IN THE LOBBY

NON-FICTION

• The 40s: the story of a decade (The New Yorker; Henry Finder & Giles Harvey, eds.)
• Aczel, Amir D. - Why science does not disprove God
• Adelman, Kenneth L. - Reagan at Reykjavik: forty-eight hours that ended the Cold War
• Allen, Danielle S., - Our Declaration: a reading of the Declaration of independence in defense of equality
• Bair, Julene - The Ogallala road: a memoir of love and reckoning
• Birmingham, Kevin - The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
• Blaser, Martin J. - Missing microbes: how the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues
• Brown, Archie - The myth of the strong leader: political leadership in modern politics
• Clinton, Hillary Rodham - Hard choices
• Dasgupta, Rana - Capital: the eruption of Delhi
• Dugard, Martin - The explorers: a story of fearless outcasts, blundering geniuses, and impossible success
• Egremont, Max - Some desperate glory: the First World War the poets knew
• Ellenberg, Jordan - How not to be wrong: the power of mathematical thinking
• Finck, Liana - A bintel brief: love and longing in old New York
• Fried, Dinah - Fictitious dishes: an album of literature's most memorable meals
• Giridharadas, Anand - The true American: murder and mercy in Texas
• Goffman, Alice - On the run: fugitive life in an American city
• Goldstone, Lawrence - Birdmen: the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies
• Gordon, Meryl - The phantom of Fifth Avenue: the mysterious life and scandalous death of heiress Huguette Clark
• Green, Jonathon - Odd job man: some confessions of a slang lexicographer
• Greenwald, Glenn - No place to hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state
• Greer, Germaine - White beech: the rainforest years
• Hales, Peter B. - Outside the gates of Eden: the dream of America from Hiroshima to now
• Hamilton, Nigel - The mantle of command: FDR at war, 1941-1942
• Keaton, Diane - Let's just say it wasn't pretty
• Korda, Michael - Clouds of glory: the life and legend of Robert E. Lee
• Kulish, Nicholas - The eternal Nazi: from Mauthausen to Cairo, the relentless pursuit of SS doctor Aribert Heim
• Lansky, Sandra - Daughter of the king
• Lim, Louisa - The People's Republic of amnesia: Tiananmen revisited
• Loh, Sandra Tsing - The madwoman in the Volvo: my year of raging hormones
• Mahoney, Rosemary - For the benefit of those who see: dispatches from the world of the blind
• Mian, Atif - House of debt: how they (and you) caused the Great Recession, and how we can prevent it from happening again
• Morris, Sylvia Jukes - Price of fame: the honorable Clare Boothe Luce
• Osnos, Evan - Age of ambition: chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the new China
• Pressman, Steven, - 50 children: one ordinary American couple's extraordinary rescue mission into the heart of Nazi Germany/
• Przybyszewski, Linda- The lost art of dress: the women who once made America stylis
• Raeburn, Paul - Do fathers matter?: what science is telling us about the parent we've overlooked
• Rappaport, Helen - The Romanov sisters: the lost lives of the daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
• Rivera, Mariano - The closer: [my story]
• Robbins, Tom - Tibetan peach pie: a true account of an imaginative life
• Saval, Nikil - Cubed: a secret history of the workplace
• Schuck, Peter H. - Why government fails so often: and how it can do better
• Schulman, Daniel - Sons of Wichita: how the Koch brothers became America's most powerful and private dynasty
• Shea, Ammon - Bad English: a history of linguistic aggravation
• Sherr, Lynn - Sally Ride: America's first woman in space
• Smith Rakoff, Joanna - My Salinger year
• Stadiem, William - Jet set: the people, the planes, the glamour, and the romance in aviation's glory years
• Steinberg, Theodore - Gotham unbound: the ecological history of greater New York
• Todd, Selina - The people: the rise and fall of the working class, 1910-2010
• Waldman, Michael - The Second Amendment: a biography
• Waters, John - Carsick
• White, Jerry - Zeppelin nights: London in the First World War
• Wright, Alex - Cataloging the world: Paul Otlet and the birth of the information age
• Young, Damon - Voltaire's vine and other philosophies: how gardens inspired great writers
• Zoellner, Tom - Train: riding the rails that created the modern world : from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief

FICTION

• Abbott, Megan E. - The fever: a novel
• Ahmad, A. X. - The last taxi ride: a Ranjit Singh novel
• Andrews, Mary Kay - Save the date
• Cohen, Paula Marantz - Suzanne Davis gets a life
• Déon, Michel - The foundling boy
• Dicker, Joël - The truth about the Harry Quebert affair (translated from the French)
• Eggers, Dave - Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?: a novel
• Elkins, Kimberly - What is visible: a novel
• Fishman, Boris - A replacement life: a novel
• Foulds, Adam - In the wolf's mouth
• Frank, Dorothea Benton - The hurricane sisters
• Galloway, Steven - The confabulist
• Gilman, Susan Jane - The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: a novel
• Goodman, Lee - Indefensible: a novel
• Goodwin, Jason - The Baklava Club
• Grant, Katharine - Sedition: a novel
• Hamilton, Hugo - Every single minute
• Hastings, Michael - The last magazine: a novel
• Healey, Emma - Elizabeth is missing
• Hemmings, Kaui Hart - The possibilities
• Henderson, Smith - Fourth of July Creek: a novel
• Hilderbrand, Elin - The matchmaker: a novel
• Holt, Jonathan - The abduction: a novel
• Ignatius, David - The Director: a novel
• Keneally, Thomas - Shame and the captives
• King, Lily - Euphoria: a novel
• King, Stephen - Mr. Mercedes: a novel
• Knausgaard, Karl Ove - My struggle (Book Three: Boyhood) (translated from the Norwegian)
• Koch, Herman - Summer house with swimming pool: a novel (translated from the Dutch)
• Kwok, Jean - Mambo in Chinatown
• Lakhous, Amara - Dispute over a very Italian piglet
• Lee, Linda Francis - The glass kitchen
• Lockhart, E. - We were liars
• Miller, Sue - The arsonist
• Nicholson, Geoff - The city under the skin: a novel
• Norman, Howard A. - Next life might be kinder
• O'Donnell, Lisa - Closed doors: a novel
• Owen, Lauren - The quick: a novel
• Paull, Laline - The bees
• Peace, David - The damned Utd
• Pears, Tim - In the light of morning
• Racculia, Kate - Bellweather rhapsody
• Rachman, Tom - The rise & fall of great powers: a novel
• Rowland, Amy - The transcriptionist: a novel
• Sakey, Marcus - A better world
• See, Lisa - China Dolls: a novel
• Sin, Kyong-suk - I'll be right there: a novel (translated from the Korean)
• Smith, Tom Rob - The farm : a novel
• Spurling, John - The ten thousand things: a novel
• Straub, Emma - The vacationers
• Thayer, Nancy - Nantucket sisters: a novel
• Townsend, Jacinda - Saint monkey: a novel
• Undset, Sigrid - Marta Oulie: a novel of betrayal (introduction by Jane Smiley; published in Norway in 1907, first English translation)
• Upadhyay, Samrat - The city son
• Weiner, Jennifer - All fall down: a novel
• Winton, Tim - Eyrie
• Wroe, Simon - Chop chop

MYSTERIES

• Aird, Catherine - Dead heading: a Sloan and Crosby mystery*
• Appignanesi, Lisa - Trials of passion: crimes in the name of love and madness*
• Billingham, Mark - The bones beneath*
• Block, Lawrence - Borderline
• Bolton, S. J. - A dark and twisted tide*
• Brookes, Adam - Night heron
• Brown, Andrew - Coldsleep lullaby: a mystery
• Brown, Rita Mae - Nine lives to die: a Mrs. Murphy mystery
• Burke, Alafair - All day and a night: a novel of suspense
• Camilleri, Andrea - Angelica's smile (translated from the Italian)
• Chang, Henry - Death money
• Clarke, Richard A. - Sting of the drone
• Cussler, Clive - Ghost ship: a novel from the NUMA files
• Deaver, Jeffery - The skin collector: a Lincoln Rhyme novel
• Ellory, Roger Jon - Saints of New York
• Evanovich, Janet - Top secret twenty-one: a Stephanie Plum novel
• Fairstein, Linda A. - Terminal city: a novel
• Finder, Joseph - Suspicion
• Flanders, Judith - Writers' block
• Furst, Alan - Midnight in Europe: a novel
• Grecian, Alex - The devil's workshop/
• Greenwood, Kerry - Murder and Mendelssohn
• Grimes, Martha - Vertigo 42: a Richard Jury mystery*
• Gunn, Elizabeth - Red Man down
• Hall, Patricia - Blood brothers*
• Hall, Rachel Howzell - Land of shadows
• Hannah, Sophie - The telling error*
• Henshaw, Mark - Cold shot: a novel
• Housewright, David - The devil may care
• Hughes, Declan - All the things you are*
• Janes, J. Robert - Carnival: a St-Cyr and Kohler mystery
• Johansen, Iris - Live to see tomorrow
• Johnson, Craig - Any other name
• Kahn, Michael A. - Face value: a Rachel Gold mystery
• Koryta, Michael - Those who wish me dead
• Kuhns, Eleanor - Cradle to grave
• Läckberg, Camilla - Buried angels (translated from the Swedish)
• Levy, Marc - Replay (translated from the French)
• Link, Charlotte - The watcher: a novel
• Lustbader, Eric - Robert Ludlum's The Bourne ascendancy: a new Jason Bourne novel
• Marklund, Liza - The long shadow: a novel (translated from the Swedish)
• Mayle, Peter - The Corsican caper 
• McGilloway, Brian - Little girl lost: a Lucy Black thriller*
• Morris, Roger - The dark palace*
• Mosley, Walter - Debbie doesn't do it anymore: a novel
• Nunn, Malla - Present darkness: a novel
• Palmer, Michael - Resistant
• Paton Walsh, Jill - The late scholar: the new Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mystery*
• Patterson, James - Invisible
• Pearson, Ridley - The red room
• Phillips, Scott - Hop Alley
• Quirk, Matthew - The directive: a novel
• Roslund, Anders - Two soldiers (translated from the Swedish)
• Rotstein, Robert - Reckless disregard: a Parker Stern novel
• Runcie, James - Sidney Chambers and the problem of evil*
• Slaughter, Karin - Cop Town: a novel
• Stone, Jonathan - Moving day: a thriller
• Tallis, Frank - The forbidden
• Talty, Stephan - Hangman: a novel
• Tucker, Neely - The ways of the dead
• Turnbull, Peter - Denial of murder*
• Vargas, Fred - Dog will have his day (translated from the French)

* indicates a British mystery.

POETRY

• Ashbery, John - Collected French translations: poetry
• Blanco, Richard - For all of us, one today: an inaugural poet's journey
• McClatchy, J. D. - Plundered hearts: new and selected poems
• Zucker, Rachel - The pedestrians

SHORT STORIES

• Dybek, Stuart - Paper lantern: love stories
• Felsenfeld, Judith - Blaustein's kiss: stories
• Galchen, Rivka - American innovations
• Guterson, David - Problems with people: stories
• Manto, Saadat Hasan - Bombay stories (translated from the Urdu)
• Melnik, Kseniya - Snow in May: stories
• Nelson, Antonya - Funny once: stories
• Rodman, Sylvia Lyon - Anglo brambles

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges (Edwin Williamson, ed.) 863 B
• Donoghue, Denis - Metaphor  809 D
• Finn, Peter - The Zhivago affair: the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book  891.73 F
• Müller, Herta - Cristina and her double: selected essays (translated from the German) 834 M
• Sorrentino, Paul - Stephen Crane: a life of fire  92 C8915 S
• Tucholsky, Kurt - Berlin! Berlin!: dispatches from the Weimar Republic, 1907-1932 (translated from the German) 834 T

POETRY

• Dembo, L. S. - The Confucian odes of Ezra Pound: a critical appraisal  821.09 P
• Logan, William - Guilty knowledge, guilty pleasure: the dirty art of poetry 821.09 L
• Tolkien, J. R. R. - Beowulf: a translation and commentary: together with Sellic spell  829 T

ART & DESIGN

• Davenport, Guy - A Balthus notebook 759.4 D
• Degenerate art: the attack on modern art in Nazi Germany, 1937 (Ola Peters, ed.) 709.43 D
• History of design: decorative arts and material culture, 1400-2000 (Pat Kirkham, Susan Weber, eds.) 745 H
• Marías, Fernando - El Greco: life and work: a new history 759.6 G
• Ochsendorf, John Allen - Guastavino vaulting: the art of structural tile 721 O
• Salomon, Xavier F. - Veronese  759.5 V

THEATER

• Gerard, Jeremy - Wynn place show: a biased history of the rollicking life & extreme times of Wynn Handman and the American Place Theatre 792.0973 G
• Rosenthal, Daniel - The National Theatre story  792.0942 R

BIOGRAPHIES

• Binding, Paul - Hans Christian Andersen: European witness 92 A544 B
• Eade, Philip - Sylvia: queen of the headhunters: an eccentric Englishwoman and her lost kingdom 92 S984 E
• Fahs, Breanne - Valerie Solanas: the defiant life of the woman who wrote Scum (and shot Andy Warhol) 92 S6842 F
• Halkin, Hillel - Jabotinsky: a life  92 J119 H
• Harlan, Will - Untamed: the wildest woman in America and the fight for Cumberland Island  92 R911 H
• Marsh, Charles - Strange glory: a life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer  92 B7147 M

HISTORY

• Aly, Götz - Why the Germans? why the Jews?: envy, race hatred, and the prehistory of the Holocaust 943 G
• Bod, Rens - A new history of the humanities: the search for principles and patterns from antiquity to the present 901 B
• Plokhy, Serhii - The last empire: the final days of the Soviet Union  947.085 P
• Saint-Amand, Pierre - The pursuit of laziness: an idle interpretation of the Enlightenment 940.22 S
• Saunt, Claudio - West of the Revolution: an uncommon history of 1776 973.3 S
• Thompson, Leonard Monteath - A history of South Africa 968 T

PHILOSOPHY

• Gros, Frédéric - A philosophy of walking 128 G
• Spellman, W. M. - A brief history of death  128 S

RELIGION

• Beam, Alex - American crucifixion: the murder of Joseph Smith and the fate of the Mormon church 289.3 B
• Reese, Abbie - Dedicated to God: an oral history of cloistered nuns 271.9 R
• Schuon, Frithjof - In the tracks of Buddhism 294 S

WAR

• Butcher, Tim - The trigger: hunting the assassin who brought the world to war 943.6 B
• Jones, Archer- Civil War command and strategy: the process of victory and defeat 973.73 J
• Lamin, Harry - Letters from the trenches: a soldier of the Great War 940.48 L
• Offley, Edward - The burning shore: how Hitler's U-boats brought World War II to America 940.545 O

NEW YORK

• Corman, Avery - My old neighborhood remembered: a memoir 92 C811 C
• Lobel, Cindy R. - Urban appetites: food and culture in nineteenth-century New York 394.1 L

AUDIO

• Great American authors read from their works (2 volumes) Audio-CD G
• Caro, Robert A. - The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of ascent Audio-CD 92 J677 C
• Caro, Robert A. - The Years of Lydon Johnson: Path to power Audio-CD 92 J677 C

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