New Books - February 2022
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Ascher, Barbara Lazear - Ghosting: a widow's voyage out: a memoir
- Attenberg, Jami - I came all this way to meet you: writing myself home (ebook available)
- Barbero, Alessandro - Dante: a life (translated from the Italian)
- Bernstein, Carl - Chasing history: a kid in the newsroom (ebook available)
- Dogon, Mondiant - Those we throw away are diamonds: a refugee's search for home
- Evaristo, Bernardine - Manifesto: on never giving up
- Fideler, David - Breakfast with Seneca: a Stoic guide to the art of living
- Fiennes, Ranulph - Shackleton: the biography
- Finch, Charle - What just happened
- Hayes, Bill - Sweat: a history of exercise
- Hurston, Zora Neale - You don't know us negroes: and other essays (ebook available)
- Jähner, Harald - Aftermath: life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 (translated from the German) (ebook available)
- Kacenberg, Mala - Mala's cat
- Lawler, Andrew - Under Jerusalem: the buried history of the world's most contested city (ebook available)
- McCormack, Catherine - Women in the picture: what culture does with female bodies
- Mlodinow, Leonard - Emotional: how feelings shape our thinking
- Perl, Jed - Authority and freedom: a defense of the arts
- Raskin, Jamin B. - Unthinkable: trauma, truth, and the trials of American democracy (ebook available)
- Rose, Frank - The sea we swim in: how stories work in a data-driven world
- Schulz, Kathryn - Lost & found: a memoir
- Subin, Anna Della - Accidental gods: on men unwittingly turned divine
- Walter, Barbara F. - How civil wars start: and how to stop them
- Ypi, Lea - Free: a child and a country at the end of history (ebook available)
FICTION
- Albom, Mitch - The stranger in the lifeboat: a novel
- Allende, Isabel - Violeta: a novel (translated from the Spanish)
- Andreades, Daphne Palasi - Brown girls: a novel
- Angot, Christine - An impossible love (translated from the French)
- Benedict, Marie - Her hidden genius: a novel
- Bissell, Tom - Creative types: and other stories
- Bradford, Barbara Taylor - A man of honor
- Chambers, Clare - Learning to swim
- Chan, Jessamine - The school for good mothers: a novel
- Cleeton, Chanel - The most beautiful girl in Cuba
- Evans, Richard Paul - The Christmas promise
- Evison, Jonathan - Small world: a novel
- Gaitskill, Mary - The devil's treasure: a book of stories and dreams
- Gonzalez, Xochitl - Olga dies dreaming
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak - Paradise
- Guterson, David - The final case (ebook available)
- Ho, Jean Chen - Fiona and Jane (ebook available)
- Imamura, Natsuko - The woman in the purple skirt: a novel (translated from the Japanese)
- Imrie, Celia - Orphans of the storm
- Iossel, Mikhail - Love like water, love like fire (ebook available)
- Lawson, Mary - A town called Solace (ebook available)
- Lippman, Laura - Seasonal work: stories (ebook available)
- McCormack, J. A. - The singing forest
- McLean, Robin - Pity the beast
- Messud, Claire - A dream life
- O'Connor, Nuala - Nora: a love story of Nora and James Joyce
- Payne, Melissa - The night of many endings
- Prins, Mark - The Latinist: a novel (ebook available)
- Rudnick, Paul - Playing the palace
- Stanišić, Saša - Where you come from (translated from the German)
- Strasfogel, Ian - Operaland
- Stridsberg, Sara - The Antarctica of love (translated from the Swedish)
- Tarantino, Quentin - Once upon a time in Hollywood: a novel (ebook available)
- Thorp, J. R. - Learwife
- Umrigar, Thrity N. - Honor: a novel
- Wang, Weike - Joan is okay: a novel
- Yan, Geling - The secret talker: a novel (translated from the Chinese)
- Yanagihara, Hanya - To paradise (ebook available)
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Atkins, Ace - Robert B. Parker's Bye bye baby: a Spenser novel
- The best American mystery and suspense (Alafair Burke, ed.)
- Burke, Alafair - Find me: a novel
- Cameron, Stella - The playing fields*
- Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Autopsy: a Scarpetta novel
- Donlea, Charlie - Twenty years later
- Donohue, Rachel - The Temple House vanishing
- Estleman, Loren D. - Cutthroat dogs: an Amos Walker mystery
- Fellowes, Jessica - The Mitford vanishing
- Gamboa, Santiago - The night will be long (translated from the Spanish)
- Gardner, Lisa - One step too far: a novel
- Gaylin, Alison - The collective: a novel
- George, Elizabeth - Something to hide: a Lynley novel* (ebook available)
- Higashino, Keigo - Silent parade (translated from the Japanese)
- Hirahara, Naomi - Clark and Division
- Howard, Catherine Ryan - 56 days
- Kepler, Lars - The mirror man (translated from the Swedish)
- McCallin, Luke - From a dark horizon
- McMahon, Jennifer - The drowning kind
- Nakamura, Fuminori - My annihilation (translated from the Japanese)
- Parker, T. Jefferson - A thousand steps
- Priest, Cherie - Grave reservations: a novel
- Prose, Nita - The maid: a novel (ebook available)
- Reeves, Lynne - The dangers of an ordinary night: a novel
- Rickstad, Eric - I am not who you think I am (ebook available)
- Robotham, Michael - When you are mine: a novel (ebook available)
- Rozan, S. J. - Family business
- Rufin, Jean-Christophe - The hanged man of Conakry (translated from the French)
- Shelton, Paige - Dark night: a mystery
- Strohmeyer, Sarah - Do I know you?: a novel of suspense (ebook available)
- Takamura, Kaoru - Lady joker (translated from the Japanese)
- Viets, Elaine - Life without parole
- Wilson, Antoine - Mouth to mouth: a novel (ebook available)
- Woods, Stuart - Criminal mischief
POETRY
- Baer, Kate - I hope this finds you well: poems
- Garnett, Callie - Wings in time
- Harrison, Jim - Jim Harrison: complete poems
- Waldrop, Rosmarie - Gap gardening: selected poems
- see more poetry in the stacks below
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Barnett, Cynthia - The sound of the sea: seashells and the fate of the oceans
- Musgrove, David - The story of the Bayeux tapestry: unraveling the Norman conquest
- Playdon, Zoe-Jane - The hidden case of Ewan Forbes: and the unwritten history of the trans experience
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Bennett, Betty T - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: an introduction 823 S
- The Cambridge companion to German romanticism (Nicholas Saul, ed.) 830.1 C
- During, Lisabeth - The chastity plot 176 D
- Lorde, Audre - I am your sister: collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde 820.81 L
- McGurl, Mark - Everything and less: the novel in the age of Amazon 809.3 M
- Perelman, S. J. - Writings 827 P
- Stavans, Ilan - Jewish literature: a very short introduction 809 S
POETRY
- Carson, Anne - H of H playbook 821 C
- Gilgamesh: a new translation of the ancient epic, with essays on the poem, its past, and its passion ( Sophus Helle, translator) 892.19 G
- Hall, Donald - Old poets: reminiscences & opinions 821.09 H
- Juana Inés de la Cruz - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: selected works (translated by Edith Grossman ; introduction by Julia Alvarez; 17th-century Mexico) 860.81 J
- Seidel, Frederick - Peaches goes it alone 821 S
- Stacy, Jason - Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the myth of the American small town 821.09 M
FICTION
- Bellerby, Frances - Selected stories (acclaimed stories written late 1920s-1950s) F B
- Bely, Andrey - The symphonies (newly translated; author of Petersburg) F B
- Finn, Melanie - The underneath: a novel F F
- Jesse, F. Tennyso - A pin to see the peepshow (1934; British Library Women Writers series) F J
- Johnson, Dorothy M. - The man who shot Liberty Valance: and, A man called horse; The hanging tree; Lost sister F J
- Waldrop, Rosmarie - The hanky of Pippin's daughter (reissue of acclaimed 1986 novel) F W
ART
- African artists: from 1882 to now (Rebecca Morrill, ed.) 709.6 A
- Cubism in color: the still lifes of Juan Gris (Nicole R. Myers and Katherine Rothkopf, eds.) 759.6 G
- Hollinghurst, Alan - Fragonard's Progress of love 759.4 F
- Lehman, Arnold L. - Sensation: the Madonna, the mayor, the media, and the First Amendment 708.1 L
- Mair, Roswitha - Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the avant-garde: a biography 709.2 T
- Storr, Robert - Robert Storr: writings on art, 2006-2021 709 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Aucoin, Matthew - The impossible art: adventures in opera 782.1 A
- Isserlis, Steven - The Bach cello suites: a companion 787.1 I
- Lockwood, Lewis - Beethoven's lives: the biographical tradition 808 L
- Naremore, James - Film noir: a very short introduction 791.4 N
FASHION
- Block, Elizabeth L - Dressing up: the women who influenced French fashion 746.92 B
- Bouhassane, Ami - Lee Miller: fashion in wartime Britain 779 M
- Koda, Harold - Charles James: beyond fashion 746.92 K OVERSIZE
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Bernstein, Matthew - George Hearst: silver king of the Gilded Age 92 H4362 B
- Bingham, Frances - Valentine Ackland: a transgressive life 92 A1827 B
- Garner, Helen - One day I'll remember this: Diaries Volume II, 1987-1995 92 G2344 G
- Lasley, Tabitha - Sea state: a memoir (portrait of North Sea oil rigs) 331.7 L
- Marks, Ann - Vivian Maier developed: the untold story of the photographer nanny 92 M2189 B
HISTORY
- Bailey, Catherine - A castle in wartime: one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis 940.5472 B
- Clark, Bruce - Athens: city of wisdom 938 C
- Clifford, Rebecca - Survivors: children's lives after the Holocaust 940.5315 C
- Goldsby, Jacqueline Denise - A spectacular secret: lynching in American life and literature 364.1 G
- Jones, Dan - Powers and thrones: a new history of the Middle Ages (ebook available) 940.1 J
- Krüger, Horst - The broken house: growing up under Hitler 943.086 K
- Rubenstein, David M. - The American experiment: dialogues on a dream 973 R
- Sims, R. L. - Japanese political history since the Meiji renovation, 1868-2000 952 S
- The United States of medievalism (Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein, eds.) 306.4 U
ANTIQUITY
- Burn, Lucilla - Hellenistic art: from Alexander the Great to Augustus 709.38 B
- Jigoulov, Vadim S - The Phoenicians: lost civilizations 939.4 J
- Ogden, Daniel - The werewolf in the ancient world 398 O
MILITARY
- Colby, Elbridge - The strategy of denial: American defense in an age of great power conflict 355.03 C
- Mitchell, Jon - Poisoning the Pacific: the US military's secret dumping of plutonium, chemical weapons, and Agent Orange 363.7 M
- Samet, Elizabeth D. - Looking for the good war: American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness 303.6 S
- World War II memoirs: the Pacific Theater (Library of America collection w/ Sledge, Hynes, Kiernan) 940.548 W
CRIME
- Oller, John - Rogues' gallery: the birth of modern policing and organized crime in Gilded Age New York 363.2 O
- Tattersall, Ian - Hoax: a history of deception: 5,000 years of fakes, forgeries, and fallacies 001.9 T
- Wright, Jennifer - She kills me: the true stories of history's deadliest women 364.1 W
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Bowden, Mark - The steal 324.27 B
- Hanson, Victor Davis - The dying citizen: how progressive elites, tribalism, and globalization are destroying the idea of America 323.6 H
- Hill, Samantha Rose - Hannah Arendt 320.1 H
- Rosen, Jeffrey - William Howard Taft 92 T1247 R
RACE IN AMERICA
- Mills, Charles W. - Black rights white wrongs: the critique of racial liberalism 320.9 M
- Robinson, Cedric J. - Black marxism: the making of the Black radical tradition 335.4 R
- Sullivan, Patricia - Justice rising: Robert Kennedy's America in black and white 323.4 S
- Voices from slavery: 100 authentic slave narratives (Norman R. Yetman, ed.) 326 V
NEW YORK CITY
- Hayes, Christopher - The Harlem uprising: segregation and inequality in postwar New York City 323.1 H
- Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna - Design for the crowd: patriotism and protest in Union Square 974.71 M
- Pearson, Chri - Dogopolis: how dogs and humans made modern New York, London, and Paris 636.7 P
SCIENCE & NATURE
- The bedside book of birds: an avian miscellany (Graeme Gibson, ed.; foreword by Margaret Atwood) 598.2 B
- Carson, Rachel - The sea trilogy: Under the sea-wind; The sea around us; The edge of the sea (Library of America) 551.4 C
- Laessøe, Thomas - Mushrooms: how to identify and gather wild mushrooms and other fungi 589.2 L
- Snead, O. Carter - What it means to be human: the case for the body in public bioethics 174 S
MEDICINE
- Mukwege, Denis - The power of women: a doctor's journey of hope and healing 362.8 M
- Wen, Leana - Lifelines: a doctor's journey in the fight for public health 362.1 W
JOURNALISM
- Ritchie, Donald A. - The columnist: leaks, lies, and libel in Drew Pearson's Washington 92 P3615 R
- Ward, Clarissa - On all fronts: the education of a journalist 92 W2565 W
FOOD & DRINK
- Ripert, Eric - Vegetable simple 641.5 R
- Roden, Claudia - Claudia Roden's Mediterranean: treasured recipes from a lifetime of travel 641.5 R
- Black food: stories, art & recipes from across the African diaspora (Bryant Terry, ed.) 641 B