August 2012 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Bainbridge, David - Middle age: a natural history
- Banner, Lois W - Marilyn: the passion and the paradox
- Batt, Matthew C - Sugarhouse: a memoir
- Berenson, Edward - The Statue of Liberty: a transatlantic story
- Blair, Joe - By the Iowa Sea: a memoir
- Blum, Andrew - Tubes: a journey to the center of the Internet
- Bonnet, Jacques - Phantoms on the bookshelves
- Bordewich, Fergus M - America's great debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union
- Bowker, Gordon - James Joyce: a new biography
- Chandrasekaran, Rajiv - Little America: the war within the war for Afghanistan
- Cockayne, Emily - Cheek by jowl: a history of neighbours
- Cohen, Lisa - All we know: three lives
- Colby, Tanner - Some of my best friends are Black: the strange story of integration in America
- Coleman, Julie - The life of slang
- Crist, David - The twilight war: the secret history of America's thirty-year conflict with Iran
- Dickey, R. A - Wherever I wind up: my quest for truth, authenticity, and the perfect knuckleball
- Dormandy, Thomas - Opium: reality's dark dream
- Dower, John W - Ways of forgetting, ways of remembering: Japan in the modern world
- Dudziak, Mary L. - War time: an idea, its history, its consequences
- Emmott, Bill - Good Italy, bad Italy: why Italy must conquer its demons to face the future
- Firestein, Stuart - Ignorance: how it drives science
- Gates, Henry Louis - The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader
- Grant, Colin - Bageye at the wheel
- Groth, Janet - The receptionist: an education at the New Yorker
- Hedges, Chris - Days of destruction, days of revolt
- Heinrich, Bernd - Life everlasting: the animal way of death
- Hilsum, Lindsey - Sandstorm: Libya in the time of revolution
- Hustvedt, Siri - Living, thinking, looking: essays
- Ingrassia, Paul - Engines of change: a history of the American dream in fifteen cars
- Jacobs, Sally H. - The other Barack: the bold and reckless life of president Obama's father
- James, Clive - A point of view
- Johnson, Claudia L - Jane Austen's cults and cultures
- Jones, Seth G. - Hunting in the shadows: the pursuit of Al Qa'ida since 9/11
- Joseph, Jamal - Panther baby: a life of rebellion and reinvention
- Junor, Penny - Prince William: the man who will be king
- Kean, Sam - The violinist's thumb: and other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code
- Klaidman, Daniel - Kill or capture: the war on terror and the soul of the Obama presidency
- Kurlansky, Mark - Birdseye: the adventures of a curious man
- Larson, Kay - Where the heart beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the inner life of artists
- Larsson, Stieg - The Expo files: and other articles
- Lawson, Guy - Octopus: Sam Israel, the secret market, and Wall Street's wildest con
- Lewis-Kraus, Gideon - A sense of direction: pilgrimage for the restless and the hopeful
- Lowe, Keith - Savage continent: Europe in the aftermath of World War II
- Macfarlane, Robert - The old ways: a journey on foot
- Manguso, Sarah - The guardians: an elegy
- Mann, Jim - The Obamians: the struggle inside the White House to redefine American power
- Marmorstein, Gary - A ship without a sail: the life of Lorenz Hart
- Martin, Andrew - The boxer and the goalkeeper: Sartre vs Camus
- McDonough, John E - Inside national health reform
- McHugh, Dominic - Loverly: the life and times of My fair lady
- McKendrick, Scot - Royal manuscripts: the genius of illumination
- Mendelson, Cheryl - The good life: the moral individual in an antimoral world
- Merry, Robert W. - Where they stand: the American presidents in the eyes of voters and historians
- Mullan, John - What matters in Jane Austen?: twenty crucial puzzles solved
- Mundy, Liza - The richer sex: how the new majority of female breadwinners is transforming sex, love, and family
- Muttitt, Greg - Fuel on the fire: oil and politics in occupied Iraq
- O'Connor, Flannery - Flannery O'Connor: the cartoons
- Perenyi, Ken - Caveat emptor: the secret life of an American art forger
- Pilecki, Witold - The Auschwitz volunteer: beyond bravery
- Price, Reynolds - Midstream: an unfinished memoir
- Reppetto, Thomas A - Battleground New York City: countering spies, saboteurs, and terrorists since 1861
- Rivers, Joan - I hate everyone--starting with me
- Samuelsson, Marcus - Yes, chef: a memoir
- Shapton, Leanne - Swimming studies
- Sheets, Lawrence Scott - Eight pieces of empire: a 20-year journey through the Soviet collapse
- Slotkin, Richard - The long road to Antietam: how the Civil War became a revolution
- Smith, Daniel B. - Monkey mind: a memoir of anxiety
- Stone, Alex - Fooling Houdini: magicians, mentalists, math geeks & the hidden powers of the mind
- Stott, Rebecca - Darwin's ghosts: the secret history of evolution
- Strayed, Cheryl - Tiny beautiful things: advice on love and life from Dear Sugar
- Swarns, Rachel L - American tapestry: the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama
- Watson, Thomas - Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the corruption of Britain
- Wilber, Tom - Under the surface: fracking, fortunes and the fate of the Marcellus Shale
- Zorn, Robert E - Cemetery John: the undiscovered mastermind of the Lindbergh kidnapping
FICTION
- Adler, Elizabeth - A place in the country
- Amirrezvani, Anita - Equal of the sun: a novel
- Andersen, Kurt - True believers: a novel
- Bakopoulos, Natalie - The green shore
- Banks, Iain - Stonemouth
- Bernard, April - Miss Fuller: a novel
- Bohjalian, Chris - The sandcastle girls
- Bohman, Therese - Drowned
- Boyne, John - The absolutist
- Brandon, John - A million heavens
- Carter, Stephen L. - The impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
- Claudel, Philippe - The investigation: a novel
- Cleave, Chris - Gold
- Dailey, Janet - A cowboy under my Christmas tree
- Dailey, Janet - Bannon Brothers: honor
- Davis, Lindsey - Master and God
- Desai, Kishwar - Witness the night
- Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud - The colonel
- Duncan, Glen - Talulla rising
- Fales-Hill, Susan - Imperfect bliss: a novel
- Fuentes, Carlos - Vlad
- Giffin, Emily - Where we belong: a novel
- Grazer, Gigi Levangie - The after wife: a novel
- Harkness, Deborah E. - Shadow of night
- Heti, Sheila - How should a person be?: [a novel from life]
- Hilderbrand, Elin - Summerland: a novel
- Huston, Nancy - Infrared
- Kalla, Daniel - The far side of the sky
- Kay, I. J - Mountains of the moon
- Keesey, Anna - Little century
- Kennedy, A. L - The blue book
- Kohler, Sheila - The bay of foxes: a novel
- Lane, Harriet - Alys, always: a novel
- Maso, Carole - Mother & child: a novel
- Mathews, Francine - Jack 1939
- Michaels, Fern - Tuesday's child
- Moore, Meg Mitchell - So far away: a novel
- Netzer, Lydia - Shine shine shine
- Neuman, AndrÈs - Traveler of the century
- Parameswaran, Rajesh - I am an executioner: love stories
- Parks, Tim - The server
- Pava, Sergio de la - A naked singularity
- Ragen, Naomi - The sacrifice of Tamar
- Roy-Bhattacharya, Joydeep - The watch: a novel
- Ruiz ZafÛn, Carlos - The prisoner of heaven: a novel
- Shafak, Elif - Honour
- Shipstead, Maggie - Seating arrangements
- Solstad, Dag - Professor Andersen's night
- Somerville, Patrick - This bright river: a novel
- Steel, Danielle - Friends forever: a novel
- Steele, Jon - The watchers
- Thayer, Nancy - Summer breeze: a novel
- Trollope, Joanna - The soldier's wife
- Unger, Lisa - Heartbroken: a novel
- Vonnegut, Norb - The trust
- Walker, Karen Thompson - The age of miracles: a novel
- Warner, Alan - The deadman's pedal
- Weiner, Jennifer - The next best thing: a novel
- White, Patrick - The hanging garden
- Willett, Marcia - The summer house
- Wilson, G. Willow - Alif the unseen
- Womersley, Chris - Bereft: a novel
- Wood, Benjamin - The Bellwether revivals
- Woodrell, Daniel - Give us a kiss
- Zimmerman, Jean - The orphanmaster
SHORT STORIES
- Ohlin, Alix - Signs and wonders: stories
POETRY
- Art and artists: poems
- Gibbs, Robert J. - The essential Robert Gibbs
- Goyette, Susan - Outskirts
- Greig, Andrew - As though we were flying
- Norwid, Cyprian - Poems
- Smith, Tracy K - Life on Mars: poems
MYSTERIES
- Abbott, Jeff - The last minute
- Block, Lawrence - Strange embrace
- Booth, Stephen - Dead and buried*
- Brodrick, William - The Day of the Lie*
- Brookmyre, Christopher - Where the bodies are buried
- Burke, James Lee - Creole belle : a Dave Robicheaux novel
- Campion, Alexander - Killer critique
- Cantrell, Rebecca - A city of broken glass
- Castillo, Linda - Gone missing
- Charles, Paul - A pleasure to do death with you: a DI Christy Kennedy mystery*
- Connolly, J. J - Viva la madness*
- Conway, James - The last trade: a novel
- Cotto, Andrew - Outerborough blues: a Brooklyn mystery
- Coulter, Catherine - Backfire
- De Jonge, Peter - Buried on Avenue B: a novel
- Ellis, David - The wrong man
- Evanovich, Janet - Wicked business: a Lizzy and Diesel novel
- Fairstein, Linda A - Night watch
- Faletti, Giorgio - A pimp's notes
- Fraser, Anthea - A question of identity*
- French, Tana - Broken Harbor
- Gardiner, Meg - Ransom River
- Greaves, Chuck - Hush money
- Grebe, Camilla - Some kind of peace
- Gross, Andrew - 15 seconds
- Hall, Patricia - Death trap*
- Hall, Tarquin - The case of the deadly butter chicken: from the files of Vish Puri, India's most private investigator
- Hamilton, Steve - Die a stranger
- Henshaw, Mark - Red cell
- Hillier, Jennifer - Creep
- Holt, Anne - Blind goddess: a Hanne Wilhelmsen novel
- Housewright, David - Curse of the Jade Lily
- Howard, Linda - The cutting edge
- Jance, Judith A - Judgment call
- Jardine, Quintin - Funeral note
- Johansen, Iris - Close your eyes
- Katzenbach, John - What comes next
- Kava, Alex - Fireproof: a Maggie O'Dell novel
- Kellerman, Jesse - Potboiler
- Kent, Christobel - The dead season
- Kepler, Lars - The nightmare
- Knopf, Chris - Ice cap
- Larson, Nathan - The nervous system: a novel
- Lasser, Scott - Say nice things about Detroit
- Lawson, Michael - House blood: a Joe DeMarco thriller
- LimÛn, Martin - Joy brigade
- Littlefield, Sophie - A bad day for mercy
- Loomis, Jon - Fire season
- Love is murder
- Lustbader, Eric - Robert Ludlum's The Bourne imperative: a new Jason Bourne novel
- McCleary, Carol - The formula for murder*
- McPherson, Catriona - Dandy Gilver and an unsuitable day for a murder*
- Nesser, HÂkan - Hour of the wolf: an Inspector Van Veeteren mystery
- Patterson, James - I, Michael Bennett
- Pilgrim, Kitty - The stolen chalice: a novel
- Pronzini, Bill - Hellbox: a Nameless Detective novel
- Quirk, Matthew - The 500: a novel
- Rees, Matt - A name in blood
- Sedley, Kate - The Tintern treasure*
- Silva, Daniel - The fallen angel
- Slaughter, Karin - Criminal: a novel
- Smith, Frank - In the shadow of evil: a DCI Neil Paget mystery*
- Swain, James - Dark magic
- Tonkin, Peter - Dark heart: a Mariner novel
- Venice noir
- Verdon, John - Let the devil sleep: a novel
- Walters, Minette - Innocent victims*
* indicates a British mystery
IN THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY
YOUNGER READERS
- Barnett, Mac - Extra Yarn
- Feiffer, Kate - No Go Sleep
- Hartland, Jessie - How the dinosaur got to the museum
- Henkes, Kevin - Penny and her song
- Nanji, Shenaaz - Indian tales
- Napoli, Donna Jo - Treasury of Greek mythology : classic stories of gods, goddesses, heroes & monsters
- Rocco, John - Blackout
- Smith, Lane - Grandpa Green
- Willems, Mo - The duckling gets a cookie!?
- Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner - Secrets of the garden : food chains and the food web in our backyard
OLDER READERS
- Brown, Don - America is under attack : September 11, 2001 : the day the towers fell
- Curtis, Christopher Paul - The mighty Miss Malone
- Fleming, Thomas J. - Everybody's revolution : a new look at the people who won America's freedom
- Funke, Cornelia Caroline - Ghost knight
- Gantos, Jack - Dead End in Norvelt
- Pilkey, Dav - Ricky Ricotta's mighty robot : the first adventure novel
- Pinkwater, Daniel Manus - Mrs. Noodlekugel
- Raschka, Christopher. - Seriously, Norman!
- Ursu, Anne - Breadcrumbs
- Wooldridge, Connie Nordhielm - The brave escape of Edith Wharton: A biography
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- The Cambridge history of African American literature , 820.9 C
- Culler, Jonathan D - Literary theory: a very short introduction , 801 C
- Frank, Joseph - Responses to modernity: essays in the politics of culture , 809 F
- Sampson, Denis - Young John McGahern: becoming a novelist , 823 M
- Woolf, Virginia - On fiction , 808.3 W
POETRY
- Fuller, John - Who is Ozymandias?:; and other puzzles in poetry , 821.09 F
- Graci·n y Morales, Baltasar - The pocket oracle and art of prudence , 868 G
- Mintz, Alan L. - Sanctuary in the wilderness: a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry , 892.4 M
- Smith, William Jay - The Cherokee lottery: a sequence of poems , 821 S
- Walser, Robert - Thirty poems , 831 W
ART & ARCHITECTURE
- Americans in Florence: Sargent and the American Impressionists , 759.1 S
- Carr, C - Fire in the belly: the life and times of David Wojnarowicz , 92 W84775 C
- Cohen, Jean-Louis - The future of architecture, since 1889 , 720 C
- Doezema, Marianne - George Bellows , 759.1 B
- Marshall, Jennifer Jane - Machine art, 1934 , 704 M
- Robinson, John Martin - Felling the ancient oaks: how England lost its great country estates , 728.8 R
- Sekules, Veronica - Medieval art , 709 S
MUSIC
- Magee, Jeffrey - Irving Berlin's American musical theater , 780.921 M
- Newhouse, Victoria - Site and sound: the architecture and acoustics of new opera houses and concert halls , 725.8 N
PHILOSOPHY
- Badiou, Alain - The adventure of French philosophy , 194 B
- Harris, Sam - Free will , 123 H
- Holt, Jim - Why does the world exist?: an existential detective story , 113 H
LANGUAGE
- Chomsky, Noam - The science of language: interviews with James McGilvray , 401 C
- One word: contemporary writers on the words they love or loathe , 428.3 O
BOOKS & READING
- Hruschka, John - How books came to America: the rise of the American book trade , 655.5 H
- Jack, Belinda Elizabeth - The woman reader , 028 J
BIOGRAPHY
- Christie, Agatha - The grand tour , 92 C55553 C
- Harrison, Steve - Changing the world is the only fit work for a grown man: an eyewitness account of the life and times of Howard Luck Gossage, 1960s America's most innovative, influential and irreverent advertising genius , 92 G6774 H
- Serge, Victor - Memoirs of a revolutionary , 92 S4845 S
- Swofford, Anthony - Hotels, hospitals, and jails: a memoir , 92 S9794 S
- Thompson, John - The life of John Thompson, a fugitive slave: containing his history of 25 years in bondage and his providential escape , 92 T4735 T
HISTORY
- Delbanco, Andrew - The abolitionist imagination , 973.71 D
- Douglas, R. M. - Orderly and humane: the expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War , 940.5314 D
- Howe, Daniel Walker - Making the American self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln , 973 H
- Pick, Daniel - The pursuit of the Nazi mind: Hitler, Hess, and the analysts , 943.086 P
- Woolf, Greg - Rome: an empire's story , 937.06 W
The Library recently expanded its Project MUSE database with almost 2,500 university press e-books on history topics. For more information, please ask at the reference desk or search our online catalog for Project Muse as the author to bring up a list of these e-books.
LAW
- Aufderheide, Patricia - Reclaiming fair use: how to put balance back in copyright , 347.73 A
- Green, Steven K - The Bible, the school, and the Constitution: the clash that shaped modern church-state doctrine , 344 G
WAR
- Birstein, Vadim J - SMERSH: Stalin's secret weapon : Soviet military counterintelligence in WWII , 940.5485 B
- Brewer, Susan A - Why America fights: patriotism and war propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq , 303.6 B
- Downs, Jim - Sick from freedom: African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction , 973.7 D
NEW YORK CITY
- Gallagher, Julie A - Black women and politics in New York City , 323.4 G
- Guthrie, Nora - My name Is New York: ramblin' around Woody Guthrie's town , 917.471 G
- Schlichting, Kurt C - Grand Central's engineer: William J. Wilgus and the planning of modern Manhattan , 92 W6776 S OVERSIZE
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Burnes, Alexander - Travels into Bokhara: containing the narrative of a voyage on the Indus from the sea to Lahore and an account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia in the years 1831, 1832, and 1833 , 915.8 B
- Eberhardt, Isabelle - In the shadow of Islam , 916.1 E
- Ibn Fa?lan, A?mad - Ibn Fadlan and the land of darkness: Arab travellers in the far north , 914.7 I
AUDIO
- Bellow, Saul - Humboldt's gift, Audio-CD B
- James, Henry - The American, Audio-CD J
- Le CarrÈ, John - Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, Audio-CD L