New Books - March 2018
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Bergman, Ronen - Rise and kill first: the secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations (translated from the Hebrew)
- De Lisle, Leanda - The white king: Charles I, traitor, murderer, martyr
- Deneen, Patrick J. - Why liberalism failed
- Ehrman, Bart D. - The triumph of Christianity: how a forbidden religion swept the world
- Epstein, Mark - Advice not given: a guide to getting over yourself
- Flock, Elizabeth - The heart is a shifting sea: love and marriage in Mumbai
- Frum, David - Trumpocracy: the corruption of the American republic
- Hulbert, Ann - Off the charts: the hidden lives and lessons of American child prodigies
- Johnston, David Cay - It's even worse than you think: what the Trump administration is doing to America
- Kehr, Dave - Movies that mattered: more reviews from a transformative decade
- Kix, Paul - The saboteur: the aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando (ebook available)
- Lebovitz, David - L'appart: the delights and disasters of making my Paris home
- Lodge, David - Writer's luck: a memoir: 1976-1991
- Mailhot, Terese Marie - Heart berries: a memoir
- McDermott, Zack - Gorilla and the bird: a memoir of madness and a mother's love
- Morton, Andrew - Wallis in love: the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
- Pinker, Steven - Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress (ebook available)
- Poirier, Agnès - Left Bank: art, passion, and the rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
- Robinson, Marilynne - What are we doing here?: essays (ebook available)
- Smith, Zadie - Feel free: essays (ebook available)
- Strycker, Noah K. - Birding without borders: an obsession, a quest, and the biggest year in the world
- Taraborrelli, J. Randy - Jackie, Janet & Lee: the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill (ebook available)
- Wakin, Daniel J. - The man with the sawed-off leg and other tales of a New York City block
FICTION
- Anderson, James - Lullaby road: a novel
- Ascherson, Neal - The death of the Fronsac
- Baker, Angelica - Our little racket
- Beauman, Ned - Madness is better than defeat
- Bloom, Amy - White houses: a novel
- Boyd, William - The dreams of Bethany Mellmoth
- Cohen, Leslie - This love story will self-destruct: a novel
- Crowley, John - Ka: Dar Oakley in the ruin of Ymr
- Goldberg, Paul - The château
- Graham-Felsen, Sam - Green: a novel
- Halliday, Lisa - Asymmetry (ebook available)
- Hannah, Kristin - The great alone
- Jones, Tayari - An American marriage: a novel
- Kinsella, Sophie - Surprise me: a novel
- Kureishi, Hanif - The nothing
- Lazar, Zachary - Vengeance: a novel
- Macy, Caitlin - Mrs.: a novel
- Malmquist, Tom - In every moment we are still alive
- Martin, Kimmery - The queen of hearts
- McCall Smith, Alexander - A time of love and tartan
- McCloskey, Molly - Straying: a novel
- McGregor, Jon - The Reservoir tapes
- Moyes, Jojo - Still me
- Nathan, Patrick - Some hell: a novel
- Nunez, Sigrid - The friend
- Pierce, Thomas - The afterlives
- Saadawi, Ahmad - Frankenstein in Baghdad (translated from the Arabic)
- Saylor, Steven - The throne of Caesar
- Shields, Jody - The winter station: a novel
- Temelkuran, Ece - The time of mute swans: a novel (translated from the Turkish)
- Xue, Yiwei - Dr. Bethune's children: a novel (translated from the Chinese)
- Zhang, Ailing - Little reunions
- Zumas, Leni - Red clocks: a novel
MYSTERIES
- Beaton, M. C. - Death of an honest man*
- Berenson, Alex - The deceivers
- Blædel, Sara - The undertaker's daughter (translated from the Danish)
- Bradley, C. Alan - The grave's a fine and private place: a Flavia de Luce novel*
- Celestin, Ray - Dead man's blues: a novel
- Cleveland, Karen - Need to know: a novel
- Dudley, Lawrence - New York station
- Duffy, Brendan - The Storm King: a novel
- Finch, Charles - The woman in the water
- Gardner, Lisa - Look for me: a novel
- Greaney, Mark - Agent in place
- Grippando, James - A death in Live Oak
- Harper, Jane - Force of nature
- Herron, Mick - This is what happened* (ebook available)
- Hoklotubbe, Sara Sue - Betrayal at the Buffalo Ranch
- Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew - Hellbent
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Night moves: an Alex Delaware novel
- Khan, Ausma Zehanat - A dangerous crossing
- Lawson, Michael - House witness
- Lescroart, John T. - Poison: a novel
- Lippman, Laura - Sunburn: a novel
- MacBride, Stuart - Now we are dead*
- Matthews, Jason - The Kremlin's candidate: a novel
- Mosley, Walter - Down the river unto the sea
- Oldham, Nick - Bad cops: a Henry Christie thriller*
- Powell, Laura - The unforgotten: a novel*
- Robb, J. D. - Dark in death
- Royal, Priscilla - Wild Justice: a medieval mystery
- Silver, Mitch, - The bookworm: a novel
- Tallis, Frank - Mephisto waltz: a Max Liebermann mystery* (ebook available)
- Todd, Charles - The gate keeper: an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery
- Yates, Christopher J. - Grist Mill Road: a novel (ebook available)
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The legacy (translated from the Icelandic)
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Beautiful days: stories
POETRY
- Chen, Chen - When I grow up I want to be a list of further possibilities
- Graham, Catherine - The celery forest
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Barnes, Julian. - Conversations with Julian Barnes (Vanessa Guignery and Ryan Roberts, eds.; Literary Conversations Series) 823 B
- Longley, Michael - Sidelines: selected prose, 1962-2015 828 L
- Markov, Vladimir - Russian futurism: a history 891.7 M
- Marx, William - The hatred of literature 801 M
- Melville, Herman - Billy Budd, sailor and other uncompleted writings (Weeds and wildings, Parthenope, Uncollected prose, Uncollected poetry) 820.81 M
- Ozick, Cynthia - Letters of intent: selected essays 820.9 O
- Rzepka, Charles J. - Being cool: the work of Elmore Leonard 823 L
- Sampson, Fiona - In search of Mary Shelley: the girl who wrote Frankenstein 92 S5448 S
FICTION
- Blue collar, white collar, no collar: stories of work (Richard Ford, ed.) 808.83 B
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and punishment (new translation by Nicolas Pasternak Slater) F D
- Doyle, Arthur Conan - Gothic tales F D
- Keane, Molly - Full house (Virago reissue; originally published 1935) F K
- Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro - In black and white F T
- Virginia Woolf and Mark Haddon - Two stories (The mark on the wall / Virginia Woolf & St Brides Bay / Mark Haddon) F T
ART
- Brimo, René - The evolution of taste in American collecting 706.9 B
- Cassidy, Donna - Marsden Hartley's Maine 759.1 H
- Farrington, Lisa E. - African-American art: a visual and cultural history 709.73 F
- Janes, Dominic - Oscar Wilde prefigured: queer fashioning and British caricature, 1750-1900 306.76 J
- Motherwell, Robert - Robert Motherwell: early paintings 709.73 M
- Strangeness and beauty: an anthology of aesthetic criticism, 1840-1910 (v. 1. Ruskin to Swinburne | v. 2. Pater to Arthur Symons; Eric Waner & Graham Hough, eds.) 701 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Callow, Simon - Being Wagner: the triumph of the will 92 W134 C
- Gilbert, W. S. - The complete annotated Gilbert and Sullivan (new, 2016 ed.; Ian Bradley, ed.) 782.6 G
- Meylac, Michael - Behind the scenes at the Ballets russes: stories from a golden age 792.8 M
- Seeger, Peggy - First time ever: a memoir , 92 S45162 S
- Shoemaker, Bill - Jazz in the 1970s: diverging streams , 780.973 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Caws, Mary Ann - Blaise Pascal: miracles and reason 92 P278 C
- Eggers, Dave - The monk of Mokha 92 A415 E
- Fraser, Sarah - The prince who would be king: the life and death of Henry Stuart 92 H5225 F
- Holroyd, Michael - Ancestors in the attic: My great-grandmother's book of ferns: My aunt's book of silent actors 920 H757 A
- Kerrison, Catherine - Jefferson's daughters: three sisters, white and black, in a young America 920 J4515 K
- Rogoff, Leonard - Gertrude Weil: Jewish progressive in the New South 92 W4221 R
- Ryersson, Scot D. - Infinite variety: the life and legend of the Marchesa Casati 92 C336 R
- Weber, Thomas - Becoming Hitler: the making of a Nazi 92 H675 W
HISTORY
- Clune, Lori - Executing the Rosenbergs: death and diplomacy in a Cold War world 973.918 C
- Drozdiak, William - Fractured continent: Europe's crises and the fate of the West 940.56 D
- King, Greg - Twilight of empire: the tragedy at Mayerling and the end of the Habsburgs 943.6 K
- Restall, Matthew - When Montezuma met Cortés: the true story of the meeting that changed history 972 R
- Robinson, Geoffrey - The killing season: a history of the Indonesian massacres, 1965-66 959.8 R
- Steil, Benn - The Marshall Plan: dawn of the Cold War 338.9 S
- Unger, Harlow G. - First founding father: Richard Henry Lee and the call to independence 973.3 U
- Zeitz, Joshua - Building the Great Society: inside Lyndon Johnson's White House 973.923 Z
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
- The Black Panthers: portraits from an unfinished revolution (Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams, eds.) 322.4 B
- Eveleigh, Darcy - Unseen: unpublished black history from the New York Times Photo Archives 779 U
- Fought, Leigh - Women in the world of Frederick Douglass 92 D7374 F
- Gates, Henry Louis - 100 amazing facts about the Negro (update and homage to the 1934 book by Joel Augustus rogers) 973 G
- Martin Luther King, Jr.;: the last interview and other conversations 323.4 K
- Nathans, Sydney - A mind to stay: White plantation, Black homeland 326 N
- Stewart, Jeffrey C. - The new Negro: the life of Alain Locke 92 L8143 S
ANTIQUITY
- Drews, Robert - The end of the Bronze Age: changes in warfare and the catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. 930 D
- Lehner, Mark - Giza and the pyramids: the definitive history 932 L
- Prevas, John - Hannibal's oath: the life and wars of Rome's greatest enemy 92 H245 P
- The tale of Sinuhe and other ancient Egyptian poems 1940-1640 BC (translated with an introduction & notes by R.B. Parkinson) 893 T
- Tempest, Kathryn - Brutus: the noble conspirator 92 B913 T
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Coll, Steve - Directorate S: the C.I.A. and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan 327.73 C
- Davenport-Hines, R. P. T. - Enemies within: communists, the Cambridge spies and the making of modern Britain 327.12 D
- Morley, Jefferson - The ghost: the secret life of CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton 92 A5897 M
WAR
- Bishop, Patrick - Wings: one hundred years of British aerial warfare 358.4 B
- Faber, Sebastiaan - Memory battles of the Spanish Civil War: history, fiction, photography 946.081 F
- Kilmeade, Brian - Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans: the battle that shaped America's destiny 973.52 K
- Leslie, Anita - Train to nowhere: one woman's war : ambulance driver, reporter, liberator 940.548 L
JOURNALISM
- Kurtz, Howard - Media madness: Donald Trump, the press, and the war over the truth 973.933 K
- Stephens, Mitchell - The voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the invention of 20th-century journalism 92 T4584 S
FINANCE & INDUSTRY
- Fowler, William M. - Steam titans: Cunard, Collins, and the epic battle for commerce on the North Atlantic 387.5 F
- McDonald, Duff - The golden passport: Harvard Business School, the limits of capitalism, and the moral failure of the MBA elite 658 M
- Rempel, William C. - The gambler: how penniless dropout Kirk Kerkorian became the greatest deal maker in capitalist history 92 K3948 R
SOCIOLOGY
- Ben-Porath, Sigal R., - Free speech on campus , 378 B
- Jen, Gish - The girl at the baggage claim: explaining the East-West culture gap 306.4 J
- Our compelling interests: the value of diversity for democracy and a prosperous society (Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor, eds.) 305.8 O
- Sanger, Carol - About abortion: terminating pregnancy in twenty-first-century America 363.4 S
TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
- Kaplan, Jerry - Humans need not apply: a guide to wealth and work in the age of artificial intelligence 303.4 K
- McAfee, Andrew - Machine, platform, crowd: harnessing our digital future 303.4 M
- Tufekci, Zeynep - Twitter and tear gas: the power and fragility of networked protest 302.3 T
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Gay, Roxane - Bad feminist: essays 305.4 G
- Kroeger, Brooke - The suffragents: how women used men to get the vote 324.3 K
- Lipman, Joanne - That's what she said: what men need to know (and women need to tell them) about working together 658.3 L
- Manne, Kate - Down girl: the logic of misogyny 305.4 M
PHILOSOPHY
- Gere, Cathy - Pain, pleasure, and the greater good: from the Panopticon to the Skinner box and beyond 140 G
- Tessman, Lisa - When doing the right thing is impossible 170 T
DEATH & DYING
- Cooley, Martha - Guesswork: a reckoning with loss 155.9 C
- Garrett, Greg - Entertaining judgment: the afterlife in popular imagination 128 G
- Rhoads, Loren - 199 cemeteries to see before you die 718 R
- Rosenstein, Donald - The group: seven widowed fathers reimagine life 155.9 R
OCCULT & PARANORMAL
- The Oxford illustrated history of witchcraft and magic (Owen Davies, ed.) 133.4 O
- Bechtel, Stefan - Through a glass, darkly: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the quest to solve the greatest mystery of all 133.9 B
MEDICINE
- Laar, Arnold van de - Under the knife: a history of surgery in 28 remarkable operations 617 L
- Pearson, Rachel - No apparent distress: a doctor's coming-of-age on the front lines of American medicine 362.1 P
ENVIRONMENT
- Egan, Dan - The death and life of the Great Lakes 363.7 E
- Goodell, Jeff - The water will come: rising seas, sinking cities, and the remaking of the civilized world 551.4 G
- Merchant, Carolyn - American environmental history: an introduction 333.7 M
- Romm, Joseph J. - Climate change: what everyone needs to know 363.7 R
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Chomsky, Noam - Global discontents: conversations on the rising threats to democracy 320.9 C
- Critchlow, Donald T. - Republican character: from Nixon to Reagan 324.273 C
- Mutch, Robert E. - Buying the vote: a history of campaign finance reform 324 T
NEW YORK
- González, Juan - Reclaiming Gotham: Bill de Blasio and the movement to end America's tale of two cities 974.71 G
- Goodfriend, Joyce D. - Who should rule at home?: confronting the elite in British New York City 974.71 G
- Hayes, Bill - How New York breaks your heart 779 H
RELIGION
- Fine, Steven - The menorah: from the Bible to modern Israel 296.4 F
- Jenkins, Philip - Crucible of faith: the ancient revolution that made our modern religious world 200 J
- The New Testament: a translation (David Bentley Hart, translator) 225 B
- Yarrow, Simon - The saints: a short history 235 Y
EXPLORATION
- Voyages and travels from the library of David Parsons 910.4 S
- Miller, Luree - On top of the world: five women explorers in Tibet 915.15 M
- Shapiro, Laurie Gwen - The stowaway: a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica 919.9 S
AUDIO
- Grann, David - The lost city of Z Lobby Audio-CD 918.1 G
- Kanon, Joseph - Leaving Berlin: a novel Lobby Audio-CD K
- Towles, Amor - A gentleman in Moscow: a novel Lobby Audio-CD T
- Ward, Jesmyn - Sing, unburied, sing: a novel Lobby Audio-CD W
- Winchester, Simon - Pacific: silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers , Audio-CD 940.4 W