New Books - June 2019
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Atkins, Caroline - What a hazard a letter is: the strange destiny of the unsent letter
- Atkinson, Rick. - The British are coming: the war for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
- Banine - Days in the Caucasus (translated from the French)
- Bernanke, Ben - Firefighting: the financial crisis and its lessons
- Burns, William J. - The back channel: a memoir of American diplomacy and the case for its renewal
- Buttigieg, Pete - Shortest way home: one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future
- Cep, Casey N. - Furious hours: murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Christakis, Nicholas A. - Blueprint: the evolutionary origins of a good society
- Coffey, Wayne R. - They said it couldn't be done: the '69 Mets, New York City, and the most astounding season in baseball history
- Cohen, Jared - Accidental presidents: eight men who changed America
- Colapinto, John - Becoming a neurosurgeon
- Diamond, Jared M. - Upheaval: turning points for nations in crisis
- Dobbs, Michael - The unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a village caught in between
- Frankopan, Peter - The new silk roads: the present and future of the world
- García Márquez, Gabriel - The scandal of the century: and other writings (translated from the Spanish)
- Gates, Melinda - The moment of lift: how empowering women changes the world
- Gay, Ross - The book of delights
- Gopnik, Adam - A thousand small sanities: the moral adventure of liberalism
- Gottlieb, Lori - Maybe you should talk to someone: a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed (ebook available)
- Hales, Dianne R. - La passione: how Italy seduced the world
- Harrington, Anne - Mind fixers: psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness
- Hill, John - NYC walks: guide to new architecture
- Hoganson, Kristin L. - The heartland: an American history
- Hopper, Briallen Elisabeth - Hard to love: essays and confessions
- Jones, Brian Jay - Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Jones, Paul Anthony, - Around the world in 80 words: a journey through the English language
- Kahney, Leander - Tim Cook: the genius who took Apple to the next level
- Levin, Josh - The Queen: the forgotten life behind an American myth
- Levy, Shawn - The castle on Sunset: life, death, love, art, and scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
- Maraniss, David - A good American family: the Red Scare and my father
- Matthews, Owen - An impeccable spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- McCullough, David G. - The pioneers: the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west (ebook available)
- Morris, Adam - American messiahs: false prophets of a damned nation
- Morrison, Robert - The Regency years: during which Jane Austen writes, Napoleon fights, Byron makes love, and Britain becomes modern
- The Mueller report
- Mulgrew, Kate - How to forget: a daughter's memoir
- Nicholson, Virginia - How was it for you?: women, sex, love and power in the 1960s
- Okrent, Daniel - The guarded gate: bigotry, eugenics, and the law that kept two generations of Jews, Italians, and other European immigrants out of America
- Packer, George - Our man: Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century (ebook available)
- Prior-Palmer, Lara - Rough magic: riding the world's loneliest horse race
- Quindlen, Anna - Nanaville: adventures in grandparenting
- Rubenhold, Hallie - The five: the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper
- Rush, Chris - The light years: a memoir
- Sémelin, Jacques - The survival of the Jews in France, 1940-44 (translated from the French)
- Setoodeh, Ramin - Ladies who punch: the explosive inside story of "The view"
- Snyder, Rachel Louise - No visible bruises: what we don't know about domestic violence can kill us
- Stevens, John Paul - The making of a justice: reflections on my first 94 years
- Stiglitz, Joseph E. - People, power, and profits: progressive capitalism for an age of discontent
- Stott, Andrew McConnell - What blest genius?: the jubilee that made Shakespeare
- Taylor, Clarence - Fight the power: African Americans and the long history of police brutality in New York City
- Treglown, Jeremy - Mr. Straight Arrow: the career of John Hersey, author of Hiroshima
- Waters, John - Mr. know-it-all: the tarnished wisdom of a filth elder
- Webb, Amy - The Big nine: how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity
- Wigglesworth, Mark - The silent musician: why conducting matters
- Zuckoff, Mitchell - Fall and rise: the story of 9/11
FICTION
- Andersson, Lena - Acts of infidelity (translated from the Swedish)
- Andrews, Mary Kay - Sunset beach
- Bauermeister, Erica - The scent keeper
- Bayard, Louis - Courting Mr. Lincoln: a novel
- Benedetti, Mario - Springtime in a broken mirror (translated from the Spanish)
- Benjamin, Melanie - Mistress of the Ritz: a novel
- Blake, Sarah - Naamah
- Blake, Sarah - The guest book
- Butler, Halle - The new me
- Chariandy, David John - Brother
- Cohen, Leah Hager - Strangers and cousins: a novel
- Dalton, Trent - Boy swallows universe
- Dektar, Molly - The Ash family: a novel
- Foulds, Adam - Dream sequence
- Frankel, Laurie - This is how it always is
- Furst, Joshua - Revolutionaries
- Gainza, María - Optic nerve (translated from the Spanish)
- Gunaratne, Guy - In our mad and furious city
- Ives, Lucy - Loudermilk, or, The real poet, or, The origin of the world: a novel
- Kelly, Erin - Stone mothers
- Kennedy, Eliza - Do this for me: a novel
- Kirshenbaum, Binnie - Rabbits for food
- Langsdorf, Julie - White elephant: a novel
- Lasdun, James - Afternoon of a faun: a novel
- Lin, Chia-Chia - The unpassing
- Lispector, Clarice - The besieged city (translated from the Portuguese)
- Ma, Jian - China dream (translated ffrom the Chinese)
- Marren, Susannah - A Palm Beach wife
- Orringer, Julie - The flight portfolio (ebook available)
- Phillips, Julia - Disappearing Earth
- Porter, Max - Lanny: a novel
- Poschmann, Marion - The pine islands
- Ramos, Joanne - The farm: a novel
- Rivero, Melissa - The affairs of the Falcóns: a novel
- Robinson, Roxana - Dawson's fall
- Rojas, Carlos - The valley of the fallen (translated from the Spanish)
- Ruffin, Maurice Carlos - We cast a shadow: a novel
- Savas, Aysegül - Walking on the ceiling
- Schwartz, John Burnham - The red daughter: a novel
- Smith, Ali - Spring
- Spain, Jo - With our blessing
- Szalay, David - Turbulence
- Tanen, Sloane - There's a word for that
- Wilson, G. Willow - The bird king
- Würger, Takis, - The club (translated from the German)
- See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section below.
MYSTERIES
- Bannalec, Jean-Luc - The missing corpse: a Brittany mystery (translated from the German)
- Bjørk, Samuel - The boy in the headlights (translated from the Norwegian)
- Brett, Simon - Blotto, Twinks and the intimate revue*
- Camilleri, Andrea - The sect of angels (translated from the Italian)
- Cavanagh, Steve - Twisted*
- Constantine, Liv - The last time I saw you: a novel
- Deaver, Jeffery - The never game
- Doherty, P. C. - The godless*
- Evanovich, Janet - The big Kahuna: a Fox and O'Hare novel
- Fredericks, Mariah - Death of a new American
- Griffiths, Elly - The stone circle: a Ruth Galloway mystery*
- Harris, C. S. - Who slays the wicked: a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery*
- Harris, Thomas - Cari Mora
- James, Bill - Hitmen I have known*
- Judd, Alan - Accidental agent
- Kidd, Jess - Things in jars*
- Koryta, Michael - If she wakes
- Laukkanen, Owen - Deception Cove
- Manzini, Antonio - Spring cleaning: a novel
- Massey, Sujata - The Satapur moonstone
- McTiernan, Dervla - The scholar
- Meyer, Deon - The woman in the blue cloak (translated from the Afrikaans)
- Page, Katherine Hall - The body in the wake
- Pavone, Chris - The Paris diversion: a novel
- Quick, Amanda - Tightrope
- Ragnar Jónasson - The island (translated from the Icelandic)
- Runcie, James - The road to Grantchester *
- Taylor, David C. - Night watch
- Thompson, Victoria - Murder on Trinity Place: a Gaslight mystery
- Welsh, Kaite - The unquiet heart*
- * indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Bezmozgis, David, - Immigrant city: stories
- Chiang, Ted - Exhalation
- Howland, Bette - Calm sea and prosperous voyage: selected stories
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Minutes of glory: and other stories
- Russell, Karen - Orange world and other stories
POETRY
- Baker, David - Swift: new and selected poems
- Charles, Jos - Feeld
- Harris, Michael - The gamekeeper: selected poems, 1976-2011
- Hazelton, Rebecca - Gloss
- Koethe, John - Walking backwards: poems, 1966-2016
- Minnis, Chelsey, - Baby, I don't care
- Sutherland, Keston. - Poetical works 1999-2015
- Viorst, Judith - Nearing ninety: and other comedies of late life
- Williams, John Sibley - As one fire consumes another
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Evans, Richard J. - Eric Hobsbawm: a life in history
- Peterson, Mark A. - The city-state of Boston: the rise and fall of an Atlantic power, 1630-1865
- Sered, Danielle - Until we reckon: violence, mass incarceration, and a road to repair
- Taseer, Aatish - The twice-born: life and death on the Ganges
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Dowling, David Oakey - A delicate aggression: savagery and survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop 820.9 D
- Duncan, Dennis - Babel: adventures in translation 418 D
- Luiselli, Valeria, - Sidewalks 864 L
- Lurie, Alison. - Words and worlds: from autobiography to zippers 824 L
- Smith, Emma - This is Shakespeare 822.33 C
FICTION
- Bowman, W. E. - The ascent of Rum Doodle and, The cruise of the talking fish F B
- Chandler, Raymond - The annotated big sleep 823 C
- Luiselli, Valeria - Faces in the crowd (her debut from 2012) F L
- Oikonomou, Chrestos - Good will come from the sea (translated from the Greek; Archipelago Books) F O
- Premacanda - The world of Premchand: selected short stories (19th century, India; translated by David Rubi) F P
POETRY
- One hundred poets, one poem each: a treasury of classical Japanese verse (translated with a commentary by Peter MacMillan) 895.6 O
- The Penguin book of the prose poem: from Baudelaire to Anne Carson (Jeremy Noel-Tod, ed.) 809.1 P
- Traubel, Horace - Walt Whitman speaks: his final thoughts on life, writing, spirituality, and the promise of America, as told to Horace Traubel 821.09 W
LANGUAGE
- But can I start a sentence with "but"?: advice from the Chicago style Q & A (University of Chicago Press editorial staff) 808 B
- Wildish, Stephen - How to swear: an illustrated guide 427 W
ART & ARCHITECTURE
- Artists respond: American art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 (Melissa Ho, ed.) 709.73 A
- The self-portrait: from Schiele to Beckmann (Tobias G. Natter, ed.) 704.942 S
- Truth & beauty: the Pre-Raphaelites and the old masters (Melissa E. Buron, ed.) 709.42 T
- Bloom, Hyman - Modern mystic: the art of Hyman Bloom 759.1 B
- Serra, Richard - Conversations about sculpture 730.92 S
- Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman - Chinese architecture: a history 720.952 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Friedman, Samantha - Lincoln Kirstein's modern 709.73 F
- Kreuzer, Gundula Katharina - Curtain, gong, steam: Wagnerian technologies of nineteenth-century opera 792 K
- Moore, Gillian - The rite of spring: the music of modernity 792.8 M
ANTIQUITY
- Gwynn, David M. - The Goths: lost civilizations 940.1 G
- Moller, Violet - The map of knowledge: a thousand-year history of how classical ideas were lost and found 940.1 M
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus - How to keep your cool: an ancient guide to anger management 157 S
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is now available to members. For more information, see the Electronic Resources page on our website or ask at the reference desk.
COMICS & GRAPHIC WORKS
- Brunetti, Ivan - Cartooning: philosophy and practice 741.5 B
- Kominsky-Crumb, Aline - Love that bunch 92 K815 K
- Wulf, Andrea - The adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt (illustrated by Lillian Melcher) 508 W OVERSIZE
HISTORY
- Eller, Jack David - Inventing American tradition: from the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo 973 E
- Harding, Christopher - Japan story: in search of a nation, 1850 to the present 952 H
- Maizlish, Stephen E. - A strife of tongues: the Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil War 973.6 M
- Randall, David K. - Black Death at the Golden Gate: the race to save America from the bubonic plague 616.9 R
- Rediker, Marcus - Outlaws of the Atlantic: sailors, pirates, and motley crews in the Age of Sail 387.5 R
- Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. - A history of Russia947 R
- Thomas, Gordon - Defying Hitler: the Germans who resisted Nazi rule 943.086 T
- Zamoyski, Adam - Poland: a history 943.8 Z
BIOGRAPHY
- Bhagwati, Anuradha Kristina - Unbecoming: a memoir of disobedience 92 B5749 B
- Hanley, Catherine - Matilda: empress, queen, warrior 940.1 H
- O'Brien, Phillips Payson - The second most powerful man in the world: the life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's chief of staff 92 L4349 O
- Rose, Kenneth, - Who's in, who's out: the journals of Kenneth Rose (volume one, 1944-1979) 92 R7968 R
- Turner, Marion, - Chaucer: a European life 92 C496 T
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Cleves, Rachel Hope - Charity and Sylvia: a same-sex marriage in early America 306.76 C
- Federici, Silvia - Witches, witch-hunting, and women 305.4 F
- Lister, Anne - The secret diaries of Miss Anne Lister (1791-1840) 306.7 L
- Ware, Susan - Why they marched: untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote 324.3 W
SCIENCE
- Broks, Paul - The darker the night, the brighter the stars: a neuropsychologist's odyssey through consciousness 153 B
- Henson, Robert - The thinking person's guide to climate change 363.7 H
- Korsgaard, Christine M. - Fellow creatures: our obligations to the other animals 590 K
- Thompson, Ken - Darwin's most wonderful plants: Darwin's botany today 580 T
PHILOSOPHY
- Cambridge companion to Isaiah Berlin (Joshua L. Cherniss & Steven B. Smith, eds.) 192 B
- Carlisle, Clare - Philosopher of the heart: the restless life of Søren Kierkegaard 92 K478 C
- D'Angour, Armand - Socrates in love: the making of a philosopher 183 D
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Malik, Hassan - Bankers and Bolsheviks: international finance and the Russian Revolution 330.947 M
- Migone, Gian Giacomo - The United States and fascist Italy: the rise of American finance in Europe 327.73 M
NEW YORK
- Friss, Evan - On bicycles: a 200-year history of cycling in New York City 796.6 F
- Schlichting, Kara Murphy - New York recentered: building the metropolis from the shore 974.71 S
RELIGION
- Baden, Joel S. - The book of Exodus: a biography 222 B
- Gallas, Elisabeth - A mortuary of books: the rescue of Jewish culture after the Holocaust 940.5315 G
- Lawrence, Bruce B. - The Koran in English: a biography 297 L
- Simpson, James - Permanent revolution: the Reformation and the illiberal roots of Liberalism 274.2 S
- Stanley, Brian - Christianity in the twentieth century: a world history 270.8 S
AUDIO
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