New Books - September 2017
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Allen, Jenny - Would everybody please stop?: reflections on life and other bad ideas
- Baker, Peter - Obama: the call of history
- Bialosky, Jill - Poetry will save your life: a memoir
- Boström, Mattias - From Holmes to Sherlock: the story of the men and women who created an icon (translated from the Swedish)
- Childress, Clayton - Under the cover: the creation, production, and reception of a novel
- Clarke, P. F. - The locomotive of war: money, empire, power, and guilt
- Drezner, Daniel W. - The ideas industry
- Goldstein, Bill - The world broke in two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the year that changed literature
- Gray, Annie - The greedy queen: eating with Victoria
- Greenhalgh, Shaun - A forger's tale: confessions of the Bolton forger
- Halson, Penrose - The marriage bureau: the true story of how two matchmakers arranged love in wartime London
- Handy, Bruce - Wild things: the joy of reading children's literature as an adult
- Hesse, Monica - American fire: love, arson, and life in a vanishing land
- Holmes, Bob - Flavor: the science of our most neglected sense
- Kuo, Michelle - Reading with Patrick: a teacher, a student, and a life-changing friendship
- Livesey, Margot - The hidden machinery: essays on writing
- Lukach, Mark - My lovely wife in the psych ward: a memoir
- Luthman, Johanna - Love, madness, and scandal: the life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck
- Manguso, Sarah - 300 arguments
- Marsh, Henry - Admissions: a life in brain surgery
- Maynard, Joyce - The best of us: a memoir
- Moss, Jeremiah - Vanishing New York: how a great city lost its soul
- Oborne, Peter - How Trump thinks: his tweets and the birth of a new political language
- Pearlman, Wendy - We crossed a bridge and it trembled: voices from Syria
- Powers, Ann - Good booty: love and sex, black & white, body and soul in American music
- Sancton, Thomas - The Bettencourt affair: the world's richest woman and the scandal that rocked Paris
- Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth - Everybody lies: big data, new data, and what the Internet can tell us about who we really are (foreword by Steven Pinker)
- Varoufakis, Yanis - Adults in the room: my battle with Europe's deep establishment
- Westaby, Stephen - Open heart: a cardiac surgeon's stories of life and death on the operating table
- Zapruder, Matthew - Why poetry
FICTION
- Bacharach, Jacob - The doorposts of your house and on your gates
- Barzini, Chiara - Things that happened before the earthquake
- Conway, Martha - The underground river
- Davis, Fiona - The address
- Davis, Lindsey - The third Nero
- Dee, Jonathan - The locals
- Galera, Daniel - The shape of bones (translated from the Portugese)
- Gowdy, Barbara - Little sister
- Gregory, Daryl - Spoonbenders
- Gregory, Philippa - The last Tudor
- Groen, Hendrik - The secret diary of Hendrik Groen (translated from the Dutch)
- Hamer, Kate - The doll funeral
- Hamilton, Omar Robert - The city always wins
- Harrison, Jamie - The widow Nash: a novel
- Ives, Lucy - Impossible views of the world (ebook available)
- Kobek, Jarett - The future won't be long
- Latin@ rising: an anthology of Latin@ science fiction and fantasy (Matthew David Goodwin, ed.)
- MacLaverty, Bernard - Midwinter break
- Maxwell, Glyn - Drinks with dead poets: a season of Poe, Whitman, Byron, and the Brontes
- Moore, Meg Mitchell - The captain's daughter: a novel
- Muñoz Molina, Antonio - Like a fading shadow
- Nadzam, Bonnie - Lions: a novel
- Nayeri, Dina - Refuge
- Nutting, Alissa - Made for love
- Perrotta, Tom - Mrs. Fletcher (ebook available)
- Platzer, Brian - Bed-Stuy is burning
- Quick, Matthew - The reason you're alive: a novel
- Quinn, Anthony - Eureka
- Quinn, Spencer - The right side
- Rooney, Sally - Conversations with friends
- Schmidt, Sarah - See what I have done
- Seiffert, Rachel - A boy in winter
- Senna, Danzy - New people
- Shamsie, Kamila - Home fire: a novel (ebook available)
- Shaw, William - The birdwatcher
- Thorpe, Adam - Missing Fay
- Van Reet, Brian - Spoils
- Vigan, Delphine de. - Based on a true story (translated from the French)
- Wilson, Christopher P. - The zoo
MYSTERIES
- Abbott, Jeff - Blame
- Austen-Leigh, Lois - The incredible crime: a Cambridge mystery*
- Bannister, Jo - Other countries*
- Bibliomysteries: crime in the world of books and bookstores (Otto Penzler, ed.)
- Bingham, Harry - The deepest grave*
- Black, Saul - LoveMurder
- Bouman, Tom - Fateful mornings: a Henry Farrell novel
- Bowen, Rhys - On her majesty's frightfully secret service
- Brookmyre, Christopher - The last hack: a Jack Parlabane thriller
- Brown, Sandra - Seeing red
- Cameron, Stella - Lies that bind: an Alex Duggins mystery*
- Camilleri, Andrea - A nest of vipers (translated from the Italian)
- Cleeves, Ann - The crow trap*
- Connolly, John - A game of ghosts
- Cotterill, Colin - The rat catchers' Olympics
- Grafton, Sue - Y is for yesterday (ebook available)
- Handler, David - The girl with kaleidoscope eyes: a Stewart Hoag mystery
- Horst, Jørn Lier - Ordeal (translated from the Norwegian)
- James, Bill - Close*
- Jones, Stephen Mack - August Snow
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Crime scene
- Kutscher, Volker - Babylon Berlin (translated from the German)
- Lange, Richard - The smack
- MacNeal, Susan Elia - The Paris spy: a Maggie Hope mystery
- Muller, Marcia - The color of fear
- Norton, Graham - Holding*
- Penny, Louise - Glass houses (ebook available)
- Peters, Elizabeth - The painted queen: an Amelia Peabody novel of suspense
- Quincy, D. M. - Murder in Mayfair: an Atlas Catesby mystery*
- Robinson, Peter - Sleeping in the ground: an Inspector Banks novel*
- Rosenfelt, David - Collared
- Roslund, Anders - Three minutes (translated from the Swedish)
- Schwegel, Theresa - The lies we tell
- Scottoline, Lisa - Exposed
- Seymour, Gerald - No mortal thing*
- Sharp, Zoë - Fox hunter
- Slaughter, Karin - The good daughter
- Storey, Erik - A promise to kill: a Clyde Barr novel
- Tanenbaum, Robert - Without fear or favor
- Thor, Brad - Use of force: a thriller
- Walker, Wendy - Emma in the night
- Woods, Stuart - Barely legal: a Herbie Fisher novel
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Lish, Gordon - White Plains: pieces & witherlings
- Roorbach, Bill - The girl of the lake: stories
- Sharma, Akhil - A life of adventure and delight: stories
- Yoon, Paul - The mountain: stories
- Zhang, Jenny - Sour heart: stories
POETRY
- Kasischke, Laura - Where now: new and selected poems
- Krieger, Dylan - Giving Godhead
See more new poetry arrivals below in the stacks
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Cameron, Sharon - The bond of the furthest apart: essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka 809 C
- Dillon, Brian - Essayism 808.4 D
- Harrison, Tony - The inky digit of defiance: Tony Harrison, selected prose 1966-2016 828 H
- Josipovici, Gabriel - The teller & the tale: essays on literature & culture, 1990-2015 824 J
- Kirsch, Adam - The global novel: writing the world in the 21st century 809.3 K
- Nelson, Deborah - Tough enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil 820.9 N
- Phillips, Adam - In writing 801 P
- Sayers, Dorothy L. - Taking detective stories seriously: the collected crime reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers 824 S
FICTION
- Dard, Frédéric - Crush (Pushkin Vertigo; translated from the French) F D
- Krzhizhanovskii, Sigizmund - The return of Munchausen (New York Review Books Classics; translated from the Russian) F K
- Majdalani, Charif - Moving the palace (translated from the French) F M
- Patchen, Kenneth, - The journal of Albion Moonlight (1961) F P
- Schwob, Marcel - The king in the golden mask (1892; translated from the French) F S
- Tanner, Louise - Miss Bannister's girls (1963) F T
POETRY
- Cortázar, Julio - Save twilight: selected poems 861 C
- MacDiarmid, Hugh - Selected poetry 821 M
- Roffman, Karin - The songs we know best: John Ashbery's early life 92 A8195 R
- Shuttle, Penelope - Will you walk a little faster? 821 S
- Watkins, Vernon Phillips - New selected poems 821 W
- What is poetry? (just kidding, I know you know): interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter, 1983-2009 821.09 W
ART
- Age of empires: art of the Qin and Han dynasties (Zhixin Jason Sun, ed.) 709.39 A
- Baum, Kelly - Rothko to Richter: mark-making in abstract painting from the collection of Preston H. Haskell 759 B
- Gibbings, Robert - The wood engravings of Robert Gibbings: with some recollections by the artist 769 G
- Sleigh, Charlotte - The paper zoo: 500 years of animals in art 574 S OVERSIZE
- Tóibín, Colm - Henry James and American painting 823 J
- Vanessa Bell (Sarah Milroy & Ian A.C. Dejardin, eds.) 759.2 B
PERFORMING ARTS
- Buckley, David - Strange fascination: David Bowie, the definitive story 780.921 B
- It happened on Broadway: an oral history of the Great White Way (Myrna Katz Frommer, Harvey Frommer) 792.0973 I
- Massimo, Richard - I got a song: a history of the Newport Folk Festival 784.4 M
- Thomson, David - Warner Bros: the making of an American movie studio 791.4 T
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Cartier-Bresson, Henri - Henri Cartier-Bresson, interviews and conversations, 1951-1998 92 C3275 C
- Ross, Henryk - Memory unearthed: the Lodz Ghetto photographs of Henryk Ross 779 R
- Young, Cynthia - We went back: photographs from Europe 1933-1956 by Chim 770 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Adamson, Peter - Philosophy in the Islamic world (A history of philosophy without any gaps volume 3) 181.5 A
- Appiah, Anthony - As if: idealization and ideals 140 A
- Ricard, Matthieu - A plea for the animals: the moral, philosophical, and evolutionary imperative to treat all beings with compassion 179 R
BIOGRAPHY
- Douglass in his own time: a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates (John Ernest, ed.) 92 D7374 D
- The incest diary 92 I36 I
- Kidd, Thomas S. - George Whitefield: America's spiritual founding father 92 W5913 K
- Markel, Howard - The Kelloggs: the battling brothers of Battle Creek 920 K2955 M
- Martinetti, Anne - Agatha: the real life of Agatha Christie 92 C55553 M
- Reyes, Emma - The book of Emma Reyes (translated from the Spanish) 92 R4575 R
ECONOMICS
- After Piketty: the agenda for economics and inequality (Heather Boushey, et al., eds.) 332 A
- Beard, Charles A. - An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States 342.73 B
- Kumekawa, Ian - The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the birth of welfare economics 330.1 K
HISTORY
- Ferguson, Robert - Scandinavians: in search of the soul of the North 948 F
- Guardino, Peter F. - The dead march: a history of the Mexican-American War 973.62 G
- Hanink, Johanna - The classical debt: Greek antiquity in an era of austerity 938 H
- Jackson, Peter - The Mongols and the Islamic world: from conquest to conversion 950 J
- Kaldellis, Anthony - Streams of gold, rivers of blood: the rise and fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade, 949.5 K
- Mintzker, Yair - The many deaths of Jew Süss: the notorious trial and execution of an eighteenth-century court Jew 943.05 M
- Morgan, Kenneth - Australia: a very short introduction 994 M
- Taylor, Nikki Marie - Driven toward madness: the fugitive slave Margaret Garner and tragedy on the Ohio 326 T
- White, Richard - The republic for which it stands: the United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (part of the Oxford History of the United States) 973.8 W
AFRICA
- Hanes, Stephanie - White man's game: saving animals, rebuilding Eden, and other myths of conservation in Africa 333.7 H
- Heywood, Linda M. - Njinga of Angola: Africa's warrior queen 967 H
- James, Lawrence - Empires in the sun: the struggle for the mastery of Africa 960 J
RUSSIA
- Clover, Charles - Black wind, white snow: the rise of Russia's new nationalism 947.086 C
- Conradi, Peter - Who lost Russia?: how the world entered a new Cold War 327.47 C
- Garrels, Anne - Putin country: a journey into the real Russia 947.086 G
- Slezkine, Yuri - The House of Government: a saga of the Russian Revolution 947.084 S
- Zygar', Mikhail - All the Kremlin's men: inside the court of Vladimir Putin 947.086 Z
IMMIGRATION
- Borjas, George J. - We wanted workers: unraveling the immigration narrative 331.6 B
- Luiselli, Valeria - Tell me how it ends: an essay in forty questions 305.23 L
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Mexico in mind: an anthology (Vintage Departures; Maria Finn, ed.) 917.2 M
- Segalen, Victor - Journey to the land of the real (China) 915.1 S
- Thomas, Edward - The south country (wood engravings by Eric Fitch Daglish; introduced by Robert Macfarlanel Little Toller Books) 914.2 T
WAR
- Bailey, Roderick - Forgotten voices Victoria Cross (oral history from London's Imperial War Museum) 355.13 B
- Faulkner, Neil - Lawrence of Arabia's war: the Arabs, the British, and the remaking of the Middle East in WWI 940.4 F
- Henderson, Bruce B. - Sons and soldiers: the untold story of the Jews who escaped the Nazis and returned with the U.S. Army to fight Hitler 940.5315 H
- Likosky, Stephan - With a weapon and a grin: postcard images of France's Black African colonial troops in WWI 940.49 L
- Matloff, Judith - No friends but the mountains: dispatches from the world's violent highlands 355 M
- Snow, Dean R. - 1777: Tipping point at Saratoga 973.33 S
- Welch, David - Persuading the people: British propaganda in World War II, 940.5488 W OVERSIZE
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Adams, John Quincy - Diaries (2 volumes; Library of America) 92 A215 A
- Graham, Mary - Presidents' secrets: the use and abuse of hidden power 353.03 G
- Obama, Barack - We are the change we seek: the speeches of Barack Obama 973.932 O
- Scruton, Roger - The meaning of conservatism 320 S
SCIENCE
- Aliens: the world's leading scientists on the search for extraterrestrial life (JIm Al-Khalili, ed.) 523.1 A
- Brannen, Peter - The ends of the world: volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions 575.7 B
- Cowen, Rob - Common ground: encounters with nature at the edges of life with a new preface 574 C
- Dawkins, Richard - Science in the soul: selected writings of a passionate rationalist 501 D
NEW YORK
- Bradley, Elizabeth L., - New York (Reaktion Books Cityscopes) 917.471 B
- Historic buildings now standing in New York, which were erected prior to eighteen hundred (published in 1914) 917.471 H
- Krinsky, John - Who cleans the park?: public work and urban governance in New York City 333.7 K
- New York in quotations (compiled by Jaqueline Mitchell) Ref. 974.71 N
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Ahmed, Sara - Living a feminist life 305.4 A
- Dodson, Angela P. - Remember the ladies: celebrating those who fought for freedom at the ballot box 324.3 D
- Haugeberg, Karissa - Women against abortion: inside the largest moral reform movement of the twentieth century 363.4 H
- Hogan, Kristen - The feminist bookstore movement: lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability 306.76 H
- Solnit, Rebecca - The mother of all questions 305.4 S
- Spruill, Marjorie Julian - Divided we stand: the battle over women's rights and family values that polarized American politics 305.4 S
AUDIO
- Ackroyd, Peter - Venice: pure city Audio-CD 945.3 A
- Gaiman, Neil - Norse mythology Lobby Audio-CD 398.2 G
- Lewis, Sinclair - It can't happen here Lobby Audio-CD L
- Roy, Arundhati - The ministry of utmost happiness Lobby Audio-CD R