New Books - December 2021
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- The 1619 Project: a new origin story (Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake
Silverstein, eds.) (ebook available) - Abedin, Huma - Both / and: a life in many worlds (ebook available)
- Applegate, Debby - Madam: the biography of Polly Adler, icon of the Jazz Age (ebook available)
- Auster, Paul - Burning boy: the life and work of Stephen Crane (ebook available)
- Beutter Cohen, Uli - Between the lines: stories from the underground
- Birmingham, Kevin - The sinner and the saint: Dostoevsky and the gentleman murderer who inspired a masterpiece
- Cashin, Sheryll - White space, black hood: opportunity hoarding and segregation in the age of inequality
- Couric, Katie - Going there
- Cumming, Alan - Baggage: tales from a fully packed life
- Curtis, Cathy - A splendid intelligence: the life of Elizabeth Hardwick (ebook available)
- Damrosch, David - Around the world in 80 books (ebook available)
- Dolnick, Edward - The writing of the gods: the race to decode the Rosetta Stone
- Douthat, Ross Gregory - The deep places: a memoir of illness and discovery
- Frankel, Rebecca - Into the forest: a Holocaust story of survival, triumph, and love
- Ghosh, Amitav - The nutmeg's curse: parables for a planet in crisis
- Goodall, Jane - The book of hope: a survival guide for trying times
- Graeber, David - The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity (ebook available)
- Greenhouse, Linda - Justice on the brink: the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and twelve months that transformed the Supreme Court
- Higgie, Jennifer - The mirror and the palette: rebellion, revolution, and resilience: five hundred years of women's self portraits
- Highsmith, Patricia - Patricia Highsmith: her diaries and notebooks, 1941-1995 (ebook available)
- Ivory, James - Solid Ivory: memoirs
- Jones, Reece - White borders: the history of race and immigration in the United States from Chinese exclusion to the border wall
- Kang, Jay Caspian - The loneliest Americans
- Karl, Jonathan - Betrayal: the final act of the Trump show
- Letters of note: New York City (Shaun Usher, ed.)
- Lurie, John - The history of bones: a memoir
- Marton, Kati - The chancellor: the remarkable odyssey of Angela Merkel
- McKean, David - Watching darkness fall: FDR, his ambassadors, and the rise of Adolf Hitler
- Neiberg, Michael S. - When France fell: the Vichy crisis and the fate of the Anglo-American alliance
- Nordell, Jessica - The end of bias: a beginning: the science and practice of overcoming unconscious bias
- Oppedisano, Tony - Sinatra and me: in the wee small hours
- Oppenheimer, Mark - Squirrel Hill: the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting and the soul of a neighborhood
- Phillips, Barnaby - Loot: Britain and the Benin bronzes
- Picardie, Justine - Miss Dior: a story of courage and couture (ebook available)
- Porter, Charlie - What artists wear
- Roberts, Steven V. - Cokie: a life well lived
- Schiff, Adam B. - Midnight in Washington: how we almost lost our democracy and still could (ebook available)
- Schindler, Meriel - The lost Café Schindler: one family, two wars, and the search for truth
- Smith, Will - Will
- Wellesley, Mary - The gilded page: the secret lives of medieval manuscripts
- Wheatcroft, Geoffrey - Churchill's shadow: the life and afterlife of Winston Churchill
- Winterson, Jeanette - 12 bytes: how we got here, where we might go next
- Wong, Cecily - Gastro obscura: a food adventurer's guide
- Zuckerman, Gregory - A shot to save the world: the inside story of the life-or-death race for a Covid-19 vaccine
FICTION
- Arafat, Zaina - You exist too much: a novel
- Bajaber, Khadija Abdalla - The house of rust: a novel
- Bajani, Andrea - If you kept a record of sins (translated from the Italian)
- Ball, Bethany - The pessimists: a novel
- Brandon, John - Ivory shoals: a novel
- Brenck Kalischer, Bess - The mill: a cosmos (translated from the German)
- Chakrabarti, Jai - A play for the end of the world
- Daitch, Susan - Siege of comedians
- Eggers, Dave - The museum of rain
- Erdrich, Louise - The sentence: a novel (ebook available)
- Granados, Marlowe - Happy hour
- Guanzon, Jakob - Abundance: a novel
- Hall, Sarah - Burntcoat: a novel (ebook available)
- Huisman, Violaine - The book of mother: a novel
- King, Lily - Five Tuesdays in winter: stories (ebook available)
- MacLeod, Alison - Tenderness
- McCarthy, Tom - The making of incarnation
- Mehmedinović, Semezdin - My heart: a novel (translated from the Bosnian)
- Miller, Nathaniel Ian - The memoirs of Stockholm Sven
- Morris, Heather - Three sisters
- On girlhood: 15 stories from the well-read Black girl library (Glory Edim, ed.)
- Roberts, Nora - The becoming
- Shafak, Elif - The island of missing trees (ebook available)
- Shopsin, Tamara - LaserWriter II
- Shteyngart, Gary - Our country friends: a novel (ebook available)
- Solomon, Asali - The days of Afrekete (ebook available)
- Starnone, Domenico - Trust (translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri) (ebook available)
- Swamy, Shruti - The archer: a novel
- Tremain, Rose - Lily: a tale of revenge
- Vo, Nghi - The chosen and the beautiful
- Williams, Diane - How high? - that high: stories
- Winman, Sarah - Still life (ebook available)
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Archer, Jeffrey - Over my dead body
- Baldacci, David - Mercy
- Brown, Rita Mae - Claws for alarm
- Child, Lee - Better off dead (ebook available)
- Connelly, Michael - The dark hours (ebook available)
- Connolly, John - The nameless ones
- Evanovich, Janet - Game on: tempting twenty-eight
- Follett, Ken - Never (ebook available)
- French, Nicci - The unheard: a novel
- Horowitz, Anthony - A line to kill: a novel* (ebook available)
- Kent, Kathleen - The pledge
- Kestrel, James - Five Decembers (ebook available)
- Kurian, Vera - Never saw me coming (ebook available)
- Lattari, Katie - Dark things I adore
- Limón, Martin - War women
- Lloyd, Robert J. - The bloodless boy *
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The Joy and Light Bus Company (ebook available)
- McKinlay, Jenn - Killer research
- Nesser, Håkan - The lonely ones
- Perry, Anne - A Christmas legacy: a novel*
- Perry, Thomas - The left-handed twin
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Chivers, Tom - London clay: journeys in the deep city
- Lee, Kai-Fu - AI 2041: ten visions for our future
- Parcak, Sarah H. - Archaeology from space: how the future shapes our past
- Raihani, Nichola - The social instinct: how cooperation shaped the world
POETRY
- Glück, Louise - Winter recipes from the collective
- Joseph, Lawrence - A certain clarity: selected poems
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Belcourt, Billy-Ray - A history of my brief body 824 B
- Cage, John - Diary: how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) 828 C
- Johnston, Freya - Jane Austen, early and late 823 A
- Lebowitz, Fran - The Fran Lebowitz reader (ebook and audiobook also available) 827 L
- Mizruchi, Susan L. - Henry James: a very short introduction 823 J
- Tomalin, Claire - The young H.G. Wells: changing the world 92 W4543 T
- Now comes good sailing: writers reflect on Henry David Thoreau (Andrew Blaunder, ed.) 828.09 T
- On cats: an anthology (introduced by Margaret Atwood; photographs by Elliot Ross; edited by Suzy Robinson) 808.8 O
- Shakespeare: a playgoer's and reader's guide (Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells, eds.) 822.33 C
FICTION
- Alaoui, Meryem - Straight from the horse's mouth F A
- Aleramo, Sibilla - A woman (reprint: groundbreaking feminist novel, published in Italy in 1906) F A
- Cărtărescu, Mircea - Nostalgia (New Directions; translated from the Romanian) F C
- Fonseca, Carlos - Natural history: a novel (acclaimed Latin American novel) F F
- Fuller, Claire - Our endless numbered days (acclaimed 2015 novel) F F
- Gilbert, Anthony - Death in fancy dress (mysteries; 3 novellas published in the 1930s) F G
- Harrison, Melissa - At hawthorn time F H
- Hodgson, William Hope - Carnacki: the ghost finder F H
- Hodgson, William Hope - The house on the borderland (19th-early 20th-century horror & fantasy) F H
- Shepherd, Jean - In God we trust: all others pay cash (stories by NJ legend; includes basis for movie A Christmas Story) F S
- Zola, Emile - Doctor Pascal (new translation) F Z
BOOKS AND READING
- Bythell, Shaun - The diary of a bookseller 92 B9983 B
- Djian, Jean-Michel - The manuscripts of Timbuktu 091 D
- Hoover, John Neal - A nation, a city, & its first library: Americana as a way of life at the St. Louis Mercantile Library for 175 years 026 H OVERSIZE
POETRY
- Louth, Charlie - Rilke: the life of the work 831.09 R
- Werner, Marta L. - Writing in time: Emily Dickinson's master hours 821.09 D OVERSIZE
- Tongues of fire: an anthology of religious and poetic experience (Karen Armstrong, ed.) 808.81 T
JOURNALISM
- An editor's burial: journals and journalism from the New Yorker and other magazines (David Brendel, ed.; "inspirations for The French Dispatch," the new Wes Anderson film) 944.36 E
- Mackrell, Judith - The correspondents: six women writers on the front lines of World War II 070.4 M
- Petre, Caitlin - All the news that's fit to click: how metrics are transforming the work of journalists 070.4 P
ART
- Cohn, Marjorie B. - Lois Orswell, David Smith, and modern art 706.9 O
- Humfrey, Peter - Giovanni Bellini: an introduction 759.5 B
- Hunt, Tristram - The radical potter: the life and times of Josiah Wedgwood 92 W3933 H
- Moyle, Franny - The king's painter: the life and times of Hans Holbein 759.3 H
- Selz, Gabrielle - Light on fire: the art and life of Sam Francis 759.1 F
- Yoakum, Joseph - Joseph E. Yoakum: what I saw 759.1 Y
- The Morozov collection: icons of modern art: exhibtion catalog (Anne Baldassari, ed.) 709.44 M
ARCHITECTURE
- Aslet, Clive - The story of the country house (British country houses) 728.8 A
- Beal, Justin - Sandfuture (Minoru Yamasaki) 720.92 Y
- McAndrew, John - Venetian architecture of the early Renaissance 720.945 M
- Montgomery, Gladys - An elegant wilderness: great camps and grand lodges of the Adirondacks, 1855-1935 728 M
PERFORMING ARTS
- Purcell remembered (Michael Burden, ed.) 92 P9856 P
- Aston, Martin - Breaking down the walls of heartache: how music came out 784.6 A
- Seal, Mark - Leave the gun, take the cannoli: the epic story of the making of the Godfather 791.4 S
HISTORY
- Baier, Bret - To rescue the republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the fragile Union, and the crisis of 1876 92 G7634 B
- Boyle, Kevin - The shattering: America in the 1960s 973.9 B
- Brands, H. W. - Our first civil war: patriots and loyalists in the American Revolution 973.3 B
- Feldman, Noah - The broken constitution: Lincoln, slavery, and the refounding of America 973.7 F
- Jones, Colin - The fall of Robespierre: 24 hours in revolutionary Paris 944.04 J
- Mann, Michael - The dark side of democracy: explaining ethnic cleansing 364.1 M
- Mazower, Mark - The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the making of modern Europe 949.5 M
- Mulholland, Marc - Northern Ireland: a very short introduction 941.5 M
- Pye, Michael - Europe's Babylon: the rise and fall of Antwerp's golden age 949.3 P
- Rothschild, Emma - An infinite history: the story of a family in France over three centuries 920 F241 R
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Ai, Weiwei - 1000 years of joys and sorrows: a memoir 92 A2885 A
- Alexandrov, Vladimir E. - To break Russia's chains: Boris Savinkov and his wars against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks 92 S2674 S
- Chafkin, Max - The contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's pursuit of power 92 T4313 C
- Flavell, Julie - The Howe dynasty: the untold story of a military family and the women behind Britain's wars for America 920 H856 F
- Gregory, André - This is not my memoir 92 G8218 G
- Tillyard, S. K. - George IV: king in waiting 92 G3475 T
- Traub, James - Judah Benjamin: counselor to the confederacy 92 B4683 T
ANTHROPOLOGY
- Black, Sue M. - Written in bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind 614.1 B
- Larson, Frances - Undreamed shores: the hidden heroines of British anthropology 920 L3345 U
ANTIQUITY
- Watts, Edward Jay - The eternal decline and fall of Rome: the history of a dangerous idea 937.06 W
- The Greek magical papyri in translation, including the Demotic spells (Hans Dieter Betz, ed.; spells, rituals 2nd century B.C.– 5th century A.D.) 133.4 G
NEW YORK CITY
- Holtzman, Benjamin - The long crisis: New York City and the path to neoliberalism 307.76 H
- Hughes, Ben - When I die, I shall return to my own land: the New York City slave revolt of 1712 974.71 H
- Lvovsky, Anna - Vice patrol: cops, courts, and the struggle over urban gay life before Stonewall 323.4 L
- Miller, Julie - Cry of murder on Broadway: a woman's ruin and revenge in old New York 364.1 M
- Nadelson, Reggie - Marvelous Manhattan: stories of the restaurants, bars & shops that make this city special 917.471 N
- Stewart, Jules - Policing the Big Apple: the story of the NYPD 363.2 S
PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY
- Ignatieff, Michael - On consolation: finding solace in dark times 155.9 I
- Lévy, Bernard-Henri - The will to see: dispatches from a world of misery and hope 190 L
- Lipscomb, Benjamin J. Bruxvoort - The women are up to something: how Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics 920 L7672 W
- Seth, Anil K. - Being you: a new science of consciousness 153.7 S
RACE IN AMERICA
- McWhorter, John H. - Woke racism: how a new religion has betrayed Black America 305 M
- Ragsdale, Bruce A. - Washington at the plow: the founding farmer and the question of slavery 306.3 R
- The essential Kerner Commission report 323.1 U
SCIENCE
- Futuyma, Douglas J. - How birds evolve: what science reveals about their origin, lives, and diversity 598.2 F
- Hanson, Thor - Hurricane lizards and plastic squid: the fraught and fascinating biology of climate change 575.3 H
- McBurney, Henrietta - Illuminating natural history: the art and science of Mark Catesby 574 M OVERSIZE
- Rhodes, Richard - Scientist: E.O. Wilson: a life in nature 92 W74782 R
- An illustrated catalog of American fruits & nuts: the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection (Jacqueline Landey, John McPhee, Michael Pollan, et al.) 634 I OVERISZE
TRAVEL
- Clark, Peter - Dickens's London 914.21 C
- Harvey, Jacky Colliss - Walking Pepys's London 914.21 H
- Sinclair, Iain - The gold machine: in the tracks of the mule dancers (Peru) 985 S
ECONOMICS
- Piketty, Thomas - Time for socialism: dispatches from a world on fire, 2016-2021 330.9 P
- Press, Eyal - Dirty work: essential jobs and the hidden toll of inequality in America 331.7 P
FOOD
- Vitale, Tom - In the weeds: around the world and behind the scenes with Anthony Bourdain 641 V
- Zak, Zuza - Amber & rye: a Baltic food journey: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 641.5 Z
- The 100 most Jewish foods: a highly debatable list (Alana Newhouse, ed.) 641 O