July 2012 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Ahmad, Imran - The perfect gentleman: a Muslim boy meets the West: a memoir
- Alvarez, Julia - A wedding in Haiti: the story of a friendship
- Anderson, Mark - The day the world discovered the sun: an extraordinary story of scientific adventure and the race to track the transit of Venus
- Ariely, Dan - The honest truth about dishonesty: how we lie to everyone---especially ourselves
- Badinter, Elisabeth - The conflict: how modern motherhood undermines the status of women
- Baldwin, Rosecrans - Paris, I love you but you're bringing me down
- Bastianich, Joseph - Restaurant man
- Beevor, Antony - The Second World War
- Birkhead, T. R - Bird sense: what it's like to be a bird
- Blackwell, Andrew - Visit sunny Chernobyl: and other adventures in the world's most polluted places
- Brinkley, Douglas - Cronkite
- Cassidy, Tina - Jackie after O: one remarkable year when Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis defied expectations and rediscovered her dreams
- Christensen, Clayton M - How will you measure your life?
- Clarke, P. F - Mr. Churchill's profession: the statesman as author and the book that defined the "special relationship"
- Cohen, Rich - The fish that ate the whale: the life and times of America's banana king
- Collins, Gail - As Texas goes--: how the Lone Star State hijacked the American agenda
- Conard, Ed - Unintended consequences: why everything you've been told about the economy is wrong
- Figes, Orlando - Just send me word: a true story of love and survival in the Gulag
- Fisher, M. F. K - Musings on wine and other libations
- Friedman, Matti - The Aleppo Codex: a true story of obsession, faith, and the pursuit of an ancient Bible
- Hayes, Christopher - Twilight of the elites: America after meritocracy
- Himmelman, Jeff - Yours in truth: a personal portrait of Ben Bradlee
- Hirshman, Linda R - Victory: the triumphant gay revolution
- Hoagland, Edward - Alaskan travels: far-flung tales of love and adventure
- Hochschild, Arlie Russell - The outsourced self: intimate life in market times
- Irwin, Robert - Memoirs of a dervish
- Johnson, Boris - Johnson's life of London: the people who made the city that made the world
- Jones, Dan - The Plantagenets: the kings who made England
- Klein, Edward - The amateur: Barack Obama in the White House
- Kunin, Madeleine - The new feminist agenda: defining the next revolution for women, work, and family
- Lepore, Jill - The mansion of happiness: a history of life and death
- Lewis, Bernard - Notes on a century: reflections of a Middle East historian
- Lind, Michael - Land of promise: an economic history of the United States
- Littlefield, Warren - Top of the Rock: inside the rise and fall of must see TV
- Maraniss, David - Barack Obama: the story
- McMillan, Tracie - The American way of eating: undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, farm fields, and the dinner table
- McNamee, Thomas - The man who changed the way we eat: Craig Claiborne and the American food renaissance
- Noah, Timothy - The great divergence: America's growing inequality crisis and what we can do about it
- Olson, Parmy - We are Anonymous: inside the hacker world of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the global cyber insurgency
- Orzel, Chad - How to teach relativity to your dog
- Pagnamenta, Peter - Prairie fever: British aristocrats in the American West, 1830-1890
- Parry, Richard Lloyd - People who eat darkness: the true story of a young woman who vanished from the streets of Tokyo and the evil that swallowed her up
- Pasanella, Marco - Uncorked: my journey through the crazy world of wine
- Pausch, Jai - Dream new dreams: reimagining my life after loss
- Polsky, Andrew Joseph - Elusive victories: the American presidency at war
- Popham, Peter - The lady and the peacock: the life of Aung San Suu Kyi
- Roberts, Callum - The ocean of life: the fate of man and the sea
- Romano, Carlin - America the philosophical
- Sanger, David E - Confront and conceal: Obama's secret wars and surprising use of American power
- Service, Robert - Spies and commissars: the early years of the Russian Revolution
- Sheldrick, Daphne Jenkins - Love, life, and elephants: an African love story
- Stiglitz, Joseph E - The price of inequality
- Stone, Roger D - The mightier Hudson: the spirited revival of a treasured landscape
- Summerscale, Kate - Mrs. Robinson's disgrace: the private diary of a Victorian lady
- Taylor, Benjamin - Naples declared: a walk around the bay
- Tereba, Tere - Mickey Cohen: the life and crimes of L.A.'s notorious mobster
- TÛibÌn, Colm - New ways to kill your mother: writers and their families
- Tye, Larry - Superman: the high-flying history of America's most enduring hero
FICTION
- Ampuero, Roberto - The Neruda case
- Andrews, Mary Kay - Spring fever
- Baker, Jo - The undertow
- Cash, Wiley - A land more kind than home
- Eggers, Dave - A hologram for the king: a novel
- Ford, Richard - Canada
- Frank, Dorothea Benton - Porch lights
- Frayn, Michael - Skios: a novel
- Goolrick, Robert - Heading out to wonderful: a novel
- Gray, Francine du Plessix - The queen's lover
- Haddon, Mark - The red house: a novel
- Henkin, Joshua - The world without you
- Joinson, Suzanne - A lady cyclist's guide to Kashgar: a novel
- Lanchester, John - Capital
- MacNeal, Susan Elia - Mr. Churchill's secretary: a novel
- Markovits, Anouk - I am forbidden: a novel
- McArdle, Patricia - Farishta
- McLaughlin, Emma - Between you and me: a novel
- Moriarty, Laura - The chaperone
- Nicolson, Juliet - Abdication: a novel
- Ohlin, Alix - Inside
- Osborne, Frances - Park Lane: a novel
- Pratchett, Terry - The long Earth
- Ray, Jeanne - Calling invisible women: a novel
- Rice, Luanne - Little night
- Riley, Gwendoline - Opposed positions
- Saylor, Steven - The seven wonders: a novel of the ancient world
- Segal, Francesca - The innocents
- Shaara, Jeff - A blaze of glory: a novel of the Battle of Shiloh
- St. John Mandel, Emily - The Lola quartet
- Theroux, Paul - The lower river
- Vargas Llosa, Mario - The dream of the Celt
- Walter, Jess - Beautiful ruins: a novel
- Ward, Katie - Girl reading
- Winslow, Don - The kings of cool
- Zeh, Juli - The method
- Zimler, Richard - The seventh gate: a novel
- Ziolkowski, Thad - Wichita
SHORT STORIES
- Perillo, Lucia Maria - Happiness is a chemical in the brain: stories
- Skibsrud, Johanna - This will be difficult to explain: and other stories
POETRY
- Corral, Eduardo C. - Slow lightning
- Graham, Jorie - Place: new poems
- McGriff, Michael - Home burial
MYSTERIES
- Billingham, Mark - The demands*
- Blake, Robin - A dark anatomy: a mystery*
- Bolton, S. J - Dead scared*
- Burke, Alafair - Never tell: a novel of suspense
- Burton, Jeffrey B - The chessman: a novel
- Camilleri, Andrea - The age of doubt
- Casey, Jane - The reckoning*
- Child, Lincoln - The third gate: a novel
- Cotterill, Colin - Grandad, there's a head on the beach
- Cussler, Clive - The storm: a novel from the NUMA files
- Deaver, Jeffery - XO: a Kathryn Dance novel
- DeSilva, Bruce - Cliff Walk
- Estleman, Loren D - Burning midnight
- Ferraris, ZoÎ - Kingdom of strangers: a novel
- Fitzgerald, Conor - The namesake: a Commissario Alec Blume novel
- Flynn, Gillian - Gone girl: a novel
- Forrest, C. B - The devil's dust: a Charlie McKelvey mystery
- Freemantle, Brian - Red star burning: a thriller
- Furst, Alan - Mission to Paris: a novel
- Gerhardsen, Carin - The gingerbread house
- Gray, Alex - A pound of flesh
- Grecian, Alex - The Yard*
- Gregson, J. M - Least of evils: a Percy Peach mystery*
- Gruley, Bryan - The skeleton box
- Haines, Carolyn - Bonefire of the vanities
- Hewson, David - The killing
- Jay, Gerald - The Paris directive
- Jungstedt, Mari - The dark angel
- Jungstedt, Mari - The dead of summer
- Kallentoft, Mons - Midwinter blood: a thriller
- Kanon, Joseph - Istanbul passage: a novel
- Kuhns, Eleanor - A simple murder
- La Plante, Lynda - Backlash*
- Lovesey, Peter - Cop to corpse*
- Lowell, Elizabeth - Beautiful sacrifice
- Massie, Allan - Dark summer in Bordeaux
- McGee, James - Hawkwood: a regency crime thriller*
- McKinty, Adrian - Falling glass
- Nunn, Malla - Blessed are the dead: a novel
- Pearson, Ridley - The risk agent
- Piccirilli, Tom - The last kind words: a novel
- Pobi, Robert - Bloodman
- Rucka, Greg - Alpha
- Russell, Sheldon - Dead man's tunnel
- Tanenbaum, Robert - Bad faith
- Todd, Charles - An unmarked grave*
- Wahlberg, Karin - Death of a carpet dealer
- Whellams, David - Walking into the ocean: a Peter Cammon mystery*
- Wilson, Elizabeth - The girl in Berlin
- Wilson, Laura - A willing victim*
* indicates a British mystery
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Brooker, Will - Alice's adventures: Lewis Carroll in popular culture, 823 C
- Cambridge companion to fantasy literature , 820.9 C
- Donne, John - John Donne: the major works , 820.81 D
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected journals, 1820-1842, 92 E536 E
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected journals, 1841-1877, 92 E536 E
- Levin Becker, Daniel - Many subtle channels: in praise of potential literature (oulipo), 840.9 L
- Liu, Xiaobo - No enemies, no hatred: selected essays and poems , 895.1 L
- Loy, Mina - Stories and essays of Mina Loy , 820.81 L
- Nicosia, Gerald - One and only: the untold story of On the road and of Lu Anne Henderson, the woman who started Jack and Neal on their journey , 823 N
- Terras, Victor - Reading Dostoevsky , 891.73 D
POETRY
- Angiolieri, Cecco - Sonnets , 851 A
- By word of mouth: poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959, 861.08 B
- Loeffelholz, Mary - From school to salon: reading nineteenth-century American women's poetry , 821.09 L
- McLane, Maureen N - My poets, 821.09 M
- Scott, A. F - The poet's craft: a course in the critical appreciation of poetry, 809.1 S
MYTHS, LEGENDS & TALES
- Arnold, Martin - Thor: myth to Marvel , 293 A
- Chen, Lianshan - Chinese myths & legends , 299.51 C
- Rourke, Lee - A brief history of fables: from Aesop to flash fiction, 809 R
- Zipes, Jack - The irresistible fairy tale: the cultural and social history of a genre, 398.2 Z
DRAMA
- Cambridge companion to David Hare, 822.09 H
- Scodel, Ruth - An introduction to Greek tragedy, 882.09 S
- Tilley, Arthur Augustus - MoliËre , 842.09 M
ART
- Brown, Stephen - Edouard Vuillard: a painter and his muses, 1890-1940, 759.4 V
- Flores d'Arcais, Francesca - Giotto, 759.5 G
- Freud, Lucian - Lucian Freud drawings, 741.3 L
- Lenain, Thierry - Art forgery: the history of a modern obsession, 708 L
- Thomas Lawrence: Regency power & brilliance, 759.2 L
- Trask, Jeffrey - Things American: art museums and civic culture in the Progressive Era, 708.1 T
- Wagner, Anne Middleton - A house divided: American art since 1955, 709.73 W
- Weinberg, H. Barbara - Childe Hassam: American impressionist , 759.1 H
ARCHITECTURE
- Bergdoll, Barry - European architecture 1750-1890 , 724 B
- Merkel, Jayne - Eero Saarinen, 720.92 S
- Powell, Ken - New architecture in Britain, 720.942 P
- Stone, Hicks - Edward Durell Stone: a son's untold story of a legendary architect, 720.92 S
FILM
- Landis, Deborah Nadoolman - Dressed: a century of Hollywood costume design, 746.92 L
- Merchant, Ismail - Merchant-Ivory: interviews, 791.4 M
- Schaefer, Eric - Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: a history of exploitation films, 1919-1959, 791.4 S
- Wood, Michael - Film: a very short introduction, 791.4 W
MUSIC & DANCE
- Aaron Copland and his world, 780.92 C
- Cambridge companion to electronic music, 780.9 C
- Schwartz, Peggy - The dance claimed me: a biography of Pearl Primus , 92 P9535 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Beauvoir, Simone de - Diary of a philosophy student , 92 B3862 B
- Hume, David - Dialogues concerning natural religion , 210 H
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus - Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae morales ad Lucilium , 188 S
BIOLOGY
- Collier, Peter - Political woman: the big little life of Jeane Kirkpatrick, 92 K5967 C
- Emerson, Jason - Giant in the shadows: the life of Robert T. Lincoln, 92 L7386 E
- Haugen, Kristine Louise - Richard Bentley :;poetry and enlightenment, 92 B4774 H
- Prideaux, Sue - Strindberg: a life, 92 S918 P
- Roberts, Geoffrey - Stalin's general: the life of Georgy Zhukov, 92 Z638 R
- Tucker, Spencer - Rise and fight again: the life of Nathanael Greene , 92 G8115 T
- Zimmerman, Bill - Troublemaker: a memoir from the front lines of the sixties , 92 Z7264 Z
SCIENCE AND NATURE
- Haskell, David George - The forest unseen: a year's watch in nature , 574 H
- Jacobsen, Rowan - Shadows on the Gulf: a journey through our last great wetland , 574 J
- Tattersall, Ian - Race?: debunking a scientific myth , 572 T
- Warren, Leonard - Constantine Samuel Rafinesque: a voice in the American wilderness , 92 R1385 W
RELIGION
- Fredriksen, Paula - Sin: the early history of an idea, 241 F
- Gutjahr, Paul C - The Book of Mormon: a biography , 289.3 G
- Philpott, Daniel - Just and unjust peace: an ethic of political reconciliation, 201 P
- Sch‰fer, Peter - The origins of Jewish mysticism , 296 S
HISTORY
- Bremer, Francis J - First founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic world, 285.9 B
- Briant, Pierre - Alexander the Great and his empire: a short introduction , 938 B
- Christensen, Thomas - 1616: the world in motion, 909 C OVERSIZE
- Great famine in China, 1958-1962: a documentary history, 363.9 G
- Kenny, Kevin - Peaceable kingdom lost: the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment , 323.1 K
- Koslofsky, Craig - Evening's empire: a history of the night in early modern Europe, 304.2 K
- Morris, Marc - The Norman Conquest , 942.02 M
- Sexton, Jay - The Monroe Doctrine: empire and nation in nineteenth-century America, 327.73 S
- Shennan, Margaret - Out in the midday sun: the British in Malaya, 1880-1960 , 959 S
- Vandewalle, Dirk J - A history of modern Libya, 961 V
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
- Fagan, Brian M - The first North Americans: an archaeological journey, 970.1 F
- Kluger, Richard - The bitter waters of Medicine Creek: a tragic clash between white and native America, 970.5 K
- Milanich, Jerald T - Hidden Seminoles: Julian Dimock's historic Florida photographs , 970.3 M OVERSIZE
- Utley, Robert Marshall - The last days of the Sioux Nation , 970.6 U
WAR
- Gilbert, Alan - Black patriots and loyalists: fighting for emancipation in the war for independence, 973.34 G
- Gossage, Carolyn - The accidental captives: the story of seven women alone in Nazi Germany, 940.5472 G
- Katz, Harry L - Civil War sketch book: drawings from the battlefront, 973.7 K OVERSIZE
- Mottistone, John Edward Bernard Seely - Warrior: the amazing story of a real war horse , 636.1 M
- Parry, Chris - Down south: a Falklands war diary, 997 P
- Sansom, William - The Blitz: Westminster at war, 940.5342 S
LAW
- Waldron, Jeremy - The harm in hate speech, 342.73 W
- White, G. Edward - Law in American history, 340 W
POLITICS
- Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, - Condorcet: political writings, 320.9 C
- Harris, Fredrick C. - The price of the ticket: Barack Obama and the rise and decline of Black politics, 323.1 H
- Judt, Tony - Marxism and the French Left : studies on labour and politics in France, 1830-1981 , 335 J
PAKISTAN
- Constable, Pamela - Playing with fire: Pakistan at war with itself, 954.9 C
- Hussain, Zahid - The scorpion's tail: the relentless rise of Islamic militants in Pakistan and how it threatens America, 954.9 H
URBAN STUDIES
- Ehrenhalt, Alan - The great inversion and the future of the American city, 307.76 E
- Smith, Peter D - City: a guidebook for the urban age , 307.76 S
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Maugham, W. Somerset - The skeptical romancer: selected travel writing, 910.4 M
- Murphy, Dervla - In Ethiopia with a mule , 916.3 M
- Rountree, Helen C. - John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609, 917.5 R
AUDIO
- Bennett, Alan - Triple Bill, Audio-CD 822 B
- Eliot, George - Daniel Deronda, Audio-CD E
- Stout, Rex - The hand in the glove;a Don Bonner mystery, Audio-CD S