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New Books – January 2025
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Bostridge, Mark - In pursuit of love: the search for Victor Hugo's daughter
- Brainard, Joe - Love, Joe: the selected letters of Joe Brainard
- Bruno, Stephen - Building material: the memoir of a Park Avenue doorman
- Castor, Helen - The eagle and the hart: the tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
- Cher - Cher: the memoir.
- Chung, Connie - Connie: a memoir
- Clinton, Bill - Citizen: my life after the White House
- Cloepfil, Georgia - The striker and the clock: on being in the game
- Cosgrove, Elliot J. - For such a time as this: on being Jewish today
- Fletcher, Catherine - The roads to Rome: a history of imperial expansion
- French, Paul - Her lotus year: China, the roaring twenties, and the making of Wallis Simpson
- Gilbert, Julie Goldsmith - Giant love: Edna Ferber, her best-selling novel of Texas, and the making of a classic American film
- Hutton, Robert - The illusionist: the true story of the man who fooled Hitler
- Jähner, Harald - Vertigo: the rise and fall of Weimar Germany
- Kaplan, Bruce Eric - They went another way: a Hollywood memoir
- LaBrie, Sarah - No one gets to fall apart: a memoir
- Laux, Dorianne - Finger exercises for poets
- Moss, Sarah - My good bright wolf: a memoir
- Munson, Richard - Ingenious: a biography of Benjamin Franklin, scientist
- Nagle, Rebecca - By the fire we carry: the generations-long fight for justice on Native land
- O'Neill, Tracy - Woman of interest: a memoir
- Robey, Tim - Box office poison: Hollywood's story in a century of flops
- Smyth, Adam - The book-makers: a history of the book in eighteen lives
- Weber, Nicholas Fox - Mondrian: his life, his art, his quest for the absolute
FICTION
- Baltasar, Eva - Mammoth
- Barker, Pat - The voyage home: a novel
- Barr, Lisa - The goddess of Warsaw: a novel
- Bayard, Louis - The Wildes: a novel in five acts
- Bieker, Chelsea - Madwoman: a novel
- Bonomini, Angel - The novices of Lerna
- Bowles, Mark - All my precious madness
- Boyd, William - Gabriel's moon: a novel
- Brown, Garet - The book of doors: a novel
- Chronister, Kay - The bog wife: a novel
- Dale, Celia - A spring of love
- Davis, Lydia - Our strangers
- Fu, Mike - Masquerade: a novel
- Hadley, Tessa - The party
- Harris, Joanne - The moonlight market
- Houellebecq, Michel - Annihilation: a novel
- Joella, Ethan - The same bright stars: a novel
- Kawaguchi, Toshikazu - Before we forget kindness: a novel
- Kinsky, Esther - Seeing further
- Kracht, Christian - Eurotrash: a novel
- Montale, Eugenio - Butterfly of Dinard
- Murakami, Haruki - The city and its uncertain walls
- Noble, Shelley - The Colony Club: a novel
- Peace, David - Munichs: a novel
- Sallis, James - Bright segments
- Sebastian, Cat - You should be so lucky: a novel
- Suzuki, Izumi - Set my heart on fire: a novel
- Tawada, Yōko - Suggested in the stars
- Tuck, Lily - The rest is memory: a novel
- Tulathimutte, Tony - Rejection: fiction
- Xi Xi - Mourning a breast
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Adams, Ellery - The little lost library
- Baldacci, David - To die for
- Copenhaver, John - Hall of mirrors
- Eight very bad nights: a collection of Hanukkah noir
- Evanovich, Janet - Now or never: thirty-one on the run
- Graves, Sydney - The Arizona triangle
- Hughes, Dorothy B. - The fallen sparrow
- Klavan, Andrew - A woman underground
- Locke, Attica - Guide me home
- Mavity, Nancy Barr - The tule marsh murder
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The Great Hippopotamus Hotel
- Rendon, Marcie R. - Where they last saw her: a novel
- Roberts, Nora - The mirror
- Schultz, Emily - Brooklyn kills me
- Score, Lucy - The dead guy next door
- Smith, Sally - A case of mice and murder
- Yokomizo, Seishi - The little sparrow murders
POETRY
- Contraflow: lines of Englishness, 1922-2022
- Seidel, Frederick - So what: [poems]
- Tuffaha, Lena Khalaf - Something about living
BOOK COMMITTEE
- Carter, Katherine - Churchill's citadel: Chartwell and the gatherings before the storm
- Mullaney, Thomas S - The Chinese computer: a global history of the information age
OVERSIZE
- Atlas of Brutalist architecture
- Belle da Costa Greene: a librarian's legacy
- Manet, Édouard - Manet: a model family
- McGurk, Caitlin - Tell me a story where the bad girl wins: the life and art of Barbara Shermund
- Murray, James T - Great bars of New York City: 30 of Manhattan's favorite storied drinking establishments
- Netto, David - Rosario Candela & the New York apartment, 1927-1937
- Omen: phantasmagoria at the Farm Security Administration Archive 1935-1942: excavations at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of the New York Public Library
- Siena: the rise of painting, 1300-1350
IN THE STACKS
FICTION
- De Céspedes, Alba - Her side of the story: a novel F D
- Kawaguchi, Toshikazu - Before the coffee gets cold: a novel F K
- Kawaguchi, Toshikazu - Before we say goodbye: a novel F K
- Kawaguchi, Toshikazu - Before your memory fades: a novel F K
- Kawaguchi, Toshikazu - Tales from the cafe: a novel F K
- Sullivan, Connor - Wolf trap: a thriller F S
- Wagamese, Richard - Ragged company F W
- Webb, Brandon - Blind fear: a thriller F W
ESSAYS
- Campo, Cristina - The unforgivable: and other writings 854 C
- Killian, Kevin - Selected Amazon reviews 828 K
- Noonan, Peggy - A certain idea of America: selected writings 973 N
BIOGRAPHY
- Dunkle, Iris Jamahl - Riding like the wind: the life of Sanora Babb 92 B1119 D
- Golani, Moṭi - Chaim Weizmann: a biography 92 W436 G
MEMOIRS
- Lee, Gypsy Rose - Gypsy 92 L47825 L
- Nádas, Péter - Shimmering details: a memoir 92 N1314 N
- Zweibel, Alan - Laugh lines: my life helping funny people be funnier: a cultural memoir 92 Z971 Z
WOMEN’S HISTORY
- Howes, Hetta - Poet, mystic, widow, wife: the extraordinary lives of medieval women 305.4 H
- Janiak, Andrew - The Enlightenment's most dangerous woman: Émilie Du Châtelet and the making of modern philosophy 92 D8273 J
ASIA
- Dalrymple, William - The golden road: how ancient India transformed the world 954 D
- Hass, Amira - Drinking the sea at Gaza : days and nights in a land under siege (translated from the Hebrew) 956.94 H
- Westad, Odd Arne - The great transformation: China's road from revolution to reform 951 W
THE ARTS
- Sharon, Yuval - A new philosophy of opera 782 S
- Spence, Rachel - Battle for the museum: cultural institutions in crisis 708 S
- Stanfield, Peter - Dirty real: exile on Hollywood and Vine with the gin mill cowboys 791.4 S
EDUCATION
- Groeger, Cristina Viviana - The education trap: schools and the remaking of inequality in Boston 339.2 G
- Khan, Shamus - Privilege: the making of an adolescent elite at St. Paul's School 373 K
TRANSLATION
- Searls, Damion - The philosophy of translation 418 S
- Stavans, Ilan - Translation as home: a multilingual life 418 S
TRAVEL
- Allman, T. D. - In France profound: the long history of a house, a mountain town, and a people 944 A
- - A sense of place: great travel writers talk about their craft, lives, and inspiration 910 S
WEALTH & PRIVILEGE
- Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia - The hidden globe: how wealth hacks the world 322.3 A
- Whyte, Kenneth - The uncrowned king: the sensational rise of William Randolph Hearst 92 H4366 W