IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Athill, Diana - Alive, alive oh!: and other things that matter
• Better than fiction 2: true travel adventures from 30 great fiction writers (edited by Don George)
• Bryson, Bill - The road to Little Dribbling: adventures of an American in Britain
• Buruma, Ian - Their promised land: my grandparents in love and war
• Caroli, Betty Boyd - Lady Bird and Lyndon: the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
• Cotkin, George - Feast of excess: a cultural history of the New Sensibility
• Cuddy, Amy Joy Casselberry - Presence: bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges
• Fitzsimons, Eleanor - Wilde's women: how Oscar Wilde was shaped by the women he knew
• Fong, Mei - One child: the story of China's most radical experiment
• Francis, Pope - The name of God is mercy: a conversation with Andrea Tornielli (translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky)
• Givhan, Robin - The Battle of Versailles: the night American fashion stumbled into the spotlight and made history
• Glaude, Eddie S., Jr. - Democracy in black: how race still enslaves the American soul
• Hazzard, Shirley - We need silence to find out what we think: selected essays
• Konnikova, Maria - The confidence game: why we fall for it... every time
• Larrington, Carolyne - Land of the green man: a journey through the supernatural landscapes of the British Isles
• Loridan, Marceline - But you did not come back (with Judith Perrignon; translated from the French by Sandra Smith)
• Luzzatto, Sergio - Primo Levi's resistance: rebels and collaborators in occupied Italy (translated by Frederika Randall)
• Mabey, Richard - The cabaret of plants: forty thousand years of plant life and the human imagination
• Marshall, Tim - Prisoners of geography: ten maps that explain everything about the world
• Martin, Andrew - Reacher said nothing: Lee Child and the making of Make Me
• Mayer, Jane - Dark money: the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right
• Norrell, Robert J.  - Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
• Peters, Justin - The idealist: Aaron Swartz and the rise of free culture on the internet
• Pryce-Jones, David - Fault lines
• Rhimes, Shonda - Year of yes: how to dance it out, stand in the sun and be your own person
• Searcy, David - Shame and wonder: essays
• Strand, Ginger Gail - The brothers Vonnegut: science and fiction in the house of magic
• Thornton, T. D. - My adventures with your money: George Graham Rice and the golden age of the con artist
• Weiner, Eric - The geography of genius: a search for the world's most creative places from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
• Weir, Alison - The lost Tudor princess: the life of Lady Margaret Douglas
• Wouk, Herman - Sailor and fiddler: reflections of a 100-year-old author
• Zoepf, Katherine - Excellent daughters: the secret lives of young women who are transforming the Arab world

FICTION

• Albom, Mitch - The magic strings of Frankie Presto
• Berne, Suzanne - The dogs of Littlefield
• Bishop, Bernardine - The street
• Brown, Carrie - The stargazer's sister
• Bussi, Michel - After the crash (translated from the French by Sam Taylor)
• Copleton, Jackie - A dictionary of mutual understanding
• Fletcher, Martin - The war reporter
• Freeman, Castle - The devil in the valley
• Goldsworthy, Vesna - Gorsky
• Goodman, Carol - River Road
• Harris, Robert - Dictator
• Hunt, Samantha - Mr. Splitfoot
• Kempowski, Walter - All for nothing (translated from the German by Anthea Bell)
• Kubica, Mary - The good girl
• Lalo, Eduardo - Simone (translated by David Frye)
• Lambert, Charles - The children's home
• Lee, Janice Y. K. - The expatriates (e-book available) 
• Oates, Joyce Carol - The man without a shadow
• Schultz, Emily - The blondes
• Sparks, Nicholas - See me
• Thomas, Scarlett - The seed collectors
• Vodolazkin, E. G. - Laurus (translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden)
• Yapa, Sunil - Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist

MYSTERIES

• Abbott, Jeff - The first order
• Anderson, Lin - The case of the missing madonna: a Patrick de Courvoisier mystery
• Andrew, Sally - Recipes for love and murder
• Black, Benjamin - Even the dead: a Quirke novel
• Bohjalian, Chris - The guest room
• Eastland, Sam - Red icon (Paul Watkins writing as Sam Eastland)
• Fraser, Anthea - A tangled thread*
• Gerlis, Alex - The Swiss spy
• Gordon-Smith, Dolores - The Chessman: a Jack Haldean mystery*
• Grant, Andrew - False positive
• Graves, Sarah - The girls she left behind: a Lizzie Snow novel
• Greaney, Mark - Commander in chief
• Herron, Mick - Real tigers*
• Hoag, Tami - The bitter season
• Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew - Orphan X
• Koontz, Dean R. - Ashley Bell
• McBain, Ed - Cut me in
• Neuhaus, Nele - I am your judge (translated from the German by Steven T. Murray)
• O'Dell, Tawni - Angels burning
• Patterson, James - Cross justice
• Rankin, Ian - Even dogs in the wild (e-book available) 
• Rosenfelt, David - Blackout
• Sandlin, Lisa - The do-right
• Seymour, Gerald - Vagabond
• Shaw, William - A song for the brokenhearted*
• Stone, Nick - The verdict
• Wilcken, Hugo - The reflection
• Woods, Stuart - Scandalous behavior

POETRY

• Gilbert, Christopher - Turning into dwelling: poems
• Jamie, Kathleen - The bonniest companie
• Knox, Jennifer L. - Days of shame & failure
• Lewis, Robin Coste - Voyage of the Sable Venus: and other poems
• Paterson, Don - 40 sonnets

SHORT STORIES

• Clanchy, Kate - The not-dead and the saved and other stories
• Ellis, Helen - American housewife
• Mackay, Shena - Dancing on the outskirts

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Barron, Stephanie - New objectivity: modern German art in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933
• Leigh, John - Touché: the duel in literature
• Levine, Joshua - The secret history of the Blitz: how we behaved during our darkest days and created modern Britain
• Loomis, Erik - Out of sight: the long and disturbing story of corporations outsourcing catastrophe
• Lucas, Edward - Cyberphobia: identity, trust, security and the internet
• A manner of being: writers on their mentors (edited by Annie Liontas and Jeff Parker)
• Potter, Dennis. - The art of invective: selected non-fiction, 1953-94 (edited by Ian Greaves, David Rolinson, John Williams)
• Rahe, Paul Anthony - The grand strategy of classical Sparta: the Persian challenge
• Turse, Nick - Tomorrow's battlefield: US proxy wars and secret ops in Africa
• Wathey, John C. - The illusion of God's presence: the biological origins of spiritual longing

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• De la Durantaye, Leland - Beckett's art of mismaking 822.09 B
• Feeney, D. C. - Beyond Greek: the beginnings of Latin Literature 870.9 F
• Howe, Susan - The quarry 824 H
• Kipling, Rudyard - Kipling and war: from 'Tommy' and 'My boy Jack' 828 K
• On life-writing (Zachary Leader, ed.; including James Shapiro, Hermione Lee, etc.) 808 O
• Steward, Samuel M. - Philip Sparrow tells all: lost essays by Samuel Steward, writer, professor, tattoo artist 824 S
• Zweig, Stefan - Montaigne (translated from the German) 844.09 Z

FICTION

• Hughes, Dorothy B. - Ride the pink horse (1946 noir) F H
• Krohn, Leena - Leena Krohn: collected fiction  F K
• The long gaze back: an anthology of Irish women writers (Sinead Gleeson, ed.) F L
• The Penguin book of the British short story (2015, 2 vols., selected by Philip Henscher)
• Werfel, Franz - The forty days of Musa Dagh (translated from the German) F W

POETRY

• Enzensberger, Hans Magnus - New selected poems 831 E
• Holub, Miroslav - Poems before & after: collected English translations 891.71 H
• Meyers, Jeffrey - Robert Lowell in love 92 L9175 M
• Moon, Shinji. - The anatomy of being: poetry from 2011-2013 821 M
• Pound, Ezra - Posthumous cantos 821 P

SHAKESPEARE

• Crystal, David - Oxford illustrated Shakespeare dictionary HBR 822.33 D
• Duncan-Jones, Katherine - Portraits of Shakespeare 822.33 92 B
• Kastan, David Scott - A will to believe: Shakespeare and religion 822.33 C

LANGUAGE

• Crystal, David - Making a point: the persnickety story of English punctuation 421 C
• Hargraves, Orin - It's been said before: a guide to the use and abuse of clichés 428.3 H

PHILOSOPHY

• Flynn, Thomas R. - Sartre: a philosophical biography 194 F
• Lachman, Gary - The secret teachers of the western world 133 L
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus - Letters on ethics: to Lucilius (Margaret Graver & A.A. Long, translators) 188 S
• Yao, Xinzhong - An introduction to Confucianism181 Y

ART

• Andrea del Sarto: the Renaissance workshop in action (Frick Exhibition; Julian Brooks, et al., eds.) 759.5 A
• Art brut in America: the incursion of Jean Dubuffet (American Folk Art Museum; Valerie Rousseau, ed.) 709.04 A
• Dabakis, Melissa - A sisterhood of sculptors: American artists in nineteenth-century Rome 730.92 D
• Delaunay, Sonia - Sonia Delaunay (Tate Modern Exhibition; Cecile Godefroy, et al., ed.) 709.2 D
• Gardner Coates, Victoria C. - David's sling: a history of democracy in ten works of art 709 G
• Hickey, Dave - 25 women: essays on their art 704 H

PERFORMING ARTS

• Brendel, Alfred - Music, sense and nonsense: collected essays and lectures 780.4 B
• Field, Matthew - Some kind of hero: 007: the remarkable story of the James Bond films 791.4 F
• Lim, Dennis - David Lynch: the man from another place 791.4 L
• Siegel, Lee - Groucho Marx: the comedy of existence 92 M3918 S

BIOGRAPHY

• Moore, Charles - Margaret Thatcher: the authorized biography: at her zenith: in London, Washington and Moscow 92 T3679 M
• Pratt, Jean Lucey - A notable woman: the romantic journals of Jean Lucey Pratt 92 P914 P
• Seligman, Scott D. - The first Chinese American: the remarkable life of Wong Chin Foo 92 W8724 S
• Siniver, Asaf - Abba Eban: a biography 92 E153 S
• Thompson, Juan F. - Stories I tell myself: growing up with Hunter S. Thompson 92 T47264 T
• Thomson, Jennifer - Josephine Tey: a life 92 T356 T

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Nadar, Félix - When I was a photographer  770 N
• Parks, Gordon - Gordon Parks: segregation story  779 P
• Roberts, Hilary - Lee Miller: a woman's war  770 M

HISTORY

• Cunliffe, Barry W. - By steppe, desert, and ocean: the birth of Eurasia 930 C
• Leuchtenburg, William E. - The American president: from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton 973.9 L
• MacKeen, Dawn Anahid - The hundred-year walk: an Armenian odyssey 956.6 M
• Morris, Marc - King John: treachery and tyranny in Medieval England: the road to Magna Carta 942.03 M
• Plokhy, Serhii - The gates of Europe: a history of Ukraine  947.7 P
• Schrank, Delphine - The rebel of Rangoon: a tale of defiance and deliverance in Burma 959.1 S
• Williams, Daniel K. - Defenders of the unborn: the pro-life movement before Roe v. Wade  363.4 W

ANCIENT CULTURES & CIVILIZATION

• Coe, Michael D. - Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs 972 C
• Derricourt, Robin M. - Antiquity imagined: the remarkable legacy of Egypt and the Ancient Near East  932 D
• Harbison, Robert - Ruins and fragments: tales of loss and rediscovery 913.3 H
• Morrow, Susan Brind - The dawning moon of the mind: unlocking the pyramid texts 299.31 M

CULTURAL HISTORY

• Flanders, Judith - The making of home 392 F
• Jennings, Chris - Paradise now: the story of American utopianism 335.9 J
• Laqueur, Thomas Walter - The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains 393 L
• Nott, James J. - Going to the Palais: a social and cultural history of dancing and dance halls in Britain, 1918-1960 793.3 N
• Schlett, James - A not too greatly changed Eden: the story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks 974.7 S

WAR

• Douglas, Lawrence - The right wrong man: John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial 341.3 D
• McManus, John C. - Hell before their very eyes: American soldiers liberate concentration camps in Germany, April 1945 940.5318 M
• Roberts, Andrew - Elegy: the first day on the Somme  940.42 R
• Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner - Midnight in broad daylight: a Japanese American family caught between two worlds 940.5352 S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Berman, Ari - Give us the ballot: the modern struggle for voting rights in America 324 B
• Bew, John. - Realpolitik: a history 320.1 B
• Dionne, E. J. - Why the right went wrong: conservatism—from Goldwater to the Tea Party and beyond 320.9 D
• Scruton, Roger - Fools, frauds and firebrands: thinkers of the new left 320.9 S

THE MIDDLE EAST

• Bell, Gertrude Lowthian - A woman in Arabia: the writings of the Queen of the Desert 92 B4337 B
• Gunter, Michael M. - Out of nowhere: the Kurds of Syria in peace and war  956.9 G
• Shifting sands: the unravelling of the old order in the Middle East (Raja shehadeh and Penny Johnson, eds.) 956 S

FOOD

• A Baghdad cookery book: the book of dishes (13th-century Arabic cookbook translated by Charles Perry) 641.5 I
• Geller, Jamie - Joy of kosher: fast, fresh family recipes : dress them up for entertaining, dress them down for everyday 641.5 G
• Johnson, Nick - The New York pizza project: exploring a city through its quintessential food 647.9 J

GARDENS

• Frida Kahlo's garden (NY Botanical Garden; Mia D'Avanza, ed.) 712 F
• Laird, Mark - A natural history of English gardening, 1650-1800 716 L

ECONOMICS

• Forbes, Steve - Money: how the destruction of the dollar threatens the global economy—and what we can do about it 332.4 F
• Kocka, Jürgen - Capitalism: a short history 330.1 K

SOCIOLOGY

• Capturing contemporary Japan: differentiation and uncertainty (Satsuki Kawano, et al., eds.) 330.952 C
• Howard, Philip N. - Pax technica: how the internet of things may set us free or lock us up  301.2 H
• Tizon, Alex - Big little man: in search of my Asian self 305.87 T

IMMIGRATION

• Cafaro, Philip - How many is too many?: the progressive argument for reducing immigration into the United States 325.73 C
• Gerber, David A. - American immigration: a very short introduction 304.8 G
• Ngai, Mae M. - Impossible subjects: illegal aliens and the making of modern America 323.6 N

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

• Bown, Stephen R. - White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's fearless journey into the heart of the Arctic 92 R2255 B
• Porter, Bill - South of the clouds: travels in southwest China 915.12 P
• Ziegler, Dominic - Black dragon river: a journey down the Amur River at the borderlands of empires 915.7 Z

NEW YORK

• Frank, Robin Jaffee - Coney Island: visions of an American dreamland, 1861-2008 974.71 F OVERSIZE
• Polan, Jason - Every person in New York 741.5 P
• Tang, Eric - Unsettled: Cambodian refugees in the New York City hyperghetto 305.87 T
• Whalen, Bernard - The NYPD's first fifty years: politicians, police commissioners, and patrolmen 352.2 W

PSYCHOLOGY

• Barbagli, Marzio - Farewell to the world: a history of suicide 362.2 B
• The quotable Jung (Judith R. Harris, ed.) 150 Q
• Washington, Harriet A. - Infectious madness: the surprising science of how we "catch" mental illness 616.8 W

SCIENCE

• Boyle, Alan - The case for Pluto: how a little planet made a big difference 523.4 B
• Dunbar, R. I. M. - Human evolution: a Pelican introduction 575 D
• Heilbron, J. L. - Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks 530.9 H

AUDIO

• Benson, E. F. - Queen Lucia Lobby Audio-CD B
• Bucholz, R. O. - A history of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts Audio-CD 942 B
• Conrad, Joseph - Under western eyes Audio-CD C
• Ferrante, Elena - The story of the lost child Lobby Audio-CD F

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