January 2015
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Armstrong, Karen - Fields of blood: religion and the history of violence
- Attkisson, Sharyl - Stonewalled: my fight for truth against the forces of obstruction, intimidation, and harassment in Obama's Washington
- Attlee, Helena - The land where lemons grow: the story of Italy and its citrus fruit
- Beachy, Robert - Gay Berlin: birthplace of a modern identity
- Bolger, Daniel P. - Why we lost: a general's inside account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
- BOMB: the author interviews (edited by Betsy Sussler; introduction by Francine Prose)
- Bourke, Joanna - Wounding the world: how military violence and war-play invade our lives
- Bradford, Richard - Literary rivals: feuds and antagonisms in the world of books
- By the book : writers on literature and the literary life from The New York Times book review (edited and with an introduction by Pamela Paul; foreword by Scott Turow; illustrations by Jillian Tamaki)
- Calasso, Roberto. - Ardor (translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon)
- Chandler, Raymond - The world of Raymond Chandler: in his own words (edited by Barry Day)
- Cohen-Solal, Annie - New York mid-century 1945-1965: art, architecture, design, dance, theater, nightlife
- Comber, Philippa - Ariadne's thread: in memory of W.G. Sebald (foreword by Iain Sinclair)
- Daum, Meghan - The unspeakable: and other subjects of discussion
- Dawisha, Karen - Putin's kleptocracy: who owns Russia?
- Dean, William J. - Into distant countries: travels and personal journeys
- Doctorow, Cory - Information doesn't want to be free: laws for the Internet age
- Dorren, Gaston - Lingo: a language spotters' guide to Europe
- Elon, Amos - Herzl
- Fathi, Nazila - The lonely war: one woman's account of the struggle for modern Iran
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh - Abducting a General: the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete
- Flint, Anthony - Modern man: the life of Le Corbusier, architect of tomorrow
- Gefter, Philip - Wagstaff: before and after Mapplethorpe
- Gehr, Richard - I only read it for the cartoons: the New Yorker's most brilliantly twisted artists
- Gilbert, Sandra M. - The culinary imagination : from myth to modernity
- Golinkin, Lev - A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka: a memoir
- Hall, Donald- Essays after eighty
- Halle, David - New York's new edge: contemporary art, the High Line, and urban megaprojects on the far West Side
- Halls, Julie - Inventions that didn't change the world
- Hargittai, Balazs - Great minds: reflections of 111 top scientists
- Havers, Richard - Uncompromising expression: Blue note, the finest in jazz since 1939
- Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa - A chosen exile: a history of racial passing in American life
- Hunt, Nick - Walking the woods and the water: in Patrick Leigh Fermor's footsteps, from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn
- Johnson, Boris - The Churchill factor: how one man made history
- Kim, Suki - Without you, there is no us: my time with the sons of North Korea's elite
- Lehr, Dick - The birth of a nation: how a legendary filmmaker and a crusading editor reignited America's Civil War
- Leibovich, Mark - Citizens of the green room: profiles in courage and self-delusion
- Leon, Donna - Gondola
- Loren, Sophia - Yesterday, today, tomorrow: my life
- Lungina, L. Z. - Word for word: a translator's memoir of literature, politics, and survival in Soviet Russia (as told to Oleg Dorman; translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon and Ast. A. Moore)
- Mailer, Norman - The selected letters of Norman Mailer (edited by J. Michael Lennon)
- Mainardi, Diogo - The fall: a father's memoir in 424 steps (translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa)
- Maitland, Sara - How to be alone
- Masterson, Karen - The malaria project: the U.S. government's secret mission to find a miracle cure
- Miller, Christopher - American cornball: a laffopedic guide to the formerly funny
- O'Reilly, Bill - Killing Patton: the strange death of World War II's most audacious general
- Overy, R. J. - A history of war in 100 battles
- Petersen, Anne Helen - Scandals of classic Hollywood : sex, deviance, and drama from the golden age of American cinema
- Pickrell, John - Flying dinosaurs : how fearsome reptiles became birds
- Pomerantsev, Peter - Nothing is true and everything is possible : the surreal heart of the new Russia
- Prentice, Claire - The lost tribe of Coney Island: headhunters, Luna Park, and the man who pulled off the spectacle of the century
- Rosenberg, Göran - A brief stop on the road from Auschwitz (translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death; edited by John Cullen)
- Rothfuss, Joan - Topless cellist: the improbable life of Charlotte Moorman
- Smith, Judith E. - Becoming Belafonte: black artist, public radical
- Stephens, Bret - America in retreat: the new isolationism and the coming global disorder
- Tobar, Héctor - Deep down dark: the untold stories of 33 men buried in a Chilean mine, and the miracle that set them free
- Twigger, Robert - Red Nile: a biography of the world's greatest river
- Uglow, Jennifer S. - In these times: living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815
- Unger, Debi - George Marshall: a biography
- Vince, Gaia - Adventures in the anthropocene: a journey to the heart of the planet we made
- Wildman, Sarah - Paper love: searching for the girl my grandfather left behind
- Zinovieff, Sofka - The mad boy, Lord Berners, my grandmother and me
FICTION
- Adler, H. G. - The wall (translated from the German by Peter Filkins)
- Bagshawe, Tilly - Sidney Sheldon's chasing tomorrow
- Bannister, Jo - Perfect sins
- Barthelme, Frederick - There must be some mistake
- Bartlett, Neil - The disappearance boy
- Best European fiction 2015
- Bronsky, Alina - Just call me superhero (translated from the German by Tim Mohr)
- Capus, Alex. - A price to pay (translated from the German by John Brownjohn)
- Dawlatabadi, Mahmud - Thirst (translated rrom the Persian by Martin E. Weir)
- De Silva, Diego - My mother-in-law drinks (translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar)
- Diamant, Anita - The Boston girl
- Eddé, Dominique - Kamal Jann (translated from the French by Ros Schwartz)
- Erpenbeck, Jenny - The end of days (translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky)
- Harvey, Samantha - Dear thief
- Henríquez, Cristina - The book of unknown Americans
- Hornby, Nick - Funny girl
- Horowitz, Anthony - Moriarty
- Jérusalmy, Raphaël - The brotherhood of book hunters (translated from the French by Howard Curtis)
- Jones, Cynan - The dig
- Kadare, Ismail - Twilight of the eastern gods (translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos)
- Lish, Atticus - Preparation for the next life
- Marsé, Juan - The calligraphy of dreams (translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor)
- Mazzucco, Melania G. - Limbo (translated from the Italian by Virginia Jewiss)
- Michaels, Sean - Us conductors: in which I seek the heart of Clara Rockmore, my one true love, finest theremin player the world will ever know
- Mourad, Kenizé - In the city of gold and silver: the story of Begum Hazrat Mahal (translated from the French by Anne Mathai in collaboration with Marie-Louise Naville)
- Murakami, Haruki - The strange library: 107 (translated from the Japanese by Ted Goossen; art direction and design by Chip Kidd)
- Némirovsky, Irène - The fires of Autumn Irène Némirovsky (translated from the French by Sandra Smith)
- Neuman, Andrés - The things we don't do Andrés Neuman (translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia)
- Nichol, Christina - Waiting for the electricity
- Pérez Galdós, Benito - Tristana (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa; introduction by Jeremy Treglown)
- Petterson, Per - I refuse (translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett)
- Rotella, Sebastian - The convert's song
- Rothfuss, Patrick - The slow regard of silent things (illustrations by Nate Taylor)
- Rowland, Laura Joh - The iris fan
- Sansom, C. J. - Lamentation
- Saramago, José - Skylight (translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa)
- Scruton, Roger - Notes from underground
- Self, Will - Shark
- Shoham, Liad - Asylum city (translated from the Hebrew by Sara Kitai)
- Stamm, Peter - All days are night (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann)
- Steel, Danielle - Pegasus
- Tallis, F. R. - The voices
- Thornton, Margaret Bradham - Charleston
- Warner, Alan - Their lips talk of mischief
- Zink, Nell - The wallcreeper
More recently acquired fiction titles in the stacks are listed below.
MYSTERIES
- The adventure of the plated spoon and other tales of Sherlock Holmes (edited by Loren D. Estleman)
- Cleverly, Barbara - Enter pale death*
- Daeninckx, Didier - Nazis in the Metro (translated by Anna Moschovakis)
- Dunn, Matthew - Dark spies
- Eccles, Marjorie - The firebird's feather*
- Estleman, Loren D. - You know who killed me
- Ewan, Chris - Dark tides
- Fowler, Christopher - Bryant & May and the bleeding heart*
- Giuttari, Michele - The dark heart of Florence (translated by Howard Curtis and Isabelle Kaufeler)
- Greaney, Mark - Tom Clancy full force and effect: a Jack Ryan novel
- Hall, James W. - The big finish
- Hambly, Barbara.- Crimson angel: a Benjamin January novel
- Helton, Peter - Indelible: a Chris Honeysett mystery*
- Hochgatterer, Paulus - The sweetness of life Paulus Hochgatterer (translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch)
- James, Bill - Disclosures*
- Margolin, Phillip - Woman with a gun
- Marston, Edward - A ticket to oblivion*
- Minato, Kanae - Confessions (translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder)
- Mogford, Thomas - Hollow mountain: a Spike Sanguinetti novel
- Patterson, James - Hope to die
- Perry, Thomas - A string of beads: a Jane Whitefield novel
- Picoult, Jodi - Leaving time
- Poznanski, Ursula - Five
- Purser, Ann. - Suspicion at seven *
- Scottoline, Lisa - Betrayed: a Rosato & Associates novel
- Sherez, Stav - Eleven days
- Takano, Kazuaki - Genocide of one (translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
- Villiers, Gérard de - Chaos in Kabul: a Malko Linge novel (translated from the French by William Rodarmor)
POETRY
- Armitage, Simon - Paper aeroplane: selected poems 1989-2014
- Donaghy, Michael - Collected poems
- Hagiwara, Sakutaro - Cat town Sakutaro Hagiwara (translated from the Japanese by Hiroaki Sato)
- James, Clive - Poetry notebook: 2006-2014
- Longley, Michael - The stairwell
- Mehigan, Joshua - Accepting the disaster
- Oliver, Mary - Blue horses
- Robbins, Michael - The second sex
- Williams, Hugo - I knew the bride
- Wright, Kit - Ode to Didcot Power Station
More recently acquired poetry titles in the stacks are listed below.
SHORT STORIES
- Founds, Kathleen - When mystical creatures attack!
- Gordon, David - White tiger on Snow Mountain
- Rash, Ron - Something rich and strange: selected stories
- Tremain, Rose - The American lover: and other stories
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Charlton-Jones, Kate - Dismembering the American dream: the life and fiction of Richard Yates 823 Y
- Flanagan, Damian - Yukio Mishima 92 M6782 F
- Forster, E. M. - The journals and diaries of E.M. Forster (3 vols.) 92 F7432 F
- Hofmann, Michael - Where have you been?: selected essays 824 H
- MacNiven, Ian S. - Literchoor is my beat: a life of James Laughlin, publisher of New Directions 92 L3744 L
- Modiano, Patrick - Dora Bruder 940.5315 M
- Popoff, Alexandra - Tolstoy's false disciple: the untold story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov 920 P8291 T
- Spark, Muriel - The essence of the Brontës: a compilation with essays 823.08 S
POETRY
- Howe, Marie - The kingdom of ordinary time 821 H
- Ovid - Ovid's erotic poems: Amores and Ars amatoria (translated by Len Krisak) 871.2 O
- Poems of the American South (David Biespiel, editor) 821.08 P
- Tsvetaeva, Marina - Moscow in the plague year (translated from the Russian by Christopher Whyte) 891.71 T
- Whitman among the Bohemians (Joanna Levin & Edward Whitley, eds.) 821.09 W
FICTION
- Horror stories: classic tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (Darryl Jones, ed.) F H
- Banville, John - Nightspawn (1971) F B
- Brower, Brock, - The late great creature (1972) F B
- Kluge, Alexander - The air raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945 (translated from the German; 2008) F K
- Modiano, Patrick - Honeymoon (translated from the French) F M
- Smart, Elizabeth - By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept and, the assumption of the rogues & rascals (1945, 1978) F S
- Taylor, Elizabeth - You'll enjoy it when you get there: the stories of Elizabeth Taylor F T
MYTHOLOGY & FAIRY TALES
- Ferry, Luc - The wisdom of the myths: how Greek mythology can change your life 292 F
- Grimm, Jacob - The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: the complete first edition (Jack Zipes, ed. and transl.) 398.2 G
- Warner, Marina - Once upon a time: a short history of fairy tale 398 W
ART
- Esprit Montmartre: Bohemian life in Paris around 1900 (Ingrid Pfeiffer, et al. eds.) 709.44 E
- Kenneth Clark: looking for civilisation (Chris Stephens & John-Paul Stonard, eds.) 709.2 C
- Durand-Ruel, Paul - Memoirs of the first Impressionist art dealer (1831-1922) 92 D9497 D
- Freilicher, Jane - Jane Freilicher: painter among poets 759.1 F
- Hamdouni Alami, Mohammed - Art and architecture in the Islamic tradition: aesthetics, politics and desire in early Islam 704.948 H
- Speck, Catherine - Beyond the battlefield: women artists of the two World Wars 704 S
- Wieseman, Marjorie E. - A closer look: deceptions and discoveries709 W
FILM
- Be sand, not oil: the life and work of Amos Vogel (Paul Cronin, ed.) 791.4 B
- Evans, Max - Goin' crazy with Sam Peckinpah and all our friends 791.4 E
- Wild, Peter - Akira Kurosawa 791.4 W
MUSIC & DANCE
- Dance & fashion (Valerie Steele, ed.) 746.92 D
- Harris, Ellen T. - George Frideric Handel: a life with friends 92 H2366 H
- Mazor, Barry - Ralph Peer and the making of popular roots music 784.4 M
- Mitchell, Joni - Joni Mitchell: in her own words (conversations with Malka Marom) 92 M68184 M
- Tennant, Victoria - Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo 92 B2665 T OVERSIZE
THEATER
- American musicals, 1927-1949: the complete books & lyrics of eight Broadway classics & American musicals, 1950-1969: the complete books & lyrics of eight Broadway classics (Library of America Volumes) 822 A
- Foley, Helene P. - Reimagining Greek tragedy on the American stage 792.097 F
- Frayn, Michael - Matchbox theatre: thirty short entertainments 822 F
BIOGRAPHY
- Clune, Michael W. - White out: the secret life of heroin: a memoir 132.73 C
- Dennison, Matthew - Behind the mask: the life of Vita Sackville-West 92 S1217 D
- Hastings, Selina - The red earl: the extraordinary life of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon 92 H948 H
- Röhl, John C. G. - Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1859-1941: a concise life , 92 W6782 R
- Shapira, Anita - Ben-Gurion: father of modern Israel 92 B4564 S
- Todes, Daniel Philip - Ivan Pavlov: a Russian life in science 92 P3384 T
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls - Pioneer girl: the annotated autobiography 92 W6732 W
- Žantovský, Michael - Havel: a life 92 H3848 Z
HISTORY
- Foster, R. F. - Vivid faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 941.5 F
- Greengrass, Mark - Christendom destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 940.25 G
- Guldi, Jo - The history manifesto 901 G
- Larson, Frances - Severed: a history of heads lost and heads found 306.4 L
- MacGregor, Neil - Germany: memories of a nation 943 M
- Merriman, John M. - Massacre: the life and death of the Paris Commune 944.08 M
- Nissen, Hans Jörg - From Mesopotamia to Iraq: a concise history 956.7 N
- Somers Heidhues, Mary F. - Southeast Asia: a concise history 959 S
- Summers, Mark W. - The ordeal of the reunion: a new history of Reconstruction 973.8 S
- Tombs, Robert - The English and their history 942 T
PHILOSOPHY
- Durant, Will - Fallen leaves: last words on life, love, war, and God 191 D
- Kofman, Sarah - Selected writings 194 K
- Xunzi (340 B.C. - 245 B.C.) - Xunzi: the complete text (translated from the Chinese) 181 X
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- What have we learned?: macroeconomic policy after the crisis (Joseph Stiglitz, et al.) 339 W
- Beckert, Sven - Empire of cotton: a global history 633 B
- Giugale, Marcelo - Economic development: what everyone needs to know 338.9 G
RELIGION
- The Norton anthology of world religions (2 volumes; Jack Miles, general ed.) 200 N
- Berger, Joseph - The pious ones: the world of Hasidim and their battles with America 296 B
- Hart, David Bentley - The experience of God: being, consciousness, bliss 211 H
- Russell, Gerard - Heirs to forgotten kingdoms: journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East 200 R
SOCIOLOGY
- Eastern standard time: a guide to Asian influence on American culture: from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism (Jeff Yang, et al., eds.) 303.2 E
- Social trends in American life: findings from the General Social Survey since 1972 (Peter V. Marsden, ed.) 309.1 S
- Conrad, Peter - How the world was won: the Americanization of everywhere 327.73 C
- Willis, Paul E. - Profane culture 942.085 W
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- An innocent abroad: life-changing trips from 35 great writers (Don George, ed.) 910.4 I
- Man, John - Marco Polo: the journey that changed the world 915 M
- Matsuo, Basho - The narrow road to the Deep North, and other travel sketches 895.6 M
- Schneider, Peter - Berlin now: the city after the Wall 943.1 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Hess, Stephen - The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House 973.924 H
- Wolraich, Michael - Unreasonable men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican rebels who created progressive politics 973.91 W
WAR
- Coker, Christopher - Men at war: what fiction tells us about conflict, from the Iliad to Catch-22809.9 C
- Cornwell, Bernard - Waterloo: the history of four days, three armies and three battles 944.05 C
- Manning, Molly Guptill - When books went to war: the stories that helped us win World War II 028 M
- McKinstry, Leo - Operation Sea Lion: the failed Nazi invasion that turned the tide of the war 940.542 M
- Owen, David - The hidden perspective: the military conversations of 1906-1914 942.082 O
LAW
- Caulkins, Jonathan P. - Marijuana legalization: what everyone needs to know 362.293 C
- Clifford, Denis - Make your own living trust 347.6 C OVERSIZE
- Garrett, Brandon - Too big to jail: how prosecutors compromise with corporations 345 G
CRIME
- Coleman, Gabriella - Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy: the many faces of Anonymous364 C
- Conway, J. North - Queen of thieves: the true story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and her gangs of New York 364 C
- Ross, Michael A. - The great New Orleans kidnapping case: race, law, and justice in the Reconstruction era 976.31 R
SCIENCE
- Berman, Bob - Zoom: how everything moves : from atoms and galaxies to blizzards and bees 531 B
- Deming, Alison Hawthorne- Zoologies: on animals and the human spirit 590 D
- Rogers, Alan R. - The evidence for evolution 575 R
- Wilson, Edward O. - The poetic species: a conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass 304.2 W
NEW YORK
- A Coney Island reader: through dizzy gates of illusion (Louis & John Parascandola, eds.) 974.71 C
- Keenan, Jesse M. - NYC 2040: housing the next one million New Yorkers 363.5 K
- Manzione, Gianmarc - Pin action: small-time gangsters, high-stakes gambling, and the teenage hustler who became a bowling champion 794.7 M
AUDIO
- Cather, Willa - One of ours (12 CDs) Audio-CD C
- Feldman, Ellen - The unwitting (8 CDs) Lobby Audio-CD F
- Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 (16 CDs) Lobby Audio-CD H
- Tóibín, Colm - Brooklyn (6 CDs) Lobby Audio-CD T
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