New Books - July 2019
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Why I like this story (Jackson R. Bryer; contributors include Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Alice McDermott, Annie Proulx, more)
- Ackerman, Elliot - Places and names: on war, revolution, and returning
- Aguirre, Anthony - Cosmological Koans: a journey to the heart of physical reality
- Ahlenberg, Janis - Leave the lights on when you go: a memoir
- Allen, Samantha - Real queer America: LGBT stories from red states
- Boase, Tessa - Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather: fashion, fury and feminism - women's fight for change
- Cone, David- Full count: the education of a pitcher
- Conforth, Bruce M. - Up jumped the devil: the real life of Robert Johnson
- Connell, John - The farmer's son: calving season on a family farm
- Hemon, Aleksandar - My parents: an introduction & This does not belong to you (two memoirs)
- Hirshman, Linda R. - Reckoning: the epic battle against sexual abuse and harassment
- Johnson, Lauren - The shadow king: the life and death of Henry VI
- Knausgård, Karl Ove - So much longing in so little space: the art of Edvard Munch (translated from the Norwegian)
- Knott, Sarah - Mother is a verb: an unconventional history
- Lynskey, Dorian - The ministry of truth: a biography of George Orwell's 1984
- Macfarlane, Robert - Underland: a deep time journey
- Martin, Peter - The dictionary wars: the American fight over the English language
- Matzen, Robert, - Dutch girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- McChrystal, Stanley A. - Leaders: myth and reality
- McKibben, Bill - Falter: has the human game begun to play itself out?
- Mehta, Suketu - This land is our land: an immigrant's manifesto
- Orton, Erik - Seven at sea: why a New York City family cast off convention for a life-changing year on a sailboat
- Rose, Sarah - D-Day girls: the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
- Satow, Julie - The Plaza: the secret life of America's most famous hotel
- Saxton, Martha. - The widow Washington: the life of Mary Washington
- Schjeldahl, Peter - Hot, cold, heavy, light: 100 art writings, 1988-2018
- Sciutto, Jim - The shadow war: inside Russia's and China's secret operations to defeat America
- Serge, Victor - Notebooks: 1936-1947 (translated from the French)
- Shnayerson, Michael - Boom: mad money, mega dealers, and the rise of contemporary art
- Stern, Howard - Howard Stern comes again
- Stone, Robert - Chasing the moon: the people, the politics, and the promise that launched America into the space age
- Taraborrelli, J. Randy.- The Kennedy heirs: John, Caroline, and the new generation; a legacy of triumph and tragedy
- Webber, Michael E. - Power trip: the story of energy
- Wheelis, Joan - The known, the secret, the forgotten: a memoir
- Will, George F. - The conservative sensibility
FICTION
- Acampora, Lauren - The paper wasp: a novel
- Baker, Jo - The body lies
- Barenbaum, Rachel. - A bend in the stars
- Bourdeaut, Olivier - Waiting for Bojangles: a novel (translated from the French)
- Collins, Sara - The confessions of Frannie Langton: a novel
- Correa, Armando Lucas - The daughter's tale: a novel (translated from the Spanish)
- Crouch, Blake - Recursion: a novel
- Cusset, Catherine - Life of David Hockney: a novel (translated from the French)
- Dennis-Benn, Nicole - Patsy: a novel
- Dugoni, Robert - The extraordinary life of Sam Hell: a novel
- Fremantle, Elizabeth - The poison bed
- Gilbert, Elizabeth - City of girls (ebook available)
- Gordon, John R. - Drapetomania, or, The narrative of Cyrus Tyler & Abednego Tyler, lovers: a novel
- Green, Jane - The friends we keep
- Haddon, Mark - The porpoise: a novel
- Haynes, Natalie - A thousand ships
- Hickey, Christine Dwyer - The narrow land
- Hilderbrand, Elin - Summer of '69
- Kane, Jessica Francis - Rules for visiting
- Koch, Herman - The ditch: a novel (translated from the Dutch)
- Kwok, Jean - Searching for Sylvie Lee: a novel
- Mason, Timothy - The Darwin affair: a novel
- Menasse, Robert - The capital (translated from the German)
- Murnane, Gerald - Tamarisk row
- Olmi, Véronique - Bakhita: a novel of the Saint of Sudan (translated from the French)
- Parini, Jay - The Damascus road: a novel of Saint Paul
- Peterson, Holly - It's hot in the Hamptons: a novel
- Pitoniak, Anna - Necessary people: a novel
- Ryan, Jennifer - The spies of Shilling Lane: a novel
- Sartori, Giacomo - I am God (translated from the Italian)
- Smith, Dominic - The electric hotel
- Vuong, Ocean - On earth we're briefly gorgeous: a novel
- Walker, Caroline Louise- Man of the year
- Weiner, Jennifer - Mrs. Everything: a novel
- Wilk, Elvia - Oval
- Winterson, Jeanette - Frankissstein: a love story
- See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section below.
MYSTERIES
- Billingham, Mark - Their little secret*
- Black, Cara - Murder in Bel-Air
- Bourland, Barbara - Fake like me
- Brown, Rita Mae - Whiskers in the dark: a Mrs. Murphy mystery
- Ciment, Jill - The body in question: a novel
- Cleveland, Karen - Keep you close: a novel
- Ellroy, James - This storm: a novel
- Herron, Mick - Joe Country*
- Horowitz, Anthony - The sentence is death: a novel* (ebook available)
- Miranda, Megan - The last house guest: a novel
- Padura, Leonardo - Grab a snake by the tail (translated from the Spanish)
- Persson Giolito, Malin - Beyond all reasonable doubt: a novel (translated from the Swedish)
- Turnbull, Peter - Cold wrath*
- Walker, Martin - The body in the castle well: a Bruno, chief of police novel (ebook available)
- Woods, Stuart - Skin game
* indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- New daughters of Africa: an international anthology of writing by women of African descent (Margaret Busby, ed.)
- Draughon, Stefan - The block
POETRY
- Reines, Ariana - A sand book
- Scenters-Zapico, Natalie - Lima: limón
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Abe, Naoko - The sakura obsession: the incredible story of the plant hunter who saved Japan's cherry blossoms
- Collins, Ronald K. L. - The People v. Ferlinghetti: the fight to publish Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"
- Fryd, Vivien Green - Against our will: sexual trauma in American art since 1970
- Galeotti, Mark - The Vory: Russia's super mafia
- Ginsburg, Tom - How to save a constitutional democracy
- Oneill, Therese - Ungovernable: the Victorian parent's guide to raising flawless children
- Sunkara, Bhaskar - The socialist manifesto: the case for radical politics in an era of extreme inequality
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE, BELLES LETTRES, ESSAYS
- The milk bowl of feathers: essential surrealist writings (Mary Ann Caws, ed.) 840.8 C
- The Oxford history of life-writing (vols. 1 - 2) 808 O
- The Pioneer Valley reader: prose and poetry from New England's heartland (James C. O'Connell, ed.) 820.9 P
- Berrong, Richard M. - Pierre Loti (Reaktion Press Critical Lives) 92 L883 B
- Ensler, Eve - The apology 828 E
- Johnson, Samuel - Samuel Johnson (anthology edited by David Womersley, ed.) 828 J
- Pajak, Frederik - Uncertain manifesto (translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith; New York Review Books) 848 P
- Robbins, Michael - Equipment for living: on poetry and pop music 824 R
FICTION
- Ch'ae, Man-sik - Sunset: a Ch'ae Manshik reader (short stories by Korean writer, 1920s - 1940s) 895 C
- Moor, Margriet de - Sleepless night (translated from Dutch by David Doherty) F M
- Okada, John - No-no boy (Classics of Asian American literature, U. of Washington Press; originally published 1957) F O
- Rodoreda, Mercè - In Diamond Square (translated from Catalan by Peter Bush, Virago Press) F R
- Tokarczuk, Olga - Primeval and other times ( translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) F T
POETRY
- Burns, Robert - The best laid schemes: selected poetry and prose of Robert Burns 821 B
- Fondane, Benjamin - Benjamin Fondane's Ulysses: bilingual edition 841 F
- Gilbert, Sandra M. - Judgment day: poems 821 G
- Ramey, Lauri - A history of African American poetry 821.09 R
BOOKS & READING
- Cock-Starkey, Claire - A library miscellany 021 C
- Cock-Starkey, Claire - The book lovers' miscellany 002 C
- Kelly, Thomas Forrest - The role of the scroll: an illustrated introduction to scrolls in the Middle Ages 091 K
- Reichman, Amos - Jacques Schiffrin: a publisher in exile, from Pléiade to Pantheon (forewored by Robert O. Paxton) 655.5 R
LEGENDS & FOLKTALES
- Basile, Giambattista - The tale of tales, or, Entertainment for little ones (Neapolitan fairy tales published in 1630s; translated by Nancy L. Canepa; foreword by Jack Zipes) 398.2 B
- Khoury, Najla Jraissaty - Pearls on a branch: oral tales (Arabic folktales, translated from the Arabic by Inea Bushnaq) 398.2 K
- Pitrè, Giuseppe - Catarina the Wise: and other wondrous Sicilian folk and fairy tales (translated and edited by Jack Zipes) 398 P
ART
- Elligott, Michelle - René d'Harnoncourt and the art of installation 707 E
- Hollander, Stacy C. - Securing the shadow: posthumous portraiture in America 704.942 H
- Jones, Jonathan - Sensations: the story of British art from Hogarth to Banksy 709.42 J
- Knelman, Joshua - Hot art: chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art 708 K
- Peppiatt, Michael - The existential Englishman: Paris among the artists 944.36 P
- Wieck, Roger S. - The medieval calendar: locating time in the Middle Ages (catalog for Now and Forever: The Art of Medieval Time, at the Morgan Library & Museum) 529 W
PERFORMING ARTS
- Andrey Tarkovsky: life and work : film by film, stills, polaroids & writings (with texts by Jean Paul Sartre & more) 791.4 A
- Companion to Baroque music (Julie Anne Sadie, ed.) 780.9 C
- Eisenstein, Sergei - Beyond the stars (2 volume memoirs) 92 E366 E
- Sills, Bettijane - Broadway, Balanchine & beyond: a memoir 792.8 S
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Allen, Jamie M. - Nathan Lyons: in pursuit of magic 779 L
- Johnston, Frances Benjamin - Frances Benjamin Johnston: the Hampton album (new MoMA edition) 779 J
- Pinson, Stephen C. - Monumental journey: the daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey 779 G
- Schaaf, Larry J. - Sun gardens: cyanotypes by Anna Atkins 779 S
ANTIQUITY
- Ancient goddesses: the myths and the evidence (Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris) 291 A
- Bogucki, Peter I. - The barbarians: lost civilizations 936 B
- Clayman, Dee L. - Berenice II and the golden age of Ptolemaic Egypt 92 B488 C
- Dickey, Eleanor - Stories of daily life from the Roman world: extracts from the ancient Colloquia 937 D
- Manning, Joseph Gilbert - The open sea: the economic life of the ancient Mediterranean world from the Iron Age to the rise of Rome 330.9 M
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is available to members. See the Electronic Resources page on our website.
HISTORY
- France in the world: a new global history (Patrick Boucheron with Nicolas Delalande, eds.; translated from the French) 944 F
- Women in the American Revolution: gender, politics, and the domestic world (Barbara B. Oberg, ed.) 305.4 W
- Bouverie, Tim - Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the road to war 327.42 B
- Chang, Gordon H. - Ghosts of Gold Mountain: the epic story of the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad 331.6 C
- Hamilton, Nigel. - War and peace: FDR's final odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945 973.917 H
- Murrin, John M. - Rethinking America: from empire to republic 973 M
- Potter, Jennifer - The Jamestown brides: the story of England's "Maids for Virginia" 975.5 P
- White, Sam - A cold welcome: the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America 970 W
- Wineapple, Brenda - The impeachers: the trial of Andrew Johnson and the dream of a just nation 973.8 W
SLAVERY
- Glymph, Thavolia - Out of the house of bondage: the transformation of the plantation household 326 G
- Rediker, Marcus - The fearless Benjamin Lay: the Quaker dwarf who became the first revolutionary abolitionist 326 R
- Schermerhorn, Calvin - Unrequited toil: a history of United States slavery 326 S
- Waldstreicher, David - Slavery's constitution: from revolution to ratification 342.73 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Forster, Margaret - Diary of an ordinary schoolgirl 92 F7347 F
- Gorbach, Julien - The notorious Ben Hecht: iconoclastic writer and militant Zionist 92 H4475 G
- Hammond, Thomas - Memoirs on the life and travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748-1775 940.25 H
- O'Harrow, Robert - The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs : Lincoln's General, master builder of the Union army 92 M5122 O
- Tobia, Jacob - Sissy: a coming-of-gender story 92 T6287 T
CRIME
- Cohen, Rich - The last pirate of New York: a ghost ship, a killer, and the birth of a gangster nation 364 C
- Sisman, Adam - The professor & the parson: a story of desire, deceit and defrocking 364 S
- Willetts, Paul - King Con: the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor 364 W
SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY
- Guicciardini, Niccolò - Isaac Newton and natural philosophy 92 N5638 G
- Kassinger, Ruth. - Slime: how algae created us, plague us, and just might save us 589.95 K
- Marder, Michael - Dust 551.4 M
- Munson, Richard - Tesla: inventor of the modern 92 T337 M
- Stern, Alan - Chasing new horizons: inside the epic first mission to Pluto 629.4 S
- Thorogood, Chris - Weird plants 580 T
PHILOSOPHY
- The prisoner's dilemma (Cambridge U. Press Classic Philosophical Arguments; Martin Peterson, ed.) 171 P
- McGinnis, Jon - Avicenna 181.5 M
- Rossellini, Ingrid - Know thyself: Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance 301 R
- Smith, Justin E. H. - Irrationality: a history of the dark side of reason 160 S
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Fitz-Simon, Christopher - The most beautiful villages of Ireland 941.5 F
- Gamble, Clarence James - Japan 1908: the adventure of fourteen-year-old Clarence James Gamble 915.2 G
- Winn, Raynor - The salt path (South West Coast Path, Somerset to Dorset) 92 W7762 W
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Isenberg, Nancy - The problem of democracy: the Presidents Adams confront the cult of personality 920 A214 I
- Lepore, Jill - This America: the case for the nation 320.9 L
- Vanden Heuvel, William J. - Hope and history: a memoir of tumultuous times 92 V227 V
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Payne, Keith - The broken ladder: how inequality affects the way we think, live, and die 305.5 P
- Pistor, Katharina - The code of capital: how the law creates wealth and inequality 330.1 P
- Sternberg, Joseph C. - The theft of a decade: how the baby boomers stole the millennials' economic future 330.973 S
FOOD & DRINK
- DeSalle, Rob - A natural history of beer 641.2 D
- Katz, Sandor Ellix, - Wild fermentation: the flavor, nutrition, and craft of live-culture foods 641.5 K
- Khan, Yasmin - Zaitoun: recipes from the Palestinian kitchen 641.5 K
- Twitty, Michael - The cooking gene: a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South 641 T
NEW YORK
- New York City: two hundred years in maps from the collection of Mark D. Tomasko 917.471 N
- The Stonewall reader (Penguin Classics/New York Public Library; foreword by Edmund White) 306.76 S
- Brenwall, Cynthia S. - The Central Park: original designs for New York's greatest treasure 712 B
- Hinman, Suzanne - The grandest Madison Square Garden: art, scandal, and architecture in Gilded Age New York 720.973 H
RELIGION
- Barton, John - A history of the Bible: the story of the world's most influential book 220.9 B
- Lacorne, Denis - The limits of tolerance: enlightenment values and religious fanaticism 179 L
- Sorkin, David Jan - The religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna 270.7 S
- Wood, I. N. - The transformation of the Roman West 270.1 W