IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Ackerman, Diane - The human age: the world shaped by us
• Affron, Charles - Grand opera: the story of the Met/ Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron.
• Art in America 1945-1970: writings from the age of abstract expressionism, pop art, and minimalism (Jed Perl, ed.)
• Bai, Matt - All the truth is out: the week politics went tabloid
• Biss, Eula - On immunity: an inoculation
• Blow, Charles M. - Fire shut up in my bones: a memoir
• Cumming, Alan - Not my father's son: a memoir
• Darman, Jonathan - Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the dawn of a new America
• Davies, Nick - Hack attack: the inside story of how the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch
• Deresiewicz, William - Excellent sheep: the miseducation of the American elite and the way to a meaningful life
• Dowling, Robert M. - Eugene O'Neill: a life in four acts
• Drezner, Daniel W. - The system worked: how the world stopped another great depression
• Dunham, Lena - Not that kind of girl: a young woman tells you what she's "learned"
• Eig, Jonathan - The birth of the pill: how four crusaders reinvented sex and launched a revolution
• Fukuyama, Francis - Political order and political decay: from the industrial revolution to the globalization of democracy
• Garelick, Rhonda K. - Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the pulse of history
• Goodman, Ruth - How to be a Victorian: a dawn-to-dusk guide to Victorian life
• Hardie, Philip R. - The last Trojan hero: a cultural history of Virgil's Aeneid
• Herbert, Bob - Losing our way: an intimate portrait of a troubled America
• Hobbs, Jeff - The short and tragic life of Robert Peace: a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League
• Isaacson, Walter. - The innovators
• Johnson, Steven - How we got to now: six innovations that made the modern world
• Jones, Dan - The Wars of the Roses: the fall of the Plantagenets and the rise of the Tudors
• Kalman, Maira - My favorite things
• Lear, Norman - Even this I get to experience
• Lurie, Alison - The language of houses: how buildings speak to us
• Luzzi, Joseph - My two Italies
• McPherson, James M. - Embattled rebel: Jefferson Davis as commander in chief
• Mischel, Walter - The marshmallow test: mastering self-control
• Munroe, Randall - What if?: serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions
• Nabokov, Vladimir - Letters to Véra (translated and edited by Olga Voronin and Brian Boyd)
• Nafisi, Azar - The republic of imagination: America in three books
• Nicolson, Adam - The mighty dead: why Homer matters
• Panetta, Leon E. - Worthy fights: a memoir of leadership in war and peace
• Pinker, Steven - The sense of style: the thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century
• Risen, James - Pay any price: greed, power, and endless war
• Roberts, Sam - A history of New York in 101 objects
• Ruhl, Sarah - 100 essays I don't have time to write: on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater
• Secrest, Meryle - Elsa Schiaparelli: a biography
• Sinclair, Anne - My grandfather's gallery: a family memoir of art and war (translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside)
• Smith, Richard Norton - On his own terms: a life of Nelson Rockefeller
• Sykes, Christopher Simon - Hockney: the biography—Volume 2, 1975-2012
• Timberg, Robert - Blue-eyed boy: a memoir
• Weller, Sheila - The news sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour-- and the (ongoing, imperfect, complicated) triumph of women in TV news
• Whitaker, Mark - Cosby: his life and times
• Wilson, Edward O. - The meaning of human existence
• Worsley, Lucy. - The art of the English murder

FICTION

• Abdolah, Kader - The king (translated from the Dutch by Nancy Forest-Flier)
• Amis, Martin - The zone of interest
• Beha, Christopher R. - Arts & entertainments
• Bezmozgis, David - The betrayers: a novel
• Brooks, Malcolm - Painted horses
• Buchan, Elizabeth - I can't begin to tell you
• Clifford, Joe. - Lamentation: a novel
• Cronenberg, David - Consumed: a novel
• Darnielle, John - Wolf in white van
• Drvenkar, Zoran - You (translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside)
• Dugain, Marc - Avenue of the giants (Marc Dugain; translated from the French by Howard Curtis)
• Enger, Lin - The high divide
• Gibson, William - The peripheral
• Grannec, Yannick - The goddess of small victories (translated from the French by Willard Wood)
• Grisham, John - Gray Mountain
• Harrower, Elizabeth - In certain circles
• Hunt, Laird - Neverhome
• Iyer, Lars - Wittgenstein Jr.
• Jacobson, Howard. - J: a novel
• James, Marlon - A brief history of seven killings
• Landis, Dylan - Rainey Royal
• Liss, David - The day of atonement
• Lovett, Charles C. - First impressions: a novel of old books, unexpected love, and Jane Austen
• Magee, Audrey - The undertaking
• Moran, Caitlin - How to build a girl
• Morton, Brian - Florence Gordon
• Munaweera, Nayomi - Island of a thousand mirrors
• Pye, Virginia - River of dust: a novel
• Radziwill, Carole - The widow's guide to sex and dating: a novel
• Rinaldi, Nicholas - The remarkable courtship of General Tom Thumb: a novel
• Robinson, Marilynne - Lila
• Ryan, Hank Phillippi. - Truth be told
• Smiley, Jane - Some luck
• Sonnenberg, Brittani - Home leave
• Stein, Garth - A sudden light
• Stibbe, Nina. - Man at the helm: a novel
• Sussman, Ellen - A wedding in Provence: a novel
• Tessaro, Kathleen - The debutante
• Tóibín, Colm - Nora Webster: a novel
• Trollope, Joanna - Balancing act
• Umrigar, Thrity N. - The story hour: a novel
• Weaver, Tim - Never coming back
• Whitmer, Benjamin - Cry father
• Woodroof, Martha - Small blessings

MYSTERIES

• Prison noir (edited by Joyce Carol Oates)
• Beaton, M. C. - The blood of an Englishman: an Agatha Raisin mystery*
• Brandon, John G.  - A scream in Soho*
• Campion, Alexander - Murder on the Mediterranean
• Castle, Richard - Raging heat
• Cleeves, Ann - Thin air*
• Coleman, Reed Farrel - Robert B. Parker's Blind spot
• Cook, Thomas H. - A dancer in the dust
• Coulter, Catherine - The lost key
• Crombie, Deborah. - To dwell in darkness*
• Donoghue, Clare. - Never look back*
• Francis, Felix. - Dick Francis's Damage*
• Georget, Philippe- Autumn, all the cats return (translated from the French by Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal)
• Higashino, Keigo - Malice (translated by Alexander O. Smith with Elye Alexander)
• Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew - Don't look back
• Johnson, Craig - Wait for signs: twelve Longmire stories
• Kallentoft, Mons - Autumn killing: a thriller
• Larsson, Åsa - The second deadly sin (translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson)
• Levine, Laura - Killing Cupid
• Longworth, M. L.  - Murder on the Île Sordou: a Verlaque and Bonnet Provençal mystery
• Malliet, G. M. - A demon summer*
• Malvaldi, Marco - Three-card monte  (translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis)
• Mayor, Archer - Proof positive: a Joe Gunther novel
• Meier, Leslie - French pastry murder
• Meyer, Deon - Cobra (translated from Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers)
• Mosley, Walter - Rose Gold: an Easy Rawlins mystery
• Nadel, Barbara - Body count
• Reichs, Kathy. - Bones never lie: a novel
• Rendell, Ruth - The girl next door: a novel*
• Robards, Karen - Her last whisper
• Sandford, John - Deadline
• Smith, Derek Howe - The Derek Smith omnibus
• Smith, Dwayne - Forty acres: a thriller
• Spencer, Sally - Supping with the devil: a DCI Paniatowski mystery*
• Weaver, Ashley - Murder at the Brightwell
• Woods, Stuart - Paris match

POETRY

• Bierds, Linda - Roget's illusion
• Glück, Louise - Faithful and virtuous night
• Matejka, Adrian - The big smoke
• Mitchell, Adrian - Come on everybody: poems 1953-2008
• Murray, Les A. - New selected poems
• Strand, Mark - Collected poems

SHORT STORIES

• Dubliners 100: fifteen new stories inspired by the original (edited by Thomas Morris)
• Atwood, Margaret - Stone mattress: nine tales
• Mantel, Hilary - The assassination of Margaret Thatcher: stories
• Oates, Joyce Carol - Lovely, dark, deep: stories
• Rich, Simon - Spoiled brats: stories
• Thompson, Jean - The witch: and other tales re-told

IN THE STACKS

LITERARY CRITICISM & ESSAYS

• Mock modernism: an anthology of parodies, travesties, frauds, 1910-1935  809.9 M
• Artaud, Antonin, - Watchfiends & rack screams: works from the final period 841 A
• Borges, Jorge Luis - Conversations 863 B
• Grenier, Roger - Palace of books 844 G
• Howe, Irving - A voice still heard: selected essays of Irving Howe 824 H
• Johnson, Barbara - The Barbara Johnson reader: the surprise of otherness  824 J
• Leopardi, Giacomo - Passions 858 L
• Maristain, Mónica - Bolaño: a biography in conversations  92 B688 B
• Rabinowitz, Paula - American pulp: how paperbacks brought modernism to Main Street 655.4 R
• Westlake, Donald E. - The getaway car: a Donald Westlake nonfiction miscellany 823 W

POETRY

• An anthology of concrete poetry 808.81 A
• Beach, Christopher - The Cambridge introduction to twentieth-century American poetry 821.09 B
• Fagan, Deirdre J. - Critical companion to Robert Frost: a literary reference to his life and work 821.09 F
• Howe, Fanny - Second childhood 821 H
• Plumly, Stanley - The immortal evening: a legendary dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb 821.09 P

ART

• Burnham, Helen - Looking east: western artists and the allure of Japan 709.52 B
• Cézanne, Paul - The letters of Paul Cézanne 92 C4255 C
• Danto, Arthur C. - Remarks on art and philosophy  701 D
• Hales, Dianne R. - Mona Lisa: a life discovered 759.9 H
• Henri Matisse: the cut-outs (MoMA) 759.4 M
• Lunday, Elizabeth - The modern art invasion: Picasso, Duchamp, and the 1913 Armory Show that scandalized America 708 L
• Pastoureau, Michel - Green: the history of a color 152 P
• Suzuki, Sarah J. S. - The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: prints and posters from The Museum of Modern Art 769 T

FASHION

• Women in clothes (Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits & 639 others) 391.2 W
• Hulanicki, Barbara - The Biba years: 1963-1975 746.92 H
• Spivack, Emily - Worn stories 391 S

FILM

• Auiler, Dan - Hitchcock's notebooks: an authorized and illustrated look inside the creative mind of Alfred Hitchcock 791.4 A
• Cronin, Paul. - Werner Herzog: a guide for the perplexed 791.4 C

MUSIC

• Adorno, Theodor W. - In search of Wagner 780.92 W
• Macdonald, Hugh - Bizet 780.92 B
• Ritchie, Fiona - Wayfaring strangers: the musical voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia 784.4 R
• Shawn, Allen - Leonard Bernstein: an American musician  92 B5314 S
• Thomson, Virgil - Virgil Thomson: music chronicles 1940-1954 780.8 T

FICTION

• Harrower, Elizabeth - The long prospect  F H
• Mukasonga, Scholastique - Our Lady of the Nile (translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner) F M
• Roth, Joseph - The hundred days (newly translated from the German by Richard Panchyk) F R
• Simenon, Georges - Night at the crossroads (translated from the French by Linda Coverdale) F S
• Walser, Robert - The walk (translated from the Germanby Christopher Middleton & Susan Bernofsky) F W

JOURNALISM

• No future for you: salvos from The Baffler  824.08 N
• Boswell, James - Facts and inventions: selections from the journalism of James Boswell  824 B
• Page, Clarence - Culture worrier: reflections on race, politics and social change: selected columns 1984-2014  325.26 P

LANGUAGE

• Alexander, William - Flirting with French: how a language charmed me, seduced me & nearly broke my heart 440 A
• Gwynne, N. M. - Gwynne's grammar: the ultimate introduction to grammar and the writing of good English  425 G
• Hsueh, ShaoLan - Chineasy: the new way to read Chinese 495 H

BIOGRAPHY

• Auricchio, Laura - The marquis: Lafayette reconsidered  92 L1615 A
• Cooney, Kara - The woman who would be king ((Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt) 92 H3655 C
• Hendricks, John S. - A curious discovery: an entrepreneur's story 92 H4986 H
• Lachman, Gary - Rudolf Steiner: an introduction to his life and work  92 S8221 L
• Larman, Alexander - Blazing Star: the life and times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester  92 R6765 L
• Sarfatti, Margherita - My fault: Mussolini as I knew him 92 M9895 S
• Swift, Will - Pat and Dick: the Nixons, an intimate portrait of a marriage 920 N736 S

U.S. HISTORY

• Foley, Neil - Mexicans in the making of America 305.85 F
• Glover, Lorri - Founders as fathers: the private lives and politics of the American revolutionaries 920 G575 F
• Holzer, Harold - Lincoln and the power of the press: the war for public opinion 973.7 H
• Snow, Peter, - When Britain burned the White House: the 1814 invasion of Washington  973.52 S
• Teachout, Zephyr - Corruption in America: from Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to Citizens United  364.13 T
• Welles, Gideon - The Civil War diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's secretary of the Navy: the original manuscript edition  92 W449 W

WORLD HISTORY

• Constantino, Renato - A history of the Philippines: from the Spanish colonization to the Second World War  959.9 C
• Hazan, Éric - A people's history of the French Revolution  944.04 H
• Moorhouse, Roger - The devils' alliance: Hitler's pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 940.532 M
• Siedentop, Larry - Inventing the individual: the origins of Western liberalism 323.4 S
• Wachtel, Andrew - The Balkans in world history 949.6 W
• Winroth, Anders. - The age of the Vikings 948 W

ANTIQUITY

• Azoulay, Vincent - Pericles of Athens 92 P441 A
• Toner, J. P. - The Roman guide to slave management: a treatise by nobleman Marcus Sidonius Falx 306.3 T
• Wilson, Emily R. - The greatest empire: a life of Seneca 92 S475 W

PHILOSOPHY

• Beiser, Frederick C. - After Hegel: German philosophy, 1840-1900 193 B
• Hill, Leslie - The Cambridge introduction to Jacques Derrida 194 H
• Melzer, Arthur M. - Philosophy between the lines: the lost history of esoteric writing 109 M

MEDICINE

• Gawande, Atul - Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end  362.1 G
• Rosen, Dennis, - Vital conversations: improving communication between doctors and patients  610 R

ECONOMICS

• Karabell, Zachary - The leading indicators: a short history of the numbers that rule our world 330.1 K
• Komlos, John - What every economics student needs to know and doesn't get in the usual principles text  330 K
• Lanchester, John - How to speak money: what the money people say—and what it really means  330.1 L

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Cuomo, Andrew Mark - All things possible: setbacks and success in politics and life 92 C9737 C
• Furet, François, - Lies, passions, and illusions: the democratic imagination in the twentieth century 335.4 F
• Ryan, Alan - On Tocqueville: democracy and America 320.9 R

ENGLAND

• Ackroyd, Peter, - The history of England - Volume III: The Civil War 942.06 A
• Childs, Jessie - God's traitors: terror and faith in Elizabethan England  942.05 C
• Kynaston, David - Modernity Britain: a shake of the dice, 1959-62 942.085 K
• Meek, James - Private island: why Britain now belongs to someone else 330.942 M
• White, Jerry - London in the twentieth century: a city and its people 942.1 W

LAW

• Barrett, Paul - Law of the jungle: the $19 billion legal battle over oil in the rain forest and the lawyer who'd stop at nothing to win  344 B
• Brooks, Peter - Troubling confessions: speaking guilt in law & literature364 B
• Chemerinsky, Erwin - The case against the Supreme Court 347.99 C

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

• Cliff, Nigel - The last crusade: the epic voyages of Vasco da Gama 910.9 C
• Eimer, David - The Emperor far away: travels at the edge of China 915.1 E
• Kaster, Robert A. - The Appian Way: ghost road, queen of roads  937 K
• Szerb, Antal - Third tower: journeys in Italy  914.5 S

MIDDLE EAST

• Al-Ali, Zaid - The struggle for Iraq's future: how corruption, incompetence and sectarianism have undermined democracy  956.704 A
• Bennis, Phyllis - Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a primer  956.94 B

RELIGION

• Cook, Michael - Ancient religions, modern politics: the Islamic case in comparative perspective 297.272 C
• Hart, David Bentley - Atheist delusions: the Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies  239.1 H
• Sardar, Ziauddin - Mecca: the sacred city 297 S

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• Foster, Anne L. - Projections of power: the United States and Europe in colonial Southeast Asia, 1919-1941 959 F
• LeoGrande, William M. - Back channel to Cuba: the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana  327.73 L
• Markey, Daniel Seth - No exit from Pakistan: America's tortured relationship with Islamabad 327.73 M

WAR

• Beevor, Antony - Crete 1941: the battle and the resistance  940.542 B
• Davidson, Andrew - A doctor in the great war  940.49 D
• Thompson, Julian - Forgotten voices of Burma: the Second World War's forgotten conflict 940.542 T
• Webb, Mike - From Downing Street to the trenches: first-hand accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916 940.48 W

SCIENCE & NATURE

• Barash, David P. - Buddhist biology: ancient Eastern wisdom meets modern Western science 215 B
• Leroi, Armand Marie - The lagoon: how Aristotle invented science 574 L
• Raffin, Michele - The birds of Pandemonium: life among the exotic and the endangered 639.97 R
• Shephard, Ben - Headhunters: the search for a science of the mind 612.8 S

TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY

• Brynjolfsson, Erik - The second machine age: work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies 303.4 B
• Carr, Nicholas G. - The glass cage: automation and us 303.4 C
• Harris, Michael - The end of absence: reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection 302 H
• Taylor, Mark C. - Speed limits: where time went and why we have so little left 303.4 T

FOOD & DRINK

• Bailey, Mark - Of all the gin joints: stumbling through Hollywood history 979.49 B
• Balinska, Maria - The bagel: the surprising history of a modest bread 641.8 B
• Wallach, Jennifer Jensen - How America eats: a social history of U.S. food and culture 394.1 W

NEW YORK

• Bowman, Matthew Burton - The urban pulpit: New York City and the fate of liberal evangelicalism 277.471 B
• Ocejo, Richard E. - Upscaling downtown: from Bowery saloons to cocktail bars in New York City 307.76 O
• Watson, Aldren Auld - Waterfront New York: images of the 1920s and '30s 917.471 W

AUDIO

• Bowles, Paul - The sheltering sky (9 CDs) Lobby Audio-CD B
• Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury tales (8 CDs) Lobby Audio-CD 821 C
• Hammett, Dashiell - Red harvest (5 CDs) Audio-CD H
• Steinbeck, John - The grapes of wrath (17 CDs) lobby Audio-CD S
• Tartt, Donna - The goldfinch  (26 CDs) Lobby Audio-CD T

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