April 2014
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Allawi, Ali A. - Faisal I of Iraq
- Bailey, Blake - The splendid things we planned: a family portrait
- Baraton, Alain - The gardener of Versailles: my life in the world's grandest garden (translated from the French)
- Bauer, Shane - A sliver of light: three Americans imprisoned in Iran
- Beckman, John - American fun: four centuries of joyous revolt
- Bennett, Jeffrey O. - What is relativity?: an intuitive introduction to Einstein's ideas, and why they matter
- Best European fiction 2014
- Chase, Clifford - The tooth fairy: parents, lovers, and other wayward deities : a memoir
- Cook, Kevin - Kitty Genovese: the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America
- Coyle, Diane - GDP: a brief but affectionate history
- De Botton, Alain - The news: a user's manual
- Feifer, Gregory - Russians: the people behind the power
- Goldstein, Rebecca - Plato at the Googleplex: why philosophy won't go away
- The greatest movies you'll never see: unseen masterpieces by the world's greatest directors (Simon Braund, ed.)
- Gross, Michael - House of outrageous fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the world's most powerful address
- Halbertal, Moshe - Maimonides: life and thought (translated from the Hebrew)
- Harris, Mark - Five came back: a story of Hollywood and the Second World War
- Head, Simon - Mindless: why smarter machines are making dumber humans
- Jacobsen, Annie - Operation Paperclip: the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America
- Jenkins, Dan - His ownself: a semi-memoir
- Judis, John B. - Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the origins of the Arab/Israeli conflict
- Kennan, George F. - The Kennan diaries
- Kirn, Walter - Blood will out: the true story of a murder, a mystery, and a masquerade
- Levingston, Steven - Little demon in the City of Light: a true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris
- Love letters of the Great War (Mandy Kirkby, ed.)
- MacPherson, Myra - The scarlet sisters: sex, suffrage, and scandal in the Gilded Age
- Macur, Juliet - Cycle of lies: the fall of Lance Armstrong
- Mazzeo, Tilar J. - The hotel on Place Vendôme: life, death, and betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
- Montès, Christian - American capitals: a historical geography
- Perry, Douglas - Eliot Ness: the rise and fall of an American hero
- Renwick, Robin - Helen Suzman: bright star in a dark chamber : the biography
- Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson - American cocktail: a colored girl in the world
- Schechter, Harold - The mad sculptor: the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation
- Scott, Michael - Delphi: a history of the center of the ancient world
- Sutherland, Daniel E. - Whistler: a life for art's sake
- Tarnoff, Ben - The bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco writers who reinvented American literature
- Townley, Alvin - Defiant: the POWs who endured Vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them, and the one who never returned
- White, Edward - The tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America
FICTION
- Afrika, Tatamkulu - Bitter Eden
- Archer, Jeffrey - Be careful what you wish for
- Ball, Jesse - Silence once begun
- Boccaccio, Giovanni - The decameron (newly translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn)
- Butler, Nickolas - Shotgun lovesongs
- Charyn, Jerome - I am Abraham: (a novel of Lincoln and the Civil War)
- Clement, Jennifer - Prayers for the stolen
- D'Aguiar, Fred - Children of paradise
- Duncan, Glen - By blood we live
- Dunmore, Helen - The lie
- Holsinger, Bruce W. - A burnable book
- Hummel, Maria - Motherland
- James, Peter - Dead letter drop
- Jones, Holly Goddard - The next time you see me
- Kaysen, Susanna - Cambridge
- Korelitz, Jean Hanff - You should have known
- Kureishi, Hanif - The last word
- LaPlante, Alice - A circle of wives
- Li, Yiyun - Kinder than solitude
- McMahon, Jennifer - The winter people
- Mengestu, Dinaw - All our names
- Murakami, Ryu - From the fatherland, with love (translated from the Japanese)
- Nesbit, TaraShea - The wives of Los Alamos
- Nunn, Kem - Chance
- Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo - Dust
- Oyeyemi, Helen - Boy, snow, bird
- Penman, Sharon Kay - A king's ransom
- Petterson, Per - Ashes in my mouth, sand in my shoes (translated from the Norwegian)
- Quick, Matthew - The good luck of right now
- Schaffert, Timothy - The swan gondola
- Wildgen, Michelle - Bread and butter
MYSTERIES
- Beaton, M. C. - Death of a policeman*
- Black, Benjamin - The black-eyed blonde: a Philip Marlowe novel
- Black, Cara - Murder in Pigalle
- Blair, Peggy J. - The poisoned pawn
- Bowen, Rhys - City of darkness and light
- Box, C. J. - Stone cold
- Carter, M. J. - The strangler vine
- Childs, Laura - Steeped in evil: Tea shop mystery #15
- Cleave, Paul - The cleaner
- Coben, Harlan - Missing you
- Costantini, Roberto - The deliverance of evil (translated from the Italian)
- Cussler, Clive - The bootlegger: an Isaac Bell adventure
- A darker shade of Sweden: original stories by Sweden's greatest crime writers (John-Henri Holmberg, ed.)
- Deaver, Jeffery - Trouble in mind: the collected stories
- Delaney, Luke - The toy taker
- DeSilva, Bruce - Providence rag: a Mulligan novel
- Ellison, J. T. - When shadows fall
- Estleman, Loren D. - Don't look for me: an Amos Walker novel
- Evanovich, Janet - The chase
- Fyfield, Frances - Casting the first stone
- Glynn, Alan - Graveland
- Griffiths, Elly - The outcast dead*
- Grippando, James - Black horizon
- Handler, David - The coal black asphalt tomb: a Berger and Mitry mystery
- Harris, Tessa - The devil's breath: a Dr. Thomas Silkstone mystery*
- Heley, Veronica - False diamond*
- MacBride, Stuart - A song for the dying
- May, Peter - Entry Island
- McKinty, Adrian - In the morning I'll be gone: a Detective Sean Duffy novel
- Naughtie, James - The madness of July
- Ohlsson, Kristina - The disappeared
- Oswald, James - The hangman's song (translated from the Swedish)
- Parks, Brad - The player: a Carter Ross mystery
- Parsons, Kelly - Doing harm
- Patterson, James - Private L.A.
- Pavone, Chris - The accident
- Portes, Andrea - Bury this
- Pryor, Mark - The blood promise: a Hugo Marston novel
- Quartey, Kwei J. - Murder at Cape Three Points
- Steinhauer, Olen - The Cairo affair
- Walker, Martin - The Resistance Man
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The silence of the sea (translated from the Icelandic)
POETRY
- Chiasson, Dan. - Bicentennial: "poems "
- Khodasevich, V. F. - Selected poems
- Poetry of witness: the tradition in English 1500-2001(Carolyn Forche, Duncan Wu, eds.)
- Poets translate poets: a Hudson Review anthology (Paula Deitz, ed.)
- Speaking for my self: twelve women poets in their seventies and eighties (Sondra Zeidenstein, ed.)
- Reverdy, Pierre, - Pierre Reverdy (translated from the French by John Ashbery, Lydia Davis, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Rexroth, et al.)
SHORT STORIES
- Cantor, Jay. - Forgiving the angel: four stories for Franz Kafka
- Hua, Yu, - Boy in the twilight: Stories of the hidden China (translated from the Chinese)
- Klay, Phil - Redeployment
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Britton, Catherine. - Puss in books: cat illustration through the ages 809.9 B
- Hadley, Tessa - Henry James and the imagination of pleasure 823 J
- Herbert, George - The complete English works 820.81 H
- Jameson, Fredric - The antinomies of realism 809.3 J
- Lanza Tomasi, Gioacchino - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: a biography through images 92 T6554 L
- MFA vs NYC: the two cultures of American fiction (Chad Harbach, ed.) 808.3 M
- Novo, Salvador - Pillar of salt: an autobiography, with 19 erotic sonnets 868 N
- Rosenbaum, S. P. - The Bloomsbury group memoir club 808.8 R
- Shaw, Prue - Reading Dante: from here to eternity 851.09 D
- Shklovskii, Viktor - A sentimental journey: memoirs, 1917-1922 891.7 S
POETRY
- The Cambridge companion to Emily Dickinson (Wendy Martin, ed.) 823 D
- Crooker, Barbara - Gold 821 C
- Frost, Robert - The letters of Robert Frost. Volume 1, 1886-1920) 92 F9393 F
- Neruda, Pablo - All the odes 861 N
- Spicer, Jack - The house that Jack built: the collected lectures of Jack Spicer 821.09 S
MYTH & LEGEND
- Comic sagas and tales from Iceland F C
- Graziosi, Barbara - The gods of Olympus: a history 292 G
- Maguire, Laurie E. - Helen of Troy: from Homer to Hollywood 809.9 M
ART
- Anders Zorn: Sweden's master painter (John Cederlund, et al., eds.) 759.8 Z
- Haskell, Francis, - The King's pictures: the formation and dispersal of the collections of Charles I and his courtiers 706.9 H
- Hewison, Robert - Ruskin on Venice: 'the paradise of cities' 828.09 R
- Poupeye, Veerle - Caribbean art (Thames & Hudson World of Art) 709.8 P
- Prendeville, Brendan - Realism in 20th century painting 759 P
- Toward a simpler way of life: the Arts & Crafts architects of California 720.973 T
- White, Michael - Generation Dada: the Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War 709.43 W
PHOTOGRAPHY
- History of the world in photographs (Getty Images & Encyclopedia) HBR 909.8 H
- Siegel, Elizabeth - Galleries of friendship and fame: a history of nineteenth-century American photograph albums 770 S
- Welty, Eudora - Photographs 976.2 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Barish, Evelyn - The double life of Paul de Man 92 D371 B
- Barthel, Joan - American saint: the life of Elizabeth Seton 92 S4951 B
- Eiland, Howard - Walter Benjamin: a critical life 92 B4689 E
- Hoffman, Carl - Savage harvest: a tale of cannibals, colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's tragic quest for primitive art 995 H
- Jansson, Tove - Sculptor's daughter 92 J348 J
- Renton, Claudia - Those wild Wyndhams: three sisters at the heart of power 920 W7642 R
MUSIC
- Brothers, Thomas David - Louis Armstrong: master of modernism 92 A7368 B
- Peress, Maurice - Dvorák to Duke Ellington: a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots 780.973 P
Oxford Music Online is now available to members.
PHILOSOPHY
- Epictetus - Discourses and selected writings 188.7 E
- Hamilton, Sue - Indian philosophy: a very short introduction 181 H
- Weinstein, Jack Russell - Adam Smith's pluralism: rationality, education, and the moral sentiments 192 W
- Wokler, Robert - Rousseau: a very short introduction 194 W
RELIGION
- Cornwell, John - The dark box: a secret history of confession 282 C
- Doniger, Wendy - On Hinduism 294.5 D
- Finkel, Yitzchak Irving - The ark before Noah: decoding the story of the flood 299.219 F
- Watson, Peter - The age of atheists: how we have sought to live since the death of god 211 W
HEALTH & MEDICINE
- Hoffman, Beatrix Rebecca - Health care for some: rights and rationing in the United States since 1930 362.1 H
- Lieberman, Daniel- The story of the human body: evolution, health, and disease 612 L
- Reilly, Brendan M. - One doctor: close calls, cold cases, and the mysteries of medicine 610 R
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Ignatieff, Michael - Fire and ashes: success and failure in politics 92 I24 I
- Ryan, Alan - On Aristotle: saving politics from philosophy 185 R
- Turner, Fred - The democratic surround: multimedia and American liberalism from World War II to the psychedelic sixties 301.2 T
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Axilrod, S. H. - The Federal Reserve: what everyone needs to know 332.1 A
- Martin, Felix - Money: the unauthorised biography 332.4 M
- Roose, Kevin - Young money: inside the hidden world of Wall Street's post-crash recruits 332.6 R
- Sunstein, Cass R. - Why nudge?: the politics of libertarian paternalism 330 S
HISTORY
- Barnes, Juliet - The ghosts of Happy Valley: searching for the lost world of Africa's infamous aristocrats 967 B
- Berger, Iris - South Africa in world history 968 B
- Brownstein, Elizabeth Smith - Lincoln's other White House : the untold story of the man and his presidency 973.7 B
- De Groot, Gerard J. - Blighty: British society in the era of the Great War 940.342 D
- Herzen, Aleksandr - A Herzen reader 947.08 H
- Hoffmann, Dieter - Einstein's Berlin: in the footsteps of a genius 943.085 H
- Levin, Edmund - A child of Christian blood: murder and conspiracy in Tsarist Russia : the Beilis blood libel 947.08 L
- Rowland, Ingrid D. - From Pompeii: the afterlife of a Roman town 913.37 R
- Stark, Peter - Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a story of wealth, ambition, and survival 978 S
- Unger, Harlow G. - Mr. President: George Washington and the making of the nation's highest office 973.4 U
- Walsh, Rodolfo J. - Operation massacre (Argentina) 982 W
CHINA
- Ebrey, Patricia Buckley - Emperor Huizong 915.1 E
- Martin, Barnaby - Hanging man: the arrest of Ai Weiwei 323.4 M
- Pettis, Michael - Avoiding the fall: China's economic restructuring 330.951 P
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Chaney, Edward - The Jacobean grand tour: early Stuart travellers in Europe 914 C
- Hessel, Franz - In Berlin: day and night in 1929 914.3 H
SCIENCE
- Kaku, Michio - The future of the mind: the scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind 612.8 K
- Lightman, Alan P. - The accidental universe: the world you thought you knew 523.1 L
- Suddendorf, Thomas - The gap: the science of what separates us from other animals , 153 S
- What should we be worried about?: real scenarios that keep scientists up at night 303.4 W
ENVIRONMENT
- Flannery, Tim F. - An explorer's notebook: essays on life, history & climate 304.2 F
- Nordhaus, William D. - The climate casino: risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world 363.7 N
- Sabin, Paul - The bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and our gamble over Earth's future 338.9 S
GARDENS
- Condie, Jenny - The gardens of Venice and the Veneto 712 C
- Zoob, Caroline - Virginia Woolf's garden: the story of the garden at Monk's house 712 W
City Planning
- Montgomery, Charles - Happy city: transforming our lives through urban design 307.76 M
- Stern, Robert A. M. - Paradise planned: the garden suburb and the modern city 307.74 S OVERSIZE
New York
- Golway, Terry - Machine made: Tammany Hall and the creation of modern American politics 974.71 G
- Pennoyer, Peter - New York transformed: the architecture of Cross & Cross 720.92 C
- Stalter-Pace, Sunny - Underground movements: modern culture on the New York City subway 388 S
- Wall, Siobhan. - Quiet New York 917.471 W
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