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New Books – July 2024

IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Beller, Elizabeth - Once upon a time: the captivating life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
• Bellows, Amanda Brickell - The explorers: a new history of America in ten expeditions
• Bishop, Claire - Disordered attention: how we look at art and performance today
• Brackett, Donald - Double solitaire: the films of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
• Burton, Tim - The world of Tim Burton
• Carr, Caleb - My beloved monster: Masha, the half-wild rescue cat who rescued me
• Connelly, Mark - The Group Theatre: an enduring legacy
• Courogen, Carrie - Miss May does not exist: the life and work of Elaine May, Hollywood's hidden genius
• Dias, Elizabeth - The fall of Roe: the rise of a new America
• Fauci, Anthony S. - On call: a doctor's journey in public service
• Fink, Jesse - The eagle in the mirror: the greatest spy story never told
• Firnhaber-Baker, Justine - House of lilies: the dynasty that made medieval France
• Franklin, Sara B. - The editor: how publishing legend Judith Jones shaped culture in America
• God made my face: a collective portrait of James Baldwin
• Godwin, Gail - Getting to know death: a meditation
• Goodman, Peter S. - How the world ran out of everything: inside the global supply chain
• Grayling, A. C. - Who owns the moon?: in defence of humanity's common interests in space
• Hampton, Dan - Vanishing act: the enduring mystery behind the legendary Doolittle raid over Tokyo
• Hanna, Kathleen - Rebel girl: my life as a feminist punk
• Hazzard, Shirley - Hazzard and Harrower: the letters
• Holland, James - Burma '44: the battle that turned World War II in the east
• Hughes, Kathryn - Catland: Louis Wain and the great cat mania
• Jonas, Raymond - Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: the rise and fall of the Second Mexican Empire
• Kincaid, Jamaica - An encyclopedia of gardening for colored children
• Kingston, Genevieve - Did I ever tell you?: a memoir
• Lance, Rachel - Chamber divers: the untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever
• Leary, Ann - I've tried being nice: essays
• Lieu, Susan - The manicurist's daughter: a memoir
• Markel, Howard - Origin story: the trials of Charles Darwin
• McMillan, Tracie - The white bonus: five families and the cash value of racism in America
• O'Donnell, Patrick K. - The unvanquished: the untold story of Lincoln's special forces, the manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the shadow war that forged America's special operations
• Olson, Roberta J. M. - Audubon as artist: a new look at The birds of America
• Questlove - Hip-hop is history
• Rigg, Bryan Mark - Japan's holocaust: history of imperial Japan's mass murder and rape during World War II
• Satow, Julie - When women ran Fifth Avenue: glamour and power at the dawn of American fashion
• Shapiro, James - The playbook: a story of theater, democracy, and the making of a culture war
• Silver, Alain - From the moment they met it was murder: Double indemnity and the rise of film noir
• St. Clair, Kassia - The race to the future: 8,000 miles to Paris--the adventure that accelerated the twentieth century
• Sullivan, Randall - The Devil's best trick: how the face of evil disappeared
• Taylor, Alan - American civil wars: a continental history, 1850-1873
• Tomlinson, Tommy - Dogland: passion, glory, and lots of slobber at the Westminster Dog Show
• Tye, Larry - The jazzmen: how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America
• Wasik, Bill - Our kindred creatures: how Americans came to feel the way they do about animals
• Waters, Michael - The other Olympians: fascism, queerness, and the making of modern sports
• Whitlock, Craig - Fat Leonard: how one man bribed, bilked, and seduced the U.S. Navy
• Yang, Kao Kalia - Where rivers part: a story of my mother's life
• Young, Jos - The fixer: moguls, mobsters, movie stars, and Marilyn

FICTION

• Birkelund, Elizabeth - A northern light in Provence: a novel
• Bradley, Kaliane - The ministry of time
• Enger, Leif - I cheerfully refuse: a novel
• Grattan, Thomas - In tongues
• Grunwald, Lisa - The evolution of Annabel Craig: a novel
• King, Stephen - You like it darker: stories
• Kwon, R. O. - Exhibit
• Landau, Alexis - The mother of all things
• Lombardo, Claire - Same as it ever was
• Mackin, Jeanne - Picasso's lovers
• Marshall, Jessie Ren - Women! In! Peril!: stories
• McCall Smith, Alexander - The stellar debut of Galactica MacFee
• Min, Juli - Shanghailanders
• Murrin, Alan - The coast road: a novel
• Newman, Catherine - Sandwich: a novel
• Nicholls, David - You are here: a novel
• Oates, Joyce Carol - Butcher: [father of modern gyno-psychiatry]
• O'Hagan, Andrew - Caledonian Road: a novel
• Owens, Zibby - Blank: a novel
• Perry, Sarah - Enlightenment: a novel
• Pritchard, Melissa - Flight of the wild swan
• Roemer, Astrid - Off-white
• Simonson, Helen - The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club: a novel
• Skenandore, Amanda - The medicine woman of Galveston
• Sloan, Robin - Moonbound: the last book of the Anth
• Sykes, Plum - Wives like us: a novel
• Talty, Morgan - Fire exit: a novel
• Tanner, Alexandra - Worry: a novel
• Wayne, Teddy - The winner: a novel
• Wood, Monica - How to read a book: a novel
• Wouden, Yael van der - The safekeep: a novel
• Wright, Alexis - Praiseworthy

MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION

• Barclay, Linwood - I will ruin you: a novel
• Burke, James Lee - Clete
• Carcaterra, Lorenzo - Nonna Maria and the case of the lost treasure: a novel
• Chilton, L. M. - Swiped: a novel
• Comey, James - Westport
• Connelly, Lucy - An American in Scotland
• Foley, Luc - The midnight feast: a novel
• Gates, Eva - The stranger in the library
• Grisham, John - Camino ghosts
• Hart, Matthew - The Lucifer Cut: a novel
• Hart, Ro - Assassins anonymous
• Iles, Greg - Southern man: a novel
• Johnson, Craig - First frost
• Mosley, Walter - Farewell, Amethystine
• Muller, Marcia - Circle in the water
• Preston, Douglas J. - Extinction: a novel
• Reay, Katherine - The Berlin letters: a Cold War novel
• Swanson, Peter - A talent for murder: a novel
• Thorogood, Robert - The queen of poisons: a novel
• Ware, Ruth - One perfect couple
• Winspear, Jacqueline - The comfort of ghosts

IN THE STACKS

FICTION

• Adjmi, Corie - The marriage box: a novel F A
• Antoon, Sinan - The Baghdad Eucharist F A
• Bailey, Tessa - It happened one summer: a novel F B
• Birch, Tony - The white girl: a novel F B
• Coover, Robert - Open house F C
• DeLillo, Don - Don DeLillo: Mao II ; Underworld F D
• Drndić, Daša - Battle songs = Canzone di guerra F D
• Fiske, Dorsey - Bound to murder F F
• Richardson, Matthew - The Scarlet papers F R

LITERATURE

• Barry, Rebecca Rego - The vanishing of Carolyn Wells: investigations into a forgotten mystery author 92 W453 B
• - Black writers of the founding era 1760-1800 820.8 B
• Kennedy, Adrienne - Adrienne Kennedy: collected plays & other writings 820.81 K
• One hundred years after Proust 843 P

U.S. HISTORY

• Anbinder, Tyler - Plentiful country: the great potato famine and the making of Irish New York 974.71 A
• Houghton, Vince - Covert city: the Cold War and the making of Miami 975.9 H
• LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer - Free Black communities and the Underground Railroad: the geography of resistance 326 L
• Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti - The vice president's Black wife: the untold life of Julia Chinn 92 C5398 M
• Parkinson, Robert G. - Heart of American darkness: bewilderment and horror on the early frontier 973.2 P

ANTIQUITY & EARLY HISTORY

• Geroulanos, Stefanos - The invention of prehistory: empire, violence, and our obsession with human origins 901 G
• Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd - The Cleopatras: the forgotten queens of Egypt 932 L

PHILOSOPHY

• Douglass, Robin - Mandeville's Fable: pride, hypocrisy, and sociability 171 D
• Ovid - How to get over a breakup: an ancient guide to moving on 177 O

VISUAL ART

• Blier, Suzanne Preston - Picasso's Demoiselles: the untold origins of a modern masterpiece 759.6 P
• Bonafoux, Pascal - Picasso: the self-portraits 759.6 P
• Gates, Theaster - Young Lords and their traces 709.73 G
• Gego - Gego: measuring infinity 709.8 G
• Walker, Kara Elizabeth - Kara Walker: my complement, my enemy, my oppressor, my love 709.73 W

FILM

• Dargis, Manohla - L.A. confidential 791.4 D
• Frayling, Christopher - Vampire cinema: the first one hundred years 791.4 F
• Helgeland, Brian - L.A. confidential: the screenplay 822.9 H
• Kenny, Glenn - The world is yours: the story of Scarface 791.4 K
• Vogel, Amos - Film as a subversive art 791.4 V

MUSIC

• Charnas, Dan - The big payback: the history of the business of hip-hop 780.973 C
• Wald, Elijah - Jelly Roll blues: censored songs & hidden histories 781.5 W

AFRICAN AMERICAN ART

• Gates, Henry Louis - The black box: writing the race 305.88 G
• Post, Tina - Deadpan: the aesthetics of Black inexpression 701 P

CRIME & JUSTICE

• Bernstein, Robin - Freeman's challenge: the murder that shook America's original prison for profit 365 B
• Hemming, Henry - Four shots in the night: a true story of spies, murder, and justice in Northern Ireland 941.5 H
• Johnson, Steven - The infernal machine: a true story of dynamite, terror, and the rise of the modern detective 363.2 J

SOCIAL CLASS

• Fraser, Ma - Hillbilly highway: the Transappalachian migration and the making of a white working class 331.6 F
• Wooldridge, Adrian - The aristocracy of talent: how meritocracy made the modern world 320.1 W

WRITING

• George, Elizabeth - Write away: one novelist's approach to fiction and the writing life 808.3 G
• - Bending genre: essays on creative nonfiction 808 B

THE BIBLE

• Edwards, Michael - The Bible and poetry 220.7 E
• Moss, Candida R. - God's ghostwriters: enslaved Christians and the making of the Bible 270.1 M

TRAVEL

• Andrade, Mário de - The apprentice tourist: travels along the Amazon to Peru, along the Madeira to Bolivia, and around Marajó before saying enough already 918.1 A
• Stewart, Michael - Walking the invisible: following in the Brontës' footsteps 914.27 S

THE DIGITAL AGE

• Auerbach, David B. - Meganets: how digital forces beyond our control commandeer our daily lives and inner realities 004.678 A
• Eichhorn, Kate - Content 302 E
• Horwitz, Jeff - Broken code: inside Facebook and the fight to expose its harmful secrets 338.7 H
• Vallor, Shannon - The AI mirror: how to reclaim our humanity in the age of machine thinking 001.6 V

SCOUNDRELS

• Donaldson, William - Brewer's rogues, villains & eccentrics: an A-Z of roguish Britons through the ages 920 D6763 B
• Dunn, Lily - Sins of my father: a daughter, a cult, a wild unravelling 92 D9233 D