December 2013 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Als, Hilton - White girls
- Alter, Adam L - Drunk tank pink: and other unexpected forces that shape how we think, feel, and behave
- Auster, Paul - Report from the interior
- Baker, Peter - Days of fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
- Barr, Luke - Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the reinvention of American taste
- Basbanes, Nicholas A - On paper: the everything of its two-thousand-year history
- Baum, Dan - Gun guys: a road trip
- Bloom, Paul - Just babies: the origins of good and evil
- Cahill, Thomas - Heretics and heroes: how Renaissance artists and Reformation priests created our world
- Chang, Jung - Empress Dowager Cixi: the concubine who launched modern China
- Cobb, Matthew - Eleven days in August: the liberation of Paris in 1944
- Conlin, Jonathan - Tales of two cities: Paris, London, and the birth of the modern city
- Conroy, Pat - The death of Santini: the story of a father and his son
- Cooke, Rachel - Her brilliant career: ten extraordinary women of the fifties
- Dallek, Robert - Camelot's court: inside the Kennedy White House
- Davis, Daniel M - The compatibility gene: how our bodies fight disease, attract others, and define our selves
- De Lisle, Leanda - Tudor: passion, manipulation, murder : the story of England's most notorious royal family
- Dershowitz, Alan M - Taking the stand: my life in the law
- Drury, Bob - The heart of everything that is: the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend
- Edmonds, David - Would you kill the fat man?: the trolley problem and what your answer tells us about right and wrong
- Fainaru-Wada, Mark - League of denial: the NFL, concussions, and the battle for truth
- Farmelo, Graham - Churchill's bomb: how the United States overtook Britain in the first nuclear arms race
- Freeman, John - How to read a novelist
- Fullerton, Susannah - Happily ever after: celebrating Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice
- Gardner, Lloyd C - Killing machine: the American presidency in the age of drone warfare
- Garfield, Simon - To the letter: a celebration of the lost art of letter writing
- Gatrell, Vic - The first bohemians: life and art in London's golden age
- Gilmour, Jane - Colette's France: her life and loves
- Goleman, Daniel - Focus: the hidden driver of excellence
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns - The bully pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the golden age of journalism
- Goodyear, Dana - Anything that moves: renegade chefs, fearless eaters, and the making of a new American food culture
- Greene, Joshua David - Moral tribes: emotion, reason, and the gap between us and them
- Greenspan, Alan - The map and the territory: risk, human nature, and the future of forecasting
- Greig, Geordie - Breakfast with Lucian: the astounding life and outrageous times of Britain's great modern painter
- Groom, Winston - The aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic age of flight
- Halperin, Mark - Double down: game change 2012
- Harris, Sam - Lying
- Haupt, Lyanda Lynn - The urban bestiary: encountering the everyday wild
- Hempel, Sandra - The inheritor's powder: a tale of arsenic, murder, and the new forensic science
- Henry, David - Furious cool: Richard Pryor and the world that made him
- Holland, James - Dam busters: the true story of the inventors and airmen who led the devastating raid to smash the German dams in 1943
- Holmes, Richard - Falling upwards: how we took to the air
- Huang, Eddie - Fresh off the boat: a memoir
- Huston, Anjelica - A story lately told: coming of age in Ireland, London, and New York
- Hylton, Wil S - Vanished: the sixty-year search for the missing men of World War II
- Illies, Florian - 1913: the year before the storm
- Impey, Chris - Dreams of other worlds: the amazing story of unmanned space exploration
- Johnson, Paul - Mozart: a life
- Jones, P. V - Veni, vidi, vici: everything you ever wanted to know about the Romans but were afraid to ask
- Kinzer, Stephen - The brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and their secret world war
- Klíma, Ivan - My crazy century
- Kurin, Richard - The Smithsonian's history of America in 101 objects
- Laskin, David - The family: three journeys into the heart of the twentieth century
- Lee, Hermione - Penelope Fitzgerald: a life
- Lennon, Michael - Norman Mailer: a double life
- Leo, Maxim - Red love: the story of an East German family
- Lewisohn, Mark - The Beatles : all these years.
- Lively, Penelope - Ammonites and leaping fish: a life in time
- MacMillan, Margaret - The war that ended peace: the road to 1914
- Magnet, Myron - The founders at home: the building of America, 1735-1817
- Mailer, Norman - Mind of an outlaw: selected essays
- McCourt, James - Lasting city: the anatomy of nostalgia
- McKie, David - What's in a surname?: a journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker
- McMahon, Darrin M - Divine fury: a history of genius
- Meltzer, Brad - History decoded: the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time
- Mufti, Shahan - The faithful scribe: a story of Islam, Pakistan, family and war
- Paine, Lincoln P - The sea and civilization: a maritime history of the world
- Patchett, Ann - This is the story of a happy marriage
- Pierpont, Claudia Roth - Roth unbound: a writer and his books
- Pollack, Kenneth M - Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American strategy
- Sabato, Larry - The Kennedy half-century: the Presidency, assassination, and lasting legacy of John F. Kennedy
- Savodnik, Peter - The interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald inside the Soviet Union
- Schama, Simon - The story of the Jews.
- Schlesinger, Arthur M - The letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- Scott-Clark, Cathy - The siege: 68 hours inside the Taj Hotel
- Shavit, Ari - My promised land: the triumph and tragedy of Israel
- Shorto, Russell - Amsterdam: a history of the world's most liberal city
- Smil, Vaclav - Made in the USA: the rise and retreat of American manufacturing
- Solomon, Alisa - Wonder of wonders: a cultural history of Fiddler on the roof
- Solomon, Deborah - American mirror: the life and art of Norman Rockwell
- Spellberg, D. A - Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the founders
- Spufford, Francis - Unapologetic: why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense
- Stone, Brad - The everything store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon
- Sutton, Tina - The making of Markova: Diaghilev's baby ballerina to groundbreaking icon
- Thompson, Clive - Smarter than you think: how technology is changing our minds for the better
- Torrey, E. Fuller - American psychosis: how the Federal government destroyed the mental illness treatment system
- Ural, Susannah J - Don't hurry me down to Hades: the Civil War in the words of those who lived it
- Wasson, Sam - Fosse
- Watts, Steven - Self-help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and success in modern America
- Wilson, Victoria - A life of Barbara Stanwyck
- Winchester, Simon - The men who united the States: America's explorers, inventors, eccentrics, and mavericks, and the creation of one nation, indivisible
- Wolf, Alison - The XX factor: how the rise of working women has created a far less equal world
- Yousafzai, Malala - I am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
FICTION
- Ackroyd, Peter - Three brothers
- Albom, Mitch - The first phone call from heaven
- Beigbeder, Frédéric - A French novel (translated from the French)
- Belfoure, Charles - The Paris architect: a novel
- Berger, Tamara Faith - Maidenhead
- Bodden, Marlen Suyapa - The wedding gift
- Buck, Pearl S - The eternal wonder: a novel
- Carofiglio, Gianrico - The silence of the wave (translated from the Italian)
- Chamberlain, Diane - Necessary lies
- Chapman, Emma - How to be a good wife
- Crawford, Lacy - Early decision: based on a true frenzy : a novel
- Cussler, Clive - Mirage
- Faulks, Sebastian - Jeeves and the wedding bells: an homage to P.G. Wodehouse
- Flagg, Fannie - The all-girl filling station's last reunion: a novel
- Fletcher, Martin - Jacob's oath: a novel
- Hill, Susan - Black sheep
- Jenkins, Janette - Firefly
- Jiles, Paulette - Lighthouse Island
- Lamb, Wally - We are water: a novel
- Langer, Adam - The Salinger contract: a novel
- Lehrer, James - Top down: a novel of the Kennedy assassination
- Manning, Kate - My notorious life: a novel
- Miles, Jonathan - Want not
- Morse, Eleanor Lincoln - White dog fell from the sky
- O'Flynn, Catherine - Mr. Lynch's holiday: a novel
- Palliser, Charles - Rustication: a novel
- Patterson, Victoria - The peerless four
- Phillips, Jayne Anne - Quiet dell: a novel
- Ragen, Naomi - The sisters Weiss
- Robertson, James - The professor of truth
- Rufin, Jean-Christophe - The dream maker (translated from the French)
- Shreve, Anita - Stella Bain: a novel
- Speller, Elizabeth - The first of July
- Steel, Danielle - Winners: a novel
- Tan, Amy - The Valley of Amazement
- Taylor, Patrick - Fingal O'Reilly, Irish doctor
- Trollope, Joanna - Sense & sensibility
- Weldon, Fay - Kehua!
MYSTERIES
- Alexander, Tasha - Behind the shattered glass: a Lady Emily Mystery
- Baldacci, David - King and Maxwell
- Brown, Rita Mae - The litter of the law: a Mrs. Murphy mystery
- Bruen, Ken - Purgatory: a Jack Taylor novel
- Butler, Robert Olen - The star of Istanbul: a Christopher Marlowe Cobb thriller
- Cleeland, Anne - Murder in thrall*
- Collins, Max Allan - Ask not
- Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Dust
- Ellory, Roger Jon - City of lies
- Evanovich, Janet - Takedown twenty: a Stephanie Plum novel
- Finch, Charles - An old betrayal
- Grisham, John - Sycamore row
- Hall, Tarquin - The case of the love commandos: from the files of Vish Puri, India's most private investigator
- Hammett, Dashiell - The hunter and other stories
- Hart, Carolyn G - Death by surprise
- Havill, Steven - NightZone: a Posadas County mystery
- Ison, Graham - Hardcastle's traitors*
- James, Peter - Dead man's time
- Johansen, Iris - Silencing Eve
- Johnson, Craig - Spirit of Steamboat
- Kaaberbøl, Lene - Death of a nightingale (translated from the Danish)
- Kaplan, Glenn - Poison pill
- Kerr, Philip - Prayer
- Khoury, Raymond - Rasputin's shadow
- Knopf, Chris - Cries of the lost
- Kovacs, Ed - Burnt black: a Cliff St. James novel
- Lancet, Barry - Japantown: a thriller
- Littell, Robert - A nasty piece of work: a novel
- Maitland, Barry - The raven's eye*
- Malliet, G. M - Pagan spring: a Max Tudor novel*
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
- McDermid, Val - Cross and burn*
- McNab, Andy - Silencer
- McPherson, Catriona - Dandy Gilver and a bothersome number of corpses*
- Mussa, Alberto - The mystery of Rio
- O'Mara, Tim - Crooked numbers
- Oswald, James - The book of souls
- Perry, Anne - A Christmas hope: a novel*
- Preston, Douglas J - White fire
- Quinn, Peter - Dry bones
- Rendell, Ruth - No man's nightingale*
- Schwegel, Theresa - The good boy
- Scottoline, Lisa - Accused: a Rosato & Associates novel
- Sears, Michael - Mortal bonds
- Sheehan, James - The alligator man
- Smith, Martin Cruz - Tatiana: an Arkady Renko novel
- Solomita, Stephen - Dancer in the flames
- Spencer-Fleming, Julia - Through the evil days
- Stone, Robert - Death of the black-haired girl
- Tanenbaum, Robert - Tragic
- Thomas, Paul - Death on demand
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Banks, Russell - A permanent member of the family
- Moscow tales (Helen Constantine, ed., translated from the Russian)
POETRY
- Before the door of God: an anthology of devotional poetry (Jay Hopler & Kimberly Johnson, eds.)
- Berry, Wendell - This day: Sabbath poems collected and new, 1979-2013
- Collins, Billy - Aimless love: new and selected poems
- Keillor, Garrison - O, what a luxury: verses lyrical, vulgar, pathetic & profound
- Lehman, David - New and selected poems
- Márai, Sándor - The withering world: selected poems
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Milton, John - John Milton prose: major writings on liberty, politics, religion, and education 824 M
- Multiples: an anthology of stories in an assortment of languages and literary styles (Adam Thirlwell, ed.) 808.8 M
- Russian magic tales from Pushkin to Platonov F R
- Say what you mean: the n+1 anthology (Christian Lorentzen, ed.) 824 S
- Sontag, Susan - Essays of the 1960s & 70s 824 S
- Uglow, Jennifer S - Words and pictures: writers, artists and a peculiarly British tradition 820.9 U
- Wolcott, James - Critical mass: four decades of essays, reviews, hand grenades, and hurrahs 824 W
- Zweig, Stefan - The collected stories of Stefan Zweig F Z
POETRY
- Burton, Richard - A strong song tows us: the life of Basil Bunting 92 B94251 B
- Dickinson, Emily - The gorgeous nothings (Dickinson's Envelope Poems) 821 D OVERSIZE
- Eshleman, Clayton - The price of experience 820.81 E
- Lax, Robert - Poems (1962-1997) 821 L
- Leavell, Linda - Holding on upside down: the life and work of Marianne Moore 92 M8234 L
SHAKESPEARE
- Brook, Peter - The quality of mercy: reflections on Shakespeare 822.33 H
- Shakespeare beyond doubt: evidence, argument, controversy (Paul Edmondson & Stanley Wells, eds.) 822.33 A
- Shakespeare beyond doubt?: exposing an industry in denial (John M. Shahan & Alexander Waugh, Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, eds.) 822.33 A
- William Shakespeare and others: collaborative plays (Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen, et al., eds.) 822.33 M
ART
- Bailey, Martin - The sunflowers are mine: the story of Van Gogh's masterpiece 759.9 B
- Goldberg, RoseLee - Performance art: from futurism to the present 709.04 G
- Higgins, Reynold Alleyne - Minoan and Mycenaean art 709.38 H
- Littell, Jonathan - Triptych: three studies after Francis Bacon 759.2 B
- Rewald, Sabine - Balthus: cats and girls 759.4 B
- Rosa de Carvalho, Fleur Roos - Printmaking in Paris: the rage for prints at the fin de siècle 769 R
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BIOGRAPHIES
- Cohen, Rachel - Bernard Berenson: a life in the picture trade 92 B489 C
- Cooper, Diana - Darling monster: the letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952 92 C7768 C
- Dwyer, Philip G - Citizen emperor: Napoleon in power 92 N216 D
- Kennedy, John F - The letters of John F. Kennedy 92 K3547 K
- Lipsey, Roger - Hammarskjöld: a life 92 H2242 L
HOLIDAYS
- Ashton, Dianne - Hanukkah in America: a history 296 A
- Brunner, Bernd - Inventing the Christmas tree 394.26 B
- Perry, Joe - Christmas in Germany: a cultural history 394.26 P
MUSIC & DANCE
- Au, Susan - Ballet and modern dance 792.8 A
- Bernstein, Leonard - The Leonard Bernstein letters 780.92 B
- Gardiner, John Eliot - Bach: music in the castle of heaven 780.92 B
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THEATER
- Blakemore, Michael - Stage blood: five tempestuous years in the early years of the National Theatre 792.0942 B
- Chinoy, Helen Krich - The Group Theatre: passion, politics, and performance in the Depression Era 792.0973 C
PHILOSOPHY
- Bardon, Adrian - A brief history of the philosophy of time 115 B
- The Greek Sophists (John Dillon & Tania Gergel, eds.) 182 G
- Lampert, Laurence - The enduring importance of Leo Strauss 180 L
ECONOMICS
- Hirschman, Albert O - The essential Hirschman 330.4 H
- Linklater, Andro - Owning the earth: the transforming history of land ownership 333 L
SCIENCE
- Courage, Katherine Harmon - Octopus!: the most mysterious creature in the sea 594 C
- Goulson, Dave - A sting in the tale 595.799 G
- White, Curtis - The science delusion: asking the big questions in a culture of easy answers 501 W
- Williams, Glyndwr - Naturalists at sea: scientific travellers from Dampier to Darwin 508 W
ANTIQUITY
- Fantham, Elaine - Roman literary culture: from Plautus to Macrobius /, 870.9 F
- MacMullen, Ramsay - The earliest Romans: a character sketch /, 937 M
WAR
- The Great War: a photographic narrative (Mark Holborn & Hilary Roberts, Imperial War Museum, eds.) 940.3 I OVERSIZE
- Kamber, Michael - Photojournalists on war: the untold stories from Iraq 956.704 K OVERSIZE
- Mansoor, Peter R - Surge: my journey with General David Petraeus and the remaking of the Iraq War 956.704 M
- Overy, R. J - The bombing war: Europe 1939-1945 940.544 O
HISTORY
- The broken spears: the Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico (edited and with an introduction by Miguel León-Portilla ; with a foreword by J. Jorge Klor de Alva ; translated from Nahuatl into Spanish by Angel María Garibay K. ; English translation by Lysander Kemp ; illustrations, adapted from original codices paintings, by Alberto Beltran) 972 B
- Burns, James MacGregor - Fire and light: how the Enlightenment transformed our world 940.22 B
- Chopra, Ruma - Choosing sides: loyalists in revolutionary America 973.34 C
- Devine, Thomas W - Henry Wallace's 1948 presidential campaign and the future of postwar liberalism 973.918 D
- Greig, Hannah - The Beau monde: fashionable society in Georgian London 942.1 G
- Halsall, Guy - Worlds of Arthur: facts & fictions of the Dark Ages 942.01 H
- Merridale, Catherine - Red fortress: history and illusion in the Kremlin 947 M
- Raghavan, Srinath - 1971: a global history of the creation of Bangladesh 954 R
- Starr, S. Frederick - Lost enlightenment: Central Asia's golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane 958 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Roland, Ruth A - Interpreters as diplomats: a diplomatic history of the role of interpreters in world politics 327.2 R
- Runciman, David - The confidence trap: a history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present 321.8 R
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Francis, Gavin - Empire Antarctica: ice, silence, & emperor penguins 919.9 F
- Garrett, Bradley L - Explore everything: place-hacking the city 910.4 G
- Higgins, Charlotte - Under another sky: journeys in Roman Britain 913.42 H
- Stiegler, Bernd - Traveling in place: a history of armchair travel 809 S
NEW YORK
- Gilded New York: design, fashion, and society (Donald Albrecht & Jeanine Falino, eds.) 745 G
- Raskin, Joseph B - The routes not taken: a trip through New York City's unbuilt subway system 388 R
- Rosenblatt, Roger - The boy detective: a New York childhood 92 R81398 R
- Zega, Andrew - Central Park NYC: an architectural view 712 Z
AUDIO
- Roth, Philip - Portnoy's complaint Audio-CD R
- Symphony Space - Selected Shorts: a celebration of the short story. Four new arrivals in this series: American Classics; Are We There Yet?; Fictions for our Times; Lots of Laughs Lobby Audio-CD S
- Stegner, Wallace - Crossing to safety, Audio-CD S
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