New Books - January 2017
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Athill, Diana - A Florence diary
- Baird, Julia - Victoria the queen: an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire
- Bennetts, Leslie - Last girl before freeway: the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
- Bloom, Paul - Against empathy: the case for rational compassion
- Borman, Tracy - The private lives of the Tudors: uncovering the secrets of Britain's greatest dynasty
- Carlin, Peter Ames - Homeward bound: the life of Paul Simon
- Fortey, Richard A. - The wood for the trees: one man's long view of nature
- France, David - How to survive a plague: the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS
- Friedman, Thomas L. - Thank you for being late: an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations (ebook available)
- Goldhill, Simon - A very queer family indeed: sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
- Grass, Günter - Of all that ends (translated from the German by Breon Mitchell)
- Harvard Lampoon - The best of the Harvard Lampoon: 140 years of American humor
- Haskell, Molly - Steven Spielberg: a life in films
- Hayes, Peter - Why?: explaining the Holocaust
- Hustvedt, Siri - A woman looking at men looking at women: essays on art, sex, and the mind
- Jaffe, Sarah - Necessary trouble: Americans in revolt
- Johnson, Steven - Wonderland: how play made the modern world
- Kelly, Megyn - Settle for more
- Lewis, Michael - The undoing project: a friendship that changed our minds (ebook available)
- Linford, Jenny - The chef's library: favorite cookbooks from the world 's great kitchens
- Lowery, Wesley - They can't kill us all: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement
- Moran, Caitlin - Moranifesto
- Moran, Joe - Shrinking violets: a field guide to shyness
- Noah, Trevor - Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood
- Orbach, Danny - The plots against Hitler
- Partlow, Joshua - A kingdom of their own: the family Karzai and the Afghan disaster
- Robertson, Robbie - Testimony
- Scarry, Elaine - Naming thy name: cross talk in Shakespeare's sonnets
- Scelfo, Julie - The women who made New York
- Slouka, Mark - Nobody's son: a memoir
- Smith, Jean Kennedy - The nine of us: growing up Kennedy
- Sobel, Dava - The glass universe: how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars
- Stewart, Rory - The Marches: a borderland journey between England and Scotland
- Zapruder, Alexandra - Twenty-six seconds: a personal history of the Zapruder film/
- Zug, Marcia A. - Buying a bride: an engaging history of mail-order matches
FICTION
- Adiga, Aravind - Selection day
- Borbély, Szilárd - The dispossessed: a novel (translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet)
- Chabon, Michael - Moonglow: a novel
- Coover, Robert - Huck out west
- Correa, Armando Lucas - The German girl (translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor)
- Drabble, Margaret - The dark flood rises
- Fallada, Hans - Nightmare in Berlin (translated from the German by Allan Blunden)
- Goodwin, Daisy - Victoria (ebook available)
- Harris, Robert - Conclave
- Krentz, Jayne Ann - When all the girls have gone
- Littell, Robert - The Mayakovsky tapes: a novel
- Luce, Kelly - Pull me under
- Murray, Sabina - Valiant gentlemen
- Palacio, Derek - The mortifications: a novel
- Pittard, Hannah - Listen to me
- Priest, Christopher - The gradual
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich - Novels, tales, journeys: the complete prose of Alexander Pushkin (a new translation by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
- Sparks, Nicholas - Two by two
- Steel, Danielle - The award
- Tawada, Yoko - Memoirs of a polar bear (translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky)
- Yoshimoto, Banana - Moshi Moshi (translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda)
MYSTERIES
- Axat, Federico - Kill the next one (translated from the Spanish by David Frye)
- Block, Lawrence - Sinner man
- Camilleri, Andrea - A voice in the night (translated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli) (ebook available)
- Carse, James P. - PhDeath: the Puzzler murders
- Church, James - The gentleman from Japan
- Cleland, Jane K. - Glow of death
- Dorsey, Tim - Coconut cowboy
- Eriksson, Kjell - Stone coffin (translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg)
- Estleman, Loren D. - Brazen: a Valentino mystery
- Gingrich, Newt - Treason: a novel
- Greaney, Mark - True faith and allegiance (a Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan novel)
- Hagberg, David - End game/ David Hagberg.
- Holt, Anne - Beyond the truth: a Hanne Wilhelmsen novel (translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce)
- Hunt, Andrew E. - Desolation Flats
- Ison, Graham - Suddenly at home: a Brock and Poole mystery*
- McCallin, Luke - The divided city
- McDermid, Val - Out of bounds*
- McPherson, Catriona - The reek of red herrings*
- Meyer, Stephenie - The chemist: a novel
- Minier, Bernard - Don't turn out the lights (translated from the French by Alison Anderson)
- Morrell, David - Ruler of the night*
- Patterson, James - Cross the line
- Shaber, Sarah R. - Louise's lies
- Smith, Carrie - Forgotten city: a Claire Codella mystery
- Tursten, Helene - Who watcheth (translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy)
- Wagner, David P. - Return to Umbria
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef - A city in its fullness (translated from the Hebrew; edited by Alan Mintz and Jeffrey Saks)
- Collins, Kathleen - Whatever happened to interracial love?: stories
- Lively, Penelope - The purple swamp hen and other stories
- Lodge, David - The man who wouldn't get up and other stories
- Ryan, Patrick - The dream life of astronauts: stories
- Vila-Matas, Enrique - Vampire in love and other stories (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa)
- Winterson, Jeanette - Christmas days: 12 stories and 12 feasts for 12 days
POETRY
- Boland, Eavan - A poet's Dublin
- Borzutzky, Daniel - The performance of becoming human
- Hutchinson, Ishion - House of lords and commons
- Levine, Philip - My lost poets: a life in poetry (edited by Edward Hirsch)
- Muldoon, Paul - Selected poems 1968-2014
- Sharif, Solmaz - Look: poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Endersby, Jim - Orchid: a cultural history
- Farhad, Massumeh - The art of the Qur'an: treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
- Levy, Shawn - Dolce vita confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, paparazzi, and the swinging high life of 1950s Rome
- Lewis-Stempel, John - Where poppies blow: the British soldier, nature, the Great War
- Weatherford, J. McIver - Genghis Khan and the quest for God: how the world's greatest conqueror gave us religious freedom
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Beam, Alex - The feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the end of a beautiful friendship 820.9 B
- Davidson, Peter - The last of the light: about twilight 809.9 D
- Ford, Mark - Thomas Hardy: half a Londoner 823 H
- Hartley, Jenny - Millions like us: British women's fiction of the Second World War 823.09 H
- Johns, Derek - Ariel: a literary life of Jan Morris, 828.09 M
- Johnson, Charles - The way of the writer: reflections on the art and craft of storytelling 808 J
- Price, Stanley - James Joyce and Italo Svevo: the story of a friendship 920 P9466 J
- Rooney, Padraig - The gilded chalet: off-piste in literary Switzerland 809 R
- Rosset, Barney - Dear Mr. Beckett: letters from the publisher the Samuel Beckett file 822.09 B
- Smith, Lillian - A Lillian Smith reader 823 S
- Weinberger, Eliot - The ghosts of birds 824 W
FICTION
- Alas, Leopoldo - His only son: with Doña Berta (originallly published in 1890; New York Review; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) F A
- Döblin, Alfred - Bright magic: stories (New York Review Books: translated from the German) F D
- Lewis, Janet - The wife of Martin Guerre F L
- Modiano, Patrick - The black notebook: a novel (translated from the German) F M
- Paris street tales: stories (translated by Helen Constantine) F P
ART
- Belkin, Kristin Lohse - Rubens 92 R8954 B
- Berger, John - Landscapes: John Berger on art 704 B
- Brooks, Chris - The Gothic revival 709 B
- Coudert, Thierry - Cafe society: socialites, patrons, and artists, 1920 to1960 701 C
- Dixon, Laurinda S. - Bosch 759.9 B
- Morphy, Howard - Aboriginal art 709.011 M
- Smith, R. R. R. - Hellenistic sculpture: a handbook 733 S
- Stewart, Andrew F. - Classical Greece and the birth of Western art 709.38 S
PERFORMING ART
- Bresson, Robert - Bresson on Bresson: interviews, 1943-1983 791.4 B
- Kitses, Jim - Horizons west: directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood 791.4 K
- Mordden, Ethan - When Broadway went to Hollywood, 791.4 M
- Ozawa, Seiji - Absolutely on music: conversations 780.92 O
- Simon, Neil - Neil Simon's memoirs: Rewrites and The play goes on 92 S5958 S
- Szwed, John F. - Space is the place: the lives and times of Sun Ra 92 S957 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Aitkenhead, Decca - All at sea: a memoir 92 A3117 A
- Durrell, Margaret - Whatever happened to Margo? 92 D9657 D
- Gill, A. A. - Pour me a life 362.292 G
- Lipscomb, Suzannah - The king is dead: the last will and testament of Henry VIII 92 H5218 L
BOOKS & READING
- Booth, Wayne C. - The craft of research (new edition) 001 B
- Orgel, Stephen - The reader in the book: a study of spaces and traces 028 O
ANTIQUITY
- Fritze, Ronald H. - Egyptomania: a history of fascination, obsession and fantasy 932 F
- Graziosi, Barbara - Homer 883.109 H
- Li, Feng - Early China: a social and cultural history 931 L
HISTORY
- Ferreiro, Larrie D. - Brothers at arms: American independence and the men of France and Spain who saved it 973.32 F
- Fritzsche, Peter - An iron wind: Europe under Hitler 940.548 F
- Gerwarth, Robert - The vanquished: why the First World War failed to end 940.3 G
- Gristwood, Sarah - Game of queens: the women who made sixteenth-century Europe 940.22 G
- Hinton, James - Seven lives from mass observation: Britain in the late twentieth century 942.085 H
- Ibn Khaldun - The Muqaddimah: an introduction to history 901 I
- Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua - Island people: the Caribbean and the world 972.9 J
- Keneally, Thomas - Australians (3 volumes) 994 K OVERSIZE
- Trevelyan, Laura - The Winchester: the gun that built an American dynasty 623.4 T
- Wickham, Chris - Medieval Europe 940.1 W
- Winterer, Caroline - American enlightenments: pursuing happiness in the Age of Reason 973.2 W
WAR
- Frankel, Alona - Girl: my childhood and the Second World War 92 F8284 F
- Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh - The left side of history: World War II and the unfulfilled promise of communism in Eastern Europe 940.53496 G
- Koppel, Ted - Lights out: a cyberattack, a nation unprepared, surviving the aftermath 363.3 K
- Milton, Giles - The ministry of ungentlemanly warfare: Churchill's mavericks : plotting Hitler's defeat 940.5486 M
SOCIAL HISTORY
- Downs, Jim - Stand by me: the forgotten history of gay liberation 306.76 D
- Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn - To ask for an equal chance: African Americans in the Great Depression 305.88 G
- A perfect fit: the garment industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960 338.4 P OVERSIZE
- Roberts, Elizabeth - Women and families: an oral history, 1940-1970 305.4 R
- Simmons, Diane - The courtship of Eva Eldridge: a story of bigamy in the marriage-mad fifties 306.8 S
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- Goldberg, Edward - The joint ventured nation: why America needs a new foreign policy 327.73 G
- Pomfret, John - The beautiful country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the present 951 P
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Cooper, Andrew Scott - The fall of heaven: the Pahlavis and the final days of imperial Iran 955 C
- Glass, Charles - Syria burning: a short history of a catastrophe 956.9 G
- Mitchell, George J. - A path to peace: a brief history of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and a way forward in the Middle East 956.94 M
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Levinson, Marc - An extraordinary time: the end of the postwar boom and the return of the ordinary economy 330.9 L
- O'Hara, Maureen - Something for nothing: arbitrage and ethics on Wall Street 332.6 O
- Obermayer, Bastian - The Panama papers: breaking the story of how the rich & powerful hide their money 364.13 O
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Banville, John - Time pieces: a Dublin memoir 914.15 B
- Coates, Ben - Why the Dutch are different: a journey into the hidden heart of the Netherlands 914.92 C
- MacKenzie, Garry - Scotland: a literary guide for travellers 914.1 M
- Madden, Thomas F. - Istanbul: city of majesty at the crossroads of the world 949.61 M
LANGUAGE
- Crystal, David - The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language HBR 420 C
- McWhorter, John H. - Words on the move: why English won't - and can't - sit still (like, literally) 412 M
LAW
- Clifford, Denis - Plan your estate 347.6 C
- Cohen, Adam - Imbeciles: the Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck 344 C
- Domnarski, William - Richard Posner 92 P8559 D
- Sunstein, Cass R. - Constitutional personae 342.73 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Bishop, Paul - Carl Jung (Critical Lives, Reaktion) 92 J955 B
- Jay, Mike - This way madness lies: the asylum and beyond 362.2 J
- Taylor, Barbara - The last asylum: a memoir of madness in our times 362.2 T
TECHNOLOGY
- Baldwin, Richard E. - The great convergence: information technology and the new globalization 337 B
- Christian, Brian - Algorithms to live by: the computer science of human decisions 153 C
- Zarkadakes, Giorgos - In our own image: savior or destroyer? : the history and future of artificial intelligence 001.6 Z
SCIENCE
- Gibilisco, Stan - Understanding Einstein's theories of relativity: man's new perspective on the cosmos 530.1 G
- Musser, George - Spooky action at a distance: the phenomenon that reimagines space and time and what it means for black holes, the big bang, and theories of everything 530.1 M
- Teitel, Amy Shira - Breaking the chains of gravity: the story of spaceflight before NASA 629.4 T
SUPERNATURAL & THE OCCULT
- The book of magic: from antiquity to the Enlightenment (Penguin Classics; selected & translated with an introduction & notes by Brian Copenhaver) 133.4 B
- The Penguin book of the undead: fifteen hundred years of supernatural encounters (Penguin Classics; Scott Bruce, ed.) 133.1 P
- The Penguin book of witches (Penguin Classics; Katherine Howe, ed.) 133.4 P
RELIGION
- Cather, Willa - The life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the history of Christian Science (published in 1908 under pseud.) 92 E214 C
- Fernández-Morera, Darío - The myth of the Andalusian paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic rule in medieval Spain 946.02 F
- Hau Hoo - The sounds of the one hand: 281 Zen koans with answers 294 H
- Kennedy, Hugh - Caliphate: the history of an idea 956 K
- Luther, Martin - Faith and freedom: an invitation to the writings of Martin Luther 230 L
- Moreton, Bethany - To serve God and Wal-Mart: the making of Christian free enterprise 381 M
NEW YORK
- Betancourt, Marian - Heroes of New York Harbor: tales from the City's port 974.71 B
- Flamm, Michael W. - In the heat of the summer: the New York riots of 1964 and the war on crime 974.71 F
- Logel, Jon Scott - Designing Gotham: West Point engineers and the rise of modern New York, 1817-1898 974.71 L
- Roberts, Kyle B. - Evangelical Gotham: religion and the making of New York City, 1783 - 1860 277.471 R
- Witty, Joanne - Brooklyn Bridge Park: a dying waterfront transformed 974.71 W
AUDIOBOOKS
- McEwan, Ian. - The child in time Lobby Audio-CD M
- Quindlen, Anna. - Miller's Valley: a novel Lobbby Audio-CD Q
- Thoreau, Henry David, - Walden Audio-CD 828 T
- Westlake, Donald E. - The comedy is finished Lobby Audio-CD W