The Library was delighted to acknowledge member writers who've published new books in the last six months of the year with a party on December 16. (Writers honored January-June are listed here.) The July-December authors:

• Cristina Alger, Girls Like Us (G.P. Putnam's Sons, July)
• Rebecca Behrens, The Disaster Days (Sourcebooks Young Readers, September) - speaking in the Members' Room on February 13!
• Nicholas Birns, The Hyperlocal and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space (Lexington Books, August)
• Andrew Blauner, The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life: A Library of America Special Publication (The Library of America, October)

• Teru Clavel, World Class: One Mother's Journey Halfway Around the Globe to Raise the Smartest Kids Possible (Atria Books, August)
• Dan Cryer, Forgetting My Mother: A Blues from the Heartland (Parafine Press, November)
• Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys (Oxford University Press, September)
• Erika Dreifus, Birthright: Poems (Kelsay Books, November)

• Kate Eichhorn, The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media (Harvard University Press, July)
• Jay Eisenhofer and Mark Eisenhofer, Black Shadow (November)
• Eleanor Foa-Dienstag, Mixed Messages: Reflections on an Italian Jewish Family and Exile (CPL Editions, October)
• Elyssa Friedland, The Floating Feldmans (Berkley, July)

• Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue (HMH Books for Young Readers, September)
• Linda Golding, Spiritual Care for Non-Communicative Patients (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, July)
• Tullan Holmqvist-Spinelli, The Woman in the Park (Beaufort Books, August)
• Alexandra Horowitz, Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond (Scribner, September)
• Gary Lippman, Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate (Rare Bird Books, August)

• Maryann Macdonald, It's Good to Have a Grandma and It's Good to Have a Grandpa (Albert Whitman & Company, August)
• Marta McDowell, Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants & Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet (Timber Press, October)
• Erin McGill, Matchy Matchy (Cameron, October) and I Do Not Like That Name (Greenwillow Books, November)
• Kate McMullan, As Warm as the Sun (with Jim McMullan) (Neal Porter Books, August)

• Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King (W.W. Norton, September)
• Shirley M. Mueller, MD, Inside the Head of a Collector: Neuropsychological Forces at Play (Lucia Marquand, August)
• Pamela Newkirk, Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business (Bold Type Books, October)
• Richard Panek, The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July)

• Roger Pasquier, Birds in Winter: Surviving the Most Challenging Season (Princeton University Press, August)
• Chris Raschka (illustrator), Puddle (written by Richard Jackson) (Greenwillow Books, March)
• Ron Singer, The Promised End (Unsolicited Press, December)
• Rickie Solinger, Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (revised edition) (NYU Press, July) and The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law (revised edition) (University of California Press, October)

• Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Random House, October)
• Marie Tanner, Sublime Truth and the Senses: Titian's Poesie for King Philip II of Spain (Brepols Publishers, June)
• Eric D. Weitz, A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States (Princeton University Press, September)
• Karen Wunsch, Do You Know What I'm Not Telling You? (Serving House Press, November)
• Alexander Zevin, Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist (Verso, November)

We're always glad to hear of new publications by Library members. If you have something coming out, we'd welcome a note to writers@nysoclib.org.