IN THE LOBBY

NON-FICTION

• Alexander, Amir R. - Infinitesimal: how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world
• Begley, Adam - Updike
• Caldwell, Gail - New life, no instructions: a memoir
• Carey, John - The unexpected professor: an Oxford life in books
• Cohan, William D. - The price of silence: the Duke lacrosse scandal, the power of the elite, and the corruption of our great universities
• Copeland, Misty - Life in motion: an unlikely ballerina
• Cuthbertson, Guy - Wilfred Owen
• Demos, John - The Heathen School: a story of hope and betrayal in the age of the early Republic
• Ehrenreich, Barbara - Living with a wild god: a nonbeliever's search for the truth about everything
• Eyman, Scott - John Wayne: the life and legend
• Feinstein, John - Where nobody knows your name: life in the minor leagues of baseball
• Feldman, Deborah - Exodus: a memoir
• Gall, Carlotta - The wrong enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
• Grant, Stephen H. - Collecting Shakespeare: the story of Henry and Emily Folger
• Jacobs, Diane - Dear Abigail: the intimate lives and revolutionary ideas of Abigail Adams and her two remarkable sisters
• Jamison, Leslie - The empathy exams: essays
• Kassinger, Ruth - A garden of marvels: how we discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, and other secrets of plants
• Kennedy, Matthew - Roadshow!: the fall of film musicals in the 1960s
• Leonard, Christopher - The meat racket: the secret takeover of America's food business
• Lewis, Michael - Flash boys: a Wall Street revolt
• Lussu, Emilio - A soldier on the southern front: the classic Italian memoir of World War I
• Matras, Yaron - I met lucky people: the story of the Romani Gypsies
• Mayes, Frances - Under magnolia: a Southern memoir
• Morris, Ian - War! What is it good for?: conflict and the progress of civilization from primates to robots
• Piketty, Thomas - Capital in the twenty-first century 
• Prins, Nomi - All the presidents' bankers: the hidden alliances that drive American power
• Romm, James S. - Dying every day: Seneca at the court of Nero
• Schulte, Brigid - Overwhelmed: work, love, and play when no one has the time
• Sims, Michael - The adventures of Henry Thoreau: a young man's unlikely path to Walden Pond
• Sinclair, Iain - American smoke: journeys to the end of the light : a fiction of memory
• Strub, Sean O'Brien - Body counts: a memoir of politics, sex, AIDS, and survival
• Vaill, Amanda - Hotel Florida: truth, love, and death in the Spanish Civil War
• Wagner, Robert - You must remember this: life and style in Hollywood's Golden Age
• Weber, Bruce - Life is a wheel: love, death, etc., and a bike ride across America

FICTION

• Bail, Murray - The voyage
• Bradford, Barbara Taylor - Cavendon Hall
• Carpenter, Don - Fridays at Enrico's
• Cohen, Leah Hager - No book but the world
• Cole, Teju - Every day is for the thief: fiction
• Coupland, Douglas - Worst. Person. Ever.
• Delacourt, Grégoire - My wish list
• Donoghue, Emma - Frog music: a novel
• Fontaine Talavera, Arturo - La vida doble: a novel
• Glass, Julia - And the Dark Sacred Night
• Go, Justin - The steady running of the hour
• Green, Jane - Tempting fate
• Greene, Amy - Long man: a novel
• Greene, Thomas Christopher - The headmaster's wife
• Grossman, David - Falling out of time
• Hacker, Christopher - The Morels
• Harun, Adrianne - A man came out of a door in the mountain: a novel
• Huneven, Michelle - Off course
• Hustvedt, Siri - The blazing world: a novel
• Just, Ward S. - American romantic
• Kerouac, Jack - The haunted life: and other writings
• Laerhoven, Bob van - Baudelaire's revenge
• Lazar, Zachary - I pity the poor immigrant: a novel
• Litman, Ellen - Mannequin girl: a novel
• Macomber, Debbie - Blossom Street brides: a Blossom Street novel
• Mai, Jia - Decoded
• Matthiessen, Peter - In paradise
• McDermid, Val - Northanger Abbey
• Mirvis, Tova - Visible city
• Moore, Christopher, - The serpent of Venice
• Neuman, Andrés - Talking to ourselves
• Osborne, Lawrence - The ballad of a small player
• Park, David - The poets' wives: a novel
• Parker, Michael - All I have in this world: a novel
• Pasulka, Brigid - The sun and other stars
• Prose, Francine - Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: a novel
• Rahman, Zia Haider - In the light of what we know
• Rieger, Susan - The divorce papers: a novel : from the files of Sophie Diehl, Esq.
• Roberts, Nora - Shadow spell
• Rosnay, Tatiana de - The other story
• Ryan, Donal - The thing about December
• Scottoline, Lisa - Keep quiet
• Sharma, Akhil - Family life: a novel
• Shipstead, Maggie - Astonish me
• Simpson, Mona - Casebook: a novel
• Steel, Danielle - Power play: a novel
• Thompson, Ted - The land of steady habits: a novel
• Ullmann, Linn - The cold song
• Waldman, Ayelet - Love and treasure
• Wyld, Evie - All the birds, singing
• Zevin, Gabrielle - The storied life of A.J. Fikry: a novel
• Zimmerman, Jean - Savage Girl

MYSTERIES

• Albert, Susan Wittig - Death come quickly
• Baldacci, David - The target
• Barr, Nevada - Destroyer angel
• Bauer, Belinda - The facts of life and death*
• Bell, Ted - Warriors
• Brennan, Allison - Notorious
• Clark, Mary Higgins - I've got you under my skin
• Cotterill, Colin - The axe factor
• De Giovanni, Maurizio - The day of the dead: the autumn of Commissario Ricciardi
• Fluke, Joanne - Blackberry pie murder
• Gimenez, Mark - Con law
• Grebe, Camilla - More bitter than death
• Haynes, Elizabeth - Under a silent moon: a novel*
• Hunt, James Patrick - The detective
• Klein, Matthew - No way back: a novel
• Kuhn, Shane - The intern's handbook: a thriller
• Laukkanen, Owen - Kill fee
• Leon, Donna - By its cover
• Massie, Allan - Cold winter in Bordeaux
• Oates, Joyce Carol - High crime area: tales of darkness and dread
• Oswald, James - Natural causes: a Detective Inspector McLean novel
• Patterson, James - NYPD Red 2
• Roberts, Nora - The collector
• Rosenfelt, David - Without warning
• Spencer, Sally - Death's dark shadow*
• Stein, Triss - Brooklyn graves: an Erica Donato mystery
• Weiss, Jan Merete - A few drops of blood
• White, Randy Wayne - Bone deep
• Woods, Stuart - Carnal curiosity

POETRY

• Merwin, W. S. - The moon before morning
• Poems that make grown men cry: 100 men on the words that move them (Anthony & Ben Holden, eds.)

SHORT STORIES

• Binchy, Maeve. - Chestnut Street
• Davis, Lydia, - Can't and won't
• Greenwich Village Stories (Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation; Judith Stonehill, ed.)
• Kane, Jessica Francis - This close: stories
• Marciano, Francesca - The other language: stories

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• Andrews, Malcolm - Dickensian laughter: essays on Dickens and humour 823 A
• The best of McSweeney's  820.8 B
• Carlston, Erin G. - Double agents: espionage, literature, and liminal citizens 809.9 C
• Irwin, John T. - F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction: "an almost theatrical innocence"  823 I
• Klossowski, Pierre - Sade my neighbor  843.09 K
• Luca, Ghérasim - The inventor of love & other writings (Julian and Laura Semilian, transl.; introduction by Andrei Codrescu) 859 L
• A Political Companion to Herman Melville (Jason Frank, ed.) 823 M
• Potter, Rachel - Obscene modernism: literary censorship and experiment, 1900-1940  820.9 P
• Ziolkowski, Theodore - Lure of the arcane: the literature of cult and conspiracy 809.9 Z

SHAKESPEARE

• Shakespeare in America: an anthology from the Revolution to now (James Shapiro, ed.) 822.33 K
• Burrow, Colin - Shakespeare and classical antiquity 822.33 K
• Montaigne, Michel de - Shakespeare's Montaigne: the Florio translation of the essays 844 M

BOOKS & READING

• Davis, Philip - Reading and the reader 028 D
• Grafton, Anthony - The culture of correction in Renaissance Europe 655.1 G
• Marzo Magno, Alessandro - Bound in Venice: the serene republic and the dawn of the book 655.1 M

JOURNALISM

• The art of making magazines: on being an editor and other views from the industry 070.4 A
• Binchy, Maeve - Maeve's times: selected Irish Times writings 828.08 B
• Hiaasen, Carl - Dance of the reptiles: selected columns 828 H
• Pettegree, Andrew - The invention of news: how the world came to know about itself 070 P

ART, CRAFT & DESIGN

• Altshuler, Bruce - Exhibitions that made art history (2 volumes) 709.04 E 
• American modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe (David Frankel, ed.; MoMA) 709.04 M
• Archer, Michael - Art since 1960 709.04 A
• Buatta, Mario - Mario Buatta: fifty years of American interior decoration 747 B
• Gorky, Arshile - Arshile Gorky: a retrospective of drawings 741.3 G
• Italian Futurism 1909-1944: reconstructing the universe (Vivien Grene, ed.; Guggenheim) 709.45 I
• Korn, Peter - Why we make things and why it matters: the education of a craftsman 92 K8428 K
• Marcus, George H. - The houses of Louis Kahn 790.92 K
• Meller, Susan - Textile designs: two hundred years of European and American patterns for printed fabrics organized by motif, style, color, layout, and period 745.5 M
• Miller, Mary Ellen - Maya art and architecture 709.011 M
• Pigza, Jessica - Bibliocraft: a modern crafter's guide to using library resources to jumpstart creative projects 745.5 P
• Whitford, Frank - Egon Schiele (Thames & Hudson World of Art) 759.36 S

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BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

• Athill, Diana - Make believe , 92 A8712 A
• Heffron, Margery M. - Louisa Catherine: the other Mrs. Adams 92 A2151 H
• Lewis, Peter - A rogues' gallery: off the record encounters with figures of fame, folly and fun, 1950-2000  920 L6756 R
• Lipsky, Seth - The rise of Abraham Cahan 92 C1326 L
• Mankoff, Robert - How about never-- is never good for you?: my life in cartoons 92 M2795 M
• Pawel, Miriam - The crusades of Cesar Chavez: a biography 92 C5127 P
• Perry, Mark - The most dangerous man in America: the making of Douglas MacArthur 92 M116 P
• Pla, Josep - The gray notebook (translated from the Spanish; New York Review of Books) 92 P696 P
• Rizopoulos, Nicholas X. - Civil and uncivil wars: memories of a Greek childhood, 1936-1950 92 R6272 R
• Silverman, Sue William - The Pat Boone fan club: my life as a white Anglo-Saxon Jew 92 S5879 S
• Szegedy-Maszak, Marianne - I kiss your hands many times: hearts, souls, and wars in Hungary 920 S9972 S
• Westin, Boel - Tove Jansson: life, art, words : the authorised biography 92 J348 W

PHILOSOPHY

• Fussell, Paul - The rhetorical world of Augustan humanism: ethics and imagery from Swift to Burke 140 F
• Saunders, George - Congratulations, by the way: some thoughts on kindness 177 S
• Zhang, Junmai - The development of Neo-Confucian thought 181 Z

SOCIOLOGY

• Cooke, Julia - The other side of paradise: life in the new Cuba 972.91 C
• Morris, Ian - The measure of civilization: how social development decides the fate of nations 306 M
• Sennett, Richard - The hidden injuries of class 305.5 S
• Taibbi, Matt - The divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap 330.973 T
• Taylor, Paul - The next America: boomers, millennials, and the looming generational showdown 305.2 T

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Easterly, William - Tyranny of experts: economists, dictators, and the forgotten rights of the poor 339.1 E
• Haeg, Lawrence Peter - Harriman vs. Hill: Wall Street's great railroad war 332.6 H
• Olen, Helaine - Pound foolish: exposing the dark side of the personal finance industry 332 O

HISTORY

• Alvarez, Alex - Native America and the question of genocide 970.5 A
• Brown, Frederick - The embrace of unreason: France, 1914-1940 944.08 B
• Cline, Eric H. - 1177 B.C.: the year civilization collapsed 930 C
• Cohen, Gerard Daniel - In war's wake: Europe's displaced persons in the postwar order 940.5318 C
• Israel, Jonathan I. - Revolutionary ideas: an intellectual history of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre 944.04 I
• Keay, John - Midnight's descendants: a history of South Asia since partition 954 K
• Oakes, James - The scorpion's sting: antislavery and the coming of the Civil War 973.7 O
• Osterhammel, Jürgen - The transformation of the world: a global history of the nineteenth century 909.81 O
• Seymour, Miranda - Noble endeavours: the life of two countries, England and Germany, in many stories 942 S
• Wasserstein, Bernard - The ambiguity of virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Dutch Jews 940.53492 W

WAR

• Barthas, Louis - Poilu: the World War I notebooks of corporal Louis Barthas, barrelmaker, 1914-1918 940.48 B
• Bretholz, Leo - Leap into darkness: seven years on the run in wartime Europe 940.5318 B
• Coffey, Patrick - American arsenal: a century of waging war 355.0973 C
• Varon, Elizabeth R. - Appomattox: victory, defeat, and freedom at the end of the Civil War 973.73 V
• West, Francis J. - The village (Vietnam War) 959 W

MIDDLE EAST

• Blumenthal, Max - Goliath: life and loathing in greater Israel 956.94 B
• Cleveland, William L. - A history of the modern Middle East 956.9 C
• The Syria dilemma (Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, eds.) 956.9 S

FOOD & DRINK

• Gibney, Michael - Sous chef: 24 hours on the line 647.9 G
• Hannickel, Erica - Empire of vines: wine culture in America 634.8 H
• Potter, Jeff - Cooking for geeks: real science, great hacks, and good food 641 P
• Viljoen, Marie - 66 square feet: a delicious life one woman, one terrace, 92 recipes 641.5 V

SCIENCE & MATH

• Ferreira, Pedro G. - The perfect theory: a century of geniuses and the battle over general relativity 530.1 F
• Gardner, Martin - The colossal book of mathematics: classic puzzles, paradoxes, and problems : number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, topology, game theory, infinity, and other topics of recreational mathematics 793.7 G
• Kasner, Edward - Mathematics and the imagination 510 K
• Nicholls, Henry - The Galápagos: a natural history 574 N
• Pääbo, Svante - Neanderthal man: in search of lost genomes 575.1 P
• Strycker, Noah K. - The thing with feathers: the surprising lives of birds, and what they reveal about being human 598.2 S

SPORTS & RECREATION

• Epstein, David J. - The sports gene: inside the science of extraordinary athletic performance 573 E
• Ewalt, David M. - Of dice and men: the story of Dungeons & dragons and the people who play it 795 E
• Kennedy, Kostya - Pete Rose: an American dilemma 92 R7972 K

NEW YORK

• Cooper, Becky - Mapping Manhattan: a love (and sometimes hate) story in maps by 75 New Yorkers 974.71 C
• Epstein, Mitch - New York Arbor 778 E
• Fuka, Vladimír - New York: a mod portrait of the city (reprint of 1964 publication) 917.471 F
• Huyssen, David N. - Progressive inequality: rich and poor in New York, 1890-1920 973.9 H
• Summer in the city: John Lindsay, New York, and the American dream (Joseph P. Viteritti, ed.) 974.71 S

AUDIO

• Flaubert, Gustave - Sentimental education Audio-CD F
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns - The bully pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the golden age of journalism Lobby Audio-CD 973.91 G
• Orwell, George - Keep the aspidistra flying, Audio-CD O
• Voth, Grant L. - The history of world literature (24 CDs, Teaching Company) Audio-CD 809 V

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