New Books - April 2021
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Allen, Jonathan - Lucky: how Joe Biden barely won the presidency
- Allende, Isabel - The soul of a woman: on impatient love, long life, and good witches (translated from the Spanish)
(ebook available) - Bradford, Richard - Devils, lusts and strange desires: the life of Patricia Highsmith
- Bren, Paulina - The Barbizon: the hotel that set women free (ebook available)
- Carroll, Rebecca - Surviving the white gaze: a memoir
- Channon, Henry - Henry Chips Channon: the diaries: 1918-38
- Cohen, Paula Marantz - Of human kindness: what Shakespeare teaches us about empathy
- Cormack, Raph - Midnight in Cairo: the divas of Egypt's roaring '20s
- Dean, Madeleine - Under our roof: a son's battle for recovery, a mother's battle for her son
- Florio, Donna - Growing up Bank Street: a Greenwich Village memoir (ebook available)
- Flowers, Catherine Coleman - Waste: one woman's fight against America's dirty secret
- Ford, Richard T. - Dress codes: how the laws of fashion made history
- Gates, Bill - How to avoid a climate disaster: the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need
- Gilmour, Charlie Samson - Featherhood: a memoir of two fathers and a magpie
- Hewitt, Catherine - Art is a tyrant: the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
- Isaacson, Walter - The code breaker: Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race (ebook available)
- Lamott, Anne - Dusk night dawn: on revival and courage
- Lincoln, Margarette - London and the 17th century: the making of the world's greatest city
- Loeb, Abraham - Extraterrestrial: the first sign of intelligent life beyond Earth
- Loftis, Larry - The princess spy: the true story of World War II spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
- Lower, Wendy - The ravine: a family, a photograph, a Holocaust massacre revealed
- Marnham, Patrick - War in the shadows: resistance, deception and betrayal in occupied France
- McGhee, Heather C. - The sum of us: what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together
- Miller, Lucasta - Keats: a brief life in nine poems and one epitaph
- Miller, Tessa - What doesn't kill you: a life with chronic illness- lessons from a body in revolt
- Paradis, Michel - Last mission to Tokyo: the extraordinary story of the Doolittle Raiders and their final fight for justice
- Passarella, Elizabeth - Good apple: tales of a Southern evangelical in New York
- Shandler, Jeffrey - Yiddish: biography of a language
- Sherman, Howard E. - Another day's begun: Thornton Wilder's Our Town in the 21st century
- Smith, Michael Patrick F. - The good hand: a memoir of work, brotherhood, and transformation in an American boomtown
- Springora, Vanessa - Consent: a memoir (translated from the French)
- Taraborrelli, J. Randy - Grace & steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty
- Turkle, Sherry - The empathy diaries: a memoir (ebook available)
- Weir, Alison - Queens of the crusades: 1154-1291
- Wilczek, Frank - Fundamentals: ten keys to reality
- Wolff, Alexander - Endpapers: a family story of books, war, escape, and home (ebook available)
- Wood, Reginald E. - The Ray Wood story: confessions of a black NYPD cop in the assassination of Malcolm X
- Zadra, Antonio - When brains dream: exploring the science and mystery of sleep
FICTION
- Andras, Joseph - Tomorrow they won't dare to murder us a novel (translated from the French)
- Andrews, Alexandra - Who is Maud Dixon?: a novel (ebook available)
- Banks, Russell - Foregone: a novel
- Duras, Marguerite - The impudent ones: a novel (translated from the French)
- Edgarian, Carol - Vera: a novel
- Engel, Patricia - Infinite country: a novel
- Freeman, Brian - Infinite
- Hogan, Ruth - The keeper of lost things: a novel
- Hunt, Laird - Zorrie: a novel
- Iczkovits, Yaniv - The slaughterman's daughter
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - Klara and the sun (ebook and audiobook download available)
- Jin, Meng - Little gods: a novel
- Kerninon, Julia - My devotion
- Lanchester, John - Reality and other stories
- Lecoat, Jenny - The girl from the Channel Islands
- Livings, Jack - The blizzard party (ebook available)
- Mason, Meg - Sorrow and bliss: a novel
- Mbue, Imbolo - How beautiful we were: a novel
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh - The committed (ebook available)
- Nors, Dorthe - Wild swims: stories (translated from the Danish)
- North, Anna - Outlawed: a novel
- Pinto, Shiromi - Plastic emotions
- Quinn, Kate - The rose code: a novel
- Rosnay, Tatiana de - Flowers of darkness
- Shorr, Victoria - The plum trees: a novel
- Spufford, Francis - Light perpetual
- Thammavongsa, Souvankham - How to pronounce knife: stories
- Watts, Madeleine - The inland sea: a novel
more fiction below
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Bauer, Belinda - Exit *
- Berry, Steve - The kaiser's web
- Bolton, S. J. - The split (ebook available)
- Box, C. J. - Dark sky: a Joe Pickett novel (ebook available)
- Clements, Rory - A prince and a spy *
- Coben, Harlan - Win
- Downing, David - Wedding station
- Estleman, Loren D. - The eagle and the viper: a novel of historical suspense *
- Finch, Charles - An extravagant death *
- Griffiths, Elly - The postscript murders
- Ide, Joe - Smoke
- Kayode, Femi - Lightseekers
- Leon, Donna - Transient desires (ebook available)
- Margolin, Phillip - A matter of life and death: a Robin Lockwood novel
- May, Peter - The night gate*
- Robinson, Peter - Not dark yet: a DCI Banks novel * (ebook available)
- Thomas, Russ - Nighthawking
- Todd, Charles - A fatal lie: an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery* (ebook available)
- Vidich, Paul - The mercenary: a novel
- Winspear, Jacqueline - The consequences of fear* (ebook available)
*indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Oates, Joyce Carol - American melancholy: poems
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - Poems to night
more poetry below
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Alison, Jane - Meander, spiral, explode: design and pattern in narrative 808 A
- American birds: a literary companion (Library of America; Andrew Rubenfeld and Terry Tempest Williams, eds.) 820.8 A
- Blum, Beth - The self-help compulsion: searching for advice in modern literature 809 B
- Fletcher, Angus - Wonderworks: the 25 most powerful innovations in the history of literature 809 F
- Kermode, Frank - Pieces from the London review of books 804 K
- Marshall, Paule - Conversations with Paule Marshall 92 M3691 M
- Phillips, Matthew - Filling the void: essays 821 P
- Tomaselli, Sylvana - Wollstonecraft: philosophy, passion, and politics 828.09 W
- Zorin, Andrei - Leo Tolstoy 92 T6545 Z
POETRY
- Adonis - Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (new translation of landmark 1960s Arabic poetry collection) 892.7 A
- Du, Fu - The selected poems of Tu Fu 895.1 D
- Greenberg, Samuel - Poems from the Greenberg manuscripts (James Laughlin, ed.; 1923; Hart Crane fans take note) 828 G
FICTION
- Brodber, Erna - Jane & Louisa will soon come home; Louisiana; Myal (acclaimed Jamaican novels, 1980s-1990s) F B
- Butler, Octavia E. - Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories F B
- Essex, Mary - Tea is so intoxicating (British Library women writers series, 1950s) F E
- Fosse, Jon - The other name: Septology I-II (translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls) F F
- Klíma, Ladislav - The sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch: a grotesque romanetto (reissue of 1928 Czech fiction) F K
- Lenz, Siegfried - The turncoat (1950s German novel, recently discovered) F L
- Mukoma Wa Ngugi - Nairobi heat (Melville International Crime) F M
- Sebastian, Mihail - Women (acclaimed Romanian novel, 1933) F S
- Smith, Dorothy Evelyn - O, the brave music (British Library women writers series, 1943) F S
- Undset, Sigrid - Olav Audunssøn I: Vows (first volume of another epic by author of Kristin Lavransdatter; first English translation in nearly a century by Tina Nunnally) F U
FOLKLORE & MYTHOLOGY
- Aguirre, Mercedes - Cyclops: the myth and its cultural history 809 A
- Lester, Julius - Black folktales 398 L
- Scribner, Vaughn - Merpeople: a human history 398.2 S
LANGUAGE
- Cutts, Martin - Oxford guide to plain English 420 C
- Davis, Chloe O. - The queens' English: the LGBTQIA+ dictionary of lingo and colloquial phrases 306.76 D
- Fischer, Steven R. - A history of language 401 F
- Keyes, Ralph - The hidden history of coined words 422 K
ART
- Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève - The Louvre: the history, the collections, the architecture 708.4 B OVERSIZE
- Davidson, Abraham A. - Ralph Albert Blakelock 759.1 B
- McDonald, Mark P. - Goya's graphic imagination 759.6 G
- Mitchell, Michaelyn - The sleeve should be Illegal: & other reflections on art at the Frick 708.1 M
- Storr, Robert - Robert Storr: writings on art 1980-2005 709 S
- Wojnarowicz, David - David Wojnarowicz: in the shadow of forward motion 709.73 W
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
- Bradbury, Dominic - Mid-century modern design: a complete sourcebook 745.4 B
- Fletcher, Margaret - Architectural styles: a visual guide 720 F
- Foster, Hal - Brutal aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg 709.04 F
- Garvan, Anthony N. B. - Architecture and town planning in colonial Connecticut 720.973 G
- Lucie-Smith, Edward - Furniture: a concise history 749.2 L
PERFORMING ARTS
- Bohlman, Philip V. - World music: a very short introduction 780.9 B
- Dahlhaus, Carl - Ludwig van Beethoven: approaches to his music 780.92 B
- Perron, Wendy - The Grand Union: accidental anarchists of downtown dance, 1970-1976 792.8 P
- Zack, Ian - Odetta: a life in music and protest 780.921 O
HISTORY
- Calloway, Colin G. - Crown and calumet: British-Indian relations, 1783-1815 970.5 C
- DiEugenio, James - Destiny betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case 364.1 D
- Dockter, Warren - Churchill and the Islamic world: Orientalism, empire and diplomacy in the Middle East 942.082 D
- Hane, Mikiso - Eastern phoenix: Japan since 1945 952 H
- Painter, Nell Irvin - Creating Black Americans: African-American history and its meanings, 1619 to the present 973 P
- Robertson, Ritchie - The enlightenment: the pursuit of happiness, 1680-1790 940.25 R
- Van Engen, Abram C. - City on a hill: a history of American exceptionalism 973 V
ANTIQUITY
- Aristophanes - Four plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the assembly (2021 translation by Aaron Poochigian) 882.4 A
- Graziosi, Barbara - Homer: a very short introduction 883.109 G
- Newitz, Annalee - Four lost cities: a secret history of the urban age 930.1 N
- Ni' Mheallaigh, Karen - The moon in the Greek and Roman imagination: myth, literature, science and philosophy 880.9 N
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Ahmed, Qanta - In the land of invisible women: a female doctor's journey in the Saudi Kingdom 92 A287 A
- Antonetta, Susanne - Body toxic: an environmental memoir 92 A634 A
- Bagley, Edythe Scott - Desert rose: the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King 92 K5253 B
- Burton, Susan - Empty: a memoir 92 B97475 B
- Elder, Robert - Calhoun: American heretic 92 C1523 E
- Levine, Bruce C. - Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War revolutionary, fighter for racial justice 92 S8446 L
- Patel, Dinyar - Naoroji: pioneer of Indian nationalism 92 N194 P
- Zaretsky, Robert - The subversive Simone Weil: a life in five ideas 92 W4224 Z
RACE IN AMERICA
- Bristow, Nancy K. - Steeped in the blood of racism: black power, law and order, and the 1970 shootings at Jackson State College 305.88 B
- Camp, Stephanie M. H. - Closer to freedom: enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South 326 C
- McKnight, Utz Lars - Frances E. W. Harper: a call to conscience (study of 19th-century African American poet, novelist, activist) 828.09 H
- O'Brien, M. J. - We shall not be moved: the Jackson Woolworth's sit-in and the movement it inspired 325.26 O
- Hands on the freedom plow: personal accounts by women in SNCC (Faith S. Holsaert, et al., eds.) 323.1 H
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY
- Dupré, Louis K. - The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture 190 D
- Friedlander, Judith - Vilna on the Seine: Jewish intellectuals in France since 1968 944.092 F
- Goody, Jack - The East in the West 330.9 G
- Kent, Susan Kingsley - Gender: a world history 305.5 K
- Nussbaum, Martha C. - The cosmopolitan tradition: a noble but flawed ideal 172 N
- Suzman, James - Work: a deep history, from the stone age to the age of robots 306.3 S
BOOKS & READING
- Darnton, Robert - Pirating and publishing: the book trade in the age of Enlightenment 070.5 D
- McKenzie, D. F. - Bibliography and the sociology of texts 010 M
- Information: a historical companion (Ann Blair, Anthony Grafton, et al. eds.) 020 I
EDUCATION
- Bok, Derek Curtis - Higher expectations: can colleges teach students what they need to know in the twenty-first century? 378 B
- Ellis, John M. - The breakdown of higher education: how it happened, the damage it does, and what can be done 378 E
- Sims-Wood, Janet L. - Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University: building a legacy of Black history 026 S
FOOD & DRINK
- McDowell, Erin Jeanne - The book on pie: everything you need to know to bake perfect pies 641.86 M
- Sharma, Nik - The flavor equation: the science of great cooking explained in more than 100 essential recipes 641.5 S
- Foodists: writing about eating from the London review of books 641 F
NEW YORK
- Green, Elon - Last call: a true story of love, lust, and murder in queer New York 364.1 G
- Hamm, Theodore - Bernie's Brooklyn: how growing up in the New Deal city shaped Bernie Sanders' politics 974.71 H
- L'Official, Peter - Urban legends: the South Bronx in representation and ruin 974.71 L
- Szejnert, Małgorzata - Ellis Island: a people's history 325.73 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Harper, Lynn Casteel - On vanishing: mortality, dementia, and what it means to disappear 616.8 H
- Saltman, Bethany - Strange situation: a mother's journey into the science of attachment 155.6 S
- Solms, Mark - The hidden spring: a journey to the source of consciousness 153.7 S
RELIGION
- Ali-Karamali, Sumbul - Demystifying Shariah: what it is, how it works, and why it's not taking over our country 297 A
- Doyle, Brian - Grace notes (essays & articles) 248 D
- Goren, Arthur A. - The politics and public culture of American Jews 305.86 G
- Neumark, Heidi - Sanctuary: being Christian in the wake of Trump 277.3 N
- Reynolds, David S. - Faith in fiction: the emergence of religious literature in America 809.9 R
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Armstrong, Sue - Borrowed time: the science of how and why we age 612.67 A
- Kukielski, Peter - Rosa: the story of the rose 582 K
- O'Meara, Stephen James - Mars 523.4 O
- The flood: writing about rising seas from the London review of books 808.8 F
TRAVEL
- Fatland, Erika - Border: a journey around Russia: through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northwest Passage 914.7 F
- Gransard, Marie-José - Twentieth century Paris: 1900-1950: a literary guide for travellers 914.436 G
- Richards, Dan - Outpost: a journey to the wild ends of the earth 910.4 R