May 2013 Books
IN THE LOBBY
Non-Fiction
- Admati, Anat R - The bankers' new clothes: what's wrong with banking and what to do about it
- Adshade, Marina - Dollars and sex: how economics influences sex and love
- Aldrich, Alexandra - Astor orphan: a memoir
- Angelou, Maya - Mom & me & mom
- Armitage, Simon - Walking home: a poet's journey
- Ashford, Brenda - A spoonful of sugar: a nanny's story
- Bassett, Kate - In two minds: a biography of Jonathan Miller
- Boggan, Steve - Follow the money: a month in the life of a ten-dollar bill
- Bordo, Susan - The creation of Anne Boleyn: a new look at England's most notorious queen
- Brown, Kate - Plutopia: nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters
- Budiansky, Stephen - Blackett's war: the men who defeated the Nazi U-boats and brought science to the art of warfare
- Camus, Albert - Algerian chronicles
- Cannadine, David - The undivided past: humanity beyond our differences
- Cather, Willa - The selected letters of Willa Cather
- Deraniyagala, Sonali - Wave
- Dunn, Jane - Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters: the hidden lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing
- Emanuel, Ezekiel J - Brothers Emanuel: a memoir of an American family
- Epstein, Edward Jay - The annals of unsolved crime
- Fagin, Dan - Toms River: a story of science and salvation
- Frieda, Leonie - The deadly sisterhood: a story of women, power, and intrigue in the Italian Renaissance, 1427-1527
- Friedländer, Saul - Franz Kafka: the poet of shame and guilt
- Gates, Moses - Hidden cities: travels to the secret corners of the world's great metropolises : a memoir of urban exploration
- Greenlaw, Linda - Lifesaving lessons: notes from an accidental mother
- Gross, Neil - Why are professors liberal and why do conservatives care?
- Gura, Philip F - Truth's ragged edge: the rise of the American novel
- Hampton, Dina - Little Red: three passionate lives through the sixties and beyond
- Hare, Brian - The genius of dogs: how dogs are smarter than you think
- Hell, Richard - I dreamed I was a very clean tramp: an autobiography
- Katz, Jonathan - The big truck that went by: how the world came to save Haiti and left behind a disaster
- Kirkland, Stephane - Paris reborn: Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the quest to build a modern city
- La'u, Y. M - Out of the depths: the story of a child of Buchenwald who returned home at last
- Leach, William - Butterfly people: an American encounter with the beauty of the world
- Lerer, Seth - Prospero's son: life, books, love, and theater
- Lethbridge, Lucy - Servants: a downstairs view of twentieth-century Britain
- Lipman, Elinor - I can't complain: (all too) personal essays
- Loewenstein, Prince Rupert - A Prince among Stones: that business with the Rolling Stones and other adventures
- Maharidge, Dale - Bringing Mulligan home: the other side of the good war
- McMeekin, Sean - July 1914: countdown to war
- Mohr, Melissa - Holy shit: a brief history of swearing
- Moore, Wendy - How to create the perfect wife: Britain's most ineligible bachelor and his enlightened quest to train the ideal mate
- Mort, T. A - The wrath of Cochise
- Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza - The dispensable nation: American foreign policy in retreat
- Navasky, Victor S - The art of controversy: political cartoons and their enduring power
- Olson, Lynne - Those angry days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's fight over World War II, 1939-1941
- Pearce, Fred - The land grabbers: the new fight over who owns the Earth
- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin - How to be a friend to a friend who's sick
- Priestland, David - Merchant, soldier, sage: a history of the world in three castes
- Rapp, Emily - The still point of the turning world
- Rees, Laurence - Hitler's charisma: leading millions into the abyss
- Rieger, Bernhard - The people's car: a global history of the Volkswagen Beetle
- Roach, Mary - Gulp: adventures on the alimentary canal
- Rosenblum, Constance - Habitats: private lives in the big city
- Rothenberg, David - Bug music: how insects gave us rhythm and noise
- Rushkoff, Douglas - Present shock: when everything happens now
- Sachs, Aaron - Arcadian America: the death and life of an environmental tradition
- Sedaris, David - Let's explore diabetes with owls
- Sheff, David - Clean: overcoming addiction and ending America's greatest tragedy
- Shopsin, Tamara - Mumbai, New York, Scranton
- Simons, Craig - The devouring dragon: how China's rise threatens our natural world
- Strausbaugh, John - The Village: 400 years of beats and bohemians, radicals and rogues, a history of Greenwich Village
- Strong, Roy C - Self-portrait as a young man
- Summers, Julie - Jambusters: the Women's Institute at war 1939-1945
- Swett, Benjamin - New York: city of trees
- Volk, Patricia - Shocked: my mother, Schiaparelli, and me
- Walker, Alice - The cushion in the road: meditation and wandering as the whole world awakens to being in harm's way
- Wall, Duncan - The ordinary acrobat: a journey into the wondrous world of the circus, past and present
- Walton, Calder - Empire of secrets: British intelligence, the Cold War and the twilight of empire
- What my mother gave me: thirty-one women on the gifts that mattered most
- Whitehouse, Mary - Ban this filth!: letters from the Mary Whitehouse archive
- Wilson, Edward O - Letters to a young scientist
- Woods, Randall Bennett - Shadow warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA
- Wukovits, John F - For crew and country: the inspirational true story of bravery and sacrifice aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts
FICTION
- Aciman, André - Harvard Square: a novel
- Alderman, Naomi - The liars' gospel: a novel
- Atkinson, Kate - Life after life: a novel
- Barnes, Linda - The perfect ghost
- Berg, Elizabeth - Tapestry of fortunes: a novel
- Blas de Roblès, Jean-Marie - Where tigers are at home
- Bradford, Barbara Taylor - Secrets from the past
- Brennert, Alan - Palisades Park
- Castellani, Christopher - All this talk of love: a novel
- Close, Jennifer - The smart one: a novel
- Coetzee, J. M - The childhood of Jesus
- Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee - Oleander girl
- Everett, Percival L - Percival Everett by Virgil Russell: a novel
- Forster, Margaret - The unknown bridesmaid
- Fowler, Therese - Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
- Gardam, Jane - Last friends
- Gilmore, Jennifer - The mothers: a novel
- Kalfus, Ken - Equilateral: a novel
- Kirk, David - Child of vengeance
- Krueger, William Kent - Ordinary grace: a novel
- Kushner, Rachel - The flamethrowers: a novel
- Levy, Deborah - Black vodka: ten stories
- Lipman, Elinor - The view from Penthouse B
- Maazel, Fiona - Woke up lonely: a novel
- Masello, Robert - The Romanov cross: a novel
- McCorkle, Jill - Life after life: a novel
- McGrath, Patrick - Constance: a novel
- Mills, Kyle - Robert Ludlum's the Utopia experiment: a Covert-One novel
- Nicholson, William - Motherland
- O'Farrell, Maggie - The distance between us
- Ravel, Edeet - The cat
- Rich, Nathaniel - Odds against tomorrow
- Richler, Nancy - The imposter bride
- Roberts, Nora - Whiskey Beach
- Rock, Peter - The shelter cycle
- Salter, James - All that is: a novel
- Schwarz, Christina - The edge of the earth: a novel
- Scottoline, Lisa - Don't go
- Silver, Marisa - Mary Coin
- Slavnikova, Ol'ga - 2017
- Southwood, Kate - Falling to earth
- Strout, Elizabeth - The burgess boys: a novel
- Trussoni, Danielle - Angelopolis
- Willig, Lauren - The Ashford affair
- Wolitzer, Meg - The Interestings
- Zambra, Alejandro - Ways of going home
MYSTERIES
- Albert, Susan Wittig - Widow's tears
- Ballantyne, Lisa - The guilty one*
- Beaton, M. C - Death of yesterday*
- Clark, Mary Higgins - Daddy's gone a hunting
- Edwards, Martin - The frozen shroud: a Lake District mystery*
- Ephron, Hallie - There was an old woman
- Estleman, Loren D - Alive!: a Valentino mystery
- Greenwood, Kerry - Out of the Black Land
- Griffiths, Elly - A dying fall: a Ruth Galloway mystery*
- Gross, Andrew - No way back
- Hallinan, Timothy - Little Elvises: a Junior Bender mystery
- Hutton, Ewart - Good people*
- Johansen, Iris - Taking Eve
- Kerr, Philip - A man without breath: a Bernie Gunther novel
- Keyes, Marian - The mystery of Mercy Close: a Walsh sister novel
- Läckberg, Camilla - The lost boy
- Laukkanen, Owen - Criminal enterprise
- Leon, Donna - The golden egg
- Link, Charlotte - The other child
- MacDonald, Patricia J - Sisters
- Mackenzie, Jassy - Pale horses
- Margolin, Phillip - Sleight of hand: a novel of suspense
- Marklund, Liza - Lifetime: a novel
- McCreight, Kimberly - Reconstructing Amelia: a novel
- McDonell, J. M - Bolero: a Nick Sayler novel
- Morgan Jones, Chris - The jackal's share*
- Perry, Anne - Midnight at Marble Arch: a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel*
- Pomeroy, Julia - No safe ground
- Quick, Amanda - The mystery woman*
- Robertson, Michael - The Baker Street translation*
- Smith, Lachlan - Bear is broken: a Leo Maxwell mystery
- Stock, Jon - Dirty little secret
- Taylor, Andrew - The scent of death
- Thompson, James - Helsinki blood
- Upson, Nicola - Fear in the sunlight
- Vargas, Fred - The ghost riders of Ordebec
- Wilson, Robert - Capital punishment*
- Winspear, Jacqueline - Leaving everything most loved: a novel*
- Woods, Stuart - Unintended consequences
SHORT STORIES
- Burnside, John - Something like happy
- Dermont, Amber - Damage control
- Sáenz, Benjamin Alire - Everything begins & ends at the Kentucky Club
- Still, James - The hills remember: the complete short stories of James Still
POETRY
- Bernstein, Charles - Recalculating
- Dante Alighieri - The divine comedy
- Davis, Lydia - Two American scenes.
- The ecopoetry anthology
- Muldoon, Paul - The word on the street: rock lyrics
- Novak, Boris A - The master of insomnia: selected poems
- Selected translations, 1948-2011
- Simic, Charles - New and selected poems, 1962-2012
- Szybist, Mary - Incarnadine: poems
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- The Cambridge companion to American novelists , 823.09 C
- The companion to southern literature: themes, genres, places, people, movements, and motifs , 820.9 C
- Curiosity and method: ten years of Cabinet Magazine , 030 C OVERSIZE
- Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich - An Armenian sketchbook , 891.7 G
- Isherwood, Christopher - Conversations with Christopher Isherwood , 823 I
- Johnson, B. S - Well done God!: selected prose and drama of B.S. Johnson , 820.81 J
- Moseley, Merritt - Understanding Kingsley Amis , 828.09 A
- The Norton book of modern war , 808.8 N
- Still, James - The Wolfpen notebooks: a record of Appalachian life , 828 S
- Wolfe, Gary K - Evaporating genres: essays on fantastic literature , 809.3 W
- Zweig, Stefan - The struggle with the Daemon , 830.9 Z
POETRY
- Greene, Dana - Denise Levertov: a poet's life , 92 L66618 G
- Medvedev, Kirill - It's no good , 891.7 M
- Meltzer, Françoise - Seeing double: Baudelaire's modernity , 841.09 B
- Moffett, Joe - Understanding Charles Wright , 821.09 W
- Swenson, May - Collected poems , 821 S
ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
- Barkan, Leonard - Mute poetry, speaking pictures /, 701 B
- Barringer, T. J - Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian art and design , 759.2 B
- Belting, Hans - Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of earthly delights , 759.9 B
- Dello Russo, William - Bruegel , 759.9 B
- Edwardian opulence: British art at the dawn of the twentieth century , 709.42 E
- Kroiz, Lauren - Creative composites: modernism, race, and the Stieglitz circle /, 709.73 K
- Sayer, Derek - Prague, capital of the twentieth century: a surrealist history , 709.437 S
- Schoeser, Mary - Textiles: the art of mankind , 746 S
- Tomkins, Calvin - Marcel Duchamp: the afternoon interviews , 759.4 D
- Toyo Ito: forces of nature , 720.92 I
- Watercolour, 759.2 W
- Weldon Kees and the arts at midcentury /, 709.2 K
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MUSIC
- Cook, Nicholas - Music: a very short introduction , 780 C
- Haskins, Rob - John Cage , 780.92 C
- Honolka, Kurt - Dvorák , 780.92 D
- MacDonald, Ian - Revolution in the head: the Beatles' records and the Sixties , 016.78 M
FILM
- Cinema and the invention of modern life , 302 C
- Décharné, Max - Hardboiled Hollywood , 791.4 D
- Walker, Alexander - Stanley Kubrick, director , 791.4 W
DRAMA
- Miller, Arthur - Conversations with Arthur Miller , 822.09 M
- Schalkwyk, David - Hamlet's dreams: the Robben Island Shakespeare , 822.33 C
- Seven expressionist plays: Kokoschka to Barlach , 832.08 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Aesthetics and politics (Adorno, Benjamin, Jameson, Bloch, Brecht), 111 A
- The Cynic philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian , 183 C
- Scruton, Roger - Kant: a very short introduction , 193 S
- Sherratt, Yvonne - Hitler's philosophers , 193 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Adelman, Jeremy - Worldly philosopher: the odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman , 92 H66937 A
- Arana, Marie - Bolívar: American liberator , 92 B6898 A
- MacLane, Mary - I await the devil's coming , 92 M1616 M
- Radner, John B - Johnson and Boswell: a biography of friendship , 920 R1275 J
- Sivan, Hagith - Galla Placidia: the last Roman empress , 92 G162 S
FOOD
- Cockrall-King, Jennifer - Food and the city: urban agriculture and the new food revolution, 630 C
- Warwick, Joe - Where chefs eat: a guide to chefs' favourite restaurants : chef selection and reviews , 647.9 W
ANIMALS
- Ellis, Richard - Swordfish: a biography of the ocean gladiator , 597 E
- Irwin, Robert - Camel , 599 I
- Laman, Tim - Birds of paradise: revealing the world's most extraordinary birds , 598.2 L
- Poliquin, Rachel - The breathless zoo: taxidermy and the cultures of longing , 579 P
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Gerhardt, Michael J - The forgotten presidents: their untold constitutional legacy , 342.73 G
- Jaume, Lucien - Tocqueville: the aristocratic sources of liberty , 320.9 J
- Luxemburg, Rosa - The Rosa Luxemburg reader , 335.4 L
- Roosevelt, Theodore - In the words of Theodore Roosevelt: quotations from the man in the arena /, 808.8 R
RELIGION
- Connelly, John - From enemy to brother: the revolution in Catholic teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 , 261 C
- Jefferson, Thomas - The Jefferson Bible: the life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth, extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French & English , 232.9 J
- New American Haggadah (edited by Jonathan Safran Foer, ed.; Nathan Englander, transl.), 296.4 H OVERSIZE
SOCIOLOGY
- Cohen, Deborah - Family secrets: shame and privacy in modern Britain , 306.8 C
- Hirschman, Albert O - Exit, voice, and loyalty: responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states , 302.3 H
LAW
- Coates, Bradley A - Divorce with decency: the complete how-to handbook and survivor's guide to the legal, emotional, economic, and social issues , 306.8 C
- Felman, Shoshana - The juridical unconscious: trials and traumas in the twentieth century , 340 F
- Hand, Learned - Reason and imagination: the selected correspondence of Learned Hand 1897-1961 , 347 H
CRIME
- Heinlein, Sabine - Among murderers: life after prison , 365 H
- O'Brien, Frank Michael - Murder mysteries of New York (1932), 343.1 O
- Pearson, John - The cult of violence: the untold story of the Krays , 920 K9174 P
BOOKS & READING
- Garvey, Ellen Gruber - Writing with scissors: American scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance , 745.5 G
- Lee, Marshall - Bookmaking: editing, design, production , 686 L
- McLean, Ruari - Modern book design: from William Morris to the present day , 655.1 M
HISTORY
- Ascalone, Enrico - Mesopotamia , 935 A
- Barton, H. Arnold - Essays on Scandinavian history , 948 B
- Bork, Robert H - Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday night massacre and other adventures of a Solicitor General , 973.924 B
- Breitman, Richard - FDR and the Jews , 973.917 B
- Fabend, Firth Haring - New Netherland in a nutshell: a concise history of the Dutch colony in North America , 974.7 F
- Hazard, Paul - The crisis of the European mind: 1680-1715 , 940.25 H
- Jenkins, Geraint H - A concise history of Wales , 942.9 J
- Making Thatcher's Britain /, 942.085 M
- The tribunal: responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid , 973.71 T
- Weil, François - Family trees: a history of genealogy in America , 929.1 W
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WAR
- Hansen, Arlen J - Gentlemen volunteers: the story of the American ambulance drivers in the First World War , 940.5475 H
- Ludewig, Joachim - Ruckzüg: the German retreat from France, 1944 /, 940.542 L
- Neer, Robert M - Napalm: an American biography , 358.3 N
- Simpson, Emile - War from the ground up: twenty-first-century combat as politics , 355.4 S
- Talibanistan: negotiating the borders between terror, politics and religion , 958 T
- The War of 1812: writings from America's second war of independence (Library of America; Donald R. Hickey, ed.), 973.52 W
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Manning, Robert E - Walking distance: extraordinary hikes for ordinary people , 796.51 M
- Mason, Walter - Destination Saigon: adventures in Vietnam , 915.9 M
- Reel, Monte - Between man and beast: an unlikely explorer, the evolution debates, and the African adventure that took the Victorian world by storm , 916.7 R
NEW YORK
- Kramer, Daniel C - Staten Island: conservative bastion in a liberal city , 974.71 K
- Macdonald, Elizabeth - Pleasure drives and promenades: the history of Frederick Law Olmsted's Brooklyn Parkways , 388 M
- Weber, Bruce - Paintings of New York, 1800-1950 , 759.1 W
AUDIO
- Dante Alighieri - The divine comedy;inferno purgatorio paradiso /, Audio-CD 851 D
- Ford, Ford Madox - Parade's end, Audio-CD F
- Graves, Robert - I, Claudius;from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius , Audio-CD G
- Le Carré, John - Smiley's people, Audio-CD L
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