New Books - September 2022
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Abramitzky, Ran - Streets of gold: America's untold story of immigrant success
- Ackerman, Elliot - The fifth act: America's end in Afghanistan
- Aronowitz, Nona Willis - Bad sex: truth, pleasure, and an unfinished revolution
- Atkins, Willia - Exiles: three island journeys
- Ball, Jesse - Autoportrait
- Castillo, Elaine - How to read now: essays
- Chisholm, Edward - A waiter in Paris: adventures in the dark heart of the city
- Churchwell, Sarah Bartlett - The wrath to come: Gone with the wind and the lies America tells
- Crawford, Robert - Eliot after The waste land
- Eakin, Hugh - Picasso's war: how modern art came to America (ebook available)
- Fitzgerald, Isaac - Dirtbag, Massachusetts: a confessional
- Freedland, Jonathan - The escape artist: the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world
- Hallett, Hilary A. - Inventing the it girl: how Elinor Glyn created the modern romance and conquered early Hollywood
- Hardwick, Elizabeth - The uncollected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (ebook available)
- Hitchens, Christopher - A Hitch in time: writings from the London review of books
- Lowell, Robert - Memoirs (ebook available)
- Macy, Beth - Raising Lazarus: hope, justice, and the future of America's overdose crisis
- McElvaine, Robert S. - The times they were a-changin': 1964, the year the sixties arrived and the battle lines of today were drawn
- Mead, Walter Russell - The arc of a covenant: the United States, Israel, and the fate of the Jewish people
- Moore, Lucy - In search of us: adventures in anthropology
- Nevala-Lee, Alec - Inventor of the future: the visionary life of Buckminster Fuller
- Ramirez, Janina - Femina: a new history of the Middle Ages, through the women written out of it
- Rodgers, Mary - Shy: the alarmingly outspoken memoirs of Mary Rodgers
- Sante, Lucy - Nineteen reservoirs: on their creation and the promise of water for New York City
- Short, Philip - Putin
- Susskind, Jamie - The digital republic: on freedom and democracy in the 21st century
- Tea, Michelle - Knocking myself up: a memoir of my (in)fertility
- Tillman, Lynne - Mothercare: an autobiographical essay (ebook available)
- Vanhoenacker, Mark - Imagine a city: a pilot's journey across the urban world
- Walsh, John - Circus of dreams: adventures in the 1980s literary world
- Watson, Peter - The French mind: 400 years of romance, revolution and renewal
- Wohl, Alice Sedgwick - As it turns out: thinking about Edie and Andy (ebook available)
- Wong, Carmen Rita - Why didn't you tell me?: a memoir
FICTION
- Barnes, Julian - Elizabeth Finch: a novel (ebook available)
- Berliner, Felicia - Shmutz: a novel
- Bowen, Rhys - Where the sky begins: a novel
- Calasso, Roberto - The tablet of destinies (translated from the Italian by Tim Parks)
- Carrère, Emmanuel - Yoga (translated from the French)
- Charyn, Jerome - Big Red: a novel starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
- Chen, Kirstin - Counterfeit: a novel (ebook available)
- Donoghue, Emma - Haven: a novel (ebook available)
- Erlick, Nikki - The measure: a novel (ebook available)
- Fishman, Lillian - Acts of service: a novel
- Fofana, Sidik - Stories from the tenants downstairs
- Fowler, Therese - It all comes down to this
- Garden stories (Diana Secker Tesdell, ed.; Everyman's Pocket Classics)
- Garner, Alan - Treacle Walker
- Gospodinov, Georgi - Time shelter: a novel (translated from the Bulgarian)
- Green, George Dawes - The kingdoms of Savannah (ebook available)
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak - Afterlives (ebook available)
- Hafner, Katie - The boys (ebook available)
- Hamid, Mohsin - The last white man (ebook available)
- Holsinger, Bruce W. - The displacements (ebook available)
- Karunatilaka, Shehan - The seven moons of Maali Almeida
- Kelman, James - God's teeth and other phenomena
- Lambert, Kevin - Querelle of Roberval: a syndical fiction (translated from the French)
- Macomber, Debbie - The best is yet to come: a novel
- Major, Clarence - Thunderclouds in the forecast: a novel
- Marra, Anthony - Mercury Pictures presents: a novel (ebook available)
- Mortimer, Maddie - Maps of our spectacular bodies
- Mueller, Cookie - Walking through clear water in a pool painted black: collected stories
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Babysitter (ebook available)
- Okparanta, Chinelo - Harry Sylvester Bird
- Okri, Ben - Astonishing the gods
- Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson - Touch: a novel (ebook available)
- Onuzo, Chibundu - Sankofa: a novel
- Osborne, Lawrence - On Java Road: a novel (ebook available)
- Pook, Lizzie - Moonlight and the pearler's daughter
- Pulley, Natasha - The half life of Valery K: a novel
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich - Peter the Great's African: experiments in prose (translated from the Russian; NYRB Classics)
- Schwartz, Selby Wynn - After sappho
- Steel, Danielle - Suspects: a novel
- Stott, Rebecca - Dark earth: a novel
- Thompson, Jean - The poet's house: a novel
- Thornton, Jeanne - Summer fun
- Wayne, Teddy - The great man theory: a novel
- Wiggins, Marianne - Properties of thirst: a novel (ebook available)
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Billingham, Mark - The murder book (ebook available)
- Bradby, Tom - Yesterday's spy *
- Child, Lincoln - Chrysalis: a thriller
- Coulter, Catherine - Reckoning: an FBI thriller
- De Giovanni, Maurizio - Bread for the bastards of Pizzofalcone (translated from the Italian)
- Dugoni, Robert - What she found
- Fesperman, Dan - Winter work
- Glass, Ava - Alias Emma: a novel *
- Hartstone, Joey - The local: a legal thriller (ebook available)
- Hillier, Jennifer - Things we do in the dark
- Isaka, Kōtarō - Three assassins: a novel (translated from the Japanese)
- Mann, Michael - Heat 2: a novel
- Martin, Madeline - The librarian spy: a novel of World War II
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The sweet remnants of summer (ebook available)
- Mead, Tom - Death and the conjuror
- Mina, Denise - Confidence (ebook available)
- Miranda, Megan - The last to vanish: a novel (ebook available)
- Mo, Johanna - The shadow lily (ebook available)
- Montclair, Allison - The unkept woman*
- Murphy, Dwyer - An honest living (ebook available)
- Nieh, Daniel - Take no names: a novel
- Onda, Riku - Fish swimming in dappled sunlight (translated from the Japanese)
- Pearse, Sarah - The retreat*
- Pryor, Mark - Die around sundown
- Scrivenor, Hayley - Dirt Creek
- Slaughter, Karin - Girl, forgotten: a novel (ebook available)
- Thor, Brad - Rising tiger: a thriller
- Thorogood, Robert - The Marlow Murder Club: a novel*
- Toyne, Simon - Dark objects: a novel*
- Walker, Martin - To kill a troubadour (ebook available)
- Ware, Ruth - The it girl* (ebook available)
POETRY
- Jones, Gayl - Song for Almeyda; & Song for Anninho
- O'Brien, Dan - Our cancers: a chronicle in poems
- Smith, Tracy K. - Such color: new and selected poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Diallo, Bakary - White war, Black soldiers: two African accounts of World War I
- Garrow, Duncan - The world of Stonehenge
- Matthews, Mildred Shapley - Shapley's round table: a memoir by the astronomer's daughter
- Tucher, Andie - Not exactly lying: fake news and fake journalism in American history
- Whitehead, Hal - The cultural lives of whales and dolphins
IN THE STACKS
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
- Di Prima, Diane - Spring and autumn annals: a celebration of the seasons for Freddie 828 S
- Drucker, Johanna - Inventing the alphabet: the origins of letters from antiquity to the present 411 D
- Hackett, Helen - The Elizabethan mind: searching for the self in an age of uncertainty 820.9 H
- Indiana, Gary - Fire season: selected essays 1984-2021 824 I
- Oliver, Mariana - Migratory birds (essays translated from the Spanish) 864 O
- Robertson, Eric - Blaise Cendrars: the invention of life 92 C3954 R
- The Routledge reader in Caribbean literature (Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, eds.) 820.8 R
- Sattelmeyer, Robert - Thoreau's reading: a study in intellectual history with bibliographical catalogue 828.09 S
- Shields, David - The very last interview 828 S
- Wilk, Elvia - Death by landscape: essays 824 W
- Yaguello, Marina - Imaginary languages: myths, utopias, fantasies, illusions, and linguistic fictions 408.9 Y
FICTION
- Armstrong, Charlotte - The unsuspected (Otto Penzler American Mystery Classics reprint of 1946 novel) F A
- Into the London fog: eerie tales from the weird city (Elizabeth Dearnley, ed.) F I
- Joyce, James - Ulysses: an illustrated edition (illustrated by Eduardo Arroyo) F J OVERSIZE
- Marechera, Dambudzo - House of hunger (1978 classic from Zimbabwean writer) F M
- Miłoszewski, Zygmunt - Priceless (2018 art heist thriller translated from the Polish) F M
- Nganang, Alain Patrice - When the plums are ripe (2019 novel by Cameroonian / American author; translated from the French) F N
- Shades of Black: crime and mystery stories by African-American authors (Eleanor Taylor Bland, ed.) F S
- Tiller, Carl Frode - Encircling (novels II & III in the trilogy; translated from the Norwegian) F T
POETRY
- Brathwaite, Kamau - Trench Town rock 821 B
- Hong, Cathy Par - Engine empire 821 H
- Mayer, Bernadette - Midwinter day 821 M
- Swett, Katherine - Twenty-one 821 S
BOOKS & READING
- Lambert, Joshua N. - The literary mafia: Jews, publishing, and postwar American literature 070.5 L
- Tichenor, Irene - The dean of American printers: Theodore Low De Vinne and the art preservative of all arts 655.1 T
- Words on pictures: Romana Javitz and the New York Public Library's Picture Collection (Anthony T. Troncale, ed.) 026 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Alpert, Avram - The good-enough life 158 A
- Beauvoir, Simone de - Diary of a philosophy student volume 2 (1928-1929) 92 B3862 B
- Geuss, Raymond - Who needs a world view? 140 G
RELIGION
- Fortson, S. Donal - The Presbyterian story: origins & progress of a Reformed tradition 285 F
- Friedrich, Marku - The Jesuits: a history 271 F
- Laozi - Tao te ching: a book about the way and the power of the way (an English version by Ursula K. Le Guin) 299.51 L
- Moorman, John R.H. - A history of the Church in England 274.2 M
- Varden, Erik - Entering the twofold mystery: on Christian conversion 248 V
ART
- Braude, Mark - Kiki Man Ray: art, love, and rivalry in 1920s Paris 709.2 K
- Burn, Gordon - Sex & violence, death & silence: encounters with recent art 709.04 B
- Hemingway, Seán - How to read Greek sculpture 733 H
- Ringgold, Faith - Faith Ringgold: politics power 709.73 R
- The Soul of a nation reader: writings by and about Black American artists, 1960-1980 (Mark Godfrey and Allie Biswas, ed.) 704.73 S
- Uglow, Jenny - Sybil & Cyril: cutting through time 769 U
- Whistler to Cassatt: American painters in France (Timothy J. Standring, ed.) 759.1 W
PERFORMING ARTS
- Auiler, Dan - Vertigo: the making of a Hitchcock classic 791.4 A
- Burnham, Scott G. - Beethoven hero 780.92 B
- Dyer, Geoff - Broadsword calling Danny Boy: watching where eagles dare 791.4 D
- English, T. J. - Dangerous rhythms: jazz and the underworld 780.973 E
- Mauceri, John - The war on music: reclaiming the twentieth century 780.9 M
- Strohl, Matthew S. - Why it's OK to love bad movies 791.4 S
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Campbell, James - Just go down to the road 92 C1878 C
- Collins, Sheila D. - Ubuntu: George M. Houser and the struggle for peace and freedom on two continents (civil rights activist, founder of Congress of Racial Equality) 92 H84256 C
- De Veaux, Alexis - Warrior poet: a biography of Audre Lorde 92 L8673 D
- Green, Tara T. - Love, activism, and the respectable life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson 92 D8997 G
- Hauser, CJ - The crane wife: a memoir in essays (ebook available) 92 H3754 H
- Hoogenboom, Ari Arthur - Rutherford B. Hayes: warrior and president 92 H4184 H
- Hutton, Ronald - The making of Oliver Cromwell 92 C9464 H
- Patterson, James - James Patterson by James Patterson: the stories of my life 92 P3175 P
HISTORY
- Ackroyd, Peter - The history of England (Volume VI, Innovation) 942.082 A
- Belich, James - The world the plague made: the Black Death and the rise of Europe 940.1 B
- Carruthers, Susan L. - Dear John: love and loyalty in wartime America 355.1 C
- Dolin, Eric Jay - Rebels at sea: privateering in the American Revolution 973.35 D
- Galeotti, Mark - A short history of Russia: how the world's largest country invented itself, from the pagans to Putin 947 G
- Lawrence, Anne T. - On dark and bloody ground: an oral history of the West Virginia mine wars 331.89 L
- Mazzeo, Tilar J. - Sisters in resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis 940.5485 M
- Morgan, Francesca - A nation of descendants: politics and the practice of genealogy in U.S. history 929.1 M
- Morris, Ian - Geography is destiny: Britain and the world: a 10,000-year history 942 M
- Plymouth colony: narratives of English settlement and native resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's war (Lisa Brooks and Kelly Wisecup, editors; Library of America) 973 P
- Restall, Matthew - The Maya: a very short introduction 972 R
- Robertson, Angus - The crossroads of civilization: a history of Vienna 943.6 R
- Rogoziński, Jan - A brief history of the Caribbean: from the Arawak and the Carib to the present 972.9 R
- Sinay, Javier - The murders of Moisés Ville: the rise and fall of the Jerusalem of South America 982 S
- Vijayan, Suchitra - Midnight's borders: a people's history of modern India 954 V
ANTIQUITY
- Mayor, Adrienne - Flying snakes & griffin claws: and other classical myths, historical oddities, and scientific curiosities 398 M
- The Codex Nuttall: a picture manuscript from ancient Mexico: the Peabody Museum facsimile 757.1 C
SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL HISTORY
- Cheyette, Bryan - The ghetto: a very short introduction 307 C
- Deloria, Philip Joseph - Playing Indian 305.89 D
- Hebdige, Dick - Subculture: the meaning of style 306.4 H
- Kumar, Krishan - Empires: a historical and political sociology 325.3 K
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Bauer, Robert F. - After Trump: reconstructing the presidency 353.03 B
- Dorrien, Gary J. - American democratic socialism: history, politics, religion, and theory 335 D
- Gleijeses, Piero - America's road to empire: foreign policy from independence to World War One 327.73 G
- McMaster, H. R. - Battlegrounds: the fight to defend the free world 327.73 M
- Specter, Matthew G. - The Atlantic realists: empire and international political thought between Germany and the United States 327 S
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Koyama, Mark - How the world became rich: the historical origins of economic growth 339 K
- Menand, Lev - The Fed unbound: central banking in a time of crisis 332.1 M
MATH
- Nirenberg, David - Uncountable: a philosophical history of number and humanity from antiquity to the present 510 N
- Wilkinson, Alec - A divine language: learning algebra, geometry, and calculus at the edge of old age 510 W
NATURAL HISTORY
- Brusatte, Stephen - The rise and reign of the mammals: a new history, from the shadow of the dinosaurs to us 569 B
- Martin, Simon - Drawn to nature: Gilbert White and the artists 574 M
- Rawlence, Ben - The treeline: the last forest and the future of life on earth 582 R
