New Books - October 2016
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Arlen, Alice - The huntress: the adventures, escapades, and triumphs of Alicia Patterson: aviatrix, sportswoman, journalist, publisher
- Brown, Ian - Sixty: a diary of my sixty-first year: the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?
- Bullock, Darryl W. - Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!!: the life of the world's worst opera singer
- Burnett, Carol - In such good company: eleven years of laughter, mayhem, and fun in the sandbox
- Cohen, Richard M. - She made me laugh: my friend Nora Ephron
- Fletcher, Catherine - The black prince of Florence: the spectacular life and treacherous world of Alessandro de' Medici
- Franklin, Ruth - Shirley Jackson: a rather haunted life
- Freedman, Paul - Ten restaurants that changed America
- Gottlieb, Robert - Avid reader: a life (ebook available)
- Greif, Mark - Against everything: essays
- Houston, Keith - The book: a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time
- Kanigel, Robert - Eyes on the street: the life of Jane Jacobs (ebook available)
- Kidder, Tracy - A truck full of money
- King, Ross - Mad enchantment: Claude Monet and the painting of the water lilies
- Le Carré, John - The pigeon tunnel: stories from my life (ebook available)
- Lee Shetterly, Margot - Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Lelyveld, Joseph - His final battle: the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Marton, Kati - True believer: Stalin's last American spy
- Melton, Glennon Doyle - Love warrior
- Polk, Sam - For the love of money: a memoir
- Rinaldi, Tom - The red bandanna
- Spiegelman, Willard - Senior moments: looking back, looking ahead
- Thompson, Heather Ann - Blood in the water: the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy
- Thompson, Laura - The six: the lives of the Mitford sisters (ebook available)
- Wolfe, Tom - The kingdom of speech (ebook available)
- Wright, Lawrence - The terror years: from al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- Yong, Ed - I contain multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life
FICTION
- Alison, Jane - Nine Island
- Balson, Ronald H. - Karolina's twins
- Broun, Bill - Night of the animals
- Brown, Eleanor - The light of Paris
- Burke, James Lee - The jealous kind
- Carr, Caleb - Surrender, New York (ebook available)
- Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth - The Hamilton affair
- Davies, Peter Ho - The fortunes
- Davis, Fiona - The dollhouse
- Donaldson, Jesse - The more they disappear
- Donoghue, Emma - The wonder
- Doughty, Louise - Black water
- Foer, Jonathan Safran - Here I am (ebook available)
- Hill, Nathan - The nix
- Huntley, Swan - We could be beautiful
- Kelman, James - Dirt road
- Koch, Herman - Dear Mr. M (translated from the Dutch)
- Konar, Affinity - Mischling
- Lyons, CJ - Last light: a Beacon Falls novel, featuring Lucy Guardino
- McBride, Eimear - The lesser bohemians
- McEwan, Ian - Nutshell (ebook available)
- McGinniss, Joe - Carousel court
- Meadows, Rae - I will send rain
- Moore, Graham, - The last days of night
- Patchett, Ann - Commonwealth (ebook available)
- Rash, Ron - The risen
- Rathbone, Emma - Losing it
- Ryan, William - The constant soldier
- Shalev, Meir - Two she-bears (translated from the Hebrew)
- Storey, Erik - Nothing short of dying: a Clyde Barr novel
- Torné de la Guardia, Gonzalo - Divorce is in the air (translated from the Spanish)
- Tremain, Rose - The Gustav sonata
- Trueba, David - Blitz (translated from the Spanish)
- Wieringa, Tommy - A beautiful young wife (translated from the Dutch)
- Wilkins, Damien - Max Gate
- Woof, Emily - The lightning tree
- Yun, Jung - Shelter
MYSTERIES
- Aspe, Pieter- The fourth figure: a Pieter Van In mystery (translated from the Flemish)
- Beaton, M. C - Pushing up daisies: an Agatha Raisin mystery *
- Bingham, Harry - The dead house: Fiona Griffiths book 5*
- Bradley, C. Alan - Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd: a Flavia de Luce novel*
- Bruen, Ken - The emerald lie
- Coben, Harlan - Home
- Coleman, Reed Farrel - Robert B. Parker's Debt to pay: a Jesse Stone novel
- Cussler, Clive - Pirate: a Sam and Remi Fargo adventure
- Daniels, Robert - Wake the devil: a thriller
- DeSilva, Bruce - The dread line
- Fossum, Karin - Hell fire (translated from the Norwegian)
- Gregson, J. M. - Final act: a Lambert & Hook police procedural*
- Gross, Andrew - The one man
- Hannah, Sophie - Closed casket: the new Hercule Poirot mystery*
- Hiaasen, Carl - Razor girl
- Holm, Chris F. - Red right hand
- Holt, Anne - No echo: a Hanne Wilhelmsen novel (w/ Berit Reiss-Andersen; translated from the Norwegian)
- Inbinder, Gary - The hanged man: a mystery in fin-de-siècle Paris
- Jance, Judith A. - Downfall: a Brady novel of suspense
- Johnson, Craig - An obvious fact
- Krueger, William Kent - Manitou Canyon
- Lasdun, James - The fall guy: a novel
- Macmillan, Gilly - The perfect girl *
- Marwood, Alex - The darkest secret*
- Mosby, Steve - The reckoning on Cane Hill *
- Mullen, Thomas - Darktown
- Neville, Stuart - So say the fallen*
- O'Connell, Carol - Blind sight
- Oswald, James - The damage done
- Paris, B. A - Behind closed doors
- Patterson, James - Bullseye
- Perry, Anne - Revenge in a cold river: a William Monk novel *
- Robb, J. D. - Apprentice in death
- Slaughter, Karin - The kept woman
- Stewart, Amy - Lady cop makes trouble
- Todd, Charles - The shattered tree
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Bernhard, Thomas - Goethe dies (translated from the German)
POETRY
- Feinman, Alvin- Corrupted into song: the complete poems of Alvin Feinman (Deborah Dorfman, ed.; foreword by Harold Bloom; introduction by James Geary)
- Oswald, Alice - Falling awake
- Ponsot, Marie - Collected poems
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Dahl, Roald - Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's letters to his mother 92 D1312 D
- Davies, Robertson - A Celtic temperament: Robertson Davies as diarist 92 D257 D
- Lang, Amy Schrager - Prophetic woman: Anne Hutchinson and the problem of dissent in the literature of New England 820.9 L
- Life from elsewhere: journeys through world literature (Pushkin Press) 809 L
- Palermo, Patricia E. - The message of the city: Dawn Powell's New York novels, 1925-1962 823 P
- Robertson, Ritchie - Goethe: a very short introduction 831.09 G
- Salter, James - Conversations with James Salter 828 S
- Short flights: thirty-two modern writers share aphorisms of insight, inspiration and wit (James Lough & Alex Stein, eds.) 808.8 S
FICTION
- Adams, Clifton - Death's sweet song; Whom gods destroy (two 1950s Gold Medal noir novels) F A
- Alzamora, Sebastià - Blood crime (translated from the Catalan by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent) F A
- Ben Jelloun, Tahar - By fire: writings on the Arab Spring ( translated from the French and with an introduction by Rita S. Nezami) F B
- Benjamin, Walter - The storyteller: tales out of loneliness (translated from the German; Sam Dolbear, et al., eds.) F B
- Duras, Marguerite - Abahn, Sabana, David: a novel (translated from the French by Kazim Ali) F D
- Healy, Dermot - The collected short stories F H
POETRY
- Burt, Stephen - The poem is you: 60 contemporary American poems and how to read them 821.09 B
- A choice of Anglo-Saxon verse (introduction and a parallel verse translation by Richard Hamer) 829 C
- Hayes, Terrance - How to be drawn 821 H
- Levine, Philip - So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews 821.09 L
- Levy, D. A - The Buddhist third class junkmail oracle: the selected poetry & art of D.A. Levy 821 L
- Li Po and Tu Fu (translated from the Chinese by Arthur Cooper) 895.1 L
- Sonnets: 150 contemporary sonnets (William Baer, ed.) 821 S
SHAKESPEARE
- Johnson, Samuel - Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare 822.33 C
- Palfrey, Simon - Shakespeare's dead 822.33 C
- The Shakespeare circle: an alternative biography (Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, eds.) 822.33 92 S
ART
- America after the fall: painting in the 1930s (Judith A. Barter, ed.) 759.1 A
- Botticelli reimagined (Mark Evans & Stefan Weppelmann, eds.) 759.5 B
- Irwin, David G. - Neoclassicism (Phaidon Art & Ideas) 709 I
- Kandel, Eric R. - Reductionism in art and brain science: bridging the two cultures 704 K
- Manet, Julie - Growing up with the impressionists: the diary of Julie Manet 759.4 M
ARCHITECTURE
- Bacon, Mardges - Le Corbusier in America: travels in the land of the timid 720.92 L
- Collins, Peter - Changing ideals in modern architecture, 1750-1950 724 C
- Form and function: a source book for the History of architecture and design 1890-1939 (Tim and Charlotte Benton, eds.) 724 F
- Stamp, Gavin - Edwin Lutyens: country houses : from the archives of Country life 728.8 S
DECORATIVE ARTS & DESIGN
- Muthesius, Stefan - The poetic home: designing the 19th-century domestic interior 747 M
- Rybczynski, Witold - Now I sit me down: from klismos to plastic chair : a natural history 749 R
- Warren, Elizabeth V. - Red & white quilts: infinite variety 746 W
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Duncan, David Douglas - My 20th century 770 D
- Friedlander, Lee - Lee Friedlander portraits 770 F
- Swensen, James R. - Picturing migrants: The grapes of wrath and New Deal documentary photography 770 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Denby, Edwin - Dance writings & poetry 792.8 D
- Dyer, Richard - Heavenly bodies: film stars and society 791.4 D
- Lobenthal, Joel - Wilde times: Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the rise of New York City Ballet 792.8 L
- Thomson, Virgil - The state of music & other writings 780.8 T
BIOGRAPHY
- Ackerman, Kenneth D. - Trotsky in New York, 1917: a radical on the eve of revolution 92 T8585 A
- Collins, Lauren - When in French: love in a second language 92 C71248 C
- Merrifield, Andy - John Berger (Critical Lives series, Reaktion Press), 828.09 B
- Rollyson, Carl E. - Confessions of a serial biographer 808 R
- Starnes, Rachel - The war at home: a wife's search for peace (and other missions impossible) 92 S7959 S
- Ullrich, Volker - Hitler: ascent, 1889-1939 92 H675 U
ANTIQUITY
- Harris, William V. - Roman power: a thousand years of empire 937 H
- Lefkowitz, Mary R. - Euripides and the gods 882.3 L
- Marek, Christian - In the land of a thousand gods: a history of Asia Minor in the ancient world 939.2 M
- Nart sagas: ancient myths and legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians (assembled, translated, and annotated by John Colarusso with a new introduction by Adrienne Mayor) 398.2 N
HISTORY
- Benjamin, Vernon - The history of the Hudson River Valley: from the Civil War to modern times 974.7 B
- Campbell, B. M. S. - The great transition: climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world 940.1 C
- Cole, Tim - Holocaust landscapes 940.5315 C
- Condon, Sean - Shays's Rebellion: authority and distress in post-revolutionary America 974.4 C
- Frost, Robert I. - The Oxford history of Poland-Lithuania 940.1 F
- Lowenthal, David - The past is a foreign country - revisited 901 L
- McGinty, Brian - The rest I will kill: William Tillman and the unforgettable story of how a free black man refused to become a slave 973.74 M
- Monson, Marianne - Frontier grit: the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women 920 M755 F
WAR
- Coates, Karen J. - Eternal harvest: the legacy of American bombs in Laos 959.4 C
- Danner, Mark - Spiral: trapped in the forever war (War on Terror) 355.0973 D
- Murray, Williamson - A savage war: a military history of the Civil War 973.73 M
- Sodei, Rinjiro - Dear General MacArthur: letters from the Japanese during the American occupation 952 S
- Wortman, Marc - 1941: fighting the shadow war : a divided America in a world at war 940.5373 W
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Kalb, Marvin L. - Imperial gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the new Cold War 947.7 K
- Kennan, George F. - Interviews with George F. Kennan 327.73 K
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Bar-Joseph, Uri - The angel: the Egyptian spy who saved Israel 327.12 B
- Budiansky, Stephen - Code warriors: NSA's codebreakers and the secret intelligence war against the Soviet Union 327.12 B
- Moran, Christopher R. - Company confessions: secrets, memoirs, and the CIA 327.12 M
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
- Jeffries, Stuart - Grand Hotel Abyss: the lives of the Frankfurt School 301 J
- Said, Edward W. - Interviews with Edward W. Said 306 S
- Stedman Jones, Gareth - Karl Marx: greatness and illusion 335.4 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Fondane, Benjamin - Existential Monday: Philosophical essays 194 F
- Nussbaum, Martha Craven - Anger and forgiveness: resentment, generosity, justice 179 N
- Smith, Steven B. - Modernity and its discontents: making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow 149 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Dombek, Kristin - The selfishness of others: an essay on the fear of narcissism 155.2 D
- Gopnik, Alison - The gardener and the carpenter: what the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children 155.4 G
- Nehamas, Alexander - On friendship 177 N
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Braverman, Blair - Welcome to the goddamn ice cube: chasing fear and finding home in the great white north 92 B8262 B
- Elder, John - Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: from Vermont to Italy in the footsteps of George Perkins Marsh 304.2 E
- Kelsey, Harry - The first circumnavigators: unsung heroes of the age of discovery 910.9 K
- Seal, Graham - The savage shore: extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery 994 S
SCIENCE
- Natarajan, Priyamvada - Mapping the heavens: the radical scientific ideas that reveal the cosmos 523.1 N
- Pyne, Lydia V. - Seven skeletons: the evolution of the world's most famous human fossils 573 P
- Stafford, Fiona J. - The long, long life of trees 582 S
MEDICINE & HEALTH
- Dittrich, Luke - Patient H.M.: a story of memory, madness and family secrets 617 D
- Gorman, Sara E. - Denying to the grave : why we ignore the facts that will save us 362.1 G
- Prasad, Vinayak K. - Ending medical reversal: improving outcomes, saving lives 615 P
- Shah, Sonia - Pandemic: tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond 614.4 S
RELIGION
- Brown, Raymond E. - An introduction to the New Testament: the abridged edition 225.6 B
- Caldwell, Patricia - The Puritan conversion narrative: the beginnings of American expression 248 C
- Hillenbrand, Carole - Introduction to Islam: beliefs and practices in historical perspective 297 H
- Nolt, Steven M. - The Amish: a concise introduction 289.9 N
- Visotzky, Burton L. - Aphrodite and the rabbis: how the Jews adapted Roman culture to create Judaism as we know it 296 V
NEW YORK
- Barr, Jason M. - Building the skyline: the birth and growth of Manhattan's skyscrapers 333 B
- Berg, Bruce F. - Healing Gotham: New York City's public health policies for the twenty-first century 362.1 B
- Cohen, John - Cheap rents: ...and de Kooning : the downtown art world, New York, 1957-63 779 C
- Goodwin, Aaron - New York City Municipal Archives: an authorized guide for family historians 929.3 G
- Whalen, Robert Weldon - Murder, Inc., and the moral life: gangsters and gangbusters in La Guardia's New York 364.1 W
AUDIO
- Chesterton, G. K - The innocence of Father Brown Lobby Audio-CD C
- Lively, Penelope - Family album Lobby Audio-CD L
- Strout, Elizabeth - Amy and Isabelle Lobby Audio-CD S