New Books - January 2016
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Alther, Lisa (and Francoise Gilot) - About women: conversations between a writer and a painter
- Axelrod, Howard - The point of vanishing: a memoir of two years in solitude
- Berger, John - Portraits: John Berger on artists
- Brotherton, Rob - Suspicious minds: why we believe conspiracy theories
- Crawford, James - Fallen glory: the lives and deaths of twenty lost buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers
- DeVita, Vincent T., Jr. - The death of cancer: after fifty years on the front lines of medicine, a pioneering oncologist reveals why the war on cancer is winnable—and how we can get there
- Pope Francis - Encyclical on climate change & inequality: on care for our common home
- Evanier, David - Woody [Allen]: the biography
- Gimson, Andrew - Gimson's kings & queens: brief lives of the monarchs since 1066
- Goessel, Tracey - The first king of Hollywood: the life of Douglas Fairbanks
- Hitchens, Christopher - And yet ...: essays (e-book)
- Hughes, Robert - The spectacle of skill: selected writings of Robert Hughes
- Khan, Yasmin - India at war: the subcontinent and the Second World War
- Lindop, Grevel - Charles Williams: the third Inkling
- Lough, David - No more champagne: Churchill and his money
- Makari, George - Soul machine: the invention of the modern mind
- Mar, Alex - Witches of America
- Mesler, Bill - A brief history of creation: science and the search for the origin of life
- Mordden, Ethan - On Sondheim: an opinionated guide
- Murdoch, Iris - Living on paper: letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 (Avril Horner & Anne Rowe, eds.)
- New York: capital of the 20th century (compiled by Kenneth Goldsmith)
- Parker, Mary-Louise - Dear Mr. You (e-book)
- Rauchway, Eric - The money makers: how Roosevelt and Keynes ended the Depression, defeated fascism, and secured a prosperous peace
- Ridley, Matt - The evolution of everything: how new ideas emerge
- Rove, Karl - The triumph of William McKinley: why the election of 1896 still matters
- Sanders, Bernard - Outsider in the White House
- Seibert, Brian - What the eye hears: a history of tap dancing
- Simon, Carly - Boys in the trees: a memoir (e-book)
- Trump, Donald - Crippled America: how to make America great again
- Wootton, David - The invention of science: a new history of the scientific revolution
FICTION
- Buckley, Christopher - The relic master (e-book)
- Cartwright, Justin - Up against the night
- Coe, Amanda - The love she left behind
- Coe, Jonathan - Number 11, or, Tales that witness madness
- Faulks, Sebastian - Where my heart used to beat
- Giordano, Paolo - Like family (translated from the Italian)
- Greaves, C. Joseph - Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo)
- Herron, Mick - The list: a novella
- Indiana, Gary - I can give you anything but love
- Kondazian, Karen - The whip
- Krentz, Jayne Ann - Secret sisters
- Miller, Andrew - The crossing
- Schofield, Douglas - Time of departure
- Seethaler, Robert - A whole life (translated from the German by Charlotte Collins)
- Sorokin, Vladimir - The blizzard (translated from the Russian)
- Spiró, György - Captivity (translated from the Hungarian)
- Steel, Danielle - Precious gifts
- Tuil, Karine - The age of reinvention (translated from the French)
- Ulitskaia, Liudmila - The big green tent (translated from the Russian)
MYSTERIES
- Bagshawe, Tilly - Sidney Sheldon's Reckless
- Bannister, Jo - Desperate measures
- Bonfiglioli, Kyril - The great Mortdecai moustache mystery
- Briggs, J. C. - Death at Hungerford Stairs: Charles Dickens & Superintendent Jones investigate*
- Burke, James Lee - House of the rising sun
- Cameron, Stella - Out comes the evil*
- Chazin, Suzanne - A blossom of bright light
- Corona, Laurel - The mapmaker's daughter
- Cox, Susan R. - The man on the washing machine
- Cussler, Clive - The pharaoh's secret: a novel from the NUMA files (w/ Graham Brown)
- Griffiths, Elly - Smoke and mirrors*
- Haas, Derek - A different lie
- Harrison, Mette Ivie - His right hand
- Hewson, David - The flood
- Holt, Jonathan - The absolution
- Howell, Katherine - Web of deceit
- Macmillan, Gilly - What she knew*
- Masello, Robert - The Einstein prophecy
- Massie, Allan - End games in Bordeaux
- McDermid, Val - Splinter the silence*
- Meyrick, Denzil - The last witness: a Detective Daley thriller
- Mina, Denise - Blood, salt, water (e-book)
- Mizushima, Margaret - Killing trail: a Timber Creek K-9 mystery
- Perry, Thomas - Forty thieves
- Tursten, Helene - The treacherous net (translated from the Swedish)
* Indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Abse, Dannie - Ask the moon: new and collected poems 1948-2014
- Phillips, Louis - The domain of silence/ the domain of absence: new & selected poems, 1963-2015
- Wieners, John - Supplication: selected poems (Joshua Beckman, et al., eds.)
- Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth) - Selected later poems
SHORT STORIES
- Simpson, Helen - Cockfosters
- Tomine, Adrian - Killing and dying: six stories
- The unprofessionals: new American writing from the Paris review (Lorin Stein, ed.)
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Batnitzky, Leora Faye - How Judaism became a religion: an introduction to modern Jewish thought
- Berlin Metropolis 1918-1933 (Olaf Peters, ed.)
- Charles, Douglas M. - Hoover's war on gays: exposing the FBI's "sex deviates" program
- Ellis, Markman - Empire of tea: the Asian leaf that conquered the world
- Guinier, Lani - The tyranny of the meritocracy: democratizing higher education in America
- McLean, Bethany - Shaky ground: the strange saga of the U.S. mortgage giants
- Miraldi, Robert - Seymour Hersh: scoop artist
- Morris, Edward L - Wall Streeters: the creators and corruptors of American finance
- Naylor, Sean - Relentless strike: the secret history of Joint Special Operations Command
- Neale, Tom - An island to oneself: the story of six years on a desert island
- Rand, Archie - The 613
- Rothko, Christopher - Mark Rothko: from the inside out
- Schama, Simon - The face of Britain: the nation through its portraits
- Strip cultures: finding America in Las Vegas (Stacy M. Jameson, Karen Klugman, Jane Kuenz, & Susan Willis, eds.)
- Turner, Adair - Between debt and the devil: money, credit, and fixing global finance
- Yeazell, Ruth Bernard - Picture titles: how and why Western paintings acquired their names
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- De Quincey, Thomas - Unpublished letters of Thomas De Quincey and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 92 D4265 D
- Markson, David - Fare forward: letters from David Markson 92 M34695 M
- Rakoff, David - The uncollected David Rakoff 828 R
- Rodden, John - The Cambridge introduction to George Orwell 828.09 O
FICTION
- Blondel, Jean-Philippe - The 6:41 to Paris (translated from the French) F B
- Déry, Tibor - Love and other stories (translated from the Hungarian; New Directions Classics) F D
- Filloy, Juan - Caterva (1937; translated from the Spanish) F F
- James, Marlon - John Crow's devil (2010 book by the author of A Brief History of Seven Killings) F J
- Wyndham, John - Chocky (1968; introduction by Margaret Atwood; New York Review Books) F W
POETRY
- Day Lewis, C. - The poet's way of knowledge 808.1 D
- Eliot, T. S - The poems of T. S. Eliot (2 volumes. Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue, eds.) 821.09 E
- Kennelly, Brendan - The essential Brendan Kennelly: selected poems 821 K
- Notley, Alice - Coming after: essays on poetry 821.09 N
ART
- al-Andalus: the art of Islamic Spain (Jerrilyn D. Dodds, ed.) 704.948 A
- Bidwell, John - Graphic passion: Matisse and the book arts 709.44 B
- Fisher, Robert E - Art of Tibet 709.51 F
- Jacobs, Michael - Everything is happening: journey into a painting 759.6 J
- Molesworth, Helen Anne - Leap before you look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 707 M
- Noon, Patrick J - Delacroix and the rise of modern art 759.4 D
- Peppiatt, Michael - Francis Bacon in your blood: a memoir 92 P4247 B
- Picasso sculpture (MoMA / Ann Temkin, et al., ed.) 730.92 P
ANCIENT CULTURES & CIVILIZATIONS
- Bresson, Alain - The making of the ancient Greek economy: institutions, markets, and growth in the city-states 330.93 B
- De la Bédoyère, Guy - The real lives of Roman Britain: a history of Roman Britain through the lives of those who were there 942.01 D
- Grajetzki, Wolfram - Burial customs in ancient Egypt: life in death for rich and poor 393 G
- Homer - The Iliad (new translation by Caroline Alexander) 883.1 H
PERFORMING ARTS
- Bradley, Doug - We gotta get out of this place: the soundtrack of the Vietnam War 780.973 B
- Brakhage, Stan - Essential Brakhage: selected writings on filmmaking 791.4 B
- Kramer, Lawrence - Why classical music still matters 781.6 K
- Lockwood, Lewis - Beethoven's symphonies: an artistic vision 785.11 L
- McGilligan, Patrick - Young Orson: the years of luck and genius on the path to Citizen Kane 92 W4494 M
- Riedel, Michael - Razzle dazzle: the battle for Broadway 792.0973 R
FASHION
- Mendes, Valerie D. - Fashion since 1900 (World of Art) 391 M
- Wilson, Andrew - Alexander McQueen: blood beneath the skin 92 M1731 W
- Wilson, Cintra - Fear and clothing: unbuckling American style 391.0973 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Bleicken, Jochen - Augustus: the biography 92 A923 B
- Brown, Brandon R. - Planck: driven by vision, broken by war 92 P7113 B
- Nawaz, Maajid - Radical: my journey out of Islamist extremism 92 N328 N
- Unger, Harlow G. - Henry Clay: America's greatest statesman 92 C619 U
- Vella, Christina - George Washington Carver: a life 92 C3313 V
HISTORY
- Bialoszewski, Miron - A memoir of the Warsaw uprising 940.48 B
- Crowley, Roger - Conquerors: how Portugal forged the first global empire 910.9 C
- Henderson, Gretchen E. - Ugliness: a cultural history 111 H
- Higham, N. J. - The Anglo-Saxon world 942.01 H
- The Nixon tapes: 1973 (Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter, eds.) 973.924 N
- Sublette, Ned - The American slave coast: a history of the slave-breeding industry 326 S
- Walker, Brett L. - A concise history of Japan 952 W
- Wilson, Andrew - The Ukrainians: unexpected nation 947.7 W
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Corera, Gordon - Intercept: the secret history of computers and spies 327.12 C
- Grey, Stephen - The new spymasters: inside the modern world of espionage from the Cold War to global terror 327.12 G
- Lownie, Andrew - Stalin's Englishman: the lives of Guy Burgess 92 B9556 L
WAR
- Ash, Stephen V. - Firebrand of liberty: the story of two Black regiments that changed the course of the Civil War 973.74 A
- Keyzer, Carl de - The First World War: unseen glass plate photographs of the Western front 940.49 K OVERSIZE
- Süss, Dietmar - Death from the skies: how the British and Germans survived bombing in World War II 940.544 S
- Symonds, Craig L. - The U.S. Navy: a concise history 359.0973 S
AFRICA
- Badkhen, Anna - Walking with Abel: journeys with the nomads of the African savannah 305.88 B
- Crossroads: women coming of age in today's Uganda (Christopher Conte, ed.) 305.4 C
- Singer, Ron - Uhuru revisited: interviews with African pro-democracy leaders 967 S
LATIN AMERICA
- The Chile reader: history, culture, politics (Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, ed.) 983 C
- The Ecuador reader: history, culture, politics (Carlos de la Torre, et al., eds.) 986 E
- Gardner, James - Buenos Aires: the biography of a city 982 G
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Abisaab, Rula Jurdi - Converting Persia: religion and power in the Safavid Empire 297.8 A
- Goldschmidt, Arthur - A concise history of the Middle East 956 G
- Robertson, John - Iraq: a history 956.7 R
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Chang, Gordon H. - Fateful ties: a history of America's preoccupation with China 327.73 C
- Hiro, Dilip - The longest August: the unflinching rivalry between India and Pakistan 327.54 H
- Riedel, Bruce O. - JFK's forgotten crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and Sino-Indian War 327.73 R
ECONOMICS
- Eichengreen, Barry J. - Globalizing capital: a history of the international monetary system 332.4 E
- Sowell, Thomas - On classical economics 330.1 S
- Wray, L. Randall - Why Minsky matters: an introduction to the work of a maverick economist 330.1 W
RELIGION
- Ahmed, Shahab - What is Islam?: the importance of being Islamic 297 A
- Gager, John G. - Who made early Christianity?: the Jewish lives of the Apostle Paul 225.92 P
- Kushner, Aviya - The grammar of God: a journey into the words and worlds of the Bible 220.4 K
NEW YORK
- The High Line: foreseen, unforeseen (James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro) 974.71 H
- Murray, James T. - Store front II: a history preserved: the disappearing face of New York 917.471 M OVERSIZE
- Savoring Gotham: a food lover's companion to New York City (Andrew F. Smith, ed.) 641 S
- Stettner, Louis - Louis Stettner: Penn Station, New York 779 S OVERSIZE
CARTOGRAPHY
- Barrie, David - Sextant: a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans 910.9 B
- Black, Jeremy - Metropolis: mapping the city 526.9 B OVERSIZE
- Brown, Richard H - Revolution: mapping the road to American independence 1755-1783 973.3 B OVERSIZE
- Map: exploring the world (Victoria Clarke, ed.) 526.9 M OVERSIZE
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Alexander, David E. - On the wing: insects, pterosaurs, birds, bats, and the evolution of animal flight 591 A
- Arcand, Kimberly K. - Light: the visible spectrum and beyond 535 A
- Dunn Chace, Teri - Seeing seeds: a journey into the world of seedheads, pods, and fruit 581 D
- Nelson, Craig - The age of radiance: the epic rise and dramatic fall of the atomic era 539.7 N
- Williams, Wendy - The horse: the epic history of our noble companion 636.1 W
FOOD & DRINK
- Meehan, Peter - Lucky peach presents 101 easy Asian recipes 641.5 M
- Wilson, Bee - First bite: how we learn to eat 641 W
AUDIO
- Byatt, A. S - The Matisse stories Lobby Audio-CD B
- Great authors of the western literary tradition (Teaching Co. 42 CDs) Audio-CD 809 G
- Modiano, Patrick - Missing person Lobby Audio-CD M
- Philbrick, Nathaniel - In the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex Lobby Audio-CD 910.4 P
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