New Books - February 2016
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Athill, Diana - Alive, alive oh!: and other things that matter
- Better than fiction 2: true travel adventures from 30 great fiction writers (edited by Don George)
- Bryson, Bill - The road to Little Dribbling: adventures of an American in Britain
- Buruma, Ian - Their promised land: my grandparents in love and war
- Caroli, Betty Boyd - Lady Bird and Lyndon: the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Cotkin, George - Feast of excess: a cultural history of the New Sensibility
- Cuddy, Amy Joy Casselberry - Presence: bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges
- Fitzsimons, Eleanor - Wilde's women: how Oscar Wilde was shaped by the women he knew
- Fong, Mei - One child: the story of China's most radical experiment
- Francis, Pope - The name of God is mercy: a conversation with Andrea Tornielli (translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky)
- Givhan, Robin - The Battle of Versailles: the night American fashion stumbled into the spotlight and made history
- Glaude, Eddie S., Jr. - Democracy in black: how race still enslaves the American soul
- Hazzard, Shirley - We need silence to find out what we think: selected essays
- Konnikova, Maria - The confidence game: why we fall for it... every time
- Larrington, Carolyne - Land of the green man: a journey through the supernatural landscapes of the British Isles
- Loridan, Marceline - But you did not come back (with Judith Perrignon; translated from the French by Sandra Smith)
- Luzzatto, Sergio - Primo Levi's resistance: rebels and collaborators in occupied Italy (translated by Frederika Randall)
- Mabey, Richard - The cabaret of plants: forty thousand years of plant life and the human imagination
- Marshall, Tim - Prisoners of geography: ten maps that explain everything about the world
- Martin, Andrew - Reacher said nothing: Lee Child and the making of Make Me
- Mayer, Jane - Dark money: the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right
- Norrell, Robert J. - Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Peters, Justin - The idealist: Aaron Swartz and the rise of free culture on the internet
- Pryce-Jones, David - Fault lines
- Rhimes, Shonda - Year of yes: how to dance it out, stand in the sun and be your own person
- Searcy, David - Shame and wonder: essays
- Strand, Ginger Gail - The brothers Vonnegut: science and fiction in the house of magic
- Thornton, T. D. - My adventures with your money: George Graham Rice and the golden age of the con artist
- Weiner, Eric - The geography of genius: a search for the world's most creative places from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
- Weir, Alison - The lost Tudor princess: the life of Lady Margaret Douglas
- Wouk, Herman - Sailor and fiddler: reflections of a 100-year-old author
- Zoepf, Katherine - Excellent daughters: the secret lives of young women who are transforming the Arab world
FICTION
- Albom, Mitch - The magic strings of Frankie Presto
- Berne, Suzanne - The dogs of Littlefield
- Bishop, Bernardine - The street
- Brown, Carrie - The stargazer's sister
- Bussi, Michel - After the crash (translated from the French by Sam Taylor)
- Copleton, Jackie - A dictionary of mutual understanding
- Fletcher, Martin - The war reporter
- Freeman, Castle - The devil in the valley
- Goldsworthy, Vesna - Gorsky
- Goodman, Carol - River Road
- Harris, Robert - Dictator
- Hunt, Samantha - Mr. Splitfoot
- Kempowski, Walter - All for nothing (translated from the German by Anthea Bell)
- Kubica, Mary - The good girl
- Lalo, Eduardo - Simone (translated by David Frye)
- Lambert, Charles - The children's home
- Lee, Janice Y. K. - The expatriates (e-book available)
- Oates, Joyce Carol - The man without a shadow
- Schultz, Emily - The blondes
- Sparks, Nicholas - See me
- Thomas, Scarlett - The seed collectors
- Vodolazkin, E. G. - Laurus (translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden)
- Yapa, Sunil - Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist
MYSTERIES
- Abbott, Jeff - The first order
- Anderson, Lin - The case of the missing madonna: a Patrick de Courvoisier mystery
- Andrew, Sally - Recipes for love and murder
- Black, Benjamin - Even the dead: a Quirke novel
- Bohjalian, Chris - The guest room
- Eastland, Sam - Red icon (Paul Watkins writing as Sam Eastland)
- Fraser, Anthea - A tangled thread*
- Gerlis, Alex - The Swiss spy
- Gordon-Smith, Dolores - The Chessman: a Jack Haldean mystery*
- Grant, Andrew - False positive
- Graves, Sarah - The girls she left behind: a Lizzie Snow novel
- Greaney, Mark - Commander in chief
- Herron, Mick - Real tigers*
- Hoag, Tami - The bitter season
- Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew - Orphan X
- Koontz, Dean R. - Ashley Bell
- McBain, Ed - Cut me in
- Neuhaus, Nele - I am your judge (translated from the German by Steven T. Murray)
- O'Dell, Tawni - Angels burning
- Patterson, James - Cross justice
- Rankin, Ian - Even dogs in the wild (e-book available)
- Rosenfelt, David - Blackout
- Sandlin, Lisa - The do-right
- Seymour, Gerald - Vagabond
- Shaw, William - A song for the brokenhearted*
- Stone, Nick - The verdict
- Wilcken, Hugo - The reflection
- Woods, Stuart - Scandalous behavior
POETRY
- Gilbert, Christopher - Turning into dwelling: poems
- Jamie, Kathleen - The bonniest companie
- Knox, Jennifer L. - Days of shame & failure
- Lewis, Robin Coste - Voyage of the Sable Venus: and other poems
- Paterson, Don - 40 sonnets
SHORT STORIES
- Clanchy, Kate - The not-dead and the saved and other stories
- Ellis, Helen - American housewife
- Mackay, Shena - Dancing on the outskirts
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Barron, Stephanie - New objectivity: modern German art in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933
- Leigh, John - Touché: the duel in literature
- Levine, Joshua - The secret history of the Blitz: how we behaved during our darkest days and created modern Britain
- Loomis, Erik - Out of sight: the long and disturbing story of corporations outsourcing catastrophe
- Lucas, Edward - Cyberphobia: identity, trust, security and the internet
- A manner of being: writers on their mentors (edited by Annie Liontas and Jeff Parker)
- Potter, Dennis. - The art of invective: selected non-fiction, 1953-94 (edited by Ian Greaves, David Rolinson, John Williams)
- Rahe, Paul Anthony - The grand strategy of classical Sparta: the Persian challenge
- Turse, Nick - Tomorrow's battlefield: US proxy wars and secret ops in Africa
- Wathey, John C. - The illusion of God's presence: the biological origins of spiritual longing
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- De la Durantaye, Leland - Beckett's art of mismaking 822.09 B
- Feeney, D. C. - Beyond Greek: the beginnings of Latin Literature 870.9 F
- Howe, Susan - The quarry 824 H
- Kipling, Rudyard - Kipling and war: from 'Tommy' and 'My boy Jack' 828 K
- On life-writing (Zachary Leader, ed.; including James Shapiro, Hermione Lee, etc.) 808 O
- Steward, Samuel M. - Philip Sparrow tells all: lost essays by Samuel Steward, writer, professor, tattoo artist 824 S
- Zweig, Stefan - Montaigne (translated from the German) 844.09 Z
FICTION
- Hughes, Dorothy B. - Ride the pink horse (1946 noir) F H
- Krohn, Leena - Leena Krohn: collected fiction F K
- The long gaze back: an anthology of Irish women writers (Sinead Gleeson, ed.) F L
- The Penguin book of the British short story (2015, 2 vols., selected by Philip Henscher)
- Werfel, Franz - The forty days of Musa Dagh (translated from the German) F W
POETRY
- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus - New selected poems 831 E
- Holub, Miroslav - Poems before & after: collected English translations 891.71 H
- Meyers, Jeffrey - Robert Lowell in love 92 L9175 M
- Moon, Shinji. - The anatomy of being: poetry from 2011-2013 821 M
- Pound, Ezra - Posthumous cantos 821 P
SHAKESPEARE
- Crystal, David - Oxford illustrated Shakespeare dictionary HBR 822.33 D
- Duncan-Jones, Katherine - Portraits of Shakespeare 822.33 92 B
- Kastan, David Scott - A will to believe: Shakespeare and religion 822.33 C
LANGUAGE
- Crystal, David - Making a point: the persnickety story of English punctuation 421 C
- Hargraves, Orin - It's been said before: a guide to the use and abuse of clichés 428.3 H
PHILOSOPHY
- Flynn, Thomas R. - Sartre: a philosophical biography 194 F
- Lachman, Gary - The secret teachers of the western world 133 L
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus - Letters on ethics: to Lucilius (Margaret Graver & A.A. Long, translators) 188 S
- Yao, Xinzhong - An introduction to Confucianism181 Y
ART
- Andrea del Sarto: the Renaissance workshop in action (Frick Exhibition; Julian Brooks, et al., eds.) 759.5 A
- Art brut in America: the incursion of Jean Dubuffet (American Folk Art Museum; Valerie Rousseau, ed.) 709.04 A
- Dabakis, Melissa - A sisterhood of sculptors: American artists in nineteenth-century Rome 730.92 D
- Delaunay, Sonia - Sonia Delaunay (Tate Modern Exhibition; Cecile Godefroy, et al., ed.) 709.2 D
- Gardner Coates, Victoria C. - David's sling: a history of democracy in ten works of art 709 G
- Hickey, Dave - 25 women: essays on their art 704 H
PERFORMING ARTS
- Brendel, Alfred - Music, sense and nonsense: collected essays and lectures 780.4 B
- Field, Matthew - Some kind of hero: 007: the remarkable story of the James Bond films 791.4 F
- Lim, Dennis - David Lynch: the man from another place 791.4 L
- Siegel, Lee - Groucho Marx: the comedy of existence 92 M3918 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Moore, Charles - Margaret Thatcher: the authorized biography: at her zenith: in London, Washington and Moscow 92 T3679 M
- Pratt, Jean Lucey - A notable woman: the romantic journals of Jean Lucey Pratt 92 P914 P
- Seligman, Scott D. - The first Chinese American: the remarkable life of Wong Chin Foo 92 W8724 S
- Siniver, Asaf - Abba Eban: a biography 92 E153 S
- Thompson, Juan F. - Stories I tell myself: growing up with Hunter S. Thompson 92 T47264 T
- Thomson, Jennifer - Josephine Tey: a life 92 T356 T
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Nadar, Félix - When I was a photographer 770 N
- Parks, Gordon - Gordon Parks: segregation story 779 P
- Roberts, Hilary - Lee Miller: a woman's war 770 M
HISTORY
- Cunliffe, Barry W. - By steppe, desert, and ocean: the birth of Eurasia 930 C
- Leuchtenburg, William E. - The American president: from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton 973.9 L
- MacKeen, Dawn Anahid - The hundred-year walk: an Armenian odyssey 956.6 M
- Morris, Marc - King John: treachery and tyranny in Medieval England: the road to Magna Carta 942.03 M
- Plokhy, Serhii - The gates of Europe: a history of Ukraine 947.7 P
- Schrank, Delphine - The rebel of Rangoon: a tale of defiance and deliverance in Burma 959.1 S
- Williams, Daniel K. - Defenders of the unborn: the pro-life movement before Roe v. Wade 363.4 W
ANCIENT CULTURES & CIVILIZATION
- Coe, Michael D. - Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs 972 C
- Derricourt, Robin M. - Antiquity imagined: the remarkable legacy of Egypt and the Ancient Near East 932 D
- Harbison, Robert - Ruins and fragments: tales of loss and rediscovery 913.3 H
- Morrow, Susan Brind - The dawning moon of the mind: unlocking the pyramid texts 299.31 M
CULTURAL HISTORY
- Flanders, Judith - The making of home 392 F
- Jennings, Chris - Paradise now: the story of American utopianism 335.9 J
- Laqueur, Thomas Walter - The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains 393 L
- Nott, James J. - Going to the Palais: a social and cultural history of dancing and dance halls in Britain, 1918-1960 793.3 N
- Schlett, James - A not too greatly changed Eden: the story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks 974.7 S
WAR
- Douglas, Lawrence - The right wrong man: John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial 341.3 D
- McManus, John C. - Hell before their very eyes: American soldiers liberate concentration camps in Germany, April 1945 940.5318 M
- Roberts, Andrew - Elegy: the first day on the Somme 940.42 R
- Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner - Midnight in broad daylight: a Japanese American family caught between two worlds 940.5352 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Berman, Ari - Give us the ballot: the modern struggle for voting rights in America 324 B
- Bew, John. - Realpolitik: a history 320.1 B
- Dionne, E. J. - Why the right went wrong: conservatism—from Goldwater to the Tea Party and beyond 320.9 D
- Scruton, Roger - Fools, frauds and firebrands: thinkers of the new left 320.9 S
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Bell, Gertrude Lowthian - A woman in Arabia: the writings of the Queen of the Desert 92 B4337 B
- Gunter, Michael M. - Out of nowhere: the Kurds of Syria in peace and war 956.9 G
- Shifting sands: the unravelling of the old order in the Middle East (Raja shehadeh and Penny Johnson, eds.) 956 S
FOOD
- A Baghdad cookery book: the book of dishes (13th-century Arabic cookbook translated by Charles Perry) 641.5 I
- Geller, Jamie - Joy of kosher: fast, fresh family recipes : dress them up for entertaining, dress them down for everyday 641.5 G
- Johnson, Nick - The New York pizza project: exploring a city through its quintessential food 647.9 J
GARDENS
- Frida Kahlo's garden (NY Botanical Garden; Mia D'Avanza, ed.) 712 F
- Laird, Mark - A natural history of English gardening, 1650-1800 716 L
ECONOMICS
- Forbes, Steve - Money: how the destruction of the dollar threatens the global economy—and what we can do about it 332.4 F
- Kocka, Jürgen - Capitalism: a short history 330.1 K
SOCIOLOGY
- Capturing contemporary Japan: differentiation and uncertainty (Satsuki Kawano, et al., eds.) 330.952 C
- Howard, Philip N. - Pax technica: how the internet of things may set us free or lock us up 301.2 H
- Tizon, Alex - Big little man: in search of my Asian self 305.87 T
IMMIGRATION
- Cafaro, Philip - How many is too many?: the progressive argument for reducing immigration into the United States 325.73 C
- Gerber, David A. - American immigration: a very short introduction 304.8 G
- Ngai, Mae M. - Impossible subjects: illegal aliens and the making of modern America 323.6 N
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Bown, Stephen R. - White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's fearless journey into the heart of the Arctic 92 R2255 B
- Porter, Bill - South of the clouds: travels in southwest China 915.12 P
- Ziegler, Dominic - Black dragon river: a journey down the Amur River at the borderlands of empires 915.7 Z
NEW YORK
- Frank, Robin Jaffee - Coney Island: visions of an American dreamland, 1861-2008 974.71 F OVERSIZE
- Polan, Jason - Every person in New York 741.5 P
- Tang, Eric - Unsettled: Cambodian refugees in the New York City hyperghetto 305.87 T
- Whalen, Bernard - The NYPD's first fifty years: politicians, police commissioners, and patrolmen 352.2 W
PSYCHOLOGY
- Barbagli, Marzio - Farewell to the world: a history of suicide 362.2 B
- The quotable Jung (Judith R. Harris, ed.) 150 Q
- Washington, Harriet A. - Infectious madness: the surprising science of how we "catch" mental illness 616.8 W
SCIENCE
- Boyle, Alan - The case for Pluto: how a little planet made a big difference 523.4 B
- Dunbar, R. I. M. - Human evolution: a Pelican introduction 575 D
- Heilbron, J. L. - Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks 530.9 H
AUDIO
- Benson, E. F. - Queen Lucia Lobby Audio-CD B
- Bucholz, R. O. - A history of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts Audio-CD 942 B
- Conrad, Joseph - Under western eyes Audio-CD C
- Ferrante, Elena - The story of the lost child Lobby Audio-CD F
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