New Books - July 2021
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Abrams, Dan - Kennedy's avenger: assassination, conspiracy, and the forgotten trial of Jack Ruby
- Bernofsky, Susan - Clairvoyant of the small: the life of Robert Walser
- Blas, Javier - The world for sale: money, power, and the traders who barter the earth's resources
- Burrough, Bryan - Forget the Alamo: the rise and fall of an American myth
- Carlile, Brandi - Broken horses: a memoir
- Crawford, Kate - Atlas of AI: power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence
- Davis, Pete - Dedicated: the case for commitment in an age of infinite browsing
- Defoe, Gideon - An atlas of extinct countries
- Dobbs, Michael - King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy (ebook available)
- Emezi, Akwaeke - Dear Senthuran: a Black spirit memoir
- Engelhart, Katie - The inevitable: dispatches on the right to die
- Ferling, John E. - Winning independence: the decisive years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781
- Floud, Roderick - England's magnificent gardens: how a billion-dollar industry transformed a nation, from Charles II to today
- Ford, Ashley C. - Somebody's daughter: a memoir
- Forna, Aminatta - The window seat: notes from a life in motion
- Fox, Margalit - The confidence men: how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history (ebook available)
- Goldberg, Emma - Life on the line: young doctors come of age in a pandemic
- Green, John - The Anthropocene reviewed: essays on a human-centered planet
- Heylin, Clinton - The double life of Bob Dylan: a restless, hungry feeling, 1941-1966
- Hinton, Elizabeth Kai - America on fire: the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s
- Hockney, David - Spring cannot be cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy
- Hough, Lauren - Leaving isn't the hardest thing: essays
- Hunter, Lew - Naked screenwriting: twenty-two Oscar-winning screenwriters bare their secrets to writing
- Johnson, Steven - Extra life: a short history of living longer
- Junger, Sebastian - Freedom
- Leonnig, Carol - Zero fail: the rise and fall of the Secret Service
- Malik, Nesrine - We need new stories: the myths that subvert freedom
- McHugh, Jess - Americanon: an unexpected U.S. history in thirteen bestselling books
- Miles, Tiya - All that she carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake (ebook available)
- Moore, Kate - The woman they could not silence: one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear
- O'Keane, Veronica - A sense of self: memory, the brain, and who we are
- Orange, Michelle - Pure flame: a legacy
- Perre, Selma van de - My name is Selma: the remarkable memoir of a Jewish resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor
- Ramey, Sarah - The lady's handbook for her mysterious illness: a memoir
- Riley, Jason - Maverick: a biography of Thomas Sowell
- Rinaldi, Thomas E. - Patented: 1,000 design patents
- Rosenberg, Rebecca - At any cost: a father's betrayal, a wife's murder, and a ten-year war for justice
- Rushdie, Salman - Languages of truth: essays 2003-2020 (ebook available)
- Shesol, Jeff - Mercury rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the new battleground of the Cold War
- Slingerland, Edward G. - Drunk: how we sipped, danced, and stumbled our way to civilization
- Smith, Clint - How the word is passed: a reckoning with the history of slavery across America
- Stepanova, Marii︠a︡ - In memory of memory: a romance
- Sutherland, John - Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and me: her life and long loves
- Taylor, Alan - American republics: a continental history of the United States, 1783-1850
- Tran, Ly - House of sticks: a memoir
- Trethewey, Rachel - The Churchill girls the story of Winston's daughters
- Waters, Alice - We are what we eat: a slow food manifesto
- White, Ronald C. - Lincoln in private: what his most personal reflections tell us about our greatest president
- Wright, Lawrence - The plague year: America in the time of COVID (ebook available)
FICTION
- Arnett, Kristen - With teeth: a novel
- Bánffy, Miklós - The enchanted night: selected tales (translated from the Hungarian)
- Bowen, Elizabeth - Selected stories (selected by Tessa Hadley)
- Brundage, Elizabeth - The vanishing point: a novel
- Charyn, Jerome - Sergeant Salinger
- Davies, Carys - The mission house: a novel
- Dongala, Emmanuel Boundzéki - The Bridgetower sonata: sonata mulattica (translated from the French)
- Fuller, Claire - Unsettled ground
- Galchen, Rivka - Everyone knows your mother is a witch
- Harris, Zakiya Dalila - The other Black girl: a novel (ebook available)
- Henkin, Joshua - Morningside heights (ebook available)
- Hilderbrand, Elin - Golden Girl: a novel
- Hostin, Sunny - Summer on the bluffs: a novel
- Ibrāhīm, Ṣunʻ Allāh - Warda: a novel (translated from the Arabic)
- Kawakami, Mieko - Heaven
- Khartash, Fayṣal - Roundabout of death (translated from the Arabic)
- Kim, Nancy Jooyoun - The last story of Mina Lee
- Leitch, Will - How lucky: a novel
- Lennon, J. Robert - Subdivision: a novel
- Liardet, Frances - We must be brave
- Lin, Tom - The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu: a novel
- Perlman, Elliot - Maybe the horse will talk
- Pulley, Natasha - The kingdoms
- Quinn, Anthony - London, burning
- Ratto, Patricia - Proceed with caution: stories and a novella
- Reid, Taylor Jenkins - Malibu rising: a novel (ebook available)
- Riviere, Sam - Dead souls: a novel
- Roberts, Nora - Legacy
- Rutherfurd, Edward - China: the novel
- Ryan, Donal - Strange flowers
- Samson, Polly - A theater for dreamers
- Shearn, Amy - Unseen city: a novel
- Shepard, Jim - Phase six (ebook available)
- Shriver, Lionel - Should we stay or should we go: a novel
- Silva, Samantha - Love and fury: a novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
- St. Aubyn, Edward - Double blind (ebook available)
- Taddeo, Lisa - Animal: a novel (ebook available)
- Tėffi, N. A. - Other worlds: pilgrims, peasants, spirits, saints (translated from the Russian)
- Williams, Beatriz - Our woman in Moscow: a novel
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Afia, Nekesa - Dead dead girls
- Airth, Rennie - Cold kill
- Brett, Simon - Blotto, Twinks and the Maharajah's jewel
- Carofiglio, Gianrico - The measure of time (translated from the Italian)
- Carter, Mary Dixie - The photographer
- Clinton, Bill - The president's daughter: a thriller (ebook available)
- Deaver, Jeffery - The final twist
- Ellroy, James - Widespread panic: a novel (ebook available)
- Gordon, David - Against the law: a Joe the bouncer novel
- Harrington, Kent A. - Last seen
- Harris, Robert J. - A study in crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942
- Housewright, David - What doesn't kill us
- Hummel, Maria - Lesson in red: a novel
- Jance, Judith A. - Unfinished business: an Ali Reynolds mystery
- Kepnes, Caroline - You love me
- King, Laurie R. - Castle shade: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes*
- Little, Elizabeth - Pretty as a picture: a novel (ebook available)
- Mackintosh, Clare - Hostage: a novel
- Manansala, Mia P. - Arsenic and adobo
- Mangan, Christine - Palace of the drowned
- Massey, Sujata - The Bombay prince
- Michaelides, Alex - The maidens* (ebook available)
- Mir, Saira - The Khan
- Montclair, Allison - A rogue's company* (ebook available)
- Montclair, Allison - The right sort of man*
- Offutt, Chris - The killing hills
- Porter, Henry - The old enemy
- Power, Chris - A lonely man
- Quick, Amanda - The lady has a past
- Ravatn, Agnes - The seven doors
- Slor, Zhanna - At the end of the world, turn left
- Spencer, Sally - The company*
- Steadman, Catherine - The disappearing act: a novel * (ebook available)
- Steiner, Peter - The constant man
- Vernon, P. J. - Bath haus: a thriller
- Weaver, Ashley - A peculiar combination: an Electra McDonnell novel*
- Winters, Ben H. - The quiet boy
- Woods, Stuart - Jackpot
- Yoon, David - Version zero
POETRY
- Komunyakaa, Yusef - Everyday mojo songs of Earth: new and selected poems, 2001-2021
- Pratt, Minnie Bruce - Magnified
- The mirror of my heart: a thousand years of Persian poetry by women (Dick Davis, editor; translated from the Persian)
More poetry below.
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Finlayson, Clive - The smart Neanderthal: bird catching, cave art & the cognitive revolution
- Freedman, Paul - American cuisine: and how it got this way
- Treves, Letizia - Artemisia
- Fictions of America: the book of firsts (Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal, eds.)
- Of gods and men: 100 stories from Ancient Greece & Rome (selected and introduced by Daisy Dunn)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Black, Jeremy - England in the age of Austen 823 A
- Borchert, Scott - Republic of detours: how the New Deal paid broke writers to rediscover America 973.917 B
- Cassady, Neal - The Joan Anderson letter: the holy grail of the beat generation 826 C
- Hansberry, Lorraine - Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry 822.09 H
- Lolita in the afterlife: on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century (Jenny Minton Quigley, ed.) 823 N
POETRY
- Hofmann, Michael - Messing about in boats (close readings of poems by Rilke, Rimbaud, Montale, Karen Solie) 809.1 H
- Karthika Nair - Until the lions: echoes from the Mahabharata 821 K
- Ransom, Stanley Austin - America's first black poet: Jupiter Hammon of Long Island 821.09 H
- Shapiro, Alan - Covenant 821 S
- Greek poems to the gods: hymns from Homer to Proclus (translated by Barry B. Powell) 881.08 G
- The whole shot: collected interviews with Gregory Corso (Rick Schober, ed.) 821.09 C
FICTION
- Boucher, Anthony - The case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library; first published in 1940) F B
- Kanafani, Ghassan - Men in the sun & other Palestinian stories (translated from Arabic by Hilary Kilpatrick) F K
- Keun, Irmgard - Ferdinand, the man with the kind heart (1950; author of Artifical Silk Girl; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann) F K
- Scott, Rion Amilcar - Insurrections: stories F S
ART
- Caws, Mary Ann - Picasso's weeping woman: the life and art of Dora Maar 709.2 M
- Clayton, Eleanor - Barbara Hepworth: art & life 730.93 H
- Cole, Alison - Italian Renaissance courts: art, pleasure and power 709.45 C
- Floros, Constantin - Anton Bruckner: the man and the work 780.92 B
- Godfrey, Tony - The story of contemporary art 709.04 G
- Kalman, Maira - Rembrandt's Polish rider 759.9 R
- Oppenheimer, Daniel - Far from respectable: Dave Hickey and his art 706.9 O
FASHION
- Shen, Ann - Nevertheless, she wore it: 50 feminist fashion moments 746.92 S
- Fashion criticism: an anthology (Francesca Granata, ed.) 746.92 F
BIOGRAPHY
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh - More dashing: further letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor 92 F361 F
- Freeman, Hadley - House of Glass: the story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family 920 G5491 F
- Katz, Jonathan - The daring life and dangerous times of Eve Adams 92 A2114 K
- Lomnitz-Adler, Claudio - Nuestra América: my family in the vertigo of translation 920 L845 L
- Sebba, Anne - Ethel Rosenberg: an American tragedy 92 R8134 S
ANTIQUITY & CLASSICS
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius - How to tell a joke: an ancient guide to the art of humor 808.7 C
- Euripides - The Trojan women: a comic (illustrations by Rosanna Bruno; text by Anne Carson) 882.3 E
- Romm, James S. - Sacred band: three hundred Theban lovers fighting to save Greek freedom 938 R
HISTORY
- Calloway, Colin G. - The chiefs now in this city: Indians and the urban frontier in early America 970.5 C
- Conrad, Paul - The Apache diaspora: four centuries of displacement and survival 970.6 C
- Elias, Christopher M. - Gossip men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the politics of insinuation 973.9 E
- Ghazvinian, John - America and Iran: a history, 1720 to the present 327.55 G
- Seal, Jeremy - A coup in Turkey: a tale of democracy, despotism and vengeance in a divided land 949.62 S
- Seidule, Ty - Robert E. Lee and me : a Southerner's reckoning with the myth of the lost cause 973.71 S
- The colored conventions movement: Black organizing in the nineteenth century (P. Gabrielle Foreman, ed.) 323.1 C
- Unsung: unheralded narratives of American slavery & abolition (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) 326 U
WAR
- McMeekin, Sean - Stalin's war: a new history of World War II 940.5347 M
- McPherson, James M. - The Negro's Civil War : how American Blacks felt and acted during the war for the Union 973.7 M
- Roberts, Mary Louise - Sheer misery: soldiers in battle in WWII 940.54 R
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Chomsky, Noam - Climate crisis and the global Green New Deal: the political economy of saving the planet 363.7 C
- Fanon, Frantz - Alienation and freedom 320.4 F
- Dawkins, Wayne - Emanuel Celler: immigration and civil rights champion (NYC Congressman, 1923-1973) 92 C393 D
- Rhodes, Ben - After the fall: being American in the world we've made (ebook available) 909.83 R
SOCIOLOGY
- Anderson, Carol - The second: race and guns in a fatally unequal America 344 A
- Bryant, Chad Carl - Prague: belonging in the modern city 307.76 B
- Chin, Elizabeth - My life with things: the consumer diaries 339.4 C
- Martschukat, Jürgen - The age of fitness: how the body came to symbolize success and achievement 306.4 M
ECONOMICS
- Levy, Jonathan - Ages of American capitalism: a history of the United States 330.973 L
- Smaje, Chris - A small farm future: making the case for a society built around local economies, self-provisioning, agricultural diversity and a shared earth 338.1 S
- Tirado, Linda - Hand to mouth: living in bootstrap America 362.5 T
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Bryan, Beverley - The heart of the race: Black women's lives in Britain 305.88 B
- Midorikawa, Emily - Out of the shadows: six visionary Victorian women in search of a public voice 133.9 M
- The Penguin book of feminist writing (Hannah Dawson, ed.) 305.4 P
SCIENCE
- Eagleman, David - Livewired: the inside story of the ever-changing brain 612.8 E
- Kaku, Michio - The God equation: the quest for a theory of everything 530.1 K
- The marvels of the world: an anthology of nature writing before 1700 (Rebecca Bushnell, ed.) 574 M
- Trees of North America: the complete identification reference to trees (National Audubon Society, 2021 ed.) 582 N
RELIGION
- Boles, Richard - Dividing the faith: the rise of segregated churches in the early American North 277.3 B
- Stanford, Peter - Pilgrimage: journeys of meaning 291.4 S
- Williams, Rowan - Luminaries: twenty lives that illuminate the Christian way 242 W
JOURNALISM
- Butterfield, D. J. - 10,000 not out: the history of the Spectator 1828-2020 052 S
- Kalb, Marvin L. - Assignment Russia: becoming a foreign correspondent in the crucible of the Cold War 070.4 K
- Wilder, Billy - Billy Wilder on assignment: dispatches from Weimar Berlin and interwar Vienna 838.08 W
PSYCHOLOGY
- Callard, Agnes - On anger (w/ Martha Nussbaum, Judith Butler, Paul Bloom, more) 152 C
- Dunbar, R. I. M. - Friends: understanding the power of our most important relationships 177 D
- Singal, Jesse - The quick fix: why fad psychology can't cure our social ills 150 S