New Books - May 2023
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith - A stranger in your own city: travels in the Middle East's long war
- Asgarian, Roxanna - We were once a family: a story of love, death, and child removal in America
- Bakewell, Sarah - Humanly possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope (ebook also available)
- Biskupic, Joan - Nine black robes: inside the Supreme Court's drive to the right and its historic consequences
- Bloch, Lucienne S. - Whistling in the dark: personal essays (ebook also available)
- Bullock, Maggie - The kingdom of prep: the inside story of the rise and (near) fall of J. Crew
- Carlisle, Clare - The marriage question: George Eliot's double life
- Chadwick, Bruce - The cannons roar: Fort Sumter and the start of the Civil War: an oral history
- Cohen-Solal, Annie - Picasso the foreigner: an artist in France, 1900-1973 (translated from the French)
- Dauber, Jeremy - Mel Brooks: disobedient Jew
- Egan, Timothy - A fever in the heartland: the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
- Frankopan, Peter - The Earth transformed: an untold history
- Gingeras, Ryan - The last days of the Ottoman Empire
- Grann, David - The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder (ebook also available)
- Greenfield, Robert - True west: Sam Shepard's life, work, and times (ebook also available)
- Guterl, Matthew Pratt - Skinfolk: a memoir
- Howley, Kerry - Bottoms up and the devil laughs: a journey through the deep state
- Kirsch, Adam - The revolt against humanity: imagining a future without us
- Kundera, Milan - A kidnapped West: the tragedy of Central Europe (translated from the French)
- Larman, Alexander - The Windsors at war: the King, his brother, and a family divided (ebook also available)
- Penaluna, Regan - How to think like a woman: four women philosophers who taught me how to love the life of the mind
- Powell, Steven - Love me fierce in danger: the life of James Ellroy
- Prud'homme, Alex - Dinner with the president: food, politics, and a history of breaking bread at the White House
- Rosen, Jonathan - The best minds: a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions (ebook also available)
- Rubin, Gretchen - Life in five senses: how exploring the senses got me out of my head and into the world
- Smith, Maggie - You could make this place beautiful: a memoir
- Smith, Sally Bedell - George VI and Elizabeth: the marriage that saved the monarchy (ebook also available)
FICTION
- Aboulela, Leila - River spirit: a novel (ebook also available)
- Angel-Ajani, Asale - A country you can leave
- Brussig, Thomas - The short end of the Sonnenallee (translated from the German)
- Cărtărescu, Mircea - Solenoid (translated from the Romanian)
- Chung, Gina - Sea change
- Cleeton, Chanel - The Cuban heiress (ebook also available)
- Comitta, Tom - The nature book
- Condé, Maryse - The gospel according to the new world (translated from the French)
- Crane, Marisa - I keep my exoskeletons to myself: a novel
- Edgü, Ferit - The wounded age and Eastern tales (translated from the Turkish)
- Frazier, Charles - The trackers: a novel
- Goddard, Keiran - Hourglass
- Hammad, Isabella - Enter ghost: a novel
- Han, Kang - Greek lessons: a novel *(translated from the Korean) (ebook also available)
- Haydock, Sophie - The flames
- Heiny, Katherine - Games and rituals: stories (ebook also available)
- Heisey, Monica - Really good, actually: a novel
- Heng, Rachel - The great reclamation
- Hensher, Philip - To Battersea Park
- Jones, Gayl - Butter: novellas, stories, and fragments
- Joshi, Alka - The perfumist of Paris
- Kinsky, Esther - Rombo
- Kurkov, Andreĭ - Jimi Hendrix live in Lviv (translated from the Russian)
- Link, Kelly - White cat, black dog: stories
- Mackintosh, Sophie - Cursed bread: a novel
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The enigma of garlic
- McCauley, Jennifer Maritza - When trying to return home: stories
- McKenzie, Elizabeth - The dog of the north
- McMullan Abramson, Leigh - A likely story: a novel
- Molnar, Szilvia - The nursery: a novel
- Moore, Susanna - The lost wife: a novel (ebook also available)
- Morton, Kate - Homecoming: a novel (ebook also available)
- Nemerov, Alexander - The forest: a fable of America in the 1830s
- Palmer, Soraya - The human origins of Beatrice Porter and other essential ghosts: a novel
- Pin, Cecile - Wandering souls: a novel
- Prentiss, Molly - Old flame
- Proust, Marcel - The seventy-five folios and other unpublished manuscripts
- Row, Jess - The new earth: a novel (ebook also available)
- Sandgren, Lydia - Collected works: a novel (translated from the Swedish)
- Sayles, John - Jamie MacGillivray: the renegade's journey (ebook also available)
- Scottoline, Lisa - Loyalty (ebook also available)
- Sittenfeld, Curtis - Romantic comedy: a novel (ebook also available)
- Svensson, Amanda - A system so magnificent it is blinding (translated from the Swedish)
- Vančura, Vladislav - Ploughshares into swords (translated from the Czech)
- Walls, Jeannette - Hang the moon: a novel (ebook also available)
*see more fiction in the stacks section of the list below.
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Baldacci, David - Simply lies (ebook also available)
- Clark, Mary Higgins - Where are the children now?
- Cranor, Eli - Ozark dogs
- DeStefano, Ren - How I'll kill you
- Dugoni, Robert - Her deadly game
- Estleman, Loren D. - City walls
- Jaswal, Balli Kaur - Now you see us: a novel
- Katsu, Alma - Red London: a novel*
- Larsson, Åsa - The sins of our fathers (translated from the Swedish)
- Miranda, Megan - The only survivors: a novel (ebook also available)
- Nagendra, Harini - Murder under a red moon (ebook also available)
- Oates, Joyce Carol - 48 clues into the disappearance of my sister (ebook also available)
- Perry, Anne - The fourth enemy
- Robinson, Peter - Standing in the shadows* (ebook also available)
- Sandford, John - Dark angel
- Stabenow, Dana - Not the ones dead
- Winslow, Don - City of dreams: a novel (ebook also available)
- Zuckerman, Edward - Wealth management: a novel
*Indicates a UK mystery
POETRY
- Cole, Henri - Gravity and center: selected sonnets, 1994-2022
- Cruz, Cynthia - Hotel Oblivion
- Graham, Jorie - To 2040
- Millner, Maggie - Couplets: a love story
- Reid, Christopher - Toys tricks traps
- Smith, Clint - Above ground: poems
- Fairy poems (Lynne Greenberg, ed. Everyman's Library Pocket series)
- Little poems (Michael Hennessy, ed.; Everyman's Library Pocket series)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & POETRY
- Balint, Benjamin - Bruno Schulz: an artist, a murder, and the hijacking of history 92 S3884 B
- Calvino, Italo - The written world and the unwritten world: essays 854 C
- Giacomo, da Lentin - The complete poetry (13th century; translated from the Italian; Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library) 851 G
- Gruber, Frank - The pulp jungle 92 G885 G
- Guillory, John - Cultural capital: the problem of literary canon formation 820.9 G
- Le Guin, Ursula K. - Collected poems 821 L
- Russell, R. B. - Robert Aickman: an attempted biography 92 A291 R
- Schwob, Marcel - Spicilege (translated from the French; Wakefield Press) 844 S
- Usborne, Richard - Plum sauce: a P G Wodehouse companion 823 W
- Waldstreicher, David - The odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: a poet's journeys through American slavery and independence 92 W5574 W
FICTION
- Di Grado, Viola - Hollow heart (Europa Editons; translated from the Italian) F D
- Keneally, Thomas - A dutiful daughter (1971) F K
- Malamud, Bernard - Novels and stories of the 1970s & 80s (Library of America) F M
- Portis, Charles - Collected works (Library of America) 820.81 P
- Sebbar, Leïla - The Seine was red: Paris, October 1961 F S
- Senior, Olive - Dancing lessons (2014 novel) F S
- Woolf, Douglas - Fade out (1959 Grove Press) F W
MYTHOLOGY
- Johnston, Sarah Iles - Gods and mortals: Ancient Greek myths for modern readers 292 J
- Spurling, John - Arcadian days: gods, women, and men from Greek myths 292 S
ART & ARCHITECTURE
- Anderson, Anne - Art nouveau architecture 724 A
- Beardsley, John - James Castle: memory palace 709.2 C
- Brathwaite, Kwame - Kwame Brathwaite: black is beautiful 779 B
- Hopkins, Owen - The Brutalists: Brutalism's best architects 720.92 H
- MacDonald, Deanna - 100 best paintings in New York 917.471 M
- Marciari, John - Sublime ideas: drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi 769 M
- Afrofuturism: a history of Black futures (Kevin M. Strait, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, eds.) 704 A
- Art of two Germanys--Cold War cultures (Stephan Barron and Sabein Eckmann, eds.) 709.43 A
PERFORMING ARTS
- Ramsey, Guthrie P. - Who hears here?: on Black music, pasts and present 784.756 R
- Broad, Leah - Quartet: how four women changed the musical world 780.92 B
- Charry, Brinda - The Arden guide to Renaissance drama: an introduction with primary sources 822.09 C
- McCormick, Mack - Biography of a phantom: a Robert Johnson blues odyssey 780.921 J
- Pollack, Howard - Samuel Barber: his life and legacy 780.92 B
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Guevara, Che - I embrace you with all my revolutionary fervor: letters 1947-1967 92 G9392 G
- Hall, Benjamin - Saved: a war reporter's mission to make it home 92 H17443 H
- Kaplan, Fred - His masterly pen: a biography of Jefferson the writer 92 J455 K
- McCurdy, Jennette - I'm glad my mom died 92 M47782 M
- Morrison, Blake - Two sisters 92 M8783 M
- White, Ralph - Getting out of Saigon: how a 27-year-old American banker saved 113 Vietnamese civilians 959.704 W
- Williams, John - CLR James: a life beyond the boundaries 92 J2786 W
HISTORY
- Boyer, John W. - Austria, 1867-1955 943.6 B
- Carroll, Rory - There will be fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and two minutes that changed history 942.085 C
- Das, Nandini - Courting India: seventeenth-century England, Mughal India, and the origins of empire 954 D
- Freeman, Charles - The reopening of the Western mind: the resurgence of intellectual life from the end of antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment 940 F
- Howarth, David - Adventurers: the improbable rise of the East India Company, 1550-1650 382 H
- Jackson, Clare - Devil-land: England under siege, 1588-1688 942.06 J
- Kemper, Steve - Our man in Tokyo: an American ambassador and the countdown to Pearl Harbor 940.532 K
- Kessler, Oren - Palestine 1936: the great revolt and the roots of the Middle East conflict 956.94 K
- Great kingdoms of Africa (John Parker, ed.) 960 G
NEW YORK CITY
- Bulik, Mark - Ambush at Central Park: when the IRA came to New York 363.3 B
- Hennessey, William J. - Fifth Avenue: from Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park 720.973 H
- Pasulka, Nicole - How you get famous: ten years of drag madness in Brooklyn 792.2 P
- Smalls, Shanté Paradigm - Hip hop heresies: queer aesthetics in New York City 709.7471 S
CHINA
- Chinoy, Mike - Assignment China: an oral history of American journalists in the People's Republic 070.4 C
- Turkel, Nury - No escape: the true story of China's genocide of the Uyghurs 305.87 T
- Zimmerman, James M. - The Peking Express: the bandits who stole a train, stunned the West, and broke the Republic of China 951 Z
RELIGION
- Ehrman, Bart D. - Armageddon: what the Bible really says about the end 236 E
- Heather, P. J. - Christendom: the triumph of a religion, AD 300-1300 270 H
- Manguel, Alberto - Maimonides: faith in reason 92 M9123 M
TRAVEL
- Camus, Albert - Travels in the Americas: notes and impressions of a new world 92 C2115 C
- Morash, Chris - Dublin: a writer's city 914.15 M
EDUCATION
- Beard, Richard - Sad little men: private schools and the ruin of England 370.942 B
- Hotta, Eri - Suzuki: the man and his dream to teach the children of the world 92 S9684 H
- Slavery and the university: histories and legacies (Leslie M. Harris, et al., eds.) 378 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Kiper, Dasha - Travelers to unimaginable lands: stories of dementia, the caregiver, and the human brain 618.97 K
- Lewis, Michael - Altering fate: why the past does not predict the future 155 L
- Martin, Clancy W. - How not to kill yourself: a portrait of the suicidal mind 362.2 M
- Nayeri, Dina - Who gets believed?: when the truth isn't enough 153 N
- Kaplan & Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatry 10th edition Ref. 616.8 K
LAW
- Corn-Revere, Robert - The mind of the censor and the eye of the beholder: the First Amendment and the censor's dilemma 323.4 C
- Goldberg, Jay - The courtroom is my theater: my lifelong representation of famous politicians, industrialists, entertainers, "men of honor," and more 345 G
- Rosen, James - Scalia: rise to greatness, 1936-1986 92 S2824 R
SOCIOLOGY
- Cohen, Paula Marantz - Talking cure: an essay on the civilizing power of conversation 302.3 C
- Delgado, Richard - Critical race theory: an introduction 320.1 D
- Herman, Judith Lewis - Truth and repair: how trauma survivors envision justice 301.15 H
- Turco, Catherine - Harvard Square: a love story 307.76 T
SCIENCE
- Costa, James T. - Radical by nature: the revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace 92 W1877 C
- Goldman, Steven L. - Science wars: the battle over knowledge and reality 501 G
- Hertog, Thomas - On the origin of time: Stephen Hawking's final theory 523.1 H
- Sun, Lixing - The liars of nature and the nature of liars : cheating and deception in the living world 574.5 S