October 2014
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe - Dr. Mütter's marvels: a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine
- Baxter, John, 1939- Paris at the end of the world: the City of Light during the Great War, 1914-1918
- Clarke, Stephen - Dirty Bertie: an English king made in France
- Collins, Paul - Edgar Allan Poe: the fever called living
- Corrigan, Maureen - So we read on: how The Great Gatsby came to be and why it endures
- Di Giovanni, Norman Thomas - Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and his wife: the untold story
- Drabelle, Dennis - The great American railroad war: how Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris took on the notorious Central Pacific Railroad
- Evans, Colin - The Valentino affair: the Jazz Age murder scandal that shocked New York society and gripped the world
- Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst - Word of mouth: what we talk about when we talk about food
- Findlay, Jean - Chasing lost time: the life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: soldier, spy and translator
- Greenway, H. D. S. - Foreign correspondent: a memoir
- Halbreich, Betty - I'll drink to that: a life in style, with a twist
- Holt, Terry - Internal medicine: a doctor's stories
- King, Charles - Midnight at the Pera Palace: the birth of modern Istanbul
- Kissinger, Henry - World order
- Lahr, John - Tennessee Williams: mad pilgrimage of the flesh
- Laudan, Rachel - Cuisine and empire: cooking in world history
- McAuliffe, Mary Sperling - Dawn of the Belle Epoque: the Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and their friends
- Melinek, Judy - Working stiff: two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner
- Merkin, Daphne - The fame lunches: on wounded icons, money, sex, the Brontës, and the importance of handbags
- Navai, Ramita - City of lies: love, sex, death, and the search for truth in Tehran
- Ouellette, Jennifer - Me, myself, and why: searching for the science of self
- Ruoff, Kenneth J. - Imperial Japan at its zenith: the wartime celebration of the empire's 2,600th anniversary
- Sacks, Mike - Poking a dead frog: conversations with today's top comedy writers
- Sheehy, Gail - Daring: my passages: a memoir
- Shenk, Joshua Wolf - Powers of two: finding the essence of innovation in creative pairs
- Stangneth, Bettina - Eichmann before Jerusalem: the unexamined life of a mass murderer (translated from the German)
- Tunick, Michael - The science of cheese
- Venegas, Maria - Bulletproof vest: the ballad of an outlaw and his daughter
- Wolf, Martin - The shifts and the shocks: what we've learned-- and have still to learn-- from the financial crisis
- Wright, Lawrence - Thirteen days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
FICTION
- Beukes, Lauren - Broken monsters
- Bolaño, Roberto - A little lumpen novelita (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
- Brunt, Douglas - The means
- Burton, Jessie - The miniaturist
- Cao, Lan - The lotus and the storm
- Cercas, Javier - Outlaws Javier Cercas (translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean)
- Coelho, Paulo - Adultery: a novel (translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Zoë Perry)
- Cussler, Clive - The eye of heaven
- Eve, Nomi - Henna House
- Feiffer, Jules - Kill my mother: a graphic novel
- Ferrante, Elena - Those who leave and those who stay (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein)
- Follett, Ken - Edge of eternity
- Friedman, Sanford - Conversations with Beethoven
- Gestern, Hélène - The people in the photo Hélène Gestern (translated from the French by Emily Boyce and Ros Schwartz)
- Giraldi, William - Hold the dark
- Gregory, Philippa - The king's curse
- Haynes, Natalie - The furies
- Hensher, Philip - The emperor waltz
- Hood, Ann - An Italian wife
- Howorth, Lisa - Flying shoes
- Lalami, Laila - The Moor's account
- Lapidus, Jens - Life deluxe Jens Lapidus (translated from the Swedish by Astri von Arbin Ahlander)
- Lehane, Dennis - The drop
- Mandel, Emily St. John - Station eleven
- McCullough, Colleen - Bittersweet
- McEwan, Ian - The children act
- McKeon, Darragh - All that is solid melts into air
- Mezrich, Ben - Seven wonders
- Mitchell, David - The bone clocks
- Montefiore, Santa - Secrets of the lighthouse
- Moss, Todd - The golden hour
- Moyes, Jojo - Silver Bay
- Mukherjee, Neel - The lives of others
- O'Neill, Joseph - The dog
- Parks, Tim - Painting death
- Pitre, Michael - Fives and twenty-fives
- Rojstaczer, Stuart - The mathematician's shiva
- Scalzi, John - Lock in
- Schumacher, Julie- Dear committee members
- Scott, A. D. - The low road
- Scott, Joanna- De Potter's grand tour
- Smith, Ali - How to be both
- Thomas, Matthew - We are not ourselves
- Thorpe, Rufi - The girls from Corona del Mar
- Ulinich, Anya - Lena Finkle's magic barrel: a graphic novel
- Vreeland, Susan - Lisette's list
- Waters, Sarah- - The paying guests
- Wood, Naomi - Mrs. Hemingway
MYSTERIES
- Adler, Elizabeth - Last to know
- Adler-Olsen, Jussi - The Marco effect: a Department Q novel (translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken)
- Barclay, Linwood - No safe house
- Booth, Stephen - The Corpse Bridge
- Brett, Simon - The Cinderella killer*
- Brown, Sandra - Mean streak
- Child, Lee - Personal: a Jack Reacher novel
- Dams, Jeanne M. - Day of vengeance*
- Eastland, Sam - The beast in the red forest: an Inspector Pekkala novel
- Ellroy, James - Perfidia
- Fitzgerald, Conor - Bitter remedy
- Flynn, Rory - Third rail: an Eddy Harkness novel
- French, Tana - The secret place
- Fyfield, Frances - Trial by fire: a Helen West mystery
- Goddard, Robert - The corners of the globe*
- Goldberg, Tod - Gangsterland
- Gordon-Smith, Dolores - After the exhibition: a Jack Haldean mystery*
- Gregson, J. M. - Rest assured*
- Haddam, Jane - Fighting chance: a Gregor Demarkian novel
- Hannah, Sophie - The monogram murders: the new Hercule Poirot mystery*
- Harris, Oliver - Deep shelter*
- Hay, Mavis Doriel (1894-1979) - Death on the Cherwell*
- Hay, Mavis Doriel (1894-1979) - Murder underground*
- Horst, Jorn Lier - The hunting dogs (translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce)
- Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975- - F (translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway)
- Keller, Julia. - Summer of the dead
- Kellerman, Faye - Murder 101: a Decker/Lazarus novel
- Kellerman, Jonathan - The Golem of Hollywood
- Kerr, Philip - Research
- Koenig, Minerva - Nine days
- Krajewski, Marek - The minotaur's head (translated rom the Polish by Danusia Stok)
- Lemaître, Pierre - Irène (translated from the French by Frank Wynne)
- Limón, Martin - The iron sickle
- Little, Elizabeth - Dear daughter
- Lovesey, Peter - The stone wife: a Peter Diamond investigation*
- Mankell, Henning - An event in autumn (translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson)
- Martin, Nancy - A little night murder
- McKinty, Adrian - The sun is God
- Oldham, Nick - Low profile*
- Owen, Howard - Parker Field: a Willie Black mystery
- Patterson, James - Private down under
- Perry, Anne - Blood on the water: a William Monk novel*
- Pryor, Mark - The Button man: a Hugo Marston novel
- Robb, J. D. - Festive in death
- Robinson, Peter - Abattoir blues*
- Robotham, Michael - Life or death*
- Rucka, Greg - Bravo
- Scerbanenco, Giorgio - Traitors to all (translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis)
- Shafer, David - Whiskey tango foxtrot
- Smith, Dan - Red winter
- Stanley, Kelli - City of ghosts
- Taylor, Andrew - The silent boy*
- Todd, Charles - An unwilling accomplice
POETRY
- Beckman, Joshua - The inside of an apple
- Hirsch, Edward - Gabriel: a poem
- Manning, Maurice - The gone and the going away
- Wiman, Christian - Once in the West
SHORT STORIES
- Antrim, Donald - The emerald light in the air: stories
- Earley, Tony - Mr. Tall: a novella and stories
- Redel, Victoria - Make me do things: stories
- Upton, Lee - The Tao of humiliation: stories
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Andrews, Chris - Roberto Bolaño's fiction: an expanding universe , 863 B
- Darnton, Robert - Censors at work: how states shaped literature , 323.4 D
- Dowden, Stephen D. - Understanding Thomas Bernhard , 833 B
- Ferris, David S. - The Cambridge introduction to Walter Benjamin , 838.09 B
- Koestenbaum, Wayne - My 1980s & other essays , 824 K
- The Kreutzer sonata variations: Lev Tolstoy's Novella and counterstories by Sofiya Tolstaya and Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (translated and edited by Michael R. Katz) 891.73 K
- Memories of Chekhov: accounts of the writer from his family, friends and contemporaries (edited and translated by Peter Sekirin) 92 C5157 M
POETRY
- Armitage, Simon - The last days of Troy 821 A
- Baldwin, James - Jimmy's blues and other poems 821 B
- Benn, Gottfried - Impromptus: selected poems and some prose (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann) 830.81 B
- The Cambridge companion to the poetry of the First World War (Santanu Das, ed.) 821.09 C
- Phillips, Carl - The art of daring: risk, restlessness, imagination 808.1 P
ART
- Assyria to Iberia: at the dawn of the Classical Age (Joan Aruz, et al., eds.; Metropolitan Museum of Art) 709.3 A
- Craft, Catherine - Robert Rauschenberg 709.2 R
- De Montebello, Philippe - Rendez-vous with art 701 D
- Malevich (Achim Borchardt-Hume, ed.) 759.7 M
- Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting (Martin Postle and Robin Simon, eds.) 759.2 W
- Rosewell, Roger - Medieval wall paintings in English & Welsh churches 751.1 R
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Lyon, Danny - The bikeriders 796.7 L
- Stoller, Ezra - The TWA Terminal 725.8 S
- Garry Winogrand (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 779 W
FILM
- Thomson, David - The new biographical dictionary of film (6th ed.) Ref. 791.4 T
- Wilson, Steve - The making of Gone with the wind 791.4 W
MUSIC
- Greenfield, Robert - Ain't it time we said goodbye: the Rolling Stones on the road to exile 780.921 G
- Philip, Robert - Early recordings and musical style: changing tastes in instrumental performance, 1900-1950 781 P
FICTION
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The lost decade: short stories from Esquire, 1936-1941 F F
- Hugo, Victor - The wretched (new translation) F H
- Lago, Eduardo - Call me Brooklyn F L
- Qiu, Miaojin - Last Words from Montmartre (translated from the Chinese; New York Review of Books) F Q
BOOKS & READING
- Butler, William Elliott - American bookplates 097 B
- Davidson, Jenny - Reading style: a life in sentences 809 D
- Manguel, Alberto - The traveler, the tower, and the worm: the reader as metaphor 809.3 M
- Newman, Nancy - Raising passionate readers: 5 easy steps to success in school and life 649 N
LANGUAGE
- Ayto, John - The Oxford dictionary of rhyming slang 427 A
- Epstein, Lita - If you can't say anything nice, say it in Yiddish: the book of Yiddish insults and curses 492.4 E
- Heller-Roazen, Daniel - Dark tongues: the art of rogues and riddlers 417 H
WRITING
- Brayfield, Celia - Writing historical fiction: a writers' and artists' companion 808.3 B
- Casey, John - Beyond the first draft: the art of fiction 808.3 C
- Murray, Kay - The writer's legal guide: an Authors Guild desk reference 655.6 M
BIOGRAPHY
- Barber, Lynn - A curious career 92 B2346 B
- Beller, Thomas - J.D. Salinger: the escape artist 92 S1657 B
- Hackel, Steven W. - Junípero Serra: California's founding father 92 S487 H
- Ó Catháin, Gearóid Cheaist - The loneliest boy in the world: the last child of the great Blasket Island 92 O111 O
- Turner, Brian - My life as a foreign country 92 T9455 T
HISTORY
- Bunker, Nick - An empire on the edge: how Britain came to fight America 973.31 B
- Gobetti, Ada - Partisan diary: a woman's life in the Italian Resistance 940.548 G
- Langguth, A. J. - After Lincoln: how the north won the Civil War and lost the peace 973.8 L
- Makers of modern Asia (Ramachandra Guha, ed.) 950 M
- Maynes, Mary Jo - The family: a world history 306.8 M
- Seward, Desmond - The demon's brood: a history of the Plantagenet dynasty 942.03 S
- Smith, Ryan K. - Robert Morris's folly: the architectural and financial failures of an American founder 973.3 S
ANTIQUITY
- Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith - Augustus: first emperor of Rome 92 A923 G
- Lane, M. S. - Greek and Roman political ideas 320.9 L
- Mayor, Adrienne - The Amazons: lives and legends of warrior women across the ancient world 305.4 M
PHILOSOPHY
- Adamson, Peter - Classical philosophy: a history of philosophy without any gaps, volume 1 109 A
- Cornford, Francis Macdonald - The unwritten philosophy and other essays 108 C
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Cobble, Dorothy Sue - Feminism unfinished: a short, surprising history of American women's movements 305.4 C
- Howe, Florence - A life in motion 92 H8557 H
- Russett, Cynthia Eagle - Sexual science: the Victorian construction of womanhood 305.4 R
PSYCHOLOGY
- Gold, Joel - Suspicious minds: how culture shapes madness 362.2 G
- Rottenberg, Jonathan - The depths: the evolutionary origins of the depression epidemic 616.8 R
HEALTH & MEDICINE
- Bourke, Joanna - The story of pain: from prayer to painkillers 616 B
- Emanuel, Ezekiel J. - Reinventing American health care: how the Affordable Care Act will improve our terribly complex, blatantly unjust, outrageously expensive, grossly inefficient, error prone system 362.1 E
- Hill, John, - The old man's guide to health and longer life: with rules for diet, exercise & physick for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one (first published in 1750) 612.67 H
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Baptist, Edward E. - The half has never been told: slavery and the making of American capitalism 306.3 B
- Chang, Ha-Joon - Economics: the user's guide 330 C
- Taub, Jennifer - Other people's houses: how decades of bailouts, captive regulators, and toxic bankers made home mortgages a thrilling business 332.7 T
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- McCutcheon, Chuck - Dog whistles, walk-backs, and Washington handshakes: decoding the jargon, slang, and bluster of American political speech 320.3 M
- Micklethwait, John - The fourth revolution: the global race to reinvent the state 320.1 M
- Richardson, Heather Cox - To make men free: a history of the Republican Party 324.273 R
LABOR
- Lee, Howard B. - Bloodletting in Appalachia: the story of West Virginia's four major mine wars and other thrilling incidents of its coal fields 331.89 L
- Lichtenstein, Nelson - State of the union: a century of American labor 331 L
LAW
- Ferguson, Robert A. - Inferno: an anatomy of American punishment 364.6 F
- Zirin, James D. - The mother court: tales of cases that mattered in America's greatest trial court 347.99 Z
PLACES
- Bosworth, R. J. B. - Italian Venice: a history 945.3 B
- Filiu, Jean-Pierre. - Gaza: a history 956.94 F
- Kater, Michael H. - Weimar: from Enlightenment to the present 943.2 K
- Kurkov, Andrei - Ukraine diaries: dispatches from Kiev 947.7 K
- Schürer, Norbert - Berlin 943.1 S
RELIGION
- McGinn, Bernard - Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae: a biography 208 M
- Miller, Steven P. - The age of evangelicalism: America's born-again years 277.3 M
- Veidlinger, Jeffrey - In the shadow of the shtetl: small-town Jewish life in Soviet Ukraine 305.86 V
- Wolpe, David - David: the divided heart 221.92 D
WAR
- Borowiec, Andrew - Warsaw boy: a memoir of a wartime childhood 940.548 B
- Buruma, Ian - Theater of cruelty: art, film, and the shadows of war 704 B
- Mayo, Jonathan - D-day: minute by minute 940.542 M
- Nicosia, Gerald - Home to war: a history of the Vietnam veterans' movement 973.923 N
ESPIONAGE
- Abbott, Karen - Liar, temptress, soldier, spy: four women undercover in the Civil War 920 A1325 L
- Bailey, Roderick - Target : Italy: the secret war against Mussolini, 1940-1943 : the official history of SOE operations in fascist Italy940.5485 B
- King, Melanie - Secrets in a dead fish: the spying game in the First World War 327.12 K
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Macdonald, Helen - H is for Hawk 598.2 M
- Money, Nicholas P. - The amoeba in the room: lives of the microbes 589.95 M
TECHNOLOGY
- Basile, Salvatore - Cool: how air conditioning changed everything 697 B
- Bernard, Andreas - Lifted: a cultural history of the elevator 621.8 B
- Chandra, Vikram - Geek sublime: the beauty of code, the code of beauty 005 C
NEW YORK
- Litvin, Yoav - Outdoor gallery: New York City 709.7471 L
- Martin, Justin - Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's first bohemians 920 M3833 R
- Speretta, Tommaso - Rebels rebel: AIDS, art and activism in New York, 1979-1989 709.2 S
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