New Books - October 2017
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Andersen, Kurt - Fantasyland: how America went haywire: a 500-year history
- Atlas, James - The shadow in the garden: a biographer's tale
- Blanch, Lesley - Far to go and many to love: people and places
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham. - What happened (ebook available)
- Crews, Frederick C. - Freud: the making of an illusion
- Gopnik, Adam - At the strangers' gate: arrivals in New York
- Greenblatt, Stephen - The rise and fall of Adam and Eve (ebook available)
- Hansen, Suzy - Notes on a foreign country: an American abroad in a post-American world
- Hellman, Peter - In vino duplicitas: the rise and fall of a wine forger extraordinaire
- Hersch, Fred - Good things happen slowly: a life in and out of jazz
- Hood, Ann - Morningstar: growing up with books
- Knausgård, Karl Ove - Autumn (translated from the Norwegian)
- Korda, Michael - Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: defeat into victory
- Lilla, Mark - The once and future liberal: after identity politics
- Lovell, Mary S. - The Riviera set: glitz, glamour, and the hidden world of high society
- Lucey, Donna M. - Sargent's women: four lives behind the canvas
- Mathews, Brendan - The world of tomorrow
- McPhee, John - Draft no. 4: on the writing process
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam - An odyssey: a father, a son, and an epic (ebook available)
- Morrison, Toni - The origin of others (foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- Newman, Judith - To Siri with love: a mother, her autistic son, and the kindness of machines
- O'Farrell, Maggie - I am, I am, I am: seventeen brushes with death
- Pao, Ellen K. - Reset: my fight for inclusion and lasting change
- Proust, Marcel - Letters to his neighbor (translated from the French by Lydia Davis)
- Smith, Patti - Devotion
- Stahr, Walter - Stanton: Lincoln's war secretary
- Taubman, William - Gorbachev: his life and times
- Taylor, Cory - Dying: a memoir (ebook available)
- Tur, Katy - Unbelievable: my front-row seat to the craziest campaign in American history
- Waters, Alice - Coming to my senses: the making of a counterculture cook
- Willes, Margaret - The curious world of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
- Wright, Robert - Why Buddhism is true: the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment
FICTION
- Adebayo, Ayobami - Stay with me (ebook available)
- Bonini, Carlo - Suburra (translated from the Italian)
- Boyne, John - The heart's invisible furies
- Brownrigg, Sylvia - Pages for her
- Carter, Betsy - We were strangers once: a novel
- Day, Elizabeth - The party
- Englander, Nathan - Dinner at the center of the earth (ebook available)
- Follett, Ken - A column of fire
- Gelman, Laurie - Class mom: a novel
- Gilvarry, Alex - Eastman was here
- Goldberg, Tod - Gangster nation
- Hanson, Hart - The driver: a novel
- Henderson, Eleano. - The Twelve-Mile Straight: a novel
- Kennedy, Deborah Elaine - Tornado weather
- King, Stephen - Sleeping beauties: a novel
- Krauss, Nicole - Forest dark: a novel
- Kukafka, Danya - Girl in snow: a novel
- McCormack, Mike - Solar bones
- Messud, Claire - The burning girl: a novel (ebook available)
- Meyer, Deon - Fever: a novel (translated from the Afrikaans)
- Mukherjee, Neel - A state of Freedom
- Ng, Celeste - Little fires everywhere
- Pamuk, Orhan - The red-haired woman (ebook available)
- Penney, Stef - Under a pole star
- Quinn, Kate - The Alice Network
- Rushdie, Salman - The golden house: a novel
- Santopolo, Jill - The light we lost
- Shelby, Ashley - South Pole Station: a novel
- Sloan, Robin - Sourdough: a novel
- Szabó, Magda - Katalin Street (translated from the Hungarian)
- Tallent, Gabriel - My absolute darling (ebook available)
- Tuck, Lily - Sisters: a novel
- Ward, Jesmyn - Sing, unburied, sing: a novel
- Wolas, Cherise - The resurrection of Joan Ashby: a novel
- Wright, Camron Steve - The orphan keeper: a novel, based on a true story
- Zevin, Gabrielle - Young Jane Young: a novel
MYSTERIES
- Adler-Olsen, Jussi - The scarred woman: a Department Q novel (translated from the Danish)
- Ben-David, Mishkah - Final stop, Algiers: a thriller (translated from the Hebrew)
- Buckley, Fiona - A deadly betrothal*
- Bude, John - The Cheltenham Square murder* (British LIbrary Crime Classics, first published 1937)
- Clark, Marcia - Snap judgment
- Cleave, Paul - A killer harvest: a thriller
- Cleeves, Ann - Telling tales*
- Cleeves, Ann - The seagull*
- Coleman, Reed Farrel - Robert B. Parker's The hangman's sonnet: a Jesse Stone novel
- Coulter, Catherine - Enigma
- Cussler, Clive - The Romanov ransom: a Sam and Remi Fargo adventure
- DeMille, Nelson - The Cuban affair: a novel
- Deutermann, Peter T. - Red Swan
- Dugoni, Robert - Close to home
- Eccles, Marjorie - The property of lies: a Herbert Reardon historical mystery*
- Finlay, Mick - Arrowood*
- Flynn, Vince - Enemy of the state: a Mitch Rapp novel
- Garnier, Pascal - Low heights (translated from the French)
- Gregorio, Michael - Lone wolf
- Gross, Andrew - The saboteur
- Hall, James W. - When they come for you
- Hannah, Sophie - Keep her safe
- Jackson, Lisa - Ominous
- Jance, Judith A. - Proof of life: a J.P. Beaumont novel
- Johnson, Craig - The western star
- Kamal, Sheena - The lost ones
- Kava, Alex - Reckless creed
- Keller, Julia - Fast falls the night
- Krueger, William Kent - Sulfur Springs: a novel
- Lagercrantz, David - The girl who takes an eye for an eye (translated from the Swedish; ebook available)
- Lapeña, Shari - A stranger in the house
- Le Carré, John - A legacy of spies* (ebook available)
- Mayor, Archer - Trace: a Joe Gunther novel
- Medhat, Katayoun - The quality of mercy: a Milagro mystery
- Patterson, James - Haunted
- Patterson, James - The Store
- Perry, Anne - An echo of murder: a William Monk novel*
- Pryor, Mark - The Sorbonne affair: a Hugo Marston novel
- Robb, J. D. - Secrets in death
- Skariton, Jonathan - Séance infernale
- Spindler, Erica - The other girl
- Stewart, Amy - Miss Kopp's midnight confessions
- Sundstøl, Vidar - The devil's wedding ring (translated from the Norwegian)
- Thomas, Sherry - A conspiracy in Belgravia*
SHORT STORIES
- Jaeggy, Fleur. - I am the brother of XX (translated from the Italian)
- McBride, James, - Five-carat soul
- Øyehaug, Gunnhild, - Knots: stories (translated from the Norwegian)
POETRY
- Bang, Mary Jo. - A doll for throwing: poems
- Bidart, Frank, - Half-light: collected poems 1965-2016
- The complete Old English poems (translated by Craig Williamson)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Athitakis, Mark - The new Midwest: a guide to contemporary fiction of the Great Lakes, Great Plains, and Rust Belt 823.09 A
- Curtis, J. A. E. - Mikhail Bulgakov 891.73 B
- Desert songs of the night: 1500 years of Arabic literature (Suheil Bushrui & James M. Malarkey, eds.) 892.7 D
- Lerer, Seth - Tradition: a feeling for the literary past 809 L
- Lu, Xun - Jottings under lamplight (translated from the Chinese) 895.1 L
- Pessoa, Fernando - The book of disquiet (new complete edition translated by Margaret Jull Costa) 92 P4755 P
- Roth, Philip - Why write?: collected nonfiction, 1960-2013 824 R
- Thoreau, Henry David - Thoreau's animals 828 T
FICTION
- Azuela, Mariano - The underdogs: a novel of the Mexican revolution (1915; translated from the Spanish; Penguin Classics) F A
- Bezzerides, A. I. - Thieves' market (1949 noir/proletarian American fiction) F B
- Cantwell, Robert - The land of plenty (1935 labor strike novel) F C
- Cantwell, Robert - The land of plenty (1935 labor strike novel) F C
- Comyns, Barbara - Our spoons came from Woolworths (New York Review Books; originally published 1950) F C
- Di Prima, Diane - Memoirs of a beatnik F D
- Homes, Geoffrey - Build my gallows high (aka Out of the Past, classic noir) F H
- Howard, Elizabeth Jane - Falling F H
POETRY
- Cope, Wendy - Making cocoa for Kingsley Amis 821 C
- Goldensohn, Barry - The listener aspires to the condition of music: poems 821 G
- Oliver, Mary - Red bird: poems 821 O
- Ponge, Francis - The table (translated from the French) 841 P
CRIME FICTION/NOIR
- Edwards, Martin - The story of classic crime in 100 books 823.08 E
- Forshaw, Barry - American Noir: the Pocket Essential guide to US crime fiction, film & TV 823.09 F
- Forshaw, Barry - Brit noir: the Pocket Essential guide to the crime fiction, film & TV of the British Isles 823.09 F
- Forshaw, Barry - Euro noir: the Pocket Essential guide to European crime fiction, film & TV 809.3 F
- Ripley, Mike - Kiss kiss, bang bang: the boom in British thrillers from Casino royale to The eagle has landed : how Britain lost an empire but its secret agents saved the world 823.09 R
ART & DESIGN
- Adams, Robert - Art can help 701 A
- Coffin, Sarah - The jazz age: American style in the 1920s 709.73 C
- Ginzburg, Carlo - Fear, reverence, terror: five essays in political iconography 701 G
- A shared legacy: folk art in America (Avis Berman, et. al, eds.) 745 S
- Tapp, P. Gaye - How they decorated: inspiration from great women of the twentieth century 747 T
- Weinberg, Jonathan - Ambition & love in modern American art 709.73 W
- Wivel, Matthias - Michelangelo & Sebastiano 709.45 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Hall, Stuart - Familiar stranger: a life between two islands 92 H1794 H
- Hunt, Patrick - Hannibal 92 H245 H
- Kidd, Thomas S. - Benjamin Franklin: the religious life of a founding father 92 F8313 K
- Leiris, Michel - Rules of the Game: Scratches (1); Scraps (2); Fibrils (3) (translated from the French) 92 L5325 L
- Tewarson, Heidi Thomann - Rahel Levin Varnhagen: the life and work of a German Jewish intellectual 92 V319 T
- Tolstoy and Tolstaya: a portrait of a life in letters (translated from the Russian Andrew Donskov, ed.) 920 T654 T
ECONOMICS
- Henriques, Diana B. - A first-class catastrophe: the road to Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history 332.6 H
- Wright, Robert E. - One nation under debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the history of what we owe 330.973 W
HISTORY
- Du Rivage, Justin - Revolution against empire: taxes, politics, and the origins of American independence 973.31 D
- Israel, Jonathan I. - The expanding blaze: how the American Revolution ignited the world, 1775-1848 973.32 I
- Lilti, Antoine - The invention of celebrity: 1750-1850 306.4 L
- Lochery, Neill - Out of the shadows: Portugal from revolution to the present day 946.9 L
- Randall, Willard Sterne - Unshackling America: how the War of 1812 truly ended the American Revolution 973.52 R
- Thurley, Simon - Houses of power: the places that shaped the Tudor world 942.05 T
- Woolmer, Mark - A short history of the Phoenicians 939.4 W
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
- Rasmussen, Dennis Carl - The infidel and the professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought 192 R
- Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes - Thinking in public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt 193 W
ANTIQUITY
- Anhalt, Emily Katz - Enraged: why violent times need ancient Greek myths 880.9 A
- Price, S. R. F. - Religions of the ancient Greeks 292 P
- Women's life in Greece and Rome: a source book in translation, 4th ed. (Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant, eds.) 305.4 W
EDUCATION
- Berlinerblau, Jacques - Campus confidential: how college works, or doesn't, for professors, parents, and students 378 B
- Breaking bounds: six Newnham lives (Biddy Passmore, ed.; includes Constance Garnett, Claire Tomalin, Margaret Drabble, more) 920 B8283 B
- Chu, Lenora - Little soldiers: an American boy, a Chinese school, and the global race to achieve 370.951 C
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Boyd, Julia - Travellers in the Third Reich: the rise of fascism seen through the eyes of everyday people 943.085 B
- Ethiopia: through writers' eyes (Yves-Marie Stranger, ed.) 916.3 E
- Wanderlust: hiking on legendary trails (Cam Honan, Robert Klanten, and Anja Kouznetsova, eds.) 796.51 W
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Hathaway, Oona Anne - The internationalists: how a radical plan to outlaw war remade the world 341.6 H
- McCoy, Alfred W. - In the shadows of the American century: the rise and decline of US global power 327.73 M
- Parsi, Trita - Losing an enemy: Obama, Iran, and the triumph of diplomacy 327.73 P
ESPIONIAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Fagone, Jason - The woman who smashed codes: a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies 92 F8996 F
- Kiriakou, John - Doing time like a spy: how the CIA taught me to survive and thrive in prison 365 K
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Foliard, Daniel - Dislocating the Orient: British maps and the making of the Middle East, 1854-1921 956 F
- Hirschhorn, Sara Yael - City on a hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli settler movement 956.94 H
- Rabkin, Yakov M. - What is modern Israel? 956.94 R
INDIA
- Tharoor, Shashi - An era of darkness: the British empire In India 954 T
- White-Spunner, Barney - Partition: the story of Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan in 1947 954.9 W
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Bartusiak, Marcia - Einstein's unfinished symphony: the story of a gamble, two black holes, and a new age of astronomy 530.1 B
- Grigson, Caroline - Menagerie: the history of exotic animals in England, 1100-1837 590.7 G
- Hoare, Philip - Risingtidefallingstar 551.4 H
- Losos, Jonathan B. - Improbable destinies: fate, chance, and the future of evolution 575 L
- McNamee, Thomas - The inner life of cats: the science and secrets of our mysterious feline companions 636.8 M
- Spitzmiller, Ted - The history of human space flight 629.4 S
PARANORMAL
- Hutton, Ronald - The witch: a history of fear, from ancient times to present 133.4 H
- Moore, Wendy - Mesmerist: the society doctor who held Victorian London spellbound 134 M
PSYCHOLOGY
- Asma, Stephen T. - The evolution of imagination 155 A
- LeFavour, Cree - Lights on, rats out: a memoir 92 L488 L
- Rosner, Elizabeth - Survivor cafe: the legacy of trauma and the labyrinth of memory 616.8 R
TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
- Foer, Franklin - World without mind: the existential threat of big tech 303.4 F
- Nagle, Angela - Kill all normies: the online culture wars from Tumblr and 4chan to the alt-right and Trump 301.2 N
- Slaughter, Anne-Marie - The chessboard and the web: strategies of connection in a networked world 327 S
- Taplin, Jonathan T. - Move fast and break things: how Facebook, Google, and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy 303.4 T
NEW YORK
- Dion, Mark - A field guide and handbook of thoughts, musings, observations, case studies, and histories (alternative, conventional & otherwise) on the elevated structure formerly and now known as the High Line of the Borough of Manhattan for flâneurs, cosmopolitans & bon vivants 917.471 D
- Kaute, Wilfried - Murder in the city: New York, 1910-1920 917.471 K OVERSIZE
- Spicer Rice, Eleanor - Dr. Eleanor's book of common ants of New York City 595.7 S
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Gardiner, Juliet - Joining the dots: a woman in her time 305.4 G
- Goodier, Susan - Women will vote: winning suffrage in New York State 324.3 G
- Neuman, Johanna - Gilded suffragists: the New York socialites who fought for women's right to vote 324.3 N
- Saini, Angela - Inferior: how science got women wrong and the new research that's rewriting the story 305.4 S
AUDIO
- Arendt, Hannah - The origins of totalitarianism Lobby Audio-CD 321.6 A
- Bryson, Bill - The road to Little Dribbling: more notes from a small island Lobby Audio-CD 914.2 B
- Hartley, L. P. - The go-between Lobby Audio-CD H
- Szabó, Magda - The door Lobby Audio-CD S