NEW BOOKS - JUNE 2022
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Bergner, Daniel - The mind and the moon: my brother's story, the science of our brains, and the search for our psyches
- Biden Owens, Valerie - Growing up Biden: a memoir
- Bloemink, Barbara J. - Florine Stettheimer: a biography
- Brown, Dana - Dilettante: true tales of excess, triumph, and disaster
- Brown, Tina - The palace papers: inside the House of Windsor--the truth and the turmoil (ebook available)
- Davis, Viola - Finding me
- Dyer, Geoff - The last days of Roger Federer: and other endings (ebook available)
- Esper, Mark T. - A sacred oath: memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- Fabricant, M. Chris - Junk science and the American criminal justice system
- Farmer, Ashley Marie - Dear damage
- Fischer, Paul - The man who invented motion pictures: a true tale of obsession, murder, and the movies
- Friend, Tad - In the early times
- Funk, Christopher - Drought, flood, fire: how climate change contributes to catastrophes
- Galor, Oded - The journey of humanity: the origins of wealth and inequality
- Goodman, Peter S. - Davos man: how the billionaires devoured the world
- Grey, Jennifer - Out of the corner: a memoir
- Hershovitz, Scott - Nasty, brutish, and short: adventures in philosophy with my kids
- Hood, Ann - Fly girl: a memoir
- Kafka, Franz - The aphorisms of Franz Kafka (translated from the German; commentary by Reiner Stach)
- Klay, Phil - Uncertain ground : citizenship in an age of endless, invisible war
- Knight, Sam - The premonitions bureau: a true account of death foretold
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - Translating myself and others
- Lehman, David - The mysterious romance of murder: crime, detection, and the spirit of noir
- Levy, Becca - Breaking the age code: how your beliefs about aging determine how long & well you live
- Lim, Louisa - Indelible city: dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong
- The lonely stories: 22 celebrated writers on the joys & struggles of being alone (
- Mamet, David - Recessional: the death of free speech and the cost of a free lunch
- Martin, Jonathan - This will not pass: Trump, Biden and the battle for America's future (ebook available)
- Millard, Candice - River of the gods: genius, courage, and betrayal in the search for the source of the Nile (ebook available)
- Odell, Amy - Anna: the biography (ebook available)
- Pace, Julie - Jill: a biography of the First Lady
- Phillips, Julie - The baby on the fire escape: creativity, motherhood, and the mind-baby problem (ebook available)
- The presidency of Donald J. Trump: a first historical assessment (Julian E. Zelizer, ed.)
- Rozzo, Mark - Everybody thought we were crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
- Ryan, Hugh - The women's house of detention: a queer history of a forgotten prison
- Stockman, Farah - American made: what happens to people when work disappears
- Williams, John Taylor - The shores of Bohemia: a Cape Cod story, 1910-1960
FICTION
- Ali, Monica - Love marriage: a novel (ebook available)
- Andrews, Mary Kay - The homewreckers: a novel
- Barr, Lisa - Woman on fire: a novel
- Brown, Janelle - I'll be you: a novel
- Di Benedetto, Antonio - The silentiary
- Díaz, Hernán - Trust (ebook available)
- Dugoni, Robert - The world played chess: a novel
- Gale, Patrick - Mother's boy
- Ginder, Grant - Let's not do that again: a novel (ebook available)
- Geetanjali Shree - Tomb of sand (translated from the Hindi)
- Glass, Julia - Vigil Harbor (ebook available)
- Jerkins, Morgan - Caul baby: a novel
- Kalfus, Ken - 2 a.m. in Little America: a novel
- Kawakami, Mieko - All the lovers in the night (translated from the Japanese) (ebook available)
- Kurkov, Andreĭ - Grey bees (translated from the Russian)
- Lowry, Elizabeth - The chosen
- McCoy, Sarah - Mustique Island: a novel
- Meginnis, Mike - Drowning practice: a novel
- Melchor, Fernanda - Paradais (translated from the Spanish) (ebook available)
- Mendelson, Charlotte - The exhibitionist
- Miller, Andrew - The slowworm's song
- Mytting, Lars - The sixteen trees of the Somme (translated from the Norwegian)
- Naga, Noor - If an Egyptian cannot speak English: a novel
- Oyamada, Hiroko - The hole (translated from the Japanese)
- Serle, Rebecca - One Italian summer: a novel
- Shapiro, B.A. - Metropolis: a novel
- Smith, Ali - Companion piece (ebook available)
- Straub, Emma - This time tomorrow (ebook available)
- Toltz, Steve - Here goes nothing: a novel
- Trigiani, Adriana - The good left undone: a novel (ebook available)
- Trotha, Hans von - Pollak's arm (translated from the German)
- Tsushima, Yūko - Woman running in the mountains (translated from the Japanese) (ebook available)
- Vara, Vauhini - The immortal King Rao: a novel
- Waters, John - Liarmouth: a feel-bad romance
- Weiner, Jennifer - The summer place: a novel (ebook available)
- Williams, Beatriz - The lost summers of Newport: a novel (ebook available)
- Zhang, Jenny Tinghui - Four treasures of the sky
See more fiction in the stacks section below.
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Allen, Samantha Jayne - Pay dirt road
- Andrews, Rosie - The leviathan*
- Barclay, Linwood - Take your breath away: a novel (ebook available)
- Batista, Paul A. - Accusation
- Bessette, Alicia - Smile Beach murder
- Bohjalian, Chris - The lioness (ebook available)
- Carcaterra, Lorenzo - Nonna Maria and the case of the missing bride: a novel
- Corbett, Ron - The sweet goodbye (ebook available)
- Gordon, David - The wild life
- Graham, Heather - Crimson summer
- Harris, C. S. - When blood lies: a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery
- Herron, Mick - Bad actors* (ebook available)
- Lawrence, C. E. - Cleopatra's dagger
- Lloyd, Ellery - The club: a novel*
- McMahon, Jennifer - The children on the hill
- McTiernan, Dervla - The murder rule: a novel
- Meyer, Deon - The dark flood
- Murphy, Stacie - The unquiet dead
- Nagendra, Harini - The Bangalore Detectives Club
- Paretsky, Sara - Overboard: a V.I. Warshawski novel
- Parks, Alan - May God forgive*
- Parton, Dolly - Run, Rose, run
- Perry, Anne - Three debts paid: a Daniel Pitt novel*
- Phelan, Hayley - Like me: a novel
- Rodale, Maya - The mad girls of New York: a Nellie Bly novel
- Rollins, James - Kingdom of bones: a thriller
- Rothchild, Sascha - Blood sugar
*indicates a UK mystery
POETRY
- Dralyuk, Boris - My Hollywood: and other poems
- Farrukhzād, Furūgh - Let us believe in the beginning of the cold season: selected poems
- Nurkse, D. - A country of strangers: new and selected poems
- Sharif, Solmaz - Customs: poems
- Tóibín, Colm - Vinegar Hill
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Brown, Matt - Atlas of imagined places: from Lilliput to Gotham City
- Butterworth, Brian - Can fish count? what animals reveal about our uniquely mathematical minds
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Camus, Albert - Speaking out: lectures and speeches, 1937-1958 845 C
- Chazal, Malcolm de - Sens-plastique (foreword by W.H. Auden; translated from the French; originally published in 1948) 848 C
- Craig, Patricia - Kilclief & other essays 820.9 C
- Hadfield, Andrew - John Donne: in the shadow of religion 92 D685 H
- Jubber, Nicholas - The fairy tellers: a journey into the secret history of fairy tales 398.2 J
- Kahanof, Jacqueline - Mongrels or marvels: the Levantine writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (Egyptian-born Israeli writer recently featured in New York Times "Overlooked" series) 892.4 K
- Macdonald, Ross - It's all one case: the illustrated Ross Macdonald archives (Paul Nelson & Kevin Avery; with Jeff Wong) 823 M OVERSIZE
- Momaday, N. Scott - Earth keeper: reflections on the American land 828.08 M
- Niesslein, Jennifer - Dreadful sorry: essays on an American nostalgia 824 N
- Rotella, Carlo - Playing in time: essays, profiles, and other true stories 824 R
- Walker, Alice - Gathering blossoms under fire: the journals of Alice Walker 1965-2000 92 W1774 W
FICTION
- Bayer, William - Peregrine (winner of 1982 Edgar Award for Best Novel) F B
- Dick, Kay - They: a sequence of unease (reissue of acclaimed 1977 novel by McNally Editions) F D
- Khan, Vaseem, - Midnight at Malabar House (acclaimed 2020 detective novel set in Mumbai) F K
- Lippard, George - The Quaker City, or, The monks of Monk Hall: a romance of Philadelphia life, mystery, and crime (with introduction by David S. Reynolds) (lurid bestseller published in1845) F L
- Williams, Ian - Reproduction (prize-winning 2020 novel) F W
- Zabuz︠h︡ko, O.S. - The museum of abandoned secrets (acclaimed Ukrainian epic; comparisons to Mann and Dostoevsky) F Z
PHILOSOPHY
- Gaukroger, Stephen - The failures of philosophy: a historical essay 109 G
- Mac Cumhaill, Clare - Metaphysical animals: how four women brought philosophy back to life 192 M
PSYCHOLOGY
- Alberti, Fay Bound - A biography of loneliness: the history of an emotion 155.9 A
- Campbell, Alastair - Living better: how I learned to survive depression 616.8 C
RELIGION
- Clark, James G. - The dissolution of the monasteries: a new history 271 C
- Ehrman, Bart D. - Journeys to heaven and hell: tours of the afterlife in the early Christian tradition 237 E
- Kirsch, Adam - Come and hear : what I saw in my seven-and-a-half-year journey through the Talmud 296.1 K
- Stern, David - The Jewish Bible: a material history 221.6 S
ART
- Alsdorf, Bridget - Gawkers: art and audience in late nineteenth-century France 709.44 A
- Cleveland, David Adams - A history of American Tonalism 1880-1920: crucible of American Modernism 758 C
- Holbein: capturing character (Anne T. Woollett, ed.; catalog from Morgan exhibition) 759.3 H
- Martin, Meredith - The Sun King at sea: maritime art and galley slavery in Louis XIV's France 704 M
- Mullins, Charlotte - A little history of art 709 M
- Paul, Celia - Letters to Gwen John 759.2 P
- Romanesque: architecture, sculpture, painting (Rolf Toman, ed.) 709 R
- A site of struggle: American art against anti-black violence (Janet Dees, ed.) 709.73 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Garafola, Lynn - La Nijinska: choreographer of the modern 92 N6898 G
- Talbot, Daniel, - In love with movies: from New Yorker Films to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas 791.4 T
- Warner, Andrea - Buffy Sainte-Marie: the authorized biography 92 S1459 W
FASHION
- Poiret, Paul - King of fashion: the autobiography of Paul Poiret 92 P7531 P
- White, Nancy - Style in motion: Munkacsi photographs, 20s, 30s, 40s 779 M
Don't miss "Fabulous Fashion," opening in the Assunta, Ignzaio, Ada & Romano Peluso Exhibition Gallery on June 9th.
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Shamis, Bob - Leon Levinstein 779 L
- The Waking dream: photography's first century: selections from the Gilman Paper Company collection (Maria Morris Hambourg, ed.) 779 W
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Boswell, James - The conversations of Dr. Johnson 92 J69 B
- Brackett, Donald - Yoko Ono: an artful life 92 O584 B
- Bragg, Rick - The speckled beauty: a dog and his people 92 B8133 B
- Damrosch, Leopold - Adventurer: the life and times of Giacomo Casanova 92 C335 D
- DiMarco, Nyle - Deaf utopia: a memoir-- and a love letter to a way of life 92 D58225 D
- Lodge, Emily - The Lodge women, their men and their times 920 L8225 L
- McNamara, Craig - Because our fathers lied: a memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today 92 M1689 M
- Scheier, Liz - Never simple 92 S3195 S
- Vasquez-Lavado, Silvia - In the shadow of the mountain: a memoir of courage 92 V3351 V
- Winton, Barbara - If it's not impossible ...: the life of Sir Nicholas Winton 92 W79385 W
HISTORY
- Caiani, Ambrogio A. - To kidnap a pope: Napoleon and Pius VII 944.05 C
- The darker angels of our nature: refuting the Pinker theory of history & violence (Philip Dwyer & Mark Micale, eds.) 303.6 D
- Harper, Kyle - Plagues upon the earth: disease and the course of human history 614.4 H
- Heilbron, J.L. - The ghost of Galileo: in a forgotten painting from the English Civil War 942.06 H
- Kelly, Kim - Fight like hell: the untold history of American labor 331 K
- Knox, Donald - The Korean War: Pusan to Chosin: An Oral History 951.9 K
- Lemire, Elise Virginia - Black Walden: slavery and its aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts 974.4 L
- Rennison, Nick - 1922: scenes from a turbulent year 909.82 R
- Schreffler, Michael J. - Cuzco: Incas, Spaniards, and the making of a colonial city 985 S OVERSIZE
ANTIQUITY
- Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd - Persians: the age of the great kings 935 L
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus - Seneca: fifty letters of a Roman Stoic 878.5 S
- Sharer, Robert J. - The ancient Maya 972 S
NEW YORK
- Polivy, Betsy Bober - Walking Manhattan sideways: side street businesses that have stood the test of time 917.471 P
- Gellman, David Nathaniel - Liberty's chain: slavery, abolition, and the Jay family of New York 326 G
- Ottman, Jacquelyn A. - Ottman & company: Meatpacking District pioneers 974.71 O
FOOD & DRINK
- Baxter, John - The perfect meal: in search of the lost tastes of France 641 B
- Khan, Yasmin - Ripe figs: recipes and stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus 641.5 K
- Zabar, Lori - Zabar's: a family story, with recipes 641 Z
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Continetti, Matthew - The right: the hundred-year war for American conservatism.324.273 C
- Gerstle, Gary - The rise and fall of the neoliberal order: America and the world in the free market era320.9 G
- Guriev, S.M. - Spin dictators: the changing face of tyranny in the 21st century321.9 G
- McCoy, Alfred W. - To govern the globe: world orders and catastrophic change909 M
RECREATION
- Wodehouse, P.G. - Above average at games 820.81 W
- Young, Phoebe S.K. - Camping grounds: public nature in American life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement 796.54 Y
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Hayes, Arthur J. - The source of the Blue Nile: a record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the return to Egypt by the valley of the Atbara: with a note on the religion, customs, etc. of Abyssinia (published in 1905) 916.2 H
- Van Doren, Adam - In the founders' footsteps: landmarks of the American Revolution 917.3 V
- Stranger's guide (new members' room periodical)
SCIENCE
- Montgomery, Sy - The hawk's way: encounters with fierce beauty 598.2 M
- Reid, John W. - Ever green: saving big forests to save the planet 581.5 R
- Webb, Kinari - Guardians of the trees: a journey of hope through healing the planet 613.1 W