New Books - October 2019
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Arana, Marie - Silver, sword, and stone: three crucibles in the Latin American story
- Barelli, John - Stealing the show: a history of art and crime in six thefts
- Boyer, Anne - The undying: pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care
- Brayfield, Celia - Rebel writers: the accidental feminists: Shelagh Delaney, Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside, Margaret Forster
- Campanella, Thomas J. - Brooklyn: the once and future city
- Dalrymple, William - The anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company
- Foer, Jonathan Safran - We are the weather: saving the planet begins at breakfast
- Foner, Eric - The second founding: how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution
- Gerrard, Nicci - The last ocean: a journey through memory and forgetting
- Gladwell, Malcolm - Talking to strangers: what we should know about the people we don't know (ebook available)
- Graff, Garrett M. - The only plane in the sky: an oral history of 9/11
- Horowitz, Alexandra - Our dogs, ourselves: the story of a singular bond
- Jamison, Leslie - Make it scream, make it burn: essays
- Kantor, Jodi - She said: breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement (ebook available)
- Kirkpatrick, Kate - Becoming Beauvoir: a life
- Mattis, James N. - Call sign chaos: learning to lead
- McGough, Peter - I've seen the future and I'm not going: the art scene, and downtown New York in the 1980s
- Monroe, Rachel - Savage appetites: four true stories of women, crime, and obsession
- Morris, Roy - Gertrude Stein has arrived: the homecoming of a literary legend
- Moser, Benjamin - Sontag: her life and work (ebook available)
- Mosley, Walter - Elements of fiction
- Neiman, Susan - Learning from the Germans: race and the memory of evil
- Odell, Jenny - How to do nothing: resisting the attention economy
- Paul, Pamela - How to raise a reader
- Pogrebin, Robin - The education of Brett Kavanaugh: an investigation
- Poniewozik, James - Audience of one: Donald Trump, television, and the fracturing of America
- Postel, Charles - Equality: an American dilemma, 1866-1896
- Randolph, Eleanor - The many lives of Michael Bloomberg
- Ronald, Susan - Condé Nast: the man and his empire
- Schlossberg, Tatiana - Inconspicuous consumption: the environmental impact you don't know you have
- Smith, Patti - Year of the monkey (ebook available)
- Snowden, Edward J. - Permanent record
- Solnit, Rebecca - Whose story is this?: old conflicts, new chapters
- Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne - Buzz, sting, bite: why we need insects
- Taylor, D. J - Lost girls: love, war and literature: 1939-51
- Urbina, Ian - The outlaw ocean: journeys across the last untamed frontier
- Wilson, A. N. - Prince Albert: the man who saved the monarchy
- Wilson, Bee - The way we eat now: how the food revolution has transformed our lives, our bodies, and our world
- Zaloom, Caitlin - Indebted: how families make college work at any cost
FICTION
- Alharthi, Jokha - Celestial bodies: Sayyidat al-qamar (translated from the Arabic)
- Atwood, Margaret - The testaments (ebook available)
- Aw, Tash - We, the survivors
- Ball, Jesse - The divers' game: a novel
- Barry, Kevin - Night boat to Tangier: a novel
- Besson, Philippe - Lie with me: a novel (translated from the French)
- Chevalier, Tracy - A single thread
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi - The water dancer: a novel (ebook available)
- Crain, Caleb - Overthrow: a novel
- Donoghue, Emma - Akin: a novel
- Ellmann, Lucy - Ducks, Newburyport (ebook available)
- Evaristo, Bernardine - Girl, woman, other
- Gappah, Petina - Out of darkness, shining light: a novel
- Ghosh, Amitav - Gun island
- Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet - The liar
- Hoffman, Alice - The world that we knew
- Jacobson, Howard - Live a little: a novel
- King, Stephen - The institute: a novel
- Krueger, William Kent - This tender land: a novel
- Locke, Attica - Heaven, my home
- Lövestam, Sara - The truth behind the lie: a novel (translated from the Swedish)
- Macmillan, Gilly - The nanny: a novel
- Makine, Andreï - The archipelago of another life (translated from the French)
- Maum, Courtney - Costalegre
- Mengiste, Maaza - The shadow king: a novel
- O'Connor, Joseph - Shadowplay
- Patchett, Ann - The Dutch house: a novel (ebook available)
- Prescott, Lara - The secrets we kept (ebook available)
- Ragen, Naomi - An unorthodox match
- Rushdie, Salman - Quichotte: a novel (ebook available)
- Schine, Cathleen - The grammarians (ebook available)
- Toynton, Evelyn - Inheritance
- Truong, Monique T. D - The sweetest fruits
- Ulitskaya, Ludmila - Jacob's ladder (translated from the Russian)
- Vatner, Jonathan - Carnegie Hill
- Wall, Cara - The dearly beloved: a novel
- Woodson, Jacqueline - Red at the bone
- See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section below.
MYSTERIES
- Barr, Nevada - What Rose forgot
- Benn, James R - When hell struck twelve
- Byrd, Max - The sixth conspirator: a novel
- Camilleri, Andrea - The other end of the line (translated from the Italian)
- Carcaterra, Lorenzo - Tin badges: a novel
- Cleeves, Ann - The long call *
- Coleman, Reed Farrel - Robert B. Parker's The bitterest pill
- Edwards, Martin - Gallows Court *
- Flynn, Jack - Blood in the water
- Hilary, Sarah - Never be broken *
- Jance, Judith A - Sins of the fathers: a J. P. Beaumont novel
- Johnson, Craig - Land of wolves
- Marwood, Alex - The poison garden *
- Mayor, Archer - Bomber's moon: a Joe Gunther novel
- McKinlay, Jenn - Word to the wise
- Perry, Anne - Death in focus: an Elena Standish novel *
- Porter, Henry - White hot silence *
- Sebastian, Tim - Fatal ally *
- Steiner, Peter - The good cop
- Sveistrup, Søren - The chestnut man: a novel (translated from the Danish)
- Sykes, S. D. - The bone fire *
- * indicates a British mystery
STORY COLLECTIONS
- Keret, Etgar - Fly already (translated from the Hebrew)
POETRY
- Harjo, Joy - An American sunrise: poems
- Mead, Jane - To the wren: collected & new poems 1991-2019
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Hansman, Heather - Downriver: into the future of water in the West
- Nayeri, Dina - The ungrateful refugee: what immigrants never tell you
- Van Es, Bart - The cut out girl
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Apple, tree: writers on their parents (Lise Funderburg, ed.) 824.08 A
- Philip Roth: in memory ; remarks delivered at the Philip Roth Memorial Service 823 R
- Greene, Graham - Graham Greene: the last interview and other conversations 823 G
- Holden, Inez - Blitz writing: Night shift & It was different at the time (novella and diaries) 820.81 H
- Kröger, Lisa - Monster, she wrote: the women who pioneered horror & speculative fiction 809.9 K
- Lamantia, Philip - Preserving fire: selected prose 828.08 L
- Row, Jess - White flights: race, fiction, and the American imagination 809.9 R
- White, Duncan - Cold warriors: writers who waged the literary cold war 809 W
FICTION
- Wave me goodbye: stories of the Second World War (Anne Boston, ed.; with Lehmann, Boyle, Panter-Downes , Kavan, Manning, Pym, Rhys, Stevie Smith, Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, more) F W
- Dávila, Amparo - The houseguest and other stories (translated from the Spanish; New Directions; Mexican writer compared to Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington & Shirley Jackson) F D
- Kipling, Rudyard - The cause of humanity and other stories: uncollected prose fictions F K
- Mishima, Yukio - Life for sale (first English translation) F M
- Somov, O. M. - The witches of Kyiv and other gothic tales: selected works of Orest Somov (19th century Gothic fiction translated from the Ukraininan) F S
- Steen, Thorvald - The little horse (historical novel set in 12th century Iceland; translated from the Norwegian) F S
- Tergit, Gabriele - Käsebier takes Berlin (1931; New York Review Classics; translated from the German) F T
POETRY
- Whitman noir: Black America and the good gray poet (Ivy G. Wilson, ed.) 821.09 W
- MacSweeney, Barry - Desire lines: unselected poems 1966-2000 821 M
- Melville, Herman - Complete poems 821 M
- O'Brien, Geoffrey - The blue hill 821 O
ART
- Albers and Moholy-Nagy: from the Bauhaus to the new world (Achim Borchardt-Hume, ed.) 709.04 A
- Aloi, Giovanni - Lucian Freud herbarium 759.2 F
- Klein, Mina C. - Käthe Kollwitz: life in art 709.2 K
- Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer - Fanny Palmer: the life and works of a Currier & Ives artist 763 R
- Vignon, Charlotte - Duveen Brothers: and the market for decorative arts, 1880-1940 706.9 V
PERFORMING ARTS
- Fauser, Annegret - Aaron Copland's Appalachian spring 781.5 F
- Holiday, Billie - Billie Holiday: the last interview and other conversations 780.921 H
- Insdorf, Annette - Cinematic overtures: how to read opening scenes 791.4 I
- Lasser, Michael L. - City songs and American life, 1900-1950 780.973 L
FASHION
- The age of Napoleon: costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815 (Katell le Bourhis, ed.) 391.0944 A OVERSIZE
- Bolton, Andrew - Camp: notes on fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 746.92 B
- Bolton, Andrew - Heavenly bodies: fashion and the Catholic imagination (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018) 746.92 B
ANTIQUITY
- Errington, R. M. - A history of the Hellenistic world: 323-30 BC 938 E
- Everitt, Anthony - Alexander the Great: his life and his mysterious death 92 A374 E
- Matyszak, Philip - Ancient Athens on five drachmas a day 913.38 M
- Tyldesley, Joyce A. - Chronicle of the queens of Egypt: from early dynastic times to the death of Cleopatra 932 T
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is available to members. See the Electronic Resources page on our website.
HISTORY
- Aguilar Camín, Héctor - In the shadow of the Mexican revolution: contemporary Mexican history, 1910-1989 972 A
- Breen, T. H - The will of the people: the revolutionary birth of America 973.31 B
- Clavin, Matthew J - The Battle of Negro Fort: the rise and fall of a fugitive slave community 973.51 C
- Hennessy, Peter - Winds of change: Britain in the early sixties 942.085 H
- Kater, Michael H. - Culture in Nazi Germany 943.085 K
- McDaniel, W. Caleb - Sweet taste of liberty: a true story of slavery and restitution in America 326 M
- Medoff, Rafael - The Jews should keep quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust 940.5315 M
- Poole, Robert - Peterloo: the English uprising 942.07 P
- Rutkow, Eric - The longest line on the map: the United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the quest to link the Americas 388 R
MIDDLE EAST
- Abouzeid, Rania - No turning back: life, loss, and hope in wartime Syria 956.9 A
- Aspden, Rachel - Generation revolution: on the front line between tradition and change in the Middle East 962 A
- Harris, Lis - In Jerusalem: three generations of an Israeli family and a Palestinian family 956.94 H
- Ross, Dennis - Be strong and of good courage: how Israel's most important leaders shaped its destiny 956.94 R
CHINA
- China tripping: encountering the everyday in the People's Republic (Jeremy A. Murray, et al., eds.) 951 C
- Cohen, Paul A. - A path twice traveled: my journey as a historian of China 951 C
- Hang, Jian - Chinese arts & crafts 745 H
- Ni, Xueting Christine - From Kuan Yin to Chairman Mao: the essential guide to Chinese deities 299.5 N
- Vogel, Ezra F - China and Japan: facing history 327.51 V
WAR
- Finn, Peter - A guest of the Reich: the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany 940.5472 F
- Hosler, John D - The siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the battle that decided the Third Crusade 940.1 H
- Kershaw, Alex - The first wave: the D-Day warriors who led the way to victory in World War II 940.542 K
- Rosbottom, Ronald C. - Sudden courage: youth in France confront the Germans, 1940-1945 940.5344 R
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Fry, Helen - The walls have ears: the greatest intelligence operation of World War II 940.5485 F
- Kenyon, David - Bletchley Park and D-Day: the untold story of how the battle for Normandy was won 940.5485 K
- Simmons, Mark - Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: spies, scoundrels, and envoys keeping Spain out of World War II 940.5486 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- The essential debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist speeches and writings (Robert J. Allison & Bernard Bailyn, eds.; Library of America) 324.73 E
- Black, Charles L. - Impeachment: a handbook 342.73 B
- Hennette-Vauchez, Stéphanie - How to democratize Europe 320.9 H
- Kinna, Ruth - The government of no one: the theory and practice of anarchism 335.8 K
- Kling, Arnold S. - The three languages of politics: talking across the political divides 324.273 K
NEW YORK
- Gavan, Peggy - The cat men of Gotham: tales of feline friendships in old New York 636.8 G
- Santangelo, Lauren C. - Suffrage and the city: New York women battle for the ballot 324.3 S
- Suddler, Carl - Presumed criminal: Black youth and the justice system in postwar New York 364.3 S
SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL HISTORY
- Freeman, Lance - A haven and a hell: the ghetto in black America 305.88 F
- Lemann, Nicholas - Transaction man: the rise of the deal and the decline of the American dream 330.973 L
- Morland, Paul - The human tide: how population shaped the modern world 304.8 M
- Muirhead, Russell - A lot of people are saying: the new conspiracism and the assault on democracy 320.9 M
- Solinger, Rickie - Pregnancy and power: a history of reproductive politics in the United States 363.96 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Fox, Soledad - Exile, writer, soldier, spy: Jorge Semprún 92 S473 F
- Haber, Edythe C - Teffi: a life of letters and of laughter 92 T259 H
- Haste, Cate - Passionate spirit: the life of Alma Mahler 92 M2143 H
- Nelson, Janet L. - King and emperor: a new life of Charlemagne 92 C474 N
- Power, Samantha - The education of an idealist: a memoir 92 P8868 P
SCIENCE & MATH
- Carroll, Sean M. - Something deeply hidden: quantum worlds and the emergence of spacetime 530.1 C
- Gagliano, Monica - Thus spoke the plant: a remarkable journey of groundbreaking scientific discoveries and personal encounters with plants 581.5 G
- Heaton, Luke - A brief history of mathematical thought 510.9 H
- Prothero, Donald R - The story of the dinosaurs in 25 discoveries: amazing fossils and the people who found them 560 P
- Spiegelhalter, D. J - The art of statistics: how to learn from data 510 S
- Stewart, Ian - In pursuit of the unknown: 17 equations that changed the world 510.9 S
- Watson, Lyall - Heaven's breath: a natural history of the wind 551.5 W
MEDICINE
- Honigsbaum, Mark - The pandemic century: one hundred years of panic, hysteria, and hubris 614.4 H
- Levenstein, Susan - Dottoressa: an American doctor in Rome 610.4 L
PHILOSOPHY
- The new Cambridge companion to Nietzsche (tom Stern, ed.) 193 N
- Sellars, John - Lessons in stoicism 188 S
- Tolstoy, Leo - On life: a critical edition (Inessa Medzhibovskaya, ed.) 128 T
PSYCHOLOGY
- Benjamin, A. K. - Let me not be mad: my story of unraveling minds 612.8 B
- Hyde, Lewis - A primer for forgetting: getting past the past 154 H
- Nesse, Randolph M - Good reasons for bad feelings: insights from the frontier of evolutionary psychiatry 616.8 N
GARDENS
- Buchan, Ursula - A green and pleasant land: how England's gardeners fought the Second World War 635 B
- Buchan, Ursula - The English garden 712 B
- Holden, Linda Jane - The gardens of Bunny Mellon 712 H
- Vercelloni, Matteo - The invention of the Western garden: the history of an idea 712 V
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Lessenich, Stephan - Living well at others' expense: the hidden costs of Western prosperity 339.2 L
- Srinivasan, Bhu - Americana: a 400-year history of American capitalism 330.973 S
- Straumann, Tobias - 1931: debt, crisis, and the rise of Hitler 330.943 S
- Weber, Max - Economy and society: a new translation 306.3 W
RELIGION
- Alderfer, E. Gordon - The Ephrata commune: an early American counterculture 271 A
- Beal, Timothy K. - The Book of Revelation: a biography 228 B
- Collins, John J. - What are biblical values?: what the Bible says on key ethical issues 241 C
- Phillips, Christopher N - The hymnal: a reading history 245 P
- Wilken, Robert Louis - Liberty in the things of God: the Christian origins of religious freedom 233 W
