February 2014
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Bilton, Nick - Hatching Twitter: a true story of money, power, friendship, and betrayal
- Connelly, Joan Breton - The Parthenon enigma
- Gates, Robert Michael - Duty: memoirs of a secretary at war
- Guengerich, Galen - God revised: how religion must evolve in a scientific age
- Harford, Tim - The undercover economist strikes back: how to run-- or ruin-- an economy
- Henderson, Artis - Unremarried widow: a memoir
- Hendrix, Jimi - Starting at zero
- Hook, Philip - Breakfast at Sotheby's: an A-Z of the art world
- Joffe, Josef - The myth of America's decline: politics, economics, and a half century of false prophecies
- Johnson, Diane - Flyover lives: a memoir
- Lamb-Shapiro, Jessica - Promise land: my journey through America's self-help culture
- Landau, David - Arik: the life of Ariel Sharon
- Lesser, Wendy - Why I read: the serious pleasure of books
- Mead, Rebecca - My life in Middlemarch
- No man's land: writings from a world at war (chosen and introduced by Pete Ayrton)
- Shakespeare, Nicholas - Priscilla: the hidden life of an Englishwoman in wartime France
- Sherman, Gabriel - The loudest voice in the room: how the brilliant, bombastic Roger Ailes built Fox News-- and divided a country
- Shteyngart, Gary - Little failure: a memoir
- Stossel, Scott - My age of anxiety: fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind
- Tirella, Joseph - Tomorrow-land: the 1964-65 World's Fair and the transformation of America
- Winder, Simon - Danubia: a personal history of Habsburg Europe
FICTION
- Allen, Sarah Addison - Lost Lake
- Baker, Tiffany - Mercy Snow: a novel
- Beah, Ishmael - Radiance of tomorrow
- Cartwright, Justin - Lion heart
- De Waal, Elisabeth - The exiles return
- Doctorow, E. L. - Andrew's brain: a novel
- Drndić, Daša - Trieste (translated from the Croatian)
- Duffy, P. S. - The cartographer of no man's land
- Elo, Elisabeth. - North of Boston
- Finch, Charles - The last enchantments
- Greenway, Alice - The bird skinner
- Horan, Nancy - Under the wide and starry sky: a novel
- Howard, Elizabeth Jane - All change: volume five of The Cazalet chronicles
- Joyce, Rachel - Perfect: a novel
- Kidd, Sue Monk - The invention of wings
- Krentz, Jayne Ann - River road
- Lee, Chang-rae - On such a full sea
- Margolin, Phillip - Worthy Brown's daughter
- Maupin, Armistead - The days of Anna Madrigal
- Ndibe, Okey - Foreign Gods, Inc.
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Carthage
- Offill, Jenny - Dept. of speculation
- Padura, Leonardo - The man who loved dogs (translated from the Spanish)
- Payton, Brian - The wind is not a river
- Quindlen, Anna - Still life with bread crumbs
- Robson, Jennifer - Somewhere in France
- Scott, James - The kept: a novel
- Smith, April - A star for Mrs. Blake
- Urquhart, Rachel - The Visionist
- Wagner, Bruce - The empty chair: two novellas
- Zuluaga, Claudia - Fort Starlight
MYSTERIES
- Adler-Olsen, Jussi - The purity of vengeance (translated from the Danish)
- Arnaldur Indridason - Strange shores (translated from the Icelandic)
- Axelrod, Steven - Nantucket sawbuck: a Henry Kennis mystery
- Block, Lawrence - The burglar who counted the spoons: a Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery
- Bradley, C. Alan - The dead in their vaulted arches: a Flavia de Luce novel*
- Brett, Simon - The strangling on the stage*
- Clark, Mary Jane Behrends - That old black magic
- Coyle, Cleo - Billionaire blend
- Dolan, Harry - The last dead girl
- Ellis, David - The last alibi
- Ewan, Chris - Dead line
- Gage, Leighton - The ways of evil men
- Gardner, Lisa - Fear nothing: a novel
- Gregson, J. M. - Cry of the children: a Lambert and Hook mystery*
- Griffin, W. E. B. - Hazardous duty
- Grimes, Martha. - The way of all fish: a novel
- Harris, Robert - An officer and a spy
- Hurley, Graham - Touching distance*
- King, Dana - Grind Joint
- Knott, Robert - Robert B. Parker's Bull River
- Koontz, Dean R. - Innocence: a novel
- Lowell, Elizabeth - Reckless love
- McGee, James - Rebellion: a thriller in Napoleon's Paris
- McGilloway, Brian - The rising*
- Miller, Maryann - Stalking season: a seasons series mystery
- Neuhaus, Nele - Bad wolf (translated from ther German)
- Owen, Howard - The Philadelphia Quarry
- Quinn, Spencer - The sound and the furry: a Chet and Bernie Mystery
- Rankin, Ian - Saints of the Shadow Bible*
- Rowson, Pauline - Death surge: a DI Andy Horton mystery
- Scerbanenco, Giorgio - Betrayal (translated from the Italian)
- Staincliffe, Cath - Dead to me*
- Taylor, Brad - The Polaris protocol: a Pike Logan thriller
- Todd, Charles - Hunting shadows: an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery*
- Tursten, Helene - The fire dance (translated from the Swedish)
- Unger, Lisa - In the blood
- Upson, Nicola - The death of Lucy Kyte*
- Woods, Stuart - Standup guy
SHORT STORIES
- Busch, Frederick - The stories of Frederick Busch
- Spencer, Elizabeth - Starting over: stories
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Auerbach, Erich - Time, history, and literature: selected essays of Erich Auerbach 809 A
- Batchelor, Bob - Gatsby: the cultural history of the great American novel 823 F
- Cowley, Malcolm - The long voyage: selected letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987 92 C8758 C
- Ebest, Sally Barr - The banshees: a literary history of Irish American women writers 820.9 E
- Eldred, Janet Carey - Literate zeal: gender and the making of a New Yorker ethos 070.5 E
- Letters of note: correspondence deserving of a wider audience (compiled by Shaun Usher) 808.86 L
- Mazzotta, Giuseppe - Reading Dante 851 M
- Thoreau in his own time: a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates (Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, ed.) 92 T488 P
- Williams, Rosalind H. - The triumph of human empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the end of the world 809.3 W
POETRY
- Archambeau, Robert Thomas - The poet resigns: poetry in a difficult world 808.1 A
- Hoffman, Tyler - American poetry in performance: from Walt Whitman to hip hop 821.09 H
- Poetry of the First World War: an anthology (Tim Kendall, ed.) 821.08 P
- Scars upon my heart: women's poetry and verse of the First World War (Catherine W. Reilly,ed.) 821.08 S
- Szymborska, Wislawa - Miracle fair: selected poems of Wislawa Szymborska 891.85 S
BOOKS & READING
- The history of Oxford University Press (Ian Gadd, Simon Eliot, W. Roger Louis) 070.5 H
- Isaac, Amanda C. - Take note!: George Washington the reader 92 W318 I
RECENT TRANSLATIONS
- French decadent tales (translation, introduction and notes by Stephen Romer) F F
- Krzhizhanovskii, Sigizmund, - Autobiography of a corpse F K
- Tanpinar, Ahmet Hamdi. - The Time Regulation Institute F T
- Tolstoy, Leo, - The death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession (Peter Carson, transl. ; introduction by Mary Beard) F T
LANGUAGE
- Forsyth, Mark - Horologicon: a day's jaunt through the llost words of the English language 420.9 F
- Leonhardt, Jürgen - Latin: story of a world language 479 L
JOURNALISM
- Brock, George, - Out of print: newspapers, journalism and the business of news in the digital age 070.5 B
- Pasley, Jeffrey L. - The tyranny of printers: newspaper politics in the early American republic 070 P
ART
- Bohm-Duchen, Monica. - Art and the Second World War 709 B
- Daumier: visions of Paris 759.4 D
- Gayford, Martin, - Michelangelo: his epic life 92 M623 G
- Halpern, Janel. - Not the Met: exploring the smaller museums of Manhattan Ref. 917.471 H
- Irvine, Gregory. - Japonisme and the rise of the modern art movement: the arts of the Meiji period: the Khalili collection 709.52 I OVERSIZE
- Oakley, John Howard, - The Greek vase: art of the storyteller 738 O
- Wilton, Andrew. - Five centuries of British painting: from Holbein to Hodgkin 759.2 W
- Witham, Larry, - Piero's light: in search of Piero della Francesca: a Renaissance painter and the revolution in art, science, and religion 759.5 P
Oxford Art Online is available to members. Go to www.nysoclib.org/collection/electronic-resources, or ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.
DECORATIVE ARTS
- A queer history of fashion: from the closet to the catwalk (Valerie Steele, ed.) 746.92 Q
- Cumming, Elizabeth - The arts and crafts movement 745 C
- Rompilla, Ethel - Color for interior design 747 R
- Tellier-Loumagne, Françoise - The art of embroidery: inspirational stitches, textures and surfaces 746 T
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMORIES
- Blythe, Ronald - The time by the sea: Aldeburgh 1955-58 92 B6617 B
- Gallagher, Dorothy - Lillian Hellman: an imperious life 92 H4778 G
- Gould, Lewis L. - Lady Bird Johnson: our environmental First Lady 92 J667 G
- Müller, Melissa - Anne Frank: the biography 92 F8273 M
- Riffenburgh, Beau - Pinkerton's great detective: the amazing life and times of James McParland 92 M4779 R
- Vincent, Leah - Cut me loose: sin and salvation after my ultra-Orthodox girlhood 92 V768 V
- Williams, Tom - A mysterious something in the light: the life of Raymond Chandler 92 C4561 H
MUSIC & DANCE
- Arnold, Denis - Monteverdi (Oxford Master musicians series) 780.92 M
- Ezrahi, Christina - Swans of the Kremlin: ballet and power in Soviet Russia 792.8 E
- Suchet, John - Beethoven: the man revealed 92 B4154 S
- Tunbridge, Laura - The song cycle (Cambridge introductions to music) 784 T
Oxford Music Online is available to members. Go to www.nysoclib.org/collection/electronic-resources
THEATER
- Sanders, Jay. - Rituals of rented island: object theater, loft performance, and the new psychodrama: Manhattan, 1970-1980 709.7471 S
- Snelson, John - Andrew Lloyd Webber 782 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Balkin, J. M. - The laws of change: I ching and the philosophy of life 299.51 B
- Goetz, Stewart - A brief history of the soul 128 G
- Scheffler, Samuel - Death and the afterlife 170 S
RELIGION
- Edwards, Jonathan - Jonathan Edwards: writings from the Great Awakening 230 E
- Hutton, Ronald - Pagan Britain 290 H
- Jacobs, Alan - The Book of Common Prayer: a biography 264.03 J
- Mendelssohn, Moses - Moses Mendelssohn: writings on Judaism, Christianity, & the Bible 296 M
- Rasmussen, Larry L. - Earth-honoring faith: religious ethics in a new key 241 R
PSYCHOLOGY
- Freud, Sigmund - Correspondence: 1904-1938 920 F889 F
- Hofstadter, Douglas R. - Surfaces and essences: analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking 160 H
ECONOMICS
- Deaton, Angus - The great escape: health, wealth, and the origins of inequality 339.2 D
- Friedman, Walter A. - Fortune tellers: the story of America's first economic forecasters 330.973 F
- Pettis, Michael - The great rebalancing: trade, conflict, and the perilous road ahead for the world economy 382 P
WAR
- Vietnam: the real war: a photographic history (introduction by Peter Hamill) 959.704 A
- Benjamin, Medea - Drone warfare: killing by remote control 355.4 B
- Freedman, Lawrence - Strategy: a history 355.4 F
- Hatch, Thom - Glorious war: the Civil War adventures of George Armstrong Custer 92 C987 H
- Hotta, Eri - Japan 1941: countdown to infamy 940.5352 H
- Lloyd, Nick - Hundred days: the campaign that ended World War I 940.42 L
- Tønnesson, Stein - Vietnam 1946: how the war began 959 T
HISTORY
- Angela, Alberto, - A day in the life of ancient Rome 937.06 A
- Egerton, Douglas R. - The wars of Reconstruction: the brief, violent history of America's most progressive era 973.8 E
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila. - A spy in the archives: a memoir of Cold War Russia 947.085 F
- Green, Jonathon, - Days in the life: voices from the English underground 1961 - 1971 942.085 G
- Hayes, Derek, - Historical atlas of the American West: with original maps 912 H OVERSIZE
- Klara, Robert. - The hidden White House: Harry Truman and the reconstruction of America's most famous residence 975.3 K
- Lee, Alexander - The ugly Renaissance 945 L
- Liu, Xinru - The Silk Road in world history 950 L
- Manco, Jean - Ancestral journeys: the peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings 930 M
- New Jersey: a history of the Garden State (Maxine Lurie and Richard Veit, ed.) 974.9 N
- Shenon, Philip - A cruel and shocking act: the secret history of the Kennedy assassination 973.922 S
- Walker, Jonathan - Operation Unthinkable: the Third World War: British plans to attack the Soviet Empire, 1945 940.55 W
CIVIL RIGHTS
- The portable Malcolm X reader (Manning Marable and Garrett Felber, eds.) 320.4 P
- Chappell, David L. - Waking from the dream: the struggle for civil rights in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr. 323.4 C
CRIME
- Caminada, Jerome - Twenty-five years of detective life (Cambridge library collection, first published 1895) 364 C
- Dickie, John - Mafia Republic: Italy's criminal curse: Cosa Nostra, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta from 1946 to the present 364 D
- Horan, James David - Desperate men: revelations from the sealed Pinkerton files 364.1 H
INTELLIGENCE & ESPIONAGE
- Broda, Paul - Scientist spies: a memoir of my three parents and the atom bomb 920 B8643 S
- Fielding, Xan - Hide and seek: the story of a wartime agent 940.548 F
- Medsger, Betty - The burglary: the discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's secret FBI 363 M
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Igler, David - The great ocean: Pacific worlds from Captain Cook to the gold rush 919 I
- Nigg, Joe - Sea monsters: a voyage around the world's most beguiling map 911 N OVERSIZE
- Nooteboom, Cees - Roads to Berlin: detours and riddles in the lands and history of Germany 943.1 N
- Orsi, Jared - Citizen explorer: the life of Zebulon Pike 92 Z410 O
- Snyder, John - Crossing ethiopia: a 1972 photographic journal retracing the last march of Emperor Tewodros to Magdala 916.3 S OVERSIZE
- Thorpe, Nick - The Danube: a journey upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest 914.96 T
SCIENCE
- Eicher, David J. - Comets!: Visitors from deep space 523.6 E
- Piper, Ross - Animal Earth: the amazing diversity of living creatures 590 P
- Russett, Cynthia Eagle - Darwin in America: the intellectual response, 1865-1912 575 R
FOOD
- Cinotto, Simone - The Italian American table: food, family, and community in New York City 305.84 C
- Haley, Andrew P. - Turning the tables: restaurants and the rise of the American middle class, 1880-1920 647.9 H
- Mah, Ann - Mastering the art of French eating: lessons in food and love from a year in Paris 92 M2141 M
NEW YORK
- Colley, David - Prospect Park: Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn masterpiece 974.71 C
- Darien, Andrew T. - Becoming New York's finest: race, gender, and the integration of the NYPD, 1935-1980 352.2 D
- Larson, Scott - Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind: contemporary planning in New York City, 307.76 L