April 2013 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- This explains everything: deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works
- Alvarez, A - Pondlife: a swimmer's journal
- Andreas, Peter - Smuggler nation: how illicit trade made America
- Auster, Paul - Here and now: letters 2008-2011
- Bailey, Blake - Farther & Wilder: the lost weekends and literary dreams of Charles Jackson
- Bouton, Katherine - Shouting won't help: why I - and 50 million other Americans - can't hear you
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius - How to run a country: an ancient guide for modern leaders
- Clark, Christopher M - The sleepwalkers: how Europe went to war in 1914
- Crothers, Tim - The queen of Katwe: a story of life, chess, and one extraordinary girl's dream of becoming a grandmaster
- Cullen, Kevin - Whitey Bulger: America's most wanted gangster and the manhunt that brought him to justice
- Danto, Arthur C - What art is
- Darwin, John - Unfinished empire: the global expansion of Britain
- Davenport-Hines, R. P. T - An English affair: sex, class and power in the age of Profumo
- Davis, Clive - The soundtrack of my life
- De Bellaigue, Christopher - Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a tragic Anglo-American coup
- Donofrio, Beverly - Astonished: a story of evil, blessings, grace, and solace
- Edmonds, David - Philosophy bites back
- El-Feki, Shereen - Sex and the Citadel: intimate life in a changing Arab world
- Ellsworth-Jones, Will - Banksy: the man behind the wall
- Federman, Mark Russ - Russ & Daughters: reflections and recipes from the house that herring built
- Feigel, Lara - The love-charm of bombs: restless lives in the Second World War
- Frankel, Glenn - The searchers: the making of an American legend
- Freeberg, Ernest - The age of Edison: electric light and the invention of modern America
- Gellately, Robert - Stalin's curse: battling for Communism in war and Cold War
- Ghattas, Kim - The secretary: a journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the heart of American power
- Goldacre, Ben - Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients
- Goodman, Matthew - Eighty days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world
- Greenberg, Amy S - A wicked war: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. invasion of Mexico
- Hazleton, Lesley - The first Muslim: the story of Muhammad
- Irvine, William Braxton - A slap in the face: why insults hurt and why they shouldn't
- Kiernan, Denise - The girls of Atomic City: the untold story of the women who helped win World War II
- Kirschner, Ann - Lady at the O.K. Corral: the true story of Josephine Marcus Earp
- Kolakowski, Leszek - Is God happy?: selected essays
- Lopate, Phillip - To show and to tell: the craft of literary nonfiction
- Lovejoy, Bess - Rest in pieces: the curious fates of famous corpses
- Maguire, J. Robert - Ceremonies of bravery: Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair
- Marr, Andrew - A history of the world
- Marshall, Megan - Margaret Fuller: a new American life
- McChesney, Robert Waterman - Digital disconnect: how capitalism is turning the Internet against democracy
- Morrison, Simon Alexander - Lina and Serge: the love and wars of Lina Prokofiev
- Moss, Candida R - The myth of persecution: how early Christians invented a story of martyrdom
- Moss, Michael - Salt, sugar, fat: how the food giants hooked us
- Murphy, Dervla - A month by the sea: encounters in Gaza
- Nagle, Robin - Picking up: on the streets and behind the trucks with the sanitation workers of New York City
- Naím, Moisés - The end of power: from boardrooms to battlefields and churches to states, why being in charge isn't what it used to be
- O'Connor, Sandra Day - Out of order: stories from the history of the Supreme Court
- Piazza, Mike - Long shot
- Pitzer, Andrea - The secret history of Vladimir Nabokov
- Raboteau, Emily - Searching for Zion
- Rithy Panh - The elimination: a survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields
- Robison, John Elder - Raising Cubby: a father and son's adventures with Asperger's, trains, tractors, and high explosives
- Rollyson, Carl E - American Isis: the life and art of Sylvia Plath
- Rose, Michael - The birth of an opera: fifteen masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck
- Ruta, Domenica - With or without you: a memoir
- Sacco, Joe - Journalism
- Sandberg, Sheryl - Lean in: women, work, and the will to lead
- Schewe, Phillip F - Maverick genius: the pioneering odyssey of Freeman Dyson
- Sewell, Brian - Outsider: always almost, never quite: an autobiography
- Sewell, Brian - Outsider II: always almost, never quite: an autobiography
- Shelden, Michael - Young titan: the making of Winston Churchill
- Shlaes, Amity - Coolidge
- Siegel, Barry - Manifest injustice: the true story of a convicted murderer and the lawyers who fought for his freedom
- Steil, Benn - The battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the making of a new world order
- Stille, Alexander - The force of things: a marriage in war and peace
- Straight, Susan - Between heaven and here
- Stroud, Rick - The phantom army of Alamein: how Operation Bertram and the Camouflage Unit hoodwinked Rommel
- Susskind, Leonard - The theoretical minimum: what you need to know to start doing physics
- Thavis, John - The Vatican diaries: a behind-the-scenes look at the power, personalities, and politics at the heart of the Catholic Church
- Turse, Nick - Kill anything that moves: the real American war in Vietnam
- Tyson, Neil deGrasse - Space chronicles: facing the ultimate frontier
- Walsh, Mikey - Gypsy boy on the run: my escape from a life among the Romany gypsies
- Watkins, C. S - The undiscovered country: journeys among the dead
- Wen, Leana S - When doctors don't listen: how to avoid misdiagnoses and unnecessary tests
- Wills, Garry - Why priests?: a failed tradition
- Witham, Larry - Picasso and the chess player: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the battle for the soul of modern art
- Zarin, Cynthia - An enlarged heart: a personal history
FICTION
- Bishop, Bernardine - Unexpected lessons in love
- Chauvet, Marie - Love, anger, madness: a Haitian triptych
- Crace, Jim - Harvest
- David-Weill, Cécile - The suitors
- De Feo, Ronald - Solo pass
- Dee, Jonathan - A thousand pardons: a novel
- Dubow, Charles - Indiscretion
- Epstein, Jennifer Cody - The gods of heavenly punishment
- Gaige, Amity - Schroder: a novel
- Garner, Alan - Boneland
- Gass, William H - Middle C: a novel
- Graver, Elizabeth - The end of the point: a novel
- Green, Jane - Family pictures
- Hamid, Mohsin - How to get filthy rich in rising Asia
- Haruf, Kent - Benediction
- Hemon, Aleksandar - The book of my lives
- Hood, Ann - The obituary writer
- Hooper, Chloe - The engagement: a novel
- Howey, Hugh - Wool
- Keane, Mary Beth - Fever
- Lavigne, Michael - The wanting
- Leary, Ann - The good house
- Meyers, Randy Susan - The comfort of lies: a novel
- Miller, Rebecca - Jacob's folly
- Mo, Yan - Pow!
- Norton, Ashley Prentice - The chocolate money
- Oates, Joyce Carol - The accursed
- Olsson, Linda - The memory of love
- Ozeki, Ruth L - A tale for the time being
- Picoult, Jodi - The storyteller: a novel
- Pyper, Andrew - The demonologist
- Quatro, Jamie - I want to show you more: stories
- Reich, Tova - One hundred Philistine foreskins: a novel
- Roorbach, Bill - Life among giants: a novel
- Selasi, Taiye - Ghana must go
- Siris, Nihad - The silence and the roar
- Sneed, Christine - Little known facts: a novel
- Vanderbeke, Birgit - The mussel feast
- Wayne, Teddy - The love song of Jonny Valentine: a novel
- Wrinkle, Margaret - Wash: a novel
- Yehoshua, Abraham B - The retrospective
MYSTERIES
- Bannister, Jo - Deadly virtues*
- Barclay, Linwood - Never saw it coming
- Bauer, Belinda - Rubbernecker*
- Bilal, Parker - Dogstar rising: a Makana mystery
- Black, Cara - Murder below Montparnasse
- Bowen, Rhys - The family way
- Box, C. J - Breaking point
- Brody, Frances - A medal for murder*
- Camilleri, Andrea - The dance of the seagull
- Carver, Tania - Cage of bones: a novel*
- Cleeves, Ann - Dead water*
- Coben, Harlan - Six years
- Cotterill, Colin - The woman who wouldn't die
- Crombie, Deborah - The sound of broken glass*
- Cussler, Clive - The striker: an Isaac Bell adventure
- Edwardson, Åke - Room no. 10
- Fluke, Joanne - Red velvet cupcake murder
- Gage, Leighton - Perfect hatred
- Granger, Ann - Mud, muck and dead things*
- Gunn, Elizabeth - Eleven little piggies
- Hannah, Sophie - The carrier*
- Harris, C. S - What darkness brings: a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery*
- Hart, Erin - The book of Killowen
- Hirahara, Naomi - Strawberry yellow
- Hurley, Graham - Western approaches*
- Ison, Graham - Make them pay: a Brock and Poole mystery*
- Kelly, Erin - The burning air*
- Kernick, Simon - Ultimatum*
- Krentz, Jayne Ann - Dream eyes
- MacBride, Stuart - Birthdays for the dead*
- Masterman, Becky - Rage against the dying
- May, Peter - The chess men*
- Morris, Roger - The mannequin house: a Silas Quinn mystery*
- Muir, Frank - Hand for a hand*
- Ohlsson, Kristina - Silenced: a novel
- Parks, Brad - The good cop
- Patterson, James - Alex Cross, run
- Patterson, James - Private Berlin
- Perry, Thomas - The boyfriend
- Robb, J. D - Calculated in death
- Shields, Kieran - The truth of all things
- Söderberg, Alexander - The Andalucian friend: a novel
- Spencer, Sally - A walk with the dead: a Monica Paniatowski mystery*
- Stabenow, Dana - Bad blood
- Stasi, Linda - The sixth station
- Talty, Stephan - Black Irish: a novel
- Thomas, Samuel S - The midwife's tale*
- Vichi, Marco - Death in Sardinia
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The day is dark
*indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Lipsyte, Sam - The fun parts
- Rash, Ron - Nothing gold can stay: stories
- Selecky, Sarah Lucille - This cake is for the party
POETRY
- Angles of ascent: a Norton anthology of contemporary African American poetry
- Armantrout, Rae - Just saying
- Carson, Anne - Red doc
- Hirshfield, Jane - Come, thief: poems
- Leithauser, Brad - The oldest word for dawn: new and selected poems
- Longenbach, James - The virtues of poetry
CHILDREN'S LIBRARY
- Applegate, Katherine - The one and only Ivan
- Banks, Kate - Bear in the Book
- Blake, Stephanie - Marble Queen
- Buzzeo, Toni - One Cool Friend
- Hartland, Jessie - Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child
- Henkes, Kevin - Penny and her Marble
- Jenkins, Emily - Lemonade in winter: a book about two kids counting money
- Klassen, Jon - This is Not My Hat
- Logue, Mary - Sleep Like A Tiger
- Macdonald, Megan - Judy Moody and the Bad Luck Charm
- Markel, Michelle - Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
- Reynolds, Aaron - Creepy Carrots!
- Riordan, Rick - The Serpent’s Shadow
- Turnage, Sheila - Three Times Lucky
- Wheeler, Lisa - Dino-football
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Must read: rediscovering American bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci code , 823.09 M
- Dolin, Tim - George Eliot (Authors in Context), 823 E
- Gaddis, William - The letters of William Gaddis , 92 G1236 G
- Hallman, J. C - Wm & H'ry: literature, love, and the letters between William and Henry James , 920 J276 H
- Jen, Gish - Tiger writing: art, culture, and the interdependent self , 823 J
- Naturel, Mireille - Marcel Proust: in pictures and documents , 843 P OVERSIZE
- Orange, Michelle - This is running for your life: essays , 824 O
- Perec, Georges - La boutique obscure: 124 dreams , 848 P
- Rosenfeld, Sidney - Understanding Joseph Roth, 833 R
- Royle, Nicholas - The uncanny , 809 R
- Sendak, Maurice - My brother's book , 821 S
- Wolfe, Peter - Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald , 823 F
- Zinsser, William Knowlton - The writer who stayed , 824 Z
LANGUAGE
- Flaubert, Gustave - A dictionary of platitudes : being a compendium of conversational cliches, blind beliefs, fashionable misconceptions, and fixed ideas, 847 F
- Ladefoged, Peter - Vowels and consonants, 401 L
- Ogilvie, Sarah - Words of the world: a global history of the Oxford English dictionary , 423 O
ART
- Art in Oceania: a new history , 709.9 A
- Caribbean: art at the crossroads of the world , 709.8 C
- Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp (Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Battle, eds.; with essay by Calvin Tomkins), 709.2 D
- Gustav Klimt: the complete paintings , 759.36 K CS
- Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: how a radical idea changed modern art , 709.04 I
- The books that shaped art history: from Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss , 709 B
- Garnett, Henrietta - Wives and stunners: the Pre-Raphaelites and their muses /, 920 G2357 W
- Gill, Anton - Il gigante: Michelangelo, Florence, and the David, 1492-1504 /, 730.92 M
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PHOTOGRAPHY
- The bitter years: Edward Steichen and the Farm Security Administration Photographs, 779 B
- Klein, William - Life is good & good for you in New York: trance, witness, revels , 770 K
- Rappaport, Nina - Ezra Stoller, photographer , 770 S
- Sussman, Elisabeth - Diane Arbus: a chronology, 1923-1971 , 92 A666 S
MUSIC
- Wierzbicki, James Eugene - Elliott Carter , 780.92 C
- Wilentz, Sean - 360 sound: the Columbia Records story , 780.65 W
FILM
- The big book of noir , 791.4 B
- Gray, Timothy M - Variety: an illustrated history of the world from the most important magazine in Hollywood *, 306.4 G OVERSIZE
- Sikov, Ed - Film studies: an introduction , 791.4 S
THEATER
- Hammerstein, Oscar Andrew - The Hammersteins: a musical theatre family, 920 H2242 H
- Nightingale, Benedict - Fifth row center: a critic's year on and off Broadway , 792.0973 N
PHILOSOPHY
- Allison, Henry E - Kant's Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals: a commentary , 170 A
- Belsey, Catherine - Post-structuralism: a very short introduction , 149 B
- Epicurus - The art of happiness, 187 E
BIOGRAPHY
- Fournier, Marcel - Émile Durkheim: a biography , 92 D9636 F
- Hughes-Hallett, Lucy - The pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, poet, seducer and preacher of war , 92 D1887 H
- Pearl, Cora - The memoirs of Cora Pearl: erotic reminiscences of a flamboyant 19th century courtesan, 92 P3594 P
- Sorin, Gerald - Howard Fast: life and literature in the left lane , 92 F2513 S
- Sperber, Jonathan - Karl Marx: a nineteenth-century life , 92 M392 S
- Thompson, Mark - Birth certificate: the story of Danilo Kiš , 92 K614 T
- Tuszynska, Agata - Vera Gran: the accused , 92 G7486 T
MATH & SCIENCE
- Bernstein, Jeremy - A palette of particles , 539.7 B
- Euclid - Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume: the Thomas L. Heath translation, 513 E
- Galilei, Galileo - Selected writings , 500 G
- Kepler, Johannes - Epitome of Copernican astronomy & Harmonies of the world, 520 K
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Bernanke, Ben - The Federal Reserve and the financial crisis , 330.4 B
- Fulcher, James - Capitalism: a very short introduction , 330.1 F
- Lamson, Peggy - Speaking of Galbraith: a personal portrait , 92 G1485 L
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- The crisis of American foreign policy : Wilsonianism in the twenty-first century , 327.73 C
- Mires, Charlene - Capital of the world: the race to host the United Nations , 341 M
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Jones, Daniel Stedman - Masters of the universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the birth of neoliberal politics *, 320.1 J
- Miller, Nicholas Patrick - The religious roots of the First Amendment: dissenting Protestants and the separation of church and state , 322.1 M
RELIGION
- Nirenberg, David - Anti-Judaism: the Western tradition , 305.8 N
- Shalev, Eran - American Zion: the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War , 322.1 S
- Vermès, Géza - Christian beginnings: from Nazareth to Nicaea (AD 30-325) , 270.1 V
PSYCHOLOGY
- Cohen, David - The escape of Sigmund Freud, 92 F889 C
- Samuel, Lawrence R - Shrink: a cultural history of psychoanalysis in America, 131.34 S
- Shorter, Edward - How everyone became depressed: the rise and fall of the nervous breakdown , 616.8 S
SLAVERY
- The long walk to freedom: runaway slave narratives, 326 L
- Blackburn, Robin - The American crucible: slavery, emancipation and human rights /, 326 B
- Cugoano, Ottobah - Thoughts and sentiments on the evil of slavery and other writings , 326 C
- Johnson, Walter - River of dark dreams: slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom , 326 J
SOCIAL STUDIES
- D'Emilio, John - Intimate matters: a history of sexuality in America (new edition, 2012), 306.7 D
- Kafka, Ben - The demon of writing: powers and failures of paperwork , 342 K
HISTORY
- Fulbrook, Mary - A small town near Auschwitz: ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust , 940.5315 F
- Gristwood, Sarah - Blood sisters: the women behind the Wars of the Roses , 942.03 G
- Guarneri, Carl - The utopian alternative :;Fourierism in nineteenth-century America /, 335.9 G
- Katznelson, Ira - Fear itself: the New Deal and the origins of our time , 973.917 K
- LeVine, Steve - Putin's labyrinth: spies, murder, and the dark heart of the new Russia , 947.086 L
- Milfort, Louis - Memoirs, or, A quick glance at my various travels and my sojourn in the Creek Nation , 970.3 M
- Popkin, Jeremy D - A concise history of the Haitian revolution , 972.94 P
- Tanner, Marcus - The last of the Celts , 909 T
- Toner, J. P - Homer's Turk: how classics shaped ideas of the East , 950 T
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WAR
- The spoils of war: World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property , 940.531 S OVERSIZE
- Christofferson, Thomas Rodney - France during World War II: from defeat to liberation , 940.5344 C
- Karski, Jan - Story of a secret state: my report to the world , 940.53438 K
- Symonds, Craig L - Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War , 92 C62385 S
- Tarling, Nicholas - A sudden rampage: the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945 , 940.5359 T
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Crawford, Robert - On Glasgow and Edinburgh *, 941 C
- Hawke, David Freeman - Those tremendous mountains: the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition , 917.8 H
- Kennedy, Dane Keith - The last blank spaces: exploring Africa and Australia , 916 K
- Kilbride, Daniel - Being American in Europe, 1750-1860 , 305.8 K
AUDIO
- Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Master and Margarita, Audio-CD B
- Le Carré, John - The honourable schoolboy, Audio-CD L
- Proust, Marcel - Sodom and Gomorrah, Audio-CD P
- Proust, Marcel - The captive, Audio-CD P
- Proust, Marcel - The fugitive, Audio-CD P
- Proust, Marcel - The Guermantes way, Audio-CD P
- Proust, Marcel - Time regained, Audio-CD P
- Proust, Marcel - Within a budding grove, Audio-CD P
- Tolstoy, Leo - The Kreutzer sonata, Audio-CD T
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