March 2015
NON-FICTION
- Adam, David - The man who couldn't stop: OCD and the true story of a life lost in thought
- Axelrod, David - Believer: my forty years in politics
- The book lovers' anthology: a compendium of writing about books, readers, & libraries
- Bostridge, Ian - Schubert's Winter Journey: anatomy of an obsession
- Browder, Bill - Red notice: a true story of high finance, murder, and one man's fight for justice"
- Casarett, David J. - Shocked: adventures in bringing back the recently dead
- Fraser, Antonia - My history: a memoir of growing up
- Fuller, Alexandra - Leaving before the rains come
- Glynn, Tom - Reading publics: New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911
- Greif, Mark - The age of the crisis of man: thought and fiction in America, 1933-1973
- Harari, Yuval N. - Sapiens: a brief history of humankind. Foreward by Bruce Schneier
- Kahn, David - How I discovered World War II's greatest spy: and other stories of intelligence and code
- Kipnis, Laura - Men: notes from an ongoing investigation
- Koven, Seth - The match girl and the heiress
- Leovy, Jill - Ghettoside: a true story of murder in America
- Levin, Phyllis Lee - The remarkable education of John Quincy Adams
- McQuaid, John - Tasty: the art and science of what we eat
- Mewshaw, Michael - Sympathy for the devil: four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal
- Mockett, Marie Mutsuki - Where the dead pause, and the Japanese say goodbye: a journey
- Monson, Ander - Letter to a future lover: marginalia, errata, secrets, inscriptions, and other ephemera found in libraries
- Rhodes, Richard - Hell and good company: the Spanish Civil War and the world it made
- Ruggles, D. Fairchild - Islamic gardens and landscapes
- Slahi, Mohamedou Ould - Guantánamo diary (edited by Larry Siems)
- Sovern, Michael I. - An improbable life: my sixty years at Columbia and other adventures (Foreward by David McCullough)
- Steinbreder, John - The history of the Yale Club of New York City: a century at 50 Vanderbilt Avenue
- Swaab, D. F. (Dick Frans) - We are our brains: a neurobiography of the brain, from the womb to Alzheimer's
- Thomson, Graeme - George Harrison: behind the locked door
- Timberg, Scott - Culture crash: the killing of the creative class
- Toumani, Meline - There was and there was not: a journey through hate and possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and beyond
- Unger, Harlow G. - John Marshall: the chief justice who saved the nation
- Vaizey, Hester - Born in the GDR: living in the shadow of the Wall
- Voigt, Deborah - Call me Debbie: true confessions of a down-to-earth diva
FICTION
- Albert, Elisa - After birth
- Alcott, Kate - A touch of stardust
- Baker, Jo - Offcomer
- Baxter, Greg - Munich Airport
- Beauman, Ned - Glow
- Blackwood, Scott - See how small
- Crummey, Michael - Sweetland
- Evans, Richard Paul - The mistletoe promise
- Galera, Daniel - Blood-drenched beard (translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entreki)
- Gander, Forrest - The trace
- Hannah, Kristin - The nightingale
- Hermann, Nellie - The season of migration
- Howard, Ravi - Driving the king
- Itani, Frances - Tell
- Larsen, Reif - I am Radar
- Laub, Michel - Diary of the fall (translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa)
- Lawton, John - Sweet Sunday
- Mda, Zakes - Black diamond
- Mo, Yan - Frog (translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt)
- Mosley, Walter - Inside a silver box
- Oakley, Colleen - Before I go
- Oates, Joyce Carol - The sacrifice
- Parmar, Priya - Vanessa and her sister
- Phipps, Constantine - What you want, or, The pursuit of happiness
- Reza, Yasmina - Happy are the happy; translated from the French by John Cullen
- Scotton, Chris - The secret wisdom of the earth
- Toews, Miriam - All my puny sorrows
- Vaillant, John - The jaguar's children
MYSTERIES
- Archer, Jeffrey - Mightier than the sword
- Axelrod, Steven - Nantucket five-spot: a Henry Kennis mystery
- Barbieri, Maggie - Lies that bind
- Berenson, Alex - Twelve days
- Bilal, Parker - The burning gates
- Brandt, Harry - The Whites
- Brekke, Jørgen - Dreamless (translated from the Norwegian by Steven T. Murray)
- Gardner, Lisa - Crash & burnl
- Giltrow, Helen - The distance
- Gregson, J. M. - A necessary end
- Grippando, James - Cane and Abe
- Hall, Parnell - Safari
- Handler, David - Phantom angel
- Harrison, Jim - The big seven: a Faux mystery
- Herron, Mick - Nobody walks
- Hruska, Alan - Pardon the ravens
- Jennings, Maureen - No known grave: a Detective Inspector Tom Tyler mystery
- Johnston, Tim - Descent: a novel
- Kardos, Michael - Before he finds her
- Kava, Alex - Breaking creed
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Motive
- Kelly, Jim - At death's window
- King, Laurie R - Dreaming spies: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
- Koontz, Dean R. - Saint Odd: an Odd Thomas novel
- Mason, Jamie - Monday's lie
- Masterman, Becky - Fear the darkness
- May, Peter - Runaway
- McDermid, Val - The skeleton road
- Milton, Giles - The perfect corpse
- Muller, Marcia - The body snatchers affair: a Carpenter and Quincannon mystery (w/ Bill Pronzini)
- O'Malley, Thomas- - Serpents in the cold (w/ Douglas Graham Purdy)
- O'Mara, Tim - Dead red
- Pattison, Eliot - Soul of the fire
- Pelecanos, George P. - The martini shot: a novella and stories
- Rhodes, Kate - The winter foundlings
- Robb, J. D. - Obsession in death
- Royal, Priscilla - Satan's lullaby: a medieval mystery
- Scherm, Rebecca - Unbecoming
- Swanson, Peter - The kind worth killing
- Todd, Charles - A fine summer's day: an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery
- Tursten, Helene - The beige man
- Tyler, Anne - A spool of blue thread
POETRY
- Alexander, Elizabeth - Crave radiance: new and selected poems, 1990-2010
- Muldoon, Paul - One thousand things worth knowing
- Tonks, Rosemary - Bedouin of the London evening: collected poems & selected prose
SHORT STORIES
- Pierce, Thomas - Hall of small mammals: stories
AUDIO
- Bellow, Saul - Mr. Sammler's Planet, Lobby Audio CD B
- Hemingway, Ernest - The short stories (volumes 1-3, unabridged stories) Lobby Audio CD H
- Woolf, Virginia - Jacob's room Lobby Audio CD W
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Austen, Jane - In her own hand (3 volumes) 828 A
- Blanchot, Maurice - Into disaster: chronicles of intellectual life, 1941 844 B
- Charles Dickens: the critical heritage (19th century historical reviews/criticism; Philip Collins, ed.) 823 D
- Daumal, René - Pataphysical essays 104 D
- France in mind: an anthology (Alice Leccese Powers, ed.) 820.8 F
- London: a literary anthology (Richard Fairman, ed.) 808.8 L
- Lynch, Deidre - Loving literature: a cultural history 820.9 L
- Prison writing in 20th-century America (H. Bruce Franklin, ed.) 808.89 P
- A story larger than my own: women writers look back on their lives and careers (Janet Burroway, ed.) 824.08 S
- Tillman, Lynne - What would Lynne Tillman do? 820.81 T
- Twain, Mark - A family sketch and other private writings828.08 T
- Wallace, David Foster - David Foster Wallace: the last interview and other conversations 828 W
POETRY
- Being human (the companion anthology to Staying alive and Being alive; international contemporary poetry; Neil Astley, ed.) 808.81 B
- Hernández, Miguel - Miguel Hernández (translated from the Spanish; NYRB Poets) 861 H
- Jones, Daniel - My friend Dylan Thomas 92 T4552 J
- Karman, James - Robinson Jeffers: poet of California 92 J451 K
- Vvedenskii, Aleksandr Ivanovich - An invitation for me to think (translated from the Russian; NYRB Poets) 891.71 V
FICTION
- Copenhagen tales: stories (selected and translated by Lotte Shankland; Helen Constantine, ed.) F C
- Kafka, Franz - The metamorphosis (a new translation by Susan Bernofsky) F K
- Mynona - The creator: a fantasy (1920; translated from the German) F M
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain - A sentimental novel (2007; translated from the French) F R
- Scheerbart, Paul - The gray cloth: Paul Scheerbart's novel on glass architecture (1914; translated from the German) F S
- Serge, Victor - Midnight in the century (1939; translated from the French; New York Review Books) F S
- Willeford, Charles Ray - Miami blues (1984) F W
JOURNALISM
- Bowden, Charles - The Charles Bowden reader 824 B
- Insurrections of the mind: 100 years of politics and culture in America (The New Republic anthology) 320.9 I
WRITING
- Forsyth, Mark - The elements of eloquence: how to turn the perfect English phrase 808 F
- Peterson, Brenda - Your life is a book: how to craft and publish your memoir 808 P
ART
- Bailey, Colin B - Renoir, impressionism, and full-length painting 759.4 R
- Donald, Diana - The art of Thomas Bewick 769 B
- Horowitz, Noah - Art of the deal: contemporary art in a global financial market 706.9 H
- Kentridge, William - Six drawing lessons 701 K
- Lima, Manuel - The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge 704 L
- Oldenburg, Claes - Claes Oldenburg: the sixties 730.92 O
- Nothing but the clouds unchanged: artists in World War I (Gordon Hughes and Philip Blom, eds.) 704 N
- Picasso, Pablo - Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein: correspondence (Laurence Madeline, ed.) 920 P5867 P
- Sabin, Roger - Comics, comix & graphic novels: a history of comic art 741.5 S
- Swing time: Reginald Marsh and thirties New York (Barbara Haskell, ed.) 759.1 M
- Terror and wonder: the gothic imagination (Dale Townshend, ed.) 709 T
ARCHITECTURE
- Bertotti Scamozzi, Ottavio - The buildings and designs of Andrea Palladio 720.92 P
- Frampton, Kenneth - Le Corbusier 720.92 L
- Gül, Murat - Istanbul architecture 720.9496 G
- Skrdla, Harry - Ghostly ruins: America's forgotten architecture 720.973 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Boardman, John - Early Greek vase painting: 11th-6th centuries BC: a handbook 738 B
- Dalley, Stephanie - The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: an elusive world wonder traced 935 D
- Oates, Joan - Nimrud: an Assyrian imperial city revealed 935 O
- Close, F. E. - Half life: the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy 92 P814 C
- Grove, Valerie - Laurie Lee: the well-loved stranger 92 L4794 G
- Hay, Daisy - Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: a strange romance 920 D612 H
- Koeppen, Wolfgang - Youth: autobiographical writings 92 K782 K
- Pérez Rosario, Vanessa - Becoming Julia de Burgos: the making of a Puerto Rican icon 92 B9574 P
- Pinkney, Helen R. - Christopher Gore: Federalist of Massachusetts, 1758-1827 92 G6661 P
HISTORY
- Fried, Johannes - The Middle Ages 940.1 F
- Ihrig, Stefan - Atatürk in the Nazi imagination 956 I
- McMahon, Darrin M. - Enemies of the Enlightenment: the French counter-Enlightenment and the making of modernity 944.04 M
- Meredith, Martin - The fortunes of Africa: a 5000-year history of wealth, greed, and endeavour 960 M
- President Lincoln assassinated!!: the firsthand story of the murder, manhunt, trial, and mourning (Harold Holzer, Library of America) 973.73 P
- Quakers and abolition (Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey Plank, eds.) 326 Q
- Toolis, Kevin - Rebel hearts: journeys within the IRA's soul 941.5 T
- Watts, Edward Jay - The final pagan generation 292 W
- Wills, John E. - The world from 1450 to 1700 909 W
- Zamoyski, Adam - Phantom terror: political paranoia and the creation of the modern state, 1789-1848 940.27 Z
ANTHROPOLOGY
- Lancy, David F. - The anthropology of childhood: cherubs, chattel, changelings 305.23 L
- Mandler, Peter - Return from the natives: how Margaret Mead won the Second World War and lost the Cold War 306 M
FOOD
- The best of America's Test Kitchen 2015: the year's best recipes, equipment reviews, and tastings 641.5 B OVERSIZE
- Paarlberg, Robert L. - Food politics: what everyone needs to know 338.1 P
- Sheraton, Mimi - 1,000 foods to eat before you die: a food lover's life list 641.3 S
- Silver, Laura - Knish: in search of the Jewish soul food 641.8 S
RELIGION
- Duffy, Eamon - Saints and sinners: a history of the Popes (4th ed.) 262.13 D
- Laycock, Joseph - The seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken and the struggle to define Catholicism 282.73 L
- Manseau, Peter - One nation, under gods: a new American history 200 M
- Rovner, Adam - In the shadow of Zion: promised lands before Israel 325.2 R
- Rubenstein, Richard L. - After Auschwitz: history, theology, and contemporary Judaism 296.3 R
CRIME
- Roth, Mitchel P. - An eye for an eye: a global history of crime and punishment 364 R
- Weil, J. R. - Yellow Kid Weil: the autobiography of America's master swindler 92 W4222 W
SCIENCE
- Falk, Dan - In search of time: the science of a curious dimension 529 F
- The future of the brain: essays by the world's leading neuroscientists (Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman, eds.) 612.8 F
- Sussman, Rachel - The oldest living things in the world 574 S
HUMOR
- Bruce, Lenny - The essential Lenny Bruce 827 B
- Chast, Roz - The party, after you left 741.5 C
- Comic, curious and quirky: news stories from centuries past (1700-1900) (Rona Levin, ed.) 828.08 C
THEATER
- Hartnoll, Phyllis - The theatre: a concise history 792.09 H
- Morgan, Charles - Dramatic critic: selected reviews (1922-1939) 792.09 M
- Wills, Garry - Making make-believe real: politics as theater in Shakespeare's time 822.33 K
MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY
- Newman, Michael Z. - Video revolutions: on the history of a medium 302 N
- Standage, Tom - Writing on the wall: social media, the first 2,000 years 302 S
- Suber, Peter - Open access 070.5 S
- Vogelstein, Fred - Dogfight: how Apple and Google went to war and started a revolution 338.7 V
- Woyke, Elizabeth - The smartphone: anatomy of an industry 384 W
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Hawthorn, Geoffrey - Thucydides on politics: back to the present 320.1 H
- Love, Reggie - Power forward: my presidential education 92 L8976 L
- Reed, Thomas C. - The Reagan enigma: 1964-1980 973.927 R
WAR
- Harris, Shane - @war: the rise of the military-Internet complex 355.34 H
- Horn, Jonathan - The man who would not be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and his decision that changed American history 92 L4797 H
- Simms, Brendan - Longest afternoon: the 400 men who decided the Battle of Waterloo 944.05 S
- Wada, Haruki - The Korean War: an international history 951.9 W
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley - The Duke of Wellington: military dispatches 92 W452 W
NEW YORK
- Bodenheim, Maxwell - My life and loves in Greenwich Village 820.81 B
- Davison, Robert A. - Isaac Hicks: New York merchant and Quaker, 1767-1820 92 H6318 D
- Eldredge, Niles - Concrete jungle: New York City and our last best hope for a sustainable future 974.71 E
- Nadelman, Sheldon - Terminal Bar: a photographic record of New York's most notorious watering hole 974.71 N
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