January 2014 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Berns, Gregory - How dogs love us: a neuroscientist and his adopted dog decode the canine brain
- Billings, Lee - Five billion years of solitude: the search for life among the stars
- Bradlee, Ben - The kid: the immortal life of Ted Williams
- Bradley, Elizabeth H - The American health care paradox: why spending more is getting us less
- Brier, Bob - Egypt-omania: our three thousand year obsession with the land of the Pharaohs
- Caws, Mary Ann - Modern art cookbook
- Dawidoff, Nicholas - Collision low crossers: a year inside the turbulent world of NFL football
- Demery, Monique Brinson - Finding the Dragon Lady: the mystery of Vietnam's Madame Nhu
- Frenkel, Edward - Love and math: the heart of hidden reality
- Goodbye to all that: writers on loving and leaving New York (Sari Botton, ed.)
- Gordon, Robert - Respect yourself: Stax Records and the soul explosion
- Gray, John - The silence of animals: on progress and other modern myths
- Hilburn, Robert - Johnny Cash: the life
- Hitchings, Henry - Sorry!: The English and their manners
- Jones, Jacqueline - A dreadful deceit: the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America
- Kimmel, Michael S - Angry white men: American masculinity at the end of an era
- Kohn, Edward P - Heir to the Empire City: New York and the making of Theodore Roosevelt
- Leon, Donna - My Venice and other essays
- McDowell, Marta - Beatrix Potter's gardening life: the plants and places that inspired the classic children's tales
- Morrissey - Autobiography
- Nissley, Tom - A reader's book of days: true tales from the lives and works of writers for every day of the year
- Obst, Lynda Rosen - Sleepless in Hollywood: tales from the new abnormal in the movie business
- Tippins, Sherill - Inside the Dream Palace: the life and times of New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel
- Weir, Alison - Elizabeth of York: a Tudor queen and her world
- Zuckerman, Gregory - The frackers: the outrageous inside story of the new billionaire wildcatters
FICTION
- Baxter, Greg - The apartment
- Conklin, Tara - The house girl
- Dara, Evan - Flee
- DuBois, Jennifer - Cartwheel
- Frame, Janet - In the memorial room
- Frame, Ronald - Havisham: a novel
- Gazdanov, Gaito - The spectre of Alexander Wolf (translated from the Russian)
- Harrison, Jim - Brown Dog: novellas
- Jackson, Joshilyn - Someone else's love story
- Jansma, Kristopher - The unchangeable spots of leopards
- Joss, Morag - Our picnics in the sun: a novel
- McFarland, Dennis - Nostalgia
- Mizumura, Minae - A true novel (translated from the Japanese)
- Muñoz Molina, Antonio - In the night of time (translated from the Spanish)
- Natsume, Soseki - Light and dark (translated from the Japanese)
- Powers, Richard - Orfeo
- Roberts, Nora - Dark witch
- Setterfield, Diane - Bellman & Black
- Shalev, Tseruyah - The remains of love (translated from the Hebrew)
- Smith, Michael F - Rivers
- Trigiani, Adriana - The Supreme Macaroni Company
- Warner, Peter - The mole: the Cold War memoir of Winston Bates (a novel)
- Weldon, Fay - The new countess
- Whitaker, Rick - An honest ghost
- Yanagihara, Hanya - The people in the trees
MYSTERIES
- Aspe, Pieter - The Midas murders (translated from the Dutch)
- Barbieri, Maggie - Once upon a lie
- Benison, C. C - Ten lords a-leaping: a Father Christmas mystery*
- Bernal, Rafael - The Mongolian Conspiracy (translated from the Spanish)
- Block, Lawrence - Catch and release: 17 stories
- Clancy, Tom - Command authority (with Mark Greaney)
- Connelly, Michael - The gods of guilt: a novel
- De Giovanni, Maurizio - Everyone in their place: the summer of Commissario Ricciardi (translated from the Italian)
- Dunn, Carola - Heirs of the body : a Daisy Dalrymple mystery*
- Eccles, Marjorie - A dangerous deceit*
- Fowler, Christopher - The invisible code: a Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery*
- Gavin, Rick - Nowhere nice
- Hall, James W - Going dark: a Thorn novel
- Hay, M. Doriel - The Santa Klaus murder*
- Hess, Joan - Murder as a second language
- Higgins, Jack - The death trade
- James, Bill - Noose*
- Kelly, Jim - The funeral owl*
- Lustbader, Eric - Robert Ludlum's the Bourne retribution: a new Jason Bourne novel
- McGilloway, Brian - The nameless dead
- Mann, Jessica - Dead woman walking
- Miloszewski, Zygmunt - A grain of truth (translated from the Polish)
- Muller, Marcia - The spook lights affair: a Carpenter and Quincannon mystery
- Nethercott, Michael - The Séance Society
- Patterson, James - Cross my heart
- Purser, Ann - Scandal at six*
- Reich, Christopher - The prince of risk
- Royal, Priscilla - Covenant with hell: a medieval mystery*
- Sallis, James - Others of my kind: a novel
- Weddle, Steve - Country hardball
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Ferry, Jean - The conductor and other tales (1950; first translation from the French)
POETRY
- Cavalli, Patrizia - My poems won't change the world: selected poems (translated from the Italian by Mark Strand, Jorie Graham, Jonathan Calassi, Rosanna Warren, J.D. McClatchy, and David Shapiro)
More recent poetry acquisitions below in the stacks.
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Barchas, Janine - Matters of fact in Jane Austen: history, location, and celebrity 823 A
- Calvino, Italo - Collection of sand: essays 854 C
- Colls, Robert - George Orwell: English rebel 92 O797 C
- Fontane, Theodor - No way back (translated from the German) F F
- MacDonald, John D - The executioners (basis for the film Cape Fear) F M
- The Oxford book of Japanese short stories (Theodore W. Goossen, ed.) F O
- Paris metro tales: stories (translated by Helen Constantine) F P
- Pitigrilli - Cocaine (first published, 1921; translated from the Italian) F P
- Plymell, Charles - Benzedrine highway 820.81 P
- Shklovskii, Viktor - Theory of prose (translated from the Russian) 809.3 S
- Stevenson, Randall - Literature and the Great War, 1914-1918 820.9 S
- Tsypkin, Leonid - The bridge over the Neroch and other works (translated from the Russian) F T
- Westerby, Robert - Wide boys never work F W
POETRY
- Don't ever get famous: essays on New York writing after the New York School (Daniel Kane, ed.) 821.09 D
- Éluard, Paul - Capital of pain (translated from the French) 841 E
- The fabliaux: a new verse translation (from the French) 841.08 F
- Homer - The Iliad (new translation by Barry B. Powell) 883.1 H
- Kipling, Rudyard - 100 poems: old and new 821 K
- Newlyn, Lucy - William and Dorothy Wordsworth: 'all in each other' 821.09 W
- Padgett, Ron - Collected poems 821 P
- Plath, Sylvia - Sylvia Plath: drawings 92 P7168 P
- Whalen, Philip - The collected poems of Philip Whalen 821 W
BOOKS & READING
- Campbell, James W. P - The library: a world history 727 C
- Libraries and the reading public in twentieth-century America (Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins, eds.) 027 L
- Mikics, David - Slow reading in a hurried age 028 M
ART
- Bocchi, Francesco - The beauties of the city of Florence: a guidebook of 1591 709.45 B
- De Botton, Alain - Art as therapy 701 D
- Foster, Carter E - Hopper drawing 759.1 H
- The Mattioli Collection: masterpieces of the Italian avant-garde (Flavio Fergonzi, ed.) 759.5 M
- Rhodes, Colin - Primitivism and modern art (Thames & Hudson World of Art) 709.04 R
- Standen, Edith Appleton - European post-medieval tapestries and related hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2 vols.) 746 S
Oxford Art Online is now available to members.
ARCHITECTURE
- Andrews, Wayne - Architecture, ambition, and Americans: a social history of American architecture 720.973 A
- Baldwin, Gordon - Architecture in photographs 779 B
- Hayden, Dolores - Seven American utopias: the architecture of communitarian socialism, 1790-1975 335.9 H
- Summerson, John - Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830 720.942 S
DESIGN
- Breward, Christopher - Fashion (Oxford History of Art) 746.92 B
- Jankowski, Jerry - Shelf life: modern package design, 1920-1945 745.4 J
- Massey, Anne - Interior design of the 20th century (Thames & Hudson World of Art) 747 M
- Power to the people: the graphic design of the radical press and the rise of the counter-culture, 1964-1974 (Geoff Kaplan, ed) 070.1 P
BIOGRAPHIES
- Carroll, Rory - Comandante: Hugo Chávez's Venezuela 92 C51274 C
- Cohen, Mark - Overweight sensation: the life and comedy of Allan Sherman 92 S5531 C
- Damrosch, Leopold - Jonathan Swift: his life and his world 92 S977 D
- Dauber, Jeremy Asher - The worlds of Sholem Aleichem 92 S5585 D
- Delbanco, Nicholas - The art of youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the nature of first acts 920 D3445 A
- Gardner, Martin - Undiluted hocus-pocus: the autobiography of Martin Gardner 92 G228 G
- Goldstein, Slavko - 1941: the year that keeps returning 92 G62450 G
- Lang, Berel - Primo Levi: the matter of a life 92 L664 L
- Russell, Anthony - Outrageous fortune: growing up at Leeds Castle 92 R959 R
- Tobin, James - The man he became: how FDR defied polio to win the presidency 92 R7813 T
MUSIC & DANCE
- Bertensson, Sergei - Sergei Rachmaninoff: a lifetime in music 780.92 R
- Perron, Wendy - Through the eyes of a dancer: selected writings 793.3 P
- Schmidt-Beste, Thomas - The sonata (Cambridge introductions to music) 781 S
- Walsh, Stephen - Musorgsky and his circle: a Russian musical adventure 780.92 W
Oxford Music Online is now available to members.
PHILOSOPHY
- Herman, Arthur - The cave and the light: Plato versus Aristotle, and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization 109 H
- Klossowski, Pierre - Nietzsche and the vicious circle (1969; translated from the French) 193 K
- Ryan, Alan - On Machiavelli: the search for glory 320.1 M
- Yates, Frances Amelia - The Rosicrucian enlightenment 366 Y
RELIGION
- Green, Nile - Sufism: a global history 297 G
- Gregory, Brad S - The unintended Reformation: how a religious revolution secularized society 201 G
- Larrimore, Mark J - The Book of Job: a biography 223 L
- O'Connor, Flannery - A prayer journal 92 O1855 O
- Rodriguez, Richard - Darling: a spiritual autobiography 92 R6962
- Schama, Simon - The story of the Jews 909.4 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Hecht, Jennifer Michael - Stay: a history of suicide and the philosophies against it 362.2 H
- Horwitz, Allan V - Anxiety: a short history 616.8 H
SOCIOLOGY
- Gardner, Howard - The app generation: how today's youth navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination in a digital world 301.2 G
- Martínez, Oscar - The beast: riding the rails and dodging narcos on the migrant trail 325.2 M
ECONOMICS
- Macey, Jonathan R - The death of corporate reputation: how integrity has been destroyed on Wall Street 332.6 M
- Newman, Frank Neil - Freedom from national debt 336.3 N
- Skidelsky, Robert - How much is enough?: money and the good life 330.1 S
ANTIQUITY
- Baker, Hollis S - Furniture in the ancient world: origins & evolution, 3100-475 B.C. 749 B
- Roberts, Paul - Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum 913.37 R
WAR
- Lawrence, Mark Atwood - The Vietnam War: a concise international history 959 L
- Mayhew, E. R - Wounded: from battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918 940.475 M
- Moore, Aaron William - Writing war: soldiers record the Japanese Empire 940.5352 M
- Paxman, Jeremy - Great Britain's Great War 940.342 P
- Roth, Joseph - On the end of the world 943.085 R
HISTORY
- Bauer, S. Wise - The history of the Renaissance world: from the rediscovery of Aristotle to the conquest of Constantinople 940.21 B
- Donegan, Kathleen - Seasons of misery: catastrophe and colonial settlement in early America 973.2 D
- Down and out in early America (Billy G. Smith, ed.) 362.5 D
- Frydl, Kathleen - The drug wars in America, 1940-1973 363.45 F
- Goodwin, George - Fatal rivalry: Flodden 1513 : Henry VIII, James IV and the battle for Renaissance Britain 942.05 G
- Jones, Prudence - A history of pagan Europe 291 J
- Pavone, Claudio - A civil war: a history of the Italian resistance 940.5345 P
- Perry, Lewis - Civil disobedience: an American tradition 303.6 P
- Smith, Billy G - Ship of death: a voyage that changed the Atlantic world 326 S
- Strathern, Paul - Venetians: a new history : from Marco Polo to Casanova 914.53 S
- Swanson, James L - End of days: the assassination of John F. Kennedy 973.922 S
- Townshend, Charles - The republic: the fight for Irish independence, 1918-1923 941.5 T
LAW
- Harper, Steven J - The lawyer bubble: a profession in crisis 340 H
- Magliocca, Gerard N - American founding son: John Bingham and the invention of the Fourteenth Amendment 342.73 M
- Opening statements: law, jurisprudence, and the legacy of Dutch New York (Albert M. Rosenblatt and Julia C. Rosenblatt, eds.) 974.7 O
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Bok, Derek Curtis - The politics of happiness: what government can learn from the new research on well-being 306 B
- Levin, Yuval - The great debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the birth of right and left 320.9 L
- Mulloy, D. J - American extremism: history, politics and the militia movement 322.4 M
- Stoll, Ira - JFK, conservative 973.922 S
FOREIGN RELATIONS
- Four decades on: Vietnam, the United States, and the legacies of the Second Indochina War (Scott Laderman & Edwin A. Martini, eds.) 959 F
- Haqqani, Husain - Magnificent delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an epic history of misunderstanding 327.73 H
- Wilford, Hugh - America's great game: the CIA's secret Arabists and the shaping of the modern Middle East 327.73 W
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Medieval writings on secular women (translated and with an introduction by Patricia Skinner and Elisabeth Van Houts) 305.4 M
- Adie, Kate - Fighting on the Home Front: the legacy of women in World War One 940.47 A
- Wheeler, Sara - O my America!: six women and their second acts in a new world 920 W563 O
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Jacobson, Howard - In the land of Oz 919.4 J
- Macaulay, Rose - They went to Portugal too 325.2 M
FOOD
- Genovese, Peter - Pizza city: the ultimate guide to New York's favorite food 647.9 G
- Lesy, Michael - Repast: dining out at the dawn of the new American century, 1900-1910 394.1 L
- Shprintzen, Adam D - The vegetarian crusade: the rise of an American reform movement, 1817-1921 973 S
BOTANY
- Hodge, Geoff - Practical botany for gardeners: over 3000 botanical terms explained and explored 580 H
- Rix, Martyn - The golden age of botanical art 758 R
NEW YORK
- City as canvas: New York City graffiti from the Martin Wong collection 751.7 C
- Palmer-Smith, Glenn - Murals of New York City: the best of New York's public paintings from Bemelmans to Parrish 751.1 P
- Vergara, Camilo J - Harlem: the unmaking of a ghetto 974.71 V
- Washburn, Alexandros - The nature of urban design: a New York perspective on resilience 711 W
AUDIO
- Words for you: the greatest poems, the finest voices, glorious music (Readings by Helena Bonham Carter, James Earl Jones, Terence Stamp, Meryl Streep, and more) Audio-CD 808.81 W
- Forster, E. M - Where angels fear to tread (4 CDs) Audio-CD F
- García Márquez, Gabriel - Love in the time of cholera (13 CDs) Lobby Audio-CD G
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