New Books - October 2018
- Arsenault, Raymond - Arthur Ashe: a life
- Bastianich, Lidia - My American dream: a life of love, family, and food
- Beevor, Antony - The battle of Arnhem: the deadliest airborne operation of World War II
- Brennan-Jobs, Lisa - Small fry (ebook available)
- Cunningham, William J - Fashion climbing (ebook available)
- Eisen, Norman L. - The last palace: Europe's turbulent century in five lives and one legendary house
- Emre, Merve - The personality brokers: the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing
- Epstein, Joseph - The ideal of culture: essays
- Field, Sally - In pieces: a memoir
- Fisher, Todd - My girls: a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- Fraser, Antonia - The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the fight for religious freedom, 1780-1829
- Fukuyama, Francis - Identity: the demand for dignity and the politics of resentment
- Gabriel, Mary - Ninth Street women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: five painters and the movement that changed modern art /
- Giraldi, William - American audacity: in defense of literary daring
- Giridharadas, Anand - Winners take all: the elite charade of changing the world
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns - Leadership in turbulent times
- Harari, Yuval N. - 21 lessons for the 21st century
- Jauhar, Sandeep - Heart: a history
- Kandel, Eric R. - The disordered mind: what unusual brains tell us about ourselves
- Kashner, Sam - The fabulous Bouvier sisters: the tragic and glamorous lives of Jackie and Lee
- Kerry, John - Every day is extra
- King, Maxwell - The good neighbor: the life and work of Fred Rogers
- Klein Halevi, Yossi - Letters to my Palestinian neighbor
- Lepore, Jill - These truths: a history of the United States (ebook available)
- Macintyre, Ben - The spy and the traitor: the greatest espionage story of the Cold War (ebook available)
- Mitchell, Wendy - Somebody I used to know: a memoir
- Moore, Peter - Endeavour: the ship and the attitude that changed the world
- Pullman, Philip - Daemon voices: on stories and storytelling
- Rioux, Anne Boyd - Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: the story of Little Women and why it still matters
- Rowbottom, Allie - Jell-O girls: a family history
- Smarsh, Sarah - Heartland: a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth
- Solnit, Rebecca - Call them by their true names: American crises (and essays)
- Weinman, Sarah - The real Lolita: the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world
- Woodward, Bob - Fear: Trump in the White House (ebook available)
FICTION
- Atkinson, Kate - Transcription (ebook available)
- Barker, Pat - The silence of the girls: a novel (ebook available)
- Bell, David - Somebody's daughter
- Boyle, William - Gravesend: a novel
- Buarque, Chico - My German brother (translated from the Portuguese)
- Cleeton, Chanel - Next year in Havana
- Couto, Mia - Woman of the ashes (translated from the Portuguese)
- Cussler, Clive - Shadow tyrants
- D'Eramo, Luce - Deviation
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi - This mournable body
- deWitt, Patrick - French exit: a tragedy of manners
- Dovey, Ceridwen - In the garden of the fugitives
- Edugyan, Esi - Washington Black
- Ellison, J. T. - Tear me apart
- Franqui, Leah - America for beginners
- Froderberg, Susan - Mysterium
- Fuller, Claire - Bitter orange
- Gekoski, R. A. - A Long Island story
- Gulliksen, Geir - The story of a marriage: a novel (translated from the Norwegian)
- Harrison, Melissa - All among the barley
- Hurley, Blair - The devoted: a novel
- Kluger, Richard - Beethoven's tenth: a novel
- Knausgård, Karl Ove - My struggle (translated from the Norwegian)
- Macomber, Debbie - Cottage by the sea: a novel
- Mason, Daniel - The winter soldier
- Monda, Antonio - Unworthy: a novel (translated from the Italian)
- Mosley, Walter - John Woman
- Owens, Delia - Where the crawdads sing
- Øyehaug, Gunnhild - Wait, blink: a perfect picture of inner life (translated from the Norwegian)
- Perezagua, Marina - The story of H: a novel (translated from the Spanish)
- Pinborough, Sarah - Cross her heart: a novel
- Priest, Christopher - An American story
- Rooney, Sally - Normal people
- Ruiz Zafón, Carlos - The labyrinth of the spirits: a novel (translated from the Spanish)
- Shteyngart, Gary - Lake Success: a novel (ebook available)
- Smith, Ian - The ancient nine
- Soli, Tatjana - The removes
- Toews, Miriam - Women talking
- Torday, Daniel - Boomer1
- Walker, Nico - Cherry
- Wilson, A. N. - Aftershocks
- Winman, Sarah - Tin man
- Wolas, Cherise - The family Tabor
More recent fiction arrivals below.
MYSTERIES
- Blauner, Peter - Sunrise highway (ebook available)
- Butler, Robert Olen - Paris in the dark
- Camilleri, Andrea - Death at sea: Montalbano's early cases (translated from the Italian)
- Cleeves, Ann - Wild fire *
- De Castrique, Mark - Secret undertaking: a Buryin' Barry mystery
- De Giovanni, Maurizio - Nameless serenade: nocturne for Commissario Ricciardi (translated from the Italian)
- Dearman, Lara - Dark sky island: a Jennifer Dorey mystery
- Frear, Caz - Sweet little lies: a novel *
- Galbraith, Robert - Lethal white * (ebook available)
- Gayle, Stephanie - Idyll hands: a Thomas Lynch novel
- Hannah, Sophie - The mystery of three quarters: the new Hercule Poirot mystery *
- Jance, Judith A. - Field of bones: a Brady novel of suspense
- Johnson, Craig - Depth of winter
- Kellerman, Faye - Walking shadows: a Decker/Lazarus novel
- Kennedy, Randy - Presidio: a novel
- Levine, Laura - Death of a neighborhood Scrooge
- MacBride, Stuart - The blood road
- Macmillan, Gilly - I know you know: a novel
- Mayor, Archer - Bury the lead
- McKinlay, Jenn - Hitting the books
- Parker, T. Jefferson - Swift vengeance: a novel
- Pelecanos, George P. - The man who came uptown (ebook available)
- Perry, Anne - Dark tide rising: a William Monk novel *
- Ragnar Jónasson - Blackout (translated from the Icelandic)
- Robb, J. D. - Leverage in death
- Rosenberg, Jordy - Confessions of the fox: a novel *
- Ryan, Hank Phillippi - Trust me
- Spain, Jo - The confession
- Stewart, Amy - Miss Kopp just won't quit
- Todd, Charles - A forgotten place: a Bess Crawford mystery (ebook available)
- Weaver, Ashley - An act of villainy *
- Wilson, Andrew - A different kind of evil: a novel
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Brinkley, Jamel - A lucky man: stories
- Eisenberg, Deborah - Your duck is my duck: stories
POETRY
- Ford, Mark - Enter, fleeing
- Jones, Richard - The obscure hours: translations
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Barr, James - Lords of the desert:;the battle between the United States and Great Britain for supremacy in the modern Middle East
- Klinenberg, Eric - Palaces for the people: how social infrastructure can help fight inequality, polarization, and the decline of civic life
- Sinclair, Iain - The last London: true fictions from an unreal city
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- The Penguin book of Japanese short stories (introduced by Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin, ed.) 895.6 P
- Writers as readers: a celebration of Virago Modern Classics (w/ Drabble, Byatt, Mantel, Bowen, etc.) 823.08 W
- Chaudhuri, Amit - The origins of dislike 824 C
- Cohen, Joshua - Attention: dispatches from a land of distraction 824 C
- Karydes, Karen Huston - Hard-boiled anxiety: the Freudian desires of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and their detectives 809.3 K
- Labanyi, Jo - Spanish literature: a very short introduction 860.9 L
- Marías, Javier - Between eternities: and other writings 864 M
- O'Brien, Flann - The collected letters of Flann O'Brien 92 O134 O
- Smethurst, James Edward - The Black Arts Movement: literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s 820.9 S
FICTION
- Atta, Sefi - Swallow F A
- Balzac, Honoré de - The memoirs of two young wives (New York Review Books; translated from the French) F B
- Cather, Willa - The song of the lark (annotated critical edition) 823 C
- Johnson, Nora - The world of Henry Orient: a novel F J
- Shalamov, Varlam - Kolyma stories: volume one (translated from the Russian; New York Review Books) F S
POETRY
- Halliday, Mark - Losers dream on 821 H
- Oswald, Alice - Dart 821 O
- Rich, Adrienne - Essential essays: culture, politics, and the art of poetry 821 R
- Wiman, Christian - He held radical light: the art of faith, the faith of art 824 W
JOURNALISM
- Daly, Christopher B. - Covering America: a narrative history of a nation's journalism 071 D
- Gellhorn, Martha - The view from the ground 909.82 G
- Ryan, April - Under fire: reporting from the front lines of the Trump White House 973.933 R
WRITING
- Clark, Roy Peter - Writing tools: 50 essential strategies for every writer 808 C
- Leith, Sam - Write to the point: a master class on the fundamentals of writing for any purpose 808 L
- Shapiro, Susan - The byline bible: get published in 5 weeks 070.5 S
ART
- Frida Kahlo: making her self up (Claire Wilcox & Circe Henestrosa, eds.) 759.97 K
- Campbell, Mary Schmidt - An American odyssey: the life and work of Romare Bearden 92 B36836 C
- Costamagna, Philippe - The eye: an insider's memoir of masterpieces, money, and the magnetism of art 706.9 C
- Goodwin, E. M - Classic mosaic: designs & projects inspired by 6,000 years of mosaic art 738 G
- Leoni, Francesca - Power and protection: Islamic art and the supernatural 709.55 L
- O'Doherty, Brian - Brian O'Doherty: collected essays 709.04 O
- Sittow, Michel - Michel Sittow: Estonian painter at the courts of Renaissance Europe (John Oliver Hand & Greta Koppel, eds.) 759.7 S
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Documenting America, 1935-1943 (Fleischhauer, Carl, ed.) 973.917 D
- Sally Mann: a thousand crossings (Sara Greeough & Sarah Kennel, eds.) 779 M
- Penn, Irving - Worlds in a small room 779 P
PERFORMING ARTS
- The Doctor Faustus dossier: Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and their contemporaries, 1930-1951 (E. Randol Schoenberg, ed.) 780.92 D
- Genné, Beth - Dance me a song: Astaire, Balanchine, and Kelly, and the American film musical 792.8 G
- Osborne, Conrad L. - Opera as opera: the state of the art 782 O
- Taylor, Charles - Opening Wednesday at a theater or drive-in near you: the shadow cinema of the American '70s 791.4 T
BIOGRAPHY
- Cohen, Mark - Not bad for Delancey Street: the rise of Billy Rose 92 R7953 C
- Fried, Stephen - Rush: revolution, madness, and the visionary doctor who became a founding father 92 R952 G
- Lian, Xi - Blood letters: the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China 92 L7359 L
- McCubbin, Lisa - Betty Ford: First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer 92 F6989 M
- Perry, Imani - Looking for Lorraine: the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry 92 H2492 P
PHILOSOPHY
- Appiah, Anthony - The lies that bind: rethinking identity, creed, country, color, class, culture 155.2 A
- Arendt, Hannah - The correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem 920 A6815 C
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Andrew, Christopher M. - The secret world: a history of intelligence 327.12 A
- Philipps, Roland - A spy named Orphan: the enigma of Donald Maclean 92 M1631 P
- Sanger, David E. - The perfect weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age 327.2 S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Carving up the globe: an atlas of diplomacy (Malise Ruthven, et al., ed.) 327.2 C OVERSIZE
- Slobodian, Quinn - Globalists: the end of empire and the birth of neoliberalism 320.9 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Anderson, Carol - One person, no vote: how voter suppression is destroying our democracy 324 A
- Chua, Amy - Political tribes: group instinct and the fate of nations 327 C
- Mulloy, D. J. - Enemies of the state: the radical right in America from FDR to Trump 322.4 M
HISTORY
- The presidency of Barack Obama: a first historical assessment (Julian E. Zelizer, ed.) 973.932 P
- Berge, Bjørn - Nowherelands: an atlas of vanished countries, 1840-1975 909.8 B
- Freeman, Joanne B. - The field of blood: violence in Congress and the road to civil war 973.71 F
- Hunt, Lynn - History: why it matters , 901 H
- Kaufmann, Miranda - Black Tudors: the untold story 942.05 K
- Knight, Alan - The Mexican revolution: a very short introduction 972 K
- Levis Sullam, Simon - The Italian executioners: the genocide of the Jews of Italy 940.5315 L
- May, Rachel - An American quilt: unfolding a story of family and slavery , 326 M
- Meskell, Lynn - A future in ruins: UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace 341.1 M
- Snyder, Christina - Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson 976.9 S
ANTIQUITY
- Ancient rhetoric: from Aristotle to Philostratus (Thomas Habinek, ed.) 808 A
- The Berlin Painter and his world: Athenian vase-painting in the early fifth century B.C. (J. Michael Padgett, ed.) 709.38 B
- The Greek plays: sixteen plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (new translations edited by Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm; w/ Emily Wilson) 882.08 G
- Mynott, Jeremy - Birds in the ancient world: winged words 598.2 M
The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is now available to members.
WAR
- Bishop, Patrick - Fighter boys: the Battle of Britain, 1940940.544 B
- Nelson, Anne - Suzanne's children: a daring rescue in Nazi Paris 940.5315 N
- VanDeMark, Brian - Road to disaster: a new history of America's descent into Vietnam 959.704 V
SOCIOLOGY
- Not that bad: dispatches from rape culture (Roxane Gay, ed.) 306.7 N
- DiAngelo, Robin J. - White fragility: why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism 305.8 D
- Hedges, Chris - America: the farewell tour 305.5 H
NEW YORK
- New York: art and cultural capital of the Gilded Age (Margaret R. Laster & Chelsea Bruner, eds.) 974.71 N
- Jaffe, Steven H - Activist New York: a history of people, protest, and politics 917.471 J
- Wall, Cheryl A. - The Harlem Renaissance: a very short introduction 974.71 W
RELIGION
- Radical love: teachings from the Islamic mystical tradition (Omid Safi, ed.) 808.81 R
- Cline, Eric H. - Biblical archaeology: a very short introduction 220.9 C
- Sheldrake, Rupert - Science and spiritual practices: transformative experiences and their effects on our bodies, brains, and health 201 S
- Wertheimer, Jack - The new American Judaism: how Jews practice their religion today 296 W
SCIENCE & MATH
- Hossenfelder, Sabine - Lost in math: how beauty leads physics astray 530.1 H
- Schilthuizen, Menno - Darwin comes to town: how the urban jungle drives evolution 575.3 S
ENVIRONMENT
- Rush, Elizabeth A. - Rising: dispatches from the new American shore 551.4 R
- Schuyler, David - Embattled river: the Hudson and modern American environmentalism 333.9 S
FOOD
- Bragg, Rick - The best cook in the world: tales from my momma's table 92 B8133 B
- Caldesi, Katie - Venice: recipes lost and found 641.5 C
- Drzal, Dawn - The bread and the knife: a life in 26 bites 641 D (Event at the Library, October 2!)
- Grossman, Marc - New York cult recipes 641.5 G
AUDIO BOOKS
- Atwood, Margaret - Hag-seed Lobby Audio-CD A
- Halldór Laxness - Independent people Lobby Audio-CD H
- MacGregor, Neil - Living with the gods (BBC Presentation) Lobby Audio-CD 200 M
- Perry, Sarah - The Essex serpent Lobby Audio-CD P