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
• Henríquez, 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