While the Library is closed in response to COVID-19, we are still reading book reviews, looking at publisher lists, and receiving member requests. The work of buidling our collection never stops. The books below have been recently selected for the collection, and are soon to be received and processed. To place holds, log in to our website, and click on the linked titles below. You will be taken to our online catalog; once there, click the Request button over the search bar. Or you may send an email to requests@nysoclib.org to have books below placed on your holds list. For many more recent selections, see our May and June lists. And a list of the most anticipated books of the coming summer is posted on our website here.

The Library is now open daily from 11am - 4pm for pick-up and return. More information is available here. Of course, our Cloud Library e-book collection never closes. 

ANTIQUITY

• Edmonds, Radcliffe G. - Drawing Down The Moon: Magic In The Ancient Greco-Roman World
• Herrin, Judith - Ravenna: Capital Of Empire, Crucible Of Europe

ARTS

• Colwell, Chip - Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside The Fight To Reclaim Native America's Culture
• Johnson, Fenton - At The Center Of All Beauty: Solitude and The Creative Life (Dickinson, Thoreau, Cezanne, Bill Cunningham, Zora Neale Hurston)
• Marchand, Suzanne L. - Porcelain: A History From The Heart Of Europe

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

• Gallagher, Dorothy - Stories I Forgot To Tell You
• Kalb, Bess - Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
• Lang, Maya Shanbhag - What We Carry
• Leahy, Christopher - President Without A Party: The Life Of John Tyler
• Loh, Sandra Tsing - The Madwoman and The Roomba: My Year Of Domestic Mayhem
• Pollen, Bella - Meet Me In The In-Between
• Stein, Leslie - I Know You Rider (acclaimed comics memoir)
• Cognetti, Paolo - Without Ever Reaching The Summit (memoir of travel in The Himalayas)

FICTION

• Barnett, Lashonda Katrice - Jam On The Vine
• Buchanan, Rowan Hisayo - Starling Days
• Dolan, Naoise - Exciting Times
• Doyle, Glennon - Untamed
• Doyle,Roddy - Love
• Fei, Ge - Peach Blossom Paradise
• Foroutan, Paraz - The Girl From The Garden
• Gordon, Mary - Payback: A Novel
• Guibert, Herve - Written In Invisible Ink: Selected Stories
• Harris, Robert - V2: A Novel Of World War Ii
• Kandasamy, Meena - When I Hit You (Europa Editions)
• Kawakami, Chris - Breasts and Eggs (translated from the Japanese; Europa Editions)
• Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund - Unwitting Street: Stories
• Lemoine, Sanae - Margot Affair
• Massini, Stefano - Lehman Trilogy
• Miller, Alice - More Miracle Than Bird
• Miller, Sue - Monogamy: A Novel
• Robinson, Marilynne - Jack: A Novel
• Rosner, Jennifer - Yellow Bird Sings
• Scott, Stephanie - What's Left Of Me Is Yours
• Tisma, Aleksander - Kapo (translated from the Serbo-Croatian)

FOOD

• Druckman, Charlotte - Women On Food: Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters
• Sifton, Sam - See You On Sunday: A Cookbook For Family and Friends

HISTORY

• Burke, Peter - Polymath: A Cultural History From Leonardo Da Vinci To Susan Sontag
• Cesaire, Aime - Disclosure On Colonialism; Trans. By Joan Pinkham
• Craveri, Benedetta - Last Libertines
• Magida, Arthur J. - Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy In Nazi-Occupied Paris
• Swanson, Doug J. - Cult Of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History Of The Texas Rangers
• Taylor, Frederick - 1939: A People's History Of The Coming Of The Second World War
• Wallace, Chris - Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story Of The Atomic Bomb and The 116 Days That Changed The World

LITERATURE, JOURNALISM & ESSAYS

• Czapski, Jozef - Memories Of Starobielsk (translated From the Polish)
• Dillon, Brian - Suppose A Sentence
• Dunbar-Nelson, Alice - The Works Of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Horne, Gerald - Rise and Fall Of The Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett's Pan- African News and The Jim Crow Paradox
• Hull, Gloria - Color, Sex and Poetry: Three Women Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance
• Lee, Susanna, - Detectives In The Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History
• Milne, A. A. - Happy Half Hours
• O'brien, Edna - James and Nora
• Spires, Derrick Ramon - Practice Of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture In The Early United States
• White, E.B. - Chickens, Gin and A Maine Friendship

MYSTERIES & THRILLERS

• Airth, Rennie - The Decent Inn Of Death: A John Madden Mystery
• Brown, Sandra - Thick As Thieves
• Carr, Mathew - Black Sun Rising
• Castillo, Linda - The Outsider
• Cleeves, Ann - The Darkest Evening: A Vera Stanhope Novel
• Foley, Lucy - Guest List
• Follett, Ken - Evening and The Morning
• Gudenkauf, Heather - This Is How I Lied
• Hoffman, Patrick - Clean Hands
• Mcallister, Gillian - Choice
• Mosley, Walter - Awkward Black Man: Short Stories
• Nesbo, Jo - Kingdom: A Novel
• Patterson, James - Blindside
• Penny, Louise - All The Devils Are Here: A Novel
• Perry, Anne - Question Of Betrayal
• Robb, J. D. - Shadows In Death: An Eve Dallas Novel
• Serritella, Francesca - Ghosts Of Harvard
• Ware, Ruth - One By One
• Young, Heather - Distant Dead
• Cosby, Shawn A. - Blacktop Wasteland

NEW YORK

• Cote, Andrew - Honey and Venom: Confessions Of An Urban Beekeeper
• Kuhn, David Paul - The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and The Dawn Of The White Working-Class Revolution
• Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna - Design For The Crowd: Patriotism and Protest In Union Square
• Snyder-Grenier, Ellen M. - House On Henry Street: The Enduring Life Of A Lower East Side Settlement

PERFORMING ARTS

• Cage, John - Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
• Cage, John - Love, Icebox: Letters From John Cage To Merce Cunningham
• Golia, Maria - Ornette Coleman: The Territory and The Adventure
• Karlin, Fred - Listening To Movies

POETRY

• Annie Finch & Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Eds. - Villanelles
• Blaser, Robin - The Holy Forest: Collected Poems
• Kenny, Maurice - Only As Far As Brooklyn
• Malroux, Claire - Daybreak: New and Selected Poems
• Mew, Charlotte Mary - Selected Poetry and Prose

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Abrams, Stacey - Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and The Fight For A Fair America
• Baker, Nicholson - Baseless: My Search For Secrets In The Ruins Of The Freedom Of Information Act
• Bolton, John - The Room Where It Happened
• Bromwich, David - Writing Politics: An Anthology
• Dickerson, John - Hardest Job In The World: The American Presidency
• Jordan, Mary - Art Of Her Deal: The Untold Story Of Melania Trump
• Kessler, Ronald - Inside The White House
• Kessler, Ronald - The First Family Detail

PROTEST & ACTIVISM / CIVIL RIGHTS

• Brown, Austin Channing - I'm Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness
• Davies, Tom Adam - Mainstreaming Black Power
• Davis, Angela - Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
• Edim, Glory - Well-Read Black Girl
• Keeanga-Yamahtta, Taylor - How We Get Free: Black Feminism and The Combahee River Collective
• Oluo, Ijeoma - So You Want To Talk About Race?
• Ransby, Barbara - Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom In The Twenty-First Century
• Richardson, Allissa V. - Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and The New Protest #Journalism
• Roberts, Dorothy - Fatal Invention: The Making Of The Black Radical Tradition
• Robinson, Cedric J. - Black Marxism: The Making Of The Black Radical Tradition

RELIGION

• Hadewijch (13th Century Christian Mystic) - Complete Works
• Ochs, Vanessa L. - Passover Haggadah: A Biography

SCIENCE

• Ariza, Mario Alejandro - Disposable City: Miami's Future On The Shores Of Climate Catastrophe
• Cowles, Henry M. - Scientific Method: An Evolution Of Thinking From Darwin To Dewey
• Gamwell, Lynn - Exploring The Invisible: Art, Science, and The Spiritual
• Harvey, Eleanor Jones - Alexander Von Humboldt and The United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
• Pellant, Chris - Rocks and Minerals
• Smith, Laurence C. - Rivers Of Power: How A Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
• Southwick, Steven M. - Resilience: The Science Of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges
• Tsui, Bonnie - Why We Swim

SOCIAL SCIENCE

• Berry, David - On Nostalgia
• Cappello, Lawrence - None Of Your Damn Business: Privacy In The United States From The Gilded Age To The Digital
• Ralph, Laurence - Torture Letters: Reckoning With Police Violence
• Vitale, Alex - End Of Policing