Forthcoming Books - Winter 2018
"'Hear! hear!' screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, 'winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.'" - Henry David Thoreau
Whether you favor the cold weather or dislike these next few months, there is plenty to celebrate in the following list of new publications. With the new year comes a bevy of titles from our favorite authors. The books listed below are some of the new offerings you'll find at the Library in the coming months. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, take a look at New Books, our list published at the beginning of every month and available on the website or at the Reference Desk. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find it here or in the Library's catalog, simply request it from the Acquisitions Department by filling out a request slip at the Circulation Desk or logging in to our website and using the Suggest a Purchase form.
January
- Boot, Max | The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
- Bradley Alan | The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place
- Brett, Simon | The Liar in the Library
- Camilleri, Andrea | The Pyramid of Mud
- Coetzee, J.M. | Late Essays: 2006 – 2017
- Cornwell, Bernard | Fools and Mortals
- Eggers, Dave | The Monk of Mokha
- Ferguson, Niall | The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
- Horn, Dara | Eternal Life
- Hurwitz, Gregg | Hellbent
- Johnson, Denis | The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
- Knausgaard, Karl Ove | Winter
- MacBride, Stuart | Now We Are Dead
- Massey, Sujata | The Widows of Malabar Hill
- Moyes, Jojo | Still Me
- Mukherjee, Neel | A State of Freedom
- Perry, Thomas | The Bomb Maker
- Smith, Ali | Winter
- Taraborelli, J. Randy | Jackie, Janet, and Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Wolff, Michael | Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
February
- Amis, Martin | The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump : essays and reportage, 1986-2016
- Banville, John | Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
- Beaton, M.C. | Death of an Honest Man
- Berenson, Alex | The Deceivers
- Bloom, Amy | White Houses
- Bowen, Rhys | The Tuscan Child
- Carey, Peter | A Long Way from Home
- Finch, Charles | The Woman in the Water
- Hannah, Kristin | The Great Alone
- Harper, Jane | Force of Nature
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia | Shadow Play
- Hayes, Bill | How New York Breaks Your Heart
- Kellerman, Jonathan | Night Moves
- Lescroart, John | Poison
- Lippman, Laura | Sunburn
- Macy, Caitlin | Mrs.
- Mamet, David | Chicago
- Matthews, Jason | The Kremlin’s Candidate
- Morton, Andrew | Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
- Mosley, Walter | Down the River unto the Sea
- Oates, Joyce Carol | Beautiful Days
- O’Farrell, Maggie | I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
- Pinker, Steven | Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- Robinson, Marilynne | What are We Doing Here?: Essays
- Smith, Zadie | Feel Free: Essays
- Todd, Charles | The Gate Keeper
- Vargas Llosa, Mario | Sabers and Utopias: Visions of Latin America: Essays
- Vargas Llosa, Mario | The Neighborhood