New Books - May 2016
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Bacevich, Andrew J. - America's war for the greater Middle East: a military history
- Blanning, T. C. W. - Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
- Buckley, Gail Lumet - The Black Calhouns: from Civil War to civil rights with one African American family
- Cesarani, David - Disraeli: the novel politician
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius - How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life (translated and with an introduction by Philip Freeman)
- Cooper, Anderson - The rainbow comes and goes: a mother and son on life, love, and loss
- Daloz, Kate - We are as gods: back to the land in the 1970s on the quest for a new America
- Duneier, Mitchell - Ghetto: the invention of a place, the history of an idea
- Fair, Eric - Consequence: a memoir
- Gabler, Neal - Barbra Streisand: redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Gordon-Reed, Annette - "Most blessed of the patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
- Guy, J. A. - Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Haag, Pamela - The gunning of America: business and the making of American gun culture
- Hacker, Jacob S. - American amnesia: how the war on government led us to forget what made America prosper
- Hammer, Joshua - The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
- Harrison, Kathryn - True crimes: a family album
- Hart, Tom - Rosalie Lightning
- Hauser, Brooke - Enter Helen: the invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the rise of the modern single woman
- Hochschild, Adam - Spain in our hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (ebook available)
- Hoffman, Adina - Till we have built Jerusalem: architects of a new city
- Jahren, Hope - Lab girl
- Jaques, Susan - The empress of art: Catherine the Great and the transformation of Russia
- Khalilzad, Zalmay - The envoy: from Kabul to the White House, my journey through a turbulent world
- Leaming, Barbara - Kick Kennedy: the charmed life and tragic death of the favorite Kennedy daughter
- Lyons, Daniel - Disrupted: my misadventure in the start-up bubble
- Mariani, Paul L. - The whole harmonium: the life of Wallace Stevens
- McBride, James - Kill 'em and leave: searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Miranda, Lin-Manuel - Hamilton: the revolution: being the complete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation, and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America
- Nussbaum, Abraham M. - The finest traditions of my calling: one physician's search for the renewal of medicine
- Piketty, Thomas - Why save the bankers?: and other essays on our economic and political crisis (translated from the French by Seth Ackerman)
- Robison, John Elder - Switched on: a memoir of brain change and emotional awakening John Elder Robison
- Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow - Green metropolis: the extraordinary landscapes of New York City as nature, history, and design
- Sengupta, Somini - The end of karma: hope and fury among India's young
- Solomon, Andrew - Far and away: reporting from the brink of change: seven continents, twenty-five years
- Stahl, Lesley - Becoming grandma: the joys and science of the new grandparenting
- Thomas, Louisa - Louisa: the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Thoreau, Henry David - Thoreau's wildflowers Henry David Thoreau (illustrated by Barry Moser; edited by Geoff Wisner)
- Waal, F. B. M. - Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
- Wegner, Daniel M. - The mind club: who thinks, what feels, and why it matters
- Zacks, Richard - Chasing the last laugh: Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Zwonitzer, Mark - The statesman and the storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the rise of American imperialism
FICTION
- Bachelder, Chris - The throwback special
- Beverly, Bill - Dodgers
- Bock, Charles - Alice & Oliver
- Cantor, Rachel - Good on paper
- Charles, Christopher - The exiled
- Corthron, Kia - The castle cross the magnet carter
- Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee - Before we visit the goddess
- Dunmore, Helen - Exposure
- Dutton, Danielle - Margaret the first
- Faye, Lyndsay - Jane Steele: a confession
- Feldman, Ellen - Terrible virtue
- Fesperman, Dan - The letter writer (ebook available)
- Grossman, Paul - Terrible swift sword
- Haigh, Jennifer - Heat and light
- Hamilton, Jane - The excellent Lombards
- Kadare, Ismail - A girl in exile: requiem for Linda B. Ismail Kadare (translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson)
- Kelly, Martha Hall - Lilac girls
- Kennedy, Douglas - The blue hour
- Knausgård, Karl Ove - My struggle: Book five (translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett)
- Kutsukake, Lynne - The translation of love
- Mahajan, Karan - The association of small bombs
- Marías, Javier - Thus bad begins (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
- Means, David - Hystopia
- Poliner, Elizabeth - As close to us as breathing
- Prentiss, Molly - Tuesday nights in 1980
- Preston, John - The dig
- Quindlen, Anna - Miller's Valley (ebook available)
- Redondo, Dolores - The invisible guardian (translated from the Spanish by Isabelle Kaufeler)
- Rindell, Suzanne - Three-martini lunch
- Roberts, Nora - The obsession
- Rogan, Charlotte - Now and again
- Schulman, Sarah - The cosmopolitans
- Simonson, Helen - The summer before the war (ebook available)
- Sittenfeld, Curtis - Eligible (ebook available)
- Smith, Dominic - The last painting of Sara de Vos (ebook available)
- Svensson, Anton - The father: made in Sweden: part 1
- Swift, Graham - Mothering Sunday: a romance (ebook available)
- White, Edmund - Our young man
MYSTERIES
- Albert, Susan Wittig - Blood orange
- Axelrod, Steven - Nantucket grand
- Baldacci, David - The last mile
- Begley, Louis - Kill and be killed
- Berry, Steve - The 14th colony
- Clark, Mary Higgins - As time goes by
- De Giovanni, Maurizio - The bastards of Pizzofalcone (translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar)
- Dufresne, John - I don't like where this is going
- Hallinan, Timothy - King maybe: a Junior Bender mystery
- Hand, Elizabeth - Hard light: a Cass Neary crime novel
- Harrison, Cora - A fatal inheritance
- Helton, Peter - Soft summer blood*
- Hilton, L. S. - Maestra
- James, Bill - First fix your alibi*
- Kerr, Philip - The other side of silence (ebook available)
- King, Laurie R. - The murder of Mary Russell: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes*
- Kisor, Henry - Tracking the beast: a Steve Martinez mystery
- Lagercrantz, David. - Fall of man in Wilmslow (translated from the Swedish by George Goulding)
- McPherson, Catriona - Quiet neighbors
- Morgan Jones, Chris - The searcher
- Oldham, Nick - Onslaught: a Steve Flynn thriller*
- Patterson, James - Private Paris (w/ Mark Sullivan)
- Quick, Amanda. - Til death do us part*
- Quirk, Matthew - Cold barrel zero
- Robards, Karen - Darkness
- Robinson, Peter - No cure for love
- Robotham, Michael - Close your eyes
- Sandford, John - Extreme prey
- Scottoline, Lisa - Most wanted
- Sedgwick, Marcus - A love like blood
- Segura, Alex - Down the darkest street
- Smith, Cote - Hurt people
- Smith, Lachlan - Panther's prey
- Sykes, S. D. - Butcher bird: a Somershill Manor mystery*
- Taylor, David C. - Night work
- Wells, William - Detective fiction
- Winspear, Jacqueline - Journey to Munich* (ebook available)
- Woods, Stuart - Family jewels
* Indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Christopher, Nicholas - On Jupiter place: poems
- Lima, Frank - Incidents of travel in poetry: new and selected poems
- Maguire, Sarah - Almost the equinox: selected poems
- McClatchy, J. D. - Sweet theft : a poet's commonplace book
- Pearl: a new verse translation (Simon Armitage)
- Rash, Ron - Poems: new and selected
- Schiff, Robyn - A woman of property
- Virgil - Aeneid Book VI (translated by Seamus Heaney)
SHORT STORIES
- Haddon, Mark - The pier falls: and other stories
- O'Faolain, Julia - Under the rose: selected stories
- Reader, I married him: stories inspired by Jane Eyre (edited by Tracy Chevalier)
- Schiff, Rebecca - The bed moved
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Castle, Ian - The first Blitz: bombing London in the First World War
- Cole, David - Engines of liberty : the power of citizen activists to make constitutional law
- Keynes, John Maynard - The essential Keynes (edited and with an introduction by Robert Skidelsky)
- Mazur, Joseph - Fluke: the math and myth of coincidences
- Rieff, David - In praise of forgetting : historical memory and its ironies
- Rowson, Martin - The Waste land
- Tel Aviv noir (edited by Etgar Keret and Assaf Gavron; translated by Yardenne Greenspan)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- The Cambridge history of Japanese literature (Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, eds.) 895.6 C
- Flesh and the mirror: essays on the art of Angela Carter (Lorna Sage, ed.; introduction by Ali Smith)
- Krystal, Arthur. - This thing we call literature 809 K
- Mikics, David - Bellow's people: how Saul Bellow made life into art 823 B
- Walton, John - The legendary detective: the private eye in fact and fiction 351.74 W
- Upstairs at the Strand: writers in conversation at the legendary bookstore (jessica Strand & Andrea Aguilar,eds.) 808 U
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls - The selected letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder 92 W6732 W
- Zweig, Stefan - Messages from a lost world: Europe on the brink (translated from the German) 834 Z
FICTION
- Benedetti, Mario - The truce: the diary of Martín Santomé (newly translated from the Spanish; originally published 1960) F B
- Castellanos Moya, Horacio - The dream of my return (translated from the Spanish) F C
- Gibbons, Stella - Pure Juliet F G
- Khoury, Elias - Broken mirrors: Sinalcol (translated from the Arabic) F K
- Schnitzler, Arthur - Late fame (translated from the German) F S
POETRY
- Auden, W. H. - W.H. Auden (Voice of the Poet series) Audio-CD 821 A
- Dickinson, Emily - Emily Dickinson's poems: as she preserved them 821 D
- Mandel'shtam, Osip - The Voronezh notebooks (translated from the Russian) 891.71 M
- Perillo, Lucia Maria - Time will clean the carcass bones: selected and new poems 821 P
- Poems that make grown women cry (Anthony & Ben Holden, eds.) 808.81 H
- Ros, Xon de - The poetry of Antonio Machado: changing the landscape 861.09 R
PUBLISHING
- Claridge, Laura P. - The lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire 92 K725 C (ebook available)
- Haining, Peter - The classic era of American pulp magazines 050 H OVERSIZE
LANGUAGE
- Cioffi, Frank L. - One day in the life of the English language: a microcosmic usage handbook 428.3 C
- Horobin, Simon - How English became English: a short history of a global language 420.9 H
- Taylor, Charles - The language animal: the full shape of the human linguistic capacity 407 T
PHILOSOPHY
- Bertram, Ernst - Nietzsche: attempt at a mythology 193 B
- Jackson, Laura (Riding) - The telling 170 J
- Robertson, John - The enlightenment: a very short introduction 190 R
ART
- Descharnes, Robert - Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989: the paintings 759.6 D
- Hauptman, Jodi - Degas: a strange new beauty 759.4 D
- Molesworth, Charles - The capitalist and the critic: J.P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art 708.1 M
- Rosenblum, Robert - The romantic child: from Runge to Sendak 757.4 R
- Solkin, David H. - Art in Britain, 1660-1815 709.42 S
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Bradford, Richard - The importance of elsewhere: Philip Larkin's photographs 770 L
- Lyden, Anne M. - A royal passion: Queen Victoria and photography 779 L
- Penn, Irving - Irving Penn: beyond beauty 779 P
COMIC
- Kidd, Chip - Only what's necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the art of Peanuts 741.5 K
- Maslin, Michael - Peter Arno: the mad, mad world of the New Yorker's greatest cartoonist 741.5 M
- Rowson, Martin - The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman 741.5 R
RELIGION
- Batchelor, Stephen - After Buddhism: rethinking the Dharma for a secular age 294 B
- Bissell, Tom - Apostle, or, Bones that shine like fire: travels among the tombs of the Twelve 225.92 B
- The Yale papers: antisemitism in comparative perspective 296.9 Y
BIOGRAPHY
- Aaronovitch, David - Party animals: my family and other communists 92 A114 A
- Carlberg, Ingrid - Raoul Wallenberg: the heroic life and mysterious disappearance of the man who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocuast 92 W1971 C
- Cecil, Hugh - Family, friendships, landscapes 92 W57693 C
- Goodwin, George - Benjamin Franklin in London: the British life of America's founding father 92 F8313 G
- Kushner, David - Alligator candy: a memoir 92 K9765 K
- Man, John - Saladin: the sultan who vanquished the crusaders and built an Islamic empire 92 S159 M
- Pückler-Muskau, Hermann - Letters of a dead man 92 P9776 P
- Spotts, Frederic - Cursed legacy: the tragic life of Klaus Mann 92 M2816 S
SOCIOLOGY
- Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia - The cosmopolites: the coming of the global citizen 323.6 A
- Gamson, Joshua - Modern families: stories of extraordinary journeys to kinship 306.8 G
- Guyatt, Nicholas - Bind us apart: how enlightened Americans invented racial segregation 305.8 G
- Mirzoeff, Nicholas - How to see the world: an introduction to images, from self-portraits to selfies, maps to movies, and more 302 M
HISTORY
- Dolin, Eric Jay - Brilliant beacons: a history of the American lighthouse 627.9 D
- Edwards, Ruth Dudley - The seven: the lives and legacies of the founding fathers of the Irish Republic 941.5 E
- Huscroft, Richard - Tales from the long twelfth century: the rise and fall of the Angevin Empire 942.03 H
- Hutton, Paul Andrew - The Apache wars: the hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the captive boy who started the longest war in American history 970.2 H
- Judson, Pieter M. - The Habsburg empire: a new history 943.6 K
- Ogle, Vanessa - The global transformation of time: 1870-1950 389 O
- Trentmann, Frank - Empire of things: how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first 339.4 T
- Wieviorka, Olivier, - The French resistance 940.5344 W
- Wittman, Robert K. - The devil's diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the stolen secrets of the Third Reich 940.5318 W
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
- Annas, Julia - Ancient philosophy: a very short introduction 180 A
- Lapatin, Kenneth D. S. - Luxus: the sumptuous arts of Greece and Rome 745 L
- Nomads and networks: the ancient art and culture of Kazakhstan (Soren Stark, et al., eds.) 958 N OVERSIZE
- Whitley, James - The archaeology of ancient Greece 938 W
WAR
- Connes, G. A. - A POW's memoir of the First World War: the other ordeal 940.48 C
- Cox, Caroline - Boy soldiers of the American Revolution 973.3 C
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh - Nothing ever dies: Vietnam and the memory of war 959.704 N
- Scheyer, Moriz - Asylum (Holocaust memoir, Vienna) 940.548 S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Bradley, James - The China mirage: the hidden history of American disaster in Asia 951 B
- Brotton, Jerry - This orient isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic world 942.05 B
- Walther, Karine V. - Sacred interests: the United States and the Islamic world, 1821-1921 327.73 W
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Williams, Juan - We the people: the modern-day figures who have reshaped and affirmed the founding fathers' vision of America 920 W7255 W
- Woods, Randall Bennett - Prisoners of hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the limits of liberalism 973.923 W
ECONOMICS
- Frank, Robert H. - Success and luck: good fortune and the myth of meritocracy 330 F
- King, Mervyn A. - The end of alchemy: money, banking and the future of the global economy 330.1 K
- Wheelan, Charles J. - Naked money: a revealing look at what it is and why it matters 332.4 W
PSYCHOLOGY
- Földényi, F. László - Melancholy (translated from the Hungarian) 152 F
- Fox, Dan - Pretentiousness: why it matters 155 F
- Jung, C. G. - The red book: a reader's edition (Sonu Shamdasani, ed.) 150 J
SCIENCE
- Al-Khalili, Jim - The house of wisdom: how Arabic science saved ancient knowledge and gave us the Renaissance 509 A
- Head, Vernon R. L., - The rarest bird in the world: the search for the Nechisar Nightjar 598.2 H
- Holt, Nathalia - Rise of the rocket girls: the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars 396 H
- Ray, Meredith K. - Daughters of alchemy: women and scientific culture in early modern Italy 509 R
NEW YORK
- Grand Pierre, C. - The little book of Greenwich Village: to make the village better known, better understood—hence loved (1935) 974.71 G
- Kadinsky, Sergey - Hidden waters of New York City: a history and guide to 101 forgotten lakes, ponds, creeks, and streams in the five boroughs 974.71 K
- McKito, Valerie H. - From loyalists to loyal citizens: the DePeyster family of New York 920 D419 M
- New York's Yiddish theater: from the Bowery to Broadway 792.0973 N
- Reid, David - The brazen age: New York City and the American empire : politics, art, and bohemia 974.71 R
AUDIO
- Galsworthy, John - The Forsyte saga Audio-CD G
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich - Lolita Lobby Audio-CD N
- Pym, Barbara - Excellent women Lobby Audio-CD P
- West, Nathanael - Miss Lonelyhearts, Lobby Audio-CD W