New Books - May 2022
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Alexander, Elizabeth - The Trayvon generation
- Bentley, Toni - Serenade: a Balanchine story (ebook available)
- Berkowitz, Eric - Dangerous ideas: a brief history of censorship in the West, from the ancients to fake news
- Browder, Bill - Freezing order: a true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath (ebook available)
- Cain, Susan - Bittersweet: how sorrow and longing make us whole
- Cohen, Richard - Making history: the storytellers who shaped the past (ebook available)
- Cooper Jones, Chloé - Easy beauty: a memoir
- Cross, William R. - Winslow Homer: American passage
- Denk, Jeremy - Every good boy does fine: a love story, in music lessons (ebook available)
- Ephron, Delia - Left on Tenth: a second chance at life: a memoir (ebook available)
- Faderman, Lillian - Woman: the American history of an idea
- Gajda, Amy - Seek and hide: the tangled history of the right to privacy
- Hardman, Robert - Queen of our times: the life of Queen Elizabeth II
- Hodges, Natalie - Uncommon measure: a journey through music, performance, and the science of time
- Hudes, Quiara Alegría - My broken language: a memoir
- Hunt, Samantha - The unwritten book: an investigation
- Jacobson, Howard - Mother's boy
- Jefferson, Margo - Constructing a nervous system: a memoir (ebook available)
- Kazin, Michael - What it took to win: a history of the Democratic Party
- Krouse, Erika - Tell me everything: the story of a private investigation
- Nafisi, Azar - Read dangerously: the subversive power of literature in troubled times
- Newton, Maud - Ancestor trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation (ebook available)
- Odenkirk, Bob - Comedy comedy comedy drama: a memoir
- Overy, R. J. - Blood and ruins: the last imperial war, 1931-1945 (ebook available)
- Philpott, Mary Laura - Bomb shelter: love, time, and other explosives
- Piketty, Thomas - A brief history of equality (translated from the French)
- Prioleau, Betsy - Diamonds and deadlines: a tale of greed, deceit, and a female tycoon in the gilded age
- Quindlen, Anna - Write for your life (ebook available)
- Rutkow, Ira M. - Empire of the scalpel: the history of surgery
- Sanghera, Sathnam - Empireland: how imperialism has shaped modern Britain
- Shannon, Molly - Hello, Molly!: a memoir
- Taneja, PretI - Aftermath
- Waal, F. B. M. de - Different: gender through the eyes of a primatologist
- Weisbard, Eric - Songbooks: the literature of American popular music
- Whittaker, Danielle J. - The secret perfume of birds: uncovering the science of avian scent
- Williamson, Elizabeth - Sandy Hook: an American tragedy and the battle for truth
FICTION
- Ahmad, Aamin - The return of Faraz Ali (ebook available)
- Andersson, Lena - Son of Svea: a tale of the people's home (translated from the Swedish)
- Belorusets, Yevgenia - Lucky breaks (translated from the Russian)
- Caldwell, Lucy - These days
- Crimp, Imogen - A very nice girl: a novel
- Di Pietrantonio, Donatella - A sister's story (translated from the Italian)
- Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit - The trouble with happiness: and other stories (translated from the Danish) (ebook available)
- Doderer, Heimito von - The Strudlhof steps: or Melzer and the depth of the years (New York Review Books; translated from the German)
- Egan, Jennifer - The candy house: a novel (ebook available)
- Escobar, Mario - The librarian of Saint-Malo: a novel (translated from the Spanish)
- Fosse, Jon - A new name: Septology VI-VII (translated from the Norwegian)
- Galassi, Jonathan - School days: a novel (ebook available)
- Garmus, Bonnie - Lessons in chemistry (ebook available)
- Gramont, Nina de - The Christie affair
- Green, Jane - Sister stardust: a novel
- Grynberg, Mikołaj - I'd like to say sorry, but there's no one to say sorry to: stories (translated from the Polish)
- Handke, Peter - The fruit thief: or, One-way journey into the interior (translated from the German)
- Henry, Patti Callahan - Surviving Savannah
- Hermans, Willem Frederik - A guardian angel recalls (translated from the Dutch)
- Keyes, Marian - Again, Rachel
- King, Stephen - Gwendy's final task
- Krupitsky, Naomi - The family
- Levi, Lia - Tonight is already tomorrow (translated from the Italian)
- Mandel, Emily St. John - Sea of tranquility (ebook available)
- Nayar, Manini - Being here: stories
- Newman, Jay Hartley - Undermoney: a novel
- Nović, Sara - True biz: a novel
- O'Nan, Stewart - Ocean state (ebook available)
- Pak, Sang-yŏng - Love in the big city: a novel
- Quinn, Kate - The diamond eye: a novel (ebook available)
- Robinson, Kim Stanley - The ministry for the future
- Runcie, James - The great passion: a novel
- Scott, Paulo - Phenotypes (translated from the Portuguese)
- Solà, Irene - When I sing, mountains dance: a novel (translated from the Catalan)
- Straight, Susan - Mecca
- Stuart, Douglas - Young Mungo: a novel (ebook available)
- Walker, Boo - The singing trees: a novel
- Wallace, David Foster - Something to do with paying attention
- Ward, Amanda Eyre - The lifeguards: a novel
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Baldacci, David - Dream town
- Blædel, Sara - A harmless lie: a novel (translated from the German)
- Goddard, Robert - This is the night they come for you
- Harris, Joanne - A narrow door (ebook available)
- Hill, Susan - A change of circumstance: a Simon Serrailler case*
- Khan, Vaseem - The dying day *
- Ku, Pyŏng-mo - The old woman with the knife: a novel (translated from the Korean) (ebook available)
- Lescroart, John T. - The missing piece: a novel
- Li, Grace D. - Portrait of a thief: a novel (ebook available)
- Lloyd, Sa - The rising tide*
- Lorac, E. C. R. - Two-way murder*
- Macmillan, Gilly - The long weekend: a novel* (ebook available)
- Martínez, Guillermo - The Oxford brotherhood
- Naymark, Emilya - Behind the lie: a novel
- Pandian, Gigi - Under lock & skeleton key
- Petrie, Nicholas - The breaker
- Petrie, Nicholas - The runaway
- Phillips, Gary - One-shot Harry
- Pinborough, Sarah - Insomnia: a novel
- Quick, Amanda - When she dreams
- Reich, Christopher - Once a thief
- Rosenfield, Kat - No one will miss her: a novel
- Sandford, John - The investigator (ebook available)
- Scott, Kieran - Wish you were gone
- Scottoline, Lisa - What happened to the Bennetts (ebook available)
- Searles, John - Her last affair: a novel
- Seymour, Gerald - The foot soldiers
- St. James, Simone - The book of cold cases
- Walsh, Rosie - The love of my life
- Wegert, Tessa - Dead wind
- Winslow, Don - City on fire: a novel
- Woods, Stuart - A safe house
POETRY
- Bailey, Desiree C. - What noise against the cane
- Harsent, David - Selected poems, 1969-2005
- Hirsch, Edward - The heart of American poetry
- Sachs, Nelly - Flight and metamorphosis: poems
- Troupe, Quincy - Duende: poems, 1966-now
- Vuong, Ocean - Time is a mother
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & POETRY
- Ibn al-ʻArabī - The translator of desires (12th-13th-c. Arabic love poetry) 892.7 I
- Majumdar, Nivedita - The world in a grain of sand: postcolonial literature and radical universalism 809.9 M
- Petrarca, Francesco - Petrarch's songbook 851.09 P
- Rider, Bhanu Kapil - How to wash a heart 821 R
- Serpell, Namwali - Stranger faces 616.8 S
- Taneda, Santōka - For all my walking: free-verse haiku of Taneda Santōka with excerpts from his diaries 895.6 T
- Wilson, Eric - Dream-child: a life of Charles Lamb 92 L2183 W
- Woolf, Virginia - Selected essays (2008 ed.; introduction and notes by David Bradshaw) 824 W
FICTION
- Barba, Andrés - A luminous republic (recent novel by acclaimed Spanish writer) (translated by Lisa Dillman) F B
- Ignatieff, Michael - Scar tissue (1994 Booker finalist about Alzheimer's) F I
- Kenan, Randall - A visitation of spirits: a novel (award-winning 1989 novel set in U.S. south w/ black, gay protagonist) F K
- Kobek, Jarett - Only Americans burn in hell (acclaimed satire) F K
- NDiaye, Marie - That time of year (1994 novel by Prix Goncourt winner; translated from the French) F N
- Savage, Thomas - The power of the dog: a novel (afterword by Annie Proulx) F S
- Symons, Julian - The progress of a crime (winner of 1961 Edgar Award for Best Novel) F S
VISUAL ARTS & ARCHITECTURE
- Are the arts essential? (Alberta Arthurs and Michael F. DiNiscia, eds.) 704 A
- Chapin, Mary Weaver - Private lives: home and family in the art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900 709.44 C
- Golahny, Amy - Rembrandt's Hundred guilder print: his master etching 767 R
- Le-Tan, Pierre - A few collectors 706.9 S
- Mitchell, Joan - Joan Mitchell (Sarah Roberts and Katy Siegel, eds.; 2020) 759.1 M
- Moorhead, Joanna - The surreal life of Leonora Carrington 92 C3186 M
- Pyne, Lydia - Postcards: the rise and fall of the world's first social network 741.7 P
- Stern, Robert A. M. - Between memory and invention: my journey in architecture 720.92 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Butler, Isaac - The method: how the twentieth century learned to act 792 B
- Friedman, Matti - Who by fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai 92 C67825 F
- Porterfield, Nolan - Jimmie Rodgers: the life and times of America's blue yodeler 92 R6914 P
- Wilson, Elizabeth - Playing with fire: the story of Maria Yudina, pianist in Stalin's Russia 92 Y9459 W
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Humphreys, Helen - And a dog called Fig: solitude, connection, the writing life 92 H9275 H
- Lee, Carol Ann - Roses from the earth: the biography of Anne Frank 92 F8273 L
- Maclean, John N. - Home waters: a chronicle of family and a river (companion to "A River Runs through It") 920 M162 M
- McGrath, Ben - Riverman: an American odyssey 92 C74335 M
- Paustovsky, Konstantin - The story of a life, Books 1-3 (newly translated Russian classic) 92 P3344 P
- Person, Cea Sunrise - North of normal: a memoir of my wilderness childhood, my unusual family, and how I survived both 92 P4671 P
- Stevenson, Jane - The light of Italy: the life and times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino 92 G948 S
- Stuart, Nancy Rubin - Poor Richard's women: Deborah Read Franklin and the other women behind the Founding Father 92 F8313 S
- Sutzkever, Abraham - From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: memoir and testimony 92 S9676 S
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Private notebooks: 1914-1916 92 W8312 W
HISTORY
- Carney, Scott - The vortex: a true story of history's deadliest storm, an unspeakable war, and liberation (Pakistan 1970) 363.7 C
- Davis, John - Waterloo sunrise: London from the sixties to Thatcher 942.1 D
- Dunn, Daisy - Not far from Brideshead: Oxford between the wars 942.5 D
- Elkins, Caroline - Legacy of violence: a history of the British empire 325.3 E
- Longerich, Peter - Wannsee: the road to the final solution 940.5315 L
- Robb, Graham - France: an adventure history 944 R
- Yekelchyk, Serhy - Ukraine: what everyone needs to know® 947.7 Y
ANTIQUITY
- Barringer, Judith M. - Olympia: a cultural history 938 B
- Rogers, Guy MacLean - For the freedom of Zion: the great revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE 933 R
- Stephenson, Paul - New Rome: the empire in the east 938 S
- Strauss, Barry S. - The war that made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium 937.02 S
NEW YORK
- Höhne, Stefan - Riding the New York subway: the invention of the modern passenger 388 H
- Merlis, Brian - Historic Black Brooklyn: 400 years of struggle and hope (winnner of New York City Book Award) 974.71 M
- Zimmer, Lori - Art hiding in New York: an illustrated guide to the city's secret masterpieces 917.471 Z
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Bullough, Oliver - Moneyland: the inside story of the crooks and kleptocrats who rule the world 364 B
- Collins, Chuck - The wealth hoarders: how billionaires pay millions to hide trillions 336.2 C
- Von Neumann, John - Theory of games and economic behavior 330.1 V
WORLD POLITICS
- D'Anieri, Paul J. - Ukraine and Russia: from civilized divorce to uncivil war 327.47 D
- Haass, Richard - The world: a brief introduction 327 H
- Hamilton, Clive - Hidden hand: exposing how the Chinese Communist Party is reshaping the world 327.51 H
MEDIA
- Hendy, David - The BBC: a century on air 384 H
- Miller, James A. - Tinderbox: HBO's ruthless pursuit of new frontiers 384 M
- Smith, Justin E. H. - The internet is not what you think it is: a history, a philosophy, a warning 004.678 S
RACE IN AMERICA
- Drayton, Tiffanie - Black American refugee: escaping the narcissism of the American Dream 92 D7692 D
- hooks, bell - Ain't I a woman: Black women and feminism 305.4 H
- Raines, Ben - The last slave ship: the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning 326 R
- Steinberg, Stephen - Counterrevolution: the crusade to roll back the gains of the Civil Rights Movement 323.1 S
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Kaplan, Robert D. - Adriatic: a concert of civilizations at the end of the modern age 914 K
- 50 hikes in Vermont: walks, hikes, and overnights in the Green Mountain State 917.43 F
- Mexico: a travel survival kit 917.2 L
ENVIRONMENT
- Dawson, Ashley - People's power 333.8 D
- Gilio-Whitaker, Dina - As long as grass grows: the indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock 363.7 G
- Speth, James Gustave - They knew: the federal government's fifty-year role in causing the climate crisis 363.7 S
SCIENCE & PSEUDOSCIENCE
- Rutherford, Adam - Control: the dark history and troubling present of eugenics 575.1 R
- Simard, S. - Finding the mother tree (conservationist memoir) 92 S588 S
- Ward, Ashley - The social lives of animals 591.5 W
- All about birds - Northeast US and Canada (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) 598.2 A
See the Library's blog for Black History Month and Women's History Month recent acquisitions lists, plus books on Russia and Ukraine.