June 2014
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Becker, Jo - Forcing the spring: inside the fight for marriage equality
- Bird, Kai - The good spy: the life and death of Robert Ames
- Buckley, Christopher - But enough about you: essays
- Chast, Roz - Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
- Cheney, Lynne V. - James Madison: a life reconsidered
- Chin, Ava - Eating wildly: foraging for life, love and the perfect meal
- Dawson, Robert - The public library: a photographic essay
- DeJean, Joan E. - How Paris became Paris: the invention of the modern city
- Di Robilant, Andrea - Chasing the rose: an adventure in the Venetian countryside
- Dickson, Paul - Authorisms: words wrought by writers
- Duberman, Martin B. - Hold tight gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the battlefield of AIDS
- Geithner, Timothy F. - Stress test: reflections on financial crises
- Gevisser, Mark - Lost and found in Johannesburg: a memoir
- Goetz, Thomas - The remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the quest to cure tuberculosis
- Guha, Ramachandra - Gandhi before India
- Hoban, Phoebe - Lucian Freud: eyes wide open
- Hortis, C. Alexander - The mob and the city: the hidden history of how the mafia captured New York
- Hustad, Megan - More than conquerors: a memoir of lost arguments
- Jacobi, Derek - As luck would have it: my seven ages
- Joseph, Peniel E. - Stokely: a life
- Kaplan, Fred - John Quincy Adams: American visionary
- Kasson, John F. - The little girl who fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
- Kazan, Elia - The selected letters of Elia Kazan
- Kean, Sam - The tale of the dueling neurosurgeons: the history of the human brain as revealed by true stories of trauma, madness, and recovery
- McWhorter, John H. - The language hoax: why the world looks the same in any language
- Miller, Donald L. - Supreme city: how Jazz Age Manhattan gave birth to modern America
- Padgett, Jason - Struck by genius: how a brain injury made me a mathematical marvel
- Parker, Emily - Now I know who my comrades are: voices from the Internet underground
- Parker, Philip - The Northmen's fury: a history of the Viking world
- Penner, Barbara - Bathroom
- Petrovskii-Shtern, Iokhanan - The golden age shtetl: a new history of Jewish life in East Europe
- Ravitch, Richard - So much to do: a full life of business, politics, and confronting fiscal crises
- Rose, Jonathan - The literary Churchill: author, reader, actor
- Rose, Phyllis - The shelf: from LEQ to LES
- Spark, Muriel - The informed air: essays
- Stevens, John Paul - Six amendments: how and why we should change the Constitution
- Stibbe, Nina - Love, Nina: a nanny writes home
- Storr, Will - The unpersuadables: adventures with the enemies of science
- Unwin, Brian - A tale in two cities: Fanny Burney and Adèle, Comtesse de Boigne
- Varty, Boyd - Cathedral of the wild: an African journey home
- Vecsey, George - Eight world cups: my journey through the beauty and dark side of soccer
- Ward, Yvonne M. - Censoring Queen Victoria: how two gentlemen edited a queen and created an icon
- Warren, Elizabeth - A fighting chance
- Whitehead, Colson - The noble hustle: poker, beef jerky, and death
FICTION
- Bailey, Paul - The prince's boy
- Barry, Sebastian - The temporary gentleman
- Bayard, Louis - Roosevelt's beast: a novel
- Bond, Cynthia - Ruby: a novel
- Boyden, Joseph - The orenda
- Casey, Jane - The stranger you know
- Casey, Maud - The man who walked away: a novel
- Chung, Catherine - Forgotten country
- Coonts, Stephen - Saucer: savage planet
- Cunningham, Michael - The snow queen
- D'Erasmo, Stacey - Wonderland
- Dahl, Julia - Invisible City
- Doerr, Anthony - All the light we cannot see: a novel
- Edelman, Gwen - The train to Warsaw: a novel
- Enia, Davide - On earth as it is in heaven
- Feldman, Ellen - The unwitting: a novel
- Ferris, Joshua - To rise again at a decent hour: a novel
- Feuerman, Ruchama King - In the courtyard of the Kabbalist
- Gay, Roxane - An untamed state
- Giffin, Emily - The one & only: a novel
- Grand, David - Mount Terminus
- Harris, Eve - The marrying of Chani Kaufman
- Hayes, Samantha - Until you're mine: a novel
- Heller, Peter - The painter: a novel
- Hoffman, Cara - Be safe I love you
- Jones, Sadie - Fallout: a novel
- Kennedy, A. L. - All the rage
- Kestin, Hesh - The lie: a novel
- L'Heureux, John - The Medici boy
- Lowell, Elizabeth - Night diver
- McMurtry, Larry - The Last Kind Words Saloon: a novel
- Milchman, Jenny - Ruin Falls: a novel
- Mones, Nicole - Night in Shanghai
- Mountford, Peter - The dismal science: a novel
- Quick, Amanda - Otherwise engaged
- Reichl, Ruth - Delicious!: a novel
- Schultz, Philip - The wherewithal: a novel in verse
- Shreve, Porter - The end of the book: a novel
- St. Aubyn, Edward - Lost for words
- Vigan, Delphine de - Nothing holds back the night: a novel
- Vlautin, Willy - The free: a novel
MYSTERIES
- Atkins, Ace - Robert B. Parker's cheap shot: a Spenser novel
- Brookmyre, Christopher - Bred in the bone
- Cannell, Dorothy - Murder at Mullings*
- Carter, Maureen - Child's play: a DI Sarah Quinn mystery*
- Coleman, Reed Farrel - The Hollow Girl: a Moe Prager mystery
- Enger, Thomas - Scarred
- Eriksson, Kjell - Black lies, red blood
- Estleman, Loren D. - Ragtime cowboys
- Hart, Carolyn G. - Death at the door
- Hayder, Mo - Wolf*
- Hunter, Stephen - Sniper's honor: a Bob Lee Swagger novel
- Hutton, Ewart - Dead people
- Iles, Greg - Natchez burning
- Ison, Graham - Reckless endangerment: a Brock and Poole mystery
- Jansson, Anna - Killer's island
- Lentricchia, Frank - The dog killer of Utica
- Lescroart, John T. - The keeper: a novel
- Minier, Bernard - The frozen dead
- Mystery Writers of America presents ice cold: tales of intrigue from the Cold War
- Nesbø, Jo - The son: a novel
- Patterson, James - Unlucky 13
- Perry, Anne - Death on Blackheath: a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel
- Preston, Douglas J. - The Kraken Project
- Sandford, John - Field of prey
- Thomas, Will - Fatal enquiry*
- Thompson, Victoria - Murder in Murray Hill: a gaslight mystery
- Watson, Jan Elizabeth - What has become of you
- Welsh, Louise - A lovely way to burn
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - I remember you: a ghost story
POETRY
- Fried, Daisy - Women's poetry: poems and advice
- Gizzi, Peter - In defense of nothing: selected poems, 1987-2011
- Kumin, Maxine - And short the season: poems
- Powers, Kevin - Letter composed during a lull in the fighting: poems
- Seshadri, Vijay - 3 sections: poems
- The star by my head: poets from Sweden
- Wright, Charles - Caribou
SHORT STORIES
- Gilchrist, Ellen - Acts of God: stories
- McCracken, Elizabeth - Thunderstruck & other stories
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- 3 New York Dadas + the blindman (Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood) F T
- D'Erasmo, Stacey - The art of intimacy: the space between 808 D
- Duttlinger, Carolin - The Cambridge introduction to Franz Kafka 833 K
- Johnston, Kenneth R. - Unusual suspects: Pitt's reign of alarm and the lost generation of the 1790s , 820.9 J
- Longinus - Longinus on the sublime 882.09 L
- Raine, Craig - More dynamite: essays 1990-2012 824 R
- Schmidt, Michael - The novel: a biography 809.3 S
- Washington, Mary Helen - The other blacklist: the African American literary and cultural left of the 1950s 820.9 W
- Winter journeys (Georges Perec and the Oulipo; Michèle Audin, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Bens, et al.) F W
- Zweig, Stefan- The society of the crossed keys: selections from the writings of Stefan Zweig 838.08 Z
POETRY
- Cole, Peter - The invention of influence 821 C
- D'Annunzio, Gabriele - Notturno (Stephen Sartarelli, transl.) 858 D
- Hill, Geoffrey - Broken hierarchies: poems 1952-2012 821 H
- Hirsch, Edward - A poet's glossary 808.1 H
- I am the beggar of the world: landays from contemporary Afghanistan (Eliza Griswold, ed.) 891.5 I
- Watson, Burton - Chinese lyricism: Shih poetry from the second to the twelfth century with translations 895.1 W
ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
- Brawer, Catherine Coleman - The art deco murals of Hildreth Meière 751.1 B
- Conekin, Becky - Lee Miller in fashion 709.2 C
- Hall, James - The self-portrait: a cultural history 757 H
- Hicks, Ashley - David Hicks: a life of design 747 H
- Lloyd, Christopher - Edgar Degas: drawings and pastels 741.3 L
- Newall, Christopher - John Ruskin: artist and observer 759.2 R
- Petersson, Robert T. - The art of ecstasy: Teresa, Bernini, and Crashaw 730.92 P
- Thurley, Simon - The building of England: how the history of England has shaped our buildings 720.942 T
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BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Brockmeier, Kevin - A few seconds of radiant filmstrip: a memoir of seventh grade 92 B8642 B
- Goodman, Jordan - Paul Robeson: a watched man 92 R6532 G
- Mayhew, Robert J. - Malthus: the life and legacies of an untimely prophet 330.1 M
- Mphahlele, Es'kia - Down Second Avenue 92 M941 M
- Parker, Stephen - Bertolt Brecht: a literary life 92 B8292 P
- Prochnik, George - The impossible exile: Stefan Zweig at the end of the world 92 Z975 P
- Short, Philip - A taste for intrigue: the multiple lives of François Mitterrand 92 M6849 S
- Trebincevic, Kenan - The Bosnia list: a memoir of war, exile, and return 92 T7845 T
MUSIC & DANCE
- Johnson, Howard Eugene - A dancer in the revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem communist at the Cotton Club 92 J671 J
- Ringer, Jenifer - Dancing through it: my journey in the ballet 92 R5816 R
- Rusbridger, Alan - Play it again: an amateur against the impossible 786.3 R
PHILOSOPHY
- Creel, Herrlee Glessner - Chinese thought: from Confucius to Mao Tsê-tung 181 C
- Samuelson, Scott - The deepest human life: an introduction to philosophy for everyone 100 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Blackburn, Simon - Mirror, mirror: the uses and abuses of self-love 155.2 B
- Lacan, Jacques - The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis 131.34 L
- Lunbeck, Elizabeth - The Americanization of narcissism 155.2 L
- Phillips, Adam - Becoming Freud: the making of a psychoanalyst 92 F889 P
RELIGION
- Bartlett, Robert - Why can the dead do such great things?: saints and worshippers from the martyrs to the Reformation 235 B
- Ehrman, Bart D. - How Jesus became God: the exaltation of a Jewish preacher from Galilee 232 E
- Kaufman, David - Jewhooing the sixties: American celebrity and Jewish identity Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand 305.86 K
- Scruton, Roger - The soul of the world 201 S
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Calomiris, Charles W. - Fragile by design: the political origins of banking crises and scarce credit 332.1 C
- Soros, George - The tragedy of the European Union: disintegration or revival? 337 S
- Sunstein, Cass R. - Conspiracy theories & other dangerous ideas 320.1 S
CIVIL RIGHTS
- Goudsouzian, Aram - Down to the crossroads: civil rights, Black power, and the Meredith march against fear 323.4 D
- Purdum, Todd S. - An idea whose time has come: two Presidents, two parties, and the battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 342.73 P
- Risen, Clay - The bill of the century: the epic battle for the Civil Rights Act 342.73 R
HISTORY
- Anderson, Jennifer L. - Mahogany: the costs of luxury in early America 338.4 A
- Bonelli, Charlotte - Exit Berlin: how one woman saved her family from Nazi Germany 940.548 B
- Fenn, Elizabeth A. - Encounters at the heart of the world: a history of the Mandan people 970.3 F
- Figes, Orlando - Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991: a history 947 F
- Herodotus - The histories (new translation by Tom Holland ; introduction and notes by Paul Cartledge) 888.1 H
- Jankowski, Tomek - Eastern Europe!: everything you need to know about the history (and more!) of a region that shaped our world and still does 947 J
- Mallory, J. P. - The origins of the Irish 941.5 M
- McAuliffe, Mary Sperling - Twilight of the Belle Epoque: the Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and their friends through the Great War 944.36 M
- Reybrouck, David van - Congo: the epic history of a people 967 R
- Rosen, William - The third horseman: climate change and the Great Famine of the 14th century 940.1 R
- Seed, Patricia - The Oxford map companion: one hundred sources in world history 911 S
- Seward, Desmond - The last white rose (Secret wars of the Tudors) 942.05 S
- Waterfield, Robin - Taken at the flood: the Roman Conquest of Greece 937.02 W
INTELLIGENCE & ESPIONAGE
- Riols, Noreen - The secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: my life in Churchill's school for spies 92 R5857 R
- Webster, Jason - The spy with 29 names: the story of the Second World War's most audacious double agent 92 P9797 W
MILITARY
- The Civil War: the final year told by those who lived it (Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed.; 4th volume in Library of America series) 973.7 C
- Dyer, Geoff - Another great day at sea: life aboard the USS George H.W. Bush 359.9 D
- Gopal, Anand - No good men among the living: America, the Taliban, and the war through Afghan eyes 958 G
- Patton, Robert H. - Hell before breakfast: America's first war correspondents making history and headlines, from the battlefields of the Civil War to the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire 070.4 P
- Wawro, Geoffrey - A mad catastrophe: the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire 940.4 W
ASIA
- Kaplan, Robert D. - Asia's cauldron: the South China Sea and the end of a stable Pacific 327.59 K
- Lan'kov, A. N. - The real North Korea: life and politics in the failed Stalinist utopia 951.9 L
- Pilling, David - Bending adversity: Japan and the art of survival 952 P
- Shambaugh, David L. - China goes global: the partial power 327.51 S
SOCIOLOGY
- boyd, danah - It's complicated: the social lives of networked teens 301.2 B
- Clark, Gregory - The son also rises: surnames and the history of social mobility 305.5 C
- Rosanvallon, Pierre - The society of equals 339.2 R
- Taylor, Astra - The people's platform: taking back power and culture in the digital age 301.2 T
SCIENCE
- Heinrich, Bernd - The homing instinct: meaning & mystery in animal migration 591.5 H
- Wade, Nicholas - A troublesome inheritance: genes, race and human history 572 W
- Wood, Gillen D'Arcy - Tambora: the eruption that changed the world 363.7 W
HEALTH & MEDICINE
- Brawley, Otis Webb - How we do harm: a doctor breaks ranks about being sick in America 362.1 B
- Charon, Rita - Narrative medicine: honoring the stories of illness 616 C
- Marsh, Henry - Do no harm: stories of life, death and brain surgery 92 M3655 M
FOOD & DRINK
- Barber, Dan - The third plate: field notes on the future of food 394.1 B
- Lukacs, Paul - Inventing wine: a new history of one of the world's most ancient pleasures 641.22 L
- Lymbery, Philip - Farmageddon: the true cost of cheap meat 338.1 L
NEW YORK
- Lee, Sonia Song-Ha - Building a Latino civil rights movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the pursuit of racial justice in New York City , 305.85 L
- New labor in New York: precarious workers and the future of the labor movement (Ruth Milkman and Ed Ott, eds.) 331.88 N
- Stanton, Brandon - Humans of New York 917.471 S
- Tobis, David - From pariahs to partners: how parents and their allies changed New York City's child welfare system 362.7 T
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