New Books - July 2017
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Ackroyd, Peter - Queer city: gay London from the Romans to the present day
- Alda, Alan - If I understood you, would I have this look on my face?: my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating
- Blatt, Ben - Nabokov's favorite word is mauve: what the numbers reveal about the classics, bestsellers, and our own writing
- Brideson, Cynthia - He's got rhythm: the life and career of Gene Kelly
- Brown, David S. - Paradise lost: a life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Buchanan, Patrick J. - Nixon's White House wars: the battles that made and broke a president and divided America forever
- Chadwick, Bruce - Law & disorder: the chaotic birth of the NYPD
- Cole, Teju. - Blind spot (photography; foreword by Siri Hustvedt)
- De Courcy, Anne - The husband hunters: social climbing in London and New York
- Dearborn, Mary V. - Ernest Hemingway: a biography
- Dugatkin, Lee Alan - How to tame a fox (and build a dog): visionary scientists and a Siberian tale of jump-started evolution
- Emmott, Bill - The fate of the west: the battle to save the world's most successful political idea
- Epstein, Daniel Mark - The loyal son: the war in Ben Franklin's house
- Ferris, Emil - My favorite thing is monsters
- Footsteps: from Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, literary pilgrimages around the world (New York Times)
- Frank, Michael - The mighty Franks: a memoir
- Franken, Al - Al Franken, giant of the Senate
- Freeman, Sally Mott - The Jersey brothers: a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home
- Gould, Jonathan - Otis Redding: an unfinished life
- Haag, Michael - The Durrells of Corfu
- Harris, Jessica B. - My soul looks back: a memoir
- Hornaday, Ann - Talking pictures: how to watch movies
- Keilson, Hans - 1944 diary (translated from the German)
- King, David - The trial of Adolf Hitler: the Beer Hall Putsch and the rise of Nazi Germany
- Lebron, Christopher J. - The making of Black lives matter: a brief history of an idea
- Levingston, Steven - Kennedy and King: the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Lewis, Fiona - Mistakes were made (some in French)
- Looser, Devoney - The making of Jane Austen
- Montville, Leigh - Sting like a bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Paling, Chris - Reading allowed: true stories and curious incidents from a provincial library
- Passarello, Elena - Animals strike curious poses: essays
- Petersen, Andrea - On edge: a journey through anxiety
- Ricks, Thomas E. - Churchill and Orwell: the fight for freedom
- Robbins, Jim - The wonder of birds: what they tell us about ourselves, the world, and a better future
- Ruhlman, Michael - Grocery: the buying and selling of food in America
- Safranski, Rüdiger - Goethe: life as a work of art (translated from the German)
- Sedaris, David - Theft by finding: diaries (1977-2002)
- Shake it up: great American writing on rock and pop from Elvis to Jay Z (Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar, eds.; Library of America)
- Tannen, Deborah - You're the only one I can tell: inside the language of women's friendships
- Tomasky, Michael - Bill Clinton
- Tyson, Neil deGrasse - Astrophysics for people in a hurry
FICTION
- Bell, Madison Smartt - Behind the moon: a fever dream
- Browning, Barbara - The gift: (or, Techniques of the body)
- Craig, Charmaine - Miss Burma
- Cussler, Clive - Nighthawk: a novel from the NUMA Files
- Docx, Edward - Let go my hand
- Everett, Percival - So much blue: a novel
- Farrow, John - Perish the day: a thriller
- George, Nina - The little French bistro: a novel (translated from the German)
- Ginder, Grant - The people we hate at the wedding
- Glass, Julia - A house among the trees
- Godwin, Gail - Grief cottage: a novel
- Goodman, Allegra - The chalk artist: a novel
- Green, Jane - The sunshine sisters
- Harrison, Colin - You belong to me: a novel
- Heiny, Katherine - Standard deviation
- Hilderbrand, Elin - The identicals: a novel
- Himes, Julie Lekstrom - Mikhail and Margarita
- Hughes, Andrew - The coroner's daughter
- Jacobson, Howard - Pussy
- Jaswal, Balli Kaur - Erotic stories for Punjabi widows
- Kadish, Rachel - The weight of ink
- Kanon, Joseph - Defectors: a novel
- Kehlmann, Daniel - You should have left (translated from the German)
- Kwan, Kevin - Rich people problems: a novel
- Lacey, Catherine - The answers
- Lafon, Lola - The little communist who never smiled (translated from the French)
- LaValle, Victor D. - The changeling
- Lennon, J. Robert - Broken river: a novel
- Lepucki, Edan - Woman no. 17: a novel
- Lester, Jem - Shtum: a novel
- Maum, Courtney - Touch
- Meloy, Maile - Do not become alarmed
- Mukherjee, Abir - A rising man
- Peterson, Holly - It happens in the Hamptons: a novel
- Qiu, Miaojin - Notes of a crocodile (translated from the Chinese)
- Rieger, Susan - The heirs: a novel
- Rio, M. L. - If we were villains
- Roberts, Nora - Come sundown
- Roy, Arundhati - The ministry of utmost happiness (ebook available)
- Steel, Danielle - Against all odds: a novel
- Umrigar, Thrity N. - Everybody's son: a novel
- Underdown, Beth - The witchfinder's sister: a novel
- Wang, Weike - Chemistry: a novel
- Weir, Alison - Anne Boleyn: a king's obsession: a novel
MYSTERIES
- Barrett, Lorna. - A just clause
- Beck, Haylen - Here and gone: a novel
- Billingham, Mark - Love like blood*
- Binet, Laurent - The 7th function of language (translated from the French)
- Black, Benjamin - Wolf on a string: a novel
- Black, Cara - Murder in Saint-Germain
- Brown, Rita Mae - A hiss before dying: a Mrs. Murphy mystery
- Casey, Jane - Let the dead speak
- Child, Lincoln - Full wolf moon: a novel
- Christie, William - A single spy
- Dionne, Karen - The Marsh King's daughter
- Doiron, Paul - Knife Creek
- Evanovich, Janet - Dangerous minds: a Knight and Moon novel
- Finder, Joseph - The switch: a novel
- Gerlis, Alex - Vienna spies
- Griffiths, Elly - The chalk pit: a Ruth Galloway mystery*
- Grisham, John - Camino Island (ebook available)
- Hall, Patricia - Cover up*
- Harris, Tessa - The sixth victim*
- Holt, Anne - Odd numbers: a Hanne Wilhelmsen novel (translated from the Norwegian)
- Housewright, David - What the dead leave behind: a McKenzie novel
- Houston, Victoria - Dead spider: a novel
- Jackson, Lisa - You will pay
- Kelly, Erin - He said/she said*
- King, Laurie R. - Lockdown: a novel of suspense
- MacBride, Stuart - A dark so deadly
- Maron, Margaret - Take out: a mystery
- Mathews, Francine - Death on Nantucket
- Mills, Mark,- Where dead men meet
- Persson, Leif G. W. - The dying detective (translated from the Swedish)
- Searle, Nicholas - A traitor in the family*
- Shaw, William, - Sympathy for the devil*
- Shea, Susan C. - Love & death in Burgundy
- Sullivan, Matthew - Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookstore: a novel
- Vargas, Fred - A climate of fear
- Vidich, Paul - The good assassin: a novel
- Walker, Martin - The Templars' last secret: a Bruno, Chief of Police novel
- Westlake, Donald E. - Forever and a death
- Winslow, Don - The force
- Woods, Stuart - Indecent exposure
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Arimah, Lesley Nneka - What it means when a man falls from the sky
- Beattie, Ann - The accomplished guest: stories
POETRY
- The golden shovel anthology: new poems honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (Peter Kahn, et al., eds.)
- Simic, Charles - Scribbled in the dark: poems
- The zoo of the new: poems to read now (Nick Laird, Don Paterson, eds.)
BOOK COMMITTEE
- Baldwin, James - I am not your Negro: a major motion picture directed by Raoul Peck
- Estes, J. A. - Serendipity: an ecologist's quest to understand nature
- Hytner, Nicholas - Balancing acts: behind the scenes at the National Theatre
- Kasparov, G. K. - Deep thinking: where machine intelligence ends and human creativity begins
- McCarthy, Michael - The moth snowstorm: nature and joy
- Mansel, Philip - Aleppo: the rise and fall of Syria's great merchant city
- Radical hope: letters of love and dissent in dangerous times (Carolina de Robertis, ed.)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Decadence: a literary anthology (British Library; selected by Jon Crabb) 820.9 D
- Kapuscinski, Ryszard - Nobody leaves: impressions of Poland (translated from the Polish by William R. Brand) 891.85 K
- Kleinzahler, August - Sallies, romps, portraits, and send-offs: selected prose, 2000-2016 824 K
- Reynolds, Matthew - Translation: a very short introduction 418 R
- Seelig, Carl - Walks with [Robert ] Walser (translated from the German) 838.09 W
- Sontag, Susan - Later essays 824 S
FICTION
- Altan, Ahmet - Endgame (Europa Editions; translated from the Turkish) F A
- Babitz, Eve - L.A. woman: a novel F B
- Carrington, Leonora - The complete stories of Leonora Carrington F C and The hearing trumpet F C
- Dard, Frédéric - Bird in a cage (translated from the French, originially published in 1961) F D and The wicked go to hell (translated from the French, originally published in 1956) F D
- Joaquin, Nick - The woman who had two navels and tales of the tropical gothic (Penguin Classics; first U.S. collection of Filipino writer's work) F J
- Nors, Dorthe - Mirror, shoulder, signal (translated from the Danish) F N
ART & ARCHITECTURE
- Barkman, Adam - Making sense of Islamic art & architecture 709 B
- Friedman, Bernard - The American idea of home: conversations about architecture and design 720.973 F
- Friend, Andy - Ravilious & co: the pattern of friendship 709.42 F
- Hopkins, John North - The genesis of Roman architecture 722 H
- Rauschenberg, Robert - Robert Rauschenberg 709.73 R
- Summerson, John - The life and work of John Nash, architect 720.92 N
- Woodham, Doug - Art collecting today: market insights for everyone passionate about art 706.9 W
PERFORMING ARTS
- Bowie, David. - David Bowie: the last interview and other conversations 780.921 B
- Do you, Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the poets and professors (Neil Corcoran, ed.) 784.6 D
- Guenther, Eileen Morris - In their own words: slave life and the power of spirituals 784.756 G
- Kael, Pauline - Conversations with Pauline Kael 791.4 K
FASHION
- Rei Kawakubo: Comme des Garçons : art of the in-between (Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) 746.92 R OVERSIZE
- Ribeiro, Aileen - Clothing art: the visual culture of fashion, 1600-1914 746.92 R
JOURNALISM
- Dubbs, Chris - American journalists in the Great War: rewriting the rules of reporting 070.4 D
- McEneaney, Kevin T. - Hunter S. Thompson: fear, loathing, and the birth of Gonzo 820.9 T
- Schwartz, Jack - The fine print: my life as a deskman 92 S39977 S
BOOKS & READING
- Lahiri, Jhumpa. - The clothing of books 741.64 L
- Troy, Michele K. - Strange bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich 943.085 T
- The Voynich manuscript (Raymond Clemons, ed.; introduction by Deborah Harkness) 091 V OVERSIZE
WRITING
- Evans, Harold - Do I make myself clear?: why writing well matters 808 E
- Scratch: writers, money, and the art of making a living (Manjula Martin, ed.) 808 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Alexie, Sherman - You don't have to say you love me: a memoir 92 A384 A
- Angelo, Bonnie - First mothers: the women who shaped the presidents 920 A5844 F
- Beidao - City gate, open up (translated from the Chinese) 92 B4219 B
- Nettleship, Ida - The good Bohemian: the letters of Ida John 92 N475 G
- Robins, Natalie S. - The untold journey: the life of Diana Trilling 92 T8295 R
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Morris, Charles R. - A rabble of dead money: the Great Crash and the global depression : 1929-1939 973.91 M
- Norfield, Tony - The city: London and the global power of finance 337 N
- Waterhouse, Benjamin C. - The land of enterprise: a business history of the United States 338.7 W
HISTORY
- Hawes, J. M. - The shortest history of Germany 943 H
- Kelly, Linda, - Talleyrand in London: the master diplomat's last mission 944.06 K
- Roberts, Jennifer Tolbert, - The plague of war: Athens, Sparta, and the struggle for ancient Greece 938 R
- Storer, Colin. - A short history of the Weimar Republic 943.085 S
- Wallis, Michael - The best land under heaven: the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny 978 W
SOCIAL & CULTURAL HISTORY
- Dinerstein, Joel - The origins of cool in postwar America 306.4 D
- Dyhouse, Carol - Heartthrobs: a history of women and desire 306.7 D
- McCarter, Jeremy - Young radicals: in the war for American ideals 322.4 M
TRAVEL
- Cahill, Susan - The streets of Paris: a guide to the City of Light following in the footsteps of famous Parisians throughout history 914.436 C
- Hessel, Franz - Walking in Berlin: a flaneur in the capital 943.1 H
- Shoemake, Josh - Tangier: a literary guide for travellers 916.4 S
MIDDLE EAST
- Mekhennet, Souad - I was told to come alone: my journey behind the lines of jihad 303.3 M
- Sharif, Manal, - Daring to drive: a Saudi woman's awakening 92 S531 S
- Thrall, Nathan. - The only language they understand: forcing compromise in Israel and Palestine 956.94 T
WAR
- Bowden, Mark - Hûé 1968: a turning point of the American war in Vietnam 959.704 B
- Our latest longest war: losing hearts and minds in Afghanistan (Lt. Col. Aaron B. O'Connell, ed.) 958 O
- Wagner, Margaret E. - America and the Great War: a Library of Congress illustrated history 940.373 W OVERSIZE
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Hollander, Paul - From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: intellectuals and a century of political hero worship 321.9 H
- Luce, Edward - The retreat of western liberalism 320.4 L
- Snyder, Brad - The House of Truth: a Washington political salon and the foundations of American liberalism 975.3 S
LAW
- Fiss, Owen M. - Pillars of justice: lawyers and the liberal tradition 344 F
- Kalman, Laura - The long reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the making of the contemporary Supreme Court 347.991 K
SCIENCE
- Baron, David - American eclipse: a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world 523.7 B
- Dolnick, Edward - Seeds of life: from Aristotle to Da Vinci, from sharks' teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from 612.6 D
- Firestein, Stuart - Failure: why science is so successful 501 F
RELIGION
- Coelho, Paulo - The pilgrimage: a contemporary quest for ancient wisdom 92 C6729 C
- Eliade, Mircea,- The sacred and the profane: the nature of religion 201 E
- Lambert, Malcolm - God's armies: crusade and jihad : origins, history, aftermath 290 L
- Ruden, Sarah - The face of water: a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible 220.1 R
NEW YORK
- Harris, Brandon - Making rent in Bed-Stuy: a memoir of trying to make it in New York City 974.71 H
- New York in photobooks (Horacio Fernandez Martinez, ed.) 779 N
- Plunz, Richard - A history of housing in New York City (revised edition) 363.5 P
- Tonnelat, Stéphane - International express: New Yorkers on the 7 train 305.8 T