New Books - December 2019
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Acemoglu, Daron - The narrow corridor: states, societies, and the fate of liberty
- Babitz, Eve - I used to be charming: the rest of Eve Babitz (ebook available)
- Bair, Deirdre - Parisian lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me: a memoir (ebook available)
- Bell, Richard - Stolen: five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home
- Bloom, Harold - The American canon: literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon
- Brands, H. W - Dreams of El Dorado: a history of the American West
- Brokaw, Tom - The fall of Richard Nixon: a reporter remembers Watergate
- Cahalan, Susannah - The great pretender: the undercover mission that changed our understanding of madness
- Carter, Ash - Life isn't everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends
- Chang, Jung - Big sister, little sister, red sister: three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
- Crawford, Richard - Summertime: George Gershwin's life in music
- Daum, Meghan - The problem with everything: my journey through the new culture wars
- Davis, Lydia - Essays one (ebook available)
- Emmerson, Charles - Crucible: the long end of the Great War and the birth of a New World, 1917-1924
- Feaver, William - The lives of Lucian Freud: the restless years, 1922-1968
- Ferrante, Elena - Incidental inventions (translated from the Italian) (ebook available)
- Follett, Ken - Notre-Dame: a short history of the meaning of cathedrals
- Frankel, Adam P - The survivors: a story of war, inheritance, and healing
- George-Warren, Holly - Janis: her life and music
- Glenconner, Anne - Lady in waiting: my extraordinary life in the shadow of the crown
- Greenidge, Kerri - Black radical: the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Haley, Nikki - With all due respect: defending America with grit and grace
- Hardman, John - Marie-Antoinette: the making of a French queen
- Jacobs, Alexandra - Still here: the madcap, nervy, singular life of Elaine Stritch
- John, Elton - Me
- Kaplan, James - Irving Berlin: New York genius
- Kinzer, Stephen - Poisoner in chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA search for mind control
- Lançon, Philippe - Disturbance
- Machado, Carmen Maria - In the dream house: a memoir (ebook available)
- Maiklem, Lara, - Mudlark: in search of London's past along the River Thames
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam - Ecstasy and terror: from the Greeks to Game of thrones (ebook available)
- Milov, Sarah - The cigarette: a political history
- Moltke, Helmuth James - Last letters: the prison correspondence, September 1944-January 1945
- Moore, Demi - Inside out: a memoir
- Moulton, Mo - The Mutual Admiration Society: how Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford circle remade the world for women
- Mueller, Tom - Crisis of conscience: whistleblowing in an age of fraud
- Mukasonga, Scholastique - The barefoot woman (translated from the French)
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich - Think, write, speak: uncollected essays, reviews, and letters to the editor
- Payne, Doris - Diamond Doris: the true story of the world's most notorious jewel thief
- The Peanuts papers: writers and cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the gang, and the meaning of life (Andrew Blauner, ed.)
- Pinckney, Darryl - Busted in New York: and other essays
- Posnanski, Joe - The life and afterlife of Harry Houdini
- Rosen, Jeffrey - Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Sciolino, Elaine - The Seine: the river that made Paris
- Secrest, Meryle - The mysterious affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War conspiracy to shut down production of the world's first desktop computer
- Slate, Jenny - Little weirds
- Snodgrass, Guy M - Holding the line: inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis
- Taylor, D. J - On nineteen eighty-four: a biography
- Tharp, Twyla - Keep it moving: lessons for the rest of your life
- Travisano, Thomas J. - Love unknown: the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
- Tyson, Neil deGrasse - Letters from an astrophysicist
- Weller, Sheila - Carrie Fisher: a life on the edge
- Wheeler, Sara - Mud and stars: travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and other geniuses of the Golden Age
- Williams, Thomas Chatterton - Self-portrait in black and white: unlearning race
- Wylie, Christopher - Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the plot to break America
- Zelikow, Philip - To build a better world: choices to end the Cold War and create a global commonwealth
- Zevin, Alexander - Liberalism at large: the world according to the Economist
FICTION
- Antunes, António Lobo - Until stones become lighter than water (translated from the Portuguese)
- Clayton, Meg Waite - The last train to London: a novel
- Crummey, Michael - The innocents
- De Robertis, Carolina - Cantoras
- Eggers, Dave - The captain and the glory: an entertainment
- Ferencik, Erica - Into the jungle
- Folarin, Tope - A particular kind of Black man
- Gaitskill, Mary - This is pleasure
- Harris, Robert - The second sleep (ebook available)
- Hassib, Rajia - A pure heart
- Houellebecq, Michel - Serotonin (translated from the French)
- Jensen, Carsten - The first stone
- La Ville de Mirmont, Jean de - Sundays of Jean Dézert (translated from the French)
- Laskowski, Tara - One night gone: a novel
- Liksom, Rosa - The colonel's wife: a novel
- Lippman, Gary - Set the controls for the heart of Sharon Tate: a novel
- Matalon, Ronit - And the bride closed the door (translated from the Hebrew)
- Modiano, Patrick - Family record (translated from the French)
- Morgenstern, Erin - The starless sea
- Morris, Heather - Cilka's journey
- Nathan, Alix - The Warlow experiment: a novel
- Pavlova, Karolina - A double life (translated from the Russian)
- Porter, Regina - The travelers: a novel
- Pufahl, Shannon - On swift horses
- Roberts, Nora - The rise of magicks
- Sainz Borgo, Karina - It would be night in Caracas: a novel (translated from the Spanish)
- Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson - The revisioners: a novel
- Steinberg, Susan - Machine: a novel
- Wilson, Kevin - Nothing to see here (ebook available)
- Wurzbacher, Ashley - Happy like this
- See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section of the list.
MYSTERIES
- Atkins, Ace - Robert B. Parker's Angel eyes
- Baldacci, David - A minute to midnight
- Bardugo, Leigh - Ninth house
- Black, Saul - Anything for you
- Bradby, Tom - Secret service
- Brody, Frances - The body on the train: a Kate Shackleton mystery*
- Brown, Rita Mae - Scarlet fever: a novel
- Bruen, Ken - Galway girl
- Cayre, Hannelore - The godmother: a crime novel (translated from the French)
- Cha, Steph - Your house will pay: a novel
- Child, Lee - Blue moon: a Jack Reacher novel (ebook available)
- Clark, Mary Higgins - Kiss the girls and make them cry: a novel
- Early, Hank - Echoes of the fall
- Eskens, Allen - Nothing more dangerous: a novel
- Evanovich, Janet - Twisted twenty-six: a Stephanie Plum novel
- Grimes, Martha - The old success: a Richard Jury mystery *
- Hart, Frances Noyes - The Bellamy trial
- Jewell, Lisa - The family upstairs*
- Kanon, Joseph - The accomplice: a novel (ebook available)
- Khoury, Raymond - Empire of lies
- Laurie, Victoria - Coached to death
- Lehane, Cornelius - Murder off the page: a 42nd Street library mystery
- McIlvanney, Liam - The Quaker*
- Meyer, Nicholas - The adventure of the peculiar protocols: adapted from the journals of John H. Watson, M.D. *
- Munier, Paula - Blind search: a Mercy and Elvis mystery
- Penrose, Andrea - Murder at Kensington Palace*
- Perry, Anne - A Christmas gathering: a novel
- Redmond, Lissa Marie - A cold day in hell
- Smith, Martin Cruz - The Siberian dilemma (ebook available)
- Todd, Charles - A cruel deception*
- Truss, Lynne - The man that got away*
- Unger, Lisa - The stranger inside
- * indicates a British mystery
STORY COLLECTIONS
- Ambai - A kitchen in the corner of the house (translated from the Tamil)
- Onetti, Juan Carlos - A dream come true: the collected stories of Juan Carlos Onetti (translated from the Spanish)
- The Penguin book of migration literature: departures, arrivals, generations, returns (Dohra Ahmad, ed.; foreword by Edwidge Danticat)
- Ribeyro, Julio Ramón - The word of the speechless: selected stories of Julio Ramón Ribeyro (translated from the Spanish)
POETRY
- Betts, Reginald Dwayne - Felon: poems
- Derricotte, Toi - i: new and selected poems
- Firsts: 100 years of Yale younger poets (Carl Phillips, ed.)
- Gay, Ross - Catalog of unabashed gratitude
- Hahn, Kimiko - Brood
- Mattawa, Khaled - Mare nostrum
- The mind has cliffs of fall: poems at the extremes of feeling (Robert Pinsky, ed.)
- Muldoon, Paul - Frolic and detour
- Olds, Sharon - Arias
- Perdomo, Willie - The crazy bunch
- Phillips, Carl - Wild is the wind
- Ruefle, Mary - Dunce
- Wilner, Eleanor - Before our eyes: new and selected poems, 1975-2017
- Wright, Charles - Oblivion banjo
- Zapruder, Matthew - Father's day
- Zhadan, Serhii - What we live for, what we die for: selected poems (translated from the Ukrainian)
- See more recent poetry arrivals in the stacks section of the list.
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Bailey, Catherine - The lost boys: a family ripped apart by war
- McDowell, Marta - Emily Dickinson's gardening life: the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
- Newkirk, Pamela - Diversity, Inc.: the failed promise of a billion-dollar business
- Oreskes, Naomi - Why trust science?
- Santini, Daria - The Exiles: actors, artists and writers who fled the Nazis for London
- Schwartz, Daniel B. - Ghetto: the history of a word
- Sorkin, David Jan - Jewish emancipation: a history across five centuries
- Vogel, Steve - Betrayal in Berlin: the true story of the Cold War's most audacious espionage operation
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE, BELLES LETTRES
- Boes, Tobias - Thomas Mann's war: literature, politics, and the world republic of letters 833 M
- Carrère, Emmanuel - 97,196 words: essays 844 C
- Eco, Umberto - On the shoulders of giants 854 E
- King, Richard J - Ahab's rolling sea: a natural history of Moby-Dick 823 M
- Lawrence, D. H - Life with a capital L (essays selected by Geoff Dyer; U.S. title: Bad Side of Books) 824 L
- Morrison, Toni - Goodness and the literary imagination: Harvard Divinity School's 95th Ingersoll Lecture : with essays on Morrison's moral and religious vision 823 M
- O'Connor, Flannery - Good things out of Nazareth: the uncollected letters of Flannery O'Connor and friends 92 O1855 O
- Sutherland, John - The secret Trollope: Anthony Trollope uncovered 823 T
FICTION
- Andersen, H. C. - A story from the dunes: and other tales (translated from the Danish) F A
- Di Benedetto, Antonio - Nest in the bones: stories (anthology of acclaimed Argentine writer) F D
- Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit - Childhood / Dependency / Youth ("The Copenhagen Trilogy" translated from the Danish) F D
- Graham, Winston - The black moon: a novel of Cornwall, 1794-5 (Poldark ; Bk. 5 —series available in stack 5) F G
- The second Persephone book of short stories F S
- Vila-Matas, Enrique - Mac's problem (translated from the Spanish) F V
POETRY
- Dale, Peter - Wordsworth's gardens and flowers: the spirit of paradise 821.09 W
- Mandel'shtam, Osip - Concert at a railway station: a selection of poems 891.71 M
- Martin, Dawn Lundy - Good stock strange blood 821 M
- Siddall, Elizabeth - My ladys soul: the poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall 821 S
FOLKLORE & LEGENDS
- Shakespeare and the folktale: an anthology of stories (Charlotte Artese, ed.) 822.33 L
- The Penguin book of mermaids (Cristina Bacchilega, ed.) 398.2 P
BOOKS & READING
- Book parts (Dennis Duncan & Adam Smyth, eds.) 002 B
- Gurdon, Meghan Cox - The enchanted hour: the miraculous power of reading aloud in the age of distraction 649 G
- Stavans, Ilan - The return of Carvajal: a mystery 972 S
ART
- Garrels, Gary - Vija Celmins: to fix the image in memory 709.73 C
- Hall, Nicholas H. J. - Endless enigma: eight centuries of fantastic art 709.04 H
- Kemp, Martin - Leonardo by Leonardo 759.5 K OVERSIZE
- Princenthal, Nancy - Unspeakable acts: women, art, and sexual violence in the 1970s 704 P
- Shaykin, Rebecca - Edith Halpert, the Downtown Gallery, and the rise of American art 706.9 S
- Tsuji, Nobuo - History of art in Japan 709.52 T
- Wood, Christopher S - A history of art history 709 W
FILM
- Basinger, Jeanine - The movie musical! 791.4 B
- Letters from Hollywood : inside the private world of classic American moviemaking (Rocky Lang & Barbara Hall, eds.) 791.4 L
- Stern, Sydney Ladensohn - The brothers Mankiewicz : hope, heartbreak, and Hollywood classics 920 M2789 S
ANTIQUITY
- Mertens, Joan R. - How to read Greek vases 738 M
- Pappalardo, Umberto - Greek and Roman mosaics 738 P
- Plutarch - How to be a leader : an ancient guide to wise leadership 301.15 P
HISTORY
- Brown, Kate - A biography of no place: from ethnic borderland to Soviet heartland 947.7 B
- Chamberlin, Paul Thomas - The cold war's killing fields: rethinking the long peace 909.82 C
- Fagan, Brian M. - What we did in bed: a horizontal history 392 F
- O'Toole, Fintan - The politics of pain: postwar England and the rise of nationalism 942.085 O
- Rubenstein, David M. - The American story: conversations with master historians 973 R
- Silk roads: peoples, cultures, landscapes (Susan Whitfield, ed.) 950 S OVERSIZE
- Silverman, David J. - This land is their land : the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving 974.48 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Barone, Michael - How America's political parties change (and how they don't) 324.273 B
- Canovan, Margaret - The people 320.1 C
- Reid-Henry, Simon - Empire of democracy : the remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 320.9 R
- Richter, Paul - The ambassadors: America's diplomats on the front lines 327.73 R
- A warning (by Anonymous, a senior Trump administration official) 973.933 W
ECONOMICS
- Quinn, Sarah L.- American bonds : how credit markets shaped a nation 332.6 Q
- Saez, Emmanuel - The triumph of injustice : how the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay 336.2 S
- Shiller, Robert J. - Narrative economics : how stories go viral & drive major economic events 330.1 S
NEW YORK
- Anderson, Fiona - Cruising the dead river: David Wojnarowicz and New York's ruined waterfront 709.2 W
- Gurock, Jeffrey S. - Parkchester: a Bronx tale of race and ethnicity 974.71 G
- Le-Tan, Cleo - A booklover's guide to New York 917.471 L
URBAN STUDIES
- Krieger, Alex - City on a hill: urban idealism in America from the Puritans to the present 307 K
- Rodden, Jonathan - Why cities lose: the deep roots of the urban-rural political divide 324 R
- Schuerman, Matthew L. - Newcomers: gentrification and its discontents 307.76 S
- Smith, Monica L. - Cities: the first 6,000 years 307.76 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Dunbar, Erica Armstrong - She came to slay: the life and times of Harriet Tubman 92 T885 D
- Mabey, Richard - Turning the boat for home: a life writing about nature 92 M1124 M
- Moore, Charles - Margaret Thatcher: the authorized biography 92 T3679 M
- Patterson, Jodie - The bold world: a memoir of family and transformation 92 P3178 P
- Tieszen, Richard L - Simply Gödel 92 G5815 T
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Bailly, Jean-Christophe - An atlas of geographical wonders: comparing the world's mountains and rivers 912 B OVERSIZE
- Davis, Lloyd Spencer - A polar affair: Antarctica's forgotten hero and the secret love lives of penguins 919.9 D
- Great cities through travelers' eyes (Peter Furtado, ed.) 910 G
PHILOSOPHY
- Grayling, A. C. - The history of philosophy 109 G
- Hanley, Ryan Patrick - Our great purpose: Adam Smith on living a better life 170 H
RELIGION
- Armstrong, Karen - The lost art of scripture: rescuing the sacred texts 290 A
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius - How to think about God: an ancient guide for believers and nonbelievers 292 C
- Dickey, Jeff - American demagogue: the Great Awakening and the rise and fall of populism 277.3 D
- Slezkine, Yuri - The Jewish century 296.3 S
- Stevenson, Leslie - Eighteen takes on God: a short guide for those who are still perplexed 211 S
