New Books - March 2019
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Abramson, Jill - Merchants of truth: the business of news and the fight for facts (ebook available)
- Borman, Tracy - Henry VIII and the men who made him
- Brox, Jane - Silence: a social history of one of the least understood elements of our lives
- Christie, Chris - Let me finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the power of in-your-face politics
- Czapski, Józef, - Inhuman land: searching for the truth in Soviet Russia 1941-1942 (translated from the Polish)
- Davis, Bridgett M. - The world according to Fannie Davis: my mother's life in the Detroit numbers
- Dennison, Matthew - The man in the willows: the life of Kenneth Grahame
- Dreyer, Benjamin- Dreyer's English: an utterly correct guide to clarity and style (ebook available)
- Ellin, Abby - Duped: double lives, false identities, and the con man I almost married
- Fishman, Boris - Savage feast: three generations, two continents, and a dinner table: (a memoir with recipes)
- Freehling, William W. - Becoming Lincoln
- Hartman, Saidiya V. - Wayward lives, beautiful experiments: intimate histories of social upheaval
- Hoffman, Adina- Ben Hecht: fighting words, moving pictures
- Inglis, Lucy - Milk of paradise: a history of opium
- Land, Stephanie - Maid: hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- Lévy, Bernard-Henri - The empire and the five kings: America's abdication and the fate of the world
- Malcolm, Janet - Nobody's looking at you: essays
- McCabe, Andrew - The threat: how the FBI protects America in the age of terror and Trump (ebook available)
- Mewshaw, Michael - The lost prince: a search for Pat Conroy
- Morrison, Toni. - The source of self-regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations
- Pipher, Mary Bray - Women rowing north: navigating life's currents and flourishing as we age
- Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer - The ideas that made America: a brief history
- Sims, Cliff - Team of vipers: my 500 extraordinary days in the Trump White House
- Smyth, Katharine - All the lives we ever lived: seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- Wood, Tony - Russia without Putin: money, power and the myths of the new Cold War
- Yip-Williams, Julie - The unwinding of the miracle: a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after (ebook available)
- Zia, Helen - Last boat out of Shanghai: the epic story of the Chinese who fled Mao's revolution
FICTION
- Apostol, Gina - Insurrecto
- Aridjis, Chloe - Sea monsters: a novel (translated from the French)
- Badani, Sejal - The storyteller's secret: a novel
- Barron, Stephanie - That Churchill woman: a novel
- Benedict, Marie - The only woman in the room
- Bolaño, Roberto - The spirit of science fiction (translated from the Spanish)
- Bowen, Rhys - The victory garden
- Bowman, David - Big bang: a nonfiction novel
- Cander, Chris - The weight of a piano
- Castellani, Christopher - Leading men
- Charyn, Jerome - The perilous adventures of the cowboy king: a novel of Teddy Roosevelt and his times
- Czapnik, Dana - The falconer: a novel
- Farah, Nuruddin - North of dawn
- Gaynor, Hazel - The lighthouse keeper's daughter: a novel
- Guerra, Wendy - Revolution Sunday: a novel
- Haynes, Natalie - The children of Jocasta
- James, Marlon - Black leopard, red wolf
- Kinsella, Sophie - I owe you one: a novel
- Krentz, Jayne Ann - Untouchable
- Li, Yiyun - Where reasons end: a novel
- Lipman, Elinor - Good riddance
- Luiselli, Valeria - Lost children archive
- Mallon, Thomas - Landfall
- McCracken, Elizabeth - Bowlaway: a novel (ebook available)
- Medearis, Wil. - Restoration heights: a novel
- Morante, Elsa, - Arturo's island: a novel (new translation of this classic by Ann Goldstein) (ebook available)
- NDiaye, Marie. - My heart hemmed in (translated from the French)
- Quinn, Kate. - The huntress: a novel
- Sandler, Irving, - Goodbye to Tenth Street: a novel
- Santopolo, Jill. - More than words
- Scharer, Whitney. - The age of light: a novel
- Wells, Benedict, - The end of loneliness (translated from the German) (ebook available)
- See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks inside.
MYSTERIES
- Akunin, B. - The coronation: a Fandorin mystery (translated from the Russian)
- Alfon, Dov - A long night in Paris (translated from the Hebrew)
- Armstrong, Kelley - Watcher in the woods: a Rockton novel
- Bailey, Sarah - Into the night
- Brabazon, James - The break line*
- Cameron, Marc - Open carry
- Camilleri, Andrea - The overnight kidnapper (translated from the Italian)
- Chaney, JoAnn - As long as we both shall live
- Cumming, Charles - The Moroccan girl*
- Finch, Charles - The vanishing man
- Fluke, Joanne - Chocolate cream pie murder: a Hannah Swenson mystery with recipes
- Gardner, Lisa - Never tell: a novel
- Grebe, Camilla - After she's gone: a novel (translated from the Swedish)
- Hammer, Chris - Scrublands
- Hannah, Sophie - The next to die*
- Harper, Jane - The lost man (ebook available)
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Headlong*
- Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew - Out of the dark
- Kellerman, Jonathan - The wedding guest: an Alex Delaware novel
- Kent, Christobel - What we did*
- Kepler, Lars - Stalker: a Joona Linna novel (translated from the Swedish)
- Knight, Renee - The secretary: a novel*
- Lawson, Michael, - House arrest
- Leon, Donna - Unto us a son is given (ebook available)
- Love, Melissa Scrivner - American heroin: a novel
- Pryor, Mark - The book artist: a Hugo Marston novel
- Raybourn, Deanna- A treacherous curse
- Redmond, Lissa Marie - The murder book
- Robb, J. D. - Connections in death
- Robinson, Peter - Careless love: aa DCI Banks novel* (ebook available)
- Schneider, Anthony - Lowdown
- Todd, Charles - The black ascot (ebook available)
- Tursten, Helene - Hunting game (translated from the Swedish)
- White, Christian - The nowhere child
- Wilkinson, Lauren - American spy: a novel
- Winslow, Don - The border
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The reckoning (translated from the Icelandic)
- * Indicates a British mystery.
SHORT STORIES
- Acker, Camille - Training school for Negro girls
POETRY
- McCrae, Shane - The gilded auction block: poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Dillon, Michael - Out of the ordinary: a life of gender and spiritual transitions
- Dube, Siddharth - An indefinite sentence: a personal history of outlawed love and sex
- Keefe, Patrick Radden - Say nothing: a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland (ebook available)
- McNamee, Roger - Zucked: waking up to the Facebook catastrophe
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Take six: six Portuguese women writers (Margaret Jull Costa, ed.) 869 T
- The Penguin book of Hell (Scott G. Bruce, ed.) 200 P
- Dillon, Brian - Essayism: on form, feeling, and nonfiction 808.4 D
- Hunt, Peter - The making of The wind in the willows 823 G
- Krasznahorkai, László. - The Manhattan project (a literary diary) 894.5 K
- Lounsberry, Barbara - Virginia Woolf, the war without, the war within: her final diaries & the diaries she read 828.09 L
- Miller, Christopher L. - Impostors: literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity 098 M
- Seiple, Samantha - Louisa on the front lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War 92 A3551 S
FICTION
- Colomb, Catherine - The spirits of the earth (Originally published in French in 1953) F C
- Énard, Mathias - Tell them of battles, kings and elephants (New Directions; translated from the French) F E
- Manzoni, Alessandro - The betrothed (translated from the Italian; 19th-century; Penguin Classics) F M
- McEwan, Ian - My purple scented novel (new 34 page novella) F M
POETRY
- The poetry of Seamus Heaney (Elmer Andrews, ed.) 821.09 H
- Alberti, Rafael - Concerning the angels 861 A
- Dickinson, Emily - The master letters of Emily Dickinson 821 D CS
- Ginsberg, Allen - Iron Curtain journals: January-May 1965 828 G
- Kelly, Robert - The garden of distances: drawings and poems 821 K
ORATORY
- Speeches of note: an eclectic collection of orations deserving of a wider audience (Shaun Usher, ed.) 808.85 S
- Douglass, Frederick - The speeches of Frederick Douglass; a critical edition 825 D
- García Márquez, Gabriel - I'm not here to give a speech 865 G
SHAKESPEARE
- Bloom, Harold - Iago: the strategies of evil 822.33 C
- Kerrigan, John - Shakespeare's originality 822.33 C
- Lerer, Seth - Shakespeare's lyric stage: myth, music, and poetry in the last plays 822.33 C
JOURNALISM
- Behrman, S. N. - People in a magazine: the selected letters of S. N. Behrman and his editors at The New Yorker 92 B4213 B
- Lardner, Ring - The lost journalism of Ring Lardner 796 T
- Rezaian, Jason - Prisoner: my 544 days in an Iranian prison--solitary confinement, a sham trial, high-stakes diplomacy, and the extraordinary efforts it took to get me out 92 R468 R
ART
- Victorious ones: Jain images of perfection (Phyllis Granoff, ed.) 704.948 V
- Indiana, Gary - Vile days: the Village Voice art columns, 1985-1988 709.04 I
- Klint, Hilma af - Hilma af Klint: notes and methods (Christine Burgin,ed.; first translation of notebooks & other writings) 759.8 K
- Steinberg, Leo - Michelangelo's sculpture: selected essays 730.92 M
- Viveros-Faune, Christian - Social forms: a short history of political art 709.04 V
- Webb, Peter - Sphinx: the life and art of Leonor Fini 759.98 F
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
- Bradbury, Dominic - Essential modernism: design between the world wars 745.4 B
- Brand, Stewart - How buildings learn: what happens after they're built 720 B
- Rense, Paige - Architectural digest: autobiography of a magazine 1920-2010 747 R
PERFORMING ARTS
- Giacomo Puccini and his world (Arman Schwartz & Emanuele Senici, eds.) 780.92 P
- Server, Lee - Screenwriter: words become pictures 808.22 S
- Stratton, W. K., - The wild bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a revolution in Hollywood, and the making of a legendary film 791.4 S
- Thomson, David - Sleeping with strangers: how the movies shaped desire 791.4 T
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Kodachrome: the American invention of our world, 1939-1959 (Els Rijper, ed.) 779 K
- Moore, Kevin D. - Old Paris and changing New York: photographs by Eugène Atget and Berenice Abbott 779 A
ANTIQUITY & CLASSICS
- James Loeb: collector and patron in Munich, Murnau and beyond (founder of the Loeb Classical Library) 706.9 J
- Boardman, John - Alexander the Great: from his death to the present day 938 B
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius - How to be a friend: an ancient guide to true friendship 177 C
- Rovelli, Carlo - Anaximander 509 R
- Zuckerberg, Donna - Not all dead white men: classics and misogyny in the digital age 305.3 Z
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is now available to members. See the Electronic Resources page on our website.
HISTORY
- Uqalurait: an oral history of Nunavut (John R. Bennett & Susan Rowley, eds.) 305.89 U
- Brolis, Maria Teresa - Stories of women in the Middle Ages 940.1 B
- Gibson, Carrie, - El Norte: the epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America 973 G
- Gigantino, James J. - William Livingston's American Revolution 92 L7878 G
- Hubbard, Kate - Devices and desires: Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England 92 S5613 H
- Jansen, Jan C. - Decolonization: a short history 325.3 J
- Klingaman, William K. - The darkest year: the American home front 1941-1942 940.5373 K
- Luxenberg, Steve - Separate: the story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's journey from slavery to segregation 342.73 L
- Perrottet, Tony - ¡Cuba libre!: Che, Fidel, and the improbable revolution that changed world history 972.91 P
- Schweninger, Loren - Appealing for liberty: freedom suits in the South 342.73 S
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
- Popova, Maria - Figuring 305.4 P
- Wittlin, Józef & Philippe Sands - City of lions (20th century Ukraine) 947.7 W
ACTIVISM & PROTEST
- Writers in revolt: the Anvil anthology (proletarian literary journal of the 1930s-40s) 808.8 W
- Dollinger, Marc - Black power, Jewish politics: reinventing the alliance in the 1960s 305.8 D
- Makalani, Minkah - In the cause of freedom: radical Black internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939 323.1 M
- McLeod, Kembrew - Pranksters: making mischief in the modern world 001.9 M
- Wiegand, Wayne A. - The desegregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South: civil rights and local activism 027 W
WAR & MILITARY HISTORY
- Davies, Owen - A supernatural war: magic, divination, and faith during the First World War 133.9 D
- Freedman, Lawrence - The future of war: a history 355 F
- Lengel, Edward G. - Never in finer company: the men of the Great War's lost battalion 940.412 L
- Sides, Hampton - On desperate ground: the Marines at the reservoir, the Korean War's greatest battle 951.9 S
- Wren, Christopher S. - Those turbulent sons of freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain boys and the American Revolution 973.3 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Biale, David - Gershom Scholem: master of the Kabbalah (Yale University Jewish Lives series) 92 S368 B
- Greenberg, Amy S. - Lady first: the world of first lady Sarah Polk 92 P76976 G
- Pope-Hennessy, James - The quest for Queen Mary (unexpurgated notes taken by author for official biography of Queen Mary) 92 M3932 P
- Sandford, Christopher - The man who would be Sherlock: the real-life adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle 92 D754 S
LAW
- The free speech century (Geoffrey R. Stone & Lee C. Bollinger, eds.) 323.4 F
- Halperin, Terri Diane - The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: testing the Constitution 973.4 H
- Netanel, Neil - Copyright: what everyone needs to know 347.73 N
PHILOSOPHY
- Eagleton, Terry - Radical sacrifice 201 E
- Klagge, James Carl - Simply Wittgenstein 193 K
- Ricœur, Paul - A key to Husserl's Ideas I 149 R
- Taylor, C. C. W. - Socrates: a very short introduction 183 T
SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY
- Buczacki, Stefan - Earth to earth: a natural history of churchyards 574.5 B
- Flannery, Tim F. - Europe: a natural history 574 F
- Fletcher, Seth - Einstein's shadow: a black hole, a band of astronomers, and the quest to see the unseeable 523.8 F
- Kragh, Helge - Simply Dirac 92 D5971 K
- O'Sullivan, Suzanne - Brainstorm: detective stories from the world of neurology 616.8 O
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- McVeigh, Rory - The politics of losing: Trump, the Klan, and the mainstreaming of resentment 363 M
- Rosenblatt, Helena - The lost history of liberalism: from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century 320.9 R
- Runciman, David - How democracy ends 321.8 R
- Starr, Kenneth - Contempt: a memoir of the Clinton investigation 973.929 S
- Wolfe, Alan - The politics of petulance: America in an age of immaturity 320 W
FOOD & DRINK
- Biederman, Marcia - Popovers and candlelight: Patricia Murphy and the rise and fall of a restaurant empire 647.9 B
- Fiedler, Jennifer - The essential bar book: an A-to-Z guide to spirits, cocktails, and wine, with 115 recipes for the world's great drinks 641.87 F
- Garten, Ina - Cook like a pro: recipes & tips for home cooks 641.5 G
- Kellner, Esther - Moonshine: its history and folklore 364.13 K
- Schuhbeck, Alfons - The German cookbook 641.5 S
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Golumbia, David - The politics of Bitcoin: software as right-wing extremism 332.4 G
- Leary, John Patrick - Keywords: the new language of capitalism 330.1 L
- Mazzucato, Mariana- The value of everything: making and taking in the global economy 338.5 M
LANGUAGE
- Dolan, T. P. - A dictionary of Hiberno-English: the Irish use of English 427 D
- Edwards, John - Sociolinguistics: a very short introduction 401 E
AUDIO
- The Library now offers a growing collection of audiobook downloads via the Cloud Library. For more information, ask at the Reference Desk.
See an annotated list of recent arrivals here.