New Books - August 2016
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Applewhite, Ashton - This chair rocks: a manifesto against ageism
- Behr, Edward - The food & wine of France: eating and drinking from Champagne to Provence
- Byrne, Gary J. - Crisis of character: a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cohen, Richard - How to write like Tolstoy: a journey into the minds of our greatest writers
- Cooper, Elisha - Falling: a daughter, a father, and a journey back
- Daley, David - Ratf**ked: the true story behind the secret plan to steal America's democracy
- Ehrenreich, Ben - The way to the spring: life and death in Palestine
- Hamilton, Mary - Trials of the earth: the true story of a pioneer woman
- Hirshey, Gerri - Not pretty enough: the unlikely triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
- Hutchinson, Robert - The audacious crimes of Colonel Blood: the spy who stole the crown jewels and became the king's secret agent
- Leve, Ariel - An abbreviated life: a memoir
- Matar, Hisham - The return: fathers, sons, and the land in between
- Ozick, Cynthia - Critics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays (ebook available)
- Parker, Peter - Housman country: into the heart of England
- Riskin, Jessica - The restless clock: a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick
- Seligman, Scott D. - Tong wars: the untold story of vice, money, and murder in New York's Chinatown
- Smith, Jean Edward - Bush
- Smith, Lee - Dimestore
- Stein, Judith E. - Eye of the sixties: Richard Bellamy and the transformation of modern art
- Summerscale, Kate - The wicked boy: the mystery of a Victorian child murderer
- Talese, Gay - The voyeur's motel
- Trillin, Calvin - Jackson, 1964: and other dispatches from fifty years of reporting on race in America
- Tye, Larry - Bobby Kennedy: the making of a liberal icon
- Tynan, Tracy - Wear and tear: the threads of my life
- Vincent, Isabel - Dinner with Edward: the story of a remarkable friendship
FICTION
- Abdel Aziz, Basma -The queue: a novel (translated from the Arabic)
- Adams, Alice - Invincible summer
- Ahrnstedt, Simona - All in (translated from the Swedish)
- Alam, Rumaan - Rich and pretty/ Rumaan Alam
- Anam, Tahmima - The bones of grace
- Ball, Jesse - How to set a fire and why
- Burton, Jessie - The muse
- Cannon, Joanna - The trouble with goats and sheep
- Close, Jennifer - The hopefuls
- Dennis-Benn, Nicole - Here comes the sun
- Deón, Natashia - Grace
- Eggers, Dave - Heroes of the frontier
- Ephron, Delia - Siracusa (ebook available)
- Eteraz, Ali - Native believer
- Fagan, Jenni - The sunlight pilgrims
- Fellowes, Julian - Belgravia (ebook available)
- Giffin, Emily - First comes love
- Levy, Deborah - Hot milk (ebook available)
- McMillan, Terry - I almost forgot about you
- Nadler, Stuart - The inseparables
- O'Farrell, Maggie - This must be the place
- Rodoreda, Mercè- War, so much war (translated from the Catalan)
- Rosenheim, Andrew - The accidental agent: a Jimmy Nessheim novel
- Rosoff, Meg - Jonathan unleashed
- Spiegelman, Peter - Dr. Knox
- Spufford, Francis - Golden Hill
- Stibbe, Nina - Paradise Lodge
- Tripp, Dawn Clifton - Georgia: a novel of Georgia O'Keeffe
- Valdés, Zoé - The weeping woman (translated from the Spanish)
- Watson, Larry - As good as gone
- Weisberger, Lauren - The singles game
- Winters, Ben H. - Underground airlines
MYSTERIES
- Adler, Elizabeth - The charmers
- Atkins, Ace - The innocents
- Booth, Claire - The Branson beauty
- Brackmann, Lisa - Go-between
- Cumming, Charles - A divided spy*
- Davis, Lindsey - The graveyard of the Hesperides
- Downie, Ruth - Vita brevis: a crime novel of the Roman Empire
- Fairstein, Linda A. - Killer look
- Finder, Joseph - Guilty minds (ebook available)
- Flanery, Patrick - I am no one
- Gentill, Sulari - A few right thinking men: a Rowland Sinclair mystery
- Gerlis, Alex - The best of our spies
- Gregorio, Michael - Think wolf: a Sebastiano Cangio thriller
- Hambly, Barbara - Drinking gourd: a Benjamin January mystery
- Jewish noir (edited by Kenneth Wishnia)
- Lawson, Michael - House revenge
- Levine, Laura - Murder has nine lives
- Limon, Martin - Ping-pong heart
- Lovesey, Peter - Another one goes tonight: a Peter Diamond investigation* (ebook available)
- McCauley, Terrence - A murder of crowsy
- Miranda, Megan - All the missing girls
- Moliner, Sara - The whispering city
- Muller, Marcia - Someone always knows
- Nakamura, Fuminori - The kingdom (translated from the Japanese)
- Pearce, Michael - The women of the Souk: a Mamur Zapt mystery
- Reid, Iain - I'm thinking of ending things
- Robertson, Michael - The Baker Street jurors*
- Rosenfelt, David - Outfoxed
- Schepp, Emelie - Marked for life
- Sharp, Zoë - Absence of light: a Charlie Fox thriller
- Silva, Daniel - The black widow (ebook available)
- Spencer, Sally - Death in disguise: a Monika Paniatowski mystery*
- Steiner, Susie - Missing, presumed
- Stevens, Stuart - The innocent have nothing to fear
- Thomas, Kara - The darkest corners
- Verdon, John - Wolf Lake: a novel
- Walker, Wendy - All is not forgotten
- Ware, Ruth - The woman in cabin 10 (ebook available)
- Wignall, Kevin - The traitor's story
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Hensher, Philip - Tales of persuasion
- McCall Smith, Alexander - Chance developments
- Noyes, Anna - Goodnight, beautiful women: stories
- Williams, Joy - Ninety-nine stories of God
POETRY
- Harrison, Jim - Dead man's float
- Levin, Phillis - Mr. Memory & other poems
- Morgan, J. O. - Interference pattern
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Baxter, Glen - Almost completely Baxter: new and selected blurtings
- Gannon, Angela - St Kilda: the last and outmost isle
- Meersch, Maxence van der - Invasion 14
- Winton, Tim - Island home: a landscape memoir
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Burack-Weiss, Ann - The lioness in winter: writing an old woman's life 809 B
- DeFanti, Charles - The wages of expectation: a biography of Edward Dahlberg 92 D1313 D
- Gessner, David - All the wild that remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West 917.8 G
- Hawksley, Lucinda - Charles Dickens and his circle 920 H3955 C
- Hayes, Kevin J - Edgar Allan Poe (Reaktion Critical Lives 828.09 P
- Poole, Adrian - Tragedy: a very short introduction 809.2 P
- The making of the American essay (edited and introduced by John D'Agata) 824.08 M
- Vallejo, César - Selected writings of César Vallejo 820.81 V
FICTION
- Bardin, John Franklin - The deadly percheron (1946 cult classic crime novel) F B
- Biller, Maxim - Inside the head of Bruno Schulz (translated from the German, with two stories by Bruno Schulz) F B
- Blecher, Max - Adventures in immediate irreality (translated from the Romanian) F B
- Bloy, Lén - Sweating blood (translated from the French) F B
- Bourdouxhe, Madeleine - Marie (translated from the French) F B
- Bove, Emmanuel - A Raskolnikoff (translated from the French) F B
- Gallant, Mavis - A fairly good time: with Green water, green sky F G
- Levy, Deborah - Beautiful mutants and Swallowing geography: two early novels F L
- Russell, Ray - The case against Satan (Penguin Classics; 1962 horror) F R
- Willeford, Charles Ray - The difference (1971 western from noir author) F W
POETRY
- Bogin, Magda - The women troubadours 849.09 B
- Hooker, Jeremy - The cut of the light: poems, 1965-2005 821 H
- Howe, Susan - The midnight 821 H
- Ned O'Gorman: a glance back (Elizabeth Howard, ed.) 92 O354 N
- Péret, Benjamin - The big game (translated from the French) 843 P
- Prynne, J. H. - The white stones 821 P
- Wiman, Christian - Every riven thing 821 W
ART
- Agee, William C. - Modern art in America 1908-68 709.73 A OVERSIZE
- Büttner, Nils - Hieronymus Bosch: visions and nightmares 759.9 B
- Ficacci, Luigi - Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings 767 P
- Fried, Michael - After Caravaggio 759.5 C
- Jones, Robert O. - D. Maitland Armstrong: American stained glass master 748 J
- Martin, Agnes - Agnes Martin (2016 Tate Modern exhibition) 759.11 M
- Seghers, Hercules - Hercules Segers 760 S
- Siegel, Katy - Rosalyn Drexler: who does she think she is? 709.73 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Bacon, Francis - The new organon 160 B
- Badiou, Alain - Ethics: an essay on the understanding of evil 170 B
- Posnock, Ross - Renunciation: acts of abandonment by writers, philosophers, and artists 128 P
BIOGRAPHY
- Hardman, John - The life of Louis XVI 92 L8882 H
- Kelly, Aileen - The discovery of chance: the life and thought of Alexander Herzen 92 H5763 K
- Ollard, Richard Lawrence - Pepys and his contemporaries 920 O496 P
- Scanlon, Jennifer - Until there is justice: the life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman 92 H453 S
- Tuszynska, Agata - Family history of fear: a memoir 92 T9653 T
MUSIC
- Binkowski, Carol J - Opening Carnegie Hall: the creation and first performances of America's premier concert stage 780.973 B
- Davis, Mary E. - Erik Satie 780.92 S
- Feldman, Morton - Give my regards to Eighth Street: collected writings of Morton Feldman 780.92 F
- Gleason, Ralph J. - Conversations in jazz: the Ralph J. Gleason interviews 780.973 G
DRAMA
- Hunter, G. K. - English drama 1586-1642: the age of Shakespeare 822.09 H
- Jelinek, Elfriede - Her not all her: on / with Robert Walser (translated from the German by Damion Searls) 832 J
- Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten - Modern drama: a very short introduction 809.2 S
SHAKESPEARE
- Nicholl, Charles - Shakespeare and his contemporaries 920 N611 S
- The Oxford companion to Shakespeare (2nd ed. Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells, eds.) HBR 822.33 D
- Vickers, Brian - The one King Lear 822.33 C
ANTIQUITY
- Dunn, Daisy - Catullus' bedspread: the life of Rome's most erotic poet 874.2 D
- Lahiri, Nayanjot - Finding forgotten cities: how the Indus civilization was discovered 934 L
- Spivey, Nigel Jonathan - The classical world: the foundations of the West and the enduring legacy of antiquity 930 S
- Swetnam-Burland, Molly - Egypt in Italy: visions of Egypt in Roman imperial culture 937.06 S
HISTORY
- Carhart, Thaddeus - Finding Fontainebleau: an American boy in France 944.36 C
- Crowley, Roger - 1453: the holy war for Constantinople and the clash of Islam and the West 949.61 C
- Fitz, Caitlin - Our sister republics: the United States in an age of American revolutions 327.73 F
- Gallagher, Winifred - How the post office created America: a history 383 G
- Huebner, Timothy S. - Liberty and union: the Civil War era and American constitutionalism 973.71 H
- Jha, Prashant - Battles of the new republic: a contemporary history of Nepal 954.96 J
- McAuliffe, Mary - Richmond Barracks 1916: we were there : 77 women of the Easter Rising 941.5 M
- McNamara, Kevin J. - Dreams of a great small nation: the mutinous army that threatened a revolution, destroyed an empire, founded a republic, and remade the map of Europe 943.7 M
- Mostyn, Trevor - Egypt's belle epoque: Cairo and the age of the hedonists 962 M
- Riding, Jacqueline - Jacobites: a new history of the '45 rebellion 941 R
- Warren, Wendy - New England bound: slavery and colonization in early America 974 W
WAR
- Abzug, Robert H. - Inside the vicious heart: Americans and the liberation of Nazi concentration camps 940.5472 A
- Herman, Arthur - Douglas MacArthur: American warrior 92 M116 H
- McDonough, James L. - William Tecumseh Sherman: in the service of my country : a life 92 S5537 M
- Sandler, Stanley - Segregated skies: all-Black combat squadrons of WW II 940.544 S
LATIN AMERICA
- Barbassa, Juliana - Dancing with the devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the brink 981 D
- The Paraguay reader: history, culture, politics (Duke U. Latin America Readers series; Peter Lambert & Andrew Nickson, eds.) 989 P
- Tinker Salas, Miguel - Venezuela: what everyone needs to know 987 T
GARDENS
- Bending, Stephen - Green retreats: women, gardens, and eighteenth-century culture 635 B
- Biggs, Matthew - Lessons from the great gardeners: forty gardening icons & what they teach us 635 B
- Miller, Kristine F. - Almost home: the public landscapes of Gertrude Jekyll 712 M
NATURE
- Hines, Richard - No way but gentlenesse: a memoir of how Kes, my kestrel, changed my life 636.6 H
- Lewis-Stempel, John - The running hare: the secret life of farmland 575.3 L
- Robinson, Andrew - Earth-shattering events: earthquakes, nations, and civilization 551.2 R
- Stokes, M. Dale - The fish in the forest: salmon and the web of life 597 S
- Williams, Terry Tempest - The hour of land: a personal topography of America's national parks 973 W
RELIGION
- The Hebrew Bible: a critical companion (John Barton, ed.) 221.6 H
- Roper, Lyndal - Martin Luther: renegade and prophet 92 L9735 R
SOCIOLOGY
- Anderson, Carol - White rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide 305.8 A
- Eagleton, Terry - Culture 306.4 E
- Forbes, Scott - A natural history of families 306.8 F
- Hilton, Steve - More human: designing a world where people come first 303.4 H
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Knaus, John Kenneth - Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet's move into the twenty-first century 951.5 K
- Simms, Brendan - Britain's Europe: a thousand years of conflict and cooperation 327.42 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Cowan, Geoffrey - Let the people rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the birth of the presidential primary 973.91 C
- Goldstein, Joel K. - The White House vice presidency: the path to significance, Mondale to Biden 353.03 G
- Strassel, Kimberley A. - The intimidation game: how the Left is silencing free speech 324 S
LAW
- Kyvig, David E. - Explicit and authentic acts: amending the U.S. constitution 1776-2015 with a new afterword 342.73 K
- Race on trial: law and justice in American history (Annette Gordon-Reed, ed.) 342.73 R
NEW YORK
- Carroll, Tamar W. - Mobilizing New York: AIDS, antipoverty, and feminist activism 974.71 C
- Gross, Milt - Milt Gross' New York 741.5 G
- Invisible man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem 779 P
- Jacobs, Jane - Jane Jacobs: the last interview and other conversations 307.76 J
- Lachman, Seymour - Mr. New York: Lew Rudin and his love for the city 92 R915 L
- Rips, Nicolaia - Trying to float: coming of age in the Chelsea Hotel 92 R5937 R
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Danforth, Loring M. - Crossing the kingdom: portraits of Saudi Arabia 953 D
- Kilvert, Robert Francis - A Wiltshire diary 92 K488 K
- Marsden, Philip - Rising ground: a search for the spirit of place 914.23 M
- Shepherd, Nan - The living mountain 941 S
AUDIO
- Angell, Roger - This old man: all in pieces Lobby Audio-CD 828 A
- Buchan, John - The thirty-nine steps Audio-CD B
- Hawley, Noah - Before the fall Lobby Audio-CD H
- Rovelli, Carlo - Seven brief lessons on physics Lobby Audio-CD 530 R
See Library staff's book recommendations for summer reading here.