New Books - December 2015
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Angell, Roger - This old man: all in pieces
- Beard, Mary - SPQR: a history of ancient Rome (e-book available)
- Brownstein, Carrie - Hunger makes me a modern girl: a memoir
- Burke, Jason - The new threat: the past, present, and future of Islamic militancy
- Calhoun, Ada - St. Marks is dead: the many lives of America's hippest street
- Capote, Truman - Brooklyn: a personal memoir (with the lost photographs of David Attie)
- Carmon, Irin - Notorious RBG: the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- De Waal, Edmund - The white road: journey into an obsession
- Drake, David - Paris at war, 1939-1944
- Eating words: a Norton anthology of food writing (edited by Sandra M. Gilbert & Roger J. Porter; with a foreword by Ruth Reichl)
- Ephron, Dan - Killing a king: the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the remaking of Israel
- Fernández-Armesto, Felipe - A foot in the river: why our lives change—and the limits of evolution
- The 50s: the story of a decade (The New Yorker; edited by Henry Finder; introduction by David Remnick)
- Fleming, Ian - The man with the golden typewriter: Ian Fleming's James Bond letters
- Fraser, Flora - The Washingtons: George and Martha, "join'd by friendship, crown'd by love"
- The good book: writers reflect on favorite Bible passages (edited by Andrew Blauner)
- Guralnick, Peter - Sam Phillips: the man who invented rock 'n' roll
- Harding, Thomas - The house by the lake: a story of Germany
- Harman, Claire - Charlotte Brontë: a life
- Heyrman, Christine Leigh - American apostles: when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- Jaher, David - The witch of Lime Street: séance, seduction, and Houdini in the spirit world
- Kaplan, James - Sinatra: the chairman
- Karan, Donna - My journey Donna Karan
- Kay, J. A. - Other people's money: the real business of finance
- Kershaw, Ian - To hell and back: Europe, 1914-1949
- Koeppel, Gerard T. - City on a grid: how New York became New York
- Lane Fox, Robin - Augustine: conversions to confessions
- Lawson, Jenny - Furiously happy: a funny book about horrible things
- Lawson, Russell M. - The sea mark: Captain John Smith's voyage to New England
- Meacham, Jon - Destiny and power: the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- More letters of note (compiled by Shaun Usher)
- Myers, Steven Lee - The new tsar: the rise and reign of Vladimir Putin
- Nesteroff, Kliph - The comedians: drunks, thieves, scoundrels, and the history of American comedy
- Noonan, Peggy - The time of our lives: collected writings
- Nutt, Amy Ellis - Becoming Nicole: the transformation of an American family
- Robinson, Marilynne - The givenness of things: essays
- Sante, Luc - The other Paris (e-book available)
- Sattouf, Riad - The Arab of the future: a graphic memoir: a childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984)
- Schiff, Stacy - The witches: Salem, 1692 (e-book available)
- Sisman, Adam - John le Carré: the biography (e-book available)
- Spender, Matthew - A house in St John's Wood: in search of my parents
- Steinem, Gloria - My life on the road (e-book available)
- Stiles, T. J. - Custer's trials: a life on the frontier of a new America
- Waller, Douglas C. - Disciples: the World War II missions of the CIA directors who fought for Wild Bill Donovan: Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, William Casey
- Weis, René - The real Traviata: the song of Marie Duplessis
- Winchester, Simon - Pacific: silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers
FICTION
- Alarcón, Daniel - City of clowns
- Alcott, Kathleen - Infinite home
- Allende, Isabel - The Japanese lover (translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson)
- Barry, Kevin - Beatlebone
- Doten, Mark - The infernal
- Eco, Umberto - Numero zero (translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon)
- Flynn, Gillian - The Grownup
- Gaitskill, Mary - The mare
- Hadley, Tessa - The past
- Hijuelos, Oscar - Twain & Stanley enter paradise
- Irving, John - Avenue of mysteries
- Kornbluth, Jesse - Married sex: a love story
- McCarry, Charles - The mulberry bush
- McCrea, Gavin - Mrs. Engels
- Maguire, Gregory - After Alice
- Mitchell, David - Slade house
- Modiano, Patrick - After the circus (translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti)
- Moody, Rick - Hotels of North America
- O'Brien, Edna - The little red chairs
- Pamuk, Orhan - A strangeness in my mind: being the adventures and dreams of Mevlut Karatas, a seller of boza, and of his friends, and also a portrait of life in Istanbul between 1969 and 2012 from many different points of view (translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap) (e-book available)
- Peet, Mal - The Murdstone trilogy
- Piazza, Tom - A free state
- Roberts, Gregory David - The mountain shadow
- Rosenberg, Alexander - The girl from Krakow
- Rothschild, Hannah - The improbability of love (e-book available)
- Shapiro, Barbara A. - The muralist
- Thomson, Rupert - Katherine Carlyle
- Williams, Beatriz - Along the infinite sea
MYSTERIES
- Baldacci, David - The guilty
- Bowen, Rhys - Away in a manger *
- Clark, Mary Higgins - All dressed in white
- Cleeves, Ann - Harbour Street *
- Cleeves, Ann - The moth catcher *
- Connelly, Michael - The crossing (e-book available)
- Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Depraved heart
- Crais, Robert - The promise (e-book available)
- Crofts, Freeman Wills - The Hog's Back mystery * (British Library Crime Classics; with an introduction by Martin Edwards)
- De Giovanni, Maurizio - The bottom of your heart (translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar)
- Downing, David - One man's flag
- Dunn, Matthew - The spy house *
- Eccles, Marjorie - Heirs and assigns *
- Edwards, Martin - The Dungeon House *
- Estleman, Loren D. - The sundown speech: an Amos Walker novel
- Evanovich, Janet - Tricky twenty-two: a Stephanie Plum novel
- Finch, Charles - Home by nightfall *
- Freedland, Jonathan - The 3rd woman *
- Genelin, Michael - For the dignified dead
- George, Elizabeth - A banquet of consequences
- Gerritsen, Tess - Playing with fire
- Hammer, Lotte - The girl in the ice (translated from the Danish by Paul Norlen)
- Kellerman, Faye - The theory of death: a Decker/Lazarus novel
- Kellerman, Jonathan - The golem of Paris
- Kelly, Jim - Death on demand
- Lemaître, Pierre - The great swindle Pierre Lemaitre (translated from the French by Frank Wynne)
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The woman who walked in sunshine
- MacNeal, Susan Elia - Mrs. Roosevelt's confidante: a Maggie Hope mystery
- Maitland, Barry - Crucifixion Creek: a Belltree mystery
- Millar, Louise - City of strangers
- Minier, Bernard - The circle Bernard Minier (translated by Alison Anderson)
- Patterson, James - Alert
- Perry, Anne - A Christmas escape
- Preston, Douglas J. - Crimson shore (& Lincoln Child)
- Ragen, Naomi - The Devil in Jerusalem
- Rendell, Ruth - Dark corners * (e-book available)
- Scottoline, Lisa - Corrupted
- Silent nights: Christmas mysteries (British Library Crime Classics) *
- Smith, Carrie - Silent city: a Claire Codella mystery
- Stanley, Michael - A death in the family: a Detective Kubu mystery
- Welsh, Louise - Death is a welcome guest *
* Indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Amichai, Yehuda - The poetry of Yehuda Amichai (translated from the Hebrew; edited by Robert Alter)
- Benjamin, Walter - Sonnets (translated and with commentary by Carl Skoggard)
- Herrera, Juan Felipe - Notes on the assemblage
- Kirsch, Adam - Emblems of the passing world: poems after photographs by August Sander
- Myles, Eileen - I must be living twice: new and selected poems, 1975-2014
- Reznikoff, Charles - Testimony: the United States (1885-1915): recitative
- Windharp : poems of Ireland since 1916 (edited by Niall MacMonagle)
SHORT STORIES
- Capote, Truman - The early stories of Truman Capote
- Cunningham, Michael - A wild swan: and other tales
- Friedman, Bruce Jay - The peace process: a novella and stories
- Gass, William H. - Eyes: novellas and short stories
- Heker, Liliana - Please talk to me: selected stories (translated from the Spanish by Alberto Manguel and Miranda France)
- King, Stephen - The bazaar of bad dreams
- Smith, Ali - Public library and other stories
- Tallent, Elizabeth - Mendocino fire
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- An-Ski, S. - Pioneers: a tale of Russian-Jewish life in the 1880s
- Baldwin, Melinda Clare - Making Nature: the history of a scientific journal
- Hervieux, Linda - Forgotten: the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- López-Alt, J. Kenji - The food lab: better home cooking through science
- Savage, Charlie- Power wars: inside Obama's post-911 presidency
- Table talk: from the threepenny review
- Tetlock, Philip E. - Superforecasting: the art and science of prediction
- Tichi, Cecelia - Jack London: a writer's fight for a better America
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Calasso, Roberto - The art of the publisher (translated from the Italian) 655.5 C
- The Columbia Anthology of Japanese essays: zuihitsu from the 10th to the 21st century (Steven D. Carter, ed. & translator)
- Fish, Stanley Eugene - Think again: contrarian reflections on life, culture, politics, religion, law, and education 824 F
- The greatest books you'll never read: unpublished masterpieces by the world's greatest writers (Bernard Richards, ed.) 028 G
- Kraus, Karl - Last days of mankind (first complete translation by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms) 832 K
- Levi, Primo - The complete works of Primo Levi (3 volumes) 853 L
- Ross, Lillian - Reporting always: writings from The New Yorker 824 R
FICTION
- Babitz, Eve - Eve's Hollywood (New York Review Books reissue) F B
- The big book of Sherlock Holmes stories (Otto Penzler, ed.) F B
- Clarke, Edward Ashley Walrond - Jaspar Tristram (orig. published 1899) F C
- Modiano, Patrick - Paris nocturne (translated from the French) F M
- Smith, Clark Ashton - The Dark Eidolon and other fantasies (Penguin Classics) 820.81 S
POETRY
- Celan, Paul - Breathturn into timestead: the collected later poetry: a bilingual edition (translated from the German) 831 C
- Freydberg, Margaret Howe - Poems from the pond: 107 years of words and wisdom 821 F
- Wootten, William - The Alvarez generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter 821.09 W
ART
- Anfam, David - Abstract expressionism 709.04 A
- Grasselli, Margaret Moran - Colorful impressions: the printmaking revolution in 18th century France 769 G
- Ronald, Susan - Hitler's art thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the looting of Europe's treasures 940.5138 R
- Trilling, James - The language of ornament 745 T
- Walser, Robert - Looking at pictures (translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky, Lydia Davis, and Christopher Middleton) 709 W
LANDSCAPE
- Olmsted, Frederick Law - Writings on landscape, culture, and society 712 O
- Stilgoe, John R. - What is landscape? 910.9 S
ANCIENT CULTURES & CIVILIZATIONS
- Homer - The Iliad (translated by Peter Green) 883.1 H
- Potter, D. S. - Theodora: actress, empress, saint 92 T388 P
- Whitmarsh, Tim - Battling the gods: atheism in the ancient world 211 W
PERFORMING ARTS
- Demastes, William W. - The Cambridge introduction to Tom Stoppard 822.09 S
- Karlinsky, Simon - Russian drama from its beginnings to the age of Pushkin 891.72 K
- The other classical musics: fifteen great traditions (Michael Church, ed.) 780.9 O
- Polenberg, Richard - Hear my sad story: the true tales that inspired "Stagolee," "John Henry," and other traditional American folk songs 784.4 P
- Pugh, Megan - America dancing: from the cakewalk to the moonwalk 793.3 P
- Thomson, David - How to watch a movie 791.4 T
PHILOSOPHY
- Berlin, Isaiah - Affirming: Letters 1975-1997 92 B5152 B
- Holub, Robert C. - Nietzsche's Jewish problem: between anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism 193 H
BIOGRAPHY
- Ackroyd, Peter - Wilkie Collins 92 C7136 A
- Hare, David - The blue touch paper: a memoir 92 H2742 H
- Hilmes, Oliver - Malevolent muse: the life of Alma Mahler 92 M2143 H
- Jenkins, Carol - Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the making of a Black American millionaire 92 G253 J
- Markus, Julia - Lady Byron & her daughters 92 B9961 M
- Oppenheimer, Margaret A. - The remarkable rise of Eliza Jumel: a story of marriage and money in the early republic 92 J948 O
- Taylor, Benjamin - Proust: the search 92 P9686 T
- Utley, Robert M. - Wanted: the outlaw lives of Billy the Kid & Ned Kelly 920 U91 W
SOCIOLOGY
- Davies, William - The happiness industry: how the government and big business sold us well-being 301.15 D
- Moran, Rachel - Paid for: my journey through prostitution 306.7 M
- Sussman, Robert W. - The myth of race: the troubling persistence of an unscientific idea 305.8 S
HISTORY
- Corton, Christine L. - London fog: the biography 942.1 C
- Ferrone, Vincenzo - The enlightenment: history of an idea 907 F
- Lipman, Andrew - The Saltwater frontier: Indians and the contest for the American coast 973.2 L
- Rojas, Rafael - Fighting over Fidel: the New York intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution 972.91 R
- Sandbrook, Dominic - The great British dream factory: the strange history of our national imagination 942.082 S
- Sedgwick, John - War of two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the duel that stunned the nation 973.4 S
- Service, Robert - The end of the Cold War, 1985-1991 909.82 S
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Morell, Michael J. - The great war of our time: the CIA's fight against terrorism--from al Qa'ida to ISIS 327.12 M
- Talbot, David - The devil's chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government 327.12 T
WAR
- Gildea, Robert - Fighters in the shadows: a new history of the French resistance 940.5344 G
- Horne, Alistair - Hubris: the tragedy of war in the twentieth century 355 H
- Kilmeade, Brian - Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli pirates: the forgotten war that changed American history 973.4 K
- Razoux, Pierre - The Iran-Iraq War 955 R
- Taylor, Fred - Coventry: November 14, 1940 940.542 T
- Torrey, Glenn E. - The Romanian battlefront in World War I 940.53496 T
AFGHANISTAN
- Crews, Robert D. - Afghan modern: the history of a global nation 958 C
- Lamb, Christina - Farewell Kabul: from Afghanistan to a more dangerous world 958 L
- Simpson, St John - Afghanistan: a cultural history 958 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Bilder, Mary Sarah - Madison's hand: revising the Constitutional Convention 342.73 B
- Schudson, Michael - The rise of the right to know: politics and the culture of transparency, 1945-1975 342.73 S
- Urofsky, Melvin I. - Dissent and the Supreme Court: its role in the Court's history and the nation's constitutional dialogue , 342.73 U
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Akerlof, George A. - Phishing for phools: the economics of manipulation and deception 330.1 A
- Blair, Alasdair - The European Union: a beginner's guide 337 B
- Ebenstein, Alan O. - Chicagonomics: the evolution of Chicago free market economics 330.1 E
RELIGION
- Riebling, Mark - Church of spies: the Pope's secret war against Hitler 282 R
- Sacks, Jonathan - Not in God's name: confronting religious violence 201 S
NEW YORK
- Affordable housing in New York: the people, places, and policies that transformed a city (Nicholas Dagen Bloom & Matthew Gordon Lasner, eds.) 363.5 A
- Silverman, Stephen M. - The Catskills: its history and how it changed America 974.73 S
- Williams, Terry M. - The con men: hustling in New York City 364.1 W
- Yochelson, Bonnie - Jacob A. Riis: revealing New York's other half a complete catalogue of his photographs 779 R
SCIENCE
- Feynman, Richard P. - The quotable Feynman 808.8 F
- Newton's apple and other myths about science (Ronald L. Numbers & Kostas Kampourakis, eds.) 509 N
- Randall, Lisa - Dark matter and the dinosaurs: the astounding interconnectedness of the universe 523.1 R
- Redniss, Lauren - Thunder & lightning: weather past, present, future 551.6 R OVERSIZE
AUDIO
- Davis, William C. - Crucible of command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--the war they fought, the peace they forged Audio-CD 973.7 D
- Faulkner, William - Light in August Audio-CD F
- Maugham, W. Somerset - The razor's edge Audio-CD M
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