I always find it a cosmic mystery that spring knows when to follow winter. And how is it that spring always brings out the same smells? Year after year. However subtle, exactly identical. -  Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

Spring, the beautiful respite ending winter's bitter cold and prior to summer's troublsome humidity. The library has a fantastic selection of new titles arriving in April and May. From the rise of film noir to the extraordinary story of the making of Cleopatra. From Caroline Alexander's erudite tales from the Chinese-Burma-Indian theater during WW II, to George Stephanopoulos behind-the-scenes look at the legacy of the White House Situation Room. The library has exciting titles coming in over the next few months. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, check out New Books, a list we publish at the beginning of every month that is available on the website or at the Circulation Desk. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find on this list, simply request it from the Acquisitions Department by filling out a request slip at the Circulation Desk or log in to our website and use the Suggest a Purchase form.

APRIL

NONFICTION

• Patrick Humphries I Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios
• Tracie McMillan I The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America
• Michael. Korda I Muse of Fire: World War One As Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
• Renae Fleming I Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness
• Corky Lee I Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice
• Lydia Millet I We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
• Xinran Xue I The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
• Anne Lamott I Somehow: Thoughts on Love
• Hampton Sides I The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
• Henry Hemming I Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
• Noel Malcolm I Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750
• Karen Valby I The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
• Natasha Trethewey I The House of Being
• Emily Dickinson I The Letters of Emily Dickinson
• Charlie Ahearn I Lee Quinones: Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond
• Maggie Nelson I Like Love: Essays and Conversations
• James Patterson I The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers
• Rachel Lance I Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever
• Anthony Bale I A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
• Bill Wasik I Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals
• Josh Young I The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn
• Kearns Goodwin I An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of The 1960s Doris
• Alain Silver I From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir
• Amy Tan I The Backyard Bird Chronicles
• Nicholson Baker I Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art
• Joshua Charow I Joshua Charow: Loft Law: The Last of New York City's Original Artist Lofts I 
• Danny Lyon I Danny Lyon: This Is My Life I'm Talking About
• David Van Reybrouck I Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
• Nell Irvin Painter I I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
• Kathleen DuVal I Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
• Alexandra Fuller I Fi: A Memoir of My Son
• Frank Bruni I The Age of Grievance
• Norman Ohler I Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
• Erik Larson I The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War 
• Salman Rushdie I Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder
• Susan Page I The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

FICTION 

• Jean Valentine I Light Me down: the New and Collected Poems of Jean Valentine
• Harry Dolan I Don't Turn Around
• Tim Burton I The World of Tim Burton 
• Stanley Whitney I Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon
• Rachel Khong I Real Americans: A Novel
• Marie Howe I New and Selected Poems
• Neel Mukherjee I Choice: A Novel
• Karen Valby I The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
• Julia Alvarez I The Cemetery of Untold Stories
• Bernard Cornwell I Sharpe's Command: Richard Sharpe and the Bridge at Almaraz, May 1812
• Lionel Shriver I Mania: A Novel
• Ruth Reichl I The Paris Novel
• Jane Smiley I Lucky: A Novel
• Percival Everett I James: A Novel
• Cixin Liu I A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays 
• Clare Mackintosh I A Game of Lies: A Novel 
• Thandiwe Muriu I Camo 
• Peter Nichols I Granite Harbor: A Novel 
• Leigh Bardugo I The Familiar: A Novel
• Sunjeev Sahot I The Spoiled Heart: A Novel
• Nell Freudenberger I The Limits: A Novel 
• Anthony Horowitz I Close to Death: A Novel
• Janet Skeslien Charles I Miss Morgan's Book Brigade: A Novel
• Lisa Grunwald I The Evolution of Annabel Craig: A Novel
•  Don Winslow I City in Ruins: A Novel 
• Amor Towles I Table for Two: Fictions

MAY 

NONFICTION

• George Stephanopoulos I The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
• Adam Higginbotham I Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
• Moses Goodman I The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation
• Daniel Handler I And Then? and Then? What Else?
• Harini Nagendra I A Nest of Vipers: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery
• John Kaag I American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation
• James Shapiro I The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War
• Roxana Marcoci I LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity
• Alan Taylor I American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
• Sara B. Franklin I The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
• Victor Davis Hanson I The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
• Sebastian Junger I In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
• Caroline Alexander I Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission over the Roof of the World

FICTION

• Colm Toibin I Long Island
• Susan Elia MacNeal I Last Hope: A Maggie Hope Mystery
• Natalie Jenner I Every Time We Say Goodbye: A Novel 
• Miranda July I All Fours: A Novel
• Ann Hood I The Stolen Child: A Novel
• John Connolly I The Instruments of Darkness: A Thriller
• Harini Nagendra I A Nest of Vipers: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery
• Garth Risk Hallberg I The Second Coming: A Novel 
• Joyce Carol Oates I Butcher: A Novel
• Hari Kunzru I Blue Ruin: A Novel
• Kevin Kwan I Lies and Weddings: A Novel