New Books - April 2020
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IN THE LOBBY
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Grant, Thomas - Court number one: the Old Bailey trials that defined modern Britain
- Kermani, Navid - Along the trenches: a journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan
- Black British history: new perspectives (Hakim Adi, ed.)
FICTION
- Buckley, Jonathan - The great concert of the night
- Cain, Amina - Indelicacy (ebook available)
- Eliasberg, Jan - Hannah's war: a novel
- Enright, Anne - Actress: a novel
- Erdrich, Louise - The night watchman: a novel (ebook available)
- Fowler, Therese - A good neighborhood
- Johnston, Scott - Campusland
- Kadare, Ismail - The doll: a portrait of my mother
- King, Lily - Writers & lovers: a novel (ebook available)
- MacInnes, Martin - Gathering evidence
- Mantel, Hilary - The mirror & the light (ebook available)
- McBride, Eimear - Strange hotel
- McBride, James - Deacon King Kong (ebook available)
- Rein, Heinz - Berlin finale
- Schaitkin, Alexis - Saint X
- Stuart, Douglas, - Shuggie Bain: a novel
- Szabo, Magda - Abigail (translated from the Hungarian; NYRB Classics) (ebook available)
- Vermes, Timur - The hungry and the fat
- Wayne, Teddy - Apartment: a novel
More recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section below.
MYSTERIES
- Adler-Olsen, Jussi - Victim 2117: a Department Q novel
- Berry, Steve - The Warsaw protocol
- Bouman, Tom - The bramble and the rose: a Henry Farrell novel
- Box, C. J. - Long range
- Boyle, William - City of margins: a novel
- Downing, Samantha - My lovely wife
- Gardiner, Meg - The dark corners of the night
- Hendricks, Greer - You are not alone
- Kent, Serena - Death in Avignon: a Penelope Kite novel *
- Lawton, John - Hammer to fall *
- MacNeal, Susan Elia - The king's justice
- Margolin, Phillip - A reasonable doubt
- May, James L. - The body outside the Kremlin: a novel
- McMahon, John - The evil men do
- Mullen, Caitlin - Please see us
- Petrie, Nicholas - The wild one
- Quartey, Kwei - The missing American
- Swanson, Peter - Eight perfect murders: a novel
- Tudor, C. J. - The other people: a novel*
* indicates a British mystery
NONFICTION
- Achorn, Edward - Every drop of blood: the momentous second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
- Alter, Charlotte - The ones we've been waiting for: how a new generation of leaders will transform America
- Coe, Alexis - You never forget your first: a biography of George Washington
- Cohen, Adam - Supreme inequality: the Supreme Court's fifty-year battle for a more unjust America
- De Kretser, Michelle - On Shirley Hazzard
- De Rogatis, Tiziana - Elena Ferrante's key words
- Dial, Roman - The adventurer's son: a memoir
- Douthat, Ross Gregory - The decadent society: how we became the victims of our own success
- Ellsworth, Scott - The world beneath their feet: mountaineering, madness, and the deadly race to summit the Himalayas
- Enrich, David - Dark towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an epic trail of destruction
- Fremont, Helen - The escape artist
- Genet, Jean - Criminal child: selected essays (New York Review Books Classics)
- Goldfarb, Bruce - 18 tiny deaths: the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- Hochschild, Adam - Rebel Cinderella: from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes (ebook available)
- Hong, Cathy Park - Minor feelings: an Asian American reckoning
- Jaccarino, Mike - America's last great newspaper war: the death of print in a two-tabloid town
- Katchor, Ben - The dairy restaurant
- Kucharski, Adam - The rules of contagion: why things spread - and why they stop
- Larson, Erik - The splendid and the vile: a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz (ebook available)
- Moore, Honor - Our revolution: a mother and daughter at midcentury
- Norman, Alexander - The Dalai Lama: an extraordinary life
- Norton, Mary Beth. - 1774: the long year of revolution
- Roberts, Sophy - The lost pianos of Siberia: in search of Russia's remarkable survivors
- Roiphe, Katie - The power notebooks
- Shapiro, James - Shakespeare in a divided America: what his plays tell us about our past and future
- Solnit, Rebecca - Recollections of my nonexistence
POETRY
- Forche, Carolyn - In the lateness of the world
- Hirsch, Edward - Stranger by night: poems
- Momaday, N. Scott - The death of sitting bear: new and selected poems
STORY COLLECTIONS
- Flattery, Nicole - Show them a good time: short stories
- Jimenez, Claire - Staten Island stories (New York City Book Awards winner!)
- Moore, Lorrie - Collected stories
IN THE STACKS
FINE & PERFORMING ARTS
- Bloom, Ken - The American songbook: the singers, the songwriters, and the songs
- Burford, Mark - Mahalia Jackson: and the black gospel field
- Cole, Michael Wayne - Sofonisba's lesson: a Renaissance artist and her work
- Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. - The Arts and Crafts of India and Ceylon
- Duchamp-Villon, Raymond - Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1876-1918.
- Violette, Zachary J. - The decorated tenement: how immigrant builders and architects transformed the slum in the Gilded Age
- Wrbican, Matt - A is for Archive: Warhol's world from A to Z
FICTION, LITERATURE, ESSAYS, POETRY, JOURNALISM
- Ackmann, Martha - These fevered days: ten pivotal moments in the making of Emily Dickinson
- Bellerby, Frances - The first-known and other poems
- Brown, Frank London - Trumbull Park (1959; republished by Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice - The girl from Hollywood (1923; LARB Classics)
- Chraïbi, Driss - The simple past (NYRB Classics; translated from the French by Hugh A. Harter)
- De Grazia, Sebastian - A country with no name: tales from the Constitution
- Doyle, Brian - Mink river: a novel
- Doyle, Brian - The Plover
- Gorton, Stephanie - Citizen reporters: S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the magazine that rewrote America
- Jorgensen, Paul A. - William Shakespeare: the tragedies
- Martin Du Gard, Roger - Notes on Andre Gide
- Rodden, John - Becoming George Orwell: life and letters, legend and legacy
- Savoy, Willard W. - Alien land (acclaimed 1949 novel republished by Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
- Shalamov, Varlam - Sketches of the criminal world: further Kolyma stories (translated from the Russian by Donald Rayfield)
- Thompson, Clifford - What it is: race, family, and one thinking Black man's blues
- Verble, Margaret - Maud's line (Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- Promethean horrors: classic tales of mad science (Xavier Aldana Reyes, ed.; British Library)
- Willa Cather review (new periodical in the Members' Room)
BIOGRAPHY
- Cockshut, A. O. J. - Truth to life: the art of biography in the nineteenth century
- Fingeroth, Danny - A marvelous life: the amazing story of Stan Lee
- Gallay, Alan - Walter Ralegh: architect of empire
- Graves, Robert - Storm centres of the Near East: personal memories, 1879-1929
- Greig, Cicely - Ivy Compton-Burnett: a memoir
- Locke, Tembi - From scratch: a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home
- Neumann, Ariana - When time stopped: a memoir of my father's war and what remains
- O'Brady, Colin - The impossible first: from fire to ice--crossing Antarctica alone
- Sattouf, Riad - The Arab of the future. a graphic memoir: a childhood in the Middle East (1987-1992)
- Wood, Dorothy MacDowell - Commodore Vanderbilt and his family: a biographical account of the descendants of Cornelius and Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt
HISTORY
- Albert, Edoardo - Warrior: a life of war in Anglo-Saxon Britain
- Chaffin, Tom - Revolutionary brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the friendship that helped forge two nations
- DuBois, Ellen Carol - Suffrage: women's long battle for the vote
- Flanders, Judith. - A place for everything: the curious history of alphabetical order
- Frank, Richard B. - Tower of skulls: a history of the Asia-Pacific war, July 1937-May 1942
- Fullagar, Kate - The warrior, the voyager and the artist: three lives in an age of empire (18th century)
- Hewitt, Nicholas - Wicked city: the many cultures of Marseille
- Hollars, B. J. - The road south: personal stories of the Freedom Riders
- Horwitz, Gordon J. - In the shadow of death: living outside the gates of Mauthausen
- Howkins, Alun - The death of rural England: a social history of the countryside since 1900
- Knowlton, Christopher - Cattle kingdom: the hidden history of the cowboy West
- Mungello, D. E. - The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800
- Parker, Geoffrey - The black scalpel: A Surgeon with the S.O.E.
- Sella, Domenico - Italy in the seventeenth century
- Sonabend, Daniel - We fight fascists: the 43 group and their forgotten battle for post-war Britain
- Steiner, Zara - Britain and the origins of the First World War
- Zabin, Serena R. - The Boston Massacre: a family history
- 1776: a London chronicle or how to divert oneself while losing an empire (Justin Lovill, ed.)
ANTIQUITY
- Euripides - Medea; Hippolytus; Electra; Helen (translated and edited by James Morwood; introduction by Edith Hall; Oxford World's Classics)
- Suetonius - How to be a bad emperor: an ancient guide to truly terrible leaders
- Imperial projections: ancient Rome in modern popular culture (Sandra R. Joshel, et al., eds.)
CULTURES AND PLACES
- Bingham, Jane - The Cotswolds: a cultural history
- Garrett, Martin - The Loire: a cultural history
- Goldstein, Darra - Beyond the north wind: Russia in recipes and lore
- Potts, Jim - The Ionian Islands and Epirus: a cultural history
PHILOSOPHY
- Musonius Rufus, C. - That one should disdain hardships: the teachings of a Roman Stoic
- Spinoza, Benedictus de - Spinoza's ethics (translated by George Eliot ; edited by Clare Carlisle)
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Dionne, E. J., - Code red: how progressives and moderates can unite to save our country
- Forrester, Katrina - In the shadow of justice: postwar liberalism and the remaking of political philosophy
- Lowry, Rich - The case for nationalism: how it made us powerful, united, and free
- Nye, Joseph S. - Do morals matter?: presidents and foreign policy from FDR to Trump
- Paul, Rand - The case against socialism
- Yaffa, Joshua - Between two fires: truth, ambition, and compromise in Putin's Russia
RELIGION
- Doyle, Brian - Leaping: revelations & epiphanies
- Howe, Ben - The immoral majority: why evangelicals chose political power over Christian values
- Hurwitz, Sarah - Here all along: finding meaning, spirituality, and a deeper connection to life--in Judaism (after finally choosing to look there)
SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Aldington, Richard - Frauds
- Boyers, Robert - The tyranny of virtue: identity, the academy, and the hunt for political heresies
- Fernandez, Johanna, - The Young Lords: a radical history (Puerto Rican communitypolitical activists NYC)
- Garrett, Kent - The last negroes at Harvard: the class of 1963 and the eighteen young men who changed Harvard forever
- Karakatsanis, Alec - Usual cruelty: the complicity of lawyers in the criminal injustice system
- Orenstein, Peggy. - Girls & sex: navigating the complicated new landscape
- Posner, Gerald L. - Pharma: greed, lies, and the poisoning of America
- First responders: inside the U.S. strategy for fighting the 2007-2009 global financial crisis (edited by Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, and Henry M. Paulson, Jr., with J. Nellie Liang)