New Books - December 2018
NON-FICTION
- Barbas, Samantha - Confidential Confidential: the inside story of Hollywood's notorious scandal magazine
- Berlin, Lucia - Welcome home: a memoir with selected photographs and letters
- Boot, Max - The corrosion of conservatism: why I left the right
- Chanel, Gerri - Saving Mona Lisa: the battle to protect the Louvre and its treasures from the Nazis
- Delbanco, Andrew - The war before the war: fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
- Dobrow, Julie - After Emily: two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- Faderman, Lillian - Harvey Milk: his lives and death
- Gaines, Julie - Minding the store: a big story about a small business
- George, Rose - Nine pints: a journey through the money, medicine, and mysteries of blood
- Grann, David - The white darkness
- Groom, Nick - The vampire: a new history
- Lamster, Mark - The man in the glass house: Philip Johnson, architect of the modern century
- MacCulloch, Diarmaid - Thomas Cromwell: a revolutionary life (ebook available)
- McLeod, Kembrew - Downtown pop underground: New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture
- McPhee, John - The patch
- Obama, Michelle - Becoming (ebook available)
- Oz, Amos - Dear zealots: letters from a divided land
- Pagels, Elaine H. - Why religion?: a personal story (ebook available)
- Prideaux, Sue - I am dynamite!: a life of Nietzsche
- Roberts, Andrew - Churchill: walking with destiny (ebook available)
- Shields, Charles J. - The man who wrote the perfect novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the writing life
- Toibin, Colm - Mad, bad, dangerous to know: the fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce
- Women at work. interviews from the Paris Review
FICTION
- Archer, Jeffrey - Heads you win
- Artson, Barbara - Odessa, Odessa: a novel
- Berg, Elizabeth - Night of miracles: a novel
- Boyne, John - A ladder to the sky: a novel
- Bradford, Barbara Taylor - Master of his fate: the house of falconer
- Braithwaite, Oyinkan - My sister, the serial killer: a novel
- Brenner, Jamie - The husband hour
- Brown, Rosellen - The lake on fire
- Cassara, Joseph - The house of impossible beauties
- Coe, Jonathan - Middle England
- De Witt, Abigail - News of our loved ones: a novel
- Duberman, Martin B - Luminous traitor: the just and daring life of Roger Casement, a biographical novel
- Estleman, Loren D - Wild justice
- Faulks, Sebastian - Paris echo: a novel (ebook available)
- Gadol, Peter - The stranger game: a novel
- Greenland, Seth - The hazards of good fortune
- Hunt, Laird - In the house in the dark of the woods
- Marias, Javier - Berta Isla (translated from the Spanish)
- Modiano, Patrick - Sleep of memory (translated from the French)
- Moriarty, Liane - Nine perfect strangers (ebook available)
- Novey, Idra - Those who knew
- Peace, David - Patient X
- Rajaniemi, Hannu - Summerland
- Rosnay, Tatiana de - The rain watcher
- Saunders, George - Fox 8: a story
- Sjón - CoDex 1962 (translated from the Icelandic)
- Sotiropoulos, Ersi“ - What's left of the night (translated from the Greek)
- St. Vincent, Sarah - Ways to hide in winter: a novel
- Stoker, Dacre - Dracul
- Zinovieff, Sofka - Putney: a novel
- See more recent fiction arrivals below.
MYSTERIES
- Alexander, Tasha - Uneasy lies the crown*
- Baldacci, David - Long road to mercy
- Bolton, S. J - The craftsman*
- Brody, Frances - A snapshot of murder*
- Child, Lee - Past tense: a Jack Reacher novel (ebook available)
- Clark, Mary Higgins - You don't own me: an Under Suspicion novel
- Eskens, Allen - The shadows we hide
- Evanovich, Janet - Look alive twenty-five
- Fellowes, Jessica - Bright young dead*
- Gran, Sara - The infinite blacktop: a novel
- Hallinan, Timothy - Nighttown
- Harvey, John - Body & soul* (ebook available)
- Herron, Mick - The Marylebone drop*
- Hill, Susan - The comforts of home* (ebook available)
- Johnstone, Douglas - Fault lines
- Kelly, Stephen - Hushed in death*
- Lethem, Jonathan - The feral detective: a novel
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The colors of all the cattle
- McPherson, Catriona - Go to my grave
- Oswald, James - No time to cry*
- Oswald, James - The gathering dark*
- Penny, Louise - Kingdom of the blind
- Perry, Anne - A Christmas revelation: a novel*
- Rimington, Stella - The Moscow sleepers*
- Scott, Manda - A treachery of spies*
- Way, Camilla - The lies we told*
- Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame - Friday black
- Bender, Karen E - The new order: stories
- Berlin, Lucia - Evening in paradise: more stories
- So many islands: stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans (Nicholas Laughlin & Nallah Folami Imoja, eds.)
AUDIOBOOKS
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POETRY
- American journal: fifty poems for our time (selected by Tracy K. Smith)
- Trethewey, Natasha D. - Monument: poems: new and selected
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Eliot, Henry - The Penguin Classics book
- Fraser, Steve - Class matters: the strange career of an American delusion
- Kahlo, Frida - You are always with me: Letters to Mama 1923-1932
- Macfarlane, Robert - The gifts of reading
- Rosenberg, Alexander - How history gets things wrong; the neuroscience of our addiction to stories
- Singer, P. W. - Likewar: the weaponization of social media
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Balint, Benjamin - Kafka's last trial: the case of a literary legacy 92 K114 B
- Bowen, Elizabeth - Why do I write? an exchange of views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene & V.S. Pritchett 804 B
- Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell - It's alive! a visual history of Frankenstein 823 D OVERSIZE
- Hutchison, Hazel - The war that used up words: American writers and the first world war 820.9 H
- Plath, Sylvia - The letters of Sylvia Plath vol. 2 92 P7168 P
- Rediscovering forgotten radicals: British women writers, 1889-1939 (Angela Ingram & Daphne Patai, eds.) 820.9 R
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich - Between two millstones, book 1: sketches of exile, 1974-1978 (translated from the Russian by Peter Constantine) 92 S6924 S
- The Tale of Genji: a visual companion (Melissa McCormick) 895.6 M
- The writer's map: an atlas of imaginary lands (Huw Lewis-Jones, ed.) 809 W OVERSIZE
FICTION
- Bassani, Giorgio - The novel of Ferrara (new translation of six novels, revised by Bassani: Within the Walls, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Behind the Door, The Heron, The Smell of Hay) F B
- Burdekin, Katharine - Swastika night (Feminist Press; translated from the German; originally published 1937) F B
- Dyachenko, Marina - Vita nostra (translated from the Russian) F D
- Leonard, Elmore - Elmore Leonard's double Dutch treat (The moonshine war; Gold coast; City primeval) F L
- Tsushima, Yuko - Child of fortune (originally published in 1978; translated from the Japanese) F T
ART
- Armenia: art, religion, and trade in the Middle Ages (Helen C. Evans, Metropolitan Museum of Art) 709.47 A
- Bashkoff, Tracey R. - Hilma af Klint: paintings for the future 759.8 K
- Darwent, Charles - Josef Albers: life and work 709.2 A
- Dery, Mark - Born to be posthumous: the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey 92 G6669 D
- Sischy, Ingrid - Nothing is lost: selected essays of Ingrid Sischy 704 S
- Warner, Marina - Forms of enchantment: writings on art & artists 704 W
PERFORMING ARTS
- Harmon, Charlie - On the road & off the record with Leonard Bernstein: my years with the exasperating genius 92 B5214 H
- Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey - The history of cinema: a very short introduction 791.4 N
- Schweitzer, Vivien - A mad love: an introduction to opera 782.1 S
- Scruton, Roger - Music as an art 780.1 S
ANTIQUITY
- Beaulieu, Paul-Alain - A history of Babylon, 2200 BC-AD 75 935 B
- Epictetus - How to be free: an ancient guide to the stoic life: Encheiridion and selections from Discourses 188 E
- Hunter, R. L. - The measure of Homer: the ancient reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey 883.109 H
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is now available to members.
FOLKLORE & MYTHOLOGY
- The book of symbols: reflections on archetypal images (Ami Ronnberg, Kathleen Martin) HBR 398 B
- Gods, heroes, and monsters: a sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern myths (Carolina Lopez-Ruiz, ed.) 291 G
HISTORY
- Berry, Jason - City of a million dreams: a history of New Orleans at year 300 976.31 B
- Brands, H. W. - Heirs of the founders: the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants 973.5 B
- Gilmour, David - The British in India: a social history of the Raj 954 G
- Goodier, Susan - No votes for women: the New York State anti-suffrage movement 324.3 G
- Leebaert, Derek - Grand improvisation: America confronts the British superpower, 1945-1957 327.73 L
- Mody, Ashoka - Eurotragedy: a drama in nine acts 330.94 M
- Ritchie, Donald A. - Doing oral history 907 R
- Rodgers, Daniel T. - As a city on a hill: the story of america's most famous lay sermon 252 R
- Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara - The Holy Roman Empire: a short history 943 S
SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL HISTORY
- Hobsbawm, Julia - Fully connected: surviving and thriving in an age of overload 303.4 H
- Igo, Sarah Elizabeth - The known citizen: a history of privacy in modern America 323.4 I
- Kimmel, Michael S. - Healing from hate: how young men get into—and out of—violent extremism 322.4 K
- Neel, Phil A. - Hinterland: America's new landscape of class and conflict 331.7 N
- Werbel, Amy Beth - Lust on trial: censorship and the rise of American obscenity in the age of Anthony Comstock 306.7 W
- Wides-Muñoz, Laura - The making of a dream: how a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American 325.73 W
WAR
- Corera, Gordon - Operation Columba: the Secret Pigeon Service: the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe 940.54 C
- McConahay, Mary Jo - The tango war: the struggle for the hearts, minds and riches of Latin America during World War II 940.53 M
- Van de Ven, Hans J. - China at war: triumph and tragedy in the emergence of the new China 951 V
- Wawro, Geoffrey - Sons of freedom: the forgotten American soldiers who defeated Germany in World War I 940.412 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Cayton-Holland, Adam - Tragedy plus time: a tragi-comic memoir 920 C385 C
- Flaherty, Meghan - Tango lessons: a memoir 92 F5755 F
- Karpeles, Eric - Almost nothing: the 20th century art and life of Józef Czapski 92 C9982 K
- Leader, Zachary - The life of Saul Bellow: love and strife, 1965-2005 92 B448 L
- Lewis, David Levering - The improbable Wendell Willkie: the businessman who saved the Republican Party and his country, and conceived a new world order 92 W737 L
- Liedman, Sven-Eric - A world to win: the life and works of Karl Marx 92 M392 L
- Pope-Hennessy, James - The quest for Queen Mary 92 M3932 P
JOURNALISM
- Burgess, Anthony - The ink trade: selected journalism, 1961-1993 824.08 B
- Green, Robin - The only girl: my life and times on the masthead of Rolling Stone 92 G7978 G
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Greenspan, Alan - Capitalism in America: a history 330.973 G
- Skidelsky, Robert - Money and government: the past and future of economics 339 S
- Tucker, Paul M. W. - Unelected power: the quest for legitimacy in central banking and the regulatory state 332.1 T
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Carlin, John P. - Dawn of the code war: America's battle against Russia, China, and the rising global cyber threat 327.12 C
- Johnson, Loch K. - Spy watching: intelligence accountability in the United States 327.12 J
MIDDLE EAST
- Hisham, Marwan - Brothers of the gun: a memoir of the Syrian war 956.9 H
- Mikha'il, Dunya - The beekeeper: rescuing the stolen women of Iraq 956.704 M
- Robinson, Shira - Citizen strangers: Palestinians and the birth of Israel's liberal settler state 323.1 R
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Gerhardt, Michael J. - Impeachment: what everyone needs to know 343.73 G
- Princeton readings in political thought: essential texts from Plato to populism (Mitchell Cohen, ed.) 320.1 P
- Stanley, Jason - How fascism works: the politics of us and them 321.9 S
- Turner, James Morton - The Republican reversal: conservatives and the environment from Nixon to Trump 333.7 T
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Bainbridge, David - Stripped bare: the art of animal anatomy 574 B
- Blakeslee, Nate - American wolf: a true story of survival and obsession in the West 599 B
- How plants work: form, diversity, survival (Stephen Blackmore, ed.) 581.5 H
- O'Shea, Mark - The book of snakes: a life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world 598.1 O
- Stannard, Russell - Relativity: a very short introduction 530.1 F
NEW YORK
- Howell, Ron - Boss of Black Brooklyn: the life and times of Bertram L. Baker 92 B1668 H
- Pérez, Lisandro - Sugar, cigars, and revolution: the making of Cuban New York 974.71 P
RELIGION
- Fredriksen, Paula - When Christians were Jews: the first generation 270.1 F
- MacGregor, Neil - Living with the Gods: On beliefs and peoples 200 M
- McGrath, Alister E. - The great mystery: science, God and the human quest for meaning 128 M
- Oliver, Simon - Creation: a guide for the perplexed 213 O
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Banham, Reyner - Scenes in America deserta 917.9 B
- Costa Rica: a traveler's literary companion (Barbara Ras, ed.) F C
- Harris, Kate - Lands of lost borders: a journey on the Silk Road 915.1 H
- Palin, Michael - Erebus: the story of a ship 910.9 P
- Scott, Alev - Ottoman odyssey :;travels through a lost Empire 915.6 S