New Books - December 2016
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Abramovic, Marina - Walk through walls: a memoir (with James Kaplan)
- Baker, Kevin - America the ingenious: how a nation of dreamers, immigrants, and tinkerers changed the world
- Bennett, Alan - Keeping on keeping on
- Bergreen, Laurence - Casanova: the world of a seductive genius
- Brands, H. W. - The general vs. the president: MacArthur and Truman at the brink of nuclear war
- Carr, Nicholas G. - Utopia is creepy: and other provocations
- Cook, Blanche Wiesen - Eleanor Roosevelt
- Cutler, Robin R. - Such mad fun: ambition and glamour in Hollywood's golden age
- Davidson, Ian - The French Revolution: from enlightenment to tyranny
- Dickey, Colin - Ghostland: an American history in haunted places
- Evans, Richard J. - The pursuit of power: Europe 1815-1914
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh - Dashing for the post: the letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (selected and edited by Adam Sisman)
- Ferrante, Elena - Frantumaglia: a writer's journey (ebook available)
- Ferrante, Elena - The beach at night (illustrations by Mara Cerri)
- Foulkes, Julia L. - A place for us: "West Side story" and New York
- Friedländer, Saul - Where memory leads: my life
- Fussell, Betty Harper - Eat, live, love, die: selected essays (introduction by Alice Waters)
- Gelb, Arthur & Barbara Gelb - By women possessed: a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Gordon, Edmund - The invention of Angela Carter
- Hood, Clifton - In pursuit of privilege: a history of New York City's upper class & the making of a metropolis
- James, Henry - Travels with Henry James (foreword by Hendrik Hertzberg ; introduction by Michael Anesko)
- Le Guin, Ursula K. - Words are my matter: writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week
- Lindgren, Astrid - War diaries, 1939-1945 (translated from the Swedish)
- Matzen, Robert D. - Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the fight for Europe
- Morrison, Simon Alexander - Bolshoi confidential: secrets of the Russian ballet from the rule of the tsars to today
- Moyle, Franny - Turner: the extraordinary life and momentous times of J.M.W. Turner
- O'Reilly, Bill & Martin Dugard - Killing the rising sun: how America vanquished World War II Japan
- Ohler, Norman - Blitzed: drugs in Nazi Germany (translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside)
- Oshinsky, David M. - Bellevue: three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital
- Quinn, Susan - Eleanor and Hick: the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Sager, Carole Bayer - They're playing our song: a memoir
- Salle, David - How to see: looking, talking, and thinking about art
- Santlofer, Joy - Food city: four centuries of food-making in New York
- Sellers, Robert - Peter O'Toole: the definitive biography
- Settis, Salvatore - If Venice dies/ Salvatore Settis (translated from the Italian by André Naffis-Sahely)
- Simpson, J. A. - The word detective: searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English dictionary: a memoir
- The 60s: the story of a decade (The New Yorker; edited by Henry Finder; introduction by David Remnick)
- Smith, Douglas - Rasputin: faith, power, and the twilight of the Romanovs
- Stourton, James - Kenneth Clark: life, art and Civilisation
- Thomson, David - Television: a biography
- Tower, Roni Beth - Miracle at midlife: a transatlantic romance: a memoir
- Vargas, Elizabeth - Between breaths: a memoir of panic and addiction
- Wilson, Laurie - Louise Nevelson: light and shadow
- Witt, Emily - Future sex
- Younge, Gary - Another day in the death of America: a chronicle of ten short lives
- Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb - Moses: a human life
FICTION
- Angell, Caroline - All the time in the world
- Archer, Jeffrey - This was a man: the final volume of the Clifton Chronicles
- Bennett, Brit - The mothers
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - The terranauts
- Bradbury, Megan - Everyone is watching
- Coelho, Paulo - The spy (translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry)
- Colin, Beatrice - To capture what we cannot keep
- Cussler, Clive - Odessa sea
- Dermansky, Marcy - The red car
- Di Benedetto, Antonio - Zama (translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen)
- Günday, Hakan - More (translated from the Turkish by Zeynep Beler)
- Hoffman, Alice - Faithful
- Ide, Joe - IQ/ Joe Ide.
- Jin, Ha - The boat rocker
- Keneally, Thomas - Napoleon's last island
- Lamb, Wally - I'll take you there: a novel
- Murphy, Timothy - Christodora
- Oz, Amos - Judas (translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange)
- Savill, David - They are trying to break your heart
- Smith, Ali - Autumn
- Smith, Zadie. - Swing time (ebook available)
MYSTERIES
- Baldacci, David - No man's land
- Barclay, Linwood - The twenty-three: a Promise Falls novel
- Beaufort, Simon - The killing ship
- Chazin, Suzanne - No witness but the moon
- Child, Lee - Night school: a Jack Reacher novel
- Clark, Marcia - Moral defense: a Samantha Brinkman legal thriller
- Clark, Mary Higgins & Alafair Burke - The Sleeping Beauty killer
- Clarkson, John - Bronx requiem
- Collins, Max Allan - Road to perdition: a novel (based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and illustrated by Richard Piers Rayner)
- Connelly, Michael - The wrong side of goodbye
- Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Chaos: a Scarpetta novel
- Dickinson, David - Death comes to the Ballets russes*
- Eisler, Barry - Livia Lone
- Evanovich, Janet - Turbo twenty-three: a Stephanie Plum novel
- Finch, Charles - The inheritance*
- Flynn, Vince - Order to kill: a Mitch Rapp novel
- French, Nicci - Friday on my mind*
- Higashino, Keigo - Under the midnight sun (translated by Alexander O. Smith with Joseph Reeder)
- James, P. D. - The mistletoe murder: and other stories
- Kelly, Jim - Death ship*
- Maitland, Barry - Ash Island: a Belltree mystery
- Mann, Jessica - The stroke of death*
- McCoy, Ken - Dead or alive*
- Mishani, Dror - The man who wanted to know everything (translated from Hebrew by Todd Hasak-Lowy)
- Perry, Anne - A Christmas message
- Ryan, Hank Phillippi - Say no more
- Rydahl, Thomas - The hermit (translated from the Danish by K.E. Semmel)
- Saunders, Kate - The secrets of Wishtide: a Laetitia Rodd mystery*
- Thomas, Will - Hell Bay: a Barker & Llewelyn novel*
- Yokoyama, Hideo - Six four (translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies)
SHORT STORIES
- In sunlight or in shadow: stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper (edited by Lawrence Block)
- Walser, Robert - Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories (translated from the German by Tom Whalen with Nicole Köngeter and Annette Wiesner)
POETRY
- Adnan, Etel - Night
- Ashbery, John - Commotion of the birds: new poems
- Hammond, Mary Stewart - Entering history: poems
- Ishikawa, Takuboku - On knowing oneself too well: selected poems (translated from the Japanese by Tamae K. Prindle)
- Levine, Philip - The last shift (edited by Edward Hirsch)
- Pinsky, Robert - At the foundling hospital
- Plimpton, Sarah - The noise of the rain: collected poems
- Wiman, Christian - Hammer is the prayer: selected poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Garner, Helen - Everywhere I look
- Gilliver, Peter - The making of the Oxford English dictionary
- Hamid, Shadi - Islamic exceptionalism: how the struggle over Islam is reshaping the world
- Makers of Jewish modernity: thinkers, artists, leaders, and the world they made (Jacques Picard, et al., eds.)
- Milanovic, Branko - Global inequality: a new approach for the age of globalization
- Myers, Marc - Anatomy of a song: the oral history of 45 iconic hits that changed rock, R&B and pop
- Robinson, Chase F. - Islamic civilization in thirty lives: the first 1,000 years
- Wilcox, Christie, - Venomous: how earth's deadliest creatures mastered biochemistry
- Underground America: narratives of undocumented lives (Peter Orner, ed.)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Collini, Stefan - Common writing: essays on literary culture and public debate 820.9 C
- A history of Korean literature (Peter H. Lee, ed.) 895 H
- Horror: a literary history (Xavier Aldana Reyes, ed.) 809.3 H
- King, Brendan - Beryl Bainbridge: love by all sorts of means: a biography 92 B1623 K
- Levy, Michael - Children's fantasy literature: an introduction 809 L
- Literary wonderlands: a journey through the greatest fictional worlds ever created (Laura Miller, ed.) 809.3 L
- Murray, Albert - Collected essays & memoirs (Library of America) 824 M
- Stach, Reiner - Kafka, the early years 92 K114 S
- Wisniewski, Mary - Algren: a life 92 A3965 W
FICTION
- Bernhard, Thomas - Walking: a novella (translated from the German) F B
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de - Exemplary novels (newly translated by Edith Grossman) F C
- Chiang, Ted - Stories of your life and others F C
- Kessel, Joseph - The crew (translated from the French; first published in 1923) F K
- Stamm, Peter - Agnes (translated from the German) F S
- Szabó, Magda - Iza's ballad (translation from the Hungarian) F S
WRITING
- Conroy, Pat - A lowcountry heart: reflections on a writing life 828.08 C
- Kavenna, Joanna. - Alchemy: writers on truth, lies and fiction 808.3 K
POETRY
- Bloch, R. Howard - One toss of the dice: the incredible story of how a poem made us modern (Mallarmé's "Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard") 841.09 B
- Merwin, W. S. - Garden time 821 M
- The poorhouse fugitives: self-taught poets and poetry in Victorian Britain (Brian Maidment, ed.) 821.08 P
ART
- Ackerman, James S. - Origins, invention, revision: studying the history of art and architecture 701 A
- Art and its histories: a reader (Steve Edwards, ed.) 709 A
- George, Herbert - The elements of sculpture: a viewer's guide 730 G
- Hockney, David - A history of pictures: from the cave to the computer screen 709 H
- A pictorial encyclopedia of decorative ironwork: twelfth through eighteenth centuries (Otto Hoever, ed.) 739 E
- Rewald, Sabine - Max Beckmann in New York 759.3 B
- Staiti, Paul J. - Of arms and artists: the American Revolution through painters' eyes 759.1 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Bloom, Ken - Show and tell: the new book of Broadway anecdotes 792.0973 B
- Emerick, Geoff - Here, there, and everywhere: my life recording the music of the Beatles 784.6 E
- Haskell, Molly - From reverence to rape: the treatment of women in the movies (new, 3rd ed.) 791.4 H
- Mead, Corey - Angelic music: the story of Benjamin Franklin's glass armonica 781.91 M
- Sikov, Ed - Screwball: Hollywood's madcap romantic comedies 791.4 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Bair, Deirdre - Al Capone: his life, legacy, and legend 92 C2464 B
- Brierley, Saroo - A long way home 92 B8538 B
- Dinshaw, Minoo. - Outlandish knight: the Byzantine life of Steven Runciman 92 R939 D
- Fried, Johannes - Charlemagne 92 C474 F
- Girard, Philippe R. - Toussaint Louverture: a revolutionary life 92 T7345 G
- Lanham, J. Drew - The home place: memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature 92 L287 L
- Mallaby, Sebastian - The man who knew: the life and times of Alan Greenspan 92 G8157 M
- Peck, Robert McCracken - The natural history of Edward Lear (1812-1888) 92 L438 P
- Segrè, Gino - The Pope of physics: Enrico Fermi and the birth of the Atomic Age 92 F3594 S
- Skal, David J. - Something in the blood: the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula 92 S874 S
- Smith, Kathryn - The gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the untold story of the partnership that defined a presidency 92 L521S
HISTORY
- Cesarani, David - Final solution: the fate of the Jews, 1933-1949 940.5318 C
- Egerton, Douglas R. - Thunder at the gates: the Black Civil War regiments that redeemed America 973.74 E
- Klarman, Michael J. - The framers' coup: the making of the United States Constitution 342.73 K
- Lyman, Robert - Among the headhunters: an extraordinary World War II story of survival in the Burmese jungle 940.5359 L
- Oneill, Therese - Unmentionable: the Victorian lady's guide to sex, marriage, and manners 305.4 O
- Rea, Christopher G. - The age of irreverence: a new history of laughter in China 895.1 R
- Royle, Trevor - Culloden: Scotland's last battle and the forging of the British Empire 941 R
- Shames, Stephen - Power to the People: the world of the Black Panthers 322.4 S OVERSIZE
- Summers, Anthony - A matter of honor: Pearl Harbor : betrayal, blame, and a family's quest for justice 940.542 S
- Von Tunzelmann, Alex - Blood and sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's campaign for peace 973.92 V
CLASSICS
- Achilles Tatius - Leucippe and Clitophon 888.9 A
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. - Selected letters 876.1 C
- Theocritus - Idylls 884.6 T
- Xenophon - The expedition of Cyrus 888.3 X
ANTIQUITY
- Carpenter, Thomas H. - Art and myth in ancient Greece: a handbook 709.38 C
- Scott, Michael - Ancient worlds: a global history of antiquity 930 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Judis, John B. - The populist explosion: how the great recession transformed American and European politics 320.9 J
- Manent, Pierre - Seeing things politically: interviews with Benedicte Delorme-Montini 320.1 M
CHINA
- A critical introduction to Mao (Timothy Cheek, ed.) 951 C
- The Oxford illustrated history of modern China (Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, ed.) 951 O
- Rhea, Christopher - The age of irreverence: a new history of laughter in China 895.1R
- Savitt, Scott - Crashing the party: an American reporter in China 951 S
ECONOMICS
- Amin, Samir - Russia and the long transition from capitalism to socialism 330.947 A
- Mokyr, Joel - A culture of growth: the origins of the modern economy 330 M
EDUCATION
- Lewis, Pamela - Teaching while black: a new voice on race and education in New York City 371.97 L
- Malkiel, Nancy Weiss - Keep the damned women out: the struggle for coeducation 376 M
DEBATE
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius - How to win an argument: an ancient guide to the art of persuasion 808 C
- Fish, Stanley Eugene - Winning arguments: what works and doesn't work in politics, the bedroom, the courtroom, and the classroom 808.5 F
NATIVE AMERICANS
- Cozzens, Peter - The earth is weeping: the epic story of the Indian wars for the American West 978 C
- Jackson, Joe - Black Elk: the life of an American visionary 970.2 J
SCIENCE
- Marren, Peter - Rainbow dust: three centuries of butterfly delight : with a new preface 595.78 M
- Muller, R. - Now: the physics of time 530.1 M
- Rutherford, Adam - A brief history of everyone who ever lived: the stories in our genes 575.1 R
PSYCHOLOGY
- Clay, Catrine - Labyrinths: Emma Jung, her marriage to Carl, and the early years of psychoanalysis 920 J951 C
- Lyndsey, Anna. - Girl in the dark: a memoir 616.5 L
- Roudinesco, Elisabeth - Freud: in his time and ours 92 F889 R
PHILOSOPHY
- Kaag, John J. - American philosophy: a love story 191 K
- Levitin, Daniel J. - A field guide to lies: critical thinking in the information age 153 L
NEW YORK
- Clancy, Tara - The Clancys of Queens: a memoir 92 C587 C
- Goldin, Greg - Never built New York 720.973 G
- Gurock, Jeffrey S. - The Jews of Harlem: the rise, decline, and revival of a Jewish community 974.71 G
- Lawrence, Tim - Life and death on the New York dance floor, 1980-1983 792.7 L
AUDIO
- Christie, Agatha, - The murder of Roger Ackroyd Lobby Audio-CD C
- James, Marlon, - A brief history of seven killings Lobby Audio-CD J
- Tyler, Anne. - Vinegar girl Lobby Audio-CD T