New Books - June 2021
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Abdurraqib, Hanif - A little devil in America: notes in praise of Black performance
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - Notes on grief (ebook available)
- Andrews, Helen - Boomers: the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Antoniou, Antonis - Decoding Manhattan: island of diagrams, maps, and graphics
- Armstrong, Bill - Quarantine: artists and writers on isolation
- Bechdel, Alison - The secret to superhuman strength
- Boehner, John - On the house: a Washington memoir (ebook available)
- Booth, Katie - The invention of miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness
- Bragg, Rick - Where I come from: stories from the deep South
- Brown, Daniel James - Facing the mountain: a true story of Japanese American heroes in World War II
- Brownstein, Ronald - Rock me on the water: 1974: the year Los Angeles transformed movies, music, television, and politics (ebook available)
- Castner, Brian - Stampede: gold fever and disaster in the Klondike
- Cowan, Justine - The secret life of Dorothy Soames: a memoir
- De Waal, Edmund - Letters to Camondo (ebook available)
- Dreilinger, Danielle - The secret history of home economics: how trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live
- Ellingwood, Ken - First to fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
- Feldshuh, Tovah - Lilyville: mother, daughter, and other roles I've played
- Ferguson, Niall - Doom: the politics of catastrophe
- Fitzalan Howard, Alathea - The Windsor diaries, 1940-45: my childhood with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
- Gladwell, Malcolm - The Bomber Mafia: a dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War (ebook available)
- Gordon-Reed, Annette - On Juneteenth (ebook available)
- Greene, Joshua - Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's astonishing journey from Auschwitz survivor and penniless immigrant to Wall Street legend
- Hoare, Philip - Albert and the whale: Albrecht Durer and how art imagines our world (ebook available)
- Jarman, Cat - River kings: a new history of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
- Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua - Names of New York: discovering the city's past, present, and future through its place names
- Kahneman, Daniel - Noise: a flaw in human judgment
- Keenan, Claudia - Waking dreamers: unexpected American lives, 1880-1980
- Kentridge, William - Constable's White horse
- King, Ross - The bookseller of Florence: the story of the manuscripts that illuminated the Renaissance (ebook available)
- Krause, Johannes - A short history of humanity: a new history of old Europe
- Laing, Olivia - Everybody: a book about freedom
- Lawson, Jenny - Broken: (in the best possible way)
- Lemon, Don - This is the fire: what I say to my friends about racism
- Lewis, Michael - The premonition: a pandemic story (ebook available)
- Lloyd, Nick. - The Western Front: a history of the Great War, 1914-1918
- Matteson, John - A worse place than hell: how the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg changed a nation
- McAuley, James K. - The house of fragile things: Jewish art collectors and the fall of France
- McCain, Cindy - Stronger: courage, hope, & humor in my life with John McCain
- McCarthy, Andrew - Brat: an '80s story
- McCarthy, Jesse - Who will pay reparations on my soul?: essays
- McCutchan, Ann - The life she wished to live: a biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The yearling (ebook available)
- McNally, Terrence - Muse of fire: reflections on theatre
- Menand, Louis - The free world: art and thought in the Cold War (ebook available)
- Miller, Lucasta - Keats: a brief life in nine poems and one epitaph
- Mitton, Jacqueline - Vera Rubin: a life
- Napoli, Lisa - Susan, Linda, Nina, & Cokie: the extraordinary story of the founding mothers of NPR (ebook available)
- Paarlberg, Robert L. - Resetting the table: straight talk about the food we grow and eat
- Plokhy, Serhii - Nuclear folly: a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Rich, Nathaniel - Second nature: scenes from a world remade
- Rothman, Joshua D. - The ledger and the chain: how domestic slave traders shaped America
- Saltzman, Cynthia - Plunder: Napoleon's theft of Veronese's Feast
- Sancton, Julian - Madhouse at the end of the Earth: the Belgica's journey into the dark Antarctic night
- Saumarez Smith, Charles - The art museum in modern times
- Sauntering: writers walk Europe (Duncan Minshull, ed.)
- Schulman, Sarah - Let the record show: a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
- Stevens, Mark - Francis Bacon: revelations
- Strauss, Gwen - The nine: the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany
- Thompson, Richard - Beeswing: losing my way and finding my voice, 1967-1975
- Thomson, David - A light in the dark: a history of movie directors
- Walker, Stephen - Beyond: the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Warren, Elizabeth - Persist
- Washuta, Elissa - White magic: essays
- Winn, Raynor - The wild silence
- Zauner, Michelle - Crying in H Mart: a memoir
- All we can save: truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis (Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson, eds.)
FICTION
- Andrews, Mary Kay - The newcomer
- Ardone, Viola - The children's train: a novel (translated from the Italian)
- Besora, Max - The adventures and misadventures of the extraordinary and admirable Joan Orpí, conquistador and founder of New Catalonia (translated from the Spanish)
- Bohjalian, Chris - Hour of the witch: a novel (ebook available)
- Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander - The passenger: a novel (ebook available)
- Bowen, Rhys - The Venice sketchbook: a novel
- Brown, Wesley - Tragic magic: a novel
- Coulon, Cécile - A beast in paradise
- Cusk, Rachel - Second place (ebook available)
- DeRobertis-Theye, Nicola - The Vietri project: a novel
- Foster, Sesshu - ELADATL: a history of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines
- Goldman, Francisco - Monkey boy: a novel
- Jenoff, Pam - The woman with the blue star
- Johnson, Sadeqa - Yellow wife: a novel
- Kinsky, Esther - Grove: a field novel
- Korelitz, Jean Hanff - The plot (ebook available)
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - Whereabouts (ebook and audiobook download available)
- Layden, Emily - All girls
- Marciano, Francesca - Animal spirit: stories
- Martin, Madeline - The last bookshop in London: a novel of World War II (ebook available)
- Masood, Syed - The bad Muslim discount: a novel
- McCall Smith, Alexander - Tiny tales
- Meissner, Susan - The nature of fragile things
- Nelson, Caleb Azumah - Open water
- Newland, Courttia - A river called time
- Nguyen, Eric - Things we lost to the water: a novel
- Nothomb, Amélie - Thirst (translated from the French)
- Oloixarac, Pola - Mona (translated from the Spanish)
- Polzin, Jackie - Brood: a novel
- Quade, Kirstin Valdez - The five wounds: a novel
- Robben, Jaap - Summer brother (translated from the Dutch)
- Rosen, Renée - The social graces
- Scott, Joanna - Excuse me while I disappear: stories
- Shipstead, Maggie - Great circle (ebook available)
- Silber, Joan - Secrets of happiness: a novel
- Tichý, Andrzej - Wretchedness (translated from the Swedish)
- VanderMeer, Jeff - Hummingbird salamander
- Vladislavić, Ivan - The distance
- Vlautin, Willy - The night always comes: a novel
- Walser, Robert - Little snow landscape: stories
- Walsh, S. Kirk - The elephant of Belfast: a novel (ebook available)
- Walton, Dawnie - The final revival of Opal & Nev: a novel
- Weiner, Jennifer - That summer: a novel (ebook available)
- Weir, Alison - Katharine Parr, the sixth wife: a novel
- Weir, Andy - Project Hail Mary: a novel (ebook available)
- Weisberger, Lauren - Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty: a novel
- Whiteley, Aliya - Skyward Inn
- Wideman, John Edgar - You made me love you: selected stories, 1981-2018
- Williams, Pip - The dictionary of lost words: a novel
- Florence stories (Ella Carr, ed.)
MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION
- Abrams, Stacey - While justice sleeps: a novel (ebook available)
- Ames, Jonathan - A man named Doll
- Baldacci, David - A gambling man (ebook available)
- Bannalec, Jean-Luc - The Granite Coast murders (ebook available)
- Barclay, Linwood - Find you first: a novel
- Dave, Laura - The last thing he told me: a novel (ebook available)
- Deaver, Jeffery - The final twist
- Dorn, L. R. - The anatomy of desire: a novel
- Gates, Eva - Deadly ever after
- Hunter, Stephen - Basil's war: a novel
- Jackson, Joshilyn - Mother may I: a novel
- Johnstone, Carole - Mirrorland: a novel
- Jones, Stephen Mack - Dead of winter (ebook available)
- Longworth, M. L. - The vanishing museum on the Rue Mistral
- Lupica, Mike - Robert B. Parker's payback
- O'Rawe, Richard - Northern heist: a novel
- Osworth, A. E. - We are watching Eliza Bright
- Parks, Alan - Bobby March will live forever*
- Patterson, James - The red book
- Pineiro, R. J. - Things we cannot unsee: a novel
- Ragnar Jónasson - The girl who died (translated from the Icelandic)
- Ramsay, Caro - On an outgoing tide*
- Sandford, John - Ocean prey
- Tapper, Jake - The devil may dance: a novel
- Thompson, Victoria - Murder on Wall Street
- Tompkins, JoAnne - What comes after (ebook available)
*Indicates a UK mystery
POETRY
- Baer, Kate - What kind of woman: poems
- Rosenthal, Norman E. - Poetry Rx: how fifty inspiring poems can heal and bring joy to your life
- Sanchez, Sonia - Collected poems
- Sze, Arthur - The glass constellation: new and collected poems
- Buzz words: poems about insects (Harold Schechter and Kimiko Hahn, eds.)
- Dog-eared: poems about humanity's best friend (Duncan Wu, eds.)
- Poems of healing (Karl Kirchwey, ed.)
More poetry below.
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Alter, Robert - Nabokov and the real world: between appreciation and defense 823 N
- Artaud, Antonin - Antonin Artaud, selected writings 840.81 A
- Batchelor, John - How the Just So Stories were made: the brilliance and tragedy behind Kipling's celebrated tales for little children 823 K
- George, Lynell - A handful of earth, a handful of sky: the world of Octavia E. Butler 92 B98645 G
- Leak, Jeffrey B. - Visible man: the life of Henry Dumas 92 D8862 L
- Sampson, Fiona - Two-way mirror: the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning 92 B8851 S
- Unchained voices: an anthology of Black authors in the English-speaking world of the eighteenth century (Vincent Carretta, ed.) 820.8 U
FICTION
- Downing, Todd - Vultures in the sky (Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library series; first published 1935) F D
- Murgia, Michela - Accabadora: a novel (acclaimed winner of the Premio Campiello) F M
- Musil, Robert - Unions: two stories (translated from the German) F M
- Quin, Ann - Passages F Q
- Sinclair, May - The tree of heaven (British Library women writers series, first published 1917) F S
POETRY
- Di Prima, Diane - Pieces of a song: selected poems 821 D
- Hartley, Marsden - Selected poems 821 H
- Stanhope, Rosamund - So I looked down to Camelot 821 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Budiansky, Stephen - Journey to the edge of reason: the life of Kurt Gödel 92 G5815 B
- Frederick - Frederick the Great's philosophical writings (edited by Avi Lifschitz; translated by Angela Scholar) 104 F
- Schopenhauer, Arthur - On the suffering of the world 193 S
ART
- Basquiat, Jean-Michel - Writing the future: Basquiat and the hip-hop generation 759.1 B
- De Waal, Edmund - Gouthière's candelabras 739 D
- Fried, Michael - Painting with demons: the art of Gerolamo Savoldo 759.5 F
- Neel, Alice - Alice Neel: people come first 759.1 N
- The sleeve should be illegal: & other reflections on art at the Frick (Michaelyn Mitchell, ed.) 708.1 M
- Dora Maar (Damarice Amao, ed.; Tate Modern, Getty) 709.2 M
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Grundberg, Andy - How photography became contemporary art: inside an artistic revolution from pop to the digital age 770 G
- Life magazine and the power of photography (Katherine A. Bussard, Kristen Gresh, eds.) 779 L OVERSIZE
- Ming Smith (Aperture Foundation) 779 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Cruz, Gabriela Gomes da - Grand illusion: phantasmagoria in nineteenth-century opera 782.1 C
- Griffin, Farah Jasmine - Clawing at the limits of cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the greatest jazz collaboration ever 780.973 G
- Kornhaber, Donna - Silent film: a very short introduction 791.4 K
- Spitzer, Michael - The musical human: a history of life on Earth 780.9 S
BIOGRAPHIES
- Farley, Audrey Clare - The unfit heiress: the tragic life and scandalous sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt 92 H1143 F
- Kashatus, William C. - William Still: The Underground Railroad and the angel at Philadelphia 92 S85733 K
- Licence, Tom - Edward the Confessor: last of the royal blood 92 E25 L
ANTIQUITY AND CLASSICS
- Kanigel, Robert - Hearing Homer's song: the brief life and big idea of Milman Parry 92 P2646 K
- Klavan, Spencer A. - Music in ancient Greece: melody, rhythm and life 780.9 K
- Southon, Emma - A fatal thing happened on the way to the forum: murder in ancient Rome 937 S
HISTORY
- Barr, Michael D. - Singapore: a modern history 959.5 B
- Bosworth, R. J. B. - Mussolini and the eclipse of Italian fascism: from dictatorship to populism 945.09 B
- Grinspan, Jon - The age of acrimony: how Americans fought to fix their democracy, 1865-1915 303.4 G
- Malinowski, Stephan - Nazis & nobles: the history of a misalliance 943.085 M
- Otele, Olivette - African Europeans: an untold history 305.88 O
- Taylor, Michael - The interest: how the British establishment resisted the abolition of slavery 306.3 T
- Plague, pestilence and pandemic: voices from history (Peter Furtado, ed.) 614.4 P
ECONOMICS
- Klobuchar, Amy - Antitrust: taking on monopoly power from the Gilded Age to the digital age 338.8 K
- Nelson, Edward - Milton Friedman and economic debate in the United States, 1932-1972 330.973 N
- Rauchway, Eric - Why the New Deal matters 973.917 R
RACE IN AMERICA
- Baldwin, James - Nothing personal (first published in 1964) 305.8 B
- Ellsworth, Scott - The ground breaking: an American city and its search for justice (Tulsa, 1921) 976.6 E
- Roberts, Dorothy E. - Fatal invention: how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century 305.8 R
INTELLIGENCE AND ESPIONAGE
- Devine, Jack - Spymaster's prism: the fight against Russian aggression 327.12 D
- Kuper, Simon - Spies, lies and exile: the extraordinary story of Russian double agent George Blake 92 B6362 K
- Schneer, Jonathan - The Lockhart plot: love, betrayal, assassination and counter-revolution in Lenin's Russia 940.485 S
SCIENCE AND NATURE
- Dunn, Jon - The glitter in the green: in search of hummingbirds 598.2 D
- Eisendrath, Rachel - Gallery of clouds 028 E
- Levin, Janna - Black hole survival guide 523 L
- Nijhuis, Michelle - Beloved beasts : fighting for life in an age of extinction 591.9 N
- Walker, Timothy - Pollination: the enduring relationship between plant and pollinator 581 W
GARDENS
- Bradley-Hole, Kathryn - English gardens: from the archives of Country Life 712 B
- Don, Monty - The complete gardener: a practical, imaginative guide to every aspect of gardening 635 D
- A bouquet of garden writing: selected from five grand masters (Ursula Buchan, ed.) 635 B
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION
- Crisp, Helen - Madrid: midnight city 914.6 C
- Davis, Wade - Magdalena: river of dreams: a Story of Colombia 986 D
- Douglas, Deborah D. - U.S. civil rights trail: a traveler's guide to the people, places, and events that made the movement 917.5 D