December 2012 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Anastas, Benjamin - Too good to be true: a memoir
- Applebaum, Anne - Iron curtain: the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
- Bailyn, Bernard - The barbarous years: the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675
- Bair, Sheila - Bull by the horns: fighting to save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from itself
- Baumol, William J - The cost disease: why computers get cheaper and health care doesn't
- Binelli, Mark - Detroit City is the place to be: the afterlife of an American metropolis
- Bowden, Mark - The finish: the killing of Osama Bin Laden
- Bowman, Matthew Burton - The Mormon people: the making of an American faith
- Brotton, Jerry - A history of the world in twelve maps
- Burr, Ty - Gods like us: on movie stardom and modern fame
- Cacho, Lydia - Slavery Inc.: the untold story of international sex trafficking
- Calasso, Roberto - La folie Baudelaire
- Coates, John - The hour between dog and wolf: risk-taking, gut feelings and the biology of boom and bust
- Coburn, Tom A - The debt bomb: a bold plan to stop Washington from bankrupting America
- Connaughton, Jeff - The payoff: why Wall Street always wins
- Cooper, Artemis - Patrick Leigh Fermor: an adventure
- Eco, Umberto - Inventing the enemy: and other occasional writings
- Events, dear boy, events: a political diary of Britain from Woolf to Campbell
- Farmer, Patty - The Persian Room presents: an oral history of New York's most magical night spot
- Feiling, Tom - Short walks from Bogotá: journeys in the new Colombia
- Feinstein, Michael - The Gershwins and me: a personal history in twelve songs
- Flannery, Tim F - Among the islands
- Gleeson-White, Jane - Double entry: how the merchants of Venice created modern finance
- Gompertz, Will - What are you looking at?: the surprising, shocking, and sometimes strange story of 150 years of modern art
- Goodin, Robert E - On settling
- Gross, Jan Tomasz - Golden harvest: events at the periphery of the Holocaust
- Homans, John - What's a dog for?: the surprising history, science, philosophy, and politics of man's best friend
- Hopkins, Owen - Reading architecture: a visual lexicon
- Houdini, Harry - The right way to do wrong: a unique selection of writings by history's greatest escape artist
- Iweala, Uzodinma - Our kind of people: a continent's challenge, a country's hope
- Johnson, Paul - Darwin: portrait of a genius
- Kelly, Deirdre - Ballerina: sex, scandal, and suffering behind the symbol of perfection
- Kershaw, Alex - The liberator: one World War II soldier's 500-day odyssey from the beaches of Sicily to the gates of Dachau
- King, Ross - Leonardo and the Last supper
- Klein, Daniel M - Travels with Epicurus: a journey to a Greek island in search of a fulfilled life
- Kochanski, Halik - The eagle unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
- Kohen, Yael - We killed: the rise of women in American comedy
- Kurzweil, Ray - How to create a mind: the secret of human thought revealed
- La Farge, Annik - On the High Line
- Lamott, Anne - Help, thanks, wow: the three essential prayers
- LaPlante, Eve - Marmee & Louisa: the untold story of Louisa May Alcott and her mother
- Lazar, Hadara - Out of Palestine: the making of modern Israel
- Maitland, Sara - From the forest: a search for the hidden roots of our fairy tales
- Manchester, William - The last lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
- Mandelbrot, Benoit B - The fractalist: memoir of a scientific maverick
- Margerie, Caroline de - American lady: the life of Susan Mary Alsop
- Meyer, Dakota - Into the fire: a firsthand account of the most extraordinary battle in the Afghan War
- Mordden, Ethan - Love song: the lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
- Muhlstein, Anka - Monsieur Proust's library
- Neiberg, Michael S - The blood of free men: the liberation of Paris, 1944
- Nel, Philip - Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: how an unlikely couple found love, dodged the FBI, and transformed children's literature
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o - In the house of the interpreter: a memoir
- Niven, Penelope - Thornton Wilder: a life
- Norman, Philip - Mick Jagger
- Pantsov, Alexander - Mao: the real story
- Piper, Andrew - Book was there: reading in electronic times
- Queenan, Joe - One for the books
- Raphael, Ray - Mr. President: how and why the founders created a chief executive
- Ricks, Thomas E - The generals: American military command from World War II to today
- Roe, Nicholas - John Keats: a new life
- Russo, Richard - Elsewhere
- Rust, William J - Before the quagmire: American intervention in Laos, 1954-1961
- Sacks, Oliver W - Hallucinations
- Schwalbe, Will - The end of your life book club
- Schwartz, John - Oddly normal: one family's struggle to help their teenage son come to terms with his sexuality
- Schwarzenegger, Arnold - Total recall: my unbelievably true life story
- Silver, Nate - The signal and the noise: why so many predictions fail--but some don't
- Skinner, David - The story of ain't: America, its language, and the most controversial dictionary ever published
- Slater, Michael - The great Charles Dickens scandal
- Solomon, Andrew - Far from the tree: parents, children and the search for identity
- Souhami, Diana - Murder at Wrotham Hill
- Spoto, Donald - The Redgraves: a family epic
- Sullivan, Robert - My American Revolution
- Talbot, Margaret - The entertainer: movies, magic, and my father's twentieth century
- Thomson, David - The big screen: the story of the movies
- Tóibín, Colm - The testament of Mary
- Trachtenberg, Peter - Another insane devotion: on the love of cats and persons
- Vaillant, George E - Triumphs of experience: the men of the Harvard Grant Study
- Wallace, David Foster - Both flesh and not: essays
- Washburne, E. B - Elihu Washburne: the diary and letters of America's minister to France during the Siege and Commune of Paris
- Watt, Judith - Alexander McQueen: the life and the legacy
- Wollman, Elizabeth L - Hard times: the adult musical in 1970s New York City
- Wood, James - The fun stuff, and other essays
- Yalom, Marilyn - How the French invented love: nine hundred years of passion and romance
FICTION
- Brunt, Douglas - Ghosts of Manhattan
- Chen, Da - My last empress: a novel
- Cisneros, Sandra - Have you seen Marie?
- Danielewski, Mark Z - Mark Z. Danielewski's The fifty year sword.
- Ferrante, Elena - My brilliant friend
- Høeg, Peter - The elephant keepers' children
- Keilson, Hans - Life goes on
- Khalifah, Khalid - In praise of hatred
- McEwan, Ian - Sweet tooth: a novel
- Pamuk, Orhan - Silent house
- Pollock, Donald Ray - The devil all the time: a novel
- Schutt, Christine - Prosperous friends
- Schwartz, Lynne Sharon - Two-part inventions: a novel
- Shomer, Enid - The twelve rooms of the Nile
- Steel, Danielle - The sins of the mother: a novel
- Todd, Charles - The walnut tree
- Wolfe, Tom - Back to blood: a novel
- Wouk, Herman - The lawgiver
MYSTERIES
- Alexander, Tasha - Death in the floating city
- Benison, C. C - Eleven pipers piping*
- Bowen, Rhys - The twelve clues of Christmas*
- Butler, Robert Olen - The hot country: a Christopher Marlowe Cobb thriller
- Child, Lee - Jack Reacher's rules
- Church, James - A drop of Chinese blood
- Cussler, Clive - Poseidon's arrow
- Edwards, Ruth Dudley - Killing the emperors : a Jack Troutbeck/Robert Amiss mystery*
- Evanovich, Janet - Notorious nineteen: a Stephanie Plum novel
- Finch, Charles - A death in the small hours*
- Flynn, Vince - The last man: a thriller
- Haas, Derek - The right hand
- Hammett, Dashiell - Return of the Thin Man: the original screen stories
- Hammond, Gerald - The unkindest cut*
- Hart, Carolyn G - What the cat saw
- Hill, Susan - A question of identity: a Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler mystery*
- Jenkins, Victoria - An unattended death
- La Plante, Lynda - Blood line: an Anna Travis novel*
- Mark, David John - The dark winter*
- May, Peter - The Lewis man*
- Mayle, Peter - The Marseille caper
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The uncommon appeal of clouds*
- McDermid, Val - The vanishing point
- McGrath, M. J - The boy in the snow
- McKinty, Adrian - The cold cold ground: a Detective Sean Duffy novel
- Muller, Marcia - Looking for yesterday
- Ramsay, Caro - The blood of crows*
- Staal, Eva Maria - Try the morgue: a novel
- Sullivan, Mark T - Rogue
- Unsworth, Cathi - Weirdo*
- Vichi, Marco - Death and the olive grove: an Inspector Bordelli novel
* indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Fenton, James - Yellow tulips: poems 1968-2011
- Ferry, David - Bewilderment: new poems and translations
- Glück, Louise - Poems, 1962-2012
- Oliver, Mary - A thousand mornings
- Paz, Octavio - The poems of Octavio Paz
SHORT STORIES
- Alexie, Sherman - Blasphemy
- Berry, Wendell - A place in time: twenty stories of the Port William membership
- Donoghue, Emma - Astray
- Hamill, Pete - The Christmas kid: and other Brooklyn stories
- Hansen, Ron - She loves me not: new and selected stories
- Munro, Alice - Dear life: stories
CHILDREN'S LIBRARY
YOUNGER READERS
- Bliss, Harry - Bailey
- Dyckman, Ame - Boy and bot
- Gibbons, Gai - It’s snowing
- Hest, Amy - The reader
- Hills, Tad - Rocket writes a story
- Hopkins, Lee Bennett - Dizzy dinosaurs: silly dino poems
- Kalman, Maira - Looking at Lincoln
- Maccarone, Grace - Miss Lina's ballerinas
- Rotner, Shelley - Shades of people
- Savage, Stephen - Little tug
OLDER READERS
- Clements, Andrew - About average
- Freedman, Russell - The Boston Tea Party
- Horvath, Polly - One year in Coal Harbor
- Kinney, Jeff - Diary of a wimpy kid: The third wheel
- Lin, Grace - Starry river of the sky
- Marcus, Leonard - Show me a story: why picture books matter
- Martin, Ann - Ten good and bad things about my life (so far)
- Pratchett, Terry - Dodger
- Smiley, Jane - The Georges and the Jewels
- Tak, Bibi Dumon - Soldier bear
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Broderick, Damien - Science fiction: the 101 best novels, 1985-2010 , 016.82 B
- The Cambridge companion to the literature of the First World War , 809.9 C
- Cotkin, George - Dive deeper: journeys with Moby-Dick , 823 M
- González Echevarría, Roberto - Modern Latin American literature: a very short introduction , 860.9 G
- Leavy, Barbara Fass - The fiction of Ruth Rendell: ancient tragedy and the modern family, 823 R
- Marks, Dennis - Wandering Jew: the search for Joseph Roth , 833 R
- Rayfield, Donald - Understanding Chekhov: a critical study of Chekhov's prose and drama , 891.7 C
- Rotten reviews redux: a literary companion , 028.1 R
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Kurt Vonnegut: letters , 826 V
- Williams, Jonathan - A palpable elysium: portraits of genius and solitude , 709.73 W
POETRY
- The Cambridge companion to the sonnet , 821.09 C
- Herd, David - John Ashbery and American poetry , 821.09 A
- Katsaros, Laure - New York-Paris: Whitman, Baudelaire, and the hybrid city , 821.09 K
- Williams, C. K - In time: poets, poems, and the rest , 821.09 W
- Williams, Jonathan - Jubilant thicket: new & selected poems , 821 W
LEGENDS & TALES
- Brown, Nancy Marie - Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the making of the Norse myths , 839.6 S
- Fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm: a new English version , 398.2 K
WRITING
- Making the perfect pitch: how to catch a literary agent's eye , 070.5 M
- The Cambridge companion to creative writing , 808 C
- Hart, Jack - Storycraft: the complete guide to writing narrative nonfiction /, 808 H
- Meier, Marcia - Navigating the rough waters of today's publishing world : critical advice for writers from industry insiders /, 070.5 M
LANGUAGE
- Matthews, P. H - Linguistics: a very short introduction , 401 M
- Soames, Scott - Philosophy of language , 401 S
ART
- Danchev, Alex - Cézanne: a life , 759.4 C
- Frank, Stuart M - Ingenious contrivances, curiously carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum a comprehensive catalog of the world's largest collection , 736 F
- Grave, Johannes - Caspar David Friedrich , 759.3 F OVERSIZE
- Phagan, Patricia - Thomas Rowlandson: pleasures and pursuits in Georgian England , 760 R
- Theories and documents of contemporary art: a sourcebook of artists' writings , 709.04 T
- Watanabe, Masako - Storytelling in Japanese art , 759.95 W
- Wendorf, Richard - The American Museum in Britain: Director's Choice Richard Wendorf.: , 709.73 W
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ARCHITECTURE
- Moore, Rowan - Why we build , 720 M
- Stubbs, John H - Time honored: a global view of architectural conservation: parameters, theory, & evolution of an ethos , 363.6 S OVERSIZE
MUSIC
- Geck, Martin - Robert Schumann: the life and work of a romantic composer , 780.92 S
- Lott, Eric - Love and theft: blackface minstrelsy and the American working class, 791.1 L
- Music in the USA: a documentary companion , 780.973 M
THEATER
- Behr, Edward - The complete book of Les misérables , 782 B
- Kalb, Jonathan - Great lengths: seven works of marathon theater , 792.9 K
PHILOSOPHY
- Pigliucci, Massimo - Answers for Aristotle: how science and philosophy can lead us to a more meaningful life , 170 P
- Remes, Pauliina - Neoplatonism , 186 R
- Singer, Peter - Hegel: a very short introduction , 193 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Flynn, James R - Are we getting smarter?: rising IQ in the twenty-first century , 151 F
- Stevens, Anthony - Jung: a very short introduction , 150 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Hughes, Gerald - Ted and I , 920 H8946 H
- Jacob, Mark - Treacherous beauty: Peggy Shippen, the woman behind Benedict Arnold's plot to betray America, 92 A7568 J
- Luzzatto, Sergio - Padre Pio: miracles and politics in a secular age , 92 P6625 L
- McMurtry, Larry - Custer , 92 C987 M OVERSIZE
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Burgin, Angus - The great persuasion: reinventing free markets since the Depression , 330.1 B
- How they got away with it: white collar criminals and the financial meltdown , 364 H
- Varoufakis, Yanis - The global minotaur: America, the true origins of the financial crisis and the future of the world economy , 330.9 V
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Nugent, Walter T. K - Progressivism: a very short introduction , 324.273 N
- Ryan, Alan - On politics: a history of political thought from Herodotus to the present (2 vols.), 320.1R
- Schleifer, James T - The Chicago companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America , 320.9 S
FOREIGN RELATIONS
- Hunt, Michael H - The American ascendancy: how the United States gained and wielded global dominance , 327.73 H
- Parmar, Inderjeet - Foundations of the American century: the Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the rise of American power, 327.73 P
SCIENCE
- Principe, Lawrence - The secrets of alchemy , 540.9 P
- Slack, J. M. W - Stem cells: a very short introduction , 660 S
- Zimmer, Carl - A planet of viruses , 616 Z
PLANTS & GARDENS
- Harrison, Lorraine - Latin for gardeners: over 3,000 plant names explained and explored , 581 H
- Vogel, Steven - The life of a leaf , 581 V
RELIGION
- Girard, René - The scapegoat , 272 G
- Huyler, Stephen P - Meeting God: elements of Hindu devotion , 294.5 H
- Kosek, Joseph Kip - Acts of conscience: Christian nonviolence and modern American democracy, 261.7 K
- Oz, Amos - Jews and words , 305.86 O
SEX
- Berkowitz , Eric - Sex and punishment: four thousand years of judging desire, 306.7 B
- Herzog, Dagmar - Sex in crisis: the new sexual revolution and the future of American politics , 306.7 H
- Ryan, Christopher - Sex at dawn: the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality /, 306.7 R
NEW YORK
- Masi, Antonio - New York's golden age of bridges , 759.1 M
- Wittmann, Matthew - Circus and the city: New York, 1793-2010 , 791.3 W
- Wolfe, Gerard R - The synagogues of New York's Lower East Side: a retrospective and contemporary view , 296.6 W
HUMOR
- Herzog, Rudolph - Dead funny: humor in Hitler's Germany , 943.085 H
- Wren, Jenny - Lazy thoughts of a lazy girl , 824 W
ACTIVISTS
- Alonso, Harriet Hyman - Yip Harburg: legendary lyricist and human rights activist , 92 H2556 A
- Duberman, Martin B - A saving remnant: the radical lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds , 920 D8144 S
- Wittner, Lawrence S - Working for peace and justice: memoirs of an activist intellectual , 92 W8328 W
HISTORY
- Flanders, Judith - The Victorian city: everyday life in Dickens' London , 942.1 F
- Jackson, Kevin - Constellation of genius: 1922: modernism year one , 909.82 J
- Lissagaray - History of the Paris Commune of 1871 , 944.08 L
- Payne, Stanley G - The Spanish Civil War , 946.081 P
- Rice, James D - Tales from a revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the transformation of early America , 975.5 R
- Shapiro, Henry D - Appalachia on our mind: the Southern mountains and mountaineers in the American consciousness, 1870-1920 , 301.2 S
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WAR
- Cimbala, Paul A - Soldiers North and South: the everyday experiences of the men who fought America's Civil War, 973.74 C
- Collie, Craig - Nagasaki: the massacre of the innocent and unknowing , 940.542 C
- Jones, Dan - Summer of blood: the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 , 942.03 J
- Smith, Len - Drawing fire: the diary of a Great War soldier and artist , 940.48 S
- Stoker, Donald J - The grand design: strategy and the U.S. Civil War , 973.73 S
- Tirman, John - The deaths of others: the fate of civilians in America's wars , 355 T
ANTIQUITY
- Belozerskaya, Marina - Medusa's gaze: the extraordinary journey of the Tazza Farnese , 736 B
- Neugebauer, O - The exact sciences in antiquity , 510 N
SOCIOLOGY
- Flint, Anthony - This land: the battle over sprawl and the future of America , 307.76 F
- Martin, Susan Forbes - A nation of immigrants , 325.73 M
- Thompson, Michael - Best friends, worst enemies: understanding the social lives of children , 305.23 T
AUDIO
- Mantel, Hilary - Bring up the bodies, Audio-CD M
- Roth, Philip - Exit ghost, Audio-CD R
- Trollope, Anthony - The prime minister, Audio-CD T
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