New Books July 2023
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Alexander, Kwame - Why fathers cry at night: a memoir in love poems, letters, recipes, and remembrances
- Brady, Amy - Ice: from mixed drinks to skating rinks: a cool history of a hot commodity
- Brokaw, Tom - Never give up: a prairie family's story
- Campbell, James - NB by J. C.: a walk through the Times Literary Supplement
- Cooper, Christian - Better living through birding: notes from a Black man in the natural world (ebook available)
- Dennison, Matthew - Roald Dahl: teller of the unexpected: a biography
- Edsall, Thomas Byrne - The point of no return: American democracy at the crossroads
- Ellison, Mark - Building: a carpenter's notes on life & the art of good work
- Fraser, Antonia - Lady Caroline Lamb: a free spirit
- Griffin, Farah Jasmine - In search of a beautiful freedom: new and selected essays
- Hart, Sarah B. - Once upon a prime: the wondrous connections between mathematics and literature (ebook available)
- Hartman, Darrell - Battle of ink and ice: a sensational story of news barons, North Pole explorers, and the making of modern media
- Hodes, Martha - My hijacking: a personal history of forgetting and remembering
- Irby, Samantha - Quietly hostile: essays (ebook available)
- Jamison, Kay R. - Fires in the dark: healing the unquiet mind
- Mac Sweeney, Naoíse - The West: a new history in fourteen lives
- Mark, Sabrina Orah - Happily: a personal history, with fairy tales
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent - Into the world's great heart: selected letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Mordden, Ethan - Gays on Broadway
- Plokhy, Serhii - The Russo-Ukrainian war: the return of history
- Remnick, David - Holding the note: profiles in popular music (ebook available)
- Smiley, Jane - The questions that matter most: reading, writing, and the exercise of freedom
- Smith, Be - Traffic: genius, rivalry, and delusion in the billion-dollar race to go viral
- Snyder, Rachel Louise - Women we buried, women we burned: a memoir
- Stille, Alexander - The Sullivanians: sex, psychotherapy, and the wild life of an American commune (ebook available)
- Strathern, Paul - The other Renaissance: from Copernicus to Shakespeare: how the Renaissance in Northern Europe transformed the world
- Styron, Rose - Beyond this harbor: adventurous tales of the heart (ebook available)
- Taylor, D. J. - Orwell: the new life
- Thomas, Evan - Road to surrender: three men and the countdown to the end of World War II
- Threadgill, Henry - Easily slip into another world: a life in music
- Viren, Sarah - To name the bigger lie: a memoir in two stories
- Von Drehle, David - The book of Charlie: wisdom from the remarkable American life of a 109-year-old man
- Watling, Sarah - Tomorrow perhaps the future: writers, outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
FICTION
- Ackerman, Elliot - Halcyon: a novel
- Allende, Isabel - The wind knows my name: a novel (translated from the Spanish) (ebook available)
- Berest, Anne - The postcard (translated from the French) (ebook & audiobook available)
- Clements, Oliver - All the queen's spies
- Cline, Emma - The guest: a novel
- Colette - Chéri, and ; The end of Chéri (newly translated from the French by Paul Thurman; New York Review Books Classics)
- Davis, Fiona - The spectacular: a novel
- Dubus, Andre - Such kindness: a novel
- Erpenbeck, Jenny - Kairos (ebook available)
- Fenoglio, Beppe - A private affair (translated from the Italian)
- Fuller, Claire - The memory of animals: a novel
- Harmel, Kristin - The Paris daughter
- Henry, Patti Callahan - The secret book of Flora Lea: a novel
- Hilderbrand, Elin - The five-star weekend (ebook available)
- Hoffs, Susanna - This bird has flown: a novel
- Hoke, Henry - Open throat
- Hosein, Kevin Jared - Hungry ghosts: a novel
- Jain, Vibhuti - Our best intentions: a novel (ebook available)
- Kelly, Martha Hall - The golden doves: a novel
- Krivak, Andrew - Like the appearance of horses: a novel
- Levy, Deborah - August blue (ebook available)
- Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro: a novel (new translation of 1899 classic; translated from the Portuguese)
- Marías, Javier - Tomás Nevinson (translated from the Spanish) (ebook available)
- May, Stephen - Sell us the rope: a novel
- Moore, Lorrie - I am homeless if this is not my home (ebook available)
- Porter, Max - Shy: a novel
- Rosenblum, Emma - Bad summer people (ebook available)
- Rudnick, Paul - Farrell Covington and the limits of style: a novel (ebook available)
- Schulman, Helen - Lucky dogs: a novel (ebook available)
- See, Lisa - Lady Tan's circle of women: a novel (ebook available)
- Starnone, Domenico - The house on Via Gemito (translated from the Italian) (ebook available)
- Taylor, Brandon - The late Americans
- Urrea, Luis Alberto - Good night, Irene (ebook available)
- Walters, Vanessa - The Nigerwife: a novel
- Wright, Steven - Harold: a novel
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Abbott, Megan - Beware the woman: a novel
- Abrams, Stacey - Rogue justice: a thriller (ebook available)
- Adams, Ellery - Paper cuts
- Ayatsuji, Yukito - The Mill House murders (translated from the Japanese)
- Bannalec, Jean-Luc - The body by the sea (translated from the German)
- Casey, Jan - The close
- Comey, James B. - Central Park West: a crime novel (ebook available)
- Cosby, S. A. - All the sinners bleed
- Goldberg, Paul - The dissident
- Gray, Claudia - The late Mrs. Willoughby*
- Hepworth, Sally - The soulmate (ebook available)
- Mason, Tim - The Nightingale affair: a novel*
- Nakamura, Fuminori - The rope artist (translated from the Japanese)
- Nesbø, Jo - Killing moon (translated from the Norwegian) (ebook available)
- Pochoda, Ivy - Sing her down
- Powers, Kevin - A line in the sand (ebook available)
- Sager, Riley - The only one left: a novel (ebook available)
- Thomas, Will - Heart of the Nile*
- Trussoni, Danielle - The puzzle master: a novel
- Williams, Katie - My murder
- Wolff, James - The man in the corduroy suit*
- Woods, Stuart - Near miss
POETRY
- Ewbank, David - The lamb cycle: what the great English poets would have written about Mary and her lamb (had they thought of it first)
- 100 queer poems (Mary Jean Chan & Andrew McMillan, eds.)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS | POETS & POETRY
- Brown, Craig - Haywire: the best of Craig Brown 828 B
- Bynum, Tara - Reading pleasures: everyday Black living in early America 820.9 B
- Dutli, Ralph - Osip Mandelstam: a biography 92 M2715 D
- Ernaux, Annie - Look at the lights, my love (translated from the French) 848 E
- Kaag, John J. - Henry at work: Thoreau on making a living 828.09 T
- Lamming, George - The pleasures of exile (1960 collection of essays that examines Caribbean politics, race, and culture) 824 L
- Morson, Gary Saul - Wonder confronts certainty: Russian writers on the timeless questions and why their answers matter 891.7 M
- Replansky, Naomi - Collected poems 821 R
- Shatz, Adam - Writers and missionaries: essays on the radical imagination 824 S
- Smith, Maggie - Keep moving: notes on loss, creativity, and change 155.9 S
FICTION
- Brown, Karma - Come away with me F B
- Halldór Laxness - Fish can sing (new translation of 1957 novel by well-known Icelandic author of Independent People) F H
- Johnston, Jennifer - The gates (2nd by acclaimed Irish novlelist, published in 1973) F J
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong' - The perfect nine: the epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi (2018 novel from Kenya) F N
- Rozan, S. J. - Concourse (1995 award-winning crime novel set in the Bronx; Lydia Chin series) F R
- Scherfig, Hans - Idealists (originally published in Denmark in 1944) F S
- Senior, Olive - Summer lightning: and other stories (1986 collection by acclaimed Jamaican write; winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) F S
- Spatz, Gregory - What could be saved: bookmatched novellas and stories F S
- Winslow, De'Shawn Charles - In West Mills (2019 novel set African American community in rural North Carolina from 1941 to 1987) F W
LANGUAGE
- Mount, Harry - Et tu, Brute?: the best Latin lines ever 470 M
- Videen, Hana - The wordhord: daily life in Old English 429 V
DRAMA
- Akhtar, Ayad - Disgraced: a play 822 A
- Childress, Alice - Selected plays 822 C
- Molière - Molière: the complete Richard Wilbur translations. 842 M
- Roth, Rob - WARHOLCAPOTE: a non-fiction invention: from the words of Truman Capote and Andy Warhol 822 R
- Stoppard, Tom - Leopoldstadt 822 S
- Valdez, Luis - Zoot suit and other plays 822 V
ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
- Albrecht, Donald - Designing dreams: modern architecture in the movies 791.4 A
- Bell, Julian - Natural light: the art of Adam Elsheimer and the dawn of modern science 759.3 E
- Blik, Tyler - Trademarks of the '60s & '70s 745.2 B
- El Greco: ambition & defiance (Rebecca J. Long, et al., eds.) 759.6 G
- Grigson, Geoffrey - An English farmhouse: and its neighbourhood 728.6 G
- Jankowski, Jerry - Shelf space: modern package design, 1945-1965 745.4 J
- Schezen, Roberto - Adolf Loos: architecture 1903-1932 720.92 L
- Spies-Gans, Paris A. - A revolution on canvas: the rise of women artists in London and Paris, 1760-1830 704 S
- Taft, Maggie - The chieftain and the chair: the rise of Danish design in postwar America 749 T
- Welch, Stuart Cary - Imperial Mughal painting 757.1 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Waterfield, Robin - Plato of Athens: a life in philosophy 92 P718 W
- Wolin, Richard - Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology 193 W
PSYCHOLOGY
- Keltner, Dacher - Awe: the new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life 152 K
- May, Katherine - Enchantment: awakening wonder in an anxious age 155.9 M
- Restak, Richard - The complete guide to memory: the science of strengthening your mind 154 R
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Borman, Tracy - Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: the mother and daughter who forever changed British history 920 T912 B
- Hughes, Frieda - George: a magpie memoir 92 H89311 H
- Key, Amy - Arrangements in blue: notes on loving and living alone 92 K4373 K
- Ortiz, Dianna - The blindfold's eyes: my journey from torture to truth 92 O771 O
HISTORY
- Blackbourn, David - Germany in the world: a global history, 1500-2000 943 B
- Clark, Christopher M. - Revolutionary spring: Europe aflame and the fight for a new world, 1848-1849 940.28 C
- England, Vaudine - Fortune's bazaar: the making of Hong Kong 951.2 E
- Guinn, Jeff - Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a legacy of rage 976.4 G
- Morillo, Stephen - War and conflict in the Middle Ages: a global perspective 355 M
- Porat, Dina - Nakam: the Holocaust survivors who sought full-scale revenge 940.5318 P
- Roy, Probir - House of Roys: a 400-year family saga against the backdrop of the Bengal Renaissance 920 R8885 R
- White, Ahmed - Under the iron heel: the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers 331.88 W
TRAVEL
- Davis, Wes - American journey: on the road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs 917.3 D
- Jennings, Jeremy - Travels with Tocqueville beyond America 92 T632 J
- King, Neil - American ramble: a walk of memory and renewal 917.4 K
- Lodge, Emily - Falcon diaries: an American in Jordan 915.69 L
RACE IN AMERICA
- Bunch, Lonnie G. - A fool's errand: creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump 069 B
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi - Black and female: essays 305.4 D
- Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth - Ordinary notes 325.26 S
ANTIQUITY
- Cargill, Honor - Messalina: empress, adulteress, libertine: the story of the most notorious woman of the Roman world 92 M583 C
- Darnell, John Coleman - Egypt's golden couple: when Akhenaten and Nefertiti were gods on Earth 932 D
NEW YORK CITY
- Denneny, Michael - On Christopher Street: life, sex, and death after Stonewall 808.89 D
- Kaufman, Susa - Walk with me New York: the beauty of New York through the lens of Susan Kaufman 917.471 K
- Sussman, Jeffrey - Big Apple gangsters: the rise and decline of the mob in New York 364 S
LAW
- Chemerinsky, Erwin - Free speech on campus 378 C
- Kaba, Mariame - No more police: a case for abolition 363.2 K
- Lithwick, Dahli - Lady justice: women, the law, and the battle to save America 340.9 L
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Giblin, Rebecca - Chokepoint capitalism: how big tech and big content captured creative labor markets and how we'll win them back 338.4 G
- Kaufman, Henry - The day the markets roared: how a 1982 forecast sparked a global bull market 332.6 K
- Slobodian, Quinn - Crack-up capitalism: market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy 330.1 S
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Driscoll, Kevin - The modem world: a prehistory of social media 302.3 D
- Fox, Brad - The Bathysphere book: effects of the luminous ocean depths 508 F
- Hazard, Leah - Womb: the inside story of where we all began 612.6 H
- Wunsch, Hannah - The autumn ghost: how the battle against a polio epidemic revolutionized modern medical care 616.8 W
GARDENS
- Carey, Jenny Rose - The ultimate flower gardener's guide: how to combine shape, color, and texture to create the garden of your dreams 716 C
- Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd - English garden eccentrics: three hundred years of extraordinary groves, burrowings, mountains and menageries 712 L
- Roach, Margaret - A way to garden: a hands-on primer for every season 635 R