New Books - March 2016
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Bayard, Pierre - How to talk about places you've never been: on the importance of armchair travel (translated from the French by Michele Hutchison)
- Bergen, Peter L. - United States of Jihad: investigating America's homegrown terrorists
- Boland, Ed - The battle for Room 314: my year of hope and despair in a New York City high school
- Bordewich, Fergus M. - The First Congress: how James Madison, George Washington, and a group of extraordinary men invented the government
- Burns, Eric - The golden lad: the haunting story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt
- Cumming, Laura - The vanishing man: in pursuit of Velázquez
- Denby, David - Lit up: one reporter, three schools, twenty-four books that can change lives
- Donvan, John - In a different key: the story of autism
- Dyson, Michael Eric - The Black presidency: Barack Obama and the politics of race in America
- Goodman, Ruth - How to be a Tudor: a dawn-to-dusk guide to Tudor life
- Greenberg, David - Republic of spin: an inside history of the American presidency
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - In other words (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein)
- Lisicky, Paul - The narrow door: a memoir of friendship
- Littlefield, Nick - Lion of the Senate: when Ted Kennedy rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress (introduction by Doris Kearns Goodwin)
- Lynch, Jack - You could look it up: the reference shelf from ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
- Norton, Elizabeth - The temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the making of a virgin queen
- Offutt, Chris - My father, the pornographer: a memoir
- Prothero, Stephen R. - Why liberals win the culture wars (even when they lose elections): the battles that define America from Jefferson's heresies to gay marriage
- Ratliff, Ben - Every song ever: twenty ways to listen in an age of musical plenty
- Reed, Austin - The life and the adventures of a haunted convict (edited and with an introduction by Caleb Smith; foreword by David W. Blight and Robert B. Stepto)
- Scott, A. O. - Better living through criticism: how to think about art, pleasure, beauty, and truth
- Seabrook, John - The song machine: inside the hit factory
- Secor, Laura - Children of paradise: the struggle for the soul of Iran
- Sinha, Manisha - The slave's cause: a history of abolition
- Stein, Jean - West of Eden: an American place (e-book available)
- Van Dyke, Dick - Keep moving: and other tips and truths about aging
- Weidermann, Volker - Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark (translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway)
FICTION
- Aira, César - Dinner (translated by Katherine Silver)
- Alger, Cristina - This was not the plan
- Barnes, Julian - The noise of time
- Ben Jelloun, Tahar - The happy marriage (translated by André Naffis-Sahely)
- Benjamin, Melanie - The swans of Fifth Avenue
- Betancourt, Ingrid - The blue line
- Canin, Ethan - A doubter's almanac (e-book available)
- Chee, Alexander - The queen of the night
- Chirbes, Rafael - On the edge (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa)
- Cornwell, Bernard - Warriors of the storm
- Day, Elizabeth - Paradise city
- Gallagher, Matt - Youngblood
- Goldberg, Paul - The Yid
- Greenwell, Garth - What belongs to you
- Grushin, Olga - Forty rooms
- Han, Kang - The vegetarian (translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith)
- Hepworth, Sally - The things we keep
- Hill, Lawrence - The illegal
- Jacobson, Howard - Shylock is my name: The merchant of Venice retold
- Johnson, Julia Claiborne - Be frank with me
- Joinson, Suzanne - The photographer's wife
- Kelman, Stephen - Man on fire
- Kerangal, Maylis de - The heart (translated from the French by Sam Taylor)
- Khadra, Yasmina - The dictator's last night (translated from the French by Julian Evans)
- Martel, Yann - The high mountains of Portugal
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The revolving door of life: a 44 Scotland Street novel
- McKenzie, Elizabeth - The portable Veblen
- Molesini, Andrea - Not all bastards are from Vienna (translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar & Patrick Creagh)
- Pears, Iain - Arcadia
- Pinckney, Darryl - Black Deutschland
- Rakow, Mary - This is why I came
- Rawicz, Piotr - Blood from the sky (translated from the French by Peter Wiles; with an introduction by Lawrence Langer)
- Rosenblatt, Roger - Thomas Murphy
- Sherry, Maureen - Opening Belle
- Smith, Charlie - Ginny Gall: a life in the South
- Steel, Danielle - Blue: a novel
- Steinke, Rene - Friendswood
- Thomas, Michael M. - Fixers
- Wood, Lucy - Weathering
- Wray, John - The lost time accidents
MYSTERIES
- Alexander, Tasha - The adventuress: a Lady Emily mystery
- Archer, Jeffrey - Cometh the hour*
- Arnaldur Indriðason - Into oblivion: an Icelandic thriller (translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb)
- Arsenault, Emily - The evening spider*
- Barton, Fiona - The widow*
- Berenson, Alex - The wolves
- Blædel, Sara - The killing forest (translated by Mark Kline)
- Brody, Frances - Murder on a summer's day *
- Burke, Alafair - The ex
- Coleman, Reed Farrel - Where it hurts
- Connell, John A. - Spoils of victory: a Mason Collins novel
- Coonts, Stephen - The art of war
- Dams, Jeanne M. - Blood will tell
- Eisler, Barry - The God's eye view
- Estleman, Loren D. - Shoot
- Gardner, Lisa - Find her
- Hall, Parnell - Presumed puzzled: a Puzzle Lady mystery
- Hamer, Kate - The girl in the red coat*
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - One under: a Bill Slider mystery *
- Henshaw, Mark - The fall of Moscow station
- Holt, Anne - The lion's mouth: a Hanne Wilhelmsen novel (translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce)
- Hurley, Graham - The order of things*
- Jones, Stan - Tundra kill
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Breakdown: an Alex Delaware novel
- La Plante, Lynda - Tennison*
- Lansdale, Joe R. - Honky tonk samurai
- Law, J. S. - Tenacity: a thriller*
- Lupton, Rosamund - The quality of silence
- Margolin, Phillip. - Violent crimes
- Mark, David John - Dead pretty*
- May, Peter - Coffin Road *
- Montanari, Richard - Shutter man
- Muller, Marcia - The plague of thieves affair
- Murder at the manor: country house mysteries (British Library Crime Classics; Martin Edwards, ed.*)
- Nesbø, Jo - Midnight sun (translated from the Norwegian by Neil Smith) (e-book available)
- Patterson, James - NYPD Red 4 (w/Marshall Karp)
- Redling, S. G. - Baggage
- Robb, J. D. - Brotherhood in death
- Searle, Nicholas - The good liar*
- Sears, Michael - Saving Jason
- Song, Ying - Apricot's revenge: a crime novel (translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin)
- Spencer, Sally - Thicker than water*
- Thompson, Victoria - Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue: a gaslight mystery
- White, Dave - An empty hell: a Jackson Donne novel
- Wilson, Edward - A very British ending*
- Wynne, Anthony - Murder of a lady: a Scottish mystery (British Library Crime Classics; introduction by Martin Edwards)*
POETRY
- Ginsberg, Allen- Wait till I'm dead: uncollected poems
- Gioia, Dana - 99 poems: new & selected
- Macdonald, Helen - Shaler's fish: poems
- O'Brien, Sean - Collected poems
- Seidel, Frederick - Widening income inequality: poems
SHORT STORIES
- Parker, Amy - Beasts & children
- Straub, Peter - Interior darkness: selected stories
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Barnett, Cynthia - Rain: a natural and cultural history
- Frankopan, Peter. - The Silk Roads: a new history of the world
- Frebel, Anna - Searching for the oldest stars: ancient relics from the early universe (translated by Ann M. Hentschel)
- Hislop, Susanna - Stories in the stars: an atlas of constellations
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- The big red book of modern Chinese literature: writings from the Mainland in the long twentieth century (Yunte Huang, ed.) 895.1 B
- Boxall, Peter - The value of the novel 809.3 B
- Egginton, William - The man who invented fiction: how Cervantes ushered in the modern world 863 E
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - The essential Goethe 820.81 G
- Harris, Alexandra - Weatherland: writers & artists under English skies 820.9 H
- Howe, Susan - The birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history 820.9 H
- Taylor, D. J. - The prose factory: literary life in Britain since 1918 820.9 T
FICTION
- Barbey d'Aurevilly, J. - Diaboliques: six tales of decadence (translated from the French) 843 B
- Marani, Diego - God's dog (translated from the Italian) F M
- Modiano, Patrick - Out of the dark (translated from the French) F M
- Pearlman, Edith, - Love among the greats and other stories F P
- Stifter, Adalbert, - The bachelors (translated from the German) F S
- Wheelwright, Ebenezer, - The Salem belle: a tale of 1692 , F W
POETRY
- Apollinaire, Guillaume - Zone: selected poems (translated from the French by Ron Padgett) 841 A
- Follain, Jean - Transparence of the world (translated from the French by W.S. Merwin) 841 F
- Freeman, Philip, - Searching for Sappho: the lost songs and world of the first woman poet: including new translations of all of Sappho's surviving poetry 884.2 F
- Hall, Donald - Poetry and ambition: essays, 1982-88 809.1 H
- Porter, Bill - Finding them gone: visiting China's poets of the past 895.1 P
- Sexton, Anne - No evil star: selected essays, interviews, and prose 821.09 S
- Simic, Charles - Wonderful words, silent truth: essays on poetry and a memoir 821.09 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Adamson, Peter - Philosophy in the Islamic world: a very short introduction 181.5 A
- Comte, Auguste - Auguste Comte and positivism: the essential writings 194 C
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm - Anti-education: on the future of our educational institutions 370.1 N
- Trawny, Peter - Heidegger and the myth of a Jewish world conspiracy 193 T
ART & ARCHITECTURE
- Allara, Pamela - Pictures of people: Alice Neel's American portrait gallery 759.1 N
- Braun, Emily - Alberto Burri: the trauma of painting 709.2 B
- Hopkins, Andrew - Italian architecture: from Michelangelo to Borromini 720.945 H
- Lin, Maya Ying - Maya Lin: topologies 720.92 L
- Lowry, Glenn D. - Designing the new Museum of Modern Art 708.1 L
- Man Ray - Man Ray: writings on art 704 M
- Spira, Freyda - The power of prints: the legacy of William M. Ivins and A. Hyatt Mayor 760 S
- Standring, Timothy J. - Castiglione: lost genius (1609–64) 709.2 C
- Willenbrink, Mark - Drawing for the absolute beginner: a clear & easy guide to successful drawing 740 W
LIBRARIES
- Howe, Susan - Spontaneous particulars: the telepathy of archives 026 H
- Mann, Thomas - The Oxford guide to library research Ref. 025.5 M
- Schnapp, Jeffrey T. - The library beyond the book 021 S
BOOKS & READING
- Forsyth, Mark - The unknown unknown: bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted 655.5 F
- Walmsley, Ann - The prison book club 365 W
JOURNALISM
- The little magazine in contemporary America (Ian Morris and Joanne Diaz, eds.) 050 L
- Michaeli, Ethan - The defender: how the legendary Black newspaper changed America: from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama 070 M
WRITING
- Clark, Roy Peter - The art of X-ray reading: how the secrets of 25 great works of literature will improve your writing 808 C
- Eckstut, Arielle - The essential guide to getting your book published: how to write it, sell it, and market it-- successfully! 070.5 E
- Why we write about ourselves: twenty memoirists on why they expose themselves (and others) in the name of literature (Meredith Maran, ed.) 808 M
PERFORMING ARTS
- Baker, William F. - The world's your stage: how performing artists can make a living while still doing what they love 790 B
- Margotin, Philippe - Bob Dylan: all the songs: the story behind every track 784.6 M
- Perez, Gilberto - The material ghost: films and their medium 791.4 P
- Winer, Deborah Grace - On the sunny side of the street: the life and lyrics of Dorothy Fields 782.14 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Birzer, Bradley J. - Russell Kirk, American conservative 92 K590 B
- Francis, Lesley Lee - You come too: my journey with Robert Frost 92 F9393 F
- Graham, Ian - Scarlet women: the scandalous lives of courtesans, concubines, and royal mistresses 305.4 G
- Horspool, David - Richard III: a ruler and his reputation 92 R5113 H
- James, Henry - Autobiographies 92 J28 J
- Mankiewicz, Frank - So as I was saying: my somewhat eventful life 92 M2782 M
- Roberts, Randy - Blood brothers: the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 920 R649 B
- Sacks, Oliver - Gratitude 92 S12156 S
- Weisberg, Jacob - Ronald Reagan 92 R2878 W
HISTORY
- Barnhisel, Greg - Cold War modernists: art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy 973.92 B
- Breen, Patrick H. - The land shall be deluged in blood: a new history of the Nat Turner Revolt 975.5 B
- Breen, T. H. - George Washington's journey: the President forges a new nation 973.4 B
- Faragher, John Mack - Eternity Street: violence and justice in frontier Los Angeles 979.49 F
- Jeffery, Keith - 1916: a global history 909.82 J
- Ji, Xianlin - The cowshed: memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution 951 J
- Kaplan, Robert D. - In Europe's shadow: two Cold Wars and a thirty-year journey through Romania and beyond 949.8 K
- Smith, Page - Tragic encounters: the people's history of Native Americans 970.1 S
- Winkler, Heinrich August - The age of catastrophe: a history of the West, 1914-1945 909.83 W
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
- Bowersock, G. W. - Empires in collision in late antiquity 939.4 B
- Tracy, Stephen V. - Pericles: a sourcebook and reader 92 P441 T
- Wilkinson, Toby A. H. - Genesis of the pharaohs: dramatic new discoveries that rewrite the origins of ancient Egypt 932 W
LATIN AMERICA
- The Dominican Republic reader: history, culture, politics (Eric Paul Roorda, et al., eds.) 972.93 D
- Grillo, Ioan, - Gangster warlords: drug dollars, killing fields, and the new politics of Latin America 363.45 G
- The Guatemala reader: history, culture, politics (Greg Grandin, et al., eds.) 972.8 G
WAR
- Davies, Norman - Trail of hope: the Anders army, an odyssey across three continents 940.5412 D OVERSIZE
- Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith - Roman warfare 937 G
- Willis, Sam - The struggle for sea power: a naval history of the American Revolution 973.35 W
- Wittner, Lawrence S. - Confronting the bomb: a short history of the world nuclear disarmament movement 341.6 W
- Yamashita, Samuel Hideo - Daily life in wartime Japan, 1940-1945 940.5352 Y
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Gerstle, Gary - Liberty and coercion: the paradox of American government from the founding to the present 320.9 G
- Norton, Anne - Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire 320.1 N
- Oppenheimer, Daniel - Exit right: the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century 324.273 O
RELIGION
- Deitsch, Chaya - Here and there: leaving Hasidism, keeping my family 92 D325 D
- Jacoby, Susan - Strange gods: a secular history of conversion 204 J
- Rawls, John - A brief inquiry into the meaning of sin and faith: with "On my religion" 230 R
- Römer, Thomas - The invention of God 296.2 R
- Walzer, Michael - The revolution of the saints: a study in the origins of radical politics 274.2 W
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Axworthy, Michael - Revolutionary Iran: a history of the Islamic republic 955 A
- Engel, Richard - And then all hell broke loose: two decades in the Middle East 956 E
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Gordon, Robert J. - The rise and fall of American growth: the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War 330.973 G
- Quinn, Jane Bryant - How to make your money last: the indispensable retirement guide 332 Q
- Ross, Alec - The industries of the future 338 R
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Adams, Max - In the land of giants: journey through the Dark Ages 942.01 A
- Gimlette, John - Elephant complex: travels in Sri Lanka 915.4 G
- Smith, Annick - Crossing the plains with Bruno 92 S6426 S
- Sturgis, Matthew - When in Rome: 2000 years of Roman sightseeing 945.6 S
FOOD
- Garten, Ina - Make it ahead 641.5 G
- Norman, Jill - Herbs & spices: the cook's reference 641.5 N
SCIENCE
- Hands, John - Cosmosapiens: human evolution from the origin of the universe 577 H
- Steltzner, Adam - The right kind of crazy: a true story of teamwork, leadership, and high-stakes innovation 629.4 S
- Watson, Bruce - Light: a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age 535 W
NEW YORK
- Vecchione, Mike - Crooked Brooklyn: taking down corrupt judges, dirty politicians, killers, and body snatchers 364.13 V
- Wanzer-Serrano, Darrel - The New York Young Lords and the struggle for liberation 323.1 W
- Young, Anthony - New York Café Society: the elite meet to see and be seen, 1920s-1940s 974.71 Y
AUDIO
- Ashbery, John,- John Ashbery (Voice of the Poet) Audio-CD 821 A
- Berlin, Lucia - A manual for cleaning women: selected stories Lobby Audio-CD B
- Bishop, Elizabeth - Elizabeth Bishop (Voice of the Poet) Audio-CD 821 B
- Garland, Robert - The other side of history;daily life in the ancient world (Teaching Co. Lectures) Audio-CD 909 G
- Groff, Lauren - Fates and furies: a novel Lobby Audio-CD G
- Plath, Sylvia - Sylvia Plath (Voice of the Poet) Audio-CD 821 P
- Portis, Charles - True grit (read by Donna Tartt) Lobby Audio-CD P
- Strout, Elizabeth. - My name is Lucy Barton: a novel Lobby Audio-CD S
- Williams, William Carlos, - William Carlos Williams (Voice of the Poet) Audio-CD 821 W
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