New Books - February 2019
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Dear Mr Murray: letters to a gentleman publisher (David McClay, ed.)
- Literary landscapes: charting the worlds of classic literature (John Sutherland, ed.)
- The best American magazine writing 2018
- Anolik, Lili - Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- Beard, Richard - The day that went missing: a family's story
- Bomberger, E. Douglas - Making music American: 1917 and the transformation of culture
- Caradec, Francois - Dictionary of gestures: expressive comportments and movements in use around the world
- Chabon, Michael - Bookends: collected intros and outros
- Clark, Doug Bock - The last whalers: three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
- Czapski, Józef - Lost time: lectures on Proust in a Soviet prison camp (translated from the French)
- Dorren, Gaston - Babel: around the world in twenty languages
- Gabbert, Elisa - The word pretty
- Geary, James - Wit's end: what wit is, how it works, and why we need it
- Gordon, Mary - On Thomas Merton
- Harman, Claire - Murder by the book: a sensational chapter in Victorian crime
- Havrilesky, Heather - What if this were enough?: essays
- Hockenos, Matthew D. - Then they came for me: Martin Niemöller, the pastor who defied the Nazis
- Jin, Ha - The banished immortal: a life of Li Bai (Li Po)
- King, Christopher C. - Lament from Epirus: an odyssey into Europe's oldest surviving folk music
- Koch, Stephen - Hitler's pawn: the boy assassin and the Holocaust
- Lipstadt, Deborah E. - Antisemitism: here and now
- Loftis, Larry - Code name: Lise: the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Meltzer, Brad - The first conspiracy: the secret plot to kill George Washington
- Nevala-Lee, Alec - Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of science fiction
- O'Brien, Christine Scherick - Crave: a memoir of food and longing
- O'Connor, Cailin - The misinformation age: how false beliefs spread
- Shapiro, Dani - Inheritance: a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
- Teicher, Craig Morgan - We begin in gladness: how poets progress: essays
- Tomlinson, Howard M. - The elephant in the room: one fat man's quest to get smaller in a growing America
- Watt Smith, Tiffany - Schadenfreude: the joy of another's misfortune
- Weidermann, Volker - Dreamers: when the writers took power, Germany, 1919
- Winik, Marion - The Baltimore book of the dead
- Worsley, Lucy - Queen Victoria: twenty-four days that changed her life
FICTION
- Adams, Taylor - No exit
- Altan, Ahmet - Like a sword wound
- Barry, Jessica - Freefall
- Bouanani, Ahmed - The hospital: a tale in black and white
- Conley, Susan - Elsey come home
- Davies, Carys - West: a novel
- Drndić, Daša - Doppelgänger (translated from the Croatian)
- Faye, Lyndsay - The Paragon Hotel
- Fernandez, Marc - Mala vida: a novel (translated from the French)
- Gillham, David R - Annelies
- Hadley, Tessa - Late in the day: a novel (ebook available)
- Headley, Maria Dahvana - The mere wife
- Hendricks, Greer - An anonymous girl
- Jenoff, Pam - The lost girls of Paris
- Jonasson, Jonas - The accidental further adventures of the hundred-year-old man (translated from the Swedish)
- Kennedy, A. L. - The little snake
- Kwon, R. O. - The incendiaries
- Lemaitre, Pierre - Inhuman resources (translated from the French)
- Lipsyte, Sam - Hark: a novel
- Ma, Ling - Severance
- Mannion, Michael - Erin's daughters
- Maren, Mesha - Sugar run
- Matson, Suzanne - Ultraviolet
- Miano, Léonora - Season of the shadow (translated from the French)
- Mickiewicz, Adam - Pan Tadeusz, or, The last foray in Lithuania: a story of the gentry from 1811 and 1812: comprising twelve books in verse (translated from the Polish)
- Mirza, Fatima Farheen - A place for us: a novel
- Obioma, Chigozie - An orchestra of minorities
- Robson, Jennifer - The gown: a novel of the royal wedding
- Roy, Anuradha - All the lives we never lived
- Saunders, Paula - The distance home
- Slimani, Leila - Adèle
- Smith, J. P. - The drowning
- Taneja, Preti - We that are young
- Thornton, Margaret Bradham - A theory of love
- Tillyard, S. K - The great level
- Trigiani, Adriana - Tony's wife
- Ullmann, Linn - Unquiet (ebook available)
- Walker, Karen Thompson - The dreamers
- Winters, Ben H. - Golden State
- Yan, Lianke - The day the sun died
- Zeldis, Kitty - Not our kind
More recent fiction arrivals below (in the stacks).
MYSTERIES
- Anyetei, Gbontwi - Mensah
- Barton, Fiona - The suspect*
- Bradley, C. Alan - The golden tresses of the dead: a Flavia de Luce novel
- Brodrick, William - The silent ones
- Bruen, Ken - In the Galway silence: a Jack Taylor novel
- Burke, James Lee - The New Iberia blues
- Cleeland, Anne - Murder in spite: a Doyle and Acton mystery*
- De Hahn, Tracee - A well-timed murder
- Dorsey, Tim - No sunscreen for the dead
- Finder, Joseph - Judgment
- Frances, Michelle - The temp
- Furlong, Susan - Fractured truth
- Hoag, Tami - The boy: a novel
- Housewright, David - First, kill the lawyers
- Jewell, Lisa - Watching you*
- Jones, Stephen Mack - Lives laid away
- Knox, Joseph - The smiling man*
- Lescroart, John T. - The rule of law
- Lodge, Gytha - She lies in wait*
- McDermid, Val - Broken ground (ebook available)
- Patterson, James - Target Alex Cross
- Perry, Thomas - The burglar
- Preston, Douglas J. - Verses for the dead
- Rademacher, Cay - Deadly Camargue
- Ragnar Jónasson - Rupture (translated from the Icelandic)
- Rankin, Ian - In a house of lies* (ebook available)
- Robertson, Michael - A Baker Street wedding*
- Sansom, C. J. - Tombland*
- Seymour, Gerald - A damned serious business
- Woods, Stuart - A delicate touch
*indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Roupenian, Kristen - You know you want this: Cat person and other stories
- Schweblin, Samanta - Mouthful of birds: stories
POETRY
- Armantrout, Rae - Wobble
- Barnett, Catherine - Human hours: poems
- Hofmann, Michael - One lark, one horse
- Jernigan, Amanda - Years, months, and days: poems
- Kaur, Rupi - Milk and honey
- Padel, Ruth - Emerald
- Reed, Justin Phillip - Indecency
- Sanger, Richard - Dark woods
- Spires, Elizabeth - A memory of the future: poems
- Stonecipher, Donna - Transaction histories
- Tobin, Daniel - Blood labors
- Walker, Alice - Taking the arrow out of the heart: poems
- Yang, Jeffrey - Hey, Marfa: poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Flying too close to the sun: myths in art from classical to contemporary (Diane Fortenberry & Rebecca Morrill, eds.)
- Amrith, Sunil S. - Unruly waters: how rains, rivers, coasts and seas have shaped Asia's history
- Beydoun, Khaled A. - American Islamophobia: understanding the roots and rise of fear
- Collier, Paul - The future of capitalism: facing the new anxieties
- Lee, Jonathan L - Afghanistan: a history from 1260 to the present
- Lutes, Jason - Berlin (illustrated, Drawn & Quarterly)
- Mnookin, Robert H. - The Jewish American paradox: embracing choice in a changing world
- North, Ryan - How to invent everything: a survival guide for the stranded time traveler
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- The contemporary Spanish-American novel: Bolaño and after (Will H. Corrral, Juan E. De Castro, Nicholas Birns, ed.) 863.08 C
- Balzac, Honoré de - Treatise on modern stimulants (translated from the French) 844 B
- Jones, Darryl - Sleeping with the lights on: the unsettling story of horror 809.9 J
- Thomson, Ian - Dante's Divine comedy: a journey without end 851.09 D
FICTION
- Bell, Adrian - Silver Ley (Slightly Foxed; first published, 1931) F B
- Dunn, Nell - Poor cow (first published, 1967) F D
- Fosse, Jon - Melancholy (translated from the Norwegian) F F
- Green, Karen L. - Frail sister (collage/graphic narrative) F G
- Mishima, Yukio - The frolic of the beasts (first English translation from the Japanese) F M
- Tawada, Yoko - Where Europe begins (translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky; from the Japanese by Yumi Selden; preface by Wim Wenders) F T
- Vuillard, Éric - Sorrow of the earth: Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the tragedy of show business (translated from the French; author of Order of the Day) F V
POETRY
- Of poetry & protest: from Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (Philip Cushway & Michael Warr, eds.) 821.08 O
- Bouanani, Ahmed - The shutters (translated from the French) 841 B
- Kermode, Frank - John Donne 821.09 D
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - Letters to a young painter (translated by Damion Searls) 836 R
Books & READING
- McParland, Robert - Bestseller: a century of America's favorite books 028 M
- Murray, Simone - The digital literary sphere: reading, writing, and selling books in the Internet era 070.5 M
- Mustich, James - 1,000 books to read before you die: a life-changing list Ref. 028 M
ART
- The chiaroscuro woodcut in Renaissance Italy (Naoko Takahatake, ed.; National Gallery of Art exhibition) 761 C
- Earnest, Jarrett - What it means to write about art: interviews with art critics 706.9 E
- Rewald, John - Studies in post-impressionism 709.44 R
- Rousseau, Valérie - Vestiges & verse: notes from the newfangled epic (folk/outsider art) 709.73 R
- Ruskin, John - Giotto and his works in Padua 759.5 G
PERFORMING ARTS
- The downtown anthology: 6 hit plays from New York's downtown theaters (Morgan Gould & Erin Salvi, eds.) 822.08 D
- Christgau, Robert - Is it still good to ya?: fifty years of rock criticism, 1967-2017 784.6 C
- Giddins, Gary - Bing Crosby Volume 2: Swinging on a star: the war years, 1940-1946 92 C949 G
- Ramsay, Margaret - Peggy to her playwrights: the letters of Margaret Ramsay, play agent 792.0942 R
- Suchet, John - Verdi: the man revealed 780.92 S
- Tommasini, Anthony - The indispensable composers: a personal guide 780.92 T
ANTIQUITY
- Time and cosmos in Greco-Roman antiquity (Alexander Jones, ed.) 529 T OVERSIZE
- Garfinkel, Yosef - In the footsteps of King David: revelations from an ancient biblical city 933 G
- Morley, Neville - Classics: why it matters 370.1 M
- Watts, Edward Jay - Mortal republic: how Rome fell into tyranny 937.02 W
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is now available to members. For more information, ask at the reference desk.
HISTORY
- The Kremlin letters: Stalin's wartime correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt (David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov, eds.) 940.532 K
- Anderson, Virginia DeJohn - The martyr and the traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution 973.38 A
- Bayly, C. A. - Remaking the modern world 1900-2015: global connections and comparisons (Blackwell History of the World) 909.82 B
- Bianco, Lucien - Stalin and Mao: a comparison of the Russian and Chinese revolutions 320 B
- Dolin, Eric Jay - Black flags, blue waters: the epic history of America's most notorious pirates 910.4 D
- Foot, John - The archipelago: Italy since 1945 945.09 F
- Moses, Alfred H. - Bucharest diary: Romania's journey from darkness to light: an American ambassador's memoir 949.8 M
- Payaslian, Simon - The history of Armenia: from the origins to the present 956.6 P
- Rubin, Miri - The Middle Ages: a very short introduction 940.1 R
- Treuer, David - The heartbeat of Wounded Knee: native America from 1890 to the present 970.1 T
WAR & MILITARY HISTORY
- Andrade, Tonio - The gunpowder age: China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history 355 A
- Bourne, Stephen - Fighting proud: the untold story of the gay men who served in two world wars 355 B
- Frye, David - Walls: a history of civilization in blood and brick 909 F
- Jackson, Ashley - Persian Gulf Command: a history of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq 940.542 J
- Lambert, Andrew D. - Seapower states: maritime culture, continental empires and the conflict that made the modern world 359 L
- Schabas, William - The trial of the Kaiser 940.55 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Buchan, James - John Law: a Scottish adventurer of the eighteenth century 92 L415 B
- Casillo, Charles - Marilyn Monroe: the private life of a public icon 92 M7535 C
- Gilliam, Dorothy Butler - Trailblazer: a pioneering journalist's fight to make the media look more like America 92 G4795 G
- Jünger, Ernst - A German officer in occupied Paris: the war journals, 1941-1945: including "Notes From the Caucasus" and "Kirchhorst Diaries" (translated from the German; author of Storm of Steel) 92 J958 J
- Loyer, Emmanuelle - Lévi-Strauss: a biography 92 L6668 L
- Zambone, Albert Louis - Daniel Morgan: a revolutionary life 92 M8475 Z
PSYCHOLOGY
- Kagge, Erling - Silence: in the age of noise 155.9 K
- Kastan, David Scott - On color 155 K
- Tomasello, Michael - Becoming human: a theory of ontogeny 155 T
PHILOSOPHY
- The original position (Timothy Hinton, ed.; Cambridge U. Press Classic philosophical arguments series) 320.1 O
- Corngold, Stanley - Walter Kaufmann: philosopher, humanist, heretic 191 C
- Tanner, Michael - Nietzsche: a very short introduction 193 T
- Wootton, David - Power, pleasure, and profit: insatiable appetites from Machiavelli to Madison 170 W
SCIENCE
- Ananthaswamy, Anil - Through two doors at once: the elegant experiment that captures the enigma of our quantum reality 530.1 A
- Krauss, Lawrence M. - The greatest story ever told—so far: why are we here? 530.1 K
- Morris, Thomas - The matter of the heart: a history of the heart in eleven operations 617 M
ECONOMICS, FINANCE & HISTORY
- Great economic thinkers: an introduction - from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen (Jonathan Conlin, ed.) 330 G
- Ball, Laurence M. - The Fed and Lehman Brothers: setting the record straight on a financial disaster 332.6 B
- Shaxson, Nicholas - The finance curse: how global finance is making us all poorer 332 S
- Tepper, Jonathan - The myth of capitalism: monopolies and the death of competition 330.973 T
- Wu, Tim - The curse of bigness: antitrust in the new Gilded Age 338.8 W
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Eastmond, Antony - Tamta's world: the life and encounters of a medieval noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia 956 E
- Miller, Nancy K. - My brilliant friends: our lives in feminism 305.4 M
NEW YORK
- Eding, June - The statues of Central Park 735 E
- Scardino, Mike - Bad call: a summer job on a New York ambulance 92 S2856 S
RELIGION
- Alter, Robert - The Hebrew Bible: a translation with commentary (3 volumes) 221.7 B
- Caputo, Nina - Debating truth: the Barcelona disputation of 1263: a graphic history 296.3 C
- Chadwick, Henry - Augustine: a very short introduction 189 C
- Miles, Jack - God in the Qur'an 297 M
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