New Books - November 2015
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Bate, Jonathan - Ted Hughes: the unauthorised life
- Bernanke, Ben - The courage to act: a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath
- Breyer, Stephen G.- The court and the world: American law and the new global realities
- Cheever, Susan - Drinking in America: our secret history
- Cocker, Mark - Claxton: field notes from a small planet (illustrated by Jonathan Gibbs.)
- Costello, Elvis - Unfaithful music & disappearing ink
- D'Antonio, Michael - Never enough: Donald Trump and the pursuit of success
- Dawkins, Richard - Brief candle in the dark : my life in science
- Deveney, Sean - Fun city: John Lindsay, Joe Namath, and how sports saved New York in the 1960s
- Eagleman, David - The brain: the story of you
- Farley, Tom - Saving Gotham: a billionaire mayor, activist doctors, and the fight for eight million lives
- Ferguson, Niall - Kissinger Volume I, 1923-1968: the idealist
- Forsyth, Frederick - The outsider : my life in intrigue
- Francis, Gavin - Adventures in human being: a grand tour from the cranium to the calcaneum
- Harris, Sam & Maajid Nawaz - Islam and the future of tolerance: a dialogue
- Hotchner, A. E. - Hemingway in love : his own story: a memoir
- Kennedy, Patrick J. (w/ Stephen Fried) - A common struggle : a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
- Larson, Kate Clifford - Rosemary the hidden Kennedy daughter
- MacFarquhar, Larissa - Strangers drowning: grappling with impossible idealism, drastic choices, and the overpowering urge to help
- Marcus, Greil - Three songs, three singers, three nations
- Merwin, Ted - Pastrami on rye: an overstuffed history of the Jewish deli
- Milne, David - Worldmaking: the art and science of American diplomacy
- Norris, John - Mary McGrory: the first queen of journalism
- Parini, Jay - Empire of self: a life of Gore Vidal
- Prose, Francine - Peggy Guggenheim: the shock of the modern
- Reich, Robert B. - Saving capitalism: for the many, not the few
- Reichl, Ruth - My kitchen year: 136 recipes that saved my life
- Sciolino, Elaine - The only street in Paris: life on the Rue des Martyrs
- Shapiro, James - The year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
- Slaughter, Anne-Marie - Unfinished business: women, men, work, family
- Smith, Patti - M train (e-book available)
- Theroux, Paul - Deep South: four seasons on back roads
- Troy, Gil - The age of Clinton: America in the 1990s
- Turkle, Sherry - Reclaiming conversation: the power of talk in a digital age
- Vinciguerra, Thomas J. - Cast of characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, and the golden age of The New Yorker
- Vowell, Sarah - Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- White, Shane - Prince of darkness: the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire
- Wieland, Karin - Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a century in two lives (translated by Shelley Frisch)
- Woodward, Bob - The last of the president's men
- Yalom, Marilyn (w/ Theresa Donovan Brown) - The social sex: a history of female friendship
FICTION
- Atwood, Margaret - The heart goes last
- Brooks, Geraldine - The secret chord
- Clark, Clare - We that are left
- Crosley, Sloane - The clasp
- Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet - One night, Markovitch (translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston)
- Houellebecq, Michel - Submission (translated from the French by Lorin Stein)
- Johnson, T. Geronimo - Welcome to Braggsville
- Kleeman, Alexandra - You too can have a body like mine: a novel
- McCann, Colum - Thirteen ways of looking (e-book available)
- McPherson, Catriona - The child garden
- Michael, Livi - Succession
- Morton, Kate - The lake house
- Moyes, Jojo - After you (e-book available)
- Murray, Paul - The mark and the void
- Oe, Kenzaburo - Death by water (translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm)
- Okparanta, Chinelo - Under the udala trees
- Saylor, Steven - Wrath of the furies: a novel of the ancient world
- Sin, Kyong-suk - The girl who wrote loneliness (translated from the Korean by Ha-yun Jung)
- Smiley, Jane - Golden age
- Smith, Donald - The constable's tale
- Sullivan, Faith - Good night, Mr. Wodehouse
- Taseer, Aatish - The way things were
- Taylor, Sara - The shore
- Trigiani, Adriana - All the stars in the heavens
- Unsworth, Emma Jane - Animals
- Winterson, Jeanette - The gap of time: the Winter's tale retold
MYSTERIES
- Ballantyne, Lisa - Everything she forgot *
- Bell, David - Somebody I used to know
- Black, David - Fast shuffle
- Celestin, Ray - The axeman
- Connolly, John - A song of shadows: a Charlie Parker thriller
- Dobyns, Stephen - Is Fat Bob dead yet?
- Eskens, Allen - The guise of another
- Flynn, Vince - The survivor: a Mitch Rapp novel
- Francis, Felix - Front runner
- Galbraith, Robert - Career of evil
- Grisham, John - Rogue lawyer
- Hallberg, Garth Risk - City on fire
- Holm, Chris F. - The killing kind
- Horst, Jørn Lier - The caveman (translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce)
- Jacobsen, Steffen - When the dead awaken (translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund)
- James, Peter - You are dead
- Limón, Martin - The ville rat
- Lister, Michael - Innocent blood: a John Jordan mystery
- Malliet, G. M. - The haunted season: a Max Tudor novel*
- Mayle, Peter - The diamond caper
- Mayor, Archer - The company she kept
- Melville, Alan - Quick curtain (1934 British Crime Library Classics) *
- Meyer, Deon - Icarus (translated from Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers)
- Palmer, Daniel - Constant fear
- Ryan, Hank Phillippi - What you see
- Sandford, John - Saturn run
- Slaughter, Karin - Pretty girls
- Toyne, Simon - The searcher*
- Vichi, Marco - Death in Florence: an Inspector Bordelli mystery (tranlslated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli)
- Woods, Stuart - Foreign affairs
POETRY
- Fisher, Sally - Good question
- Longley, Michael - One wide expanse
- Ryan, Kay - Erratic facts
SHORT STORIES
- Campbell, Bonnie Jo - Mothers, tell your daughters : stories Bonnie Jo Campbell.
- Dovey, Ceridwen - Only the animals Ceridwen Dovey.
- Ghostly: a collection of ghost stories (edited, illustrated and introduced by Audrey Niffenegger)
- Marra, Anthony - The tsar of love and techno (e-book available)
- Thurm, Marian - Today is not your day
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Harkup, Kathryn - A is for arsenic: the poisons of Agatha Christie 823 C
- The history of British women's writing, vols. 1-8 (700-1945) (general editors, Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan) 820.9 H
- Jacobs, Carol - Sebald's vision 833 S
- Parks, Tim - The novel: a survival skill 808.3 P
- Said, Edward W. - Joseph Conrad and the fiction of autobiography 823 C
FICTION
- Amis, Kingsley - Dear illusion: collected stories F A
- Bartis, Attila - Tranquility (translated from the Hungarian) F B
- Latimer, Jonathan, - Solomon's vineyard (1941 hardboiled noir reprint) F L
- Neider, Charles - The authentic death of Hendry Jones (1956) F N
- Williams, John Babbington - Leaves from the note-book of a New York detective: the private record of J.B. (first published in 1885) F W
- Wodehouse, P. G. - The Prince and Betty F W
POETRY
- Auden, W. H. - Three unpublished poems 821 A
- Damrosch, Leopold - Eternity's sunrise: the imaginative world of William Blake 92 B6367 D
- Jackson, Laura (Riding) - Contemporaries and snobs 809.1 J
- Ocampo, Silvina - Silvina Ocampo (translated from the Spanish; New York Review Poets) 861 O
- Thompson, John - The founding of English metre 821.09 T
- Wordsworth, William - Wordsworth's poetry and prose: authoritative texts, criticism 821 W
ART
- Birkerts, Sven - Changing the subject: art and attention in the Internet age 303.4 B
- Kline, Franz - Franz Kline: black & white, 1950-1961 759.1 K
- Lloyd, Christopher - Masterpieces in little: portrait miniatures from the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 757.1 L
- Pasquier, Roger F. - Painting Central Park 758 P
- Picturing the Americas: landscape painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic (Peter John Brownlee, et. al, eds.) 758 P
- Remington, Vanessa- Painting paradise: the art of the garden 758 R
ARCHITECTURE
- Ballantyne, Andrew - Architecture: a very short introduction 720 B
- Goy, Richard J. - Florence: a walking guide to its architecture 914.55 G
- Hatherley, Owen - The landscapes of Communism: a history through buildings 720.94 H
- Ruskin, John - Ruskin's Venice: the Stones revisited 720.945 R
ANCIENT CULTURE & CIVILIZATION
- Doerries, Bryan - The theater of war: what ancient Greek tragedies can teach us today 882.09 D
- Holland, Tom - Dynasty: the rise and fall of the House of Caesar 937.06 H
- Larsen, Mogens Trolle - Ancient Kanesh: a merchant colony in bronze age Anatolia 939.2 L
- Morwood, James - The Oxford grammar of classical Greek 485 M
- Mount, Harry - Harry Mount's odyssey: ancient Greece in the footsteps of Odysseus 914.95 M
BOOKS & READING
- Blumenthal, Joseph - Typographic years: a printer's journey through a half century, 1925-1975 686 B
- Wiegand, Wayne A. - Part of our lives: a people's history of the American public library 027 W
COMICS
- Strips, toons, and bluesies: essays in comics and culture 741.5 S
- Stein, Leslie - Bright-eyed at midnight 92 S8197 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Downtown film and TV culture 1975-2001 (Joan Hawkins, ed.) 791.4 D
- Feldman, Martha - The castrato: reflections on natures and kinds 784 F
- Giroud, Vincent - Nicolas Nabokov: a life in freedom and music 780.92 N
- Houghton, Mick - I've always kept a unicorn: the biography of Sandy Denny 92 D413 H
- Munn, Michael - Jimmy Stewart: the truth behind the legend 92 S8497 M
PHILOSOPHY
- Dunn, John - Locke: a very short introduction 192 L
- Edmundson, Mark - Self and soul: a defense of ideals 170 E
- Holloway, Richard - Godless morality: keeping religion out of ethics 170 H
PSYCHOLOGY
- Coetzee, J. M. - The good story: exchanges on truth, fiction and psychotherapy 616.8 C
- Inge, Denise - A tour of bones: facing fear and looking for life 155.9 I
- Róheim, Géza - Magic and schizophrenia 150 R
EDUCATION & ACADEMIA
- Dewey, Horace - The secret lives of teachers 373 D
- Salaita, Steven - Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the limits of academic freedom 378 S
NATURE
- Lawler, Andrew - Why did the chicken cross the world?: the epic saga of the bird that powers civilization (Lobby Book Committee) 636.5 L
- Pakenham, Thomas - The company of trees: a year in a lifetime's quest 582 P
- Peale, Titian Ramsay - The butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's lost manuscript 595.78 P OVERSIZE
- Safina, Carl - Beyond words: what animals think and feel 591.5 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Cisneros, Sandra - A house of my own: stories from my life 92 C5795 C
- Jacques, Juliet - Trans: a memoir 92 J196 J
- Kiesel, Diane - She can bring us home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, civil rights pioneer 92 F349 K
- Stoneman, Richard - Xerxes: a Persian life 92 X62 S
- Whistler, Theresa - Imagination of the heart: the life of Walter de la Mare 92 D3363 W
HISTORY
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila - On Stalin's team: the years of living dangerously in Soviet politics 947.084 F
- Jones, Dan - Magna Carta: the birth of liberty 942.03 J
- Lewis, Tom - Washington: a history of our national city 975.3 L
- Lincoln, Abraham - Lincoln's selected writings: authoritative texts, Lincoln in his era, modern views (David S. Reynolds, ed.) 973.7 L
- MacMillan, Margaret - History's people: personalities and the past 909 M
- Maiskii, I. M. - The Maisky diaries: red ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943 327.47 M
- Reed, T. J. - Light in Germany: scenes from an unknown Enlightenment 943.05 R
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Karsh, Efraim - The tail wags the dog: international politics and the Middle East 956 K
- McMeekin, Sean - Ottoman endgame: war, revolution, and the making of the modern middle east, 1908-1923 956 M
- Ross, Dennis - Doomed to succeed: the U.S.-Israel relationship from Truman to Obama 327.73 R
- Warrick, Joby - Black flags: the rise of ISIS 956 W
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Klein, Edward - Unlikeable: the problem with Hillary 92 C6417 K
- Steinzor, Rena - Why not jail?: industrial catastrophes, corporate malfeasance, and government inaction 364 S
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Clark, Tom - Hard times: inequality, recession, aftermath 330.942 C
- Loewenstein, Antony - Disaster capitalism: making a killing out of catastrophe 306.3 L
- Lowenstein, Roger - America's bank: the epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve 332.1 L
- Zucman, Gabriel - The hidden wealth of nations: the scourge of tax havens 336.2 Z
FOOD
- The complete cooking for two cookbook: 650 recipes for everything you'll ever want to make (America's Test Kitchen) 641.5 C
- The food lovers' anthology (Oxford Bodleian Library; originally published in 1961 as Eating and Drinking: An Anthology for Epicures; compiled by Peter Hunt) 808.8 F
- Patten, Marguerite - Marguerite Patten's Century of British cooking 641.5 P
- Willard, Pat - America eats!: on the road with the WPA: the fish fries, box supper socials, and chitlin feasts that define real American food 394.1 W
TRAVEL
- O'Grady, Timothy - Divine magnetic lands: a journey in America 917.3 O
- Parks, Tim - A literary tour of Italy 850.9 P
- Powell, Jessica - Literary Paris: a guide 914.436 P
RELIGION
- Baker, Raymond William, - One Islam, many Muslim worlds: spirituality, identity, and resistance across Islamic lands , 297 B
- I Ching: the book of change (David Hinton, translator) 299.5 I
- Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro - Essays in Zen Buddhism (second series) 294 S
- Wilson, A. N. - The book of the people: how to read the Bible 220.7 W
NEW YORK
- Alexiou, Joseph - Gowanus: Brooklyn's curious canal 974.71 A
- Alpern, Andrew - The Dakota: a history of the world's best-known apartment building 728 A
- Gura, Judith- Interior landmarks: treasures of New York 747 G
- Lyons, Jeffrey - What a time it was!: Leonard Lyons and the golden age of New York nightlife 974.71 L
- Palmer, Alex - The Santa Claus man: the rise and fall of a Jazz Age con man and the invention of Christmas in New York 364 P
- Wilson, Ross J. - New York and the First World War: shaping an American city 940.373 W
WAR
- 1914: goodbye to all that : writers on the conflict between life and art (Lavinia Greenlaw, ed.) 940.3 N
- Flood, Charles Bracelen - First to fly: the story of the Lafayette Escadrille, the American heroes who flew for France in World War I 940.44 F
- Stargardt, Nicholas - The German War: a nation under arms, 1939-1945 citizens and soldiers 940.5343 S
- Toll, Ian W. - The conquering tide: war in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 940.542 T
AUDIO
- Doerr, Anthony - All the light we cannot see Lobby Audio-CD D
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Flappers and philosophers Audio-CD F
- Hammett, Dashiell - The glass key Audio-CD H
- Mitchell, Joseph - Up in the old hotel and other stories Lobby Audio-CD M