New Books November 2022
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Aslan, Reza - An American martyr in Persia: the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville
- Baldwin, Neil - Martha Graham: when dance became modern: a life
- Bogdanich, Walt - When McKinsey comes to town: the hidden influence of the world's most powerful consulting firm
- Bouk, Dan - Democracy's data: the hidden stories in the U.S. census and how to read them
- Bower, Tom - Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors
- Ernaux, Annie - Getting lost (translated from the French) (ebook available)
- Farrell, John A. - Ted Kennedy: a life
- Haberman, Maggie - Confidence man: the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America (ebook available)
- Hastings, Max - The abyss: nuclear crisis Cuba 1962
- Hewitt, Seán - All down darkness wide: a memoir
- Hochschild, Adam - American midnight: the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis (ebook available)
- Horowitz, Alexandra - The year of the puppy: how dogs become themselves
- Hsu, Hua - Stay true: a memoir (ebook available)
- Leerhsen, Charles - Down and out in paradise: the life of Anthony Bourdain
- Louis, Édouard - A woman's battles and transformations (translated from the French)
- Mukherjee, Siddhartha - The song of the cell: an exploration of medicine and the new human
- Newman, Paul - The extraordinary life of an ordinary man: a memoir (ebook available)
- O'Rourke, Meghan - The invisible kingdom: reimagining chronic illness
- Pinckney, Darryl - Come back in September: a literary education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan (ebook available)
- Preston, Diana - The evolution of Charles Darwin: the epic voyage of the Beagle that forever changed our view of life on earth
- Proulx, Annie - Fen, bog & swamp: a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis
- Quammen, David - Breathless: the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus
- Reynolds, Nichola - Need to know: World War II and the rise of American intelligence
- Rickman, Alan - Madly, deeply: the diaries of Alan Rickman (ebook available)
- Ricks, Thomas E. - Waging a good war: a military history of the civil rights movement, 1954-1968
- Schiff, Stacy - The revolutionary: Samuel Adams (ebook available)
- Shriver, Lionel - Abominations: selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction
- Totenberg, Nina - Dinners with Ruth: a memoir on the power of friendships (ebook available)
- Tyson, Neil deGrasse - Starry messenger: cosmic perspectives on civilization
- Voss, Julia - Hilma af Klint: a biography (translated from the German)
- Worsley, Lucy - Agatha Christie: an elusive woman (ebook available)
FICTION
- Babalola, Bolu - Love in color: mythical tales from around the world, retold
- Backman, Fredrik - The winners: a novel (translated from the Swedish)
- Barrett, Andrea - Natural history: stories
- Burton, Jessie - The house of fortune: a novel
- Cannon, Joann - A tidy ending: a novel
- Caragiale, Mateiu I. - Rakes of the old court: a novel
- Clarke, Diana - The Hop: a novel
- Crace, Jim - Eden
- Crouch, Blake - Upgrade: a novel
- Cruz, Angie - How not to drown in a glass of water
- Dee, Jonathan - Sugar street: a novel
- D'Erasmo, Stacey - The complicities: a novel
- DeWitt, Helen - The English understand wool
- Fusselman, Amy - The means
- Glück, Louise - Marigold and Rose: a fiction
- Gutierrez, Katie - More than you'll ever know: a novel
- Harris, Robert - Act of oblivion: a novel (ebook available)
- Jones, Gayl - The birdcatcher
- Kidd, Jess - The night ship: a novel
- Kingsolver, Barbara - Demon Copperhead: a novel (ebook available)
- Kochai, Jamil Jan - The haunting of Hajji Hotak: and other stories
- Langton, Kip - Hell of hosanna: a novel
- Li, Yiyun - The book of goose
- MacNeal, Susan Elia - Mother daughter traitor spy: a novel
- Maiuri, Kayla - Mother in the dark
- Mathews, Sarah Thankam - All this could be different
- McCabe, Pat - Poguemahone
- McCracken, Elizabeth - The hero of this book: a novel (ebook available)
- Miller, William J. - Steel City: a story of Pittsburgh
- Millet, Lydia - Dinosaurs: a novel
- Ng, Celeste - Our missing hearts: a novel (ebook available)
- Pamuk, Orhan - Nights of plague: a novel (ebook available)
- Picoult, Jodi - Mad honey: a novel
- Rivera Garza, Cristina - New and selected stories
- Robards, Karen - The girl from Guernica
- Saunders, George - Liberation day: stories (ebook available)
- Scanlan, Kathryn - Kick the latch
- Schweblin, Samanta - Seven empty houses
- Serpell, Namwali - The furrows: an elegy: a novel
- Shamsie, Kamila - Best of friends (ebook available)
- Shapiro, Dani - Signal fires (ebook available)
- Shevelev, Mikhail - Not Russian (translated from the Russian)
- Stern, Steve - The village idiot: a novel
- Stevens, Nell - Briefly, a delicious life: a novel
- Swan, Erin - Walk the vanished earth
- Tawada, Yōko - Three streets (translated from the Japanese)
- Varela, Alejandro - The town of Babylon: a novel
- Wang, Xiaobo - Golden age: a novel (translated from the Chinese)
- Watkins, LaToya - Perish: a novel (ebook available)
- Wood, Benjamin - The young accomplice
* see more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section below
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Adler-Olsen, Jussi - The shadow murders (translated from the Danish)
- Alexander, Tasha - Secrets of the Nile: a Lady Emily mystery
- Ames, Jonathan - The wheel of Doll
- Archer, Jeffrey - Next in line*
- Baldacci, David - Long shadows
- Crais, Robert - Racing the light: a novel
- DeMille, Nelson - The maze (ebook available)
- Evanovich, Janet - The recovery agent: a Gabriela Rose novel (ebook available)
- French, Nicci - The favor: a novel*
- Grisham, John - The boys from Biloxi (ebook available)
- Hoover, Colleen - Verity
- Iglesias, Gabino - The devil takes you home: a barrio noir
- Longworth, M. L. - Disaster at the Vendome Theater
- Margaret, Joanna - The bequest
- Marple: twelve new stories (new stories featureing Miss Marple by Val McDermid, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, and more) (ebook available)
- Mayor, Archer - Fall guy: a Joe Gunther novel
- McDermid, Val - 1989* (ebook available)
- Osman, Richard - The bullet that missed* (ebook available)
- Perry, Anne - A Christmas deliverance: a novel
- Rankin, Ian - A heart full of headstones (ebook available)
- Raybourn, Deanna - Killers of a certain age
- Ryan, W. C. - The winter guest: a mystery
- Sandford, John - Righteous prey
- Thompson, Victori - Murder on Madison Square: a gaslight mystery
- Turow, Scott - Suspect (ebook available)
- Urquhart, Alaina - The butcher and the Wren (ebook available)
- Woods, Stuart - Distant thunder
*indicates a UK mystery
POETRY
- Cisneros, Sandra - Woman without shame: poems
- Moss, Stanley - Always Alwaysland
- Olds, Sharon - Balladz
- Paterson, Don - The arctic
- Tiruvaḷḷuvar - The kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural (translated from the Tamil)
- Xie, Jenny - The rupture tense: poems
- The Penguin book of Indian poets (edited by Jeet Thayil)
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Aguon, Julian - No country for eight-spot butterflies: a lyric essay
- Campbell, Andy - We are Proud Boys: how a right-wing street gang ushered in a new era of American extremism
- Farah, Boyah J. - America made me a Black man: a memoir
- Patterson, Juliet - Sinkhole: a legacy of a suicide
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Baxter, Charles - Wonderlands: essays on the life of literature 823.09 B
- Eliot, T. S. - The complete prose of T. S. Eliot: the critical edition (beautiful 8-volume set) 820.81 E
- Harjo, Joy - Catching the light 808.1 H
- Orner, Peter - Still no word from you: notes in the margin 824 O
- Wilson, Brian C. - The California days of Ralph Waldo Emerson 92 E536 R
- Conversations with George Saunders (Michael O’Connell, ed.) 823 S
FICTION
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak - Memory of departure (1st novel by Nobel Prize winner) F G
- Himes, Chester B. - The heat's on (1966 Coffin Ed & Grave Digger Jones novel) F H
- Mais, Roger - The hills were joyful together (1953 Jamaican novel) F M
- Pitts, Leonard - Freeman: a novel (2012 historical novel, post-Civil War) F P
- Reed, Ishmael - The free-lance pallbearers (1967; Reed's debut) F R
- Tursun, Perhat - The backstreets: a novel from Xinjiang (contemporary Uyghur fiction) F T
- Southern Gothic: new tales of the South (Brian Centrone & Jordan M. Scoggins, eds.) F S
POETRY
- Bennett, Joshu - The study of human life 821 B
- Blanco, Richard - How to love a country: poems 821 B
- Verdaguer, Jacint - Selected poems of Jacint Verdaguer: a bilingual edition 861 V
- White, R. S. - John Keats: a literary life 821.09 K
BOOKS & READING
- Hulse, Ed - The art of pulp fiction: an illustrated history of vintage paperbacks 741.64 H
- Marcum, Deanna B. - Along came Google: a history of library digitization 025 M
- Thing, Lowell - Cover treasure: the life and art of Margaret Armstrong 709.2 A
- Willder, Louise - Blurb your enthusiasm: an A-Z of literary persuasion 070.5 W
- The New York times book review: 125 years of literary history (Tina Jordan with Noor Qasim, eds.) 028.1 N
ART
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley - Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian artist-dreamer 759.2 W
- Clark, T. J. - If these apples should fall: Cézanne and the present 759.4 C
- Cooper, Suzanne Fagence - How we might live: at home with Jane and William Morris 706.9 C
- Cottington, David - Radical art and the formation of the avant-garde 709.4 C
- Foster, Alicia - Gwen John: British artist 759.2 J
- Mauriès, Patrick - Theatres of melancholy: the Neo-Romantics in Paris and beyond 759.4 M
- Women painting women (Andrea Karnes, ed.) 704.942 W
PERFORMING ARTS
- Gabrielle, Lara - Captain of her soul: the life of Marion Davies 92 D2567 G
- Lynn, Loretta - Loretta Lynn: coal miner's daughter 92 L9891 L
- This woman's work: essays on music (Sinéad Gleeson and Kim Gordon, eds.) 780.8 T
FASHION
- Enninful, Edward - A visible man: a memoir (by first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue) 92 E5915 E
- Mansel, Philip - Dressed to rule: royal and court costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II 391.094 M
- Black designers in American fashion (Elizabeth Way, ed.) 746.92 B
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Chase-Riboud, Barbara - I always knew: a memoir (novelist, poet, sculptor, author of "Sally Hemings") 92 C4885 C
- LaSpina, Nadina - Such a pretty girl: a story of struggle, empowerment, and disability pride 92 L3459 L
- Peterson, Brian James - Thomas Sankara: a revolutionary in Cold War Africa 92 S2275 P
- Shakur, Prince - When they tell you to be good: a memoir 92 S5278 S
- Stahr, Walter - Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's vital rival 92 C4876 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Cole, Donald B. - Vindicating Andrew Jackson: the 1828 election and the rise of the two-party system 324 C
- Silbey, Joel H. - Party over section: the rough and ready presidential election of 1848 324 S
- Snyder, Brad - Democratic justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the making of the liberal establishment 92 F8292 S
HISTORY
- Bartov, Omer - Tales from the borderlands: making and unmaking the Galician past 947 B
- Blinder, Alan S. - A monetary and fiscal history of the United States, 1961-2021 338.973 B
- Faderman, Lillian - Gay L.A.: a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbians 306.76 F
- Figes, Orlando - The story of Russia 947 F
- Guha, Ramachandra - Rebels against the Raj: Western fighters for India's freedom 954 G
- Harvey, Katherine - The fires of lust: sex in the Middle Ages 306.7 H
- Ivetic, Egidio - History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilization 940 I
- O'Keeffe, Paul - Culloden: battle & aftermath 941 O
- Sands, Philippe - The last colony: a tale of exile, justice and Britain's colonial legacy (author of Ratline, East West Street) 325.3 S
- Shachtman, Tom - The founding fortunes: how the wealthy paid for and profited from America's revolution 973.31 S
- Sjursen, Daniel A. - A true history of the United States: indigenous genocide, racialized slavery, hyper-capitalism, militarist imperialism, and other overlooked aspects of American exceptionalism 973 S
RACE IN AMERICA
- Baime, A. J. - White lies: the double life of Walter F. White and America's darkest secret 92 W5886 B
- Burnham, Margaret A. - By hands now known: Jim Crow's legal executioners 342.73 B
- Maskiell, Nicole Saffold - Bound by bondage: slavery and the creation of a northern gentry 326 M
- Ray, Victo - On critical race theory: why it matters & why you should care 305.8 R
ANTIQUITY
- López-Ruiz, Carolina - Phoenicians and the making of the Mediterranean 939.4 L
- Podany, Amanda H. - Weavers, scribes, and kings: a new history of the ancient Near East 935 P
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus - How to have a life: an ancient guide to using our time wisely 170 S
- Wheatley, Pat - Demetrius the besieger 92 D3765 W
INTELLIGENCE & ESPIONAGE
- Hunt, E. Howard - American spy: my secret history in the CIA, Watergate, and beyond 92 H9414 H
- Kerbaj, Richard - The secret history of the Five Eyes: the untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies 327.12 K
- Perrusquia, Mar - A spy in Canaan: how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement 323.4 P
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Bartley, Glen - Hummingbirds: a celebration of nature's jewels 598.2 B OVERSIZE
- Gregg, Justin - If Nietzsche were a narwhal: what animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity 591.5 G
- Menmuir, Wyl - The draw of the sea 551.4 M
- Mersini-Houghton, Laura - Before the big bang: the origin of the universe and what lies beyond 523.1 M
TECHNOLOGY
- Appleyard, Bryan - The car: the rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world 629.2 A
- Friendly, Michael - A history of data visualization and graphic communication 001 F
- Larson, Erik J. - The myth of artificial intelligence: why computers can't think the way we do 001.6 L
NEW YORK CITY
- Blumin, Stuart M. - The rise and fall of Protestant Brooklyn: an American story 974.71 B
- Moss, Jeremiah - Feral city: on finding liberation in lockdown New York 307.76 M
- Riegel, Stephen J. - Finding Judge Crater: a life and phenomenal disappearance in jazz age New York 974.71 R
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Brandão, Raul - The unknown islands: notes and landscapes (acclaimed 1926 account of trip to Azores, Madeira by Portuguese author) 914.69 B
- Diyāb, Ḥannā - The book of travels (translated from the Arabic; 18th century account of travels through Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, Tripolitania, Tunis, Italy, and France) 910.9 D
- Faloyin, Dipo - Africa is not a country: notes on a bright continent 960 F
- Shattuck, Ben - Six walks: in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau 917.4 S
- The passenger series from Europa Editions: Berlin (943.1 P); Brazil (981 P); Paris (944.36 P); Rome (945.6 P)