New Books - May 2018
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel - Fascism: a warning (with Bill Woodward)
- Blum, Howard. - In the enemy's house: the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- Buckley, Susan Washburn - Eating with Peter: a gastronomic journey: stories & recipes
- Buruma, Ian - A Tokyo romance: a memoir
- Can it happen here?: authoritarianism in America (Cass Sunstein, ed.)
- Carter, Jimmy - Faith: a journey for all
- Comey, James B. - A higher loyalty: truth, lies, and leadership (ebook available)
- Crosley, Sloane - Look alive out there: essays
- Dean, Michelle - Sharp: the women who made an art of having an opinion
- Ehrenreich, Barbara - Natural causes: an epidemic of wellness, the certainty of dying, and killing ourselves to live longer
- Ellender, Lulah - Elisabeth's lists: a family story
- Friend, David - The naughty nineties: the triumph of the American libido
- Galston, William A. - Anti-pluralism: the real populist threat to liberal democracy
- Graham, Don - Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the making of a legendary American film
- Hilgers, Lauren - Patriot number one: American dreams in Chinatown
- Irby, Samantha. - Meaty: essays
- Jamison, Leslie - The recovering: intoxication and its aftermath
- Klarsfeld, Beate - Hunting the truth: memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
- Middleton, William - Double vision: the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil
- Moore, Lorrie - See what can be done: essays, criticism, and commentary (ebook available)
- Pardlo, Gregory - Air traffic: a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Peterson, Jordan B. - 12 rules for life: an antidote to chaos
- Purdum, Todd S. - Something wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway revolution
- Slater, Lauren - Blue dreams: the science and the story of the drugs that changed our minds
- Smyth, J. E. - Nobody's girl Friday: the women who ran Hollywood
- Taylor, Peter - Weird war two: intriguing items and surprising stuff from the Second World War
- Van Haaften, Julia - Berenice Abbott: a life in photography
- Veevers, Marian - Jane and Dorothy: a true tale of sense and sensibility: the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
- Weisman, Jonathan - (((Semitism))): being Jewish in America in the age of Trump
FICTION
- Ball, Jesse - Census
- Barnes, Julian. - The only story (ebook available)
- Bohjalian, Chris - The flight attendant (ebook available)
- Carroll, James - The cloister: a novel
- Connolly, John - He: a novel
- Díaz, Hernán - In the distance
- Evison, Jonathan - Lawn boy: a novel
- Forna, Aminatta - Happiness
- Frazier, Charles - Varina: a novel
- Giacobino, Margherita - Portrait of a family with a fat daughter (translated from the Italian)
- Glass, Emma - Peach
- Johnson, Chelsey - Stray city: a novel
- Jordan, Neil - Carnivalesque
- Krentz, Jayne Ann - Promise not to tell
- Mangan, Christine - Tangerine (ebook available)
- Mayes, Frances - Women in sunlight: a novel
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The good pilot Peter Woodhouse
- Miller, Derek B. - American by day
- Miller, Madeline - Circe: a novel
- Morrall, Clare - The last of the greenwoods
- Morris, Heather - The tattooist of Auschwitz
- Mukherjee, Abir. - A necessary evil
- Murnane, Gerald - Border districts: a fiction
- Offutt, Chris - Country dark
- Powers, Richard - The overstory (ebook available)
- Quindlen, Anna - Alternate side (ebook available)
- Rachman, Tom - The Italian teacher (ebook available)
- Starnone, Domenico - Trick (translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Ugrešic, Dubravka - Fox (translated from the Croatian)
- Urrea, Luis Alberto - The house of broken angels
- Wolitzer, Meg - The female persuasion (ebook available)
- Yan, Lianke - The years, months, days: two novellas (translated from the Chinese)
MYSTERIES
- Baldacci, David - The fallen
- Bannalec, Jean-Luc - The Fleur de Sel murders: a Brittany mystery (translated from the German)
- Berry, Steve - The bishop's pawn
- Box, C. J. - The disappeared: a Joe Pickett novel (ebook available)
- Brody, Frances - Death in the stars*
- Brynard, Karin - Weeping waters (translated from the Afrikaans)
- Burke, Alafair - The wife: a novel of psychological suspense
- Conway, Simon - A loyal spy: a thriller
- Downing, David - The dark clouds shining*
- Gamboa, Santiago - Return to the Dark Valley (translated from the Spanish)
- Grecian, Alex - The saint of wolves and butchers
- Grimes, Martha - The knowledge: a Richard Jury mystery*
- Harrington, Kent A. - Last ferry home
- Harris, C. S. - Why kill the innocent*
- Herron, Mick - London rules*
- Hillerman, Anne - Cave of bones
- Kerr, Philip - Greeks bearing gifts (ebook available)
- Lansdale, Joe R. - Jackrabbit smile
- Longworth, M. L. - The secrets of the Bastide Blanche
- Mackintosh, Clare - Let me lie (ebook available)
- May, Peter - I'll keep you safe*
- McIntyre, W. H. S. - Last will
- Meltzer, Brad - The escape artist
- Moore, Christopher - Noir: a novel
- Nay, Roz - Our little secret
- Nesbø, Jo - Macbeth (translated from the Norwegian) (ebook available)
- Rosenfelt, David - Fade to black
- Sandford, John - Twisted prey
- Scottoline, Lisa - After Anna
- Taylor, Andrew - The Fire Court*
- Viskic, Emma - Resurrection Bay
- White, Randy Wayne - Caribbean rim
- Winspear, Jacqueline - To die but once* (ebook available)
- Woods, Stuart - Shoot first: (think later): a Stone Barrington novel
*Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Kluge, Alexander - Temple of the scapegoat: opera stories (translated from the German)
- Lazarin, Danielle. - Back talk: stories
- Mackin, Will - Bring out the dog: stories
- McGuane, Thomas - Cloudbursts: collected and new stories
- Schutt, Christine - Pure Hollywood and other stories
- Sittenfeld, Curtis - You think it, I'll say it: stories
POETRY
- Ammons, A. R. - The complete poems of A.R. Ammons (2 volumes: Robert M. West, ed.; introduction by Helen Vendler)
- Phillips, Matthew - The island's only escape: poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Cole-Adams, Kate - Anesthesia: the gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness
- Jebelli, Joseph - In pursuit of memory: the fight against Alzheimer's
- Kaplan, Robert D. - The return of Marco Polo's world: war, strategy, and American interests in the twenty-first century
- Maxtone Graham, Ysenda - Terms & conditions: life in girls' boarding schools, 1939-1979
- Shields, David S. - The culinarians: lives and careers from the first age of American fine dining
- Walker, Julian - Words and the First World War: language, memory, vocabulary
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Berman, Ronald. - F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American scene , 823 F
- Chateaubriand, François-René - Memoirs from beyond the grave: 1768-1800 (translated from the French; introduction by Anka Muhlstein; New York Review Books) 92 C492 C
- Ford, Ford Madox - The Ford Madox Ford reader 823 F
- Hynes, Samuel - On war and writing 809.9 H
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft - Mathilda 823 S
- Sleigh, Tom - The land between two rivers: writing in an age of refugees 824 S
- Storm, Theodor - Grieshuus: the chronicle of a family (translated from the German) 833 S
- Writers and their mothers (Dale Salwak, ed.) 809 W
FICTION
- Döblin, Alfred - Berlin Alexanderplatz (new translation by Michael Hofmann; New York Review Books; ebook available) F D
- Hašek, Jaroslav - The Bachura scandal and other stories and sketches F H
- Llamazares, Julio - Wolf moon (originally published, 2009; translated from the Spanish) F L
- Marquis, Don - The annotated Archy and Mehitabel 827 M
POETRY
- Cat poems (Tynan Kogane, ed.) 808.81 C
- Duncan, Robert & Charles Olson - An open map: the correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson 92 D9126 O
- Hart, Henry - The life of Robert Frost: a critical biography 92 F9393 H
- Oliver, Mary - Rules for the dance: a handbook for writing and reading metrical verse 808.1 O
- Wolfson, Susan J. - Reading John Keats 821.09 K
- Written in the dark: five poets in the siege of Leningrad (Paulina Barskova, ed.) 891.71 W
CLASSICS / ANTIQUITY
- Hesiod - Works and days (translated by A.E. Stallings) 883.2 H
- Homer - The Odyssey (new translaton by Peter Green) 883.1 H
- Johnson, W. R. - Darkness visible: a study of Vergil's Aeneid 873.1 J
- Kerferd, G. B. - The sophistic movement 183 K
ARCHAEOLOGY
- Cline, Eric H. - Three stones make a wall: the story of archaeology 930.1 C
- Fagan, Brian M. - A little history of archaeology 930.1 F
ART
- Adam, Georgina. - Dark side of the boom: the excesses of the art market in the twenty-first century 381 A
- Elderfield, John. - Cézanne portraits 759.4 C
- Gorey's worlds (Edward Gorey; Erin Monro, ed.) 741.2 G
- Kitaj, R. B. - Confessions of an old Jewish painter: autobiography 759.1 K
- Langmuir, Erika - Saints: a closer look 704.948 L
- Syme, Patrick - Werner's nomenclature of colours: adapted to zoology, botany, chemistry, mineralogy, anatomy, and the arts 752 S
ARCHITECTURE
- Louis Sullivan: the function of ornament (Wim de Wit, ed.) 720.92 S
- Gyure, Dale Allen - Minoru Yamasaki: humanist architecture for a modernist world 720.92 Y
- Holliday, Kathryn E. - Leopold Eidlitz: architecture and idealism in the Gilded Age 720.92 E
- Seavitt Nordenson, Catherine - Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and public landscapes under dictatorship 720.92 B
TRAVEL
- Bonnett, Alastair - Beyond the map: unruly enclaves, ghostly places, emerging lands and our search for new utopias 910 B
- Gemie, Sharif - The hippie trail: a history, 1957-78 910.9 G
- Magris, Claudio - Journeying (translated from the Italian) 910 M
- Nairn, Ian - Nairn's Paris 914.436 N
PERFORMING ARTS
- Brinkmann, Reinhold - Late idyll: the Second symphony of Johannes Brahms 785.11 B
- Ewoodzie, Joseph C. - Break beats in the Bronx: rediscovering hip-hop's early years 780.973 E
- Lax, Eric - Start to finish: Woody Allen and the art of moviemaking 791.4 L
- Mordden, Ethan - All that jazz: the life and times of the musical Chicago 792.6 M
BOOKS & READING
- Middleton, Bernard C. - A history of English craft bookbinding technique 686 M
- Vaisey, David - Bodleian Library treasures 027 V
PHILOSOPHY
- Beiner, Ronald - Dangerous minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the return of the far right 322.4 B
- Shestov, Lev - In Job's balances: on the sources of the eternal truths 190 S
- Strawson, Galen - Things that bother me: death, freedom, the self, etc. 192 S
RELIGION
- Cline, Eric H. - From Eden to exile: unraveling mysteries of the Bible 221.6 C
- Rüpke, Jörg - Pantheon: a new history of Roman religion 292 R
- Wimpfheimer, Barry S. - The Talmud: a biography 296.1 W
SCIENCE
- Becker, Adam - What is real?: the unfinished quest for the meaning of quantum physics 530.1 B
- Libeskind Berkovits, Annette - Confessions of an accidental zoo curator 590.7 L
- Schilling, Govert - Ripples in spacetime: Einstein, gravitational waves, and the future of astronomy 523 S
- Wilson, Derek - A magical world: superstition and science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment 509 W
GARDENS
- Ives, Colta Feller - Public parks, private gardens: Paris to Provence 758 I
- Stevens, David - Roof gardens, balconies, and terraces 635 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Dilbeck, D. H. - Frederick Douglass: America's prophet 92 D7374 D
- Dyson, Freeman J. - Maker of patterns: an autobiography through letters 92 D9985 D
- Gold, Alison Leslie - Found and lost: mittens, Miep, and shovelfuls of dirt 92 G617 G
- Irwin, Robert - Ibn Khaldun: an intellectual biography 92 I13 I
- Kerry, Simon - Lansdowne: the last great Whig 92 L2953 K
- Seymour, Miranda - In Byron's wake: the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace 920 B9961 S
HISTORY
- Baberowski, Jörg - Scorched earth: Stalin's reign of terror 947.084 B
- Brown, Charles H. - Agents of manifest destiny: the lives and times of the filibusters 973.6 B
- Calloway, Colin G. - The Indian world of George Washington: the first President, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation 970.5 C
- Kurtz-Phelan, Daniel - The China mission: George Marshall's unfinished war, 1945-1947 951 K
- Lee, Jeffrey - God's wolf: the life of the most notorious of all crusaders, scourge of Saladin 940.1 L
- Lieshout, R. H. - Britain and the Arab Middle East: World War I and its aftermath 327.42 L
- Moore, Lucy - Lady Fanshawe's receipt book: the life & times of a Civil War heroine 942.06 M
- Sherlock, Philip Manderson - The story of the Jamaican people 972.92 S
- Zipperstein, Steven J. - Pogrom: Kishinev and the tilt of history 947 Z
WAR
- Adkins, Roy - Gibraltar: the greatest siege in British history 942.07 A
- Braithwaite, Rodric - Armageddon and paranoia: the nuclear confrontation since 1945 355.4 B
- Christian, Royal A. - Porter, steward, citizen: an African American's memoir of World War I 940.48 C
- Daughan, George C. - Lexington and Concord: the battle heard round the world 973.33 D
- Morris, Jan - Battleship Yamato: of war, beauty and irony 940.545 M
HUMAN RIGHTS
- Moyn, Samuel - Not enough: human rights in an unequal world 323.4 M
- Singer, Peter - Famine, affluence, and morality 170 S
- Slim, Hugo - Humanitarian ethics: a guide to the morality of aid in war and disaster 361 S
AFRICA
- Bacquart, Jean-Baptiste - The tribal arts of Africa: surveying Africa's artistic geography 709 B
- Condé, Maryse - What is Africa to me?: fragments of a true-to-life autobiography 92 C7452 C
- Leiris, Michel - Phantom Africa 916.7 L
- Masri, Safwan M. - Tunisia: an Arab anomaly 961 M
- Suzman, James - Affluence without abundance: the disappearing world of the bushmen 968 S
- Turse, Nick - Next time they'll come to count the dead: war and survival in South Sudan 962 T
PSYCHOLOGY
- Brandt, Anthony K. - The runaway species: how human creativity remakes the world 155 B
- Segal, Nancy L. - Twin mythconceptions: false beliefs, fables, and facts about twins 136 S
SOCIOLOGY
- Rosling, Hans - Factfulness: ten reasons we're wrong about the world--and why things are better than you think 302 R
- Taleb, Nassim Nicholas - Skin in the game: hidden asymmetries in daily life 302 T
- Thompson, Nato - Culture as weapon: the art of influence in everyday life 303.3 T
- Walker, Anders - The burning house: Jim Crow and the making of modern America 305.8 W
EDUCATION
- Gray, Hanna Holborn - An academic life: a memoir 92 G7798 G
- Keywords: for further consideration and particularly relevant to academic life (humor) 378 K
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Feigel, Lara - Free woman: life, liberation and Doris Lessing 396 F
- Johnson, Joan Marie - Funding feminism: monied women, philanthropy, and the women's movement, 1870-1967 305.4 J
- Robinson, Jane - Hearts and minds: the untold story of the great pilgrimage and how women won the vote 324.3 R
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Kalder, Daniel - The infernal library: on dictators, the books they wrote, and other catastrophes of literacy 321.9 K
- Lendvai, Paul - Hungary: between democracy and authoritarianism 943.91 L
- Schweizer, Peter - Secret empires: how the American political class hides corruption and enriches family and friends 324.27 S
- Simon, James F. - Eisenhower vs. Warren: the battle for civil rights and liberties 973.92 S
