NEW BOOKS - OCTOBER 2022
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Ahamed, Meenakshi - A matter of trust: India-US relations from Truman to Trump
- Aviv, Rachel - Strangers to ourselves: unsettled minds and the stories that make us (ebook available)
- Baker, Peter - The divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (ebook available)
- Beevor, Antony - Russia: revolution and civil war, 1917-1921
- Berman, Geoffrey - Holding the line: inside the nation's preeminent US Attorney's office and its battle with the Trump Justice Department (ebook available)
- Birkhead, Tim - Birds and us: a 12,000-year history from cave art to conservation
- Borowitz, Andy - Profiles in ignorance: how America's politicians got dumb and dumber (ebook available)
- Buck, Rinker - Life on the Mississippi: an epic American adventure
- Crouch, Stanley - Victory is assured: uncollected writings of Stanley Crouch
- Fisher, Max - The chaos machine: the inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world
- Frank, Michael - One hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the search for a lost world
- Friedman, Tova - The daughter of Auschwitz: my story of resilience, survival and hope Tova Friedman and Malcolm Brabant (foreword by Ben Kingsley)
- Hämäläinen, Pekka - Indigenous continent: the epic contest for North America
- Harrison, Jim - The search for the genuine: nonfiction, 1970-2015
- Kenan, Randall - Black folk could fly: selected writings
- Kirtzman, Andrew - Giuliani: the rise and tragic fall of America's mayor
- Kociejowski, Marius - The serpent coiled in Naples
- Lethbridge, Lucy - Tourists: how the British went abroad to find themselves
- Macintyre, Ben - Prisoners of the castle: an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison (ebook available)
- Maraniss, David - Path lit by lightning: the life of Jim Thorpe
- Mayes, Frances - A place in the world: finding the meaning of home
- Milch, David - Life's work: a memoir
- Miller, Tim - Why we did it: a travelogue from the Republican road to hell (ebook available)
- Mogelson, Luke - The storm is here: an American crucible
- Parks, Casey - Diary of a misfit: a memoir and a mystery
- Stanley, Bob - Let's do it: the birth of pop music: a history
- Weiss, Gar - Retail gangster: the insane, real-life story of Crazy Eddie
- Wenner, Jann - Like a rolling stone: a memoir
- Wulf, Andrea - Magnificent rebels: the first Romantics and the invention of the self
- Zamora, Javier - Solito: a memoir (ebook available)
FICTION
- Acampora, Lauren - The hundred waters: a novel
- Atkinson, Kate - Shrines of gaiety: a novel (ebook available)
- Bialosky, Jill - The deceptions: a novel
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - I walk between the raindrops: stories
- Buckley, Christopher - Has anyone seen my toes?: a novel
- Chen, Katherine J. - Joan: a novel
- Escoffery, Jonathan - If I survive you
- Ford, Jamie - The many daughters of Afong Moy: a novel
- Greer, Andrew Sean - Less is lost (ebook available)
- Guez, Olivier - The disappearance of Josef Mengele (translated from the French)
- Gunty, Tess - The rabbit hutch
- Hannaham, James - Didn't nobody give a shit what happened to Carlotta
- Hildyard, Daisy - Emergency: a pastoral novel
- Homes, A. M. - The unfolding
- Jenner, Natalie - Bloomsbury girls
- Jones, Sadie - Amy & Lan: a novel
- King, Stephen - Fairy tale: a novel
- Ma, Ling - Bliss montage
- McEwan, Ian - Lessons (ebook available)
- Means, David - Two nurses, smoking: stories
- Medoff, Jillian - When we were bright and beautiful: a novel
- Mellors, Coco - Cleopatra and Frankenstein: a novel
- Molinard, Barbara - Panics: stories
- Newson, Rasheed - My government means to kill me
- Nguyen, Phong - Bronze drum
- O'Farrell, Maggie - The marriage portrait (ebook and audiobook available)
- Razak, Melody - Moth: a novel
- Reid, Taylor Jenkins - Carrie Soto is back: a novel (ebook available)
- Shorr, Victoria - Mid-air: two novellas
- Strout, Elizabeth - Lucy by the sea: a novel (ebook and audiobook available)
- Tang, Belinda Huijuan - A map for the missing
- Theroux, Paul - The bad angel brothers: a novel
- Tidhar, Lavie - Maror (translated from the Hebrew)
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich - Fathers and children (translated from the Russian) (ebook available)
- Yagi, Emi - Diary of a void: a novel (translated from the Japanese)
- Yoshimoto, Banana - Dead-end memories: stories (translated from the Japanese)
- Small odysseys: Selected shorts presents 35 new stories (edited by Hannah Tinti; foreword by Neil Gaiman)
- more fiction below in the stacks section
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Brown, Sandra - Overkill
- Burns, V. M. - Two parts sugar, one part murder
- Burr, Shelley - Wake: a novel
- Cleeves, Ann - The rising tide* (ebook available)
- Feeney, Alice - Daisy Darker
- Fielding, Joy - The housekeeper: a novel
- Galbraith, Robert - The ink black heart* (ebook available)
- Jewell, Lisa - The family remains*
- Johnson, Tyrell - The lost kings: a novel
- Kellerman, Faye - The hunt
- Krueger, William Kent - Fox Creek: a novel
- Lagercrantz, David - Dark music (translated from the Swedish)
- Lin, Ed - Death doesn't forget
- McAllister, Gillian - Wrong place wrong time* (ebook available)
- McCall Smith, Alexander - A song of comfortable chairs
- Perry, Anne - A truth to lie for
- Pobi, Robert - Do no harm (ebook available)
- Robb, J. D. - Desperation in death
*indicates a UK mystery
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Edwards, Martin - The life of crime: detecting the history of mysteries and their creators 809.3 E
- Forshaw, Barry - Simenon: the man, the books, the films 843 S
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - Novels, stories, & poems (Library of America) 828 G
- Harap, Louis - Creative awakening: the Jewish presence in twentieth-century American literature, 1900-1940s 820.9 H
- Harap, Louis - In the mainstream: the Jewish presence in twentieth-century American literature, 1950s-1980s 820.9 H
- Hassett, Joseph M. - Yeats now: echoing into life 821.09 H
- Houellebecq, Michel - Interventions 2020 844 H
- Hulle, Dirk van - Genetic criticism: tracing creativity in literature 801 H
- Jarrett, Gene Andrew - Paul Laurence Dunbar: the life and times of a caged bird 92 D899 C
- Kent, Pau - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (volumes 2 - 3 of this 3-volume set) 827.09 W
- Kingston, Maxine Hong - The woman warrior: China men; Tripmaster monkey; Hawaiʻi one summer; other writings (Library of America) 820.81 K
- Rundell, Katherine - Super-infinite: the transformations of John Donne 92 D685 R
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis - Old truths and new clichés 839 S
FICTION
- Delany, Samuel R. - Dhalgren F D
- Gentill, Sulari - After she wrote him & Shanghai secrets: a Rowland Sinclair WWII mystery (two older books by author of The Woman in the Library) F G
- Henderson, George Wylie - Ollie Miss: a novel (Black American novel, 1935) F H
- Hines, Barry - The gamekeeper (introduction by John Berger; 1975 novel by the author of the excellent "A Kestrel for a Knave) F H
- Pharr, Robert Deane - The book of numbers (acclaimed 1969 crime novel; for fans of Mosley & Himes) F P
- Saint, Jennifer - Ariadne (modern Greek myth retelling) F S
- The wrong turning: encounters with ghosts (nice Notting Hill edition; introduced and edited by Stephen Johnson) F W
POETRY
- Chatterton, Thomas - Selected poems 821 C
- Prikryl, Jana - Midwood: poems Lobby Poetry
- Snyder, Gary - Collected poems 821 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Allen, Ansgar - Cynicism 109 A
- Badiou, Alain - Badiou by Badiou 194 B
- Chalmers, David John - Reality+: virtual worlds and the problems of philosophy 111 C
- Confucius - The wisdom of Confucius 181 C
RELIGION
- Picton, Hervé - A short history of the Church of England: from the Reformation to the present day 283 P
- Waddingham, R. A. J. - Breakspear: the English pope 92 A243 W
- Zelizer, Julian E - Abraham Joshua Heschel: a life of radical amazement 92 H5832 Z
ART
- Feltens, Frank - Ogata Kōrin: art in early modern Japan 759.95 O
- Manes, Cara - Alexander Calder: modern from the start 730.92 C
- Morris, Desmond - The British surrealists 709.2 M
- Powell, Richard J. - Black art: a cultural history 704 P
- Rorimer, James J. - Monuments man: the mission to save Vermeers, Rembrandts, Da Vincis, and more from the Nazis' grasp 940.5318 R
- Temkin, Ann - Matisse: the Red studio 759.4 M
- Walter Sickert (2022 Tate Britain; Emma Chambers, ed.) 759.2 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Clague, Mark - O say can you hear?: a cultural biography of "The Star-spangled banner" 784.71 C
- Offbeat: British cinema's curiosities, obscurities and forgotten gems 791.4 O
- Saylor, Eric - Vaughan Williams 780.921 S
- Simms, Bryan R. - Berg 92 B483 S
FASHION
- Baring, Louis - Norman Parkinson: a very British glamour 779 P
- Finlay, Victori - Fabric: the hidden history of the material world 677 F
- Silk: fibre, fabric and fashion (Lesley Ellis Miller and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, eds.) 677.4 S OVERSIZE
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Ferrell, Robert H. - Harry S. Truman: a life 92 T867 F
- Kidd, Thomas S. - Thomas Jefferson: a biography of spirit and flesh 92 J455 K
- Kobabe, Maia - Gender queer: a memoir 92 K7515 K
- Leopold, Mark - Idi Amin: the story of Africa's icon of evil 92 A5168 L
- Neiderman, Andrew - The woman beyond the attic: the V. C. Andrews story 92 A5712 N
- Shawcross, Edward - The last emperor of Mexico: the dramatic story of the Habsburg Archduke who created a kingdom in the new world 92 M4648 S
- Wellons, Jay - All that moves us: a pediatric neurosurgeon, his young patients, and their stories of grace and resilience 92 W45295 W
- White, Gayle Jessup - Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a descendant's search for her family's lasting legacy 92 W5841 W
HISTORY
- Berdan, Frances F. - The Aztecs: lost civilization 972 B
- DeJean, Joan E. - The Queen's embroiderer: a true story of Paris, lovers, swindlers, and the first stock market crisis 944.03 D
- Hawksley, Lucinda - Bitten by witch fever: wallpaper & arsenic in the Victorian home 747 H
- Hellinger, Magda - The Nazis knew my name: a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz 940.5315 H
- Howard, Richard - Black cargo (slave trade) 326 H
- Murray, Douglas - The war on the West 901 M
- Parker, Eleanor Catherine - Winters in the world: a journey through the Anglo-Saxon year 942.01 P
- Pincus, Walter - Blown to hell: America's deadly betrayal of the Marshall Islanders (nuclear testing 1946 to 1958) 623.4 P
- Rogoyska, Jane - Surviving Katyń: Stalin's Polish massacre and the search for truth 940.5405 R
- Schaub, Diana - His greatest speeches: how Lincoln moved the nation 973.7 S
- Sebestyen, Victor - Budapest: between East and West 943.91 S
- Shambaugh, David L. - China's leaders: from Mao to now 951 S
- Watson, Robert P. - George Washington's final battle: the epic struggle to build a capital city and a nation 973.4 W
SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL HISTORY
- Ashon, Will - The passengers (oral history of contemporary UK) 828 A
- Campbell, Hayley - All the living and the dead: from embalmers to executioners, an exploration of the people who have made death their life's work 393 H
- Lister, Kate - Harlots, whores & hackabouts: a history of sex for sale 306.7 L
- Marx, W. David - Status and culture: how our desire for social rank creates taste, identity, art, fashion, and constant change 305.5 M
- The American crisis: what went wrong, how we recover (Cullen Murphy, ed.; writings from The Atlantic) 973.933 A
WAR
- Donohue, Joh - The greatest beer run ever: a memoir of friendship, loyalty, and war 959.704 D
- Kennedy, Paul M. - Victory at sea: naval power and the transformation of the global order in World War II 940.545 K
- Scott, Jame - Black snow: Curtis LeMay, the firebombing of Tokyo, and the road to the atomic bomb 940.544 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Hemmer, Nicole - Partisans: the conservative revolutionaries who remade American politics in the 1990s 320.9 H
- Briggs, Laura - How all politics became reproductive politics: from welfare reform to foreclosure to Trump 363.4 B
- Leahy, Patrick J. - The road taken: a memoir 92 L43487 L
- Scarry, Robert J. - Millard Fillmore 92 F4872 S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Brands, Hal - Danger zone: the coming conflict with China 327.73 B
- Eisenberg, Carolyn Woods - Drawing the line: the American decision to divide Germany, 1944-1949 943.086 E
- Rudd, Kevin - The avoidable war: the dangers of a catastrophic conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China 327.73 R
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Chancellor, Edward - The price of time: the real story of interest 332.8 C
- DeLong, J. Bradford - Slouching towards utopia: an economic history of the twentieth century 330.9 D
- Steinmetz, Greg - American rascal: how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune 92 G6969 S
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Audubon, John James - Audubon at sea: the coastal & transatlantic adventures of John James Audubon 92 A916 A
- George, Donald W. - The way of wanderlust: the best travel writing of Don George 910.4 G
- Reséndez, Andrés - Conquering the Pacific: an unknown mariner and the final great voyage of the Age of Discovery 92 M38194 R
- Stodola, Sarah - The last resort: a chronicle of paradise, profit, and peril at the beach 910 S
LAW
- Goodwin, Michele - Policing the womb: invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood 363.4 G
- Hedges, Chris - Our class: trauma and transformation in an American prison 365 H
- Landsberg, Brian K. - Revolution by law: the federal government and the desegregation of Alabama schools 345 L
- Lipton, Jacqueline D. - Law and authors: a legal handbook for writers 655.6 L
CRIME
- Bullough, Oliver - Butler to the world: how Britain helps the world's worst people launder money, commit crimes, and get away with anything 364 B
- Marshall, Jonathan - Dark quadrant: organized crime, big business, and the corruption of American democracy: from Truman to Trump 364.13 M
- Michel, Casey - American kleptocracy: how the U.S. created the world's greatest money laundering scheme in history 364 M
- Pompeo, Joe - Blood & ink: the scandalous jazz age double murder that hooked America on true crime 364.1 P
PSYCHOLOGY
- Ball, Philip - The book of minds: how to understand ourselves and other beings, from animals to AI to aliens 153 B
- Krasnostein, Sarah - The believer: encounters with the beginning, the end, and our place in the middle 121 K
- O'Connor, Mary-Frances - The grieving brain: the surprising science of how we learn from love and loss 155.9 O
FOOD
- Freedman, Paul - Why food matters 641.3 F
- Gehrer, Julienne - Martha Lloyd's household book: the original manuscript from Jane Austen's kitchen 641.5 G
- Kushner, Kim - The modern table: kosher recipes for everyday gatherings 641.5 K
- Nelson, Scott Reynolds - Oceans of grain: how American wheat remade the world 338.1 N