New Books - June 2020
While the Library is closed in response to COVID-19, we are still reading book reviews, looking at publisher lists, and receiving member requests. The work of buidling our collection never stops. What we have listed below are books that are "in the pipeline" and will someday be received, processed, and become a part of our collection. To place holds, log in to our website, and click on the linked titles below. You will be taken to our online catalog; once there, click the Request button over the search bar. Or you may send an email to requests@nysoclib.org to have books below placed on your holds list. Members have a lot of good reading to look forward to when we re-open. You can read the Library's COVID-19 response here.
Of course, our Cloud Library e-book collection never closes. To browse our e-book collection, click here. And a list of the most anticipated books of the coming summer is posted on our website here.
FICTION
- Adimi, Kaouther - Our Riches (translated from the French)
- Al-Hariri - Impostures (NYU's Library of Arabic Literature)
- Aleramo, Sibilla - A Woman (Italian novel originally published in 1906)
- Atakora, Afia - Conjure Women
- Beha, Christopher - Index of Self-Destructive Acts
- Bennett, Brit - Vanishing Half: a novel (ebook available)
- Bertino, Marie-Helene - Parakeet
- Boyne, John - Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom: a novel
- Buckley, Christopher - Make Russia Great Again: a novel
- Carrasco, Jesus - Out in the Open: a novel
- Carter, Betsy - Lost Souls at the Neptune Inn
- Chang, Alexandra - Days of Distraction
- Clark, Julie - Last Flight
- Davis, Fiona - Lions of Fifth Avenue: a novel
- De Jong, Dola - Tree and the Vine (translated by Kristen Gehrman; first published in 1954 in the Netherlands)
- Donoghue, Emma - Pull of the Stars: a novel
- Emezi, Akwaeke - Death of Vivek Oji: a novel
- Everett, Percival - Telephone: a novel
- Giffin, Emily - Lies that Bind: a novel (ebook available)
- Giordano, Paolo - Heaven and Earth: a novel
- Grzegorzewska,Violetta - Accommodations
- Hadlow, Janice - Other Bennet Sister
- Hegi, Ursula - Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls
- Henkin, Joshua - Morningside Heights
- Hershon, Joanna - St. Ivo
- Hill, Katherine - Short Move
- Jacobsen, Roy - White Shadow
- Jenner, Natalie - Jane Austen Society
- Johnson, Daisy - Sisters: a novel
- Kwan, Kevin - Sex and Vanity: a novel
- Li, Yiyun - Must I Go: a novel
- Little, Elizabeth - Pretty As a Picture
- Livesey, Margot - Boy in the Field: a novel
- Lynch, Paul - Beyond the Sea
- Lynch, Paul - Black Snow: a novel
- Mackintosh, Sophie - Blue Ticket: a novel
- Majumdar, Megha - Burning (ebook available)
- Martin, Andrew - Cool for America: Stories
- Martin, Valerie - I Give it to You: a novel
- Mcmillan, Terry - It's Not All Downhill from Here
- Mcphee, Martha - Elegant Woman: a novel
- Merkin, Daphne - 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love: a novel
- Minot, Susan - Why I Don't Write: and Other Stories
- Nam-Joo, Cho - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
- O'Farrell, Maggie - Hamnet: a novel
- Osborne, Lawrence - Glass Kingdom: a novel
- Paek, Nam-Nyong - Friend: a novel from North Korea (translated by Immanuel Kim)
- Panowich, Brian - Hard Cash Valley
- Smith, Ali - Summer: a novel
- Solomon, Anna - Book of V.
- Spencer, Scott - Ocean Without a Shore: a novel
- Sullivan, J. Courtney - Friends and Strangers: a novel
- Tsukiyama, Gail - Color of Air: a novel
- Van Den Berg, Laura - I Hold a Wolf By the Ears: Stories
- Watson, Larry - Lives of Edie Pritchard
- White, Edmund - Saint from Texas
- Wolfe, Paul - Lost Diary of M.
- Yehoshua, A. B. - Tunnel
- Zambreno, Kate - Drifts
MYSTERIES, CRIME FICTION, NOIR, SUSPENSE
- Atkins, Ace - Revelators
- Billingham, Mark - Cry Baby: a Tom Thorne Novel
- Bolton, Sharon - The Split
- Bowen, Rhys - Last Mrs. Summers
- Chan, Ho-Kei - Second Sister (translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang)
- Cornwell, Patricia - Spin
- De Palma, Brian - Are Snakes Necessary?
- Delaney, J. P. - Playing Nice
- Doiron, Paul - One Last Lie: a novel
- Ferrari, K. - Like Flies from Afar
- Hall, Araminta - Imperfect Woman: a novel
- Hiaasen, Carl - Squeeze Me: a novel
- Holloway, Karla F. C. - Death in Harlem: a novel
- James, Peter - Find Them Dead
- Jance, J. A. - Credible Threat
- Jonasson, Ragnar - Mist: a Thriller
- King, Laurie R. - Riviera Gold: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
- Knecht, Rosalie - Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery
- Lansdale, Joe R. - More Better Deals
- Lapena, Shari - End of Her: a novel
- Lovesey, Peter - Finisher
- Mccall Smith, Alexander - Geometry of Holding Hands: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
- Mejia, Mindy - Strike Me Down
- Mina, Denise - Less Dead
- Miranda, Megan - Girl from Widow Hills: a novel
- Nesser, Hakan - The Summer of Kim Novak
- Paretsky, Sara - Love and Other Crimes: Stories
- Paris, B. A. - Dilemma: a novel
- Parker, T. Jefferson - Then She Vanished
- Pronzini, Bill - The Stolen Gold Affair
- Ramsay, Caro - Red, Red Snow
- Robards, Karen - Black Swan of Paris
- Robotham, Michael - When She Was Good
- Ryan, Hank Phillippi - First to Lie
- Sager, Riley - Home Before Dark: a novel
- Slaughter, Karin - Silent Wife: a novel
- Spencer, Sally - Daughters of Darkness
- Steiner, Susie - Remain Silent: a Manon Bradshaw Novel
- Woods, Stuart - Choppy Water
- Xiaolong, Qui - Hold Your Breath, China
LITERATURE, CRITICISM, ESSAYS, BELLES LETTRES, BOOKS & READING
- Barrera, Jazmina - On Lighthouses
- Bowden, Mark - Case of the Vanishing Blonde and other True Crime Stories
- Bythell, Shaun - Confessions of a Bookseller
- Farnsworth, Ward - Farnsworth's Classical English Style
- Griboyedov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich - Woe from Wit: a Verse Comedy in Four Acts (translated by Betsy Hulick; 19th-century Russian play)
- Groskop, Viv - Au Revoir, Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature
- Hjortsberg, William - Jubilee Hitchhiker: the Life and Times of Richard Brautigan
- Koestenbaum, Wayne - Figure it Out: Essays
- Kraus, Karl - Third Walpurgis Night: the Complete Text
- Lesser, Wendy - Scandinavian Noir
- Lloyd, Christopher - Guy De Maupassant
- Parini, Jay - Borges and Me: An Encounter
- Petri, Alexandra - Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays
- Pryce-Jones, David - Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime
- Valery, Paul - Idea of Perfection: the Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry; a Bilingual Edition (a new translation)
- Weiss, Peter - Aesthetics of Resistance; Volume 2; (translated by Joel Scott; second of acclaimed fiction trilogy first published in Germany in 1978)
- Wilson, A. N. - Mystery of Charles Dickens
ANTIQUITY
- Boin, Douglas - Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
- Calasso, Roberto - The Celestial Hunter
- Gloyn, Liz - Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture
ART
- Adams, Nicholas - Gordon Bunshaft and Som: Building Corporate Modernism
- Bayer, Andrea - Making the Met, 1870-2020
- Bird, Michael - Artist's Letters: Leonardo Da Vinci to David Hockney
- Chase, Marilyn - Everything She Touched: the Life of Ruth Asawa
- Ferris, Toby - Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels (Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
- Heard, Kate - George IV: Art and Spectacle
- Maclean, Caroline - Circles and Squares: Lives and Art in the Last Days of Modernism
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Alvarez, Noe - Spirit Run: a 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
- Baer, Marc David - German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: the Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
- Ball, Edward - Life of a Klansman: a Family History in White Supremacy
- Carpenter, David - Henry III: 1207-1258
- Greenspan, Nancy - Atomic Spy: the Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
- Mcgrath, Tim - James Monroe
- Moore, Wayetu - Dragons, the Giant, the Women: a Memoir
- Patel, Dinyar - Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism
- Reid, Brian Holden - Scourge of War: the Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
- Shulman, Alexandra - Clothes and Other Things that Matter
- Talley, Andre Leon - Chiffron Trenches
- Tillyard, S. K. - George IV: King in Waiting
- Trethewey, Natasha - Memorial Drive: a Daughter's Memoir
FOOD
- Clark, Letitia - Bitter Honey: Recipes and Stories from Sardinia
- Grant, Phyllis - Everything Is Under Control: a Memoir With Recipes
- Szablowski, Witold - How to Feed a Dictator: Daddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through...The Eyes of Their Cooks
HISTORY
- Berfield, Susan - Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
- Blum, Howard - Night of the Assassins: the Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill Fdr, Churchill, and Stalin
- Campbell, Tracy - Year of Peril: America in 1942
- Cervini, Eric - Deviant's War: the Homosexual vs. the United States of America
- Chervinsky, Lindsay M. - Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of An American Institution
- Connelly, John - From Peoples Into Nations: a History of Eastern Europe
- Fletcher, Catherine - Beauty and the Terror: the Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West
- Fletcher,Susan A. - Exploring the History of Childhood and Play Through 50 Historic Treasures
- Herbert, Ulrich - History of Twentieth-Century Germany (translated by Ben Fowkes)
- Kaufman, Jonathan - The Last Kings of Shanghai: the Rival Jewish Dynasties that Helped Create Modern China
- Marsh, John - Emotional Life of the Great Depression
- Mikaberidze, Alexander - Napoleonic Wars: a Global History
- Preston, Paul - People Betrayed: a History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1876-2016
- Rasenberger, Jim - Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter that Changed America
- Rose, Alexander - Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World
- Seth, Michael J. - Concise History of Korea: from Antiquity to the Present
- Siegel, Mona L. - Peace On Our Terms: the Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War
- Spohr, Kristina - Post Wall, Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World After 1989
- Watts, Jill - Black Cabinet: the Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
- Whitby, Andrew - Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
- Widmer, Ted - Lincoln On the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
- Woodard, Colin - Union: the Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
NEW YORK
- Melosi, Martin V. - Fresh Kills: a History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City
- Sandler, Lauren - This Is All I Got: a New Mother's Search for Home
- Sinkoff, Nancy - From Left to Right: Lucy M. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History
- Stewart, Nikita - Troop 6000: the Girl Scout Troop that Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World
- Trinch, Shonna - What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn
PERFORMING ARTS
- Avian, Bob - Dancing Man: a Broadway Choreographer's Journey
- Porterfield, Nolan - Jimmie Rodgers: the Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler
- Scruton, Roger - Wagner's Parsifal: the Music of Redemption
- Stone, Oliver - Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
- Wagner, Natasha Gregson - More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION
- Frankl, Viktor E. - Yes to Life
- Tracy, David - Filaments: Theological Profiles
POETRY
- Basbanes, Nicholas A. - Cross of Snow: a Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Betjeman, John - Harvest Bells: New and Collected Poems
- Coleman, Wanda - Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
- Hanshan, Hermit - Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan (Kazuaki Tanahashi, translator)
- Rollyson, Carl E. - Last Days of Sylvia Plath
SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY
- Cobb, Matthew - Idea of the Brain: the Past and Future of Neuroscience
- Macdonald, Helen - Vesper Flights
- Mlodinow, Leonard - Stephen Hawking: a Memoir of Friendship and Physics
- Saltman, Bethany - Strange Situation: a Mother's Journey Into the Science of Attachment
- Sheldrake, Merlin - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (ebook available)
- Svensson, Patrik - Book of Eels
- Trouet, Valerie - Tree Story: the History of the World Written in Rings
- Wilson, Edward O. - Tales from the Ant World
SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Andersen, Kurt - Evil Geniuses: the Unmaking of America: a Recent History
- Applebaum, Anne - Twilight of Democracy: the Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
- Belton, Catherine - Putin's People: How the Kgb Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
- Crump, Ben - Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People
- Dapiran, Antony - City On Fire: the Fight for Hong Kong
- Frevert, Ute - Politics of Humiliation
- Gates, Robert M. - Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
- Gessen, Masha - Surviving Autocracy (ebook available)
- Glantz, Aaron - Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream
- Kelton, Stephanie - Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
- Kepel, Gilles - Away from Chaos: the Middle East and the Challenge to the West
- Kimmage, Michael - Abandonment of the West: the History of An Idea in American Foreign Policy
- Perlstein, Rick - Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
- Shah, Sonia - Next Great Migration: the Beauty and Terror of Life On the Move
- Wegman, Jesse - Let the People Pick the President: the Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
- Wilkerson, Isabel - Caste: the Origins of Our Discontents
- Impeachment Report: the House Intelligence Committee's Report On it s Investigation Into Donald Trump and Ukraine
TRAVEL
- Koury, Ronald - Places Lost and Found: Travel Essays from the Hudson Review
- Poling-Kempes, Lesley - Ladies of the Canyons: a League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Batalion, Judy - Light of Days: the Untold Story of Women's Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
- Foster, Diana Greene - Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having an Abortion
- Slimani, Leila - Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World