May 2012 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Acemoglu, Daron - Why nations fail: the origins of power, prosperity and poverty
- Ackroyd, Peter - Wilkie Collins
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel - Prague winter: a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948
- Anthony, Lawrence - Babylon's ark: the incredible wartime rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
- Beatty, Jack - The lost history of 1914: reconsidering the year the great war began
- Beinart, Peter - The crisis of Zionism
- Bonner, Raymond - Anatomy of injustice: a murder case gone wrong
- Borman, Tracy - Queen of the conqueror: the life of Matilda, wife of William I
- Brewster, Hugh - Gilded lives, fatal voyage: the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world
- Brown, Nancy Marie - The abacus and the cross: the story of the Pope who brought the light of science to the Dark Ages
- Brown, Rita Mae - The big cat nap: the 20th anniversary Mrs. Murphy mystery
- Busch, Benjamin - Dust to dust: a memoir
- Callow, Simon - Charles Dickens and the great theatre of the world
- Campbell, Colin - The queen mother: the untold story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, who became Queen Elizabeth the queen mother
- Central Park: an anthology
- Clegg, Bill - Ninety days: a memoir of recovery
- Cracknell, Andrew - The real mad men: the renegades of Madison Avenue and the golden age of advertising
- David, Greg - Modern New York: the life and economics of a city
- Delbanco, Andrew - College: what it was, is, and should be
- Ehrman, Bart D - Did Jesus exist?: the historical argument for Jesus of Nazareth
- Enright, Anne - Making babies: stumbling into motherhood
- Everett, Daniel Leonard - Language: the cultural tool
- Franzen, Jonathan - Farther away
- French, Paul - Midnight in Peking: how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China
- Gertner, Jon - The idea factory: Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation
- Goldsmith, Elizabeth C - The kings' mistresses: the liberated lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and her sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin
- Haidt, Jonathan - The righteous mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion
- Harden, Blaine - Escape from Camp 14: one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West
- Hardman, Robert - Her majesty: Queen Elizabeth II and her court
- Hill, Clint - Mrs. Kennedy and me
- Hodgkin, Joanna - Amateurs in Eden: the story of a bohemian marriage : Nancy and Lawrence Durrell
- Jacobs, A. J. - Drop dead healthy: one man's humble quest for bodily perfection
- Jaffe, Steven H - New York at war: four centuries of combat, fear, and intrigue in Gotham
- James, Eloisa - Paris in love: a memoir
- Johnson, Simon - White House burning: the founding fathers, our national debt, and why it matters to you
- Jovanovic, Rob - Seeing the light: inside the Velvet Underground
- Kadri, Sadakat - Heaven on earth: a journey through shari'a law from the deserts of ancient Arabia to the streets of the modern Muslim world
- King, Carole - A natural woman: a memoir
- Ladin, Joy - Through the door of life: a Jewish journey between genders
- Langella, Frank - Dropped names: famous men and women as I knew them
- Lehrer, Jonah - Imagine: how creativity works
- Leon, Donna - Venetian curiosities
- Luce, Edward - Time to start thinking: America in the age of descent
- MacLauchlin, Cory - Butterfly in the typewriter: the tragic life of John Kennedy Toole and the remarkable story of A confederacy of dunces
- Maddow, Rachel - Drift: the unmooring of American military power
- Maitland, Leslie - Crossing the borders of time: a true story of war, exile, and love reclaimed
- McDermott, Terry - The hunt for KSM: inside the pursuit and takedown of the real 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
- Moody, Rick - On celestial music: and other adventures in listening
- Moore, Tim - You are awful (but I like you): travels through unloved Britain
- M¸ller, Melissa - Alice's piano: the life of Alice Herz-Sommer
- Poundstone, William - Are you smart enough to work at Google?: trick questions, zen-like riddles, insanely difficult puzzles, and other devious interviewing techniques you need to know to get a job anywhere in the new economy
- Quindlen, Anna - Lots of candles, plenty of cake
- Reading, Amy - The mark inside: a perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big con
- Samuels, Robert C - Blue water, white water: a true story of survival
- Scruton, Roger - Green philosophy: how to think seriously about the planet
- Shiller, Robert J - Finance and the good society
- Shipler, David K. - Rights at risk: the limits of liberty in modern America
- Shriver, Lionel - The new republic: a novel
- Smith, R. J. - The one: the life and music of James Brown
- Soueif, Ahdaf - Cairo: my city, our revolution
- Stoessinger, Caroline - A century of wisdom: lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
- Sykes, Christopher Simon - David Hockney: the biography, 1937-1975 : a rake's progress
- Tattersall, Ian - Masters of the planet: the search for our human origins
- Teresi, Dick - The undead: organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death
- Van Horne, Janice - A complicated marriage: my life with Clement Greenberg
- Viroli, Maurizio - The liberty of servants: Berlusconi's Italy
- Welshman, John - Titanic: the last night of a small town
- Werber, Millie - Two rings: a story of love and war
- Whitelock, Anna - Mary Tudor: princess, bastard, queen
- Wilson, Edward O - The social conquest of earth
FICTION
- Anshaw, Carol - Carry the one
- Bakker, Gerbrand - The detour
- Barry, Kevin - City of Bohane: a novel
- Boyd, William - Waiting for sunrise: a novel
- Bradford, Barbara Taylor - Letter from a stranger
- Coe, Amanda - What they do in the dark
- De Robertis, Carolina - Perla
- DuBois, Jennifer - A partial history of lost causes: a novel
- Ephron, Delia - The lion is in
- Franklin-Willis, Amy - The lost saints of Tennessee
- Gale, Patrick - A perfectly good man
- Gilvarry, Alex - From the memoirs of a non-enemy combatant
- Grisham, John - Calico Joe
- Gupta, Sanjay - Monday mornings: a novel
- Heller, Ted - Pocket kings: a novel
- Houston, Pam - Contents may have shifted: a novel
- Howe, Katherine - The house of velvet and glass
- James, E. L - Fifty shades of Grey
- Kerouac, Jack - The sea is my brother
- Kluge, P. F - The master blaster: a novel
- Kogan, Deborah Copaken - The red book
- KristÌn ”marsdÛttir - Children in Reindeer Woods
- Liss, David - The twelfth enchantment: a novel
- Lynch, Jim - Truth like the sun
- Maguire, Gregory - Out of Oz: the final volume in the Wicked years
- McCleen, Grace - The land of decoration: a novel
- O'Connor, Varley - The master's muse: a novel
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Mudwoman
- Plimpton, Sarah - Hurry along
- Qashu, Sayed - Second person singular
- Rash, Ron - The Cove
- Roberts, Bethan - My policeman
- Roberts, Nora - The witness
- Rogan, Charlotte - The lifeboat: a novel
- Steel, Danielle - Betrayal: a novel
- Thompson, Craig - Habibi
- Trigiani, Adriana - The shoemaker's wife: a novel
- Tyler, Anne - The beginner's goodbye: a novel
- Wambaugh, Joseph - Harbor nocturne
SHORT STORIES
- Bergman, Megan Mayhew - Birds of a lesser paradise: stories
- Levin, Adam - Hot pink
- Munro, Alice - New selected stories
- Schirach, Ferdinand von - Guilt: stories
POETRY
- Berry, Wendell - New collected poems
- Duffy, Carol Ann - The bees
- Larkin, Philip - The complete poems
- Sebald, Winfried Georg - Across the land and the water: selected poems, 1964-2001
MYSTERIES
- Atkins, Ace - Robert B. Parker's lullaby
- Atkins, Ace - The ranger
- Bagshawe, Tilly - Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the dark
- Baldacci, David - The innocent
- Bauer, Belinda - Finders keepers*
- Bell, Ted - Phantom
- Bourne, Sam - Pantheon*
- Brown, Rita Mae - The big cat nap: the 20th anniversary Mrs. Murphy mystery
- Clark, Carol Higgins - Gypped
- Clark, Mary Higgins - The lost years
- Cleland, Jane K - Dolled up for murder
- Cooper, Mike - Clawback
- Corwin, Miles - Midnight alley: an Ash Levine novel
- Craig, James - London calling*
- Cussler, Clive - The thief: an Isaac Bell adventure
- Doherty, P. C - Bloodstone: being the eleventh of the sorrowful mysteries of Brother Athelstan*
- Doherty, P. C - The Mysterium: a Hugh Corbett medieval mystery*
- Dryden, Alex - Death in Siberia
- Epperson, Tom - Sailor
- Fowler, Christopher - The memory of blood: a Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery*
- Goddard, Robert - Fault line
- Grabenstein, Chris - Fun house: a John Ceepak mystery
- Graham, Heather - The unseen
- Haddam, Jane - Blood in the water: a Gregor Demarkian novel
- Hannah, Sophie - Kind of cruel*
- Harbach, Chad - The art of fielding: a novel*
- Hart, Carolyn G - Death comes silently
- Hays, Tony - The stolen bride
- Heley, Veronica - False report*
- Hruska, Alan - Wrong man running
- Jardine, Quintin - As easy as murder
- Johansen, Iris - What doesn't kill you
- Judd, Alan - Uncommon enemy*
- Kelly, Jim - Death's door*
- Knode, Helen - Wildcat play: a mystery
- L‰ckberg, Camilla - The drowning
- Lansdale, Joe R. - Edge of dark water
- Lapidus, Jens - Easy money
- Laukkanen, Owen - The professionals
- Leon, Donna - Beastly things
- Leonard, Peter A - Voices of the dead
- Mackenzie, Jassy - The fallen
- Margolin, Phillip - Capitol murder: a novel of suspense
- Marklund, Liza - Last will: a novel
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
- McKevett, G. A - Buried in buttercream
- Murray, Colin - September song: a Tony GÈrard thriller*
- Mystery Writers of America presents vengeance
- Nesb¯, Jo - Phantom
- Nyk‰nen, Harri - Nights of awe
- Oldham, Nick - Instinct*
- Overholt, Cuyler - A deadly affection
- Parris, S. J. - Sacrilege: a thriller*
- Patterson, James - Guilty wives
- Perry, Anne - Dorchester Terrace*
- Quick, Amanda - Crystal gardens*
- Reed, Mary - Nine for the devil: a John the Lord Chamberlain mystery
- Sallis, James - Driven
- Scottoline, Lisa - Come home
- Spencer, Sally - Blackstone and the Great War*
- Stacey, Lyndon - No holds barred: a Daniel Whelan mystery*
- Wilhelm, Kate - Death of an artist
- Winspear, Jacqueline - Elegy for Eddie*
* indicates a British mystery
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Girard, RenÈ - Mimesis and theory: essays on literature and criticism, 1953-2005 , 801 G
- Johnson, Alexandra - A brief history of diaries: from Pepys to blogs, 809 J
- Le CarrÈ, John - Conversations with John le CarrÈ, 823 L
- Liddell, Robert - A mind at ease: Barbara Pym and her novels, 823 P
- Meyers, Jeffrey. - Orwell: life and art , 828.09 O
- Nahin, Paul J. - Time travel: a writer's guide to the real science of plausible time travel, 823.09 N
- Nussbaum, Martha Craven - Philosophical interventions: reviews, 1986-2011, 028 N
- Richardson, Ruth - Dickens and the workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London poor, 823 D
- Scandinavian crime fiction, 839.5 S
POETRY
- Follain, Jean - 130 poems, 841 F
- Petrarca, Francesco - Sonnets and shorter poems, 851 P
- Transtrˆmer, Tomas - For the living and the dead: poems and a memoir, 839.71 T
- Watts, Emily Stipes - The poetry of American women from 1632 to 1945 , 821.09 W
ART
- Draw it with your eyes closed: the art of the art assignment, 707 D
- Japanese art: masterpieces in the British Museum , 709.52 J
- MacCarthy, Fiona - The last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian imagination , 92 B9638 M
- Quinn, Susan - Furious improvisation : how the WPA and a cast of thousands made high art out of desperate times , 792.0973 Q
- Reynolds, Joshua - Discourses on art , 704 R
- Tate, Elizabeth - American artist guide to painting techniques , 751 T
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Respini, Eva - Cindy Sherman, 779 S
- Sandweiss, Eric - The day in its color: Charles Cushman's photographic journey through a vanishing America , 770 C
FILM
- Barr, Charles - Ealing Studios, 791.4 B
- Hughes, David - Tales from development hell: the greatest movies never made?, 791.4 H
- Landis, John - Monsters in the movies: 100 years of cinematic nightmares /, 791.4 L
MUSIC
- Anthony, Ted - Chasing the rising sun: the journey of an American song , 784.4 A
- Leon, Donna - Handel's bestiary: in search of animals in Handel's operas, 782.2 L
- Puri, Michael J - Ravel the decadent: memory, sublimation, and desire, 780.92 R
ETHICS
- Overall, Christine - Why have children?: the ethical debate, 176 O
- Rockwood, Lawrence - Walking away from Nuremberg: just war and the doctrine of command responsibility, 172 R
BIOGRAPHY
- My dear Hugh: letters from Richard Cobb to Hugh Trevor-Roper and others , 92 C6535 M
- Anderson, J. K - Xenophon, 92 X52 A
- Bechdel, Alison - Are you my mother?: a comic drama, 92 B3913 B
- Liebmann, George W - The last American diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the changing face of American diplomacy, 92 N394 L
- McPhee, Peter - Robespierre: a revolutionary life, 92 R6535 M
- Nathans, Sydney - To free a family: the journey of Mary Walker , 92 M1827 N
- Wise, Benjamin E - William Alexander Percy: the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker, 92 P4327 W
RELIGION
- Augustine - On Christian teaching , 239 A
- Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam, 297 H OVERSIZE
- Luhrmann, T. M - When God talks back: understanding the American evangelical relationship with God, 277.3 L
HISTORY
- Hiltzik, Michael A - The New Deal: a modern history, 973.917 H
- Hyde, Anne Farrar - Empires, nations, and families: a history of the North American West, 1800-1860, 978 H
- Kohut, Thomas August - A German generation: an experiential history of the twentieth century , 943.087 K
- Morgan, Robert - Lions of the West: heroes and villains of the westward expansion , 920 M8492 L
- Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert - To set this world right: the antislavery movement in Thoreau's Concord , 973.71 P
- Preston, Paul - The Spanish holocaust: inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain, 946.081 P
- Reid, Anna - Borderland: a journey through the history of Ukraine, 947.7 R
WAR
- Groom, Winston - Shiloh 1862, 973.73 G
- Hampton, Janie - How the Girl Guides won the war , 369.4 H
- Hastings, Michael - The operators: the wild and terrifying inside story of America's war in Afghanistan, 958 H
- Koker, David - At the edge of the abyss: a concentration camp diary, 1943-1944, 940.5472 K
TRAVEL
- Persia: through writers' eyes , 915.5 P
- Dalrymple, William - In Xanadu: a quest, 915 D
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - From the Clyde to California: Robert Louis Stevenson's emigrant journey , 917.94 S
AUDIO
- Christie, Agatha - The body in the library; a Miss Marple mystery, Audio-CD C
- Hollinghurst, Alan - The stranger's child, Audio-CD H
- James, Henry - What Maisie knew, Audio-CD J
- Schiff, Stacy - Cleopatra; a life , Audio-CD 92 C6285 S
- Trollope, Anthony - Phineas redux, Audio-CD T