March 2012 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Agus, David - The end of illness
- Alford, Mimi - Once upon a secret: my affair with President John F. Kennedy and its aftermath
- Bailey, Richard W - Speaking American: a history of English in the United States
- Bernard, Emily - Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: a portrait in black and white
- Best, Nicholas - Five days that shocked the world: eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II
- Boo, Katherine - Behind the beautiful forevers
- Bowers, Scotty - Full service: my adventures in Hollywood and the secret sex lives of the stars
- Bown, Stephen R - 1494: how a family feud in medieval Spain divided the world in half
- Bram, Christopher - Eminent outlaws: the gay writers who changed America
- Brandt, Richard L - One click: Jeff Bezos and the rise of Amazon.com
- Broadwell, Paula - All in: the education of General David Petraeus
- Bronski, Michael - A queer history of the United States
- Cain, Susan - Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
- Coggan, Philip - Paper promises: debt, money, and the new world order
- Crowley, Roger - City of fortune: how Venice ruled the seas
- Davis, Marni - Jews and booze: becoming American in the age of prohibition
- Edsall, Thomas Byrne - The age of austerity: how scarcity will remake American politics
- Eilperin, Juliet - Demon fish: travels through the hidden world of sharks
- Fairhall, David - Cold front: conflict ahead in Arctic waters
- Fellowes, Jessica - The world of Downton Abbey
- Fisher, Carrie - Shockaholic
- Fowler, Christopher - Paperboy
- Gibson, William - Distrust that particular flavor
- Goodman, Susan - Republic of words: the Atlantic monthly and its writers, 1857-1925
- Hartman, Kent - The Wrecking Crew: the inside story of rock and roll's best kept secret
- Hershorn, Tad - Norman Granz: the man who used jazz for justice
- Holzer, Harold - Emancipating Lincoln: the proclamation in text, context, and memory
- Judt, Tony - Thinking the twentieth century
- Kranish, Michael - The real Romney
- Lack, Simon - The hedge fund mirage: the illusion of big money and why it's too good to be true
- Lester, Toby - Da Vinci's ghost: genius, obsession, and how Leonardo created the world in his own image
- Lord, M. G - The accidental feminist: how Elizabeth Taylor raised our consciousness and we were too distracted by her beauty to notice
- Maalouf, Amin - Disordered world: setting a new course for the twenty-first century
- McFadden, Bernice L - Gathering of waters
- Mda, Zakes - Sometimes there is a void: memoirs of an outsider
- Murray, Charles A - Coming apart: the state of white America, 1960-2010
- O'Connor, Anne Marie - The lady in gold: the extraordinary tale of Gustav Klimt's masterpiece, portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
- Platt, Stephen R - Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War
- Preston, Diana - The dark defile: Britain's catastrophic invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842
- Robin, Corey - The reactionary mind: conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
- Rounding, Virginia - Alix and Nicky: the passion of the last tsar and tsarina
- Smith, William Jay - My friend Tom: the poet-playwright Tennessee Williams
- Soros, George - Financial turmoil in Europe and the United States: essays
- Stop what you're doing and read this!
- Tanous, Peter J - Debt, deficits, and the demise of the American economy
- Terenzio, RoseMarie - Fairy tale interrupted: a memoir of life, love, and loss
- Walsh, Mikey - Gypsy boy: my life in the secret world of the Romany Gypsies
- Weber, Doron - Immortal bird: a family memoir
- Weiner, Eric - Man seeks God: my flirtations with the divine
- Wilkinson, Alec - The ice balloon: S.A. AndrÈe and the heroic age of arctic exploration
- Zinoman, Jason - Shock value: how a few eccentric outsiders gave us nightmares, conquered Hollywood, and invented modern horror
FICTION
- Ammaniti, NiccolÚ - Me and you
- Calvetti, Paola - P.O. Box love: a novel of letters
- Delaney, Frank - The last storyteller: a novel
- Dunmore, Helen - The greatcoat
- Dunthorne, Joe - Wild abandon: a novel
- Fabiano, Laurie - Elizabeth Street: a novel based on true events
- Fox, Lauren - Friends like us: a novel
- George, Alex - A good American
- Giardina, Anthony - Norumbega park
- Gottlieb, Eli - The face thief
- Hadley, Tessa - Married love and other stories
- Handler, Daniel - Why we broke up
- Hannah, Kristin - Home front
- Harvey, Samantha - All is song
- Ivey, Eowyn - The snow child: a novel
- Kinsella, Sophie - I've got your number: a novel
- Koontz, Dean R - 77 Shadow Street: a novel
- Levine, Sara - Treasure Island!!!
- Lightman, Alan P - Mr g: a novel about the creation
- Livesey, Margot - The flight of Gemma Hardy: a novel
- Marcus, Ben - The flame alphabet
- McCafferty, Jane - First you try everything: a novel
- O'Nan, Stewart - The odds: [a love story]
- ”lafur JÛhann ”lafsson - Restoration
- Pinneo, Sarah - Julia's child: a novel
- Roberts, Kate - The Awakening
- Rosnay, Tatiana de - The house I loved
- Vincenzi, Penny - Another woman
- Wallace, Carol - Leaving Van Gogh: a novel
- White, Edmund - Jack Holmes and his friend: a novel
- Wolitzer, Hilma - An available man: a novel
- Yallop, Jacqueline - Obedience
SHORT STORIES
- Chaon, Dan - Stay awake: stories
- Englander, Nathan - What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank: stories
- Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer - A lovesong for India
POETRY
- The death of King Arthur: a new verse translation
- Pinsky, Robert - Selected poems
MYSTERIES
- Ashford, Jeffrey - Justice deferred*
- Bazell, Josh - Wild thing: a novel
- Bilal, Parker - The golden scales: a Makana mystery
- Brett, Simon - Blotto, Twinks and the dead dowager duchess*
- Brett, Simon - Guns in the gallery: a Fethering mystery*
- Buckley, Fiona - Queen without a crown*
- Caplan, Thomas - The spy who jumped off the screen
- Cleeves, Ann - The glass room*
- Crombie, Deborah - No mark upon her*
- Daheim, Mary - The Alpine winter
- Dorsey, Tim - Pineapple grenade
- Dunn, Carola - Gone West: a Daisy Dalrymple mystery*
- Ebersohn, Wessel - Those who love night
- Flynn, Vince - Kill shot: an American assassin thriller
- Fraser, Anthea - Shifting sands
- Gallagher, Stephen - The bedlam detective: a novel*
- Gardner, Lisa - Catch me
- Garrison, Paul - Robert Ludlum's The Janson command
- Gilman, Keith - My brother's keeper
- Gordon, Howard - Hard target
- Gregory, Susanna - Mystery in the minster: the seventeenth chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew*
- Griffiths, Elly - Room full of bones*
- Hall, Parnell - $10,000 in small, unmarked puzzles: a Puzzle Lady mystery
- Harris, Tessa - The anatomist's apprentice: a Dr. Thomas Silkstone mystery*
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Kill my darling: a Bill Slider mystery*
- Harvey, John - Good bait*
- Heald, Tim - Poison at the Pueblo: a Simon Bognor mystery
- Helton, Peter - Four below: An Inspector McLusky novel
- Hess, Joan - Deader homes and gardens
- Jance, Judith A - Left for dead: a novel
- Kelly, Erin - The dark rose*
- Kent, Graeme - One blood
- Knight, Bernard - Grounds for appeal*
- Krentz, Jayne Ann - Copper Beach
- Landay, William - Defending Jacob: a novel
- Larsen, K. J - Sticks and stones: a Cat DeLuca mystery
- Leonard, Elmore - Raylan
- Masters, Priscilla - A velvet scream*
- May, Peter - The blackhouse*
- McCarry, Charles - Ark: a novel
- Morgan Jones, Chris - The silent oligarch
- Murder New York style: fresh slices : an anthology by 22 authors of greater New York
- Palmer, Michael - Oath of office
- Pastor, Ben - Liar moon
- Patterson, James - Private: #1 suspect : a novel
- Pelecanos, George P - What it was: a novel
- Rosenfelt, David - Heart of a killer
- Sharp, ZoÎ - Fifth victim: a Charlie Fox thriller
- Shrier, Howard - Boston cream
- Speller, Elizabeth - The strange fate of Kitty Easton Elizabeth Speller*
- Stabenow, Dana - Restless in the grave
- Staincliffe, Cath - Crying out loud*
- Taylor, Brad - All necessary force: a Pike Logan thriller
- Terrell, Jaden - Racing the devil: a Jared McKean mystery
- Thor, Brad - The Lions of Lucerne
- Tursten, Helene - Night rounds
* indicates a British mystery
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Berman, Ronald - Fitzgerald's mentors: Edmund Wilson, HL Mencken, and Gerald Murphy , 820.9 B
- Borges, Jorge Luis - On Argentina , 864 B
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - The annotated Emerson , 824.09 E
- Kafka, Franz - Dearest Father, 92 K114 K
- Levenson, Michael H - Modernism , 809 L
- Michaux, Henri - Darkness moves: an Henri Michaux anthology, 1927-1984 , 840.81 M
- Steiner, George - The poetry of thought: from Hellenism to Celan , 801 S
- Visions of tomorrow: science fiction predictions that came true, 808.83 V
- Walser, Robert - Berlin stories , F W
POETRY
- After confession: poetry as autobiography , 821.09 A
- LautrÈamont - The Songs of Maldoror , 841 L
- Medina, Pablo - The man who wrote on water , 821 M
- Oswald, Alice - Spacecraft Voyager 1: new and selected poems , 821 O
LEGEND & MYTHOLOGY
- BÈroul - The romance of Tristan by Beroul and, the tale of Tristan's madness , 398.2 B
- Freeman, Philip - Oh my gods: a modern retelling of Greek and Roman myths , 292 F
- Warner, Marina - Stranger magic: charmed states and The Arabian nights , 398.2 W
LANGUAGE
- From Elvish to Klingon: exploring invented languages , 408.9 F
- Regier, Willis Goth - Quotology , 808.8 R
ART
- Fisher, Celia - The golden age of flowers: botanical illustration in the age of discovery 1600-1800 , 758 F
- Howard, Jeremy - East European art, 1650-1950 , 709.47 H
- Kemp, Martin - Christ to Coke: how image becomes icon , 704.94 K
- Kristeva, Julia - The severed head: capital visions, 704.942 K
- Noelle, Alexander J - The tides of Provincetown: pivotal years in America's oldest continuous art colony (1899-2011) , 709.73 N
- Poster: 1,000 posters from Toulouse-Lautrec to Sagmeister , 741.7 P
- Rabb, Theodore K - The artist and the warrior: military history through the eyes of the masters , 704 R
- Russell, Charles - Groundwaters: a century of art by self-taught and outsider artists , 709.04 R
- Staley, Allen - The new painting of the 1860s: between the pre-Raphaelites and the aesthetic movement , 759.2 S
- Wark, McKenzie - The beach beneath the street: the everyday life and glorious times of the Situationist International , 701 W
DESIGN
- Gordon, Beverly - Textiles: the whole story : uses, meanings, significance , 745.5 G
- Martin, Richard - Cubism and fashion , 746.92 M
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Albrecht, Donald - Cecil Beaton: the New York years , 779 B
- Muir, Laura - Lyonel Feininger: photographs, 1928-1939 , 779 F
FILM
- Clark, James - Dream repairman: adventures in film editing , 92 C5935 C
- Dyer, Geoff - Zona: a book about a film about a journey to a room , 791.4 D
- Rushdie, Salman - The wizard of Oz , 791.4 R
- World film locations, 791.4 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Beauvoir, Simone de - Philosophical writings , 844 B
- Rosset, ClÈment - Joyful cruelty: toward a philosophy of the real , 194 R
- Snyder, Laura J - Reforming philosophy: a Victorian debate on science and society , 192 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Corballis, Michael C - The recursive mind: the origins of human language, thought, and civilization , 153 C
- Freud, Sigmund - The letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: inside psychoanalysis , 150 F
- Krznaric, Roman - The wonderbox: curious histories of how to live , 158 K
LAW
- Miller, James A - Remembering Scottsboro: the legacy of an infamous trial , 345 M
- Morris, Jeffrey Brandon - Leadership on the federal bench: the craft and activism of Jack Weinstein , 92 W4246 M
- Patry, William F - How to fix copyright , 347.73 P
BIOGRAPHY
- Dykstra, Natalie - Clover Adams: a gilded and heartbreaking life , 92 A2158 D
- Matteson, John - The lives of Margaret Fuller , 92 F9672 M
- Matuschek, Oliver - Three lives: a biography of Stefan Zweig Oliver Matuschek translated from the German by Allan Blunden, 92 Z975 M
- Miller, Melanie Randolph - An incautious man: the life of Gouverneur Morris , 92 M876 M
- Olla, Roberto - IL Duce and his women , 92 M9895 O
- Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling - A slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons , 92 J5455 T
RELIGION
- The Jewish annotated New Testament: New Revised Standard Version Bible translation , 225.1 B
- Brown, Samuel Morris - In heaven as it is on earth: Joseph Smith and the early Mormon conquest of death , 289.3 B
- Lyons, Jonathan - Islam through Western eyes: from the crusades to the war on terrorism , 303.4 L
- Murphy, Cullen - God's jury: the Inquisition and the making of the modern world , 270.5 M
SCIENCE
- Bejan, Adrian - Design in nature: how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organization , 500 B
- Cox, Brian - The quantum universe: (and why anything that can happen, does) , 530.1 C
- Plantinga, Alvin - Where the conflict really lies: science, religion, and naturalism , 215 P
FOREIGN RELATIONS
- Kwarteng, Kwasi - Ghosts of empire: Britain's legacies in the modern world , 325.3 K
- Scheffer, David - All the missing souls: a personal history of the war crimes tribunals , 341.3 S
SOCIOLOGY
- Duina, Francesco G - Winning: reflections on an American obsession , 301 D
- Sennett, Richard - Foreigner: two essays on exile , 325.2 S
AGING
- Chapman, Wid - Unassisted living: ageless homes for later life, 728 C
- Hartog, Hendrik - Someday all this will be yours: a history of inheritance and old age , 347.6 H
- Loe, Meika - Aging our way: lessons for living from 85 and beyond , 305.26 L
- Schieber, Sylvester J - The predictable surprise: the unraveling of the US Retirement System , 331.25 S
ECONOMICS
- Meltzer, Allan H - Why capitalism? , 330.1 M
- Rickards, James - Currency wars: the making of the next global crisis , 332.4 R
- Taylor, Timothy - The instant economist: everything you need to know to about how the economy works , 330 T
HISTORY
- Black robes and buckskin: a selection from the Jesuit relations , 971.01 B
- Cook, Steven A - The struggle for Egypt: from Nasser to Tahrir Square , 962 C
- Costigliola, Frank - Roosevelt's lost alliances: how personal politics helped start the Cold War , 940.532 C
- Gott, Richard - Britain's empire: resistance, repression and revolt , 942 G
- Jenkins, Simon - A short history of England : the glorious story of a rowdy nation, 942 J
- Marriott, John - Beyond the Tower: a history of East London , 942.1 M
- Satter, David - It was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway: Russia and the communist past , 947.084 S
- Tocqueville, Alexis de - Tocqueville: the Ancien RÈgime and the French Revolution , 944.04 T
- Weidensaul, Scott - The first frontier: the forgotten history of struggle, savagery, and endurance in early America , 974 W
WAR
- In country: remembering the Vietnam War , 959 I
- Kurlantzick, Joshua - The ideal man: the tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American way of war , 92 T4734 K
- Lack, Katherine - Frontstalag 142: the internment diary of an English lady , 940.5472 L
- Uchida, Yoshiko - Desert exile: the uprooting of a Japanese American family , 940.548 U
NEW YORK
- Fairfield, Francis Gerry - The clubs of New York: with an account of the origin, progress, present condition and membership of the leading clubs an essay on New York club-life, and photographs of leading club-men , 367 F
- Ferrara, Eric - The Bowery: a history of grit, graft and grandeur , 974.71 F
- New York: the Big Apple quote book , 974.71 N
- Reiss, Marcia - Lost New York , 720.973 R
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Earliest voyages round the world, 1519-1617 , 910.9 E
- Hugo-Bader, Jacek - White fever: a journey to the frozen heart of Siberia , 915.7 H
- Taylor, Craig - Return to Akenfield: portrait of an English village in the twenty-first century , 914.26 T
AUDIO
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn - Wives and daughters, Audio-CD G
- Macdonald, Ross - The chill: a Lew Archer novel , Audio-CD M
- Melville, Herman - Benito Cereno, Audio-CD M
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich - Pale fire, Audio-CD N