New Books - March 2021
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Baker, Billy - We need to hang out: a memoir of making friends
- Bittman, Mark - Animal, vegetable, junk: a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal
- Bliss, Harry - A wealth of pigeons: a cartoon collection
- Brosh, Allie - Solutions and other problems
- Brown, David W. - The mission (or, how a disciple of Carl Sagan, an ex-motocross racer, a Texas Tea Party congressman, the world’s worst typewriter saleswoman, California mountain people, and an anonymous NASA functionary went to war with Mars...)
- Chammah, Maurice - Let the Lord sort them: the rise and fall of the death penalty
- Chisholm, Shirley - Shirley Chisholm: the last interview and other conversations
- Clark, Shannan - The making of the American creative class: New York's culture workers and twentieth-century consumer capitalism
- Coffin, Judith G. - Sex, love, and letters: writing Simone de Beauvoir
- Colapinto, John - This is the voice
- Comey, James B. - Saving justice: truth, transparency, and trust
- Didion, Joan - Let me tell you what I mean (ebook available)
- Diski, Jenny - Why didn't you just do what you were told?: essays
- Four hundred souls: a community history of African America, 1619-2019 (Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. eds.)
- Frida Kahlo: the last interview and other conversations
- Gates, Henry Louis - The Black church: this is our story, this is our song
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - Ruth Bader Ginsburg: the last interview and other conversations.
- Glaser, Gabrielle - American baby: a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- Gorenberg, Gershom - War of shadows: codebreakers, spies, and the secret struggle to drive the Nazis from the Middle East
- Grinker, Roy Richard - Nobody's normal: how culture created the stigma of mental illness
- Gupta, Sanjay - Keep sharp: build a better brain at any age
- Harford, Tim - The data detective: ten easy rules to make sense of statistics
- Harmange, Pauline - I hate men
- Harris, Mark - Mike Nichols: a life (ebook available)
- Healy, Thomas - Soul City: race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia
- Kaplan, Robert D. - The good American: the epic life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's greatest humanitarian
- Kendrick, Stephen - Nine days: the race to save Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and win the 1960 election
- Kenny, Charles - The plague cycle: the unending war between humanity and infectious disease
- Kenny, Glenn - Made men: the story of Goodfellas
- Kolbert, Elizabeth - Under a white sky: the nature of the future
- Larman, Alexander - The crown in crisis: countdown to the abdication
- Lightman, Alan P. - Probable impossibilities: musings on beginnings and endings
- McConaughey, Matthew - Greenlights
- Miller, Andrew H. - On not being someone else: tales of our unled lives
- Miller, Reuben Jonathan - Halfway home: race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration
- Murthy, Vivek Hallegere - Together: the healing power of human connection in a sometimes lonely world
- Owusu, Nadia - Aftershocks: a memoir
- Perry, Jeffrey Babcock - Hubert Harrison: the struggle for equality, 1918-1927
- Petropoulos, Jonathan - Göring's man in Paris: the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world
- Qādirī, Ḥumayrā - Dancing in the mosque: an Afghan mother's letter to her son
- Rekdal, Paisley - Appropriate: a provocation
- River of blood: American slavery from the people who lived it: interviews & photographs of formerly enslaved African Americans (edited by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams; foreword by Adam Green) (many previously unpublished photographs)
- Rogers, Fred - Fred Rogers: the last interview and other conversations
- Rosen, Charles - The joy of playing, the joy of thinking: conversations about art & performance
- Schiff, András - Music comes out of silence
- Shnayerson, Michael - Bugsy Siegel: the dark side of the American dream
- Shorto, Russell - Smalltime: a story of my family and the mob
- Tankersley, Jim - The riches of this land: the untold, true story of America's middle class
- Tannen, Deborah - Finding my father: his century-long journey from World War I Warsaw--and my quest to follow
- Tillet, Salamishah - In search of the color purple: the story of an American masterpiece
- Tresniowski, Alex - The rope: a true story of murder, heroism, and the dawn of the NAACP
- Tubbs, Anna Malaika - The three mothers: how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation
- Tyson, Cicely - Just as I am: a memoir
- Wheelan, Charles J. - We came, we saw, we left: a family gap year
- Wilcox, Claire - Patch work: a life amongst clothes
FICTION
- Altan, Ahmet - Love in the days of rebellion
- Barry, Kevin - That old country music: stories
- Benjamin, Melanie - The children's blizzard: a novel
- Bible, Michael - The ancient hours
- Bolano, Roberto - Cowboy graves: three novellas
- Boullosa, Carmen - The book of Anna: (Karenina's novel)
- Boyd, William - Trio: a novel (ebook available)
- Broder, Melissa - Milk fed: a novel
- Card, Maisy - These ghosts are family: a novel
- Cha, Frances - If I had your face: a novel
- Ekwuyasi, Francesca - Butter honey pig bread: a novel
- Feeney, Elaine - As you were
- Fox, Lauren - Send for me
- Ge, Fei - Peach blossom paradise
- Goetz, Adrien - Villa of delirium
- Grushin, Olga - The charmed wife
- Han, Simon - Nights when nothing happened
- Hannah, Kristin - The four winds (ebook available)
- Hawke, Ethan - A bright ray of darkness
- Hobson, Brandon - The removed: a novel
- Hopkins, Ben - Cathedral
- Johnson, Julia Claiborne - Better luck next time: a novel
- Jones, Tayari - Silver sparrow
- Khadra, Yasmina - Khalil: a novel
- Lawhon, Ariel - Code name Hélène: a novel
- Lee, Chang-rae - My year abroad (ebook available)
- Lockwood, Patricia - No one is talking about this (ebook available)
- Loedel, Daniel - Hades, Argentina
- McCall Smith, Alexander - Pianos and flowers: brief encounters of the romantic kind
- Oates, Joyce Carol - The (other) you: stories (ebook available)
- Okorafor, Nnedi - Remote control
- Okri, Ben - Prayer for the living
- Oyler, Lauren - Fake accounts: a novel (ebook available)
- Phais, Misel - Mechanisms of loss: two novellas
- Porter, Max - The death of Francis Bacon
- Russo, Kate - Super host: a novel
- Sacks, Rebecca - City of a thousand gates: a novel
- Skeslien Charles, Janet - The Paris library: a novel (ebook available)
- Smith, Michael F. - Nick: a novel
- Vida, Vendela - We run the tides: a novel (ebook available)
- Youngson, Anne - The narrowboat summer
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Armstrong, Kelley - A stranger in town
- Audrain, Ashley - The push: a novel
- Berenson, Alex - The power couple
- Brett, Simon - Guilt at the garage *
- Brown, Rita Mae. - Out of hounds: a novel
- Cole, Alyssa - When no one is watching: a thriller
- Cooney, Caroline B. - Before she was Helen
- Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Spin
- Cosimano, Elle - Finlay Donovan is killing it
- Dean, Abigail - Girl A : a novel
- Disabato, Catie - U up?
- Dorsey, Tim - Tropic of stupid
- Ekbäck, Cecilia - The historians: a novel
- Engberg, Katrine - The butterfly house
- Finkielman, Siobhan - Starving men
- Fowler, Christopher - Bryant & May: oranges and lemons: a Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery *
- Grippando, James - Twenty
- Harding Thornton, Christina - Pickard County atlas
- Harper, Jane - The survivors (ebook available)
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Cruel as the grave * (ebook available)
- Hart, John - The unwilling
- Herron, Mick - Slough house* (ebook available)
- Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew - Prodigal son
- Jance, Judith A. - Missing and endangered
- Kellerman, Faye - The lost boys
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Serpentine
- Koryta, Michael - Never far away
- Laurain, Antoine - The readers' room
- Lebedev, Sergei - Untraceable: a novel
- Mosley, Walter - Blood grove (ebook available)
- Petersen, Todd Robert - Picnic in the ruins: a novel
- Prentiss, S. A. - You will never know: a novel of suspense
- Preston, Douglas J. - The scorpion's tail: a Nora Kelly novel
- Pronzini, Bill - The paradise affair
- Quinn, Cate - Black widows
- Robb, J. D. - Faithless in death
- Shakespeare, Nicholas,- The sandpit *
- Sipilä, Jarkko - Against the wall
- Skelton, Douglas - The blood is still *
- Stabenow, Dana - Spoils of the dead: a Liam Campbell novel
- Tracy, P. J. - Deep into the dark
- Woods, Stuart - Hush-hush
*indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Belieu, Erin - Come-hither honeycomb: poems
- Dumas, Henry - Knees of a natural man: the selected poetry of Henry Dumas
- Huchel, Peter - These numbered days
- Hunt, Erica - Jump the clock: new & selected poems
- Malroux, Claire - Daybreak: new and selected poems
- Seidel, Frederick - Frederick Seidel selected poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Andelman, David - A red line in the sand: diplomacy, strategy, and the history of wars that might still happen
- Bittker, Boris I. - The case for Black reparations
- Farmer, Paul - Fevers, feuds, and diamonds: Ebola and the ravages of history
- Fielding, Steven - The Churchill myths
- Hummel, Thomas R. - A journey through literary America
- Scanlan, Padraic X. - Slave empire: how slavery made modern Britain
- Toye, Richard - Winston Churchill: a life in the news
- Willis, Deborah - The Black Civil War soldier: a visual history of conflict and citizenship
- What is a bird?: an exploration of anatomy, physiology, behavior, and ecology (Tony D. Williams, ed.)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Aciman, André - Homo irrealis: essays 824 A
- Bonnefoy, Yves - Prose of Yves Bonnefoy 844 B
- Daughters of Africa: an international anthology of words and writings by women of African descent from the ancient Egyptian to the present (volume 2 also available) 808.89 D
- Delany, Samuel R. - Heavenly breakfast: an essay on the winter of love 824 D
- Giles, Paul - Atlantic republic: the American tradition in English literature 820.9 G
- Laurence, Patricia Ondek - Elizabeth Bowen: a literary life 92 B7857 L
- Swift, Graham - Conversations with Graham Swift (Donald P. Kaczvinsky, ed.)823 S
FICTION
- Dinis, Julio - An English family: (scenes from Oporto life) (Dedalus Classics; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa) F D
- Ellis, Trey - Platitudes: & "The new Black aesthetic" (The Northeastern Library of Black Literature reprint) F E
- Garnier, Pascal - A long way off F G
- Lorac, E. C. R. - Fell murder (British Library Crime Classics) F L
- Moresco, Antonio - Distant light (translated from the Italian, Archipelago Books) F M
- Panter-Downes, Mollie - My husband Simon (British Library Women Writers) F P
POETRY
- Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich - Selected poems 891.7 B
- Heym, Georg - Poems 831 H
- Mayer, Bernadette - Memory 828 M
- Sanders, Ed - Thirsting for peace in a raging century: selected poems, 1961-1985 821 S
ART, CRAFT & DESIGN
- Adamson, Glenn - Craft: an American history 680 A
- Brophy, Christina Connett - A wild note of longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a century of American art (excellent exhibition catalog w/ essays) 759.1 R
- Davidson, Abraham A. - The eccentrics and other American visionary painters (Blakelock, Ryder, Inness, Cole, et al.) 759.1 D
- Drexler, Arthur - Charles Eames: furniture from the design collection, the Museum of Modern Art, New York 749.2 D
- Gormley, Antony - Shaping the world: sculpture from prehistory to now 730 G
- Stallabrass, Julian - Contemporary art: a very short introduction 709.04 S
- Steadman, Ralph - Ralph Steadman: a life in ink 741.5 S
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Goffart, Walter A. - The industrialist and the diva: Alexander Smith Cochran, founder of Yale's Elizabethan Club, and Madame Ganna Walska 92 C6625 G
- Koh, EJ - The magical language of others: a memoir 92 K791 K
- Lovett, Laura L. - With her fist raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the transformative power of Black community activism 92 H8931 L
- Summers, Julie - Dressed for war: the story of Vogue editor Audrey Withers, from the Blitz to the swinging sixties 92 W8241 S
ECONOMICS
- Banerjee, Abhijit V. - Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty 339.1 B
- Friedman, Benjamin M. - Religion and the rise of capitalism 330.1 F
- Stoller, Matt - Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy 338.8 S
RACE IN AMERICA / CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM
- Blow, Charles M. - The devil you know: a Black power manifesto 323.1 B
- Bond, Julian - Julian Bond's time to teach: a history of the southern civil rights movement 323.4 B
- Murch, Donna Jean - Living for the city: migration, education, and the rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California 322.4 M
- Ransby, Barbara - Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement: a radical democratic vision 92 B16717 R
SOCIOLOGY
- Castaneda, Jorge G. - America through foreign eyes 973 C
- Herman, Edward S. - Manufacturing consent: the political economy of the mass media 302 H
- Lind, Michael - The new class war: saving democracy from the managerial elite 303.6 L
HISTORY
- Azoulay, Ariella - Potential history: unlearning imperialism 321.03 A
- Henshall, Kenneth G. - A history of Japan: from stone age to superpower 952 H
- Holcombe, Charles - A history of East Asia: from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century 950 H
- Oakes, James - The crooked path to abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery Constitution 973.71 O
- Redniss, Lauren - Oak Flat: a fight for sacred land in the American West 970.5 R
- Thomas, Hugh M. - Power and pleasure: court life under King John, 1199-1216 942.03 T
- Thompson, Josiah - Last second in Dallas (JFK assassination) 364 T
- Wood, Peter - 1620: a critical response to the 1619 Project 326 W
ANTIQUITY
- De la Bédoyère, Guy. - Gladius: the world of the Roman soldier 355.1 D
- Kourounits, K. - Eleusis: a guide to the excavations and the museum 938 K
- The Cambridge history of painting in the classical world (J.J. Pollitt, ed.) 750.9 C
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Falola, Toyin - United States and Africa relations, 1400s to the present 327.6 F
- Wertheim, Stephen - Tomorrow, the world: the birth of U.S. global supremacy 327.73 W
- Westad, Odd Arne - Empire and righteous nation: 600 years of China-Korea relations 327.51 W
NEW YORK
- Mackin, Jim - Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan's Upper West Side: Bloomingdale-Morningside Heights 974.71 M
- Manshel, Andrew M. - Learning from Bryant Park: revitalizing cities, towns, and public spaces 309.2 M
- Plotch, Philip Mark - Last subway: the long wait for the next train in New York City 388 P
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Adorno, Theodor W. - Aspects of the new right-wing extremism 322.4 A
- American democracy: 21 historic answers to 5 urgent questions (Nicholas Lemann, ed.) 320.9 A
- Stevens, Stuart - It was all a lie: how the Republican Party became Donald Trump 324.273 S
- Writing politics: an anthology (New York Review Books; David Bromwich ed.) 320 W
PSYCHOLOGY
- Jaffe, D. J. - Insane consequences: how the mental health industry fails the mentally ill 362.2 J
- Jung, C. G. - The black books: 1913-1932: notebooks of transformation (7 volumes) 150 J
- Menkedick, Sarah - Ordinary insanity: fear and the silent crisis of motherhood in America 155.6 M
SCIENCE & NATURE
- McGee, Harold - Nose dive: a field guide to the world's smells 612.8 M
- O'Connell, Caitlin - Wild rituals: 10 lessons animals can teach us about connection, community, and ourselves 591.5 O
- Pellant, Chris - Rocks and minerals 549 P
- Prothero, Donald R. - The story of evolution in 25 discoveries: the evidence and the people who found it 575 P
NEW PERIODICALS (MEMBERS' ROOM)
- Minerva (antiquity & archaeology)
- The Hedgehog review