November 2013 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Bass, Gary Jonathan - The blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide
- Bennoune, Karima - Your fatwa does not apply here: untold stories from the fight against Muslim fundamentalism
- Berthoud, Ella - The novel cure: from abandoment to zestlessness : 751 books to cure what ails you
- Brombert, Victor - Musings on mortality: from Tolstoy to Primo Levi
- Bryson, Bill - One summer: America, 1927
- Buruma, Ian - Year zero: a history of 1945
- Bushkin, Henry - Johnny Carson
- Cope, Tim - On the trail of Genghis Khan: an epic journey through the land of the nomads
- Crouch, Stanley - Kansas City lightning: the rise and times of Charlie Parker
- Elledge, Jim - Henry Darger, throwaway boy: the tragic life of an outsider artist
- Ferling, John E. - Jefferson and Hamilton: the rivalry that forged a nation
- Finkel, David - Thank you for your service
- Geimer, Samantha - The girl: a life in the shadow of Roman Polanski
- Gladwell, Malcolm - David and Goliath: underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants
- Harris, Robin - Not for turning: the life of Margaret Thatcher
- Hoffman, Alice - Survival lessons
- Kraus, Karl - The Kraus project: essays (translated from the German and edited by Jonathan Franzen, with Paul Reitter & Daniel Kehlmann)
- Labor, Earle - Jack London: an American life
- Lepore, Jill - Book of ages: the life and opinions of Jane Franklin
- Lower, Wendy - Hitler's Furies: German women in the Nazi killing fields
- Mandis, Steven G. - What happened to Goldman Sachs?: an insider's story of organizational drift and its unintended consequences
- Matthews, Christopher - Tip and the Gipper: when politics worked
- Minutaglio, Bill - Dallas 1963
- Plante, David - Becoming a Londoner: a diary
- Ravitch, Diane - Reign of error: the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America's public schools
- Robb, Graham - The discovery of Middle Earth: mapping the lost world of the Celts
- Rybczynski, Witold - How architecture works: a humanist's toolkit
- Shapiro, Dani - Still writing: the pleasures and perils of a creative life
- Sontag, Susan - Susan Sontag: the complete Rolling Stone interview (w/ Jonathan Cott)
- Spar, Debora L - Wonder women: sex, power, and the quest for perfection
- Sutherland, John - A little history of literature
- Teachout, Terry - Duke: a life of Duke Ellington
- Weisman, Alan - Countdown: our last, best hope for a future on Earth?
FICTION
- Alarcón, Daniel - At night we walk in circles: a novel
- Baker, Jo - Longbourn
- Boyd, William - Solo: a James Bond novel
- Brook, Rhidian - The aftermath
- Catton, Eleanor - Luminaries: a novel
- Chiaverini, Jennifer - The spymistress: a novel
- Coe, Jonathan - Expo 58
- Cullen, Lynn - Mrs. Poe
- Danticat, Edwidge - Claire of the sea light
- Dolnick, Ben - At the bottom of everything
- Drabble, Margaret - The pure gold baby
- Dubus, Andre - Dirty love
- Eggers, Dave - The Circle: a novel
- Ferrante, Elena - The story of a new name: book two of the Neapolitan novels (translated from the Italian)
- Fielding, Helen - Bridget Jones: mad about the boy
- Forna, Aminatta - The hired man
- Franklin, Tom - The tilted world
- Gilbert, Elizabeth - The signature of all things
- Harding, Paul - Enon: a novel
- McFarlane, Fiona - The night guest
- Patterson, Richard North - Loss of innocence
- Segal, Lore Groszmann - Half the kingdom
- Simsion, Graeme C - The Rosie project
- Sjón - The whispering muse (translated from the Icelandic)
- Tartt, Donna - The goldfinch
- Taylor, D. J - The Windsor faction
MYSTERIES
- Arjouni, Jakob - Brother Kemal: a Kayankaya thriller (translated from the German)
- Benn, James R - A blind goddess: a Billy Boyle World War II mystery
- Deaver, Jeffery - The October list: a novel in reverse, with photographs by the author
- Delaney, Luke - The keeper*
- George, Elizabeth - Just one evil act*
- Hall, Patricia - Dressed to kill*
- Hermanson, Marie - The devil's sanctuary
- Hillerman, Anne - Spider woman's daughter
- Inherit the dead: a novel (by by Mark Billingham, Lawrence Block, C.J. Box, Ken Bruen, Alafair Burke, Stephen L. Carter, Marcia Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, Max Allan Collins, John Connolly, James Grady, Heather Graham, Bryan Gruley, Charlaine Harris, Val McDermid, S.J. Rozan, Jonathan Santlofer, Dana Stabenow, Lisa Unger, Sarah Weinman ; edited by Jonathan Santlofer ; with an introduction by Lee Child and an afterword by Linda Fairstein)
- Mayor, Archer - Three can keep a secret: a Joe Gunther novel
- Milton, Nina - In the moors: a shaman mystery*
- Moody, Susan - A final reckoning*
- Nesbø, Jo - Police
- O'Connor, Jane - Almost true confessions: closet sleuth spills all
- Paretsky, Sara - Critical mass
- Parker, Robert B - Silent night: a Spenser Holiday novel (w/ Helen Brann)
- Pelecanos, George P - The double: a novel
- Robinson, Peter - Children of the revolution*
- Rosenheim, Andrew - The Little Tokyo informant
- Rowland, Laura Joh - The Shogun's daughter: a novel of Feudal Japan
- Sandford, John - Storm front
- Sundstøl, Vidar - The land of dreams (translated from the Norwegian)
- Turow, Scott - Identical
- Wilson, Valerie Plame - Blowback: a Vanessa Pierson novel
- Woods, Stuart - Doing hard time
* indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Barbash, Tom - Stay up with me: stories
- Barry, Kevin - Dark lies the island: stories
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - T.C. Boyle stories II: the collected stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle
- The O. Henry prize stories 2013 (chosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman)
POETRY
- Bly, Robert - Stealing sugar from the castle: selected poems, 1950 to 2013
- Oliver, Mary - Dog songs: thirty-five dog songs and one essay
- Voigt, Ellen Bryant - Headwaters: poems
More new poetry books in the stacks.
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Borges, Jorge Luis - Borges at eighty: conversations 92 B7322 B
- Bulgakov, Mikhail - Mikhail Bulgakov: diaries and selected letters 92 B9333 B
- Cohn, Ruby - A Beckett canon 822.09 B
- Frye, Steven - Understanding Cormac McCarthy 823 M
- Ingham, Patricia - The Brontës (writers in context) 823.08 I
- Kiely, Robert - Robert Louis Stevenson and the fiction of adventure 823 S
- The legacy of David Foster Wallace (Samuel Cohen & Lee Konstantinou, eds.) 823 W
- Loehlin, James N - The Cambridge introduction to Chekhov 891.73 C
- Marsden, Richard - The Cambridge Old English reader 429 M
- Pavel, Thomas G - The lives of the novel: a history 809.3 P
- Poe in his own time: a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates (Benjamin F. Fischer, ed.) 92 P743 P
POETRY
- Beachy-Quick, Dan - A brighter word than bright: Keats at work 821.09 K
- Desnos, Robert - Essential poems and writings of Robert Desnos (translated from the French; Mary Ann Caws, ed.) 848.08 D
- Drury, John - Music at midnight: the life and poetry of George Herbert 92 H536 D
- Graves, Robert - Selected poems 821 G
- Homer - The Odyssey (newly translated by Stephen Mitchell) 883.1 H
- MacGill-Eain, Somhairle - Sorley MacLean: collected poems in Gaelic with English translations 891.6 M
- Prévert, Jacques - Préversities: a Jacques Prévert sampler (translated from the French; Norman R. Shapiro, ed.) 841 P
- Ruefle, Mary - Trances of the blast 821 R
ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
- Artman, E. Townsend - Toasters, 1909-1960: a look at the ingenuity and design of toaster makers 643 A OVERSIZE
- Costello, Eileen - Brice Marden 759.1 M
- Fensterstock, Ann - Art on the block: tracking the New York art world from Soho to the Bowery, Bushwick and beyond 709.7471 F
- Garvin, Alexander - The planning game: lessons from great cities 711 G
- Hotel Texas: an art exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy 708.1 H
- Loos, Adolf - Ornament and crime: selected essays (translated from the German) 745 L
- Magritte, René - Magritte: the mystery of the ordinary, 1926-1938 759.93 M
- Sed-Rajna, Gabrielle - Ancient Jewish art: East and West 704.948 S OVERSIZE
- Sollo, John - Miller's American insider's guide to twentieth-century furniture 749.2 S
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BIOGRAPHIES, MEMOIRS, LETTERS
- Carroll, Sean B - Brave genius: a scientist, a philosopher, and their daring adventures from the French resistance to the Nobel Prize (Albert Camus & Jacques Monod) 920 C31997 B
- Jeansonne, Glen - The life of Herbert Hoover: fighting Quaker, 1928-1933 92 H7894 J
- Prochaska, F. K - The memoirs of Walter Bagehot (an imagined memoir) 92 B1446 P
- Raphael, Frederic - There and then: personal terms 6 92 R2170 R
- Thoreau, Henry David - The correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau 92 T488 T
- Woolrich, Cornell - Blues of a lifetime: the autobiography of Cornell Woolrich 92 W915 W
MUSIC & DANCE
- Budden, Julian - Verdi 780.92 V
- Kaskowitz, Sheryl - God bless America: the surprising history of an iconic song 784.71 K
- Tchernichova, Elena - Dancing on water: a life in ballet, from the Kirov to the ABT 92 T2518 T
FILM
- Maltin, Leonard - Leonard Maltin's movie guide 2014: the modern era HBR 791.4 L
- San Juan, Eric - Hitchcock's villains: murderers, maniacs, and mother issues 791.4 S
- Thomson, David - Moments that made the movies 791.4 T
EDUCATION
- Edmundson, Mark - Why teach?: in defense of a real education 378 E
- Owens, John - Confessions of a bad teacher: the shocking truth from the front lines of American public education 371.2 O
PHILOSOPHY
- Althusser, Louis - Machiavelli and us 320.1 M
- Berlin, Isaiah - Building: letters 1960-1975 92 B5152 B
- Diogenes - Sayings and anecdotes: with other popular moralists 808.8 D
- Gollner, Adam - The book of immortality: the science, belief, and magic behind living forever 129 G
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Minsky, Hyman P - Ending poverty: jobs, not welfare 338.973 M
- Pak, Susie - Gentlemen bankers: the world of J. P. Morgan 332.1 P
- Phelps, Edmund S - Mass flourishing: how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change 330.9 P
- Stockman, David Alan - The great deformation: the corruption of capitalism in America 330.973 S
ANIMALS
- Bradshaw, John - Cat sense: how the new feline science can make you a better friend to your pet 636.8 B
- Cocker, Mark - Birds and people 598.2 C OVERSIZE
- Gershwin, Lisa-Ann - Stung!: on jellyfish blooms and the future of the ocean 591.92 G
- MacNeice, Louis - Zoo 590.7 M
- Saulitis, Eva - Into great silence: a memoir of discovery and loss among vanishing orcas 599 S
RELIGION
- Cooper, Kate - Band of angels: the forgotten world of early Christian women 261.8 C
- Dubler, Joshua - Down in the chapel: religious life in an American prison 365 D
- Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah - The devil that never dies: the rise and threat of global antisemitism 296.9 G
- Harris, Ruth - Lourdes: body and spirit in the secular age 282.44 H
- Jenkins, Philip - Mystics and messiahs: cults and new religions in American history 291 J
- Nahum: a new translation with introduction and commentary 224 B
SOCIOLOGY
- Axelrod, Robert M - The evolution of cooperation 302.3 A
- Contreras, Randol - The stickup kids: race, drugs, violence, and the American dream 363.45 C
- Della Casa, Giovanni - Galateo, or, The rules of polite behavior 395 D
- Grayling, A. C - Friendship 302.3 G
- Quarmby, Katharine - No place to call home: inside the real lives of gypsies and travellers 942.085 Q
- Triendl-Zadoff, Mirjam - Next year in Marienbad: the lost worlds of Jewish spa culture 613.1 T
WAR
- Buttar, Prit - Battleground Prussia: the assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-1945 940.542 B
- David, Saul - 100 days to victory: how the Great War was fought and won 940.3 D
- Hattaway, Herman - How the North won: a military history of the Civil War 973.74 H
- Lidegaard, Bo - Countrymen 940.5318 L
- Mitter, Rana - Forgotten ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 951 M
- Nurses at the front: writing the wounds of the Great War (Margaret R. Higonnet, ed.) 940.476 N
HISTORY
- Bloom, Clive - Victoria's madmen: revolution and alienation 942.08 B
- Dale, Stephen Frederic - The Muslim empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals , 955 D
- Dennison, Matthew - The twelve Caesars: the dramatic lives of the emperors of Rome 937.06 D
- Dikötter, Frank - The tragedy of liberation: a history of the Chinese revolution, 1945-1957 951 D
- El-Hai, Jack - The Nazi and the psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a fatal meeting of minds at the end of WWII 943.086 E
- Farge, Arlette - The allure of the archives 907 F
- Galeano, Eduardo - Children of the days: a calendar of human history 902 G
- Heather, P. J - The restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and imperial pretenders 940.1 H
- Johnson, Martin P - Writing the Gettysburg Address 973.7 J
- Lukacs, John - A short history of the twentieth century 909.82 L
- Matthews, Owen - Glorious misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the dream of a Russian America 947 M
- Muehlberger, James P - The lost cause: the trials of Frank and Jesse James 364 M
- The Oxford companion to Scottish history (Michael Lynch, ed.) 941 O
- Romer, John - A history of ancient Egypt: from the first farmers to the Great Pyramid 932 R
- Skidmore, Chris - Bosworth: the birth of the Tudors 942.05 S
- Taylor, Alan - The internal enemy: slavery and war in Virginia, 1772-1832 975.5 T
- Taylor, Keith Weller - A history of the Vietnamese 959 T
- Tinniswood, Adrian - The Rainborowes: one family's quest to build a new England 920 R154 T
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INTELLIGENCE & ESPIONAGE
- Milton, Giles - Russian roulette: a deadly game: how British spies thwarted Lenin's global plot 947.084 M
- Prados, John - The family jewels: the CIA, secrecy, and presidential power 327.12 P
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Becker, Elizabeth - Overbooked: the exploding business of travel and tourism 338.4 B
- Deák, Gloria-Gilda - Passage to America: celebrated European visitors in search of the American adventure 917.3 D
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh - The broken road: from the iron gates to Mount Athos 914.96 F
- Grange, Kevin - Beneath blossom rain: discovering Bhutan on the toughest trek in the world 796.52 G
- Lowe, George - The conquest of Everest: original photographs from the legendary first ascent 796.52 L
NEW YORK
- Alpers, Svetlana - Roof life 92 A4563 A
- Barron, Jeannette Montgomery - Scene (1980s downtown) 779 B
- DeArment, Robert K - Gunfighter in Gotham: Bat Masterson's New York City years 92 M4239 D
- Fogelson, Robert M - The great rent wars: rent strikes and rent control in New York City, 1917-1929 974.71 F
AUDIO
- Graves, Robert - Claudius the god and his wife Messalina Audio-CD G
- Wodehouse, P. G - Aunts aren't gentlemen Lobby Audio-CD W
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