New Books - September 2015
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Apatow, Judd - Sick in the head: conversations about life and comedy
- Braziller, George - Encounters: my life in publishing
- Brideson, Cynthia - Ziegfeld and his Follies: a biography of Broadway's greatest producer
- Brooks, Arthur C. - The conservative heart: how to build a fairer, happier, and more prosperous America
- Burstein, Andrew - Democracy's muse: how Thomas Jefferson became an FDR liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party fanatic, all the while being dead
- Colt, Margaretta Barton - Martial bliss: the story of The Military Bookman
- Daugherty, Tracy - The last love song: a biography of Joan Didion (e-book available)
- Dickey, Christopher - Our man in Charleston: Britain's secret agent in the Civil War South
- Dirda, Michael - Browsings: a year of reading, collecting, and living with books
- Goodwin, Robert - Spain: the centre of the world, 1519-1682
- Jordan, Jonathan W. - American warlords: how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- Knights, Sarah - Bloomsbury's outsider: a life of David Garnett
- Kondo, Marie - The life-changing magic of tidying up: the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing (translated from Japanese by Cathy Hirano)
- Kurzweil, Allen - Whipping boy: the forty-year search for my twelve-year-old bully
- Laqueur, Walter - Putinism: Russia and its future with the West
- Lister-Kaye, John - Gods of the morning: a bird's eye view of a changing world
- Mettler, Suzanne - Degrees of inequality: how the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream
- Modiano, Patrick - Pedigree: a memoir (translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti)
- Neff, James - Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy versus Jimmy Hoffa
- Nicoletti, Cara - Voracious: a hungry reader cooks her way through great books
- Norwich, John Julius - Sicily: an island at the crossroads of history
- Orr, David - The road not taken: finding America in the poem everyone loves and almost everyone gets wrong
- Padilla Peralta, Dan-el - Undocumented: a Dominican boy's odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League
- Pedersen, Susan - The guardians: the League of Nations and the crisis of empire
- Popper, Nathaniel - Digital gold: Bitcoin and the inside story of the misfits and millionaires trying to reinvent money
- Sjöberg, Fredrik - The fly trap (translated from the Swedish)
- Steavenson, Wendell - Circling the Square: stories from the Egyptian Revolution
- Strathern, Paul - Death in Florence: the Medici, Savonarola, and the battle for the soul of a renaissance city
- Swaim, Barton - The speechwriter: a brief education in politics
- Vargas Llosa, Mario - Notes on the death of culture: essays on spectacle and society (edited and translated from the Spanish by John King)
- Wald, Elijah - Dylan goes electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the night that split the Sixties
- Welty, Eudora - Meanwhile there are letters: the correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald
- Wilson, Jean Moorcroft - Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras: a biography
FICTION
- Aswany, Alaa Al - The Automobile Club of Egypt (translated from the Arabic by Russell Harris)
- Ball, Jesse - A cure for suicide
- Bartsch, Jeffrey - Two across
- Campbell, Karen - Rise
- Celt, Adrienne - The daughters
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich - The prank: the best of young Chekhov (translated from the Russian by Maria Bloshteyn)
- Clifford, Stephanie - Everybody rise
- De Bernières, Louis - The dust that falls from dreams
- De Robertis, Carolina - The gods of tango
- Diffenbaugh, Vanessa - We never asked for wings
- Doig, Ivan - Last bus to wisdom
- Duncker, Patricia - Sophie and the Sibyl: a Victorian romance
- Enquist, Per Olov - The wandering pine: life as a novel (translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner)
- Fo, Dario - The Pope's daughter (translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar)
- Fox, Lauren - Days of awe
- Francombe, Leona - The sage of Waterloo
- Franzen, Jonathan - Purity (e-book available)
- George, Nina - The little Paris bookshop (translated by Simon Pare)
- Ghosh, Amitav - Flood of fire
- Gibbon, Maureen - Paris red
- Goren, Yitzhak Gormezano - Alexandrian summer (translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan; introduction by André Aciman)
- Hassib, Rajia - In the language of miracles
- Hoffman, Alice - The marriage of opposites
- Johncock, Benjamin - The last pilot
- Klaussmann, Liza - Villa America
- Liftin, Hilary - Movie star by Lizzie Pepper
- Makine, Andreï - A woman loved (translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan; with an introduction by Francine Prose)
- Marren, Susannah. - Between the tides
- McLain, Paula - Circling the sun
- McLaughlin, Emma - How to be a grown-up
- Moshfegh, Ottessa - Eileen (e-book available)
- Murakami, Haruki - Wind/Pinball: two novels (translated from the Japanese by Ted Goossen)
- Phillips, Helen - The beautiful bureaucrat
- Pulley, Natasha - The watchmaker of Filigree Street
- Rand, Ayn - Ideal: the novel and the play
- Rosnay, Tatiana de - A Paris affair (translated from the French by Sam Taylor)
- Urquhart, Jane - The night stages
- Vila-Matas, Enrique - The illogic of Kassel (translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean & Anna Milsom)
- Vollmann, William T. - The dying grass: a novel of the Nez Perce War
- Weiner, Jennifer - Who do you love: a novel
- Zancan, Caroline - Local girls
MYSTERIES
- Atkins, Ace - The redeemers
- Barclay, Linwood - Broken promise
- Batacan, F. H. - Smaller and smaller circles
- Bowen, Rhys - Malice at the palace*
- Box, C. J. - Badlands
- Brackmann, Lisa - Dragon day
- Brown, Sandra - Friction
- Burdett, John - The Bangkok asset
- Davis, Lindsey - Deadly election*
- Fairstein, Linda A. - Devil's bridge
- Hannah, Sophie - Woman with a secret*
- James, Bill, 1929- - Blaze away*
- Kava, Alex - Silent creed
- Kellerman, Jonathan - The murderer's daughter
- Kent, Christobel - The killing room: a mystery in Florence
- Koryta, Michael - Last words
- Kovály, Heda - Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street (translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker)
- Kuhn, Shane - Hostile takeover: a John Lago thriller
- LaPlante, Alice - Coming of age at the end of days
- Maron, Margaret - Long upon the land
- Östlundh, Håkan - The intruder (translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlen)
- Paretsky, Sara - Brush back
- Rankin, Ian - The beat goes on: the complete Rebus stories
- Robinson, Peter - In the dark places: an Inspector Banks novel*
- Söderberg, Alexander - The other son (translated by Neil Smith)
- Spencer, Sally - Best served cold*
- Stevens, Taylor - The mask: a Vanessa Michael Munroe novel
- Tanenbaum, Robert - Trap
- Thor, Brad - Code of conduct: a thriller
- Walker, Martin - The patriarch: a Bruno, chief of police novel
- Ware, Ruth - In a dark, dark wood*
POETRY
- Burnside, John - - Black cat bone
- Tate, James - Dome of the hidden pavilion: new poems
SHORT STORIES
- Beattie, Ann - The state we're in: Maine stories
- Berlin, Lucia - A manual for cleaning women: selected stories (Foreword by Lydia Davis) (e-book available)
- Jackson, Shirley - Let me tell you: new stories, essays, and other writings
- Johnson, Adam - Fortune smiles: stories
- Lispector, Clarice - Complete stories (translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson)
- Miéville, China - Three moments of an explosion: stories
- Vásquez, Juan Gabriel - Lovers on All Saints' Day: stories (translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Albright, Daniel - Putting modernism together: literature, music, and painting 1872-1927 809.9 A
- Boyle, Kay - Kay Boyle: a twentieth-century life in letters 92 B79223 B
- Bradford, Richard - Crime fiction: a very short introduction 809.3 B
- Classical Arabic literature: a library of Arabic literature anthology (selected and translated by Geert Jan van Gelder) 892.7 C
- James, Clive - Latest readings 824 J
- Kareem, Sarah Tindal. - Eighteenth-century fiction and the reinvention of wonder 823.09 K
- Kureishi, Hanif - Love + hate: stories and essays 824 K
- Lowry, Malcolm - In ballast to the White Sea: a scholarly edition 823 L
- Popular fiction by women, 1660-1730: an anthology (Paula R. Backscheider, et al., eds)820.8 P
- Wampole, Christy - The other serious: essays for the new American generation 824 W
FICTION
- Berlin, Lucia - Where I live now F B
- Colette - Green wheat: a novel (translated from the French) F C
- Jahnn, Hans Henny - The living are few, the dead many (translated from the German) F J
- Maupassant, Guy de, - The necklace and other stories: Maupassant for modern times (translated from the French) F M
- McAlmon, Robert, - Post-adolescence: a selection of short fiction F M
- Tevis, Walter S. - The hustler (basis for classic 1961 film) F T
POETRY
- Celan, Paul. - Paul Celan: 70 poems 831 C
- Dorn, Edward - Collected poems 821 D
- Ginsberg, Allen - The essential Ginsberg 820.81 G
- Kavanagh, P. J. - New selected poems 821 K
- Ryan, Judith - The Cambridge introduction to German poetry 831.09 R
- Williams, Lisa, - Sky studies: poems 821 W
- The works of the Gawain poet: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Ad Putter and Myra Stokes, eds.) 821 W
BOOKS & READING
- The meaning of the library: a cultural history (Alice Crawford, ed.) 027 M
- Felsenstein, Frank - What Middletown read: print culture in an American small city , 028 F
- Tanselle, G. Thomas - Portraits and reviews 010 T
ART
- The genius of Rome, 1592-1623 (Beverly Louise Brown, ed.) 759.5 G
- Gustave Caillebotte: the painter's eye (Mary Morton, et al., eds) 759.4 C
- Haidar, Navina Najat - Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: opulence and fantasy 709.54 H
- Hirschfeld, Al - The Hirschfeld century: portrait of an artist and his age 741.5 H
- Jereb, James F. - Arts and crafts of Morocco 745 J
- Kempf, D. - Medieval monsters 757.1 K
- Michell, George - Hindu art and architecture 704.948 M
- Power and pathos: bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic world (Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin, eds.) 733 P
- Rhodes, Colin - Outsider art: spontaneous alternatives 709.04 R
ANTIQUITY
- Boardman, John - The Greeks in Asia 950 B
- Jenkyns, Richard - Classical literature: a Pelican introduction 880.9 J
- Waters, Matthew W. - Ancient Persia: a concise history of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE 935 W
LANGUAGE
- Anderson, Stephen R. - Languages: a very short introduction 401 A
- Battles, Matthew - Palimpsest: a history of the written word 417 B
WRITING & PUBLISHING
- Cahn, Steven M. - Polishing your prose: how to turn first drafts Into finished work 808 C
- Herman, Jeff - Jeff Herman's guide to book publishers, editors & literary agents: who they are, what they want, how to win them over 070.5 H
- Kawasaki, Guy - APE : author, publisher, entrepreneur 070.5 K
- Newland, Courttia - Writing short stories: a writers' and artists' companion 808.3 N
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Kelsey, Robin - Photography and the art of chance 770 K
- Strand, Paul - Paul Strand: master of modern photography 779 S OVERSIZE
PERFORMING ARTS
- Custen, George Frederick - Twentieth Century's fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the culture of Hollywood 92 Z345 C
- Grode, Eric - The book of Broadway: the 150 definitive plays and musicals 792.0973 G
- Kessler, Daniel - Sarah Caldwell: the first woman of opera 92 C1477 K
PHILOSOPHY
- Baggini, Julian - Freedom regained: the possibility of free will 123 B
- Feuerbach, Ludwig - The fiery brook: selected writings 193 F
- Grayling, A. C. - Wittgenstein: a very short introduction 193 G
PSYCHOLOGY
- O'Gorman, Francis. - Worrying: a literary and cultural history 157 O
- O'Sullivan, Suzanne - It's all in your head: true stories of imaginary illness 616.8 O
SCIENCE
- Bartusiak, Marcia - Black hole: how an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved 523 B
- Dyson, Freeman J. - Dreams of earth and sky 500 D
- Hiltzik, Michael A. - Big science: Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex 530.9 H
- Wilczek, Frank - A beautiful question: finding nature's deep design 530.1 W
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
- Bailey, Ronald - The end of doom: environmental renewal in the twenty-first century 363.7 B
- Sachs, Jeffrey - The age of sustainable development 338.9 S
SOCIOLOGY
- Allyn, David - Make love, not war: the sexual revolution : an unfettered history 306.7 A
- Ansari, Aziz - Modern romance 306.7 A
- Dhingra, Pawan - Life behind the lobby: Indian American motel owners and the American dream 305.87 D
BIOGRAPHY
- Doran, Susan - Elizabeth I and her circle 92 E436 D
- Hentea, Marius - TaTa Dada: the real life and celestial adventures of Tristan Tzara 92 T998 H
- Mezzrow, Mezz - Really the blues (1964) 92 M6177 M
- Muir, Willa - Belonging: a memoir 920 M9531 M
- Pantsov, Alexander - Deng Xiaoping: a revolutionary life 92 D3927 P
- Plante, David - Worlds apart: a memoir 92 P7135 P
- Purnell, Sonia - First Lady: the life and wars of Clementine Churchill 92 C5626 P
- Santamaria, Abigail - Joy: poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis 92 D2497 S
HISTORY
- Francis, J. Michael - Invading Colombia: Spanish accounts of the Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada expedition of conquest 986 F
- Hale, Piers J. - Political descent: Malthus, mutualism, and the politics of evolution in Victorian England 320.1 H
- Kupperman, Karen Ordahl - The Atlantic in world history 909 K
- Kurson, Robert. - Pirate hunters: treasure, obsession, and the search for a legendary pirate ship 910.4 K
- Matsuda, Matt K. - Pacific worlds: a history of seas, peoples, and cultures 990 M
- Wachsmann, Nikolaus - KL: a history of the Nazi concentration camps 940.5318 W
- Yallop, Jacqueline - Dreamstreets: a journey through Britain's village utopias 942 Y
- Yekelchyk, Serhy - Ukraine: birth of a modern nation 947.7 Y
LABOR
- Alexander, Benjamin F. - Coxey's army: popular protest in the gilded age 331.13 A
- Chavez, Cesar, - An organizer's tale: speeches 331.88 C
- Corbin, David - Life, work, and rebellion in the coal fields: the southern West Virginia miners, 1880-1922331.7 C
- Dennis, Michael - Blood on steel: Chicago steelworkers & the strike of 1937 331.89 D
- For a living: the poetry of work (Nicholas Coles & Peter Oresick, ed.) 821 F
RELIGION
- Chögyel, Tenzin - The life of the Buddha 294 B
- Cottingham, John - Philosophy of religion: towards a more humane approach 201 C
- Halbertal, Moshe - On sacrifice 201 H
- Sutton, Matthew Avery - American apocalypse: a history of modern evangelicalism 277.3 S
MIDDLE EAST
- Bunton, Martin P. - The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a very short introduction 956.94 B
- Palestine speaks: narratives of life under occupation 956.94 P
- Phillips, David L. - The Kurdish spring: a new map of the Middle East 956.6 P
WAR
- Hickey, Donald R. - Glorious victory: Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans 973.52 H
- Mukhina, Elena Vladimirovna - The diary of Lena Mukhina: a girl's life in the siege of Leningrad 92 M9543 M
- Pike, Francis. - Hirohito's war: the Pacific war, 1941-1945 940.5352 P
- Southard, Susan - Nagasaki: life after nuclear war 940.5352 S
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Cuba in mind: an anthology (Maria Finn Dominguez, ed.) 820.8 C
- Oliver, Andrew - American travelers on the Nile: early U.S. visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839 962 O
- Watkins, Alfred - The old straight track: its mounds, beacons, moats, sites and mark stones (first published in 1925) 914.2 W
AUDIO
- Ferrante, Elena - Those who leave and those who stay Lobby Audio-CD F
- Fitzgerald, Penelope - The blue flower Lobby Audio-CD F
- Lee, Harper - Go set a watchman Lobby Audio-CD L
- O'Brien, Edna - The love object: selected stories Lobby Audio-CD O
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