New Books - November 2021
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Beard, Mary - Twelve Caesars: images of power from the ancient world to the modern (ebook available)
- Beran, Michael Knox - WASPs: the splendors and miseries of an American aristocracy
- Bessire, Lucas - Running out: in search of water on the High Plains
- Blain, Keisha N. - Until I am free: Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America
- Boccaletti, Giulio - Water: a biography
- Chazin, Daniel D. - 50 hikes in the lower Hudson Valley
- Cho, Grace M. - Tastes like war: a memoir
- Coel, Michaela - Misfits: a personal manifesto
- Cooper, Anderson - Vanderbilt: the rise and fall of an American dynasty (ebook available)
- Davis, Nick - Competing with idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a dual portrait
- Dellinger, Derek - 50 hikes in the Catskills
- Elliott, Andrea - Invisible child: poverty, survival, & hope in an American city
- Ellis, Joseph J. - The cause: the American Revolution and its discontents, 1773-1783 (ebook available)
- Ellmann, Lucy - Things are against us
- Foxx, Jamie - Act like you got some sense: and other things my daughters taught me
- Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon - In the shadow of the empress: the defiant lives of Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette, and her daughters
- Grisham, Stephanie - I'll take your questions now: what I saw at the Trump White House (ebook available)
- Hardy, Mary Anne - 50 hikes in Connecticut
- Haygood, Wil - Colorization: one hundred years of Black films in a white world
- Hill, Anita - Believing: our thirty-year journey to end gender violence
- Hill, Fiona - There is nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the twenty-first century (ebook available)
- Howard, Ron - The boys: a memoir of Hollywood and family
- Leamer, Laurence - Capote's women: a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era (ebook available)
- Maloof, Joan - Treepedia: a brief compendium of arboreal lore
- Mary Churchill's war: the wartime diaries of Churchill's youngest daughter (Mary Soames; Emma
Soames, ed.) - The matter of Black lives: writing from The New Yorker (Jelani Cobb
and David Remnick, eds.) - Orlean, Susan - On animals (ebook available)
- O'Sullivan, Suzanne - The sleeping beauties: and other stories of mystery illness
- Pfeifer, Joseph - Ordinary heroes: a memoir of 9 11
- Pinker, Steven - Rationality: what it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters (ebook available)
- Power, Carla - Home, land, security: deradicalization and the journey back from extremism
- Prager, Joshua - The family Roe: an American story
- Qu, Anna - Made in China: a memoir of love and labor
- Renkl, Margaret - Graceland, at last: notes on hope and heartache from the American South
- Ribeiro, Sidarta - The oracle of night: the history and science of dreams
- Ruhl, Sarah - Smile: the story of a face
- Sanneh, Kelefa - Major labels: a history of popular music in seven genres
- Schuller, Kyla - The trouble with white women: a counterhistory of feminism
- Sedaris, David - A carnival of snackery: diaries (2003-2020)
- Smith, Patti - Woolgathering
- Solnit, Rebecca - Orwell's roses (ebook available)
- Sorrentino, Christopher - Now beacon, now sea: a son's memoir
- Tucci, Stanley - Taste: my life through food
- Turner, Dawn - Three girls from Bronzeville: a uniquely American memoir of race, fate, and sisterhood
- Wapshott, Nicholas - Samuelson Friedman: the battle over the free market
- Wolff, Michael - Too famous: the rich, the powerful, the wishful, the notorious, the damned
- Woodward, Bob - Peril (ebook available)
- Yalom, Irvin D. - A matter of death and life
FICTION
- Alameddine, Rabih - The wrong end of the telescope (ebook available)
- Balson, Ronald H. - Defending Britta Stein: a novel
- Baltasar, Eva - Permafrost (translated from the Catalan)
- Barbery, Muriel - A single rose (translated from the French)
- The best of world SF (edited by Lavie Tidhar)
- The best short stories: the O. Henry prize winners (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jenny Minton Quigley, eds.)
- Blakemore, A. K. - The Manningtree witches: a novel
- Borowski, Tadeusz - Here in our Auschwitz and other stories
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Talk to me: a novel
- Butler, Halle - Jillian
- Chambers, Clare - Small pleasures: a novel
- Cisneros, Sandra - Martita, I remember you = Martita, te recuerdo
- Condé, Maryse - Waiting for the waters to rise
- Corthron, Kia - Moon and the Mars
- The Decameron project: 29 new stories from the pandemic (features stories by Colm Tóibín, Rachel Kusner, Laila Lalami, and more)
- Doerr, Anthony - Cloud cuckoo land: a novel (ebook and audiobook available)
- Dusapin, Élisa Shua - Winter in Sokcho (translated from the French)
- Eggers, Dave - The Every: or, at last a sense of order; or, the final days of free will; or, limitless choice is killing the world
- Eika, Jonas - After the sun (translated from the Danish)
- Faulks, Sebastian - Snow country
- Ferris, Joshua - A calling for Charlie Barnes: a novel (ebook available)
- Franzen, Jonathan - Crossroads (ebook available)
- Gibbon, Maureen - The lost notebook of Édouard Manet: a novel
- Hamya, Jo - Three rooms
- Hoffman, Alice - The book of magic
- Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole - My Monticello: fiction
- Kim, Bo-young - On the origin of species and other stories (translated from the Korean)
- Kinsella, Sophie - The party crasher: a novel
- Knausgård, Karl Ove - The morning star (translated from the Norwegian) (ebook available)
- Lai, Lee - Stone fruit
- Leichter, Hilary - Temporary
- Lem, Stanisław - The truth and other stories (translated from the Polish)
- Lozano, Brenda - Loop
- Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan - The dog of Tithwal: selected stories (translated from the Urdu)
- McGregor, Jon - Lean fall stand: a novel
- Mott, Jason - Hell of a book: or the altogether factual, wholly bona fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-made mad kid
- Mount, Ferdinand - Making nice
- Ozeki, Ruth - The book of form and emptiness: a novel
- Paek, Nam-nyong - Friend: a novel from North Korea (translated from the Korean)
- Powers, Richard - Bewilderment: a novel (ebook and audiobook available)
- Ravn, Olga - The employees: a workplace novel of the 22nd century (translated from the Danish)
- Ruffin, Maurice Carlos - The ones who don't say they love you: stories
- Sartori, Giacomo - Bug: a novel (translated from the Italian)
- Schlink, Bernhard - Olga: a novel (translated from the German)
- Schulman, Alex - The survivors: a novel
- Smith, William Gardner - The stone face (ebook available) (NYRB classics series)
- Soyinka, Wole - Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth
- Strout, Elizabeth - Oh William!: a novel (ebook and audiobook available)
- Toews, Miriam - Fight night
- Towles, Amor - The Lincoln highway (ebook available)
- Verble, Margaret - When Two Feathers fell from the sky
- Voetmann, Harald - Awake (translated from the Danish)
- Watkins, Claire Vaye - I love you but I've chosen darkness
- Whitehead, Colson - Harlem shuffle (ebook and audiobook available)
- Williams, Joy - Harrow: a novel
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Banville, John - April in Spain: a novel* (ebook available)
- Beaton, M. C. - Down the hatch*
- Berkeley, Anthony - The Wintringham mystery*
- Bowen, Rhys - God rest ye, royal gentlemen*
- Bruen, Ken - Callous
- Camilleri, Andrea - Riccardino (translated from the Italian)
- Casey, Jane - The killing kind (ebook available)
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham - State of terror: a novel (ebook available)
- Cumming, Charles - Judas 62*
- Daggers drawn ("The first CWA Daggers Award retrospective" w/ Lovesy, Mina, Rankin, more)
- Dahl, Julia - The missing hours
- Dang, Catherine - Nice girls: a novel
- Gardner, Frank - Outbreak
- Grisham, John - The judge's list (ebook available)
- Hadfield, Chris - The Apollo murders: a novel
- Hancock, Anne Mette - The corpse flower: a novel
- Heller, L. Alison - The neighbor's secret
- Horowitz, Anthony - A line to kill (ebook available)
- Johansen, Iris - High stakes
- Johnson, Craig - Daughter of the morning star
- Kotzwinkle, William - Felonious monk
- Le Carré, John - Silverview* (ebook available)
- Lieberman, Jethro K. - Everything is Jake
- Lovesey, Peter - Diamond and the eye*
- Maldonado, Isabella - A different dawn
- Mayor, Archer - Marked man
- McCloskey, David - Damascus Station: a novel
- McCreight, Kimberly - Friends like these: a novel
- McDermid, Val - 1979
- McIlvanney, William - The dark remains*
- Nesbø, Jo - The jealousy man and other stories (translated from the Norwegian)
- Osman, Richard - The man who died twice: a Thursday murder club mystery (ebook available)
- Rader-Day, Lori - Death at Greenway: a novel*
- Tursten, Helene - An elderly lady must not be crossed (ebook available) (translated from the Swedish)
- Unger, Lisa - Last girl ghosted
- Woods, Stuart - Foul play
* indicates a UK mystery
BOOK COMMITTEE
- Katsushika, Hokusai - Hokusai: beyond the great wave
- McWhorter, John H. - Nine nasty w*rds: English in the gutter: then, now, and forever
- Osman Ağa - Prisoner of the infidels: the memoirs of an Ottoman Muslim in seventeenth-century Europe
- Stevens, Martin - Secret worlds: the extraordinary senses of animals
- The Chinese Communist Party: a century in ten lives (Timothy Cheek, et al., eds)
POETRY
- Ashbery, John - Parallel movement of the hands: five unfinished longer works
- Motion, Andrew - Randomly moving particles
- Young, Kevin - Stones: poems
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Angier, Carole - Speak, silence: in search of W.G. Sebald 92 S4425 A
- Bate, Jonathan - Bright star, green light: the beautiful works and damned lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald 920 B3291 B
- Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert - The turning point: a year that changed Dickens and the world 92 D5484 D
- Douglass, Frederick - The essential Douglass : selected writings & speeches 820.81 D
- Gikandi, Simon - Ngugi wa Thiong'o 896 G
- The Harlem renaissance remembered (essays edited with a memoir by Arna Bontemps) 820.9 H
- Lloyd, Christopher - Guy de Maupassant 92 M452 L
- Owen, Richard - Hemingway in Italy 92 H4884 O
- McCrum, Robert - Shakespearean: on life and language in times of disruption 822.33 C
- Ricks, Christopher - Along heroic lines 809.1 R
FICTION
- Burnett, W. R. - High Sierra F B
- Han, Suyin - Cast but one shadow & Winter love F H
- Holden, Inez - There's no story there: wartime writing, 1944-1945 F B
- Lanteaume, Marcel - The thirteenth bullet (reissue of 1948 French mystery) F L
- Meriwether, Louise - Daddy was a number runner (1970; introduction by James Baldwin; set in Harlem during Great Depression) F M
- Saramago, José - The stone raft F S
- Senior, Olive - Arrival of the snake-woman: stories F S
ART & ARCHITECTURE
- Bluestone, Daniel M. - Constructing Chicago 711 B
- Doris Duke's Shangri La: a house in paradise: architecture, landscape and Islamic art (Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht, eds.) 720.9 D
- Keyes, Bob - The isolation artist: scandal, deception, and the last days of Robert Indiana 92 I4115 K
- Lubow, Arthur - Man Ray: the artist and his shadows 92 M2666 L
- Shone, Richard - Walter Sickert 759.2 S
- Vida Americana: Mexican muralists remake American art, 1925-1945 (Barbara Haskell, ed.) 759.97 V
PERFORMING ARTS
- Before Hollywood: turn-of-the-century American film (Jay Leyda, et al.) 791.4 B
- Clifford, John - Balanchine's apprentice: from Hollywood to New York and back 792.8 C
- Lebrecht, Norman - Mahler remembered 92 M2145 L
- Savage, Jon - England's dreaming: anarchy, Sex Pistols, punk rock, and beyond (new, revised edition) 784.6 S
- Stokes, Richard - The complete songs of Hugo Wolf: life, letters, lieder 784.8 S
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Dyer, Geoff - Seesaw: looking at photographs, essays 2010-2020 770 D
- Saldinger, Jeffrey - Unassuming places in New York City's Manhattan and Astoria 779 S
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Babb, Sanora - An owl on every post 92 B1119 B
- Bowler, Kate - No cure for being human: (and other truths I need to hear) 92 B7871 B
- Fraser, Bashabi - Rabindranath Tagore 92 T129 F
- Guelzo, Allen C. - Robert E. Lee: a life 92 L4797 G
- Larson, Kate Clifford - Walk with me: a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer 92 H2144 L
- Neruda, Pablo - The complete memoirs: expanded edition 92 N454 N
- Steward, Samuel M. - The lost autobiography of Samuel Steward: recollections of an extraordinary twentieth-century gay life 92 S8488 S
- Unger, Harlow G. - John Hancock: merchant king and American patriot 92 H2346 U
HISTORY
- Alkhateeb, Firas - Lost Islamic history: reclaiming Muslim civilisation from the past 909.4 A
- Baer, Marc David - The Ottomans: khans, caesars, and caliphs 956 B
- Baumer, Christoph - History of the Caucasus. 947.9 B OVERSIZE
- French, Howard W. - Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War 960 F
- Middelaar, Luuk van - The passage to Europe : how a continent became a union 940 M
- Mortimer, Ian - The time traveller's guide to regency Britain: a handbook for visitors to the years 1789-1830 942.07 M
- Nagel, Susan - Patriotism & profit: Washington, Hamilton, Schuyler & the rivalry for America's capital city 973.4 N
- Yang, Jisheng - The world turned upside down: a history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution 951 Y
SOCIOLOGY
- Makari, George - Of fear and strangers: a history of xenophobia 305.8 M
- Mills, Charles W. - The racial contract 320.1 M
- Ramaswamy, Vivek - Woke, Inc.: inside corporate America's social justice scam 322 R
- Skidmore, Emily - True sex: the lives of trans men at the turn of the twentieth century 306.76 S
- Will, George F. - American happiness and discontents: the unruly torrent, 2008-2020 973.93 W
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
- Chemerinsky, Erwin - Presumed guilty: how the Supreme Court empowered the police and subverted civil rights 347.5 C
- Greenberg, Karen J. - Subtle tools: the dismantling of American democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump 321.8 G
- Rozell, Mark J. - Federalism: a very short introduction 321.02 R
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Abbs, Annabel - Windswept: walking the paths of trailblazing women 796.51 A
- Chazin, Daniel D. - 50 hikes in New Jersey 917.49 C
- Pearce, Jeff - Winged bull: the extraordinary life of Henry Layard, the adventurer who discovered the lost city of Nineveh 92 L4263 P
SCIENCE
- Cohen, Andrew - The planets 523.4 C OVERSIZE
- Davies, P. C. W. - What's eating the universe?: and other cosmic questions 523.1 D
- Lowman, Margaret - The arbornaut: a life discovering the eighth continent in the trees above us 92 L919 L
- Markel, Howard - The secret of life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the discovery of DNA's double helix 575.1 M
PHILOSOPHY
- Hullot-Kentor, Robert - Things beyond resemblance: collected essays on Theodor W. Adorno 193 H
- Mills, Charles W. - Blackness visible: essays on philosophy and race 104 M
- Spinoza, Benedictus de - Ethics (1996 translation by Edwin Curley) 199 S