IN THE LOBBY 

NONFICTION

• Bayard, Pierre - How to talk about places you've never been: on the importance of armchair travel (translated from the French by Michele Hutchison)
• Bergen, Peter L. - United States of Jihad: investigating America's homegrown terrorists
• Boland, Ed - The battle for Room 314: my year of hope and despair in a New York City high school 
• Bordewich, Fergus M. - The First Congress: how James Madison, George Washington, and a group of extraordinary men invented the government
• Burns, Eric - The golden lad: the haunting story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt
• Cumming, Laura - The vanishing man: in pursuit of Velázquez 
• Denby, David - Lit up: one reporter, three schools, twenty-four books that can change lives
• Donvan, John  - In a different key: the story of autism
• Dyson, Michael Eric - The Black presidency: Barack Obama and the politics of race in America
• Goodman, Ruth - How to be a Tudor: a dawn-to-dusk guide to Tudor life 
• Greenberg, David - Republic of spin: an inside history of the American presidency 
• Lahiri, Jhumpa - In other words (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein)
• Lisicky, Paul - The narrow door: a memoir of friendship
• Littlefield, Nick - Lion of the Senate: when Ted Kennedy rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress (introduction by Doris Kearns Goodwin)
• Lynch, Jack  - You could look it up: the reference shelf from ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
• Norton, Elizabeth - The temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the making of a virgin queen
• Offutt, Chris - My father, the pornographer: a memoir
• Prothero, Stephen R. - Why liberals win the culture wars (even when they lose elections): the battles that define America from Jefferson's heresies to gay marriage
• Ratliff, Ben - Every song ever: twenty ways to listen in an age of musical plenty
• Reed, Austin - The life and the adventures of a haunted convict (edited and with an introduction by Caleb Smith; foreword by David W. Blight and Robert B. Stepto)
• Scott, A. O. - Better living through criticism: how to think about art, pleasure, beauty, and truth 
• Seabrook, John - The song machine: inside the hit factory 
• Secor, Laura - Children of paradise: the struggle for the soul of Iran
• Sinha, Manisha - The slave's cause: a history of abolition
• Stein, Jean - West of Eden: an American place (e-book available) 
• Van Dyke, Dick - Keep moving: and other tips and truths about aging 
• Weidermann, Volker - Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark (translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway)

FICTION

• Aira, César - Dinner (translated by Katherine Silver)
• Alger, Cristina - This was not the plan
• Barnes, Julian - The noise of time
• Ben Jelloun, Tahar - The happy marriage (translated by André Naffis-Sahely)
• Benjamin, Melanie - The swans of Fifth Avenue
• Betancourt, Ingrid - The blue line
• Canin, Ethan - A doubter's almanac (e-book available) 
• Chee, Alexander - The queen of the night
• Chirbes, Rafael - On the edge (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa)
• Cornwell, Bernard - Warriors of the storm
• Day, Elizabeth - Paradise city 
• Gallagher, Matt - Youngblood
• Goldberg, Paul - The Yid
• Greenwell, Garth - What belongs to you
• Grushin, Olga - Forty rooms 
• Han, Kang - The vegetarian (translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith)
• Hepworth, Sally - The things we keep
• Hill, Lawrence - The illegal
• Jacobson, Howard - Shylock is my name: The merchant of Venice retold 
• Johnson, Julia Claiborne - Be frank with me 
• Joinson, Suzanne - The photographer's wife
• Kelman, Stephen - Man on fire 
• Kerangal, Maylis de - The heart (translated from the French by Sam Taylor)
• Khadra, Yasmina - The dictator's last night (translated from the French by Julian Evans)
• Martel, Yann - The high mountains of Portugal
• McCall Smith, Alexander - The revolving door of life: a 44 Scotland Street novel 
• McKenzie, Elizabeth - The portable Veblen 
• Molesini, Andrea - Not all bastards are from Vienna (translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar & Patrick Creagh)
• Pears, Iain - Arcadia 
• Pinckney, Darryl - Black Deutschland 
• Rakow, Mary - This is why I came
• Rawicz, Piotr - Blood from the sky (translated from the French by Peter Wiles; with an introduction by Lawrence Langer)
• Rosenblatt, Roger - Thomas Murphy
• Sherry, Maureen - Opening Belle
• Smith, Charlie - Ginny Gall: a life in the South 
• Steel, Danielle - Blue: a novel
• Steinke, Rene - Friendswood
• Thomas, Michael M. - Fixers
• Wood, Lucy - Weathering
• Wray, John - The lost time accidents

MYSTERIES

• Alexander, Tasha - The adventuress: a Lady Emily mystery 
• Archer, Jeffrey - Cometh the hour*
• Arnaldur Indriðason - Into oblivion: an Icelandic thriller (translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb)
• Arsenault, Emily - The evening spider*
• Barton, Fiona - The widow*
• Berenson, Alex - The wolves 
• Blædel, Sara - The killing forest (translated by Mark Kline)
• Brody, Frances - Murder on a summer's day *
• Burke, Alafair - The ex
• Coleman, Reed Farrel - Where it hurts
• Connell, John A. - Spoils of victory: a Mason Collins novel 
• Coonts, Stephen - The art of war
• Dams, Jeanne M. - Blood will tell 
• Eisler, Barry - The God's eye view 
• Estleman, Loren D. - Shoot
• Gardner, Lisa - Find her
• Hall, Parnell - Presumed puzzled: a Puzzle Lady mystery 
• Hamer, Kate - The girl in the red coat*
• Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - One under: a Bill Slider mystery *
• Henshaw, Mark - The fall of Moscow station
• Holt, Anne - The lion's mouth: a Hanne Wilhelmsen novel (translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce)
• Hurley, Graham - The order of things*
• Jones, Stan - Tundra kill
• Kellerman, Jonathan - Breakdown: an Alex Delaware novel
• La Plante, Lynda - Tennison*
• Lansdale, Joe R. - Honky tonk samurai 
• Law, J. S. - Tenacity: a thriller*
• Lupton, Rosamund - The quality of silence
• Margolin, Phillip. - Violent crimes
• Mark, David John - Dead pretty*
• May, Peter - Coffin Road *
• Montanari, Richard - Shutter man
• Muller, Marcia - The plague of thieves affair
• Murder at the manor: country house mysteries (British Library Crime Classics; Martin Edwards, ed.*)
• Nesbø, Jo - Midnight sun (translated from the Norwegian by Neil Smith) (e-book available) 
• Patterson, James - NYPD Red 4 (w/Marshall Karp)
• Redling, S. G. - Baggage 
• Robb, J. D. - Brotherhood in death
• Searle, Nicholas - The good liar*
• Sears, Michael - Saving Jason
• Song, Ying - Apricot's revenge: a crime novel (translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin)
• Spencer, Sally - Thicker than water*
• Thompson, Victoria - Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue: a gaslight mystery
• White, Dave - An empty hell: a Jackson Donne novel 
• Wilson, Edward - A very British ending*
• Wynne, Anthony - Murder of a lady: a Scottish mystery (British Library Crime Classics; introduction by Martin Edwards)*

POETRY

• Ginsberg, Allen- Wait till I'm dead: uncollected poems 
• Gioia, Dana - 99 poems: new & selected
• Macdonald, Helen - Shaler's fish: poems 
• O'Brien, Sean - Collected poems
• Seidel, Frederick - Widening income inequality: poems

SHORT STORIES

• Parker, Amy - Beasts & children 
• Straub, Peter - Interior darkness: selected stories

BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Barnett, Cynthia - Rain: a natural and cultural history
• Frankopan, Peter. - The Silk Roads: a new history of the world
• Frebel, Anna - Searching for the oldest stars: ancient relics from the early universe (translated by Ann M. Hentschel)
• Hislop, Susanna - Stories in the stars: an atlas of constellations

IN THE STACKS

LITERATURE

• The big red book of modern Chinese literature: writings from the Mainland in the long twentieth century (Yunte Huang, ed.) 895.1 B
• Boxall, Peter - The value of the novel 809.3 B
• Egginton, William - The man who invented fiction: how Cervantes ushered in the modern world 863 E
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - The essential Goethe 820.81 G
• Harris, Alexandra - Weatherland: writers & artists under English skies 820.9 H
• Howe, Susan - The birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history 820.9 H
• Taylor, D. J. - The prose factory: literary life in Britain since 1918 820.9 T

FICTION

• Barbey d'Aurevilly, J. - Diaboliques: six tales of decadence (translated from the French) 843 B
• Marani, Diego - God's dog (translated from the Italian) F M
• Modiano, Patrick - Out of the dark (translated from the French) F M
• Pearlman, Edith, - Love among the greats and other stories F P
• Stifter, Adalbert, - The bachelors (translated from the German) F S
• Wheelwright, Ebenezer, - The Salem belle: a tale of 1692 , F W

POETRY

• Apollinaire, Guillaume - Zone: selected poems (translated from the French by Ron Padgett) 841 A
• Follain, Jean - Transparence of the world (translated from the French by W.S. Merwin)  841 F
• Freeman, Philip, - Searching for Sappho: the lost songs and world of the first woman poet: including new translations of all of Sappho's surviving poetry 884.2 F
• Hall, Donald - Poetry and ambition: essays, 1982-88 809.1 H
• Porter, Bill - Finding them gone: visiting China's poets of the past 895.1 P
• Sexton, Anne - No evil star: selected essays, interviews, and prose 821.09 S
• Simic, Charles - Wonderful words, silent truth: essays on poetry and a memoir 821.09 S

PHILOSOPHY

• Adamson, Peter - Philosophy in the Islamic world: a very short introduction 181.5 A
• Comte, Auguste - Auguste Comte and positivism: the essential writings 194 C
• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm - Anti-education: on the future of our educational institutions 370.1 N
• Trawny, Peter - Heidegger and the myth of a Jewish world conspiracy 193 T

ART & ARCHITECTURE

• Allara, Pamela - Pictures of people: Alice Neel's American portrait gallery 759.1 N
• Braun, Emily - Alberto Burri: the trauma of painting 709.2 B
• Hopkins, Andrew - Italian architecture: from Michelangelo to Borromini 720.945 H
• Lin, Maya Ying - Maya Lin: topologies 720.92 L
• Lowry, Glenn D. - Designing the new Museum of Modern Art 708.1 L
• Man Ray - Man Ray: writings on art 704 M
• Spira, Freyda - The power of prints: the legacy of William M. Ivins and A. Hyatt Mayor 760 S
• Standring, Timothy J. - Castiglione: lost genius (1609–64) 709.2 C
• Willenbrink, Mark - Drawing for the absolute beginner: a clear & easy guide to successful drawing  740 W

LIBRARIES

• Howe, Susan - Spontaneous particulars: the telepathy of archives 026 H
• Mann, Thomas - The Oxford guide to library research Ref. 025.5 M
• Schnapp, Jeffrey T. - The library beyond the book 021 S

BOOKS & READING

• Forsyth, Mark - The unknown unknown: bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted 655.5 F
• Walmsley, Ann - The prison book club  365 W

JOURNALISM

• The little magazine in contemporary America (Ian Morris and Joanne Diaz, eds.)  050 L
• Michaeli, Ethan - The defender: how the legendary Black newspaper changed America: from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama 070 M

WRITING

• Clark, Roy Peter - The art of X-ray reading: how the secrets of 25 great works of literature will improve your writing 808 C
• Eckstut, Arielle - The essential guide to getting your book published: how to write it, sell it, and market it-- successfully! 070.5 E
• Why we write about ourselves: twenty memoirists on why they expose themselves (and others) in the name of literature (Meredith Maran, ed.) 808 M

PERFORMING ARTS

• Baker, William F. - The world's your stage: how performing artists can make a living while still doing what they love 790 B
• Margotin, Philippe - Bob Dylan: all the songs: the story behind every track 784.6 M
• Perez, Gilberto - The material ghost: films and their medium 791.4 P
• Winer, Deborah Grace - On the sunny side of the street: the life and lyrics of Dorothy Fields 782.14 W

BIOGRAPHY

• Birzer, Bradley J. - Russell Kirk, American conservative 92 K590 B
• Francis, Lesley Lee - You come too: my journey with Robert Frost 92 F9393 F
• Graham, Ian - Scarlet women: the scandalous lives of courtesans, concubines, and royal mistresses 305.4 G
• Horspool, David - Richard III: a ruler and his reputation 92 R5113 H
• James, Henry - Autobiographies 92 J28 J
• Mankiewicz, Frank - So as I was saying: my somewhat eventful life 92 M2782 M
• Roberts, Randy - Blood brothers: the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 920 R649 B
• Sacks, Oliver - Gratitude 92 S12156 S
• Weisberg, Jacob - Ronald Reagan 92 R2878 W

HISTORY

• Barnhisel, Greg - Cold War modernists: art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy 973.92 B
• Breen, Patrick H. - The land shall be deluged in blood: a new history of the Nat Turner Revolt 975.5 B
• Breen, T. H. - George Washington's journey: the President forges a new nation 973.4 B
• Faragher, John Mack - Eternity Street: violence and justice in frontier Los Angeles 979.49 F
• Jeffery, Keith - 1916: a global history 909.82 J
• Ji, Xianlin - The cowshed: memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution 951 J
• Kaplan, Robert D. - In Europe's shadow: two Cold Wars and a thirty-year journey through Romania and beyond 949.8 K
• Smith, Page - Tragic encounters: the people's history of Native Americans 970.1 S
• Winkler, Heinrich August - The age of catastrophe: a history of the West, 1914-1945 909.83 W

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

• Bowersock, G. W. - Empires in collision in late antiquity 939.4 B
• Tracy, Stephen V. - Pericles: a sourcebook and reader 92 P441 T
• Wilkinson, Toby A. H. - Genesis of the pharaohs: dramatic new discoveries that rewrite the origins of ancient Egypt 932 W

LATIN AMERICA

• The Dominican Republic reader: history, culture, politics (Eric Paul Roorda, et al., eds.) 972.93 D
• Grillo, Ioan, - Gangster warlords: drug dollars, killing fields, and the new politics of Latin America 363.45 G
• The Guatemala reader: history, culture, politics (Greg Grandin, et al., eds.) 972.8 G

WAR

• Davies, Norman - Trail of hope: the Anders army, an odyssey across three continents 940.5412 D OVERSIZE
• Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith - Roman warfare 937 G
• Willis, Sam - The struggle for sea power: a naval history of the American Revolution 973.35 W
• Wittner, Lawrence S. - Confronting the bomb: a short history of the world nuclear disarmament movement 341.6 W
• Yamashita, Samuel Hideo - Daily life in wartime Japan, 1940-1945 940.5352 Y

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Gerstle, Gary - Liberty and coercion: the paradox of American government from the founding to the present 320.9 G
• Norton, Anne - Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire 320.1 N
• Oppenheimer, Daniel - Exit right: the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century 324.273 O

RELIGION

• Deitsch, Chaya - Here and there: leaving Hasidism, keeping my family 92 D325 D
• Jacoby, Susan - Strange gods: a secular history of conversion 204 J
• Rawls, John - A brief inquiry into the meaning of sin and faith: with "On my religion" 230 R
• Römer, Thomas - The invention of God 296.2 R
• Walzer, Michael - The revolution of the saints: a study in the origins of radical politics 274.2 W

THE MIDDLE EAST

• Axworthy, Michael - Revolutionary Iran: a history of the Islamic republic 955 A
• Engel, Richard - And then all hell broke loose: two decades in the Middle East 956 E

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Gordon, Robert J. - The rise and fall of American growth: the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War 330.973 G
• Quinn, Jane Bryant - How to make your money last: the indispensable retirement guide 332 Q
• Ross, Alec - The industries of the future 338 R

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

• Adams, Max - In the land of giants: journey through the Dark Ages 942.01 A
• Gimlette, John - Elephant complex: travels in Sri Lanka 915.4 G
• Smith, Annick - Crossing the plains with Bruno 92 S6426 S
• Sturgis, Matthew - When in Rome: 2000 years of Roman sightseeing 945.6 S

FOOD

• Garten, Ina - Make it ahead 641.5 G
• Norman, Jill - Herbs & spices: the cook's reference 641.5 N

SCIENCE

• Hands, John - Cosmosapiens: human evolution from the origin of the universe 577 H
• Steltzner, Adam - The right kind of crazy: a true story of teamwork, leadership, and high-stakes innovation 629.4 S
• Watson, Bruce - Light: a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age 535 W

NEW YORK

• Vecchione, Mike - Crooked Brooklyn: taking down corrupt judges, dirty politicians, killers, and body snatchers 364.13 V
• Wanzer-Serrano, Darrel - The New York Young Lords and the struggle for liberation 323.1 W
• Young, Anthony - New York Café Society: the elite meet to see and be seen, 1920s-1940s 974.71 Y

AUDIO

• Ashbery, John,- John Ashbery (Voice of the Poet) Audio-CD 821 A
• Berlin, Lucia - A manual for cleaning women: selected stories Lobby Audio-CD B
• Bishop, Elizabeth - Elizabeth Bishop (Voice of the Poet) Audio-CD 821 B
• Garland, Robert - The other side of history;daily life in the ancient world (Teaching Co. Lectures) Audio-CD 909 G
• Groff, Lauren - Fates and furies: a novel Lobby Audio-CD G
• Plath, Sylvia - Sylvia Plath (Voice of the Poet) Audio-CD 821 P
• Portis, Charles - True grit (read by Donna Tartt) Lobby Audio-CD P
• Strout, Elizabeth. - My name is Lucy Barton: a novel  Lobby Audio-CD S
• Williams, William Carlos, - William Carlos Williams (Voice of the Poet) Audio-CD 821 W

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