New Books - January 2018
NON-FICTION
- Aslan, Reza - God: a human history
- Beard, Mary - Women & power: a manifesto (ebook available)
- The bittersweet science: fifteen writers in the gym, in the corner, and at ringside (Carlo Rotella, ed.)
- Bruder, Jessica - Nomadland: surviving America in the twenty-first century
- Bythell, Shaun - The diary of a bookseller
- Ellsberg, Daniel - The doomsday machine: confessions of a nuclear war planner
- Findlay, Michael - Seeing slowly: looking at modern art
- FitzGerald, Holly Conklin - Ruthless river: love and survival by raft on the Amazon's relentless Madre de Dios
- Flake, Jeff - Conscience of a conservative: a rejection of destructive politics and a return to principle
- Fraser, Caroline - Prairie fires: the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (ebook available)
- Freed, Lynn - The romance of elsewhere: essays
- Galeano, Eduardo, - Hunter of stories (translated from the Spanish)
- Harding, Luke, - Collusion: secret meetings, dirty money, and how Russia helped Donald Trump win
- Kramer, Jane - The reporter's kitchen
- Le Guin, Ursula K. - No time to spare: thinking about what matters (introduction by Karen Joy Fowler)
- O'Donnell, Lawrence - Playing with fire: the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics
- Parry, Richard Lloyd - Ghosts of the tsunami: death and life in Japan's disaster zone
- Prud'homme, Alex - France is a feast: the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Rather, Dan - What unites us: reflections on patriotism
- Roberts, Alice M. - Tamed: ten species that changed our world
- Schieffer, Bob - Overload: finding the truth in today's deluge of news
- Sermak, Kathryn - Miss D & me: life with the invincible Bette Davis
- Smith, Helen - The uncommon reader: a life of Edward Garnett, mentor and editor of literary genius
- Stevens, Norma - Avedon: something personal
- Stoll, Steven - Ramp Hollow: the ordeal of Appalachia
- White, Barbara Ehrlich - Renoir: an intimate biography
- Yalom, Irvin D. - Becoming myself: a psychiatrist's memoir
FICTION
- Brookmyre, Christopher - Places in the darkness
- Gary, Romain - The kites (translated from the French)
- Hallberg, Garth Risk - A field guide to the North American family: concerning chiefly the Hungates and Harrisons, with accounts of their habits, nesting, dispersion, etc., and full description of the plumage of both adult and young, within a taxonomic survey of several aspects of domestic life
- McKibben, Bill - Radio free Vermont: a fable of resistance
- Naji, Ahmed - Using life: a novel (translated from the Arabic)
- Nevo, Eshkol - Three floors up (translated from the Hebrew)
- Pochoda, Ivy - Wonder Valley
- Ryan, Jennifer - The Chilbury Ladies' Choir: a novel
- Shepard, Sam - Spy of the first person
- Silber, Joan - Improvement: a novel
- Szalay, David - London and the south-east: a novel
- Vosganian, Varujan - The book of whispers (translated from the Romanian)
MYSTERIES
- Brown, Rita Mae - Crazy like a fox: a novel
- Burke, James Lee - Robicheaux: a novel
- Clark, Mary Higgins - Every breath you take
- Crais, Robert - The wanted
- Dolan, Harry - The man in the crooked hat
- Estleman, Loren D. - The ballad of Black Bart
- Fowler, Christopher - Bryant & May: wild chamber: a peculiar crimes unit mystery*
- Goldstone, Lawrence - Deadly cure: a novel
- Horowitz, Anthony - The word is murder*
- Jennings, Maureen - Let darkness bury the dead: a Murdoch mystery
- Kasasian, M. R. C. - Dark dawn over Steep House*
- La Plante, Lynda - Good Friday*
- Lehane, Cornelius - Murder in the manuscript room (ebook available)
- Lovesey, Peter - Beau death: a Peter Diamond investigation
- Macmillan, Gilly - Odd child out*
- McDermid, Val - Insidious intent*
- Perry, Anne - A Christmas return: a novel*
- Perry, Thomas - The bomb maker
- Ragnar Jónasson - Nightblind (translated from the Icelandic)
- Ritter, Krysten - Bonfire: a novel
- Woods, Stuart - Unbound: a Stone Barrington novel
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Alarcón, Daniel, - The king is always above the people: stories
- Best British short stories 2017 (Nicholas Royle, ed.)
- Grudova, Camilla - The doll's alphabet
- Mazza, Cris - Charlatan: new and selected stories (foreword by Rick Moody)
- Smyles, Iris - Iris Smyles' Dating tips for the unemployed
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Complete stories (foreword by Dave Eggers)
POETRY
- Howe, Susan, - Debths/
- Joy: 100 poems (edited by Christian Wiman)
- Krynicki, Ryszard - Magnetic point: selected poems 1968-2014
- O'Rourke, Meghan - Sun in days: poems
- Young, Kevin - Blue laws: selected & uncollected poems, 1995-2015
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Bayat, Asef. - Revolution without revolutionaries: making sense of the Arab Spring
- The beautiful brain: the drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Brett, Brian - Tuco: the parrot, the others, and a scattershot world: a life with birds
- Ebert, Roger - Herzog by Ebert
- Golden, Daniel - Spy schools: how the CIA, FBI, and foreign intelligence secretly exploit America's universities
- Kirchick, James - The end of Europe: dictators, demagogues, and the coming dark age
- Lanza, Fabio - The end of concern: Maoist China, activism, and Asian studies
- Nicolson, Adam - The seabird's cry: the lives and the loves of puffins, gannets and other ocean voyagers
- Otto, Mary - Teeth: the story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America
- Rappaport, Erika Diane - A thirst for empire: how tea shaped the modern world
- Shekhovtsov, Anton - Russia and the western far right: tango noir
- Taylor, Alan F. - Appointment in Arezzo: a friendship with Muriel Spark
- Vatikiotis, Michael R. J. - Blood and silk: power and conflict in modern Southeast Asia
- Wolff, Edward N. - A century of wealth in America
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Amis, Martin - The rub of time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump : essays and reportage, 1986-2016 824 A
- Day Lewis, C. - The golden bridle: selected prose 821.09 D
- Hardwick, Elizabeth. - The collected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (ebook available) 824 H
- Medieval literature: a basic anthology (Gregory Koutrouby, ed.) 808.8 M
- Morin, Emilie - Beckett's political imagination 828.09 B
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich - Insomniac dreams: experiments with time 92 N1175 N
- Piglia, Ricardo - The diaries of Emilio Renzi: formative years (translated from the Spanish by Robert Croll ; introduction by Ilan Stavans) 92 P631 P
- Van Straten, Giorgio - In search of lost books: the forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes 809 V
- White, Edmund - Conversations with Edmund White 823 W
FICTION
- Amsterdam tales (Helen Constantine, ed.) F A
- The dark blue winter overcoat: & other stories from the North (Sjón and Ted Hodgkinson, eds.; Nordic short stories) F D
- Krasznahorkai, László - The world goes on (translated from the Hungarian by John Batk, et al.) F K
- Lindsay, David - A voyage to Arcturus (1920 British sci-fi classic) F L
- Sanabhaga, Viveka - Ghachar ghochar (translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur) F S
- Urzidil, Johannes - The last bell (translated from the German by David Burnett) F U
POETRY
- Alain-Fournier - Poems (translated from the French; author of the great novel, Le grand Meaulnes / The Wanderer) 841 A
- Euripides - Bakkhai ("a new version by Anne Carson") 882.3 E
- Greek lyric poetry: the poems and fragments of the Greek iambic, elegiac, and melic poets (excluding Pindar and Bacchylides) down to 450 B.C. 884.08 G
- Wallace, David - Geoffrey Chaucer: a new introduction 821.09 C
SHAKESPEARE
- Dickson, Andrew - The Globe guide to Shakespeare: the plays, the productions, the life HBR 822.33 D
- Jensen, Phebe - Religion and revelry in Shakespeare's festive world 822.33 C
- Smith, Emma - Shakespeare's First Folio: four centuries of an iconic book 822.33 Bibl.
- Wells, Stanley - Shakespeare's tragedies: a very short introduction 822.33 C
WRITING
- Delany, Samuel R. - About writing: seven essays, four letters, and five interviews 808.3 D
- Gerard, Philip - The art of creative research: a field guide for writers 808 G
- Klein, Cheryl B. - The magic words: writing great books for children and young adults 808 K
- What editors do: the art, craft, and business of book editing (Peter Finna, ed.) 808 W
ART
- Albers, Anni - On weaving 746 A
- Degas: a passion for perfection (Jane Munro, ed.) 709.2 D
- Ligon, Glenn - Yourself in the world: selected writings and interviews 709.2 L
- Marciari, John - Art of Renaissance Rome: artists and patrons in the Eternal City 709.45 M
- Rosa de Carvalho, Fleur Roos - Prints in Paris 1900: from elite to the street 769 R OVERSIZE
- Slocombe, Richard - Wyndham Lewis: life, art, war 759.2 L
- William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (Stephen F. Eisenman) 769 B
PERFORMING ARTS
- Curtis, James - Last man standing: Mort Sahl and the birth of modern comedy 92 S1316 C
- Hallberg, David - A body of work: dancing to the edge and back 92 H181 H
- Isserlis, Steven - Robert Schumann's advice to young musicians 780.1 I
- Keates, Jonathan - Messiah: the composition and afterlife of Handel's masterpiece 783.3 K
- Prince, Harold - Sense of occasion 792.0973 P
- Rosenthal, Cindy - Ellen Stewart presents: fifty years of La Mama experimental theatre 792.0973 R
- You ain't heard nothin' yet: interviews with stars from Hollywood's golden era (James Bawden and Ron Miller, eds.) 791.4 Y
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Meiselas, Susan - On the frontline 778 M
- Smith, R. J. - American witness: the art and life of Robert Frank 709.2 F
BIOGRAPHY
- Allen, Henry - Where we lived: essays on places 92 A427 A
- Carrington, Dora de Houghton, - Carrington's letters 92 C3185 C
- Irmscher, Christoph - Max Eastman: a life 92 E1366 I
- Jones, Jacqueline - Goddess of anarchy: the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical 92 P2688 J
- Parazynski, Scott - The sky below 92 P224 P
- Thacker, Robert - Alice Munro: writing her lives : a biography 92 M968 T
HISTORY
- Bramen, Carrie Tirado - American niceness: a cultural history 973 B
- Cahan, Richard - Un-American: the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II 940.5472 C
- Conn, Steven - Americans against the city: anti-urbanism in the twentieth century 307.76 C
- Cook, Robert J. - Civil War memories: contesting the past in the United States since 1865 973.71 C
- Cunliffe, Barry W. - On the ocean: the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from prehistory to AD 1500 910.4 C
- Hewitt, Rachel - A revolution of feeling: the decade that forged the modern mind (1790s) 942.07 H
- Hugues, Pascale - Hannah's dress: Berlin 1904-2014 943.1 H
- Our history of the 20th century: as told in diaries, journals and letters (England) 942.082 O
- Zinn, Howard - The indispensable Zinn: the essential writings of the "people's historian" 973 Z
WAR
- Fleming, Thomas J. - The strategy of victory: how General George Washington won the American Revolution 973.33 F
- Jones, Don - Oba, the last samurai: Saipan 1944-45 940.542 J
- Lloyd, Nick - Passchendaele: the lost victory of World War I 940.42 L
- Stourton, Edward - Auntie's war: the BBC during the Second World War 384 S
- Verzemnieks, Inara - Among the living and the dead: a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe 940.5315 V
ANTIQUITY
- Caesar, Julius - The Landmark Julius Caesar: the complete works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War: in one volume, with maps, annotations, appendices, and encyclopedic index 937 L
- Harper, Kyle - The fate of Rome: climate, disease, and the end of an empire 937.06 H
- Quinn, Josephine Crawley - In search of the Phoenicians 939.4 Q
- Shipley, Lucy - The Etruscans: lost civilizations 937 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Garff, Joakim - Kierkegaard's muse: the mystery of Regine Olsen 92 O523 G
- Hadot, Pierre - The inner citadel: the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 188 H
- Nadler, Steven M. - Heretics!: the wondrous (and dangerous) beginnings of modern philosophy 190 S
- Scruton, Roger - Spinoza: a very short introduction 199 S
EDUCATION
- Karpowitz, Daniel - College in prison: reading in an age of mass incarceration 371.9 K
- Richards, David Alan - Skulls and keys: the hidden history of Yale's secret societies 366 R
- Sutton, Sharon E. - When ivory towers were black: a story about race in America's cities and universities 378 S
BOOKS & READING
- Twenty-six meetings of the Membership Libraries Group 1991-2016 027 T
- Williams, Abigail. - The social life of books: reading together in the eighteenth-century home 028 W
PARANORMAL
- English mystics of the Middle Ages (Barry Windeatt, ed.) 248 E
- Kurlander, Eric - Hitler's monsters: a supernatural history of the Third Reich 943.086 K
- Owens, Susan - The ghost: a cultural history 133.1 O
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Hemmer, Nicole - Messengers of the Right: conservative media and the transformation of American politics 302 H
- Jones, Van - Beyond the messy truth: how we came apart, how we come together 320.4 J
- Krastev, Ivan - After Europe (the EU) 320.9 K
- Vox populi: the perils and promises of populism (Roger Kimball, ed.) 320.1 V
SOCIOLOGY
- Ocejo, Richard E. - Masters of craft: old jobs in the new urban economy 331.7 O
- Sasse, Benjamin E. - The vanishing American adult: our coming-of-age crisis--and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance 305.24 S
- Solnit, Rebecca - Hope in the dark: untold histories, wild possibilities 303.4 S
LAW
- Fortner, Michael Javen - Black silent majority: the Rockefeller drug laws and the politics of punishment 364 F
- Newman, Jon O. - Benched: abortion, terrorists, drones, crooks, Supreme Court, Kennedy, Nixon, Demi Moore, and other tales from the life of a federal judge 92 N5532 N
- Posner, Richard A. - The federal judiciary: strengths and weaknesses 347.9 P
- Weinrib, Laura M. - The taming of free speech: America's civil liberties compromise 342.73 W
NEW YORK
- Davis, Ben - Repertory movie theaters of New York City: havens for revivals, indies and the avant-garde, 1960-1994 791.4 D
- Funch, Peter - 42nd and Vanderbilt 779 F
- Goldberg, David A. - Black firefighters and the FDNY: the struggle for jobs, justice, and equity in New York City 352.3 G
- Lester, Larry - Black baseball in New York City: an illustrated history, 1885-1959 796.3 D
ECONOMICS
- Patel, Raj - A history of the world in seven cheap things: a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet 303.4 P
- Stiglitz, Joseph E. - Globalization and its discontents revisited: anti-globalization in the era of Trump 337 S
- Temin, Peter - The vanishing middle class: prejudice and power in a dual economy 339.2 T
MIDDLE EAST
- Doran, Michael Scott - Ike's gamble: America's rise to dominance in the Middle East 327.73 D
- Yassin-Kassab, Robin - Burning country: Syrians in revolution and war 956.9 Y
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Carroll, Michael - Greece: a literary guide for travellers 914.95 C
- Hunt, Nick - Where the wild winds are: walking Europe's winds from the Pennines to Provence 914 H
- Thomas, Edward - In pursuit of spring 914.2 T
SCIENCE
- The great naturalists (Robert Huxley, ed.) 509 G
- Greenfield, Susan - You and me: the neuroscience of identity 612.8 G
- Sigmund, Karl - Exact thinking in demented times: the Vienna Circle and the epic quest for the foundations of science 501 S
- Wilson, Edward O. - The origins of creativity 155 W
SPORTS & RECREATION
- Murphy, Cait - A history of American sports in 100 objects 796 M
- Wallace, David Foster - String theory: David Foster Wallace on tennis 796.3 W
- Young, Terence - Heading out: a history of American camping 796.54 Y
AUDIO
- Chernow, Ron - Grant (biography of Ulysses S. Grant) Lobby Audio-CD 92 G7634 C
- De Quincey, Thomas - Confessions of an English opium-eater Lobby Audio-CD 92 D4265 D
- Lucey, Donna M. - Sargent's women: four lives behind the canvas Lobby Audio-CD 920 L9357 S