New Books - May 2019
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Altan, Ahmet - I will never see the world again
- Asher, C. - Never a lovely so real: the life and work of Nelson Algren
- Bishop, Patrick - The man who was saturday: the extraordinary life of Airey Neave, soldier, escaper. spymaster, politician
- Biskupic, Joan - The chief: the life and turbulent times of Chief Justice John Roberts
- Bloom, Harold - Possessed by memory: the inward light of criticism
- Bowden, Mar, - The last stone (ebook available)
- Brooks, David - The second mountain: the quest for a moral life
- Budiansky, Stephen - Oliver Wendell Holmes: a life in war, law, and ideas
- Caro, Robert A. - Working: researching, interviewing, writing (ebook available)
- Carr, Erin Lee - All that you leave behind: a memoir
- Cullen, Dave - Parkland: birth of a movement
- Duffy, Peter - The agitator: William Bailey and the first American uprising against Nazism
- Dworkin, Andrea - Last days at hot slit: the radical feminism of Andrea Dworkin
- Gates, Henry Louis - Stony the road: Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow
- Guisewite, Cathy - Fifty things that aren't my fault: essays from the grown-up years
- Hitchens, Christopher - The four horsemen: the conversation that sparked an atheist revolution
- Hunt, Will - Underground: a human history of the worlds beneath our feet
- Iyer, Pico - Autumn light: season of fire and farewells
- Jackson, Mitchell S. - Survival math: notes on an all-American family
- Jones, Doug - Bending toward justice: the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights
- Kirsch, Adam, - Who wants to be a Jewish writer?: and other essays
- Lee, Matt - Hotbox: inside catering, the food world's riskiest business
- Marx, Patricia - Why don't you write my eulogy now so I can correct it?: a mother's suggestions (illustrations by Roz Chast)
- Nadell, Pamela Susan - America's Jewish women: a history from colonial times to today
- Nelson, Christine - The magic of handwriting: the Pedro Corrêa do Lago collection
- Norris, Mary - Greek to me: adventures of the comma queen (ebook available)
- Page, Susann - The matriarch: Barbara Bush and the making of an American dynasty
- Purnell, Sonia - A woman of no importance: the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- Reichl, Ruth - Save me the plums: my Gourmet memoir (ebook available)
- Rich, Nathaniel - Losing Earth: a recent history
- Sacks, Oliver - Everything in its place: first loves and last tales
- Scott, Jeremy - Women who dared: to break all the rules
- Stack, Megan K. - Women's work: a reckoning with home and help
- Sturkey, William - Hattiesburg: an American city in black and white
- Szirtes, George - The photographer at sixteen: the death and life of a fighter
- Weitzmann, Marc - Hate: the rising tide of anti-Semitism in France (and what it means for us)
- Winder, Simon - Lotharingia: a personal history of Europe's lost country
- Young, Damon - What doesn't kill you makes you blacker: a memoir in essays
FICTION
- Balson, Ronald H. - The girl from Berlin
- Beattie, Ann - A wonderful stroke of luck: a novel
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Outside looking in: a novel
- Choi, Susan - Trust exercise: a novel (ebook available)
- Collins, Bridget. - The binding: a novel
- DuBois, Jennifer - The spectators: a novel
- Eaves, Will - Murmur
- Englander, Nathan - Kaddish.com
- Fitzpatrick, Lydia - Lights all night long
- Freudenberger, Nell - Lost and wanted (ebook available)
- Goldberg, Myla - Feast your eyes
- Haenel, Yannick - Hold fast your crown (translated from the French)
- Hammad, Isabella - The Parisian, or, al-Barisi: a novel (ebook available)
- Hanif, Mohammed - Red birds
- Jones, Sadie - The snakes
- Kelly, Martha Hall - Lost roses: a novel
- Lasdun, James - Victory: two novellas
- Leithauser, Brad - The promise of elsewhere
- McEwan, Ian - Machines like me: and people like you (ebook available)
- O'Nan, Stewart - Henry, himself
- Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo - The dragonfly sea: a novel
- Patterson, Dave - Soon the light will be perfect: a novel
- Ridker, Andrew - The altruists: a novel
- Tagaq - Split tooth
- Tilghman, Christopher - Thomas and Beal in the Midi
- Vogel, Marci - Death and other holidays
- Yellin, Jessica - Savage news
More fiction titles below (in the stacks).
MYSTERIES
- Baldacci, David - Redemption
- Buckley, Carla - The liar's child: a novel
- Burke, Alafair - The better sister: a novel
- Coulter, Catherine - The last second
- Downing, David - Diary of a dead man on leave *
- Dugoni, Robert - The eighth sister
- Fielding, Joy - All the wrong places: a novel
- Greaney, Mark - Mission critical
- Hillerman, Anne - The tale teller
- Hitchcock, Jane Stanton - Bluff
- Kernick, Simon - We can see you *
- Kerr, Philip - Metropolis: a Bernie Gunther novel (ebook available)
- May, Peter - The man with no face *
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The Department of Sensitive Crimes *
- Perry, Anne - Triple jeopardy: a Daniel Pitt novel *
- Reilly, Matthew - The secret runners of New York
- Rollins, James - Crucible: a thriller
- Russell, Craig - The devil aspect: the strange truth behind the occurrences at Hrad Orlu Asylum for the criminally insane: a novel *
- Sandford, John - Neon prey
- Scottoline, Lisa - Someone knows
- Thomas, Will - Blood is blood *
*Indicates a British mystery.
POETRY
- Huey, Amorak - Ha ha ha thump
- Mason, David - The sound: new and selected poems
- Xie, Jenny - Eye level: poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Byrne, Emma - Swear!ng is g*od f*r you: the amazing science of bad language
- Fowlkes, Blair - The world between empires: art and identity in the ancient Middle East
- Meek, James - Dreams of leaving and remaining
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE, CRITICISM, ESSAYS
- Collini, Stefan - The nostalgic imagination: history in English criticism : the Ford Lectures 2017 809 C
- Como, James T. - C. S. Lewis: a very short introduction 823 L
- Hui, Andrew - A theory of the aphorism: from Confucius to Twitter 809 H
- Le Faye, Deirdre - Jane Austen: a family record 92 A933 L
- Lounsberry, Barbara - Virginia Woolf's modernist path: her middle diaries & the diaries she read 828.09 L
- Martin, Benjamin Franklin - Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort: the nobel laureate and his unfinished creation 843 M
- Moretti, Franco - Far country: scenes from American culture 820.9 M
- Paglia, Camille - Provocations: collected essays 824 P
- Said, Edward W. - The selected works of Edward Said, 1966-2006 824 S
FICTION
- Ford, Charles Henri - The young and evil (1933 modernist gay fiction; set in NYC) F F
- Nassar, Raduan - Ancient tillage (translated from the Portuguese; New Directions) F N
- Pontoppidan, Henrik - A fortunate man (aka Lucky Per; translated from the Danish by Paul Larkin; acclaimed 1904 modernist novel by Nobel Prize winner) F P
- Miraculous mysteries: locked-room murders and impossible crimes (British Library crime classics; Martin Edwards, ed.) F M
- The Penguin book of Italian short stories (introduced, edited and with selected translations by Jhumpa Lahiri) F P
FOLKLORE, MYTHS & LEGENDS
- Aladdin: a new translation (Yasmine Seale) 398.2 A
- Henket, Pieter - Congo tales: told by the people of Mbomo 779 F
- Williams, M. A. - Ireland's immortals: a history of the gods of Irish myth 299.16 W
SHAKESPEARE
- Bate, Jonathan - How the classics made Shakespeare 822.33 C
- Bloom, Harold - Macbeth: a dagger of the mind 822.33 C
- Kells, Stuart - Shakespeare's library: unlocking the greatest mystery in literature 822.33 K
ART
- Before the fall: German and Austrian art of the 1930s (Olaf Peters, ed.; Neue Galerie) 709.43 B
- Ruth Asawa: life's work (Tamara H. Schenkenberg, ed.) 730.92 A
- Cooper, Suzanne Fagence - To see clearly: why Ruskin matters 828.09 R
- Goldring, Elizabeth - Nicholas Hilliard: life of an artist 759.2 H
- MacCarthy, Fiona - Gropius: the man who built the Bauhaus 720.92 G
- Plumly, Stanley - Elegy landscapes: Constable and Turner and the intimate sublime 759.2 P
PERFORMING ARTS
- Prince: the last interview and other conversations 780.921 P
- Propst, Andy - They made us happy: Betty Comden and Adolph Green's musicals and movies 782.14 P
- Quint, Alyssa - The rise of the modern Yiddish theater 792.0947 Q
- Toles, George E. - Paul Thomas Anderson 791.4 T
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Bound for glory: America in color, 1939-43 (FSA color photographs) 779 B
- Fox-Amato, Matthew - Exposing slavery: photography, human bondage, and the birth of modern visual politics in America 326 F
- Mangum, Hugh - Where we find ourselves: the photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922 779 M
ANTIQUITY
- Artemidorus - The interpretation of dreams =Oneirocritica (2nd-century Greek text) 135 A
- Caesar, Julius - The war for Gaul: a new translation (James O'Donnell) 936 C
- Critchley, Simon - Tragedy, the Greeks, and us 808.2 C
- Robertson, Donald - How to think like a Roman emperor: the stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius 188 R
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is now available to members. For more information, see the Electronic Resources page on our website or ask at the reference desk.
HISTORY
- Bassett, Richard - Last days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 940.55 B
- Beaton, Roderick - Greece: biography of a modern nation 949.5 B
- Calasso, Roberto - The unnamable present 909.82 C
- Damrosch, Leopold - The club: Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age 942.07 D
- Fenby, Jonathan - Crucible: thirteen months that forged our world (1947-48) 909.82 F
- Goodwin, Robert - América: the epic story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898 978 G
- Karuka, Manu - Empire's tracks: indigenous nations, Chinese workers, and the transcontinental railroad 385 K
- Mackintosh-Smith, Tim - Arabs: a 3,000-year history of peoples, tribes and empires 909.4 M
- Risen, Clay - A nation on fire: America in the wake of the King assassination 973.923 R
- Rosenfeld, Gavriel David - The Fourth Reich: the specter of Nazism from World War II to the present 943.087 R
- Thompson, Christina - Sea people: the puzzle of Polynesia 996 T
WOMEN'S HISTORY
- The women's suffrage movement (anthology, Sally Roesch Wagner, ed.) 324.3 W
- Lemay, Kate Clarke - Votes for women!: a portrait of persistence , 324.3 L
- Martin, Wednesday - Untrue: why nearly everything we believe about women, lust, and infidelity is wrong and how the new science can set us free 306.7 M
- Naylor, Natalie A. - Women in Long Island's past: a history of eminent ladies and everyday lives 974.72 N
WAR
- The 50 greatest letters from America's wars (David H. Lowenherz, ed.) 355.0973 F
- McCurry, Stephanie - Women's war: fighting and surviving the American Civil War 973.7 M
- Morton-Jack, George - The Indian Empire at war: from Jihad to victory, the untold story of the Indian Army in the First World War 940.412 M
- Shy, John W. - A people numerous and armed: reflections on the military struggle for American independence 973.3 S
- Varon, Elizabeth R. - Armies of deliverance: a new history of the Civil War 973.7 V
- Vuic, Kara Dixon - The girls next door: bringing the home front to the front lines 355.1 V
BIOGRAPHY
- Doniger, Wendy - The Donigers of Great Neck: a mythologized memoir 920 D683 D
- Figueiredo, Ivo de - Henrik Ibsen: the man and the mask 92 I144 F
- Filkins, Peter - H.G. Adler: a life in many worlds 92 A23752 F
- Jarrett, Valerie - Finding my voice: my journey to the West Wing and the path forward 92 J378 J
- Murphy, Andrew R. - William Penn: a life 92 P4128 M
- O'Donnell, Catherine - Elizabeth Seton: American saint 92 S4951 O
- Popoff, Alexandra - Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century 92 G87827 P
SCIENCE, NATURAL HISTORY & MATH
- Blom, Philipp - Nature's mutiny: how the little Ice Age of the long seventeenth century transformed the West and shaped the present 304.2 B
- Colby, Jason M. - Orca: how we came to know and love the ocean's greatest predator 599 C
- Dunkley, Jo - Our universe: an astronomer's guide 523.1 D
- Huckelbridge, Dane - No beast so fierce: the terrifying true story of the Champawat Tiger, the deadliest animal in history 599 H
- Maddox, Brenda - Reading the rocks: how Victorian geologists discovered the secret of life 551 M
- Smolin, Lee - Einstein's unfinished revolution: the search for what lies beyond the quantum 530.1 S
- Strogatz, Steven H. - Infinite powers: how calculus reveals the secrets of the universe 517 S
TECHNOLOGY
- How technology works: the facts visually explained 600 H
- Rosenblat, Alex - Uberland: how algorithms are rewriting the rules of work 388 R
- Ullman, Ellen - Life in code: a personal history of technology 005 U
LAW
- Tough cases: judges tell the stories of some of the hardest decisions they've ever made (Russell F. Canan, et al. eds.) 340.9 T
- Bharara, Preet - Doing justice: a prosecutor's thoughts on crime, punishment, and the rule of law 347 B
- Oller, John - White shoe: how a new breed of Wall Street lawyers changed big business and the American century 347.7 O
PSYCHOLOGY
- Cregan, Mary. - The scar: a personal history of depression and recovery 616.8 C
- Oatley, Keith. - Our minds, our selves: a brief history of psychology 150 O
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Blumenthal, Seth - Children of the silent majority: young voters and the rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980 324.273 B
- Linfield, Susie - The lions' den: Zionism and the left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky 320.9 L
- Lovell, Julia - Maoism: a global history 335.4 L
- Roberto, Michael Joseph - The coming of the American behemoth: the genesis of fascism in the United States, 1920-1940 335 R
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Pomeranz, Kenneth - The great divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy 330.9 P
- Rajan, Raghuram - The third pillar: how markets and the state leave the community behind 330 R
BREXIT
- Dorling, Daniel - Rule Britannia: brexit and the end of empire 942.085 D
- O'Rourke, Kevin H. - A short history of Brexit: from brentry to backstop 942.085 O
SOCIOLOGY
- Carney, Timothy P. - Alienated America: why some places thrive while others collapse 306 C
- Gilligan, Carol - Why does patriarchy persist? 305.4 G
- Moffett, Mark W. - The human swarm: how our societies arise, thrive, and fall 301 M
TRAVEL
- Lesbros, Dominique - Curiosities of Paris: an idiosyncratic guide to overlooked delights... hidden in plain sight 914.436 L
- Lessard, Suzannah - The absent hand: reimagining our American landscape 917.3 L
- Sells, A. Lytton - The paradise of travellers: the Italian influence on Englishmen in the seventeenth century 914.5 S
NEW YORK
- Bottoms, Stephen J. - Playing underground: a critical history of the 1960s off-off-Broadway movement 792.0973 B
- McDonald, Jamie - No access New York City: the city's hidden treasures, haunts, and forgotten places 917.471 M
- Perry, Elisabeth Israels - After the Vote: Feminist Politics in LA Guardia's New York 331.4 P
RELIGION
- Conner, Miguel - Voices of gnosticism (Interviews with Elaine Pagels, Marvin Meyer, Bart Ehrman, et al.) 299.9 C
- Knysh, Alexander D. - Sufism: a new history of Islamic mysticism 297 K
- Maimon, Salomon - The autobiography of Solomon Maimon: the complete translation 92 M2235 M
- Merton, Thomas - Silence, joy: a selection of writings 242 M
- Waxman, Dov - Trouble in the tribe: the American Jewish conflict over Israel 305.86 W
- Winship, Michael P. - Hot Protestants: a history of Puritanism in England and America 285.9 W
FOOD & COOKING
- Child, Julia - Julia Child: the last interview and other conversations 641 C
- Lebovitz, David - The perfect scoop: 200 recipes for ice creams, sorbets, gelatos, granitas, and sweet accompaniments 641.86 L
- Lo, Anita - Solo: a modern cookbook for a party of one 641.5 L
AUDIO
- The Library now offers a growing collection of audiobook downloads via the Cloud Library. For more information, ask at the Reference Desk.