New Books - August 2018
NON-FICTION
- Abrams, Brian - Obama: an oral history 2009-2017
- Abrams, Dan - Lincoln's last trial: the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Alford, Henry - And then we danced: a voyage into the groove
- Auletta, Ken - Frenemies: the epic disruption of the ad business (and everything else)
- Birkhead, Tim - The wonderful Mr Willughby: the first true ornithologist
- Clark, Alexis - Enemies in love: a German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance
- Crespo MacLennan, Julio - Europa: how Europe shaped the modern world
- Devlin, Rachel - A girl stands at the door: the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
- Dorey-Stein, Beck - From the corner of the oval
- Frank, Thomas - Rendezvous with oblivion: reports from a sinking society
- French, Paul - City of devils: the two men who ruled the underworld of old Shanghai
- Gold, Glen David - I will be complete: a memoir
- Hall, Donald - A carnival of losses: notes nearing ninety
- Hall, Edith - Aristotle's way: how ancient wisdom can change your life
- Hett, Benjamin Carter - The death of democracy: Hitler's rise to power and the downfall of the Weimar Republic
- Kahn, Roger - The Roger Kahn reader: six decades of sportswriting
- Kakutani, Michiko - The death of truth: notes on falsehood in the age of Trump (ebook available)
- Kaufman, Dan - The fall of Wisconsin: the conservative conquest of a progressive bastion and the future of American politics
- Kennedy, Kerry - Robert F. Kennedy: ripples of hope: Kerry Kennedy in conversation with heads of state, business leaders, influencers, and activists about her father's impact on their lives
- Khakpour, Porochista - Sick: a memoir
- Lamas, Daniela - You can stop humming now: a doctor's stories of life, death, and in between
- Levy, Deborah - The cost of living: a working autobiography (ebook available)
- Mandela, Nelson - The prison letters of Nelson Mandela
- Mayle, Peter - My twenty-five years in Provence: reflections on then and now
- Nussbaum, Martha Craven - The monarchy of fear: a philosopher looks at our political crisis
- Prose, Francine - What to read and why (ebook available)
- Pyenson, Nick - Spying on whales: the past, present, and future of earth's most awesome creatures
- Quart, Alissa - Squeezed: why our families can't afford America
- Rodrik, Dani - Straight talk on trade: ideas for a sane world economy
- Santlofer, Jonathan - The widower's notebook: a memoir
- Scruton, Roger - Conservatism: an invitation to the great tradition
- Tisdale, Sallie - Advice for future corpses (and those who love them): a practical perspective on death and dying
- Watson, Christie - The language of kindness: a nurse's story
- White, Edmund - The unpunished vice: a life of reading
- Wilson-Lee, Edward - The catalogue of shipwrecked books: young Columbus and the quest for a universal library
FICTION
- Alger, Cristina - The banker's wife
- Arvin, Nick - Mad boy: an account of Henry Phipps in the War of 1812: a novel
- Borman, Tracy - The King's witch: a novel
- Brydon, James - The moment before drowning: a novel
- Celt, Adrienne - Invitation to a bonfire: a novel
- Christensen, Kate - The last cruise: a novel
- Citkowitz, Evgenia - The shades: a novel
- Cognetti, Paolo- The eight mountains: a novel (translated from the Italian)
- Djavadi, Négar - Disoriental (translated from the French)
- Faye, Gaël - Small country: a novel (translated from the French)
- Gessen, Keith - A terrible country: a novel
- Giffin, Emily - All we ever wanted: a novel
- Goldsworthy, Vesna - Monsieur Ka
- Greathead, Kate - Laura & Emma: a novel
- Guelfenbein, Carla - In the distance with you
- Haig, Matt,- How to stop time
- Healey, Emma - Whistle in the dark: a novel
- Hotchner, A. E. - The amazing adventures of Aaron Broom: a novel
- Immergut, Debra Jo - The captives: a novel
- Kenny, Meghan - The driest season: a novel
- Laing, Olivia - Crudo
- Lukas, Michael David - The last watchman of Old Cairo: a novel
- Mason, Zachary - Metamorphica
- Moore, Alison - Missing
- Moran, Caitlin - How to be famous
- Moshfegh, Ottessa - My year of rest and relaxation (ebook available)
- Murata, Sayaka - Convenience store woman (translated from the Japanese) (ebook available)
- Reed, Joe Mungo - We begin our ascent
- Ryan, Donal - From a low and quiet sea
- Stead, C. K. - The necessary angel
- Tyler, Anne. - Clock dance: a novel (ebook available)
- Varese, Jon Michael - The spirit photographer: a novel
- Wascom, Kent - The new inheritors
- Williams, Beatriz - The summer wives
- Wilson, Edward - South Atlantic requiem
- Winton, Tim - The shepherd's hut
- Wu Ming-Yi - Stolen Bicycle (translated from the Mandarin)
MYSTERIES
- Abbott, Megan E. - Give me your hand
- Ashworth, A. R. - Two-faced: an Elaine Hope mystery
- Atkins, Ace - The sinners
- Barrett, Lorna - Poisoned pages
- Bauer, Belinda - Snap
- Brett, Simon - A deadly habit*
- Cavanagh, Steve - Thirteen*
- Coulter, Catherine - Paradox
- Cumming, Charles - The man between
- Davis, Lindsey - Pandora's boy
- Delaney, JP - Believe me: a novel
- Doiron, Paul - Stay hidden
- Dunn, Carola - The corpse at the crystal palace: a Daisy Dalrymple mystery*
- Fesperman, Dan - Safe houses
- French, Nicci - Day of the dead: a novel*
- Gates, Eva - The spook in the stacks
- Graham, Reed - The chairman's toys
- Hammer, Lotte - The night ferry (translated from the Danish)
- Horowitz, Anthony - Forever and a day
- Jacobsen, Steffen - Retribution: a thriller (translated from the Danish)
- James, Peter - Dead if you don't*
- Karjel, Robert - After the monsoon (translated from the Swedish)
- Kellerman, Jonathan - A measure of darkness
- Krugler, David F. - Rip the angels from heaven
- Lorac, E. C. R. - Fire in the thatch: a Devon mystery* (British Library Crime Classics; originally published in 1946)
- Maitland, Barry - Slaughter Park
- McTiernan, Dervla - The ruin
- Osborne, Lawrence - Only to sleep: a Philip Marlowe novel
- Parks, Alan - Bloody January
- Pearl, Matthew - The Dante chamber*
- Sager, Riley - The last time I lied: a novel
- Silva, Daniel - The other woman (ebook available)
- Straley, John, - Baby's first felony
- Thor, Brad. - Spymaster: a thriller
- Verdon, John - White River burning: a Dave Gurney novel
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Tales from a master's notebook: stories Henry James never wrote (Philip Horne, ed.)
- Dunmore, Helen - Girl, balancing & other stories
- Pathan, Fiza - The love that dare not speak its name: short stories
- Slouka, Mark - All that is left is all that matters: stories
- Williams, Eley - Attrib. and other stories
POETRY
- Hayes, Terrance - American sonnets for my past and future assassin
- Jin, Ha - A distant center
- Redgrove, Peter - Collected poems
- Whyte, David - The bell and the blackbird: poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Barlow, John Perry - Mother American night: my life in crazy times
- Cohen, Noam - The know-it-alls: the rise of Silicon Valley as a political powerhouse and social wrecking ball
- Graeber, David - Bullshit jobs
- Greenburg, Zack O'Malley - 3 kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and hip-hop's multibillion-dollar rise
- Kellner, Friedrich - My opposition: the diary of Friedrich Kellner - a German against the Third Reich
- Okporo, Edafe - Bed 26: a memoir of an African man's asylum in the United States
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva - Antisocial media: how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Cercas, Javier - The blind spot: an essay on the novel 809.3 C
- A history of American Civil War literature (Coleman Hutchison, ed.) 820.9 H
- Kahn, Andrew - A history of Russian literature 891.7 K
- Robertson, Michael - The last utopians: four late nineteenth-century visionaries and their legacy 809.9 R
- Sollors, Werner - Challenges of diversity: essays on America 820.9 S
- Vallejo, César - Scales (1923; stories, with archival documentation related to Vallejo's incarceration in Trujillo Central Jail) 820.8 V
FICTION
- Giono, Jean - Hill (New York Review Books) F G
- Mandani'pur, Shahriyar - Moon brow (Iran-Iraq War; translated from the Persian) F M
- Savinio, Alberto - Signor Dido: stories (translated from the Italian by Richard Pevear) F S
- Schwob, Marcel, - The Children's crusade (1896; translated from the French; foreword by Jorge Luis Borges) F S
- Solstad, Dag, - T. Singer (translated from the Norwegian by Tina Nunnally) F S
POETRY
- Epstein, Andrew - Attention equals life: the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture 821 E
- Irwin, John T. - The poetry of Weldon Kees: vanishing as presence 821.09 K
- Kuebrich, David, - Minor prophecy: Walt Whitman's new American religion 821.09 K
- Logan, William - Dickinson's nerves, Frost's woods: poetry in the shadow of the past 821.09 L
MYTH & LEGEND
- Arnold, Martin - The dragon: fear and power 398 A
- Magical folk: British and Irish fairies: 500 AD to the present (Simon Young and Ceri Houlbrook, eds.) 398 M
- Matyszak, Philip - The Greek and Roman myths: a guide to the classical stories 292 M
ART
- Divine bodies: sacred imagery in Asian art (Qamar Adamjee, Jeffrey Durham, and Karin G. Oen, eds.) 708 D
- D'Souza, Aruna - Whitewalling: art, race & protest in 3 acts 704 D
- Janssen, Hans - The story of De Stijl: Mondrian to Van Doesburg 709.492 J
- Langmuir, Erika - Still life: a closer look (other volumes in the Closer Look series available) 758 L
DESIGN & DECORATIVE ARTS
- Gillow, John - African textiles: colour and creativity across a continent 746 G
- Lange, Alexandra - The design of childhood: how the material world shapes independent kids 711 L
- Mumford, Eric Paul - Designing the modern city: urbanism since 1850 711 M
- Suleman, Fahmida - Textiles of the Middle East and Central Asia: the fabric of life 746 S
- Watt, Judith - Vogue on: Elsa Schiaparelli (other volumes in the Vogue On series are available) 746.92 W
PERFORMING ARTS
- Bullock, Philip Ross - Pyotr Tchaikovsky 780.92 T
- McBride, Joseph - How did Lubitsch do it? 791.4 M
- Thomas, Richard F. - Why Bob Dylan matters 784.6 T
FOOD
- Adler, Tamar - Something old, something new: classic recipes revised 641.5 A
- Baxter, John - Eating eternity: food, art and literature in France 641 B
- Henry, Diana - How to eat a peach: menus, stories, and places 641.5 H
PHILOSOPHY
- Cohen, Ted - Serious larks: the philosophy of Ted Cohen 191 C
- Farnsworth, Ward - The practicing stoic 188 F
- Geuss, Raymond - Changing the subject: philosophy from Socrates to Adorno 100 G
- Rovelli, Carlo - The order of time 115 R
TRAVEL
- Gendun Chopel - Grains of gold: tales of a cosmopolitan traveler (translated from the Tibetan) 951.5 D
- Dippel, John Van Houten - To the ends of the earth: the truth behind the glory of Polar exploration 910.9 D
- Rosenbloom, Stephanie - Alone time: four seasons, four cities, and the pleasures of solitude 910.4 R
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Alinejad, Masih - The wind in my hair: my fight for freedom in modern Iran 955 A
- Dam, Nikolaos van - Destroying a nation: the civil war in Syria 956.9 D
- Harris, William W. - Quicksilver war: Syria, Iraq and the spiral of conflict 956 H
RUSSIA & EASTERN EUROPE
- McFaul, Michael - From Cold War to hot peace: an American ambassador in Putin's Russia 327.73 M
- Szablowski, Witold - Dancing bears: true stories of people nostalgic for life under tyranny (translated from the Polish) 947 S
- Toal, Gerard - Near abroad: Putin, the West and the contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus 947.086 T
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Bremmer, Ian - Us vs. them: the failure of globalism 337 B
- Copson, Andrew - Secularism: politics, religion, and freedom 322.1 C
- Zito, Salena - The great revolt: inside the populist coalition reshaping American politics 324 Z
PROTEST & ACTIVISM
- Abidor, Mitchell - May made me: an oral history of the 1968 uprising in France 944.07 A
- Haas, Britt - Fighting authoritarianism: American youth activism in the 1930s 322 H
- Vinen, Richard - 1968: radical protest and its enemies 909.82 V
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Atkinson, Diane - Rise up, women!: the remarkable lives of the suffragettes 324.3 A
- Fonte, Moderata - The merits of women: wherein is revealed their nobility and their superiority to men (literary dialogue written in the 1590s) 305.4 F
- Jack, Zachary Michael - March of the suffragettes: Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the march for voting rights 324.3 J
- Leader, Shelah Gilbert - American women on the move: the inside story of the National Women's Conference, 1977 305.4 L
BIOGRAPHY
- Aida Edemariam - The wife's tale: a personal history (Ethiopia) 963 A
- Biggers, Jeff - The trials of a scold: the incredible true story of writer Anne Royall 92 R8889 B
- Paquet, Philippe - Simon Leys: navigator between worlds 92 L6850 P
- Stadtmiller, Mandy - Unwifeable: a memoir 92 S7778 S
- Strauss-Schom, Alan - The shadow emperor: a biography of Napoléon III 92 N217 S
FAMILY
- O'Connell, Meaghan - And now we have everything: on motherhood before I was ready 306.8 O
- Petrowskaja, Katja - Maybe Esther: a family story 830 P
- Reznikoff, Charles - Family chronicle 820.8 R
HISTORY
- Benedictow, Ole Jørgen - The Black Death, 1346-1353: the complete history 940.1 B
- Christian, David - Origin story: a big history of everything 909 C
- DeFelice, Jim - West like lightning: the brief, legendary ride of the Pony Express 383 D
- Hopkins, A. G. - American empire: a global history 973 H
- Jarausch, Konrad Hugo - Broken lives: how ordinary Germans experienced the twentieth century 943 J
- Rappaport, Helen - The race to save the Romanovs: the truth behind the secret plans to rescue the Russian imperial family 947.08 R
- Roberts, Charlotte - Edward Gibbon and the shape of history 937.06 R
- Sedgwick, John - Blood moon: an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation 970.3 S
- Sheffer, Edith - Asperger's children: the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna 618.9 S
ANTIQUITY
- Diogenes Laertius - Lives of the eminent philosophers 180 D
- Matyszak, Philip - The Greeks: lost civilizations 938 M
- Vout, Caroline - Classical art: a life history from antiquity to the present 709.3 V
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WAR
- Crane, Conrad C. - American airpower strategy in World War II: bombs, cities, civilians, and oil 940.544 C
- Marten, James Alan - The children's Civil War 973.3 M
- Pavlychenko, Lyudmila - Lady Death: the memoirs of Stalin's sniper (translated from the Russian) 940.548 P
- Vincent, Lynn - Indianapolis: the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man 940.545 V
RELIGION
- Jones, Dan - The Templars: the rise and spectacular fall of God's holy warriors 271 J
- Polk, William R. - Crusade and jihad: the thousand-year war between the Muslim world and the global north 940.1 P
- Raboteau, Albert J. - American prophets: seven religious radicals and their struggle for social and political justice 261.8 R
SCIENCE
- Drori, Jonathan - Around the world in 80 trees, 582 D
- Miller, Laura - Reading popular Newtonianism: print, the Principia, and the dissemination of Newtonian science (featuring NYSL Special Collections & circulation records) 531 M
- Reich, David - Who we are and how we got here: ancient DNA and the new science of the human past 575.1 R
AUDIO BOOKS
- Didion, Joan - The white album Lobby Audio-CD 824 D
- Eliot, T. S. - The poems of T.S. Eliot (Read by Jeremy Irons) Lobby Audio-CD 821 E
- Ng, Celeste - Little fires everywhere Lobby Audio-CD N
- Sontag, Susan - Against interpretation, and other essays Lobby Audio-CD 809 S