IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Benforado, Adam - Unfair: the new science of criminal injustice
• Berry, Amanda - Hope: a memoir of survival in Cleveland 
• Betts, Kate - My Paris dream: an education in style, slang, and seduction in the great city on the Seine
• Boyce, James - Born bad: original sin and the making of the Western world
• Bremmer, Ian - Superpower: three choices for America's role in the world
• Curtis, Cathy  - Restless ambition: Grace Hartigan, painter
• Cuthbertson, Ken - A complex fate: William L. Shirer and the American century 
• Ford, Martin - Rise of the robots: technology and the threat of a jobless future
• Fry, Stephen - More fool me
• Gibson, D. W.  - The edge becomes the center: an oral history of gentrification in the twenty-first century 
• Hemming, Henry - The ingenious Mr. Pyke: inventor, fugitive, spy 
• Jacobs, Charlotte - Jonas Salk: a life 
• Jarausch, Konrad Hugo - Out of ashes: a new history of Europe in the twentieth century 
• Jones, Richard - House guests, house pests : a natural history of animals in the home
• Kaiser, Charles - The cost of courage 
• Keret, Etgar - The seven good years: a memoir (translated by from the Hebrew)
• Khlevniuk, O. V. - Stalin: new biography of a dictator (translated from the Russian)
• Kozol, Jonathan - The theft of memory: losing my father, one day at a time
• Laoutaris, Chris - Shakespeare and the Countess: the battle that gave birth to the Globe 
• Link, E. Perry  - An anatomy of Chinese : rhythm, metaphor, politics
• Lutz, Deborah - The Brontë cabinet: three lives in nine objects 
• Luzzi, Joseph - In a dark wood: what Dante taught me about grief, healing, and the mysteries of love
• Martin, Wednesday - Primates of Park Avenue: a memoir (e-book available)
• Mezrich, Ben - Once upon a time in Russia: the rise of the oligarchs: a true story of ambition, wealth, betrayal, and murder
• Mitchell, George J.  - The negotiator: a memoir
• Newkirk, Pamela - Spectacle: the astonishing life of Ota Benga
• Pessah, Jon - The game: inside the secret world of major league baseball's power brokers
• Roper, Robert - Nabokov in America: on the road to Lolita 
• Silverman, Jacob - Terms of service: social media and the price of constant connection
• Styron, William - My generation: collected nonfiction 
• Thaler, Richard H. - Misbehaving: the making of behavioral economics
• Vanhoenacker, Mark - Skyfaring: a journey with a pilot 
• Zaleski, Philip - The fellowship: the literary lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

FICTION

• Attenberg, Jami - Saint Mazie 
• Barrows, Annie - The truth according to us
• Blume, Judy - In the unlikely event (e-book available)
• Clark, Martin - The Jezebel remedy 
• Clark, Mary Higgins - The melody lingers on
• Cocks, Heather - The royal we
• Cohen, Joshua - Book of numbers 
• Collins, Jackie - The Santangelos
• Daoud, Kamel - The Meursault investigation (translated from the French)
• Dave, Laura - Eight hundred grapes
• Delbanco, Elena - The silver swan
• Delinsky, Barbara - Blueprints 
• Durrant, Sabine - Remember me this way
• Frank, Dorothea Benton - All the single ladies
• Galassi, Jonathan - Muse (e-book available)
• Guo, Xiaolu - I am China
• Hall, Sarah - The wolf border
• Haruf, Kent - Our souls at night (e-book available)
• Hilderbrand, Elin - The rumor
• Hughes, Mary-Beth - The loved ones
• Jewell, Lisa - The third wife
• Johnson, Mat - Loving day
• King, Stephen - Finders keepers
• Kwan, Kevin - China rich girlfriend
• Nichols, Peter - The rocks
• Nović, Sara - Girl at war
• Park, Patricia  - Re Jane 
• Parry, Leslie - Church of Marvels
• Pitlor, Heidi - The daylight marriage
• Pope, Dan - Housebreaking
• Roiphe, Anne  - Ballad of the black and blue mind
• Shorr, Victoria - Backlands
• Sneed, Christine - Paris, he said
• Stephenson, Neal - Seveneves
• Taylor, Katherine - Valley fever 
• Vermes, Timur - Look who's back (translated from the German)
• Vida, Vendela - The diver's clothes lie empty
• Wagamese, Richard - Medicine walk 
• Walbert, Kate- The sunken cathedral
• Watson, S. J.  - Second life

MYSTERIES

• Billingham, Mark - Time of death* 
• Blackwood, Grant - Tom Clancy Under fire
• Boyle, Gerry - Once burned 
• Brown, Rita Mae - Tail gait: a Mrs. Murphy mystery
• Casey, Jane - The kill*
• Childs, Laura - Ming tea murder
• Clarke, Richard A.  - Pinnacle event
• Crompton, Richard - Hell's gate
• Cussler, Clive - Piranha (w/Boyd Morrison)
• Dams, Jeanne M. - The gentle art of murder*
• Doiron, Paul - The precipice
• Dunn, Carola - Superfluous women: a Daisy Dalrymple mystery*
• Farrow, John - The storm murders
• Finder, Joseph - The fixer
• Flett-Giordano, Anne - Marry, kiss, kill 
• Grecian, Alex - The harvest man: a novel of Scotland Yard's murder squad*
• Grippando, James - Cash landing
• Harvey, Michael T. - The governor's wife 
• Housewright, David - Unidentified woman #15
• Ison, Graham - Exit stage left* 
• Kingston, Charles - Murder in Piccadilly* 
• Knoll, Jessica - Luckiest girl alive
• Leonard, Elmore - Charlie Martz and other stories: the unpublished stories
• MacBride, Stuart - The missing and the dead 
• McGowan, Claire - The dead ground
• Manhattan mayhem (edited by Mary Higgins Clark)
• Matthews, Jason - Palace of treason
• Meltzer, Brad - The President's shadow
• Miller, Jax - Freedom's child
• Mosby, Steve - The nightmare place*
• Roy, Lori - Let me die in his footsteps
• Schenkel, Andrea Maria - Ice cold (translated from the German)
• Thomas, Will - Anatomy of evil*
• Viets, Elaine - Checked out: a dead-end job mystery
• White, Kate - The wrong man
• Wright, Tom - Blackbird 

POETRY

• Salter, Mary Jo - Nothing by design

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SHORT STORIES

• Charyn, Jerome - Bitter Bronx: thirteen stories 
• Kalfus, Ken - Coup de foudre: a novella and stories 

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE & ESSAYS

• Beerbohm, Max - The prince of minor writers: the selected essays of Max Beerbohm
• Berry, Wendell - Our only world: ten essays
• Char, René - Hypnos: notes from the French Resistance, 1943-44  841 C
• A historical guide to Edgar Allan Poe (J. Gerald Kennedy,ed.) 828.09 P
• Pitol, Sergio - The art of flight (introduction by Enrique Vila-Matas) 863 P
• Walrond, Eric - Winds can wake up the dead: an Eric Walrond reader 828 W
• Walser, Robert - Fairy tales: dramolettes (translated from the German) 832 W
• Williams, Jeffrey - How to be an intellectual: essays on criticism, culture, and the university 804 W

POETRY

• Byron, George Gordon Byron - Byron's letters and journals: a new selection from Leslie A. Marchand's 12-volume edition (edited by Richard Lansdown) 92 B9963 B
• Martin, Wendy - The Cambridge introduction to Emily Dickinson 821.09 D
• Stallings, A. E - Olives: poems 821 S
• Vendler, Helen (ed.) - Poems, poets, poetry: an introduction and anthology 808.1 P

FICTION

• Chekhov, Anton - Selected stories of Anton Chekhov (translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) 891.73 C
• Collins, Wilkie & Charles Dickens - The perils of certain English prisoners F C
• Inoue, Yasushi - Life of a counterfeiter: and other stories (translated from the Japanese) F I
• Strindberg, August - The defence of a madman (translated from the French) F S
• Tabucchi, Antonio - Time ages in a hurry (translated from the Italian) F T

ART & DESIGN

• Aronson, Arnold - Ming Cho Lee: a life in design 792.9 A
• Baigell, Matthew - Social concern and left politics in Jewish American art 1880-1940 709.73 B
• Berenson, Bernard - My dear BB ...: the letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959 920 B489 M
• Broug, Eric - Islamic geometric design 745 B OVERSIZE
• De Waal, Edmund - 20th century ceramics 738 D
• Fay, Martha - Out of line: the art of Jules Feiffer 741.5 F
• Guy, John - Lost kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist sculpture of early Southeast Asia 730 G
• Mitter, Partha - Indian art 709.54 M
• Rasula, Jed - Destruction was my Beatrice: Dada and the unmaking of the twentieth century 709.04 R
• Varnedoe, Kirk - Northern light: realism and symbolism in Scandinavian painting, 1880-1910 759.8 V
• Winkfield, Trevor - Georges Braque and others: the selected art writings of Trevor Winkfield (1990-2009) 709 W

ARCHITECTURE

• Cheek, Richard - Selling the dwelling: the books that built America's houses, 1775-2000 728 C
• Lynch, Geoffrey - Manhattan classic: New York's finest prewar apartments 728.3 L
• Pollan, Michael - A place of my own: the architecture of daydreams 690 P

PERFORMING ARTS

• Cooper, David - Bela Bartók 780.92 B
• Leutwyler, Henry - Ballet: photographs of the New York City Ballet 792.8 L
• Symonds, Dominic - We'll have Manhattan: the early work of Rodgers and Hart 782.14 S
• Wells, Stanley - Great Shakespeare actors: Burbage to Branagh 792.09 W

PHILOSOPHY

• Canales, Jimena - The physicist and the philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time 115 C
• Gordon, Lewis R - What Fanon said: a philosophical introduction to his life and thought 92 F2144 G
• Russell, Bertrand - A pacifist at war: letters and writings of Bertrand Russell, 1914-1918 92 R9598 R

SCIENCE

• Angell, Tony - The house of owls 598.2 A
• Ward, Peter D. - A new history of life: the radical new discoveries about the origins and evolution of life on earth 576 W
• Weinberg, Steven - To explain the world: the discovery of modern science 509 W
• Witze, Alexandra - Island on fire: the extraordinary story of a forgotten volcano that changed the world 551.2 W

MATH

• Aczel, Amir D. - Finding zero: a mathematician's odyssey to uncover the origins of numbers 510.9 A
• Tegmark, Max - Our mathematical universe: my quest for the ultimate nature of reality 523.1 T

MEDICINE

• McCarthy, Matt - The real doctor will see you shortly: a physician's first year 610.7 M
• McGaugh, Scott - Surgeon in blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War doctor who pioneered battlefield care 973.77 M

BIOGRAPHY

• Aldersey-Williams, Hugh - In search of Sir Thomas Browne: the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind 92 B884 A
• Crapanzano, Vincent - Recapitulations 92 C893 C
• Dawson, Jane E. A. - John Knox 92 K745 D
• Marvel, William - Lincoln's autocrat: the life of Edwin Stanton 92 S7921 M
• Meeting the devil: a book of memoir from the London review of books (with a preface by Alan Bennett) 828.08 M
• Meyers, Jeffrey - Samuel Johnson: the struggle 92 J69 M
• Sullivan, Rosemary - Stalin's daughter: the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva 92 A4367 S

SOCIAL ISSUES

• Fernandez-Kelly, María Patricia - The hero's fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the shadow of the state 362.5 F
• Quinones, Sam - Dreamland: the true tale of America's opiate epidemic 363.45 Q
• Wittes, Benjamin - The future of violence: robots and germs, hackers and drones : confronting a new age of threat 303.6 W

HISTORY

• Alston, Richard - Rome's revolution: death of the republic and birth of the empire 937.06 A
• Church, Clive H. - A concise history of Switzerland 949.4 C
• Fairhead, James - The captain and "the cannibal": an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the Broadway stage 995 F
• Huston, James L. - Calculating the value of the Union: slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War 973.71 H
• Inskeep, Steve - Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a great American land grab 970.5 I
• Lewis, Daniel K. - The history of Argentina 982 L
• Losurdo, Domenico - Liberalism: a counter-history 320.9 L
• Nightingale, Steven - Granada: a pomegranate in the hand of God 946.8 N
• Starkey, David - Magna Carta: the true story behind the Charter 942.03 S
• Steiner, George - Idea of Europe: an essay  940.5 S

RELIGION

• Allen, John L - The Catholic church: what everyone needs to know 282 A
• Kitcher, Philip - Life after faith: the case for secular humanism 211 K
• Stern, Eliyahu - The genius: Elijah of Vilna and the making of modern Judaism 92 E4219 S
• Weitzman, Steven - Solomon: the lure of wisdom (Yale's Jewish Lives series) 221.92 S

PSYCHOLOGY

• Brogaard, Berit - On romantic love: simple truths about a complex emotion 157 B
• Cantacuzino, Marina - The forgiveness project: stories for a vengeful age 155.9 C
• Canter, David V. - Forensic psychology: a very short introduction 614.1 C

SPORTS

• Algeo, Matthew - Pedestrianism: when watching people walk was America's favorite spectator sport 796.51 A
• Epstein, Joseph - Masters of the games: essays and stories on sport 796 E
• Kahn, Roger - Rickey & Robinson: the true, untold story of the integration of baseball 796.3 K

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Dobbs, Richard - No ordinary disruption: the four global forces breaking all the trends 337 D
• Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - Get what's yours: the secrets to maxing out your social security 332 K

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• De Waal, Thomas - Great catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the shadow of genocide 956.6 D
• Lippert, Kevin C. - War Plan Red: America's secret plan to invade Canada and Canada's secret plan to invade the U.S.327.73 L
• Menon, Rajan - Conflict in Ukraine: the unwinding of the post-Cold War order 947.7 M
• Roach, Stephen S. - Unbalanced: the codependency of America and China 337 R

AFRICA

• Gerard, E. - Death in the Congo: murdering Patrice Lumumba 967 G
• Smith, Mike - Boko Haram: inside Nigeria's unholy war 966 S
• Wilkinson, Toby A. H. - The Nile: a journey downriver through Egypt's past and present 962 W

WAR

• Blight, James G - The fog of war: lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara 327.73 B
• The Cambridge history of the First World War (3 volumes) (Jay Winter, ed.) 940.3 C
• Dreazen, Yochi - The invisible front: love and loss in an era of endless war 920 G7381 D
• Neiberg, Michael S. - Potsdam: the end of World War II and the remaking of Europe 940.5314 N
• Scott, James - Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the raid that avenged Pearl Harbor 940.544 S
• Sorley, Lewis - Westmoreland: the general who lost Vietnam 92 W5333 S
• Walther, Peter - The First World War in colour  940.3 W OVERSIZE

NEW YORK

• Gallo, Marcia M. - No one helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the myth of urban apathy  364.1 G
• McGruder, Kevin - Race and real estate: interracial conflict and co-existence in Harlem, 1890-1920  305.88 M
• Otis, Ginger Adams - Firefight: the century-long battle to integrate New York's bravest  352.3 O
• Ultan, Lloyd - The Bronx: the ultimate guide to New York City's beautiful borough 917.471 U

AUDIO

• James, Henry - Daisy Miller Audio-CD J
• Leon, Donna - Doctored evidence Audio-CD L
• Spark, Muriel - The prime of Miss Jean Brodie Audio-CD S

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