New Books – December 2024
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Aciman, André - Roman year: a memoir
- Aijazuddin, Komail - Manboobs: a memoir of musicals, visas, hope, and cake
- Amrith, Sunil - The burning earth: a history
- Anolik, Lili - Didion & Babitz
- Asare, Masi - Blues mamas & Broadway belters: Black women, voice, and the musical stage
- Beck, Richard - Homeland: the war on terror in American life
- Birx, Deborah L. - Silent invasion: the untold story of the Trump administration, Covid-19, and preventing the next pandemic before it's too late
- Bloom, Emily C. - I cannot control everything forever: a memoir of motherhood, science, and art
- Brand, Dionne - Salvage: readings from the wreck
- Brown, Craig - Q: a voyage around the queen
- Brown, Stephanie - The case of the disappearing Gauguin: a study of authenticity and the art market
- Cockburn, Patrick - Believe nothing until it is officially denied: Claud Cockburn and the rise of guerrilla journalism
- Crowther, Gail - Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
- Danticat, Edwidge - We're alone: essays
- Diliberto, Gioia - Firebrands: the untold story of four women who made and unmade Prohibition
- Esposito, Richard - Jimmy Breslin: the man who told the truth
- Fernando, S. H. - The chronicles of DOOM: unraveling rap's masked iconoclast
- Gladwell, Malcolm - Revenge of the tipping point: overstories, superspreaders, and the rise of social engineering
- Glinter, Ezra - Menachem Mendel Schneerson: becoming the Messiah
- Grisham, John - Framed: astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions
- Hastings, Max - Operation Biting: the 1942 parachute assault to capture Hitler's radar
- Hochschild, Arlie Russell - Stolen pride: loss, shame, and the rise of the right
- Holland, James - Cassino '44: the brutal battle for Rome
- How women made music: a revolutionary history from NPR Music
- Johnson, Boris - Unleashed
- King, Charles - Every valley: the desperate lives and troubled times that made Handel's Messiah
- Kirby, Terry - The newsmongers: a history of tabloid journalism
- Lévy, Bernard-Henri - Israel alone
- Levy, Deborah - The position of spoons: and other intimacies
- MacNicol, Glynnis - I'm mostly here to enjoy myself: one woman's pursuit of pleasure in Paris
- McCarten, Anthony - Warren and Bill: Gates, Buffett, and the friendship that changed the world
- Navalʹnyĭ, Alekseĭ - Patriot: a memoir
- Neal, Larry - Any day now: toward a Black aesthetic
- Oliver, Henry - Second act: what late bloomers can tell you about reinventing your life
- Peele, Jordan - Us
- Presley, Lisa Marie - From here to the great unknown: a memoir
- Radclyffe, Oliver - Frighten the horses: a memoir
- Robertson, Aaron - The Black utopians: searching for paradise and the promised land in America
- Sacks, Oliver - Letters
- Schaap, Rosie - The slow road north: how I found peace in an improbable country
- Scheijen, Sjeng - The avant-gardists: artists in revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935
- Schmiesing, Ann - The Brothers Grimm: a biography
- Sobel, Dava - The elements of Marie Curie: how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science
- Thomas, June - A place of our own: six spaces that shaped queer women's culture
- Walker, Sara Imari - Life as no one knows it: the physics of life's emergence
- Zehme, Bill - Carson the magnificent
FICTION
- Aira, César - Festival: & Game of the worlds
- Alcott, Kathleen - Emergency: stories
- Almodóvar, Pedro - The last dream
- Anderson, M. T. - Nicked
- Atay, Oğuz - Waiting for the fear
- Attenberg, Jami - A reason to see you again: a novel
- Cauley, Kashana - The survivalists: a novel
- Constable, Harriet - The instrumentalist
- Espach, Alison - The wedding people: a novel
- Greathead, Kate - The book of George: a novel
- Hachemi, Munir - Living things
- Haddon, Mark - Dogs and monsters: stories
- Hallberg, Garth Risk - The second coming: a novel
- Lavery, Daniel M. - Women's hotel: a novel
- Lerner, Betsy - Shred sisters: a novel
- McFarlane, Fiona - Highway thirteen: stories
- Napolitano, Ann - Within arm's reach: a novel
- Nathan, Patrick - The future was color: a novel
- Noyes, Anna - The Blue Maiden: a novel
- Obioma, Chigozie - The road to the country: a novel
- Price, Richard - Lazarus man
- Rieger, Susan - Like mother, like mother: a novel
- Self, Will - Elaine: a novel
- Shafak, Elif - There are rivers in the sky: a novel
- Shattuck, Jessica - Last house: or the age of oil
- Stoopendaal, Andrés - The Dunning-Kruger effect: a novel
- Thomas, Joseph Earl - God bless you, Otis Spunkmeyer
- Todd, Ruby - Bright objects: a novel
- Trabucco Zerán, Alia - Clean
- Zaher, Yasmin - The coin: a novel
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Allan, Barbara - Antiques slay belles
- Archer, Jeffrey - An eye for an eye
- Barton, Fiona - Talking to strangers
- Berenson, Laurien - Peg and Rose play the ponies
- Bowen, Rhys - We three queens
- Brand, Christianna - Suddenly at his residence
- Brown, Rita Mae - Time will tell: a novel
- Carrasco, Katrina - Rough trade
- Child, Lee - In too deep
- Collins, Max Allan - Quarry's return
- Coombs, Amelia Diane - Drop dead sisters
- Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Identity unknown
- Deaver, Jeffery - Fatal intrusion: a novel
- Gerber, Daryl Wood - Murder on the page
- Goldberg, Lee - Ashes never lie
- Griffiths, Elly - The man in black: and other stories
- Harkaway, Nick - Karla's choice: a John le Carré novel
- James, Peter - One of us is dead
- Jurczyk, Eva - That night in the library: a novel
- Kelly, Vanessa - Murder in Highbury
- Lapena, Shari - What have you done?
- Margolin, Phillip - An insignificant case: a thriller
- McCloskey, David - The seventh floor: a novel
- McPherson, Catriona - Deep beneath us
- Mizushima, Margaret - Gathering mist
- Mukherjee, Abir - Hunted
- Munier, Paula - The night woods
- O'Connor, Carlene - You have gone too far
- Penny, Louise - The grey wolf
- Quinn, Kate - The Briar Club: a novel
- Rankin, Ian - Midnight and blue
- Stevenson, Benjamin - Everyone this Christmas has a secret: a festive mystery
- Wegert, Tessa - The coldest case
- Williams, Beatriz - The author's guide to murder: a novel
- Wrobel, Stephanie - The Hitchcock Hotel
POETRY
- Shepherd, Reginald - The selected Shepherd
- Teague, Alexandra - [ominous music intensifying]: poems
- Waldrep, G. C. - The opening ritual
OVERSIZE
- All these liberations: women artists in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection
- Bloodworth, Sandra - Contemporary art underground: MTA Arts & Design New York
- Color in motion: chromatic explorations of cinema
- Cyberpunk: envisioning possible futures through cinema
- Jorgensen, Jay - Creating the illusion: a fashionable history of Hollywood costume designers
- McMahon, Peter - Cape Cod modern: midcentury architecture and community on the Outer Cape
IN THE STACKS
FICTION
- Brahms, Caryl - No bed for Bacon F B
- Korshak, Yvonne - Pericles and Aspasia: a story of ancient Greece F K
- Patchett, Ann - Bel canto: a novel: annotated edition 823 P
LITERATURE
- Blackwell, Stephen H. - Nabokov's secret trees 823 N
- Dickinson, Emily - The letters of Emily Dickinson 92 D553 D
- Gold, Lyta - Dangerous fictions: the fear of fantasy and the invention of reality 801 G
- Holland, Vyvyan Beresford - Son of Oscar Wilde 92 H7373 H
BIOGRAPHY
- Barnhisel, Greg - Code name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the nexus of poetry, espionage, and American power 92 P3622 B
- - 42 today: Jackie Robinson and his legacy 92 R6622 F
HISTORY
- Cox, Christopher - Woodrow Wilson: the light withdrawn 92 W7543 C
- Kousser, Rachel - Alexander at the end of the world: the forgotten final years of Alexander the Great 92 A374 K
- Lipman, Andrew - Squanto: a native odyssey 92 S7732 L
WORLD WAR II & THE HOLOCAUST
- Auerbach, Rachel - Warsaw testament 940.5315 A
- Ayed, Nahlah - The war we won apart: the untold story of two elite agents who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII 940.5485 A
PHILOSOPHY
- Frankl, Viktor E. - Embracing hope: on freedom, responsibility & the meaning of life 150 F
- Maimonides, Moses - The guide to the perplexed: a new translation 181.3 M
- May, Rollo - Man's search for himself 155.2 M
ARCHITECTURE
- Adjaye, David - David Adjaye: re-storying history 720.92 A
- Broderick, Mosette - Fifth Avenue: architecture and society: a history of America's street of dreams 720.973 B
WRITING
- Lucas, F. L. - Style: the art of writing well 808 L
- Oliver, Mary - A poetry handbook 808.1 O
BUSINESS
- Nader, Ralph - The rebellious CEO: 12 leaders who did it right 658.3 N
- Williams, Kyle Edward - Taming the octopus: the long battle for the soul of the corporation 330.973 W
SCIENCE & TECHONOLOGY
- Frazier, Kendrick - Shadows of science: how to uphold science, detect pseudoscience, and expose antiscience in the age of disinformation 500 F
- Smith, Andrew - Devil in the stack: a code odyssey 005 S
CRIME
- Adelstein, Jake - Tokyo noir: in and out of Japan's underworld Jake Adelstein 364.1 A
- Laurino, Maria - The price of children: stolen lives in a land without choice 362.7 L