January 2013 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Ackroyd, Peter - The history of England.
- Alexander, Eben - Proof of heaven: a neurosurgeon's journey into the afterlife
- Alford, Stephen - The watchers: a secret history of the reign of Elizabeth I
- Antonson, Rick - Route 66 still kicks: driving America's main street
- Ashton, Rosemary - Victorian Bloomsbury
- Asimov, Eric - How to love wine: a memoir and manifesto
- Bair, Deirdre - Saul Steinberg: a biography
- Berg, Scott W - 38 nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the beginning of the frontier's end
- Better than fiction: true travel tales from great fiction writers
- Birmingham, Lucy - Strong in the rain: surviving Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disaster
- Bown, Stephen R - The last Viking: the life of Roald Amundsen
- Bramblitt, John - Shouting in the dark: my journey back to the light
- Brzezinski, Matthew - Isaac's army: a story of courage and survival in Nazi-occupied Poland
- Carroll, Sean M. - The particle at the end of the universe: how the hunt for the Higgs boson leads us to the edge of a new world
- Chirac, Jacques - My life in politics
- Coddington, Grace - Grace: a memoir
- Crosby, Molly Caldwell - The great pearl heist: London's greatest thief and Scotland Yard's hunt for the world's most valuable necklace
- Denby, David - Do the movies have a future?
- Donald, Aïda DiPace - Citizen soldier: a life of Harry S. Truman
- Duberman, Martin B - Howard Zinn: a life on the left
- Dutton, Kevin - The wisdom of psychopaths: what saints, spies, and serial killers can teach us about success
- Egan, Timothy - Short nights of the Shadow Catcher: the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis
- Ehrenreich, Barbara - For her own good: two centuries of the experts' advice to women
- Elizabeth - Counting one's blessings: the selected letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Field, Suzette - A curious invitation: the forty greatest parties in literature
- Garnett, Robert Reginald - Charles Dickens in love
- Glendinning, Victoria - Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826
- Gordin, Michael D - The pseudoscience wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the birth of the modern fringe
- Gordon, Michael R. - The endgame: the inside story of the struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
- Gottlieb, Robert - Great expectations: the sons and daughters of Charles Dickens
- Grass, Günter - From Germany to Germany: journal of the year 1990
- Groult, Benoîte - My escape: an autobiography
- Grunwald, Michael - The new New Deal: the hidden story of change in the Obama era
- Guerrieri, Matthew - The first four notes: Beethoven's fifth and the human imagination
- Hensher, Philip - The missing ink: the lost art of handwriting
- Hubbard, Kate - Serving Victoria: life in the royal household
- Issenberg, Sasha - The victory lab: the secret science of winning campaigns
- Jenkins, John A - The partisan: the life of William Rehnquist
- Jewish jocks: an unorthodox hall of fame
- Johnson, John - Peppermint twist: the mob, the music, and the most famous dance club of the '60s
- Jones, Jonathan - The lost battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the artistic duel that defined the Renaissance
- Ledbetter, Lilly M - Grace and grit: my fight for equal pay and fairness at Goodyear and beyond
- Lingeman, Richard R - The noir forties: the American people from victory to Cold War
- Long, John A. - The dawn of the deed: the prehistoric origins of sex
- Madden, Thomas F - Venice: a new history
- Mankiewicz, Tom - My life as a Mankiewicz: an insider's journey through Hollywood
- Martinez, Domingo - The boy kings of Texas: a memoir
- McDonald, Jamie - New York originals: a guide to the city's classic shops & mom-and-pops
- Meacham, Jon - Thomas Jefferson: the art of power
- Morris, Edmund - This living hand: and other essays
- My ideal bookshelf
- Myers, Marc - Why jazz happened
- Nasaw, David - The patriarch: the remarkable life and turbulent times of Joseph P. Kennedy
- Nathanson, Mitchell - A people's history of baseball
- Neitzel, Sönke - Soldaten: on fighting, killing, and dying : the secret World War II transcripts of German POWs
- Niemann, Derek - Birds in a cage
- O'Brien, Edna - Country girl
- Pamuk, Orhan - The innocence of objects
- Patterson, James T - The eve of destruction: how 1965 transformed America
- People speak: voices that changed Britain
- Perelman, Deb - The smitten kitchen cookbook
- Perry, John - The art of procrastination: a guide to effective dawdling, lollygagging, and postponing
- Phillips, Kevin - 1775: a good year for revolution
- Plaut, Joshua Eli - A Kosher Christmas: : 'tis the season to be Jewish
- Ramone, Johnny - Commando: the autobiography of Johnny Ramone
- Rediker, Marcus - The Amistad rebellion: an Atlantic odyssey of slavery and freedom
- Sand, Shlomo - The invention of the land of Israel: from Holy Land to homeland
- Self, Robert O. - All in the family: the realignment of American democracy since the 1960s
- Slater, Lauren - The sixty thousand-dollar dog: my life with animals
- Smith, Hedrick - Who stole the American dream?
- Smith, May - These wonderful rumours!: a young schoolteacher's wartime diaries 1939-1945
- Speck, Jeff - Walkable city: how downtown can save America, one step at a time
- Stanford, Craig B - Planet without apes
- Sterba, Jim - Nature wars: the incredible story of how wildlife comebacks turned backyards into battlegrounds
- Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie - Empress of fashion: a life of Diana Vreeland
- Styron, William - Selected letters of William Styron
- Taleb, Nassim - Antifragile: things that gain from disorder
- Tap dancing to work: Warren Buffett on practically everything, 1966-2012 : a Fortune magazine book
- Tapper, Jake - The outpost: an untold story of American valor
- Taylor, Stephen - Commander: the life and exploits of Britain's greatest frigate captain
- Tomsky, Jacob - Heads in beds: a reckless memoir of hotels, hustles, and so-called hospitality
- Tyler, Patrick - Fortress Israel: the inside story of the military elite who run the country--and why they can't make peace
- Updike, John - Always looking: essays on art
- Vauchez, André - Francis of Assisi: the life and afterlife of a medieval saint
- Welch, Wendy - The little bookstore of Big Stone Gap: a memoir of friendship, community, and the uncommon pleasure of a good book
- Wiencek, Henry - Master of the mountain: Thomas Jefferson and his slaves
- Women of the revolution: forty years of feminism
FICTION
- Bernays, Anne - The man on the third floor
- Bolaño, Roberto - Woes of the true policeman
- Cannell, Dorothy - Sea glass summer
- Capus, Alex - Léon and Louise: a novel
- Engelmann, Karen - The Stockholm octavo
- Faulks, Sebastian - A possible life: a novel in five parts
- Genova, Lisa - Love Anthony: a novel
- Heffernan, William - When Johnny came marching home;: a novel
- Hutchins, Scott - A working theory of love
- Kramer, Richard - These things happen
- Macomber, Debbie - The inn at Rose Harbor: a novel
- Mathis, Ayana - The twelve tribes of Hattie
- Meacham, Leila - Tumbleweeds: a novel
- Medina, Pablo - Cubop City blues
- Millet, Lydia - Magnificence: a novel
- Morais, Richard C. - Buddhaland Brooklyn: a novel
- Némirovsky, Irène - The misunderstanding
- Pattison, Eliot - Mandarin gate
- Roberts, Victoria - After the fall: an illustrated novel
- Saramago, José - Raised from the ground
- Shapiro, Barbara A. - The art forger: a novel
- Weir, Alison - A dangerous inheritance: a novel of Tudor rivals and the secret of the Tower
- Zeitlin, Marianne Langner - Motherless child: a novel
MYSTERIES
- Atkins, Charles - Best place to die
- Bain, Donald - Margaret Truman's Experiment in murder: a capital crimes novel
- Baldacci, David - The forgotten
- Brown, Rita Mae - Fox tracks: a novel
- Butcher, Jim - Cold days: a novel of the Dresden files
- Byrd, Max - The Paris deadline: a novel
- Clancy, Tom - Threat vector
- Coel, Margaret - Buffalo Bill's dead now
- Connelly, Michael - The black box: a novel
- Cutler, Judith - Burying the past*
- Dahl, Kjell Ola - Lethal investments
- Dams, Jeanne M - The corpse of St James's: a Dorothy Martin mystery*
- Disher, Garry - Whispering death
- Dunn, Carola - The valley of the shadow: a Cornish mystery*
- Elkins, Aaron J - Dying on the vine
- Estleman, Loren D - The perils of Sherlock Holmes: short stories*
- Ewan, Chris - Safe house: a mystery*
- Fielding, Joy - Shadow Creek: a novel
- Frey, Stephen W - Arctic fire
- Gregson, J. M - More than meets the eye: a Lambert & Hook mystery*
- Hallinan, Timothy - Crashed: a Junior Bender mystery
- Harris, Oliver - The hollow man: a novel*
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Blood never dies: a Bill Slider mystery*
- Helton, Peter - An inch of time: a Chris Honeysett mystery*
- Hill Gumbao, Toni - The summer of dead toys
- Holt, Anne - Blessed are those who thirst
- James, Peter - Not dead yet*
- Kovacs, Ed - Good junk: a Cliff St. James novel
- Littell, Robert - Young Philby
- Maron, Margaret - The buzzard table
- Masters, Priscilla - Smoke alarm: a Martha Gunn mystery*
- McCarthy, Keith - The taste of Wormwood: a John Eisenmenger forensic mystery*
- O'Mara, Tim - Sacrifice fly
- Oldham, Nick - Fighting for the dead: a Detective Superintendent Henry Christie novel*
- Patterson, James - Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
- Perry, Anne - A Christmas garland: a novel
- Preston, Douglas J - Two graves
- Purser, Ann - Found guilty at five*
- Randisi, Robert J - It was a very bad year: a 'Rat Pack' mystery
- Rankin, Ian - Standing in another man's grave*
- Robards, Karen - Shiver
- Sansom, C. J - Dominion*
- Scott, A. D - Beneath the abbey wall: a novel
- Stabenow, Dana - Dead in the water: a Kate Shugak mystery
- Tolkien, Simon - Orders from Berlin*
- Turnbull, Peter - The garden party: a Harry Vicary mystery*
- Vine, Barbara - The child's child: a novel*
- Zouroudi, Anne - The doctor of Thessaly: a seven deadly sins mystery
* indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Ashbery, John - Quick question: new poems
- Rich, Adrienne - Later poems: selected and new, 1971-2012
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Barnes, Julian - Through the window: seventeen essays and a short story, 824 B
- Browder, Laura - Rousing the nation: radical culture in Depression America, 820.9 B
- The Cambridge companion to the Brontës, 823.08 C
- Fowler, Alastair - Literary names: personal names in English literature, 820.9 F
- Fry, Paul H - Theory of literature, 801 F
- Murch, Walter - The bird that swallowed Its cage: selected works of Curzio Malaparte, 850.81 M
- Savory, Elaine - The Cambridge introduction to Jean Rhys, 823 R
- Warner, Sylvia Townsend - With the hunted: selected writings, 820.81 W
- Ziff, Larzer - All-American boy, 823.08 Z
POETRY
- Barnett, Catherine - The game of boxes: [poems], 821 B
- Critical essays on James Merrill, 821.09 M
- Greenbaum, Jessica - The two Yvonnes: poems, 821 G
- Hungry ear: poems of food & drink, 808.81 H
- Hurley, Michael D - Poetic form: an introduction, 808.1 H
- Kerouac, Jack - Collected poems, 821 K
- Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar - Robert Frost: the people, places, and stories behind his New England poetry, 821.09 F
- Robert Lowell, interviews and memoirs, 821.09 L
- Seidel, Frederick - Nice weather, 821 S
ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
- Abdelouahab, Farid - Muses: women who inspire, 704.942 A
- Agee, William C - American vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, De Kooning, and their circle, 1927-1942, 759.1 A
- Anker, Peder - From Bauhaus to ecohouse: a history of ecological design , 720 A
- Davenne, Christine - Cabinets of wonder, 749 D
- European sculpture, 1400-1900, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 730 M
- Gautier, Jérôme - Chanel: the vocabulary of style, 746.92 G
- Harvey, Eleanor Jones - The Civil War and American art, 759.1 H
- Henry, Tom - The life and art of Luca Signorelli, 759.5 S
- Joseph Cornell's Manual of Marvels: how Joseph Cornell reinvented a French agricultural manual to create an American masterpiece., 709.04 J
- Lange, Alexandra - Writing about architecture: mastering the language of buildings and cities, 720 L
- Schafer, Gil - The great American house: tradition for the way we live now, 728.3 S
- Stierlin, Henri - Persian art & architecture, 720.956 S
- Webster, Leslie - Anglo-Saxon art: a new history, 709.42 W
Oxford Art Online is now available to members.
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Aperture magazine anthology: the Minor White years, 1952-1976, 770 A
- Fineman, Mia - Faking it: manipulated photography before Photoshop, 770 F
- Maier, Vivian - Vivian Maier: out of the shadows, 770 M
- Morel, Gaëlle - Berenice Abbott, 779 A
MUSIC
- Lucier, Alvin - Music 109: notes on experimental music, 780.9 L
- Singer, Barry - Black and blue: the life and lyrics of Andy Razaf, 92 R2784 S
- Steinberg, Michael - The symphony: a listener's guide , 785.11 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Bentham, Jeremy - Selected writings, 192 B
- Janaway, Christopher - Schopenhauer: a very short introduction , 193 J
BIOGRAPHY
- Batchelor, John - Tennyson: to strive, to seek, to find, 92 T312 B
- Ben-Zvi, Linda - Susan Glaspell: her life and times, 92 G5487 B
- Cecil, Hugh - In search of Rex Whistler: his life & his work, 92 W57693 C OVERSIZE
- Chamberlain, Ava - The notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: marriage, murder, and madness in the family of Jonathan Edwards, 92 T9674 C
- Jacoby, Susan - The great agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American freethought, 92 I476 J
- Listening for Madeleine: a portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in many voices, 92 L5661 L
- Peeters, Benoît - Derrida: a biography, 92 D4384 P
- Potter, D. S - Constantine the Emperor, 92 C7587 P
- Stout, Janis P - Willa Cather: the writer and her world, 92 C363 S
- Wiesel, Elie - Open heart, 92 W648 W
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Fisher, Melissa S - Wall street women, 332.6 F
- Kressel, Henry - Entrepreneurship in the global economy: engine for economic growth, 338 K
- Skidelsky, Robert - Keynes: a very short introduction, 330.1 S
- Speth, James Gustave - America the possible: manifesto for a new economy, 338.973 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Lifflander, Matthew L - The impeachment of Governor Sulzer: a story of American politics, 974.7 L
- Page, Benjamin I - What government can do: dealing with poverty and inequality, 362.5 P
- Willis, Michael J. - Politics and power in the Maghreb: Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from independence to the Arab spring, 320.9 W
RELIGION
- Cook, M. A - The Koran: a very short introduction, 297 C
- Hendel, Ronald S - The book of Genesis: a biography, 222 H
- Minois, Georges - The atheist's Bible: the most dangerous book that never existed, 200 M
- Shaw, Jane - Octavia, daughter of God: the story of a female messiah and her followers, 280 S
NEW YORK
- Kane, Robert J - Jammed up: bad cops, police misconduct, and the New York City Police Department, 363 K
- Rinaldi, Thomas E - New York neon, 302 R
- Wallace, Aurora - Media capital: architecture and communications in New York City, 720.973 W
CRIME
- Kaplan, David E. - Yakuza: Japan's criminal underworld, 364.1 K
- Leveritt, Mara - Devil's knot: the true story of the West Memphis Three, 364.1 L
- Newton, Michael - Age of assassins: a history of conspiracy and political violence, 1865-1981, 364.1 N
AFRICA
- Natsios, Andrew S - Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur: what everyone needs to know, 962 N
- Radelet, Steven C. - Emerging Africa: how 17 countries are leading the way , 330.96 R
- Soyinka, Wole - Of Africa, 960 S
HISTORY
- The Posen Library of Jewish culture and civilization, 909.4 P OVERSIZE
- Bizot, François - Facing the torturer , 959 B
- Dennis, David B - Inhumanities: Nazi interpretations of western culture, 943.085 D
- German, Lindsey - A people's history of London, 942.1 G
- Oakes, James - Freedom national: the destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, 973.7 O
- Roll, David L. - The Hopkins touch: Harry Hopkins and the forging of the alliance to defeat Hitler, 940.532 R
- Rosen, Alan - The wonder of their voices: the 1946 Holocaust interviews of David Boder, 940.5315 R
- Stone, Oliver - The untold history of the United States, 973.9 S
- Warwick, Sarah - Upstairs & downstairs: the illustrated guide to the real world of Downton Abbey, 942.08 W OVERSIZE
- Yang, Jisheng - Tombstone: the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962, 363.9 Y
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WAR
- LaRossa, Ralph - Of war and men: World War II in the lives of fathers and their families, 306.8 L
- Pash, Melinda L - In the shadow of the greatest generation: the Americans who fought the Korean War, 951.9 P
- Van Creveld, Martin - Technology and war: from 2000 B.C. to the present, 355 V
- Wills, Brian Steel - A battle from the start: the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, 92 F73 W
TECHNOLOGY
- Debates in the digital humanities, 001 D
- Headrick, Daniel R - Technology: a world history, 609 H
TRAVEL
- Chaplin, Joyce E - Round about the Earth: circumnavigation from Magellan to orbit , 910.4 C
- Twain, Mark - Traveling with the innocents abroad: Mark Twain's original reports from Europe and the Holy Land, 910.4 T
BOOKS & READING
- The book of books: 500 years of graphic innovation, 002 B OVERSIZE
- McKendrick, Scot - Royal manuscripts: the genius of illumination , 757.1 M
- Smith, Esther K - How to make books, 686 S
SOCIOLOGY
- Chinese characters: profiles of fast-changing lives in a fast-changing land, 915.1 C
- Halperin, David M. - How to be gay, 306.76 H
- Sugrue, Thomas J. - The origins of the urban crisis: race and inequality in postwar Detroit : with a new preface by the author, 305.88 S
AUDIO
- Great classic humor; 27 complete stories by 15 favorite 19th century authors, Audio-CD G
- Homer - The Iliad, Audio-CD 883.1 I
- Leon, Donna - Beastly things, Audio-CD L
- McEwan, Ian - Sweet tooth, Audio-CD M
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The raven and selected short stories, Audio-CD P
- The Titanic;voices from the BBC Archives., Audio-CD 910.4 T
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