New Books - July 2018
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Death: a graveside companion (foreword by Will Self)
- The displaced: refugee writers on refugee lives (Viet Thanh Nguyen, ed.)
- Anderson, M. T. - Fatal throne: the wives of Henry VIII tell all
- Attenborough, David - Adventures of a young naturalist: the zoo quest expeditions
- Barr, Luke - Ritz & Escoffier: the hotelier, the chef, and the rise of the leisure class
- Bass, Rick - The traveling feast: on the road and at the table with my heroes
- Bernstein, Jamie - Famous father girl: a memoir of growing up Bernstein (ebook available)
- Bonanos, Christopher - Flash: the making of Weegee the Famous
- Brower, Kate Andersen - First in line: presidents, vice presidents, and the pursuit of power
- Carreyrou, John. - Bad blood: secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup (ebook available)
- Charney, Noah - The museum of lost art
- Churchwell, Sarah Bartlett - Behold, America: a history of America first and the American Dream
- Clapper, James R. - Facts and fears: hard truths from a life in intelligence
- Douthat, Ross Gregory - To change the church: Pope Francis and the future of Catholicism
- Druckerman, Pamela - There are no grown-ups: a midlife coming-of-age story
- Dyson, Michael Eric - What truth sounds like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and our unfinished conversation about race in America
- Erbelding, Rebecca - Rescue board: the untold story of America's efforts to save the Jews of Europe
- Esposito, Joseph A. - Dinner in Camelot: the night America's greatest scientists, writers, and scholars partied at the Kennedy White House
- Fincham-Gray, Suzanne - My patients and other animals: a veterinarian's stories of love, loss, and hope
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila - Mischka's war: a story of survival from war-torn Europe to New York
- Fontaine, Tessa - The electric woman: a memoir in death-defying acts
- Fox, Margalit - Conan Doyle for the defense: the true story of a sensational British murder, a quest for justice, and the world's most famous detective writer
- Gayford, Martin - Modernists & mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London painters
- Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith - Hadrian's Wall
- Gottlieb, Robert - Near-death experiences, and others
- Griswold, Eliza - Amity and Prosperity: one family and the fracturing of America
- Hannah, Duncan - 20th century boy: notebooks of the seventies
- Hayden, Michael V. - The assault on intelligence: American national security in an age of lies
- Hersh, Seymour M. - Reporter: a memoir (ebook available)
- Hill, Susan - Jacob's room is full of books
- Holt, Jim - When Einstein walked with Gödel: excursions to the edge of thought
- Iftin, Abdi Nor - Call me American: a memoir
- Jones, Michael K. - The Black Prince: England's greatest medieval warrior
- Klimburg, Alexander - The darkening web: the war for cyberspace
- Krist, Gary - The mirage factory: illusion, imagination, and the invention of Los Angeles
- Kuttner, Robert - Can democracy survive global capitalism?
- Lanier, Jaron - Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now
- Lightman, Alan P. - Searching for stars on an island in Maine
- Loeffler, James Benjamin - Rooted cosmopolitans: Jews and human rights in the twentieth century
- Lynch, David - Room to dream
- Malcolm, Joyce Lee - The tragedy of Benedict Arnold: an American life
- Marr, Elspeth - A Victorian lady's guide to life
- McCain, John - The restless wave: good times, just causes, great fights and other appreciations
- Meacham, Jon - The soul of America: the battle for our better angels
- Miller, T. Christian - A false report: a true story of rape in America
- Mlodinow, Leonard - Elastic: flexible thinking in a time of change
- Morris, Desmond - The lives of the surrealists
- Painter, Nell Irvin - Old in art school: a memoir of starting over
- Plokhy, Serhii - Chernobyl: the history of a nuclear catastrophe
- Pollan, Michael - How to change your mind: what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence
- Rao, Pingru - Our story: a memoir of love and life in China
- Reel, Monte - A brotherhood of spies: the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- Rhodes, Benjamin J. - The world as it is: a memoir of the Obama White House
- Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow - Saving Central Park: a history and a memoir
- Rose, Jacqueline - Mothers: an essay on love and cruelty
- Rosenbloom, Joseph - Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours
- Russo, Richard - The destiny thief: essays on writing, writers and life
- Sedaris, David - Calypso (ebook available)
- Slade, Rachel - Into the raging sea: thirty-three mariners, one megastorm, and the sinking of El Faro
- Spencer, Charles Spencer - To catch a king: Charles II's great escape
- Weber, Caroline - Proust's duchess: how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris (ebook available)
- Werth, Léon - Deposition, 1940-1944: a secret diary of life in Vichy France (translated from the French)
- Whittington, Keith E. - Speak freely: why universities must defend free speech
- Wilkinson, Philip - Phantom architecture
- Winkler, Adam - We the corporations: how American businesses won their civil rights
- Zimmer, Carl - She has her mother's laugh: the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity
FICTION
- Alam, Rumaan - That kind of mother
- Backman, Fredrik - Us against you: a novel (translated from the Swedish)
- Blum, Jenna - The lost family: a novel
- Blum, Yoav - The coincidence makers (translated from the Hebrew)
- Blundell, Judy - The high season: a novel
- Burton, Tara Isabella - Social creature: a novel
- Calinescu, Matei - The life and opinions of Zacharias Lichter (New York Review Books; translated from the Romanian)
- Castillo, Elaine - America is not the heart
- Chamoiseau, Patrick - Slave old man (translated from the French and Creole)
- Clement, Jennifer - Gun love: a novel
- Cohen, Jon - Harry's trees
- Colgan, Jenny - The endless beach: a novel
- Cusk, Rachel - Kudos (ebook available)
- De Kretser, Michelle - The life to come: a novel
- Delinsky, Barbara - Before and again
- Drnaso, Nick - Sabrina
- Dybek, Nick - The Verdun affair: a novel
- Gable, Michelle - The summer I met Jack
- Glendinning, Victoria - The butcher's daughter
- Hall, Araminta - Our kind of cruelty
- Hilderbrand, Elin - The perfect couple: a novel
- Holgate, Stephen - Madagasca/
- Hummel, Maria - Still lives: a novel
- Jones, Cynan - Cove
- Kidd, Jess - Mr. Flood's last resort: a novel
- Lispector, Clarice - The chandelier (translated from the Portugese)
- Litt, Toby - Notes for a young gentleman
- Louis, Édouard - History of violence (translated from the French)
- MacManus, James - Ike and Kay
- Makkai, Rebecca - The great believers
- Mathews, Harry - The solitary twin: a novel
- McLaughlin, James A. - Bearskin
- Nielsen, Madame - The endless summer: a requiem (translated from the Danish)
- Onuzo, Chibundu - Welcome to Lagos
- Orange, Tommy - There there: a novel (ebook available)
- Ørstavik, Hanne - Love (translated from the Norwegian)
- Pava, Sergio de la - Lost empress: (a protest)
- Pearson, Allison - How hard can it be?
- Pekkanen, Sarah - The ever after: a novel
- Phillips, Caryl - A view of the empire at sunset
- Powers, Kevin - A shout in the ruins: a novel
- Rothmann, Ralf - To die in spring (translated from the German)
- Steadman, Catherine - Something in the water: a novel
- Tabucchi, Antonio - For Isabel: a mandala (translated from the Italian)
- Thomson, Rupert - Never anyone but you
- Umrigar, Thrity N. - The secrets between us: a novel
- Weir, Alison - Jane Seymour: the haunted queen: a novel
- Weisberger, Lauren - When life gives you lululemons: a novel
- Winthrop, Elizabeth Hartley - The mercy seat: a novel
- Wood, James - Upstate
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MYSTERIES
- Arnaldur Indriðason, - The shadow killer: a thriller (translated from the Icelandic) (ebook available)
- Barron, Laird - Blood standard
- Billingham, Mark - The killing habit*
- Black, Cara - Murder on the Left Bank
- Brown, Rita Mae - Probable claws
- Buckley, Fiona - The reluctant assassin: an Ursula Blanchard mystery*
- Clinton, Bill - The president is missing: a novel
- Connolly, John - The woman in the woods (ebook available)
- Cussler, Clive - The gray ghost
- Donlea, Charlie - Don't believe it
- Dyer, Ashley - Splinter in the blood: a novel
- Flanders, Judith - A howl of wolves: a mystery
- Goddard, Robert - Panic room*
- Goldman, Matt - Broken ice
- Haas, Derek - The way I die
- Housewright, David - Like to die
- Jennings, Luke - Codename Villanelle
- Kelly, Jim - The Great Darkness*
- King, Laurie R. - Island of the mad: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes*
- Knecht, Rosalie - Who is Vera Kelly?
- Knoll, Jessica - The favorite sister: a novel
- LeBor, Adam - District VIII
- Levine, Paul - Bum deal
- MacDonald, Patricia J. - The girl in the woods
- McPherson, Catriona - Scot free: the lighter side of the dark underbelly of the California dream
- Nugent, Liz - Lying in wait: a novel
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Night-gaunts and other tales of suspense
- Paris, B. A. - Bring me back
- Persson, Leif G. W. - The sword of justice (translated from the Swedish)
- Preston, Douglas J. - The pharaoh key: a Gideon Crew novel
- Robards, Karen - The Moscow deception
- Robards, Karen - The ultimatum
- Schepp, Emelie - Slowly we die
- Shaw, William - Salt lane*
- Shea, Susan C. - Dressed for death in Burgundy
- Sherez, Stav - The intrusions*
- Templeton, Aline - Human face*
- Walker, Martin - A taste for vengeance: a Bruno, chief of police novel (ebook available)
- Ware, Ruth - The death of Mrs. Westaway*
- Woods, Stuart - Turbulence
- Zhou, Haohui - Death notice: a novel (translated from the Chinese)
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- The prisoner's defence and other First World War stories (selected by Ann-Marie Einhaus)
- Braverman, Kate - A good day for seppuku: short stories
- DeWitt, Helen - Some trick: thirteen stories (ebook available)
- Groff, Lauren - Florida
- Homes, A. M. - Days of awe
- Machado de Assis - The collected stories
- Millet, Lydia - Fight no more
- Niffenegger, Audrey - Bizarre romance
- O'Neill, Joseph - Good trouble
POETRY
- Ashbery, John - They knew what they wanted: poems & collages
- Bervin, Jen - Silk poems
- Cope, Wendy - Anecdotal evidence
- Hoagland, Tony. - Priest turned therapist treats fear of God: poems
- Karr, Mary - Tropic of squalor: poems
- Kelly, Donika - Bestiary: poems
- Lally, Michael - Another way to play: poems 1960-2017
- Smith, Patricia - Incendiary art: poems
- Young, Kevin - Brown: poems
Book Committee Recommendations
- Godsong: a verse translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with commentary (Amit Majmudar)
- Caruso, Nick - Does it fart?: the definitive field guide to animal flatulence
- Choudhury, Kushanava. - The epic city: the world on the streets of Calcutta
- Fallows, James M. - Our towns: a 100,000-mile journey into the heart of America
- Polizzotti, Mark - Sympathy for the traitor: a translation manifesto
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Science fiction: a literary history (Roger Luckhurst) 809.3 S
- Crews, Michael Lynn - Books are made out of books: a guide to Cormac McCarthy's literary influences 823 M
- Folsom, Franklin - Days of anger, days of hope: a memoir of the League of American writers, 1937-1942 820.9 F
- Winton, Tim - The boy behind the curtain: notes from an Australian life 824.08 W
FICTION
- Aickman, Robert - Compulsory games: and other stories ((New York Review Books) F A
- Manchette, Jean-Patrick - Ivory pearl (translated from the French; New York Review Books) F M
- Remarque, Erich Maria - Eight stories: tales of war and loss (translated from the French) F R
LANGUAGE
- Briggs, Kate - This little art (on translation) 418 B
- Davies, Christopher - Divided by a common language: a guide to British and American English 427 D
ART
- Klimt and Schiele: drawings: from the Albertina Museum, Vienna (Kate Hanson, ed.) 759.36 K OVERSIZE
- Einberg, Elizabeth - William Hogarth: a complete catalogue of the paintings 759.2 H
- Mantel, Hilary - Holbein's Sir Thomas More 759.3 H
PERFORMING ARTS
- Jacobs, Laura - Celestial bodies: how to look at ballet 792.8 J
- Mann, Robert - A passionate journey: a memoir 780.92 M
- Sawyers, June Skinner - Cabaret FAQ: all that's left to know about the Broadway and cinema classic 792.7 S
TRAVEL
- Adams, Mark - Tip of the iceberg: my 3,000-mile journey around wild Alaska, the last great American frontier 917.98 A
- Theroux, Paul - Figures in a landscape: people and places : essays: 2001-2016 824 T
NEW YORK
- Garmey, Jane - City green: public gardens of New York 712 G
- Hill, Jason E. - Artist as reporter: Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM news picture 070.4 H
- Schlichting, Kurt C. - Waterfront Manhattan: from Henry Hudson to the High Line 387.1 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Brumwell, Stephen - Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the crisis of American liberty 92 A752 B
- Chee, Alexander - How to write an autobiographical novel: essays 92 C5151 C
- Nickliss, Alexandra M. - Phoebe Apperson Hearst: a life of power and politics 92 H4365 N
- Reid, Martine - George Sand 92 S213 R
HISTORY
- Catlos, Brian A. - Kingdoms of faith: a new history of Islamic Spain 946.02 C
- Hartnell, Jack - Medieval bodies: life, death and art in the Middle Ages 940.1 H
- Hitchcock, William I. - The age of Eisenhower: America and the world in the 1950s 973.92 H
- Lawler, Andrew - The secret token: myth, obsession, and the search for the lost colony of Roanoke 975.6 L
- Levene, Mark - The crisis of genocide (2 vols.) 364.1 L
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Milne, Tim - Kim Philby: the unknown story of the KGB's master spy 327.12 M
- Rodden, John - Of G-men and eggheads: the FBI and the New York intellectuals 974.71 R
RELIGION
- Gray, John - Seven types of atheism 211 G
- Wright, N. T. - Paul: a biography 225.92 W
SCIENCE
- Harman, Oren Solomon - Evolutions: fifteen myths that explain our world 575 H
- Johnson, Victoria - American Eden: David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic 92 H8252 J
- Morris, Errol - The ashtray (or the man who denied reality) 501 M
AUDIO BOOKS
- Didion, Joan - Play it as it lays Lobby Audio-CD D
- Rovelli, Carlo - The order of time Lobby Audio-CD 530 R
- Wolitzer, Meg - The female persuasion Lobby Audio-CD W