April 2012 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Aldous, Richard - Reagan and Thatcher: the difficult relationship
- Barrett, James R - The Irish way: becoming American in the multiethnic city
- Bartlett, Bruce R - The benefit and the burden: American tax reform--why we need it and what it will take
- Brock, David - The Fox effect: how Roger Ailes turned a network into a propaganda machine
- Callahan, Dan - Barbara Stanwyck: the miracle woman
- Carpenter, Dale - Flagrant conduct: the story of Lawrence v. Texas : how a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans
- Cicero, Quintus Tullius - How to win an election: an ancient guide for modern politicians
- Clapp, Susannah - A card from Angela Carter
- D'Agata, John - The lifespan of a fact
- Davenport-Hines, R. P. T - Voyagers of the Titanic: passengers, sailors, shipbuilders, aristocrats, and the worlds they came from
- De Botton, Alain - Religion for atheists: a non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
- Dickens, Charles - The selected letters of Charles Dickens
- Druckerman, Pamela - Bringing up bÈbÈ: one American mother discovers the wisdom of French parenting
- Duhigg, Charles - The power of habit: why we do what we do in life and business
- Dyson, George - Turing's cathedral: the origins of the digital universe
- Faleiro, Sonia - Beautiful thing: inside the secret world of Bombay's dance bars
- Feldman, Deborah - Unorthodox: the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots
- Florman, Samuel C - Good guys, wiseguys, and putting up buildings: a life in construction
- Gessen, Masha - The man without a face: the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin
- Ghonim, Wael - Revolution 2.0: the power of the people is greater than the people in power : a memoir
- Jacobson, Howard - Whatever it is, I don't like it: the best of Howard Jacobson
- Jenkins, Philip - Laying down the sword: why we can't ignore the Bible's violent verses
- Jones, Gregg R - Honor in the dust: Theodore Roosevelt, war in the Philippines, and the rise and fall of America's imperial dream
- Kagan, Robert - The world America made
- Kanigel, Robert - On an Irish island
- Kaplan, Alice Yaeger - Dreaming in French: the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
- Klinenberg, Eric - Going solo: the extraordinary rise and surprising appeal of living alone
- Lamott, Anne - Some assembly required: a journal of my son's first son
- Leonard, John - Reading for my life: writings, 1958-2008
- Library book.
- Louvin, Charlie - Satan is real: the ballad of the Louvin brothers
- Maas, Jane - Mad women: the other side of life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and beyond
- Martyn, Trea - Queen Elizabeth in the garden: a story of love, rivalry, and spectacular gardens
- McGraw, Seamus - The end of country
- Meyer, Karl Ernest - Pax ethnica: where and how diversity succeeds
- Nagorski, Andrew - Hitlerland: American eyewitnesses to the Nazis rise to power
- Pagel, Mark D - Wired for culture: origins of the human social mind
- Pagels, Elaine H - Revelations: visions, prophecy, and politics in the book of Revelation
- Press, Eyal - Beautiful souls: saying no, breaking ranks, and heeding the voice of conscience in dark times
- Preston, Andrew - Sword of the spirit, shield of faith: religion in American war and diplomacy
- Rappaport, Helen - A magnificent obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy
- Rashid, Ahmed - Pakistan on the brink: the future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
- Read, Piers Paul - The Dreyfus affair: the scandal that tore France in two
- Riley, Kathleen - The Astaires: Fred & Adele
- Robinson, Marilynne - When I was a child I read books
- Roy, Arundhati - Walking with the comrades
- Sarna, Jonathan D - When General Grant expelled the Jews
- Scheiber, Noam - The escape artists: how Obama's team fumbled the recovery
- Seung, Sebastian - Connectome: how the brain's wiring makes us who we are
- Shadid, Anthony - House of stone: a memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East
- Short American century: a postmortem
- Smith, Jean Edward - Eisenhower: in war and peace
- Strayed, Cheryl - Wild: from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- Taylor, Craig - Londoners: the days and nights of London now -- as told by those who love it, hate it, live it, left it, and long for it
- Treuer, David - Rez life: an Indian's journey through reservation life
- Tyldesley, Joyce A - Tutankhamen: the search for an Egyptian king
- Updegrove, Mark K - Indomitable will: LBJ in the presidency
- Weil, Andrew - Spontaneous happiness
- Weil, Elizabeth - No cheating, no dying: I had a good marriage. Then I tried to make it better
- Weiner, Tim - Enemies: a history of the FBI
- Wilson, Andrew - Shadow of the Titanic: the extraordinary stories of those who survived
- Winner, Lauren F - Still: notes on a mid-faith crisis
- Winterson, Jeanette - Why be happy when you could be normal?
- Yardley, Jim - Brave Dragons: a Chinese basketball team, an American coach, and two cultures clashing
- Zacks, Richard - Island of vice: Theodore Roosevelt's doomed quest to clean up sin-loving New York
- Zaslow, Jeffrey - The magic room: a story about the love we wish for our daughters
- Zimmerman, Jean - Love, fiercely: a gilded age romance
FICTION
- Alcott, Kate - The dressmaker: a novel
- Alger, Cristina - The darlings
- Ausubel, Ramona - No one is here except all of us
- Badami, Anita Rau - Tell it to the trees
- Baggott, Julianna - Pure
- Begley, Louis - Schmidt steps back
- Cameron, Peter - Coral Glynn
- De Silva, Diego - I hadn't understood
- Dermont, Amber - The starboard sea
- Faye, Lyndsay - The gods of Gotham
- Gordimer, Nadine - No time like the present
- Green, Jane - Another piece of my heart
- Groff, Lauren - Arcadia
- Gutcheon, Beth Richardson - Gossip: a novel
- Harrison, Kathryn - Enchantments: a novel
- Hassman, Tupelo - Girlchild
- Iyer, Lars - Spurious
- Julavits, Heidi - The vanishers
- Kleypas, Lisa - Rainshadow road
- Kunzru, Hari - Gods without men
- Lelic, Simon - The child who
- Mallon, Thomas - Watergate: a novel
- Miller, Madeline - The song of Achilles
- Moore, Liz - Heft
- Odell, Jonathan - The healing: a novel
- Pearl, Matthew - The technologists: a novel
- Picoult, Jodi - Lone wolf: a novel
- Romano-Lax, Andromeda - The detour
- Schulman, Audrey - Three weeks in December
- St. Aubyn, Edward - The Patrick Melrose novels: Never mind, Bad news, Some hope, and Mother's milk
- Ullman, Ellen - By blood
- Yalom, Irvin D - The Spinoza problem: a novel
SHORT STORIES
- Lee, Krys - Drifting house
POETRY
- Galassi, Jonathan - Left-handed: poems
- Gilbert, Jack - Collected poems
- Strand, Mark - Almost invisible
MYSTERIES
- Albert, Susan Wittig - Cat's claw
- Beaton, M. C - Death of a kingfisher*
- Berenson, Alex - The shadow patrol
- Black, Cara - Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
- Bowen, Rhys - Hush now, don't you cry
- Box, C. J - Force of nature
- Casey, Jane - The missing*
- Childs, Laura - Agony of the leaves: tea shop mystery #13
- Coben, Harlan - Stay close
- Coonts, Deborah - So damn lucky
- DeFelice, Jim - The helios conspiracy
- Dryden, Alex - The blind spy: a novel
- Eastland, Sam - Archive 17: a novel of suspense
- Eccles, Marjorie - Broken music: a mystery*
- Edwardson, ≈ke - Sail of stone
- Fluke, Joanne - Cinnamon Roll murder
- Fredrickson, Jack - Hunting Sweetie Rose
- French, Nicci - Blue Monday*
- Glass, Matthew - Trigger point
- Grossman, Paul - Children of wrath
- Gunn, Elizabeth - The magic line
- Hand, Elizabeth - Available dark
- Harris, C. S - When maidens mourn: a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery*
- Jacobs, Jonnie - Paradise Falls
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Victims: an Alex Delaware novel
- Lutz, Lisa - Trail of the Spellmans: document #5
- Manfredo, Lou - Rizzo's daughter
- McCarthy, Keith - Nor all your tears: a Dr Lance Elliott mystery*
- Nakamura, Fuminori - The thief
- O'Donovan, Gerard - Dublin dead: a novel
- Ohlsson, Kristina - Unwanted: a novel
- Parks, Brad - The girl next door
- Patterson, James - Private games
- Patterson, Richard North - Fall from grace: a novel
- Pavone, Chris - The expats: a novel
- Perry, Thomas - Poison flower: a Jane Whitefield novel
- Persson, Leif G. W - Another time, another life: the story of a crime
- Robb, J. D - Celebrity in death
- Robinson, Peter - Before the poison
- Robotham, Michael - Bleed for me
- Seymour, Gerald - Timebomb: a thriller
- Steinhauer, Olen - An American spy
- Thompson, James - Helsinki white
- Westlake, Donald E - The comedy is finished
- White, Kate - So pretty it hurts: a Bailey Weggins mystery
- White, Randy Wayne - Chasing midnight
- Wilson, Edward - The midnight swimmer
* indicates a British mystery
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Green, Jack - Fire the bastards! , 823 G
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Selected letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne , 92 H399 H
- MacKay, Marina - The Cambridge introduction to the novel , 809.3 M
- Powell, Anthony - The acceptance of absurdity: Anthony Powell & Robert Vanderbilt : letters 1952-1963 , 920 P8824 A
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain - Why I love Barthes , 840.9 R
- Sutherland, John - The Dickens dictionary: an A-Z of England's greatest novelist , 823 D
- Ugreöic, Dubravka - Karaoke culture: essays , 891.82 U
- West, James L W - Making the archives talk: new and selected essays in bibliography, editing, and book history , 808 W
POETRY
- Bishop, Elizabeth - Elizabeth Bishop: objects & apparitions , 709.73 B
- Boyle, Elizabeth Michael - The view from the ruin: images for a dialogue of faith with doubt by Elizabeth Michael Boyle., 821 B
- Marlowe, Christopher - The complete poems and translations , 821 M
- Pozzi, Antonia - Poems , 851 P
- Songs of the south: an ancient Chinese anthology of poems by Qu Yuan and other poets , 895.1 C
- Transtrˆmer, Tomas - The deleted world , 839.71 T
BOOKS & READING
- Booklover's book of jokes, quips & quotes , 808.8 B
- Salisbury, Martin - Children's picturebooks: the art of visual storytelling , 741.64 S
JOURNALISM
- Rees-Mogg, William - Memoirs , 92 R3288 R
- Schwarz, Daniel R - Endtimes?: crises and turmoil at the New York times, 1999-2009 , 070 N
- Steinbeck, John - Steinbeck in Vietnam: dispatches from the war , 959 S
ART
- Anderson, Maxwell Lincoln - The quality instinct: seeing art through a museum director's eye , 701 A
- Curtis, Penelope - Sculpture 1900-1945: after Rodin , 730 C
- Foster, Hal - The art-architecture complex , 720 F
- Pemberton, Sally - Portrait of Murdock Pemberton: the New Yorker's first art critic , 706.9 P
- Van Gogh: up close , 759.9 G
- Wolff, Justin P - Thomas Hart Benton: a life , 92 B4783 W
FILM
- Bresson, Robert - Notes on the cinematographer , 791.4 B
- King, Elliott H - DalÌ, surrealism and cinema , 791.4 K
- McMahan, Alison - Alice Guy BlachÈ: lost visionary of the cinema , 791.4 M
- Paglia, Camille - The Birds , 791.4 P
MUSIC
- Bechet, Sidney - Treat it gentle , 92 B3916 B
- Krause, Bernard L - The great animal orchestra: finding the origins of music in the world's wild places , 780 K
- Marcus, Gary F - Guitar zero: the new musician and the science of learning , 780.1 M
- Riis, Thomas Laurence - Frank Loesser , 782 R
THEATER & DRAMA
- The "Lost" group theatre plays., 822.08 L
- Miller, Arthur - Collected plays, 1964-1982 , 822 M
- O'Neill, Eugene - Exorcism: a play in one act , 822 O
- Perry, Gillian - The first actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons , 792.0942 P
- Suskin, Steven - Second act trouble: behind the scenes at Broadway's big musical bombs /, 792.0973 S
GARDENS
- Elliott, Charles - Why every man needs a tractor , 635 E
- New York rooftop gardens , 712 N OVERSIZE
- Stroud, Dorothy - Capability Brown, 92 B8789 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Precht, Richard David - Who am I?--and if so, how many?: a philosophical journey , 190 P
- Warburton, Nigel - Philosophy: the basics , 100 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Abt, Jeffrey - American Egyptologist: the life of James Henry Breasted and the creation of his Oriental Institute , 92 B8284 A OVERSIZE
- Chisholm, Kate - Wits and wives: Dr Johnson in the company of women , 92 J69 C
- Fuller in her own time: a biographical chronicle of her life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates , 92 F9672 F
- Graham, Roderick - The great infidel: a life of David Hume , 92 H9212 G
- Lanzmann, Claude - The Patagonian hare: a memoir , 92 L2976 L
- Somerset, Anne - Queen Anne: the politics of passion, a biography , 92 A6133 S
RELIGION
- Brueggemann, Walter - The prophetic imagination , 221.1 B
- Jung, C G - Psychology and religion , 201 J
- Landes, Richard Allen - Heaven on earth: the varieties of the millennial experience , 236 L
- Stark, Rodney - The triumph of Christianity: how the Jesus movement became the world's largest religion , 270 S
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- Alexander, Shawn Leigh - An army of lions: the civil rights struggle before the NAACP , 323.4 A
- Black Panthers speak , 322.4 B
- Watson, Bruce - Freedom summer: the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy, 323.4 W
SOCIOLOGY
- Bruckner, Pascal - The paradox of love , 306.7 B
- Marcuse, Herbert - A study on authority , 303.3 M
- Worsley, Lucy - If walls could talk: an intimate history of the home , 306.8 W
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Eichengreen, Barry J - Golden fetters: the gold standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 , 332.4 E
- Ellis, Charles D - Winning the loser's game: timeless strategies for successful investing, 332.6 E
- Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice - Historical capitalism with Capitalist civilization , 330.1 W
HISTORY
- Research methods for history , 907 R
- Alexander, Caroline - Lost gold of the Dark Ages: war, treasure, and the mystery of the Saxons , 942.01 A
- Brooke, John L - Columbia rising: civil life on the upper Hudson from the Revolution to the age of Jackson, 974.7 B
- Dubois, Laurent - Haiti: the aftershocks of history , 972.94 D
- Exley, Jo Ella Powell, 1940- - Frontier blood: the saga of the Parker family , 970.2 P
- Fischer, David Hackett - Fairness and freedom: a history of two open societies : New Zealand and the United States , 973 F
- Gates, Henry Louis - Life upon these shores: looking at African American history, 1513-2008 , 973 G OVERSIZE
- Murray, Douglas - Bloody Sunday: truths, lies and the Saville inquiry , 941.5 M
- Pessen, Edward - The log cabin myth: the social backgrounds of the presidents , 305.5 P
- Romm, James S - Ghost on the throne: the death of Alexander the Great and the war for crown and empire , 938 R
- Simon, James F - FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: the president, the Supreme Court, and the epic battle over the New Deal , 973.917 S
WAR
- Civil War: the second year told by those who lived it , 973.7 C
- France, John - Perilous glory: the rise of western military power , 355 F
- Levine, Joshua - Forgotten voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain , 940.542 L
- Reck-Malleczewen, Friedrich Percyval - Diary of a man in despair , 943.085 R
NEW YORK
- Glimcher, Mildred - Happenings: New York, 19581963 , 709.747 G
- New York: the story of a great city, 974.71 N OVERSIZE
- Pickrel, Debra - The Luxembourg House on Beekman Place: three portraits in time , 974.71 P
TRAVEL
- Barthes, Roland - Travels in China , 915.1 B
- Harwood, Phil - Canoeing the Congo: first source to sea descent of the Congo River , 916.7 H
- Perrottet, Tony - The sinner's grand tour: a journey through the historic underbelly of Europe , 914 P
- Whitfield, P - Travel: a literary history , 809 W
AUDIO
- Barnes, Julian - The sense of an ending, Audio-CD B
- Bennett, Alan - The lady in the van, Audio-CD 822 B
- Collins, Wilkie - The moonstone, Audio-CD C
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn - Mary Barton, Audio-CD G