New Books - September 2019
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Our women on the ground: essays by Arab women reporting from the Arab world (Zahra Hankir, ed.)
- Avineri, Shlomo - Karl Marx: philosophy and revolution
- Baker, Paul - Fabulosa!: the story of polari, Britain's secret gay language
- Broom, Sarah M. - The yellow house (ebook available)
- Buchan, Ursula - Beyond the thirty-nine steps: a life of John Buchan
- Caws, Mary Ann - Creative gatherings: meeting places of modernism
- Collins, Kathleen - Notes from a black woman's diary: selected works of Kathleen Collins
- Davis, Nancy E. - The Chinese lady: Afong Moy in early America
- Epstein, David J. - Range: why generalists triumph in a specialized world
- Fuller, Alexandra - Travel light, move fast
- Grant, James - Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Hopkins, Suzy - What to do when I'm gone: a mother's wisdom to her daughter
- King, Charles - Gods of the upper air: how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Kulick, Don - A death in the rainforest: how a language and a way of life came to an end in Papua New Guinea
- Leonard, Christopher - Kochland: the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America
- McCulloch, Gretchen - Because internet: understanding the new rules of language
- Meiser, Nadine - Marius Petipa: the emperor's ballet master
- Moody, Rick. - The long accomplishment: a memoir of hope and struggle in matrimony
- O'Neill, Tom - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the secret history of the sixties
- Onwuachi, Kwame - Notes from a young Black chef: a memoir
- Panek, Richard - The trouble with gravity: solving the mystery beneath our feet
- Pomerantsev, Peter - This is not propaganda: adventures in the war against reality
- Price, Leah - What we talk about when we talk about books: the history and future of reading
- Scorah, Amber - Leaving the witness: exiting a religion and finding a life
- Shell, Jacob, - Giants of the monsoon forest: living and working with elephants
- Smith, Jean Edward - The liberation of Paris: how Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz saved the City of Light
- Southon, Emma - Agrippina: the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Straight, Susan - In the country of women: a memoir
- Strathern, Paul - The Borgias: power and fortune
- Taddeo, Lisa - Three women
- Tolentino, Jia - Trick mirror: reflections on self-delusion (ebook available)
- Watson, Cecelia. - Semicolon: the past, present, and future of a misunderstood mark
- Weschler, Lawrence - And how are you, Dr. Sacks?: a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- Wilson, Robert - Barnum: an American life
- Winegard, Timothy C. - The mosquito: a human history of our deadliest predator
FICTION
- Caputo, Philip - Hunter's moon: a novel in stories
- Cross, H. S. - Grievous
- Davis, Fiona - The Chelsea girls: a novel
- Eisele, Kimi - The lightest object in the universe
- Frank, Dorothea Benton - Queen bee: a novel
- Ginzburg, Natalia - The dry heart (ebook available)
- Gregory, Philippa - Tidelands
- Hart, Rob - The warehouse: a novel
- Haywood, Sarah - The cactus
- Hlad, Alan. - The long flight home
- Jolly, Alice - Between the regions of kindness
- Macneal, Elizabeth - The doll factory: a novel
- Meacham, Leila - Dragonfly: a novel
- Obreht, Téa - Inland: a novel (ebook available)
- Ogawa, Yoko - The memory police: a novel
- Pears, Tim, - The redeemed
- Phillips, Helen - The need: a novel
- Roper, Richard - How not to die alone
- Russo, Richard - Chances are...
- Sachs, Adam Ehrlich - The organs of sense
- Stibbe, Nina - Reasons to be cheerful
- Williams, Beatriz - The golden hour: a novel
- Williams, Lara - Supper club: a novel
- See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section below.
MYSTERIES
- Aird, Catherine - Inheritance tracks *
- Archer, Jeffrey - Nothing ventured
- Baker, Chandler - Whisper network
- Barrett, Lorna - A killer edition
- Begley, Louis - Killer's choice
- Berry, Lucinda - The perfect child
- Bowen, Rhys - Love and death among the cheetahs
- Box, C. J. - The bitterroots: a Cassie Dewell novel
- Brown, Sandra - Outfox
- Cavanagh, Steve - Thirteen *
- Cleverly, Barbara - Invitation to die *
- Cotterill, Colin - The second biggest nothing *
- Crais, Robert - A dangerous man
- Fossum, Karin - The whisperer (translated from the Norwegian)
- Goldin, Megan - The escape room
- Handler, David - The man in the white linen suit
- Housewright, David - Dead man's mistress
- Hunter, Stephen - Game of snipers
- Imrie, Celia - A nice cup of tea
- Kavenna, Joanna - Zed *
- Keller, Julia - The cold way home
- Knox, Joseph - The sleepwalker *
- Lackey, Kris - Greasy Bend: a novel
- Lapeña, Shari - Someone we know
- Lutz, Lisa - The swallows: a novel
- McCaw, Robert B. - Off the grid: a Koa Kane Hawaiian mystery
- Nieh, Daniel - Beijing payback: a novel
- Parker, T. Jefferson - The last good guy
- Patterson, James - The inn
- Penny, Louise - A better man (ebook available)
- Pobi, Robert - City of windows
- Preston, Douglas J. - Old bones
- Robb, J. D. - Vendetta in death
- Robotham, Michael - Good girl, bad girl: a novel
- Rosenberg, Joel C. - The Persian gamble
- Sager, Riley - Lock every door: a novel
- Ware, Ruth. - The turn of the key* (ebook available)
- Woods, Stuart - Contraband
- * indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Chang, Tina - Hybrida: poems
- Laird, Nick - Feel free: poems
- Padgett, Ron - Big cabin
- Popa, Vasko - Vasko Popa: selected poems
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Beneath my feet: writers on walking (Duncan Minshull, ed.) 808.8 B
- The Dedalus book of Slovak literature (Peter Karpinský, ed.) 891.7 D
- Aigi, Gennadii - Time of gratitude (translated from the Russian by Peter France) 891.7 A
- Bautz, Annika - Jane Austen: Sense and sensibility, Pride and prejudice, Emma (Readers' guides to essential criticism) 823 A
- Benjamin, Walter - The storyteller essays, 838 B
- Bloch-Dano, Evelyne - Paper gardens: a stroll through French literature 840.9 B
- Bolick, Kate - March sisters: on life, death, and Little women 823 A
- Compagnon, Antoine - A summer with Montaigne: on the art of living well 844.09 C
- Cramer, Jeffrey S., - Solid seasons: the friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson 920 C8892 S
- Edogawa, Ranpo - The Edogawa Rampo reader (major Japanese mystery writer, mid-20th century) 895.6 E
FICTION
- Blood on the tracks (Railroad mysteries; British Library Crime Classics) F B
- Lisbon tales (translated by Amanda Hopkinson ; edited by Helen Constantine) F L
- Giono, Jean - A king alone (translated from the French; New York Review Books Classics) F G
- Hearn, Lafcadio, - Japanese tales of Lafcadio Hearn F H
- Heinesen, William - The tower at the edge of the world (translated from the Dutch) F H
- Jahnn, Hans Henny - The ship (orig. published 1949; translated from the German) F J
- Jasienski, Bruno, - I burn Paris (orig. published 1928; translated from the Polish) F J
- Lymperake, Margarita - Three summers (New York Review Books Classics; translated from the Greek) F L
- Revueltas, José - The hole (New Directions; orig. published 1969; translated from the Spanish) F R
- Scarborough, Dorothy - The wind (orig. published 1925) F S
POETRY
- Walt Whitman: the critical heritage series (criticism and reviews published during Whitman's life) 821.09 W
- Campo, Rafael - Comfort measures only: new and selected poems, 1994-2016 821 C
- Hazo, Samuel - And the time is: poems, 1958-2013 821 H
- Hill, Geoffrey - The book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin 821 H
- Nicolson, Adam - The making of poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and their year of marvels 821.09 N
- Page, P. K. - Kaleidoscope: selected poems 821 P
BOOKS & READING
- Mack, Merav - Jerusalem: city of the book 027 M
- Moore, Sean D. - Slavery and the making of early American libraries: British literature, political thought, and the transatlantic book trade, 1731-1814 027 M
LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION
- Linguistics: an introduction (Andrew Radford, ed.) 401 L
- Janson, Tore - Speak: a short history of languages 401 J
- Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter - Think again: how to reason and argue 160 S
ART
- Looking at Tintoretto with John Ruskin: a Venetian anthology (Emma Stegno, ed.) 759.5 T
- The Romare Bearden reader (Robert G. O'Meally, ed.) 709.2 B
- Acton, Mary - Learning to look at paintings 701 A
- LaBouvier, Chaédria - Basquiat's Defacement: the untold story 759.1 B
- Spiegelman, Willard - If you see something, say something: a writer looks at art 704 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Biesen, Sheri Chinen - Film censorship: regulating America's screen 791.4 B
- Cockrell, Dale - Everybody's doin' it: sex, music, and dance in New York, 1840-1917 780.973 C
- Janevski, Ana - Judson Dance Theater: the work is never done 792.8 J
- Mann, William J. - Behind the screen: how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 791.4 M
- Mordden, Ethan - On Streisand: an opinionated guide 92 S9155 M
ANTIQUITY
- Romance and reason: Islamic transformations of the classical past (Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Samuel Thrope, et al.) 909.4 R
- Women in antiquity: new assessments (Richard Hawley and Barbara Levick, eds.) 305.4 W
- Hartnett, Jeremy - The Roman street: urban life and society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome 937 H
- Quint, David - Virgil's double cross: design and meaning in the Aeneid 873.1 Q
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is available to members. See the Electronic Resources page on our website.
HISTORY
- Blyden, Nemata Amelia - African Americans and Africa: a new history 305.88 B
- Calic, Marie-Janine - The great cauldron: a history of southeastern Europe 949.6 C
- DeSantis, John - The Thibodaux massacre: racial violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike 364.1 D
- Genovese, Eugene D. - The sweetness of life: Southern planters at home 976 G
- Grant, Ulysses S. - My dearest Julia: the wartime letters of Ulysses S. Grant to his wife 973.78 G
- Grinkeviciute, Dalia - Shadows on the tundra (memoir of Lithuanian girl sent to Gulag in 1941) 940.548 G
- Hart, Bradley W. - Hitler's American friends: the Third Reich's supporters in the United States 940.5373 H
- Huber, Florian - Promise me you'll shoot yourself: the downfall of ordinary Germans, 1945 943.086 H
- Jenkinson, Matthew - Charles I's killers in America: the lives & afterlives of Edward Whalley & William Goffe 974 J
- Meyer, G. J. - The Borgias: the hidden history 920 B733 M
- Ostler, Jeffrey - Surviving genocide: native nations and the United States from the American Revolution to bleeding Kansas 970.5 O
- Tate, Tim. - Hitler's British traitors: the secret history of spies, saboteurs and Fifth Columnists 940.5486 T
MIDDLE EAST
- Brenner, Michael - In search of Israel: the history of an idea 956.94 B
- Di Cintio, Marcello - Pay no heed to the rockets: life in contemporary Palestine 956.94 D
- Lillis, Joanna - Dark shadows: inside the secret world of Kazakhstan 958 L
WAR
- Hiroshima: three witnesses (Richard H. Minear, ed.) 895.6 H
- Brown, Mike - Children in the first world war 940.342 B
- Holland, James - Normandy '44: D-Day and the epic 77-day battle for France, a new history 940.542 H
- Lacey, Jim - The Washington war: FDR's inner circle and the politics of power that won World War II 973.917 L
- Overy, R. J. - RAF: the birth of the world's first air force 940.44 O
REFUGEES
- Beer, Daniel - The house of the dead: Siberian exile under the tsars 957 B
- Kugler, Olivier - Escaping wars and waves: encounters with Syrian refugees 325.2 K OVERSIZE
- Thorpe, Nick - The road before me weeps: on the refugee route through Europe 325.2 T
- Tinti, Peter - Migrant, refugee, smuggler, savior 364.1 T
ESPIONIAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Close, F. E. - Trinity: the treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history 327.12 C
- Waller, Douglas C. - Lincoln's spies: their secret war to save a nation 973.785 W
- West, Nigel - The Circus: MI5 operations 1945-1972 355.34 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Altman, Elissa - Motherland: a memoir of love, loathing, and longing 92 A4683 A
- Conradi, Peter J. - Family business: a memoir 92 C7543 C
- Phillips, Jonathan - The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin 92 S159 P
- Preece, Julian - Günter Grass 92 G768 P
- Roll, David L. - George Marshall: defender of the republic 92 M368 R
- Watling, Sarah - Noble savages: the Olivier sisters, four lives in seven fragments (Victorian / Edwardian England) 920 O480 W
SCIENCE, HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY
- Jordan, John M. - Robots 629.2 J
- McCarthy, Matt - Superbugs: the race to stop an epidemic 616.9 M
- Neufeld, Michael J., - Spaceflight: a concise history 629.4 N
- Stanley, Matthew - Einstein's war: how relativity triumphed amid the vicious nationalism of World War I 530.1 S
- Swartz, Mimi - Ticker: the quest to create an artificial heart 617 S
GRIEF, DEATH & DYING
- Epitaphs: a dying art (Samuel Fanous, ed.) 929.5 E
- Widows' words: women write on the experience of grief, the first year, the long haul, and everything in between (Nan Bauer-Maglin, ed.) 306.8 W
- Long, Litt Woon - The way through the woods: on mushrooms and mourning 589.2 L
- Samuel, Julia - Grief works: stories of life, death and surviving 155.9 S
PHILOSOPHY
- The Stone reader: modern philosophy in 133 arguments (Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley, eds.; New York Times column) 190 S
- Van Norden, Bryan W. - Taking back philosophy: a multicultural manifesto 100 V
- Webber, Jonathan - Rethinking existentialism 111 W
LAW
- A history of intellectual property in 50 objects (Claudy Op den Kamp & Dan Hunter, eds.) 347.73 H
- Devins, Neal - The company they keep: how partisan divisions came to the Supreme Court 347.99 D
- Hemingway, Mollie Ziegler - Justice on trial: the Kavanaugh confirmation and the future of the Supreme Court 347.991 H
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Davidson, A. K. - O joy for me!: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the origins of fell-walking in the Lake District, 1790-1802 914.29 D
- Fiennes, Ranulph - Mad, bad & dangerous to know 92 F4644 F
- Lewis-Jones, Huw - The sea journal: seafarers' sketchbooks 910.4 L
- Evans, E.R.G.R. - South with Scott (published in 1921) 919.9 W
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Gilder, George F. - Life after Google: the fall of big data and the rise of the blockchain economy 338.4 G
- Moyo, Dambisa - Edge of chaos: why democracy is failing to deliver economic growth--and how to fix it 330.9 M
- Stein, Judith - Pivotal decade: how the United States traded factories for finance in the seventies 330.9 D
RELIGION
- On Islam: Muslims and the media (Rosemary Pennington and Hilary E. Kahn, eds.) 070.4 O
- Teachings of the Buddha (Jack Kornfield with Gil Fronsdal, eds.) 294 T
- Pardes, Ilana - The song of songs: a biography 223 P
- Stroumsa, Guy G. - The end of sacrifice: religious transformations in late antiquity 270 S
- Waldman, Steven - Sacred liberty: America's long, bloody, and ongoing struggle for religious freedom 322.1 W
WOMEN'S STUDIES & FEMINISM
- Cameron, Deborah - Fem·i·nism: a brief introduction to the ideas, debates, and politics of the movement 305.4 C
- Dunbar, Erica Armstrong - A fragile freedom: African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city 325.26 D
- Higashida, Cheryl - Black internationalist feminism: women writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 820.9 H
- MacKinnon, Catharine A. - Butterfly politics: changing the world for women 342.73 M
- Rowbotham, Sheila - Promise of a dream: remembering the sixties 305.4 R
- Teele, Dawn Langan - Forging the franchise: the political origins of the women's vote 324.3 T
