January 2012 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Abramoff, Jack - Capitol punishment: the hard truth about Washington corruption from America's most notorious lobbyist
- Bailey, Anthony - Vel·zquez and the surrender of Breda: the making of a masterpiece
- Bone, Eugenia - Mycophilia: revelations from the weird world of mushrooms
- Bonyhady, Tim - Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900
- Borstelmann, Thomas - The 1970s: a new global history from civil rights to economic inequality
- Boyd, Brian - Stalking Nabokov: selected essays
- Bradford, Richard - Martin Amis: the biography
- Buchanan, Patrick J - Suicide of a superpower: will America survive to 2025?
- Carrere, Emmanuel - Lives other than my own
- Clegg, Brian - How to build a time machine: the real science of time travel
- Cody, Joshua - (Sic): a memoir
- Collins, Judy - Sweet Judy blue eyes: my life in music
- Colquhoun, Kate - Murder in the first-class carriage: the first Victorian railway killing
- Cryer, Dan - Being alive and having to die: the spiritual odyssey of Forrest Church
- Di Giovanni, Janine - Ghosts by daylight: love, war, and redemption
- Downing, Taylor - Spies in the sky: the secret battle for aerial intelligence during World War II
- Epstein, Joseph - Gossip: the untrivial pursuit
- Gaddis, John Lewis - George F. Kennan: an American life
- Gerwarth, Robert - Hitler's hangman: the life of Heydrich
- Goodman, Hirsh - The anatomy of Israel's survival
- Gorenberg, Gershom - The unmaking of Israel
- Graeber, David - Debt: the first 5,000 years
- Greenfield, Robert - The last sultan: the life and times of Ahmet Ertegun
- Hertog, Susan - Dangerous ambition: Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West : new women in search of love and power
- Hicks, Carola - Girl in a green gown: the history and mystery of the Arnolfini portrait
- Javerbaum, David - The last testament
- Keaton, Diane - Then again
- Khalil, Ashraf - Liberation Square: inside the Egyptian revolution and the rebirth of a nation
- Levine, Robert - Free ride: how digital parasites are destroying the culture business, and how the culture business can fight back
- Lochery, Neill - Lisbon: war in the shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945
- Mawdsley, Evan - December 1941: twelve days that began a world war
- Occupy!: scenes from occupied America
- O'Rourke, P. J - Holidays in heck
- Penn, Thomas - Winter king: the dawn of Tudor England
- Peres, Shimon - Ben-Gurion: a political life
- Rankin, Nicholas - Ian Fleming's commandos: the story of the legendary 30 Assault Unit
- Rhodes, Richard - Hedy's folly: the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world
- Sandford, Christopher - Masters of mystery: the strange friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
- Sweet, Matthew - The West End front: the wartime secrets of London's grand hotels
- Van Emden, Richard - The quick and the dead: fallen soldiers and their families in the Great War
- Von Tunzelmann, Alex - Red heat: conspiracy, murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
- Weintraub, Stanley - Pearl Harbor Christmas: a world at war, December 1941
- Wodehouse, P. G - A life in letters
- Zunz, Olivier - Philanthropy in America: a history
FICTION
- Ahmad, Jamil - The wandering falcon
- Anthony, Piers - Well-tempered clavicle
- BolaÒo, Roberto - The Third Reich
- Bollen, Christopher - Lightning people: a novel
- Crichton, Michael - Micro: a novel
- Dezenhall, Eric - The devil himself
- Everett, Percival L - Assumption: a novel
- Fletcher, Martin - The list: a novel
- Giraldi, William - Busy monsters: a novel
- Huddle, David - Nothing can make me do this
- Kelby, N. M - White truffles in winter: a novel
- Lively, Penelope - How it all began
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The forgotten affairs of youth
- McNeney, Arley - The time we all went marching
- Millet, Lydia - Ghost lights: a novel
- Mills, Magnus - A cruel bird came to the nest and looked in
- Mojtabai, A. G. - Parts of a world: a novel
- Oliveira, Robin - My name Is Mary Sutter
- Phillips, Scott - The adjustment: a novel
- Roberts, Nora - The next always
- Shea, Christina - Smuggled
- Steel, Danielle - Hotel VendÙme: a novel
- Taitz, Sonia - In the king's arms
SHORT STORIES
- Desai, Anita - The artist of disappearance: three novellas
- Morrow, Bradford - The uninnocent : stories
POETRY
- Finney, Nikky - Head off & split: poems
- Mahon, Derek - New collected poems
MYSTERIES
- Brett, Simon - Bones under the beach hut: a Fethering mystery*
- Cannell, Stephen J - Vigilante
- Clancy, Tom - Locked on
- Coleman, Reed Farrel - Hurt machine: a Moe Prager mystery
- Connelly, Michael - The drop: a novel
- Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Red mist
- Cotterill, Colin - Slash and burn
- Disher, Garry - Wyatt
- Drake, Nick - Egypt: the book of chaos
- Ellis, Robert - Murder season
- Evanovich, Janet - Explosive eighteen: a Stephanie Plum novel
- Finch, Charles - A burial at sea*
- Fusilli, Jim - Narrows Gate: a novel
- Hall, James W - Dead last
- Hambly, Barbara - Ran away: a Benjamin January novel
- Hammond, Gerald - With my little eye
- Herring, Peg - Poison, your grace*
- Hill, Susan - The betrayal of trust: a Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler mystery
- Hunter, Stephen - Soft target
- James, Bill - Hotbed*
- James, Bill - I am gold*
- James, Peter - Dead man's grip
- Jones, J. Sydney - The silence: a Viennese mystery
- Kerr, Philip - Prague fatale
- Koff, Clea - Freezing
- Kovacs, Ed - Storm damage
- Larsson, ≈sa - Until thy wrath be past
- LimÛn, Martin - Mr. Kill
- Lupton, Rosamund - Afterwards*
- Marston, Edward - A bespoke murder
- Morson, Ian - A deadly injustice: a Nick Zuliani mystery
- Patterson, James - Kill Alex Cross
- PiÒeiro, Claudia - All yours
- Rankin, Ian - The impossible dead
- Rosenberg, Joel C. - The Tehran initiative
- Theroux, Paul - Murder in Mount Holly
- Villatoro, Marcos McPeek - Blood daughters: a Romilia ChacÛn novel
- Wagner, Jan Costin - Silence
- Woods, Stuart - D.C. dead
* indicates a British mystery
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Barrie, J. M - The annotated Peter Pan: Centennial edition, 823 B OVERSIZE
- Beauvoir, Simone de - The useless mouths, and other literary writings, 840.81 B
- Borinsky, Alicia - One-way tickets: writers and the culture of exile, 809 B
- Brodhead, Richard H. - Hawthorne, Melville, and the novel, 823.09 B
- Master & Margarita: a critical companion, 891.7 B
- New essays on Tolstoy, 891.7 N
- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish - The blazing world and other writings, 828 N
- Retman, Sonnet H. - Real folks: race and genre in the Great Depression, 820.9 R
- Sutherland, John - Lives of the novelists: a history of fiction in 294 lives, 823.09 S
POETRY
- Irwin, John T - Hart Crane's poetry: "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio", 821.09 C
- Laforgue, Jules - Last verses, 841 L
- Petrarca, Francesco - The essential Petrarch, 851 P
- Plutarch - How to study poetry; De audiendis poetis, 808.1 P
- Spencer, Bernard - Bernard Spencer: complete poetry: translations & selected prose, 821 S
JOURNALISM
- Gibbs, Wolcott - Backward ran sentences: the best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker, 828 G
- Thompson, Hunter S - Fear and loathing at Rolling stone: the essential writing of Hunter S. Thompson, 081 T
- Vanderlan, Robert - Intellectuals incorporated: politics, art, and ideas inside Henry Luce's media empire, 070.5 V
BOOKS & READING
- Blair, Ann - Too much to know: managing scholarly information before the modern age , 030 B
- Hopkinson, Martin J - Ex libris: the art of bookplates , 097 H
- Unpacking my library: writers and their books, 028 U
ART
- Belting, Hans - Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance art and Arab science, 701 B
- Beyond the finite: the sublime in art and science, 500 B
- Brettell, Richard R - Pissarro's people, 759.4 P
- Guy, John - Wonder of the age: master painters of India, 1100-1900, 759.95 G
- Haycock, David Boyd - A crisis of brilliance: five young British artists and the Great War, 709.2 H
- Mormando, Franco - Bernini: his life and his Rome, 730.92 B
- Ribeiro, Aileen - Facing beauty: painted women & cosmetic art, 704.942 R
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Klein, Mason - The radical camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951, 779 K
- Snapshot: painters and photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, 779 S
- Watkins, Carleton E. - Carleton Watkins: the complete mammoth photographs, 778 W
MUSIC & DANCE
- Goldner, Nancy - More Balanchine variations, 792.8 G
- Lewin, YaÎl - Night's dancer: the life of Janet Collins, 92 C712 L OVERSIZE
- Lucas, John - Thomas Beecham: an obsession with music, 92 B4143 L
- Making music for modern dance: collaboration in the formative years of a new American art, 781.5 M
- Sondheim, Stephen - Look, I made a hat: collected lyrics (1981-2011) with attendant comments, amplifications, dogmas, harangues, digressions, anecdotes and miscellany, 782.12 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Hume, David - Selected essays, 192 H
- Israel, Jonathan I - Democratic enlightenment: philosophy, revolution, and human rights 1750-1790, 190 I
- Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer - American Nietzsche: a history of an icon and his ideas, 193 R
BIOGRAPHY
- Brotchie, Alastair - Alfred Jarry: a pataphysical life, 92 J379 B
- Eade, Philip - Prince Philip: the turbulent early life of the man who married Queen Elizabeth II, 92 P5492 E
- EddÈ, Anne-Marie - Saladin, 92 S159 E
- Murray, Michael - Jacques Barzun: portrait of a mind, 92 B2967 M
- Thomson, David - Humphrey Bogart, 92 B6744 T
- Vogel, Ezra F - Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China, 92 D3927 V
- Will, Barbara - Unlikely collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faˇ, and the Vichy dilemma, 828 W
RELIGION
- Duffy, Eamon - Ten popes who shook the world, 262.13 D
- Edwards, Jonathan - The sermons of Jonathan Edwards: a reader, 252 E
- Himmelfarb, Gertrude - The people of the book: philosemitism in England, from Cromwell to Churchill, 305.86 H
- Lane, Christopher - The age of doubt: tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty, 234 L
- Strauss, Leo - Hobbes's Critique of religion & related writings, 210 S
FOOD & DRINK
- Dickson Wright, Clarissa - A history of English food, 641 D
- Oxford companion to beer , 641.2 O OVERSIZE
NEW YORK
- Kadt, Maarten de - The Bronx River: an environmental & social history, 974.71 K
- Sanders, Ed - Fug you: {an informal history of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and counterculture in the Lower East Side}, 306.4 S
- Shaer, Matthew - Among righteous men: a tale of vigilantes and vindication in Hasidic Crown Heights, 305.86 S
HISTORY
- Axelrod, Alan - A savage empire: trappers, traders, tribes, and the wars that made America, 381 A
- Brown, Craig - One on one, 302.3 B
- Jackson, Ashley - Illustrating empire: a visual history of British imperialism, 909 J
- Kynaston, David - The City of London: the history, 330.942 K
- Milkis, Sidney M - Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the transformation of American democracy, 973.91 M
- Norwich, John Julius - A history of England in 100 places: from Stonehenge to the Gherkin, 942 N
- Pegram, Thomas R. - One hundred percent American: the rebirth and decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, 363 P
- Rubenstein, Jay - Armies of heaven: the first crusade and the quest for apocalypse, 940.1 R
- Sheffer, Edith - Burned Bridge: how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain, 943.087 S
- Sowell, Thomas - The Thomas Sowell reader, 973.9 S
- Steinberg, Mark D. - Petersburg fin de siËcle, 947 S
- Van Cleve, George - A slaveholders' union: slavery, politics, and the constitution in the early American Republic, 973.71 V
- Wilson, Andrew - Belarus: the last European dictatorship, 947 W
WAR
- Allen, Peter - One more river: the Rhine crossings of 1945, 940.542 A
- Bowden, Mark - Worm: the first digital world war, 005.8 B
- McMeekin, Sean - The Russian origins of the First World War, 940.311 M
- Tomsen, Peter - The wars of Afghanistan: messianic terrorism, tribal conflicts, and the failures of great powers, 958 T
CARTOGRAPHY
- Laffon, Caroline - Mapping the world: stories of geography, 912 L OVERSIZE
- Wood, Denis - The natures of maps: cartographic constructions of the natural world, 912 W OVERSIZE
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Cook, James - The journals, 910.4 C
- Ondaatje, Christopher - The last colonial: curious adventures & stories from a vanishing world, 910.4 O
- Oxtravels: meetings of remarkable travel writers, 910.4 O
AUDIO
- Forster, E. M - A passage to India, Audio-CD F
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn - North and south, Audio-CD G
- Morrison, Toni - The bluest eye, Audio-CD M
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich - Speak, memory; an autobiography revisited, Audio-CD 92 N1175 N
- Wharton, Edith - Ghosts; Edith Wharton's gothic tales, Audio-CD W