemy with inflatable tanks, sound effects, and other audacious fakery 940.5412 B
- Downs, Gregory P. - After Appomattox: military occupation and the ends of war 973.71 D
- Ferling, John E. - Whirlwind: the American Revolution and the war that won it 973.3 F
- Stroud, Rick - Kidnap in Crete : the true story of the abduction of a Nazi general 940.542 S
NEW YORK
- New York rising: New York and the founding of the United States 974.71 N
- Sietsema, Robert - New York in a dozen dishes 647.9 S
- The Weegee guide to New York: roaming the city with its greatest tabloid photographer (Philomena Mariani and Christopher George, eds.) 778 W
AUDIO
- James, Henry - The other house Lobby Audio-CD J
- Spark, Muriel - The girls of slender means Audio-CD S
- Toole, John Kennedy - A confederacy of dunces Lobby Audio-CD T
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