New Books - May 2015
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Adler, Renata - After the tall timber: collected nonfiction (e-book available)
- Alford, Terry - Fortune's fool: the life of John Wilkes Booth
- Beaumont, Matthew - Nightwalking: a nocturnal history of London, Chaucer to Dickens (foreword and afterword by Will Self)
- Blanch, Lesley - On the wilder shores of love: a Bohemian life; edited by Georgia de Chamberet
- Boyagoda, Randy - Richard John Neuhaus: a life in the public square
- Brooks, David - The road to character
- Brower, Kate Andersen - The residence: inside the private world of the White House (e-book available)
- Bruni, Frank - Where you go is not who you'll be: an antidote to the college admissions mania
- Cadbury, Deborah - Princes at war: the bitter battle inside Britain's royal family in the darkest days of WWII
- Chaline, Eric - The temple of perfection: a history of the gym
- Cramer, Deborah - The narrow edge: a tiny bird, an ancient crab & an epic journey
- Crawford, Matthew B. - The world beyond your head: on becoming an individual in an age of distraction
- DeBuys, William - The last unicorn: a search for one of Earth's rarest creatures
- Erickson, Edward J. - Gallipoli: command under fire
- Friedman, David M. - Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the invention of modern celebrity
- Gessen, Masha - The brothers: the road to an American tragedy
- Gifford, Bill - Spring chicken: stay young forever (or die trying)
- Gimbel, Steven - Einstein: his space and times
- Gooch, Brad - Smash cut: a memoir of Howard & art & the '70s & the '80s
- Gordon, Lyndall - Divided lives: dreams of a mother and daughter
- Grazer, Brian - A curious mind: the secret to a bigger life
- Hammer, Langdon - James Merrill: life and art
- Hanson, Thor - The triumph of seeds: how grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, and pips, conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history
- Harris, Dan - 10% happier: how I tamed the voice in my head, reduced stress without losing my edge, and found self-help that actually works: a true story
- Helm, Sarah - Ravensbrück: life and death in Hitler's concentration camp for women
- Hemming, John - Naturalists in paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
- Herrera, Hayden - Listening to stone: the art and life of Isamu Noguchi
- Johnson, Alex - Improbable libraries: a visual journey to the world's most unusual libraries
- Julavits, Heidi - The folded clock: a diary
- Kamm, Oliver - Accidence will happen: the non-pedantic guide to English usage
- Kaplan, Bruce Eric - I was a child
- Lenoir, Fréderic - Happiness: a philosopher's guide (translated by Andrew Brown)
- Lieberman, Jeffrey A. - Shrinks: the untold story of psychiatry
- Lightman, Alan P. - Screening room: family pictures
- The Mystery Writers of America cookbook (edited by Kate White)
- Nicholson, Virginia - Perfect wives in ideal homes: the story of women in the 1950s
- Nimura, Janice P. - Daughters of the Samurai: a journey from east to west and back
- Pennington, Bill - Billy Martin: baseball's flawed genius
- Perry, Grayson - Playing to the gallery: helping contemporary art in its struggle to be understood
- Peyser, Marc N. - Hissing cousins: the untold story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
- Roberts, Cokie - Capital dames: the Civil War and the women of Washington, 1848-1868
- Roe, Sue - In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and modernism in Paris, 1900-1910
- Ronson, Jon - So you've been publicly shamed
- Russell, Kent - I am sorry to think I have raised a timid son
- Schlender, Brent - Becoming Steve Jobs: the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Schneer, Jonathan - Ministers at war: Winston Churchill and his war cabinet
- Schneier, Bruce - Data and Goliath: the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world
- Selfish, shallow, and self-absorbed: sixteen writers on the decision not to have kids (edited and with an introduction by Meghan Daum)
- Shipman, Pat - The invaders: how humans and their dogs drove Neanderthals to extinction
- Shnayerson, Michael - The contender: Andrew Cuomo
- Simic, Charles - The life of images: selected prose
- Simon, Marie - Gone to ground: one woman's extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany (translated by Anthea Bell; with an introduction by Lisa Appignanesi)
- Slevin, Peter B. - Michelle Obama: a life
- Smith, Tracy K. - Ordinary light: a memoir
- Suny, Ronald Grigor - They can live in the desert but nowhere else: a history of the Armenian genocide
- Swansong 1945: a collective diary of the last days of the Third Reich (translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside)
- Szwed, John F. - Billie Holiday: the musician and the myth
- Windows on the world: fifty writers, fifty views (Matteo Pericoli)
FICTION
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - The harder they come
- Enright, Anne - The green road
- Flusfeder, D. L. - John the pupil
- Gale, Patrick - A place called Winter
- Gazdanov, Gaito - The Buddha's return (translated from the Russian by Bryan Karetnyk)
- Gruen, Sara - At the water's edge
- Hannaham, James - Delicious foods
- Joy, David - Where all light tends to go
- Joyce, Eddie - Small mercies
- Kramer, Larry - The American people, Volume 1: Search for my heart
- Locke, Attica - Pleasantville
- Macomber, Debbie - Last one home
- McCall Smith, Alexander - Emma: a modern retelling
- McCreight, Kimberly - Where they found her
- Morrison, Toni - God help the child
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh - The sympathizer
- Obioma, Chigozie - The fishermen
- Pataki, Allison - The accidental empress
- Phillips, Caryl - The lost child
- Rapp, Adam - Know your beholder
- Renehan, John - The valley
- Roberts, Nora - The liar
- Solomon, Flora - A pledge of silence
- Steel, Danielle - Prodigal Son
- Treuer, David - Prudence
- Yanique, Tiphanie - Land of love and drowning
MYSTERIES
- Albert, Susan Wittig - Bittersweet
- Baldacci, David - Memory man
- Begley, Louis - Killer, come hither
- Berry, Steve - The patriot threat
- Brennan, Allison - Compulsion
- Camilleri, Andrea - Game of mirrors (translated by Stephen Sartarelli)
- Clark, Mary Higgins - Death wears a beauty mask: and other stories
- Cleeland, Anne - Murder in hindsight*
- Coben, Harlan - The stranger
- DeSilva, Bruce - A scourge of vipers
- Downing, David - The red eagles
- Estleman, Loren D. - Detroit is our beat: tales of the four horsemen
- Gregorio, Michael - Cry wolf: a Sebastiano Cangio thriller
- Gross, Andrew - One mile under: a Ty Hauck novel
- Haynes, Elizabeth - Behind closed doors*
- Helton, Peter - A good way to go: a Detective Inspector McLusky novel*
- Hess, Joan - Pride v. prejudice
- Iles, Greg - The bone tree
- Kelly, Stephen - The language of the dead: a World War II mystery*
- Kent, Christobel - The crooked house*
- Kerr, Philip - The lady from Zagreb
- Larsen, K. J. - Bye, bye love
- Leon, Donna - Falling in love
- Lewis, Ted - GBH (afterword by Derek Raymond)*
- Marklund, Liza - Borderline: an Annika Bengtzon thriller
- Nadel, Barbara - Land of the blind
- Nesbø, Jo - Blood on snow (translated from the Norwegian by Neil Smith)
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Jack of spades: a tale of suspense
- Quick, Amanda - Garden of lies
- Scottoline, Lisa - Every fifteen minutes
- Sendker, Jan-Philipp - Whispering shadows (translated from the German by Christine Lo)
- Smith, Lachlan - Fox is framed: a Leo Maxwell mystery
- Vidal, Gore - Thieves fall out
- Wilson, Robert - You will never find me*
- Woods, Stuart - Hot pursuit
POETRY
- Doty, Mark - Deep lane: poems
- The finest music: early Irish lyrics (edited by Maurice Riordan)
- Hirshfield, Jane - The beauty
- Major, Clarence - From now on: new and selected poems, 1970-2015
- Snyder, Gary - This present moment: new poems
- Szymborska, Wislawa - Map: collected and last poems (translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak; edited by Clare Cavanagh)
- Tempest, Kate - Brand new ancients
- Tempest, Kate - Hold your own
SHORT STORIES
- Millhauser, Steven - Voices in the night
- Quade, Kirstin Valdez - Night at the Fiestas
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Donaldson, Scott - The impossible craft: literary biography 808 D
- Hayes, Kevin J. - The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville 823 M
- Italy in mind: an anthology (Alice Leccese Powers, ed.) 820.8 I
- James Joyce's Ulysses: a casebook (Derek Attridge, ed.) 823 J
- Mabanckou, Alain - Letter to Jimmy [James Baldwin]: (on the twentieth anniversary of your death) 828.09 B
- Paterniti, Michael - Love and other ways of dying: essays 824 P
- Watt, Adam A. - The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust 843 P
POETRY
- Ravishing disunities: real ghazals in English (Agha Shahid Ali, ed. Traditional Arabic form, with poems by Ackerman, Hollander, Merwin, Paul Muldoon, et al.) 821.08 R
- Stanford, Frank - What about this: collected poems of Frank Stanford 821 S
- Tóibín, Colm - On Elizabeth Bishop 821.09 B
- Whitman, Walt - Drum-taps: the complete 1865 edition 821 W
FICTION
- Döblin, Alfred - The three leaps of Wang Lun: a Chinese novel (1915; New York Review Books; translated from the German) F D
- Fisher, Steve - I wake up screaming (1941) F F
- Hayward, William Stephens - Revelations of a lady detective (British Library reprint of rare 1864 novel) F H
- Wirenius, John F. - Phineas at bay: a novel F W
CLASSICS
- Aeschylus - Prometheus bound (Joel Agee, translator, 2014) 882.1 A
- Allan, William - Classical literature: a very short introduction 880 A
- Ovid - Heroides (Harold Isbell, translator, 1990) 871.2 O
- Sappho - Sappho: a new translation of the complete works (Diane J. Rayor, et al., 2014) 884.2 S
LANGUAGE
- Mizumura, Minae - The fall of language in the age of English 408.9 M
- Moore, Erin - That's not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and what our English says about us 427 M
TALES & LEGENDS
- The classic fairy tales: texts, criticism (Norton Critical Edition, Maria Tatar, ed.) 398.2 C
- Schönwerth, Franz Xaver von - The turnip princess: and other newly discovered fairy tales 398 S
- Tales of the marvellous and news of the strange (Arabic tales) 398.2 T
ART & DESIGN
- Crow, Thomas E. - The long march of pop: art, music, and design, 1930-1995 709 C
- Jacobson, Ken - Carrying off the palaces: John Ruskin's lost daguerreotypes 770 R
- Locker, Jesse - Artemisia Gentileschi: the language of painting 759.5 G
- MacCarthy, Fiona - Anarchy & beauty: William Morris and his legacy, 1860-1960 745 M
- Meisler, Stanley - Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the outsiders of Montparnasse 709.2 S
- Rutherglen, Susannah - In a new light: Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert" (Frick collection) 759.5 R
- Schoenberg, Arnold - The visions of Arnold Schonberg: the painting years 759.36 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Karp, Josh - Orson Welles's last movie: the making of The other side of the wind 791.4 K
- Miller, Jonathan - On further reflection: 60 years of writings 828 M
- Packer, Tina - Women of Will: following the feminine in Shakespeare's plays 822.33 C
- Poulenc, Francis - Francis Poulenc, articles and interviews: notes from the heart 780.92 P
- Wellman, William A. - Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood rebel 92 W4529 W
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Freed, Leonard - Worldview (photojournalism) 779 F
- Lost China: the photographs of Leone Nani (early 20th century China) 770 N
BIOGRAPHY
- Bostridge, Mark - Vera Brittain and the First World War: the story of Testament of Youth 92 B8626 B
- Copeland, B. Jack - Turing: pioneer of the information age 92 T938 C
- Hsu, Huan - The porcelain thief: searching the Middle Kingdom for buried China 92 H8738 H
- Russell, Ben - James Watt: making the world anew 621 R
- Scurr, Ruth - John Aubrey: my own life 92 A895 S
HISTORY
- Asbridge, Thomas S. - The greatest knight: the remarkable life of William Marshal, the power behind five English thrones 942.03 A
- Burrough, Bryan - Days of rage: America's radical underground, the FBI, and the forgotten age of revolutionary violence 303.4 B
- Campbell, W. Joseph - 1995: the year the future began 973.929 C
- Denis, Nelson A. - War against all Puerto Ricans: revolution and terror in America's colony 972.95 D
- Fagan, Brian M. - The intimate bond: how animals shaped human history 306.3 F
- Firstbrook, P. L. - A man most driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the founding of America 975.5 F
- Mount, Ferdinand - The tears of the Rajas: mutiny, money and marriage in India 1805-1905 954 M
- Reeves, Richard - Infamy: the shocking story of the Japanese American internment in World War II 940.5315 R
- Sarna, Jonathan D. - Lincoln and the Jews: a history 973.7 S OVERSIZE
- Turner, Frank M. - European intellectual history: from Rousseau to Nietzsche 940.2 T
- Woodward, C. Vann - The letters of C. Vann Woodward 92 W8992 W
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Bradley, Mark A. - A very principled boy: the life of Duncan Lee, Red spy and cold warrior 92 L4781 B
- Dunlop, Tessa - The Bletchley girls: war, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story 940.5486 D
- Evans, Rob - Undercover: the true story of Britain's secret police 363.1 E
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Fasulo, Linda M. - An insider's guide to the UN 341.1 F
- Howse, Robert - Leo Strauss: man of peace 320.1 H
- Lane, M. S. - The birth of politics: eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter 320.9 L
- Mann, Jim - George W. Bush 92 B9783 M
RELIGION
- Alter, Robert - Strong as death is love: the Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel: a translation with commentary 221.5 A
- Crossan, John Dominic - How to read the Bible and still be a Christian: struggling with divine violence from Genesis through Revelation 220.6 C
- Lipton, Sara - Dark mirror: the medieval origins of anti-Jewish iconography 704.94 L
- Wills, Garry - The future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis 282 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Coles, Robert - Simone Weil: a modern pilgrimage 92 W4224 C
- Perloff, Marjorie - Wittgenstein's ladder: poetic language and the strangeness of the ordinary 193 P
- Schuman, Michael - Confucius: and the world he created 299.51 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Rudder, Christian - Dataclysm: who we are when we think no one's looking 155.2 R
- Scull, Andrew - Madness in civilization: a cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine 132 S
- Strick, James Edgar - Wilhelm Reich, biologist 92 R3475 S
JOURNALISM
- Miller, Judith - The story: a reporter's journey 070 M
- Morris, James McGrath - Eye on the struggle: Ethel Payne, the first lady of the Black Press 92 P3461 M
ECONOMICS
- Atkinson, A. B. - Inequality: what can be done? 339.2 A
- The Cambridge history of capitalism (2 volumes) edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson 330.1 C
- Ghosh, Peter - Max Weber and The Protestant ethic: twin histories 301 G
TRAVEL
- Kumar, Amitava - A matter of rats: a short biography of Patna 915.4 K
- Michell, George - Southern India: a guide to monuments sites & museums 915.4 M
- Quennell, Peter - A superficial journey through Tokyo and Peking (1932) 915 Q
WAR
- Hastings, Max - Bomber command 940.544 H
- Horton, Scott - Lords of secrecy: the national security elite and America's stealth warfare 327.12 H
- Levine, Joshua - Forgotten voices of the Somme: the most devastating battle of the Great War in the words of those who survived 940.48 L
- Preston, Diana - A higher form of killing: six weeks in World War I that forever changed the nature of warfare 940.42 P
- Stampnitzky, Lisa - Disciplining terror: how experts invented "terrorism" 303.6 S
AUDIO
- Bellow, Saul - Seize the day Lobby Audio-CD B
- Ferrante, Elena - My brilliant friend Audio-CD F
- Trollope, Anthony - An old man's love Audio-CD T
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