NEW BOOKS - APRIL 2024
Archived Lists
New Books – April 2024
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Ai Weiwei - Zodiac: a graphic memoir
- Alexander, Paul - Bitter crop: the heartache and triumph of Billie Holiday's last year
- Alfani, Guido - As gods among men: a history of the rich in the West
- Arana, Marie - LatinoLand: a portrait of America's largest and least understood minority
- Baker, Kevin - The New York game: baseball and the rise of a new city
- Boyle, Rebecca - Our moon: how Earth's celestial companion transformed the planet, guided evolution, and made us who we are
- Butler, Judith - Who's afraid of gender?
- Carr, C. - Candy Darling: dreamer, icon, superstar
- Charter, David - Royal audience: 70 years, 13 presidents--one queen's special relationship with America
- Coll, Steve - The Achilles trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the origins of America's invasion of Iraq
- Crosley, Sloane - Grief is for people
- De Visé, Daniel - The Blues Brothers: an epic friendship, the rise of improv, and the making of an American film classic
- Dearborn, Mary V. - Carson McCullers: a life
- Debreczeni, József, - Cold crematorium: reporting from the land of Auschwitz
- Drabkin, Ronald - Beverly Hills spy: the double-agent war hero who helped Japan attack Pearl Harbor
- Dubus, Andre - Ghost dogs: on killers and kin
- Fields-Black, Edda L - Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black freedom during the Civil War
- Golway, Terry - I never did like politics: how Fiorello La Guardia became America's mayor, and why he still matters
- Goodman, Martin - Herod the Great: Jewish king in a Roman world
- Gregory, Philippa - Normal women: 900 years of making history
- Gutierrez, Elizabeth Camarillo - My side of the river: a memoir
- Halpern, Paul - The allure of the multiverse: extra dimensions, other worlds, and parallel universes
- Hortis, C. Alexander - The witch of New York: the trials of Polly Bodine and the cursed birth of tabloid justice
- Hughes, Coleman - The end of race politics: arguments for a colorblind America
- Joyce, Patrick - Remembering peasants: a personal history of a vanished world
- Kakutani, Michiko - The great wave: the era of radical disruption and the rise of the outsider
- Kamensky, Jane - Candida Royalle and the sexual revolution: a history from below
- Kaplan, James - 3 shades of blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the lost empire of cool
- Klagsbrun, Francine - Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist dream
- Klinenberg, Eric - 2020: one city, seven people, and the year everything changed
- Kolker, Robert Phillip - Kubrick: an odyssey
- Kozol, Jonathan - An end to inequality: breaking down the walls of apartheid education in America
- Lichtenstein, Nelson - A fabulous failure: the Clinton presidency and the transformation of American capitalism
- Mendez, Jonna - In true face: a woman's life in the CIA, unmasked
- O'Kane, Trish - Birding to change the world: a memoir
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Joyce Carol Oates: letters to a biographer
- Pauwels, Erin Kristl - Napoleon Sarony's living pictures: the celebrity photograph in Gilded Age New York
- Perlin, Ross - Language city: the fight to preserve endangered mother tongues in New York
- Pomerantsev, Peter - How to win an information war: the propagandist who outwitted Hitler
- Reed, Shannon - Why we read: on bookworms, libraries and just one more page before lights out
- Robinson, Marilynne - Reading Genesis
- Rogers, Katie - American woman: the transformation of the modern first lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
- Romano, Tricia - The freaks came out to write: the definitive history of the Village voice, the radical paper that changed American culture
- Samuels, Maurice - Alfred Dreyfus: the man at the center of the affair
- Schiffer, Zoë - Extremely hardcore: inside Elon Musk's Twitter
- Shechtman, Anna - The riddles of the sphinx: inheriting the feminist history of the crossword puzzle
- Stauffer, Andrew M. - Byron: a life in ten letters
- Stone, Dan - The Holocaust: an unfinished history
- Swanson, James L. - The Deerfield Massacre: a surprise attack, a forced march, and the fight for survival in early America
- Swisher, Kara - Burn book: a tech love story
- Targoff, Ramie - Shakespeare's sisters: how women wrote the Renaissance
- Traub, James - True believer: Hubert Humphrey's quest for a more just America
- Trentmann, Frank - Out of the darkness: the Germans, 1942-2022
- Trillin, Calvin - The lede: dispatches from a life in the press
- Wagner, Kurt - Battle for the bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 billion fight for Twitter's soul
- Ward, Alexander - The internationalists: the fight to restore American foreign policy after Trump
- Weisberg, Barbara - Strong passions: a scandalous divorce in old New York
- Wolraich, Michael - The bishop and the butterfly: murder, politics, and the end of the Jazz Age
- Zucker, David - Surely you can't be serious: the true story of Airplane!
FICTION
- Abdel Gawad, Aisha - Between two moons: a novel
- Banks, Russell - American spirits
- Barrett, Colin - Wild houses
- Buckley, Jonathan - Tell
- Bullwinkel, Rita - Headshot: a novel
- Croft, Jennifer - The extinction of Irena Rey: a novel
- Cunningham, Vinson - Great expectations: a novel
- Doughty, Louise - A bird in winter
- Everett, Percival - James: a novel
- Feldman, Ellen - The trouble with you: a novel
- Ford, Olivia - Mrs. Quinn's rise to fame
- Gonzalez, Xochitl - Anita de Monte laughs last
- Hawkins, Rachel - The heiress: a novel
- HenrÃquez, Cristina - The great divide: a novel
- Houat, L.-T - The maroons
- Jones, Dan - Wolves of winter
- Kumar, Amitava - My beloved life: a novel
- Lefferts, Daniel - Ways and means: a novel
- Louis, Édouard - Change: a novel
- Martin, Valerie - Mrs. Gulliver: a novel
- Maupin, Armistead - Mona of the manor: a novel
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The Perfect Passion Company
- McHugh, Clare - The Romanov brides: a novel of the last tsarina and her sisters
- Murata, Kiyoko - A woman of pleasure: a novel
- Obreht, Téa - The Morningside: a novel
- Orange, Tommy - Wandering stars
- Ordorica, Andrés N. - How we named the stars: a novel
- Oyeyemi, Helen - Parasol against the axe
- Pham, Andrew X. - Twilight territory: a novel
- Quindlen, Anna - After Annie: a novel
- Quinn, Kate - The phoenix crown: a novel
- Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas - My heavenly favorite: a novel
- Sorokin, Vladimir - Blue lard
- Stamm, Peter - The archive of feelings
- Svoboda, Terese - The long swim
- Tepper, Julian - Cooler heads: a novel
- Voetmann, Harald - Sublunar
- Waldman, Adelle - Help wanted: a novel
- Williams, Tia - A love song for Ricki Wilde: a novel
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Ackerman, Elliot - 2054: a novel
- Berry, Steve - The Atlas maneuver
- Black, Cara - Murder at la Villette
- Blackburn, Maggie - A killer romance
- Box, C. J. - Three-inch teeth
- Bruen, Ken - Galway confidential
- Carlsson, Christoffer - Under the storm: a novel
- Correa, Armando Lucas - The silence in her eyes: a novel
- Cosimano, Elle - Finlay Donovan rolls the dice
- Dovalpage, Teresa - Last seen in Havana
- French, Tana - The hunter
- Gardner, Lisa - Still see you everywhere
- Kellerman, Jonathan - The ghost orchid
- Kurkov, AndreÄ - The silver bone: a novel
- McFadden, Freida - The teacher
- Paris, B. A. - The guest
- Patterson, James - Holmes, Marple & Poe
- Pease, Amy - Northwoods: a novel
- Persson Giolito, Malin - Deliver me
- Rue, Gretchen - A pie to die for
- Sierra, Tracy - Nightwatching
- Soloski, Alexis - Here in the dark
- Winters, Ben H. - Big time
POETRY
- Carson, Anne - Wrong Norma
- Catullus, Gaius Valerius - Switch: the complete Catullus
- Laux, Dorianne - Life on earth: poems
- Le, Nam - 36 ways of writing a Vietnamese poem
- Purnell, Brontez - Ten bridges I've burnt: a memoir in verse
- Seuss, Diane - Modern poetry: poems
IN THE STACKS
FICTION
- Brecher, Christin - Mugshots of ManhattanF B
- Carter, Angela - LoveF C
- Chiaverini, Jennifer - Resistance women: a novelF C
- Khair, Tabish - The body by the shoreF K
- Liu, Ken - The paper menagerie and other storiesF L
- Molnar, Marta - The secret life of sunflowersF M
- Pasolini, Pier Paolo - Boys aliveF P
- Phillips, Louis - Sheathed bayonets & other storiesF P
- Vigan, Delphine de - Kids run the showF V
LITERATURE & CRITICISM
- Feder, Rachel - The Darcy myth: Jane Austen, literary heartthrobs, and the monsters they taught us to love823.09 F
- Herbert, Brian - Dreamer of Dune: the biography of Frank Herbert92 H5355 H
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Caldwell, Bruce - Hayek's challenge: an intellectual biography of F.A. Hayek92 H4165 C
- Glück, Robert - About Ed92 G5675 G
- Horton, Michelle - Dear sister: a memoir of secrets, survival, and unbreakable bonds92 H8234 H
- Jansson, Tove - Notes from an island92 J348 J
WORLD HISTORY
- Cunliffe, Barry W - Facing the sea of sand: the Sahara and the peoples of Northern Africa966 C
- Fossett, Renée - The life and times of Augustine Tataneuck: an Inuk hero in Rupert's Land, 1800-183492 T2162 F
- Morina, Christina - The invention of Marxism: how an idea changed everything335 M
- Wolfthal, Diane - Medieval money, merchants, and morality332.4 W
U.S. HISTORY
- Barbier, Brooke - King Hancock: the radical influence of a moderate founding father92 H2346 B
- Clarren, Rebecca - The cost of free land: Jews, Lakota, and an American inheritance978.3 C
- Hylton, Antonia - Madness: race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum362.2 W
WORLD WAR II & THE HOLOCAUST
- Borger, Julian - I seek a kind person: my father, seven children and the adverts that helped them escape the Holocaust940.5315 B
- Chrisinger, David - The soldier's truth: Ernie Pyle and the story of World War II92 P9957 C
VISUAL ARTS
- - The Harlem Renaissance and transatlantic modernism709.7471 H
- Bey, Dawoud - Dawoud Bey: seeing deeply.779 B
- Bradley, Will - Will Bradley: his graphic art: a collection of his posters, illustrations, typographic designs & decorations741.7 B
- De Sève, Peter - Local fauna: the art of Peter de Sève.741.2 D
- Pietrangeli, Carlo - Paintings in the Vatican708.5 P
- Rublack, Ulinka - Dürer's lost masterpiece: art and society at the dawn of a global world704 R
- Selvin, Joel - Arhoolie records: down home music: the stories and photographs of Chris Strachwitz780.973 S
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FILM
- - Regeneration: Black cinema 1898-1971791.4 R
- Miyazaki, Hayao - Hayao Miyazaki791.4 M