New Books - April 2017
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Akyol, Mustafa, - The Islamic Jesus:how the King of the Jews became a prophet of the Muslims
- The best American Comics (Roz Chast & Bill Kartalopoulos, eds.)
- Buck, Joan Juliet - The price of illusion:a memoir
- Burdick, Alan - Why time flies:a mostly scientific investigation
- Clavin, Thomas - Dodge City:Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Cohan, William D. - Why Wall Street matters
- Didion, Joan - South and West:from a notebook (ebook available)
- Dunbar, Erica Armstrong - Never caught:the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Evans, Siân - Queen bees:six brilliant and extraordinary society hostesses between the wars
- Farley, Paul - Deaths of the poets
- Fraser, Antonia - Our Israeli diary:of that time, of that place, 8-22 May 1978
- Hajdu, David - Love for sale:pop music in America
- Halford, Macy - My utmost:a devotional memoir
- Hayden, Tom - Hell no:the forgotten power of the Vietnam peace movement
- Holmes, Richard - This long pursuit:reflections of a romantic biographer
- Hook, Philip - Rogues' gallery:a history of art and its dealers
- Isenberg, Noah William - We'll always have Casablanca:the life, legend, and afterlife of Hollywood's most beloved movie
- Jamison, Kay R. - Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire:a study of genius, mania, and character (ebook available)
- Kaz, Donna - Un/masked:memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour
- Knock, Thomas J. - The rise of a prairie statesman:the life and times of George McGovern
- Kurlansky, Mark - Havana:a subtropical delirium
- Lesser, Wendy - You say to brick:the life of Louis Kahn
- Lethem, Jonathan - More alive and less lonely:on books and writers
- Levy, Ariel - The rules do not apply:a memoir
- Mack, Doug - The Not-Quite States of America:dispatches from the territories and other far-flung outposts of the USA
- Miller, Scott - Agent 110:an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Nealon, Tom - Food fights & culture wars:a secret history of taste
- Orr, David - You, too, could write a poem:selected reviews and essays, 2000-2015
- Reiss, Benjamin - Wild nights:how taming sleep created our restless world
- Reynolds, Nicholas E. - Writer, sailor, soldier, spy:Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961
- Rhodehamel, John H. - George Washington:the wonder of the age
- Smith, Rebecca - The Jane Austen Writers' Club:inspiration and advice from the world's best-loved novelist
- Stamper, Kory - Word by word:the secret life of dictionaries
- Tylevich, Katya - My life as a work of art:the art world from start to finish
- Wodehouse, P. G. - Highballs for breakfast:the very best of P.G Wodehouse on the joys of a good stiff drink
FICTION
- Alcott, Kate. - The Hollywood daughter:a novel
- Attenberg, Jami. - All grown up
- Batuman, Elif - The idiot
- Beigbeder, Frédéric - Manhattan's babe (translated from the French by Adam Biles; illustrations by Rafael Alterio)
- Burnside, John - Ashland & Vine
- Butler, Nickolas - The hearts of men:a novel
- Canty, Kevin - The underworld
- Carrère, Emmanuel - The kingdom (translated from the French)
- Chaney, JoAnn - What you don't know
- Chaon, Dan - Ill will:a novel
- Charyn, Jerome - Jerzy:a novel
- Darnielle, John. - Universal harvester
- Dunant, Sarah - In the name of the family:a novel
- Erickson, Steve - Shadowbahn
- Francis, Richard - Crane pond:a novel of Salem
- Hamid, Mohsin - Exit west:a novel (ebook available)
- Heyns, Michiel - The typewriter's tale
- Hunt, Laird - The evening road
- Jarrar, Nada A. - An unsafe haven
- Jenoff, Pam - The orphan's tale
- Joy, David - The weight of this world
- Kadare, Ismail - The traitor's niche (translated from the Albanian)
- Kidd, Jess - Himself:a novel
- Kimani, Peter - Dance of the Jakaranda
- Kline, Christina Baker - A piece of the world:a novel
- Korelitz, Jean Hanff - The devil and Webster:a novel
- Kunzru, Hari - White tears
- LaFarge, Paul - The night ocean
- Lico Albanese, Laurie - Stolen beauty:a novel
- Lodato, Victor - Edgar and Lucy
- Mastai, Elan - All our wrong todays:a novel
- McKay, Claude - Amiable with big teeth:a novel of the love affair between the communists and the poor black sheep of Harlem
- Padura, Leonardo - Heretics (translated from the Spanish)
- Pears, Tim - The Horseman
- Petterson, Per - Echoland (translated from the Norwegian)
- Schlink, Bernhard - The woman on the stairs
- Schweblin, Samanta - Fever dream:a novel (translated from the Spanish)
- See, Lisa - The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane:a novel
- Seethaler, Robert - The tobacconist
- Shepard, Sam - The one inside
- Starnone, Domenico - Ties
- Umansky, Ellen - The fortunate ones:a novel
- Weldon, Fay - Before the war
- Wuertz, Yoojin Grace - Everything belongs to us:a novel
- More new Fiction listed below in stacks
MYSTERIES
- Beaton, M. C. - Death of a ghost*
- Bowen, Rhys - In Farleigh Field*
- Box, C. J. - Vicious circle:a Joe Pickett novel
- Brody, Frances - A death in the dales*
- Coulter, Catherine - The devil's triangle
- Crofts, Freeman Wills - The 12.30 from Croydon* (British Library Crime Classics)
- Cussler, Clive - The cutthroat
- Dobyns, Stephen - Saratoga payback:a Charlie Bradshaw mystery
- Downing, David - Lenin's roller coaster*
- Egan, Kevin - A shattered circle
- Eldridge, Jim - Shadows of the dead:an Inspector Stark mystery*
- Estleman, Loren D. - The lioness is the hunter:an Amos Walker novel
- Faye, Lyndsay - The whole art of detection:lost mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
- Flanders, Judith - A cast of vultures*
- Fluke, Joanne - Banana cream pie murder
- Gardner, Lisa - Right behind you:a novel
- Heller, Peter - Celine:a novel
- Iles, Greg - Mississippi blood
- Jance, Judith A. - Man overboard:an Ali Reynolds novel
- Kellerman, Faye - Bone box:a Decker/Lazarus novel
- Kent, Christobel - The loving husband*
- Kent, Kathleen - The dime
- Love, Melissa Scrivner - Lola:a novel
- Lovett, Charles C. - The lost book of the Grail, or, A visitor's guide to Barchester Cathedral*
- McKenzie, Catherine. - Fractured
- McKinty, Adrian - Police at the station and they don't look friendly:a Detective Sean Duffy novel
- Mark, David John - Cruel mercy*
- Masterman, Becky - A twist of the knife
- Parks, Brad - Say nothing:a novel
- Pattison, Eliot - Skeleton God
- Pears, Tim - The horseman
- Perry, Sarah - The Essex serpent*
- Ragnar Jónasson - Snowblind
- Spencer, Sally - The shivering turn:a Jennie Redhead mystery*
- Welsh, Kaite - The wages of sin
- Winspear, Jacqueline - In this grave hour:a novel*
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Bandi - The accusation
- Knight, Michael - Eveningland
- Shepard, Jim - The world to come
POETRY
- Baratynsky, E. A. - A science not for the earth:selected poems and letters (translated from the Russian)
- Five poets & their poems (Published by members of the New York Society Library poetry writing group: Firestone Feinberg, John Koller, Marilyn Mazur, Jane Simon, Marianne W. Schloss)
- Knott, Bill - I am flying into myself:selected poems 1960-2014
- Penguin Modern Poets 1: If I am scared we can't win (Emily Berry, Anne Carson, Sophie Collins)
- Penguin Modern Poets 2: Controlled explosions
- Penguin Modern Poets 3: Your family, your body (Malika Booker, Sharon Olds, Warsan Shire)
- More new poetry arrivals below
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Enrigue, Alvaro - Sudden death
- Fishman, Brian - The master plan: ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Jihadi strategy for final victory
- Ghosh, Amitav - The great derangement: climate change and the unthinkable
- Kiehl, J. T. - Facing climate change: an integrated path to the future
- Moskowitz, Peter - How to kill a city: gentrification, inequality, and the fight for the neighborhood
- Pen to paper: artists' handwritten letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art (Mary Savig, ed.)
- Vance, Erik - Suggestible you: the curious science of your brain's ability to deceive, transform, and heal
- Vogel, Steven - Why the wheel is round: muscles, technology, and how we make things move
- Wood, David Bowne - What have we done: the moral injury of our longest wars
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- 1917: stories and poems from the Russian revolution (selected by Boris Dralyuk) 891.7 N
- Austen, Jane - Mansfield Park: an annotated edition 823 A
- Bellos, David - The novel of the century: the extraordinary adventure of Les Misérables 843 B
- Bowles, Jane - Collected writings: Two serious ladies, In the summer house, stories & other writings, letters (Library of America) 820.81 B
- DiBattista, Maria - At home in the world: women writers and public life, from Austen to the present 820.9 D
- Fairy tales for the disillusioned: enchanted stories from the French decadent tradition (edited and translated by Gretchen Schultz & Lewis Seifert) 398.2 F
- A history of modern French literature: from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century (Christopher Prendergast, ed.) 840.9 H
- Shields, David - Other people: takes & mistakes 824 S
FICTION
- Javaxišvili, Mixeil - Kvachi (translated from the Georgian by Donald Rayfield) F J
- The man who thought himself a woman and other queer nineteenth-century short storiesF M
- Portis, Charles - Masters of Atlantis F P
- Robinson, Kim Stanley - New York 2140 F R
- Sharov, Vladimir - Before & during (translated from the Russian) F S
POETRY
- Brown, Molly McCully - The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: poems 821 B
- Eshleman, Clayton - My devotion 821 E
- Levine, Philip - 7 years from somewhere: poems 821 L
- Swift, Daniel - The bughouse: the poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound 821.09 P
- Walcott, Derek - Morning, Paramin 821 W
LANGUAGE
- Glinert, Lewis - The story of Hebrew 492.4 G
- Huddleston, Rodney D. - The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language HBR 425 H
- Seidenberg, Mark S. - Language at the speed of sight: how we read, why so many can't, and what can be done about it 401 S
ART & ARCHITECTURE
- Baroque and Rococo: architecture and decoration (Anthony Blunt, et al., eds.) 724 B
- Cragoe, Carol Davidson - How to read buildings: a crash course in architectural styles 720 C
- Drawings from the age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt: highlights from the collection of the Harvard Art Museums (William W. Robinson, eds.) 741.3 D
- Lemoine, Annick - Valentin de Boulogne: beyond Caravaggio 759.4 V
- Revolution: Russian art 1917-1932 (Royal Academy of Arts, London) 709.47 R
- Thomas, Nicholas - The return of curiosity: what museums are good for in the 21st century 069 T
- World War I and American art (Robert Cozzolino, et al., eds.) 709.73 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Carew, Keggie - Dadland: a journey into uncharted territory 92 C272 C
- Dickinson, Amy. - Strangers tend to tell me things: a memoir of love, loss, and coming home 92 D552 D
- Poser, Norman S. - Lord Mansfield: justice in the age of reason 92 M288 P
- Prochnik, George - Stranger in a strange land: searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem 92 S368 P
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Lloyd-Roberts, Sue - War on women: and the brave ones who fight back 305.4 L
- Paglia, Camille - Free women, free men: sex, gender, feminism 305.4 P
HISTORY
- Ekirch, A. Roger - American sanctuary: mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution 973.4 E
- Forrest, Susanna - The age of the horse: an equine journey through human history 636.1 F
- Hughes, Kathryn - Victorians undone: tales of the flesh in the age of decorum 942.08 H
- Hutchinson, Roger, - The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker: the story of Britain through its census, since 1801 942 H
- Lehrman, Lewis E. - Churchill, Roosevelt & company: studies in character and statecraft 940.532 L
- Pastoureau, Michel - Red: the history of a color 152 P
- Schutt, Bill. - Cannibalism: a perfectly natural history 394 S
- Whitman, James Q. - Hitler's American model: the United States and the making of Nazi race law 342.73 W
- Wilson, Jon E. - India conquered: Britain's Raj and the chaos of empire 954 W
ANTIQUITY
- De la Bédoyère, Guy - Praetorian: the rise and fall of Rome's imperial bodyguard 937.06 D
- Everitt, Anthony - The rise of Athens: the story of the world's greatest civilization 938 E
- Writings from ancient Egypt (Toby Wilkinson, ed.) 893 W
WAR
- Dumenil, Lynn - The second line of defense: American women and World War I 940.47 D
- France, John - Hattin 956.94 F
- Groom, Winston - The generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the winning of World War II 920 G899 G
- Johnson, William Bruce - The Pacific campaign in World War II: from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal 940.542 J
- World War I and America: told by the Americans who lived it (Library of America) 940.48 W
TRAVEL
- Burckhardt, John Lewis - Travel in Syria and the Holy Land 915.69 B
- Gill, A. A. - A.A. Gill is further away: helping with enquiries 910.4 G
- Welky, David - A wretched and precarious situation: in search of the last Arctic frontier 919.8 W
ECONOMICS
- Kishtainy, Niall - A little history of economics 330.9 K
- Moss, David A. - A concise guide to macroeconomics: what managers, executives, and students need to know 339 M
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Dabashi, Hamid - Iran without borders: towards a critique of the postcolonial nation 955 D
- Gelvin, James L., - The Israel-Palestine conflict: one hundred years of war 956.94 G
- Malek, Alia - The home that was our country: a memoir of Syria 956.9 M
POLITICS & GOVERNMENTS
- Camus, Jean-Yves - Far-right politics in Europe 320.9 C
- Moss, David A. - Democracy: a case study 320.9 M
- Snyder, Timothy - On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century 321.9 S
RELIGION
- Gorski, Philip S. - American covenant: a history of civil religion from the Puritans to the present 973 G
- Power, Carla - If the oceans were ink: an unlikely friendship and a journey to the heart of the Quran 297 P
- Schiavone, Aldo - Pontius Pilate: deciphering a memory 225.92 P
GARDENS
- Anderton, Stephen - Lives of the great gardeners 712 A
- Jekyll, Gertrude - The beauties of a cottage garden 635 J
- Takei, Jiro - Sakuteiki, visions of the Japanese garden: a modern translation of Japan's gardening classic 712 T
COOKING
- Bittman, Mark - How to bake everything: simple recipes for the best baking 641.86 B
- Chernila, Alana - The homemade pantry: 101 foods you can stop buying & start making 641.5 C
- Dunlop, Fuchsia - Every grain of rice: simple Chinese home cooking 641.5 D
SCIENCE
- Collins, H. M. - Gravity's kiss: the detection of gravitational waves 530.1 C
- Ings, Simon - Stalin and the scientists: a history of triumph and tragedy 1905-1953 947.084 I
- Watson, Peter - Convergence: the idea at the heart of science: how the different disciplines are coming together to tell one coherent, interlocking story, and making science the basis for other forms of knowledge 509 W
NEW YORK
- Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Barbaralee - The landmarks of New York: an illustrated, comprehensive record of New York city's historic buildings, historic districts, interior landmarks, sidewalk clocks, streetlights and cultural medallions (6th ed. 2016) Ref. 917.471 D
- Helmreich, William B. - The Brooklyn nobody knows: an urban walking guide 974.71 H
- Vornberger, Cal - Birds of New York City 598.2 V
- Webster, Nancy - A history of Brooklyn Bridge Park: how a community reclaimed and transformed New York City's waterfront 974.71 W
AUDIO BOOKS
- Chabon, Michael - Moonglow: a novel Lobby Audio-CD C
- Five American women (Read by the authors: Louise Bogan, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gertrude Stein, Muriel Rukeyser) Audio-CD 821 F
- Lawrence, D. H. - Sons and lovers Lobby Audio-CD L
- Murakami, Haruki - Blind willow, sleeping woman Lobby Audio-CD M