New Books - August 2021
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Abutaleb, Yasmeen - Nightmare scenario: inside the Trump administration's response to the pandemic that changed history
- Baldwin, Rosecrans - Everything now: lessons from the city-state of Los Angeles
- Ballard, Robert D. - Into the deep: a memoir from the man who found Titanic
- Bird, Kai - The outlier: the unfinished presidency of Jimmy Carter
- Bratton, Bill - The profession: a memoir of community, race, and the arc of policing in America
- Broome, Brian - Punch me up to the gods
- Brown, Julie K. - Perversion of justice: the Jeffrey Epstein story
- Curtis, Gregory - Paris without her: a memoir
- Deane, Seamus - Small world: Ireland, 1798-2018
- Ellis, Helen - Bring your baggage and don't pack light: essays (ebook available)
- Gould, Heywood - Drafted: a memoir of the 60s
- Gross, Edward - Secrets of the force: the complete, uncensored, unauthorized oral history of Star wars
- Guinn, Jeff - War on the border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American invasion
- Heinrich, Bernd - Racing the clock: running across a lifetime
- Herrera, Hayden - Upper Bohemia: a memoir (ebook available)
- Hussey, Mark - Clive Bell and the making of modernism: a biography
- Jobb, Dean - The case of the murderous Dr. Cream: the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer
- Kean, Sam - The icepick surgeon: murder, fraud, sabotage, piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetrated in the name of science
- Leonnig, Carol - I alone can fix it: Donald J. Trump's catastrophic final year (ebook available)
- Lobrano, Alec - My place at the table: a recipe for a delicious life in Paris
- Lodge, David - Varying degrees of success: a memoir 1992-2010
- Marzorati, Gerald - Seeing Serena
- Meier, Barry - Spooked: the Trump dossier, Black Cube, and the rise of private spies
- Müller, Jan-Werner - Democracy rules
- Packer, George - Last best hope: America in crisis and renewal
- Parks, Tim - The hero's way: walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
- Paul, Annie Murphy - The extended mind: the power of thinking outside the brain
- Pollan, Michael - This is your mind on plants
- Radtke, Kristen - Seek you: a journey through American loneliness
- Raven, Catherine - Fox and I: an uncommon friendship
- Scales, Helen - The brilliant abyss: exploring the majestic hidden life of the deep ocean and the looming threat that imperils it
- Sedgwick, John - From the river to the sea: the untold story of the railroad war that made the West
- Slavitt, Andy - Preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the U.S. Coronavirus response
- Sohn, Amy - The man who hated women: sex, censorship, and civil liberties in the gilded age (ebook available)
- Strathern, Paul - The Florentines: from Dante to Galileo: the transformation of Western civilization
- Talbot, David - By the light of burning dreams: the triumphs and tragedies of the second American revolution
- Williams, Olivia - The secret life of the Savoy: glamour and intrigue at the world's most famous hotel (ebook available)
- Wolff, Michael - Landslide: the final days of the Trump White House (ebook available)
- There's a revolution outside, my love: letters from a crisis (Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman, editors)
FICTION
- Anam, Tahmima - The startup wife: a novel
- Arudpragasam, Anuk - A passage north: a novel
- Bell, Matt - Appleseed: a novel
- Benedict, Marie - The personal librarian
- Brodie, Emma - Songs in Ursa Major
- Clarke, Jaime - Minor characters: stories
- Cohen, Joshua - The Netanyahus: an account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family (ebook available)
- Cowley Heller, Miranda - The paper palace (ebook available)
- Dumas, Henry - Echo tree: the collected short fiction of Henry Dumas
- Ferrell, Carolyn - Dear Miss Metropolitan
- Freud, Esther - I couldn't love you more
- Hall, Brian - The stone loves the world
- Halperin, Hanna - Something wild: a novel
- Harris, Nathan - The sweetness of water (ebook available)
- Hughes, Mary-Beth - The ocean house: stories
- Johnson, Diane - Lorna Mott comes home: a novel
- Joshi, Alka - The secret keeper of Jaipur
- Jouksovsky, A. Natasha - The portrait of a mirror: a novel
- Kitamura, Katie M. - Intimacies
- Krauze, Gabriel - Who they was
- Kupersmith, Violet - Build your house around my body: a novel
- Lee, Jonathan - The great mistake
- Lipman, Elinor - Rachel to the rescue
- Lippman, Laura - Dream girl: a novel (ebook available)
- Maynard, Joyce - Count the ways: a novel
- Mbougar Sarr, Mohamed - Brotherhood (translated from the French)
- McInerney, Lisa - The rules of revelation
- Mohamed, Nadifa - The fortune men
- Morgan, Beth - A touch of Jen
- Muñoz Molina, Antonio - To walk alone in the crowd (translated from the Spanish)
- Norton, Graham - Home stretch: a novel
- Phillips, Gin - Family law
- Prose, Francine - The vixen: a novel (ebook available)
- Reza, Yasmina - Anne-Marie the beauty (translated from the French)
- Richards, Willa C. - The comfort of monsters: a novel
- Ridgway, Keith - A shock
- Sahota, Sunjeev - China room
- Spiotta, Dana - Wayward (ebook available)
- Statovci, Pajtim - Bolla (translated from the Finnish)
- Stifter, Adalbert - Motley stones (translated from the German; New York Review Books)
- Taylor, Brandon - Filthy animals (ebook available)
- Thomas, Claire - The performance
- Thomson, Rupert - Barcelona dreaming: a novel (ebook available)
- Veronesi, Sandro - The hummingbird (translated from the Italian)
- Wahrer, Caitlin - The damage
- Willig, Lauren - Band of sisters: a novel
- Yan, Lianke - Hard like water: a novel (translated from the Chinese)
- Yu, E. Lily - On fragile waves
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Abbott, Jeff - An ambush of widows
- Adams, Taylor - Hairpin Bridge: a novel
- Atkins, Ace - The heathens (ebook available)
- Bazelon, Lara - A good mother: a novel
- Buckley, Fiona - Forest of secrets*
- Castillo, Linda - Fallen
- Constantine, Liv - The stranger in the mirror: a novel
- Cosby, S. A. - Razorblade tears
- Doiron, Paul - Dead by dawn
- Fesperman, Dan - The cover wife
- Gerritsen, Tess - Choose me
- Greenwood, Kerry - Death in Daylesford: the new Phryne Fisher mystery *
- Griffiths, Elly - The night hawks: a Ruth Galloway mystery* (ebook available)
- Hurley, Graham - Last flight to Stalingrad
- Läckberg, Camilla - Silver tears (translated from the Swedish)
- Lansdale, Joe R. - Moon lake: an East Texas gothic
- Levy, Heather - Walking through needles
- MacNeal, Susan Elia - The Hollywood spy
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The man with the silver Saab
- McHugh, Laura - What's done in darkness: a novel
- Miranda, Megan - Such a quiet place: a novel
- Newman, T. J. - Falling (ebook available)
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Night, neon: tales of mystery and suspense
- Padura, Leonardo - The transparency of time (translated from the Spanish)
- Paris, B. A. - The therapist
- Reichs, Kathy - The bone code
- Rosenfelt, David - Dog eat dog
- Rozlan Mohd. Noor - Utube: Inspector Mislan and the emancipatist conspiracy
- Sager, Riley - Survive the night: a novel
- Shepherd, Scott - The last commandment*
- Silva, Daniel - The cellist: a novel (ebook available)
- Slaughter, Karin - False witness (ebook available)
- Starford, Rebecca - An unlikely spy: a novel*
- Todd, Charles - An Irish hostage* (ebook available)
- Webb, Brandon - Steel fear: a novel
- Woods, Stuart - Class act
POETRY
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - Duino elegies: a new and complete translation (translated from the German)
- Spicer, Jack - After Lorca
- Living nations, living words: an anthology of first peoples poetry (Joy Harjo, editor)
- On the mesa: an anthology of Bolinas writing (Ben Estes and Joel Weishaus, editors)
- more poetry below
BOOK COMMITTEE
- Collins, Paul - The Sumerians
- Keen, Michael - Rebellion, rascals, and revenue: tax follies and wisdom through the ages
- Semenova, N. I︠U︡. - Morozov: the story of a family and a lost collection
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Ball, Philip - The modern myths: adventures in the machinery of the popular imagination 809 B
- Bottum, J. - The decline of the novel 809.3 B
- Jackson, Shirley - The letters of Shirley Jackson (Laurence Jackson Hyman, ed.) 92 J145 J
- Took, J. F. - Dante 851.09 T
- Tresch, John - The reason for the darkness of the night: Edgar Allan Poe and the forging of American science 92 P743 T
- B-side books: essays on forgotten favorites ( edited by John Plotz) 824.08 B
POETRY
- Armitage, Simon - A vertical art 809.1 A
- Berryman, John - Conversations with John Berryman 821.09 B
- Kennedy, Kate - Dweller in shadows: a life of Ivor Gurney: war poet, composer, asylum patient 92 G9810 K
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī - Layli and Majnun (12th-c. Persian narrative poem; Penguin Classics) 891.5 N
- Silliman, Ronald - The new sentence 809.1 S
- Wheatley, Phillis - The writings of Phillis Wheatley (scholarly edition edited by Vincent Carretta) 820.81 W
FICTION
- Balestrini, Nanni - The unseen (translated from the Italian; novel of 70s protests in Italy) F B
- Proust, Marcel - The mysterious correspondent: new stories (translated by Charlotte Mandell) (ebook available) F P
- Quentin, Patrick - A puzzle for fools (Otto Penzler's Classic American Mystery Library) F Q
- Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo - The squatter and the don (1885 Mexican-American novel from 1885; Modern Library) F R
ART & ARCHITECTURE
- Calder, Barnabas - Architecture: from prehistory to climate emergency 720.9 C
- Fleetwood, Nicole R. - Marking time: art in the age of mass incarceration 709.73 F
- Greenhalgh, Paul - Ceramic art and civilisation 738 G
- Johnson, Ray - Ray Johnson c/o (edited and curated by Caitlin Haskell, with Jordan Carter; Art Institute of Chicago, 2021) 709.73 J
- Jones, Owen - The grammar of ornament: a visual reference of form and colour in architecture and the decorative arts (new edition of this classic) 745.4 J
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp: living abstraction (Anne Umland and Walburga Krupp, eds.; Museum of Modern Art) 709.2 T
- The Medici: portraits and politics, 1512-1570 (Keith Christiansen and Carlo Falcian, eds.; Metropolitan Museum of Art) 709.45 C
PERFORMING ARTS
- Chaudhuri, Amit - Finding the raga: an improvisation on Indian music 780.954 C
- Fine, Richard - West of Eden: writers in Hollywood, 1928-1940 822.09 F
- Hankinson, Andrew - Don't applaud. Either laugh or don't: at the Comedy Attic 792.2 H
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Basevich, Elvira - W.E.B. Du Bois: the lost and the found 92 D8166 B
- Carr, Helen - The red prince: the life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster 92 J657 C
- Cummins, June - From Sarah to Sydney: the woman behind All-of-a-kind family 92 T24657 C
- Osnos, Peter - An especially good view: watching history happen 92 O841 O
HISTORY
- Ágoston, Gábor - The last Muslim conquest: the Ottoman Empire and its wars in Europe 949.6 A
- Bell, Karen Cook - Running from bondage: enslaved women and their remarkable fight for freedom in Revolutionary America 326 B
- Egill Bjarnason - How Iceland changed the world: the big history of a small island 949.1 E
- Fukuyama, Francis - After the end of history 320.1 F
- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas - The occult roots of Nazism: secret Aryan cults and their influence on Nazi ideology: the Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 943.08 G
- Gosse, Van - The first Reconstruction: Black politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War 973 G
- Hager, Thomas - Electric city: the lost history of Ford and Edison's American utopia 976.8 H
- Khalid, Adeeb - Central Asia: a new history from the imperial conquests to the present 958 K
- Kupperman, Karen Ordahl - Pocahontas and the English boys: caught between cultures in early Virginia 975.5 K
- Marr, Andrew - Elizabethans: how modern Britain was forged 942.085 M
- McMahon, Cian T. - The coffin ship: life and death at sea during the Great Irish Famine 941.5 M
- Parkinson, Robert G. - Thirteen clocks: how race united the colonies and made the Declaration of Independence 973.31 P
- Richter, Daniel K. - Trade, land, power: the struggle for Eastern North America 973.2 R
- Roberts, Lawrence - Mayday 1971: a White House at war, a revolt in the streets, and the untold history of America's biggest mass arrest 959.704 R
- Rudé, George F. E. - Hanoverian London, 1714-1808 942.1 R
- Thomas, Nicholas - Voyagers: the settlement of the Pacific 996 T
ANTIQUITY
- Fry, Stephen - Heroes: the Greek myths reimagined 292 F
- Hoyos, B. D. - Carthage: a biography 939.7 H
- Richardson, Edmund - Alexandria: the quest for the lost city 958 R
- Epigrams from the Greek anthology (new edition translated with notes by Gideon Nisbet) 881.08 G
SOCIOLOGY
- Axelrod, Howard - The stars in our pockets: getting lost and sometimes found in the digital age 303.4 A
- Ramos, Paola - Finding Latinx: in search of the voices redefining Latino identity 305.85 R
- Rothschild, Mike - The storm is upon us: how QAnon became a movement, cult, and conspiracy theory of everything 973.933 R
- Silva, Jennifer M. - We're still here : pain and politics in the heart of America 305.5 S
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Despentes, Virginie - King Kong theory (women in France; by author of Vernon subutex trilogy) 305.4 D
- Diamant, Anita - Period, end of sentence: a new chapter in the fight for menstrual justice 305.4 D
- Rose, Jacqueline - On violence and on violence against women 362.8 R
- How we get free: Black feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, ed.) 305.4 H
CRIME
- Campbell, Jim - Madoff talks: uncovering the untold story behind the most notorious Ponzi scheme in history 364 C
- Cox, Carolyn - The snatch racket: the kidnapping epidemic that terrorized 1930s America 364.1 C
- Levine, Allan Gerald - Details are unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the sensational café society murder 364.1 L
TRAVEL
- D'Anieri, Philip - The Appalachian Trail: a biography 917.4 D
- Heughan, Sam - Clanlands: whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other 914.1 H
- Places lost and found: travel essays from the Hudson review (Ronald Koury, ed.) 910.4 P
NEW YORK
- Barron, Seth - The last days of New York: a reporter's true tale 974.71 B
- Hudovernik, Robert - Manhattan's Hotel des Artistes: America's Paris on West 67th Street 709.7471 H
- Kaplan, Paul M. - New York in the Progressive Era: social reforms and cultural upheaval, 1890-1920 974.7 K
- Strombeck, Andrew - DIY on the Lower East Side: books, buildings, and art after the 1975 fiscal crisis 709.7471 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Rauch, Jonathan - The constitution of knowledge: a defense of truth 320 R
- Sullivan, Kevin - Trump on trial: the investigation, impeachment, acquittal and aftermath 973.933 S
- Townshend, Charles - The partition: Ireland divided, 1885-1925 320.9 T
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Brown, Lauren - Grasses, sedges, rushes: an identification guide 584 B
- Dauncey, Elizabeth A. - Plants that kill: a natural history of the world's most poisonous plants 581.6 D
- Meals, Roy A. - Bones: inside and out 599 M
- O'Shea, Mark - Lizards of the world: a guide to every family 598.1 O
MATH
- Ellenberg, Jordan - Shape: the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else 513 E
- Rovelli, Carlo - Helgoland: making sense of the quantum revolution 530.1 R
- Wardhaugh, Benjamin - Encounters with Euclid: how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world 510.9 W