New Books - October 2021
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Brina, Elizabeth Miki - Speak, Okinawa: a memoir
- Brown, Eliot - The cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the great startup delusion
- Brown, Liz - Twilight man: love and ruin in the shadows of Hollywood and the Clark empire
- Channon, Henry - Henry 'Chips' Channon: Diaries, volume 2: 1938-43
- Charney, Noah - The devil in the gallery: how scandal, shock, and rivalry shape the art world
- Chow, Kat - Seeing ghosts: a memoir
- Clarey, Christopher - The master: the long run and beautiful game of Roger Federer
- Dimsdale, Joel E. - Dark persuasion: a history of brainwashing from Pavlov to social media
- Foster, Charles - Being a human: adventures in forty thousand years of consciousness
- Fry, Stephen - Troy: the Greek myths reimagined
- Glaeser, Edward L. - Survival of the city: living and thriving in an age of isolation
- Griffin, Farah Jasmine - Read until you understand: the profound wisdom of Black life and literature
- Harjo, Joy - Poet warrior: a memoir
- Henderson, Eleanor - Everything I have is yours: a marriage
- Heyrman, Christine Leigh - Doomed romance: broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual tumult in nineteenth-century America
- Horn, Dara - People love dead Jews: reports from a haunted present
- Iperen, Roxane van - The sisters of Auschwitz: the true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory (ebook available)
- Kaufman, Andrew D. - The gambler wife: a true story of love, risk, and the woman who saved Dostoyevsky
- Kennedy, Randall - Say it loud!: on race, law, history, and culture
- Klam, Julie - The almost legendary Morris sisters: a true story of family fiction
- Larsen, Gavin - Being a ballerina: the power and perfection of a dancing life
- Levin, Mark R. - American Marxism
- Loxley, Will - Writing in the dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon magazine
- Malkasian, Carter - The American war in Afghanistan: a history
- Nelson, Maggie - On freedom: four songs of care and constraint (ebook available)
- Nolan, Savala - Don't let it get you down: essays on race, gender, and the body
- O'Gieblyn, Meghan - God, human, animal, machine: technology, metaphor, and the search for meaning
- Osnos, Evan - Wildland: the making of America's fury
- Philbrick, Nathaniel - Travels with George: in search of Washington and his legacy (ebook available)
- Roach, Mary - Fuzz: when nature breaks the law
- Sabin, Paul - Public citizens: the attack on big government and the remaking of American liberalism
- Saunders, Frances Stonor - The suitcase: six attempts to cross a border
- Strong, Cecily - This will all be over soon: a memoir
- Tomes, Susan - The piano: a history in 100 pieces
- Tooze, Adam - Shutdown: how COVID shook the world's economy
- Ullrich, Volker - Eight days in May: the final collapse of the Third Reich
- Vickers, Hugo - Malice in Wonderland: my adventures in the world of Cecil Beaton
- Wallace, Chris - Countdown Bin Laden: the untold story of the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9 11 to justice
- Wang, Qian Julie - Beautiful country: a memoir (ebook available)
- Whitlock, Craig - The Afghanistan papers: a secret history of the war
- Widder, Edith - Below the edge of darkness: a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Wood, Gordon S. - Power and liberty: constitutionalism in the American revolution
- Who killed cock robin?: British folk songs of crime and punishment
FICTION
- Aira, César - The divorce (ebook available)
- Aubray, Camille - The godmothers: a novel
- Barker, Pat - The women of Troy: a novel (ebook available)
- Beauvoir, Simone de - Inseparable: a never-before-published novel (ebook available)
- Binet, Laurent - Civilizations
- Brown, Natasha - Assembly
- Chin, YZ - Edge case: a novel
- Choi, Yoon - Skinship: stories
- Di Canzio, William - Alec
- Feldman, Ellen - The living and the lost
- FitzSimmons, Matthew - Constance
- Groff, Lauren - Matrix (ebook available)
- Grossman, David - More than I love my life (ebook available)
- Heller, Peter - The guide: a novel
- Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne - The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: a novel
- Jennings, Karen - An island
- Jones, Gayl - Palmares (ebook available)
- Killens, John Oliver - The minister primarily: a novel
- Lange, Tracey - We are the Brennans
- Levrero, Mario - The luminous novel
- Lish, Atticus - The war for Gloria (ebook available)
- Livaneli, Zülfü - Disquiet
- Lloyd, Jo - Something wonderful
- McDonell, Nick - The council of animals
- Moniz, Dantiel W. - Milk blood heat: stories
- Moriarty, Liane - Apples never fall: a novel (ebook available)
- Nkweti, Nana - Walking on cowrie shells: stories
- Olsen, Lance - My red heaven: a novel
- Perrin, Valérie - Fresh water for flowers
- Riley, Vanessa - Island queen: a novel (ebook available)
- Rooney, Sally - Beautiful world, where are you (ebook and audiobook available)
- Sapienza, Goliarda - Meeting in Positano
- Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd - American estrangement: stories
- Seghers, Anna - The dead girls' class trip: selected stories
- Segovia, Sofía - The murmur of bees
- Serle, Rebecca - In five years: a novel
- Tóibín, Colm - The magician: a novel (ebook available)
- Wolitzer, Hilma - Today a woman went mad in the supermarket: stories (ebook available)
- Yan, Ge - Strange beasts of China
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Arnaldur Indriðason - The darkness knows
- Bannister, Jo - China roses*
- Benn, James R. - Road of bones: a Billy Boyle World War II mystery
- Burke, James Lee - Another kind of Eden
- Cleeves, Ann - The heron's cry*
- Cleveland, Karen - You can run: a novel
- Coulter, Catherine - Vortex: an FBI thriller
- Fielden, T. P. - Stealing the crown*
- Fraser, Anthea - The ties that bind*
- Goble, Steve - City problems
- Hambly, Barbara - Scandal in Babylon
- Hawkins, Paula - A slow fire burning* (ebook available)
- Isaka, Kōtarō - Bullet train: a novel
- James, Peter - Left you dead*
- Jewell, Lisa - The night she disappeared: a novel
- Kellerman, Jonathan - The burning: a novel
- Krueger, William Kent - Lightning strike: a novel
- Mills, Kyle - Enemy at the gates
- Mina, Denise - Rizzio (ebook available)
- Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Velvet was the night (ebook available)
- Neville, Stuart - The house of ashes*
- Parks, Alan - The April dead* (ebook available)
- Perry, Anne - A darker reality*
- Preston, Douglas J. - Bloodless: a Pendergast novel
- Robb, J. D. - Forgotten in death
- Schneider, Hansjörg - The Basel killings
- Winstead, Ashley - In my dreams I hold a knife: a novel
- Yahagi, Toshihiko - The wrong goodbye
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The Doll
POETRY
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - The voices & other poems (translated and with an introduction by Kristofor Minta)
- Ungaretti, Giuseppe - Allegria
- In the American tree: language, realism, poetry (edited by Ron Silliman)
BOOK COMMITTEE
- Beeson, Anthony - Roman gardens
- Breyer, Stephen G. - The authority of the Court and the peril of politics
- Jarre, Marina - Distant fathers
- Studies in ancient Persia and the Achaemenid period (edited by John Curtis)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Caribbean women writers (Harold Bloom, ed.) 820.9 C
- Cullen, Countee - My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance 820.81 C
- Delany, Samuel R. - Of solids and surds: notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White 808.3 D
- Johnson, Maureen - Your guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village 827 J
- Meades, Jonathan - Pedro and Ricky come again: selected writing 1988-2020 828 M
- Scruton, Roger - Confessions of a heretic 824 S
- Slide, Anthony - Lost gay novels: a reference guide to fifty works from the first half of the twentieth century 823.09 S
- Tatar, Maria - The heroine with 1,001 faces 809 T
- Toomer, Jean - The letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 92 T6724 T
- Woolf, Virginia - The annotated Mrs. Dalloway (Merve Emre, ed.) 823 W
FICTION
- Chauvet, Marie - Dance on the volcano (translated from the French; Archipelago Books) F C
- Comyns, Barbara - Mr Fox (1987 WWII novel by author of The Juniper Tree, Our Spoons Came From Woolworth’s) F C
- Eakins, Patricia - The hungry girls: and other stories F E
- Fante, John - The road to Los Angeles F F
- Fosse, Jon - I is another: septology III-V (translated by Damion Searls) F F
- Pacheco, José Emilio - Battles in the desert (1981, Mexico, New Directions, translated by Katherine Silver) F P
BOOKS AND READING
- English, Charlie - The book smugglers of Timbuktu: the quest for this storied city and the race to save its treasures 966.2 E
- Gekoski, R. A. - Guarded by dragons: encounters with rare books and rare people 090 G
- Thompson, John B. - Book wars: the digital revolution in publishing 070.5 T
ART & ARCHITECTURE
- Bauhaus Archive Berlin: museum of design, the collection (Andrea Scrima, et al., eds.) 708.3 B
- Blaugrund, Annette - The Tenth Street Studio Building: artist-entrepreneurs from the Hudson River School to the American impressionists 759.1 B
- Harris, Neil - Building lives: constructing rites and passages 720.973 H
- Inspired by the East: how the Islamic world influenced Western art (edited by William Greenwood and Lucien de Guise, British Museum) 709.4 I
- Kalman, Maira - Sara Berman's closet 708 K
- Owens, Craig - Beyond recognition: representation, power, and culture 701 O
- Rembert, Winfred - Chasing me to my grave: an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South 759.1 R
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Barbas, Samantha - The rise and fall of Morris Ernst, free speech renegade 92 E7156 B
- Bennett, Roger - (Re)Born in the USA: an Englishman's love letter to his chosen home 92 B47235 B
- Duncan, Mike - Hero of two worlds: the Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution 92 L1615 D
- Habib, Samra - We have always been here: a queer Muslim memoir 92 H1162 H
- Johnson, James Weldon - Along this way 92 J6736 J
- King, Billie Jean - All in: an autobiography 92 K5235 K
- Lauder, Leonard A. - The company I keep: my life in beauty 92 L3679 L
- Letersky, Paul - The director: my years assisting J. Edgar Hoover 92 L646 L
- Scurr, Ruth - Napoleon: a life told in gardens and shadows 92 N216 S
HISTORY
- Ferrer, Ada - Cuba: an American history 972.91 F
- Gallagher, Winifred - New women in the old west: from settlers to suffragists, an untold American story 978 G
- Hirsch, Francine - Soviet judgment at Nuremberg: a new history of the international military tribunal after World War II 341.6 H
- The Jamaica reader: history, culture, politics (Diana Paton and Matthew J. Smith, eds.) 972.92 J
- Kynaston, David - On the cusp: days of '62 (England) 942.085 K
- Lembcke, Jerry - The spitting image: myth, memory, and the legacy of Vietnam 959.704 L
- Levine, Robert S. - The failed promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson 973.8 L
- Milton, Giles - Checkmate in Berlin: the Cold War showdown that shaped the modern world 943.1 M
- Scott, Julius Sherrard - The common wind: Afro-American currents in the age of the Haitian Revolution (foreword by Marcus Rediker) 972.94 S
ANTIQUITY
- Horace - How to be content: an ancient poet's guide for an age of excess 171 H
- Sherman, Nancy - Stoic wisdom: ancient lessons for modern resilience 188 S
- The romance of ruins: the search for ancient Ionia, 1764 (Ian Jenkins and Louise Stewart, eds.) 759.2 R
TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION
- Álvarez, Noé - Spirit run: a 6,000-mile marathon through North America's stolen land 92 A4737 A
- Duff Gordon, Lucie - Letters from Egypt: an Englishwoman on the Nile, 1862-69 962 D
- Fairbanks, Amanda M. - The lost boys of Montauk: the true story of the Wind Blown, four men who vanished at sea, and the survivors they left behind 910.4 F
- Tesson, Sylvain - The art of patience: seeking the snow leopard in Tibet 915.4 T
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Bacevich, Andrew J. - After the apocalypse: America's role in a world transformed 327.73 B
- Doshi, Rush - The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order 327.51 D
- Fasulo, Linda M. - An insider's guide to the UN 341.1 F
- Gavrilis, George - The council on foreign relations: a short history 327 G
- Gronowicz, Anthony - Last Western empire: a history of U.S. foreign policy 327.73 G
- Moyn, Samuel - Humane: how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war 341.6 M
RACE IN AMERICA
- Commander, Michelle D. - Passages 305.88 C
- DiAngelo, Robin - Nice racism: how progressive White people perpetuate racial harm 305.8 D
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne - Not "a nation of immigrants": settler colonialism, white supremacy, and a history of erasure and exclusion 305.8 D
- Flamming, Douglas - Bound for freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America 979.49 F
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Burke, Tarana - Unbound: my story of liberation and the birth of the Me Too movement 362.8 B
- Fraser, Antonia - The case of the married woman: Caroline Norton: a 19th century heroine who wanted justice for women 92 N883 F
- Zakaria, Rafia - Against white feminism: notes on disruption 305.4 Z
- Women's liberation!: feminist writings that inspired a revolution & still can (Library of America; Alix Kates Shulman
& Honor Moore, eds.) 305.4 W
EDUCATION
- Lieber, Ron - The price you pay for college: an entirely new road map for the biggest financial decision your family will ever make 378 L
- Lukianoff, Greg - The coddling of the American mind: how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure 378 L
- Mitchell, Josh - The debt trap: how student loans became a national catastrophe 378 M
PHILOSOPHY
- Bennett, Arnold - How to live on 24 hours a day 170 B
- Critchley, Simon - Bald: 35 philosophical short cuts 104 C
- Inwood, M. J. - Heidegger: a very short introduction 193 I
PSYCHOLOGY
- Crisp, Richard J. - Social psychology: a very short introduction 301.15 C
- Horwitz, Allan V. - DSM: a history of psychiatry's bible 616.8 H
MEDICINE
- Brown, Theresa - The shift: one nurse, twelve hours, four patients' lives 610.73 B
- Cleghorn, Elinor - Unwell women: misdiagnosis and myth in a man-made world 618 C
- Meyer, Robert - Every minute is a day: a doctor, an emergency room, and a city under siege 362.1 M
DEATH AND DYING
- Becker, Barbara - Heartwood: the art of living with the end in mind 306.9 B
- Butler, Katy - The art of dying well: a practical guide to a good end of life 155.9 B
- Dugdale, Lydia S. - The lost art of dying: reviving forgotten wisdom 306.9 D
- Miller, Bruce J. - A beginner's guide to the end: practical advice for living life and facing death 612.67 M
LAW
- Bowdler, Michelle - Is rape a crime?: a memoir, an investigation, and a manifesto 362.8 B
- Canellos, Peter S. - The great dissenter: the story of John Marshall Harlan, America's judicial hero 92 H2836 C
- Issenberg, Sasha - The engagement: America's quarter-century struggle over same-sex marriage 347.6 I
NEW YORK
- Freeland, David - American hotel: the Waldorf-Astoria and the making of a century 647.9 F
- Kaplan, Paul M. - Jewish New York: a history and guide to neighborhoods, synagogues, and eateries 917.471 K
- Melosi, Martin V. - Fresh Kills: a history of consuming and discarding in New York City 628.4 M
