New Books - October 2020
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Andersen, Kurt - Evil geniuses: the unmaking of America: a recent history (ebook available)
- Anderson, Scott - The quiet Americans: four CIA spies at the dawn of the Cold War--a tragedy in three acts (ebook available)
- Berry, David - A people's history of tennis
- Biss, Eula - Having and being had
- Blume, Lesley M. M. - Fallout: the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world (ebook available)
- Bonner, Betsy - The book of Atlantis Black: the search for a sister gone missing: a memoir
- Bowden, Mark - The case of the vanishing blonde: and other true crime stories
- Cohen, Michael - Disloyal: a memoir: the true story of the former personal attorney to the president of the United States
- Dijn, Annelien de - Freedom: an unruly history
- Erpenbeck, Jenny - Not a novel: a memoir in pieces
- Giorno, John - Great demon kings: a memoir of poetry, sex, art, death, and enlightenment
- Hamblin, James - Clean: the new science of skin
- Henrich, Joseph Patrick - The WEIRDest people in the world: how the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous
- Hett, Benjamin Carter - The Nazi menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the road to war
- Konnikova, Maria - The biggest bluff: how I learned to pay attention, master myself, and win (ebook available)
- Lane, Christina - Phantom lady: Hollywood producer Joan Harrison, the forgotten woman behind Hitchcock
- Laveau-Harvie, Vicki - The erratics
- Lepore, Jill - If then: how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future (ebook available)
- Macdonald, Helen - Vesper flights: new and collected essays (ebook available)
- Macintyre, Ben - Agent Sonya: Moscow's most daring wartime spy (ebook available)
- Mack, Katie - The end of everything: (astrophysically speaking)
- Meacham, Jon - His truth is marching on: John Lewis and the power of hope
- Mikics, David - Stanley Kubrick: American filmmaker
- Moran, Caitlin - More than a woman
- Murphy, Chris - The violence inside us: a brief history of an ongoing American tragedy
- Nasaw, David - The last million: Europe's displaced persons from World War to Cold War
- Parini, Jay - Borges and me: an encounter (ebook available)
- Perlstein, Rick - Reaganland: America's right turn, 1976-1980
- Rankine, Claudia - Just us: an American conversation
- Reich, Robert B. - The system: who rigged it, how we fix it
- Saad, Layla F. - Me and white supremacy: combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor
- Sabar, Ariel. - Veritas: a Harvard professor, a con man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
- Sandel, Michael J. - The tyranny of merit: what's become of the common good?
- Scobie, Omid. - Finding freedom: Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Strzok, Peter, - Compromised: counterintelligence and the threat of Donald J. Trump
- Toll, Ian W. - Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
- Toobin, Jeffrey. - True crimes and misdemeanors: the investigation of Donald Trump
- Woodward, Bob - Rage (ebook available)
FICTION
- Abulhawa, Susan - Against the loveless world: a novel
- Akhtar, Ayad - Homeland elegies: a novel (ebook available)
- Backman, Fredrik - Anxious people: a novel (ebook available)
- Beanland, Rachel - Florence Adler swims forever
- Boyne, John - A traveler at the gates of wisdom: a novel
- Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien - Likes
- Cameron, Peter - What happens at night: a novel
- Clarke, Susanna - Piranesi
- Cline, Emma - Daddy: stories
- Cook, Diane - The new wilderness: a novel
- Danticat, Edwidge - Everything inside: stories
- Endicott, Marina - The voyage of the Morning Light: a novel
- Ferrante, Elena - The lying life of adults (ebook & audio download available)
- Follett, Ken - The evening and the morning (ebook available)
- Goodwillie, David - Kings County: a novel
- Gordon, Mary, - Payback
- Gyasi, Yaa - Transcendent kingdom (ebook available)
- Hegi, Ursula - The patron saint of pregnant girls
- Hiaasen, Carl - Squeeze me: a novel
- Hughes, Caoilinn - The wild laughter
- Hunter, Georgia - We were the lucky ones
- Johnson, Daisy - Sisters
- Kenan, Randall - If I had two wings: stories
- Kline, Christina Baker - The exiles: a novel
- Kunzru, Hari - Red pill: a novel
- Lackberg, Camilla - The golden cage (ebook available)
- Lane, Byron - A star is bored
- Lemmie, Asha - Fifty words for rain: a novel
- Lindsey, Odie - Some go home: a novel
- Livesey, Margot - The boy in the field: a novel (ebook available)
- Lock, Norman - American follies
- Marren, Susannah - A Palm Beach scandal
- Martin, Valerie - I give it to you: a novel
- Mason, Bobbie Ann - Dear Ann: a novel
- McAfee, Annalena - Nightshade: a novel
- McConaghy, Charlotte. - Migrations
- Miller, Sue, - Monogamy: a novel (ebook available)
- Mishani, Dror - Three
- Nunez, Sigrid - What are you going through (ebook available)
- Persaud, Ingrid - Love after love: a novel
- Pierre, D. B. C. - Meanwhile in Dopamine City
- Prior, Hazel - How the penguins saved Veronica
- Reva, Maria - Good citizens need not fear
- Rooney, Kathleen - Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey
- Smith, Ali - Summer (ebook available)
- Starritt, Alexander - We Germans: a novel
- Tobar, Hector - The last great road bum
- Volckmer, Katharina - The appointment: (or, the story of a Jewish cock)
- Waclawiak, Karolina - Life events
- Washburn, Kawai Strong - Sharks in the time of saviors
- Watson, Larry - The lives of Edie Pritchard: a novel
- Weiden, David Heska Wanbli - Winter counts: a novel
- Williams, Beatriz - Her last flight: a novel
- Wyld, Evie - The Bass Rock
- Yehoshua, Abraham B. - The tunnel (ebook available)
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Abbott, Jeff - Never ask me
- Barrett, Lorna - Handbook for homicide
- Benn, James R. - The red horse: a Billy Boyle World War II mystery
- Brown, Sandra - Thick as thieves
- Buelens, Stephanie - An inconvenient woman
- Cleeves, Ann - The darkest evening* (ebook available)
- Edwards, Martin - Mortmain Hall *
- Gilly, Alex - Death rattle
- Giordano, Mario - Auntie Poldi and the handsome Antonio
- Goldman, Matt - Dead west: a novel
- Hannah, Sophie - The killings at Kingfisher Hill: the new Hercule Poirot mystery*
- Hiaaasen, Carl - Squeeze me (ebook available)
- James, Peter - Find them dead*
- King, Laurie R. - Riviera gold: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes*
- Laurie, Victoria - To coach a killer
- McGuire, Ian - The abstainer: a novel *
- Mina, Denise - The less dead (ebook available)
- Osborne, Lawrence - The glass kingdom: a novel
- Parker, T. Jefferson - Then she vanished
- Parris, S. J. - Execution
- Pavesi, Alex - The eighth detective: a novel
- Penny, Louise - All the devils are here (ebook available)
- Perry, Anne - A question of betrayal: an Elena Standish novel*
- Qiu, Xiaolong - Hold your breath, China
- Ramsay, Caro - The red, red snow *
- Ripley, Mike - Mr Campion's séance*
- Robb, J. D. - Shadows in death
- Rozlan Mohd, Noor - 21 immortals: Inspector Mislan and the yee sang murders
- Ryan, Hank Phillippi - The first to lie
- Sager, Riley - Home before dark: a novel
- Ware, Ruth - One by one* (ebook available)
- Woods, John - Lady Chevy: a novel
BOOK COMMITTEE
- Adams, Nicholas - Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: building corporate modernism
- Baer, Marc David - German, Jew, Muslim, gay: the life and times of Hugo Marcus
- Dickerson, John - The hardest job in the world: the American presidency
- Gloyn, Liz - Tracking classical monsters in popular culture
- Jacobs, Justin - The compensations of plunder: how China lost its treasures
- Morris, Jan - Thinking again
- Willan, Anne - Women in the kitchen: twelve essential cookbook writers who defined the way we eat, from 1661 to today
POETRY
- Bialosky, Jill - Asylum: a personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sections
- Conquest, Robert - Collected poems
- Hanshan - The complete Cold Mountain: poems of the legendary hermit Hanshan
- Herrera, Juan Felipe - Every day we get more illegal
- Mew, Charlotte Mary - Selected poetry and prose
- Molloy, Dorothy - The poems of Dorothy Molloy
- Warren, Rosanna - So forth: poems
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Carver, Stephen James. - The author who outsold Dickens: the life and work of W. H. Ainsworth 823 A
- Gorra, Michael Edward. - The saddest words: William Faulkner's Civil War 823 F
- Hjortsberg, William, - Jubilee hitchhiker: the life and times of Richard Brautigan 92 B8259 H
- Khodasevich, V. F. - Necropolis 891.7 K
- Marcus, Greil. - Under the red, white and blue: patriotism, disenchantment and the stubborn myth of the Great Gatsby 823 F
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, - Three rings: a tale of exile, narrative, and fate 809 M
- Nicholson, Catherine. - Reading and not reading the Faerie Queene: Spenser and the making of literary criticism 821.09 S
- Slouching towards Los Angeles: living and writing by Joan Didion's light 824.08 S
- Tillman, Katherine Davis Chapman - The works of Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman (Steffie Nelson, ed.) 820.81 T
FICTION
- Guibert, Herve - To the friend who did not save my life F G
- Machado de Assis, - The posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas (Penguin Classics; 1881 Brazilian novel) F M
- Phillips, J. J. - Mojo hand (1966; acclaimed novel) F P
- Ramos, Graciliano - Barren lives (1938 Brazilian novel) F R
POETRY
- Carey, John - A little history of poetry 809.1 C
- Doty, Mark. - What is the grass: Walt Whitman in my life 92 D7255 D
- Rollyson, Carl E. - The last days of Sylvia Plath 92 P7168 R
- Rosenblitt, J. Alison - The beauty of living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War 92 C9714 R
- Conversations with Allen Ginsberg (David Stephen Calonne, ed.) 821.09 G
WRITING
- Delbanco, Nicholas - Why writing matters 808 D
- Le Guin, Ursula K. - Ursula K. Le Guin: conversations on writing 804 L
- Woods, Geraldine - 25 great sentences and how they got that way 808 W
BOOKS & READING
- Grafton, Anthony.- Inky fingers: the making of books in early modern Europe 002 G
- Liming, Sheila - What a library means to a woman: Edith Wharton and the will to collect books 823 W
- The Oxford illustrated history of the book (James Raven, ed.) 002 O
- The writer's library: the authors you love on the books that changed their lives (Nancy Pearl & Jeff Schwager, eds.) 028 W
ANTIQUITY
- Edmonds, Radcliffe G. - Drawing down the moon: magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world 133.4 E
- Lancel, Serge - Carthage: a history 939.7 L
- Raffles, Hugh - The book of unconformities: speculations on lost time 930.1 R
ART
- Cohen, Joshua I. - The "black art" renaissance: African sculpture and modernism across continents 709.04 C
- Figura, Starr - Félix Fénéon: the anarchist and the avant-garde 709.44 F
- Foster, Hal - What comes after farce?: Art and criticism at a time of debacle 701 F
- George, Alys X. - The naked truth: Viennese modernism and the body 709.436 G
- Harvey, Eleanor Jones - Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: art, nature, and culture 709.73 H
- Tomlinson, Janis A. - Goya: a portrait of the artist 759.6 G
- Islamic art: past, present, future (Jonathan Bloom & Sheila Blair, eds.) 709 B
- Gamwell, Lynn - Exploring the invisible: art, science, and the spiritual 704 G
BIOGRAPHY
- Bernstein, Richard B. - The education of John Adams 92 A214 B
- Jefferson, Ann - Nathalie Sarraute: a life between 92 S247 J
- Johnson, Betsey - Betsey.: a memoir 92 J665 J
- Misak, C. J. - Frank Ramsey: a sheer excess of powers 92 R1811 M
BIRDS
- Sibley, David - What it's like to be a bird: from flying to nesting, eating to singing -- what birds are doing, and why 598.2 S
- Slaght, Jonathan C. - Owls of the eastern ice: a quest to find and save the world's largest owl 598.2 S
- Unwin, Mike - Flights of passage: an illustrated natural history of bird migration 598.2 U OVERSIZE
COVID-19
- Lévy, Bernard-Henri - The virus in the age of madness 194 L
- Mackenzie, Debora - COVID-19: the pandemic that never should have happened and how to stop the next one 614.4 M
ECONOMICS
- Glantz, Aaron - Homewreckers: how a gang of Wall Street kingpins, hedge fund magnates, crooked banks, and vulture capitalists suckered millions out of their homes and demolished the American dream 332.7 G
- Kelton, Stephanie - The deficit myth: modern monetary theory and the birth of the people's economy 330.1 K
- Klein, Matthew C. - Trade wars are class wars: how rising inequality distorts the global economy and threatens international peace 337 K
- Stebenne, David - Promised land: how the rise of the middle class transformed America, 1929-1968 305.5 S
FEMINISM
- Levenstein, Lisa - They didn't see us coming: the hidden history of feminism in the nineties 305.4 L
- Siegel, Mona L. - Peace on our terms: the global battle for women's rights after the First World War 305.4 S
HISTORY
- Bell, David A. - Men on horseback: the power of charisma in the Age of Revolution 155.2 B
- Gellately, Robert - Hitler's true believers: how ordinary people became Nazis 324.2 G
- Gretton, Dan - I you we them: . Walking into the world of the desk killer 364.1 G
- Hiltzik, Michael A. - Iron empires: robber barons, railroads, and the making of modern America 385 H
- Muchembled, Robert - Smells: a cultural history of odours in early modern times 152 M
- Price, Neil S. - Children of ash and elm: a history of the Vikings 948 P
- Spires, Derrick Ramon - The practice of citizenship: Black politics and print culture in the early United States 323.6 S
- Steiner, Zara - The lights that failed: European international history, 1919-1933 940.5 S
- Sutton, Matthew Avery - Double crossed: the missionaries who spied for the United States during the Second World War 940.5485 S
- Zoellner, Tom - Island on fire: the revolt that ended slavery in the British Empire 326 Z
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
- Burke, Peter - The polymath: a cultural history from Leonardo Da Vinci to Susan Sontag 305.5 B
- Kilson, Martin - Transformation of the African American intelligentsia, 1880-2012 305.88 K
- Newstok, Scott L. - How to think like Shakespeare: lessons from a renaissance education 370.1 N
JOURNALISM
- Dubbs, Chris - An unladylike profession: American women war correspondents in World War I 070.4 D
- Holzer, Harold - The presidents vs. the press: the endless battle between the White House and the media -- from the founding fathers to fake news 070.4 H
MIDDLE EAST
- Bashkin, Orit - New Babylonians: a history of Jews in modern Iraq 305.86 B
- Feldman, Noah - The Arab winter: a tragedy 956 F
- Kepel, Gilles - Away from chaos: the Middle East and the challenge to the West 956 K
MUSIC
- Brendel, Alfred - The Lady from Arezzo: my musical life and other matters 780.4 B
- Craske, Oliver - Indian sun: the life and music of Ravi Shankar 780.921 S
- LaFarge, Annik - Chasing Chopin: a musical journey across three centuries, four countries, and a half-dozen revolutions 780.92 C
- Ross, Alex - Wagnerism: art and politics in the shadow of music 782.2 R
NEW YORK
- Klein, Rachel N. - Art wars: the politics of taste in nineteenth-century New York 709.7471 K
- Scheinfeld, Marisa - The Borscht Belt: revisiting the remains of America's Jewish vacationland 974.7 S
- Trinch, Shonna L. - What the signs say: language, gentrification, and place-making in Brooklyn 307.76 T
PHILOSOPHY
- Cavell, Stanley - Must we mean what we say?: a book of essays 190 C
- Eilenberger, Wolfram - Time of the magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the decade that reinvented philosophy 193 E
- Zaretsky, Robert - Catherine & Diderot: the empress, the philosopher, and the fate of the Enlightenment 920 Z36 C
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Chervinsky, Lindsay M., - The cabinet: George Washington and the creation of an American institution 973.4 C
- Levin, Dov H. - Meddling in the ballot box: the causes and effects of partisan electoral interventions 324 L
- Zelizer, Julian E. - Burning down the house: Newt Gingrich, the fall of a speaker, and the rise of the new Republican Party 324.2 Z
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Early, Bryan R. - Busted sanctions: explaining why economic sanctions fail 327.73 E
- Haass, Richard - The world: a brief introduction 327 H
- Kimmage, Michael - The abandonment of the West: the history of an idea in American foreign policy 327.73 K
- McMaster, H. R. - Battlegrounds: the fight to defend the free world 327.73 M
PSYCHOLOGY
- Garber, Marjorie B. - Character: the history of a cultural obsession 155.2 G
- King, David - Six days in August: the story of Stockholm syndrome 364.1 K
RACE RELATIONS
- Billings, David - Deep denial: the persistence of white supremacy in United States history and life 305.8 B
- Darby, Seyward. - Sisters in hate: American women on the front lines of white nationalism 305.4 D
- Darity, William A. - From here to equality: reparations for Black Americans in the twenty-first century 323.1 D
- Schaub, Jean-Frédéric - Race is about politics: lessons from history 305.8 S
RELIGION
- O'Grady, Selina - In the name of God: the role of religion in the modern world, a history of Judeo-Christian and Islamic tolerance 201 O
- Park, Benjamin E. - Kingdom of Nauvoo: the rise and fall of a religious empire on the American frontier 289.3 P
- Williams, Liz - Miracles of our own making: a history of paganism 293 W
SCIENCE
- Cobb, Matthew - The idea of the brain: the past and future of neuroscience 612.8 C
- Coleman, Jon T. - Nature shock: getting lost in America 574 C
- Heard, Stephen B. - Charles Darwin's barnacle and David Bowie's spider: how scientific names celebrate adventurers, heroes, and even a few scoundrels 570 H
- Moore, Donovan - What stars are made of: the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 92 P347 M
- Ritchie, Stuart - Science fictions: how fraud, bias, negligence, and hype undermine the search for truth 500 R
SOCIOLOGY
- Berry, David - On nostalgia 306.4 B
- Gevisser, Mark - The pink line: journeys across the world's queer frontiers 306.76 G
- Howard, Philip N. - Lie machines: how to save democracy from troll armies, deceitful robots, junk news operations, and political operatives 303.4 H
- Shah, Sonia - The next great migration: the beauty and terror of life on the move 304.8 S
TRAVEL
- Harris, Susan K. - Mark Twain, the world, and me: Following the equator, then and now 828.09 T
- Ollivier, Bernard - Walking to Samarkand: the Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia 915 O
- Plimpton, Oakes - 1957 expeditions journal: Baja California: American Museum of Natural History expedition, spring 1957. Huautla Mexico: seeking the sacred mushroom with Gordon Wasson, summer 1957 913.72 P
WAR
- Dickson, Paul - The rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: the forgotten story of how America forged a powerful army before Pearl Harbor 355.0973 D
- Edstrom, Erik - Un-American: a soldier's reckoning of our longest war 958 E
- Hanley, Charles J. - Ghost flames: life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953 951.9 H