New Books - April 2016
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Bakewell, Sarah - At the existentialist café: freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
- Barber, Emily - London
- Bates, Stephen - Royalty Inc.: Britain's best-known brand
- Bell-Scott, Patricia - The firebrand and the First Lady: portrait of a friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice
- Charb - Open letter on blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the true enemies of free expression (foreword by Adam Gopnik)
- Desmond, Matthew - Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city (e-book available)
- Dickson, Andrew - Worlds elsewhere: journeys around Shakespeare's globe
- Dillard, Annie - The abundance: narrative essays old and new (foreword by Geoff Dyer)
- Fang, Lizhi - The most wanted man in China: my journey from scientist to enemy of the state (translated from the Chinese by Perry Link)
- Fitzpatrick, Ellen F. - The highest glass ceiling: women's quest for the American presidency
- Grayling, A. C. - The age of genius: the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind
- Grey, Joel - Master of ceremonies: a memoir
- Hoskyns, Barney - Small town talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and friends in the wild years of Woodstock
- Judah, Ben - This is London: life and death in the world city
- Kalb, Claudia - Andy Warhol was a hoarder: inside the minds of history's great personalities
- Klebold, Sue - A mother's reckoning: living in the aftermath of tragedy
- Laing, Olivia - The lonely city : adventures in the art of being alone
- Priess, David - The President's book of secrets: the untold story of intelligence briefings to America's presidents from Kennedy to Obama (foreword by George H.W. Bush)
- Roiphe, Katie - The violet hour: great writers at the end (e-book available)
- Rovelli, Carlo - Seven brief lessons on physics Carlo Rovelli (translated from the Italian by Simon Carnell)
- Showalter, Elaine - The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe: a biography
- Strathern, Paul - The Medici: power, money, and ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- Traister, Rebecca - All the single ladies: unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation
- Traub, James - John Quincy Adams: militant spirit
- Viertel, Jack - The secret life of the American musical: how Broadway shows are built
- Wilson, Edward O. - Half-earth: our planet's fight for life
FICTION
- Barbery, Muriel - The life of elves Muriel Barbery (translated from the French by Alison Anderson)
- Baume, Sara - Spill simmer falter wither
- Behrens, Peter - Carry me
- Berlinski, Mischa - Peacekeeping
- Chevalier, Tracy - At the edge of the orchard
- Fishman, Boris - Don't let my baby do rodeo
- Forster, Margaret - How to measure a cow
- Gable, Michelle - I'll see you in Paris
- Han, Kang - Human acts (translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith)
- Harrison, Jim - The ancient minstrel
- Higashino, Keigo - A midsummer's equation (translated from the Japanese by Alexander O. Smith)
- Jackson, Joshilyn - The opposite of everyone
- Kay, Francesca - The long room
- Lawhon, Ariel - Flight of dreams
- Lee, Jonathan - High dive (ebook available)
- Leyner, Mark - Gone with the mind
- Littlefield, Sophie - The guilty one
- McGuire, Ian - The North water
- McKeon, Belinda - Tender
- Maynard, Joyce - Under the influence
- Mendelsohn, Jane - Burning down the house
- Morrall, Clare - When the floods came
- Pataki, Allison - Sisi: empress on her own
- Read, Piers Paul - Scarpia
- Rebeck, Theresa - I'm glad about you
- Sorrentino, Christopher - The fugitives
- Spiotta, Dana - Innocents and others
- Sweeney, Cynthia D'Aprix - The nest
- Wagner, Bruce - I met someone
- Warlick, Ashley - The arrangement
- Wilson, Sari - Girl through glass
MYSTERIES
- Barbieri, Maggie - Lie in plain sight
- Barclay, Linwood - Far from true: a Promise Falls novel
- Barron, Stephanie - Jane and the Waterloo map: being a Jane Austen mystery
- Beaton, M. C. - Death of a nurse
- Bjørk, Samuel - I'm traveling alone (translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund)
- Bowen, Rhys - Time of fog and fire
- Box, C. J. - Off the grid: a Joe Pickett novel
- Boyce, Trudy Nan - Out of the blues
- Brady, Conor - The eloquence of the dead
- Brett, Simon - The killing in the café*
- Brundage, Elizabeth - All things cease to appear
- Bude, John - Death on the Riviera (1952, British Library Crime Classics; introduction by Martin Edwards)*
- Camilleri, Andrea - Montalbano's first case: and other stories (translated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli)
- Carter, Maureen - Next of kin*
- Coben, Harlan - Fool me once (ebook available)
- Cussler, Clive - The gangster
- de Beauvoir, Jeannette - Deadly jewels
- Deaver, Jeffery - The steel kiss: a Lincoln Rhyme novel
- Dunmore, Helen - Exposure*
- Edmondson, Elizabeth - A question of inheritance*
- Eskens, Allen - The life we bury
- Estleman, Loren D. - Desperate Detroit: and stories of other dire places
- Fitzsimmons, Matthew - The short drop
- Flanagan, Joe - Lesser evils
- Flanders, Judith - A bed of scorpions*
- Fluke, Joanne - Wedding cake murder
- Freeman, Brian - Goodbye to the dead
- Geni, Abby - The lightkeepers
- Gregson, J. M. - Backhand smash *
- Griffiths, Elly - The woman in blue
- Handler, David - The Lavender Lane lothario: a Berger and Mitry mystery
- Harris, C. S. - When falcons fall: a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery
- Hodgson, Antonia - The last confession of Thomas Hawkins*
- Ison, Graham - Hardcastle's collector*
- Jance, Judith A. - Clawback: an Ali Reynolds novel
- Kaaberbøl, Lene - The considerate killer (translated from the Danish by Elisabeth Dyssegaard)
- Kasasian, M. R. C. - Death descends on Saturn Villa*
- Laukkanen, Owen - The watcher in the wall: a Stevens and Windermere novel
- Lawton, John - The unfortunate Englishman: a Joe Wilderness novel
- Leon, Donna - The waters of eternal youth (ebook available)
- Lutz, Lisa. - The passenger
- McKinty, Adrian - Rain dogs
- Novey, Idra - Ways to disappear
- Parker, T. Jefferson - Crazy blood
- Paul, Bart - Cheatgrass
- Pauw, Marion - Girl in the dark
- Pavone, Chris - The travelers
- Perry, Anne - Treachery at Lancaster Gate: a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel*
- Persson, Leif G. W. - Linda, as in the Linda murder: an Evert Bäckström novel (translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith)
- Scott, Manda - Into the fire*
- Serpents in Eden: countryside crimes (British Library Crime Classics, edited by Martin Edwards)*
- Stacey, Lyndon - Nothing but lies: a Daniel Whelan mystery*
- Steiner, Peter - The capitalist
- Todd, Charles - No shred of evidence
- Turnbull, Peter - In vino veritas*
* Indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Carter, Angela - Unicorn : the poetry of Angela Carter (with an essay by Rosemary Hill)
- Howe, Sarah - Loop of jade
- Levis, Larry - The darkening trapeze: last poems (David St. John, ed.)
- Newman, Amy - On this day in poetry history: poems
More poetry below "in the stacks."
SHORT STORIES
- Bass, Rick - For a little while: new and selected stories
- Binchy, Maeve - A few of the girls
- Heyman, Arlene - Scary old sex
- Jackson, Greg - Prodigals
- Majka, Sara - Cities I've never lived in: stories
- Oyeyemi, Helen - What is not yours is not yours: stories
- Weldon, Fay. - Mischief
- Wink, Callan. - Dog run moon : stories Callan Wink.
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Cherry, Bruce - They didn't want to die virgins: sex and morale in the British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918
- Crabapple, Molly - Drawing blood: a memoir
- Halliday, Tim - The book of frogs: a life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world
- Lewis, Jeremy - David Astor: a life in print
- Qashu, Sayed - Native: dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian life (translated from the Hebrew by Ralph Mandel)
- Spero, Josh - Second hand stories
- Šteger, Aleš - Berlin (translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry, Aljaž Kovac, and Forrest Gander)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- García Márquez, Gabriel - The last interview and other conversations (edited and with an introduction by David Streitfeld) 863 G
- Jenkyns, Richard - Classical literature: an epic journey from Homer to Virgil and beyond 880.9 J
- Nooteboom, Cees - Self-portrait of an other: dreams of the island and the old city 839.31 N OVERSIZE
- Rioux, Anne Boyd - Constance Fenimore Woolson: portrait of a lady novelist 92 W916 R
- Faris al-Shidyaq - Leg over leg (2 volumes, translated from the Arabic) 892.7 S
- Stach, Reiner - Is that Kafka?: 99 finds 92 K114 S
- Wilson, Kim - At home with Jane Austen 92 A933 W
FICTION
- Andresen, Frederick R. - The lady with an ostrich-feather fan: the story of the Yusupov Rembrandts F A
- Gardner, Diana - The woman novelist and other stories (originally published in 1946; Persephone reissue) F G
- Plenzdorf, Ulrich - The new sorrows of young W. (translated from the German) F P
- Queirós, Eça de - The yellow sofa (New Directions Classics; translated from the Portugese) F Q
- Suter, Martin - The last Weynfeldt (2008, translated from the German) F S
POETRY
- Abani, Chris - Sanctificum 821 A
- Lewis, C. S. - The collected poems of C.S. Lewis: a critical edition 821 L
- Marino, Giambattista - The massacre of the innocents (translated from the Italian) 851 M
- The Penguin book of Russian poetry 891.71 P
- Svoboda, Terese - Anything that burns you: a portrait of Lola Ridge, radical poet 92 R54458 S
MURTY CLASSICAL LIBRARY OF INDIA (Harvard University Press)
- Allasani Peddana - The story of Manu 894.8 A
- Bullhe Shah - Sufi Lyrics 891.5 B
- Suradasa - Sur's Ocean: poems from the early tradition 891.2 S
- Therigatha: poems of the first Buddhist women 891.2 T
PHILOSOPHY
- Beauvoir, Simone de - The ethics of ambiguity 170 B
- Danto, Arthur C. - Nietzsche as philosopher 193 D
- Freedom in the modern world: Jacques Maritain, Yves R. Simon, Mortimer J. Adler (Martin D. Torre, ed.) 123 F
MYTHS & LEGENDS
- Crump, Martha L. - Eye of newt and toe of frog, adder's fork and lizard's leg: the lore and mythology of amphibians and reptiles 598.1 C
- Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh - Persian myths 299.23 C
- Hunt, Edward Proctor - The origin myth of Acoma Pueblo 299.7 H
- McCall, Henrietta - Mesopotamian myths 299.219 M
ART
- Burns, Thea - The art of the pastel 741.1 B
- King, David - Russian revolutionary posters: from civil war to socialist realism, from Bolshevism to the end of Stalin 741.7 K OVERSIZE
- Partners in design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson 745.4 P
- Taylor, Paul - Condition: the ageing of art 704 T
- Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth - Vigée Le Brun 759.4 V
- Ward, Terence - The guardian of mercy: how an extraordinary painting by Caravaggio changed an ordinary life today 759.5 C
- Zöllner, Frank - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519: the complete paintings and drawings 709.2 L OVERSIZE
BOOKS & READING
- Ballard, Terry - 50 specialty libraries of New York City: from botany to magic 026 B
- Craig, Patricia - Bookworm: a memoir of childhood reading 028.5 C
- Wroth, Lawrence C. - Lawrence C. Wroth's Notes for Bibliophiles in the New York Herald-Tribune, 1937-1947 010 W
PERFORMING ARTS
- Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: pictures from a life: a pictorial biography 780.92 B
- Lou Reed: the last interview and other conversations 780.921 R
- Gilbert, David W. - The product of our souls: ragtime, race, and the birth of the Manhattan musical marketplace 780.973 G
- Light, Alan - What happened, Miss Simone?: a biography 92 S5985 L
DRAMA
- The best 10-minute plays (2012, 2013, 2014) 808.82 B
- Schnitzler, Arthur - Four major plays 832 S
- Stoppard, Tom - The hard problem 822 S
- Wilde, Oscar - The annotated Importance of being earnest 822 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Curry, Anne - Henry V: from playboy prince to warrior king 92 H5215 C
- Egan, Timothy - The immortal Irishman: the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero 92 M4827 E
- Johnson, R. W. - Look back in laughter: Oxford's postwar golden age 92 J6859 J
- Levine, Robert S. - The Lives of Frederick Douglass 92 D7374 L
- Mankell, Henning - Quicksand: what it means to be a human being 92 M278 M
- Pennoyer, Robert M. - As it was: a memoir 92 P415 P
- Sichel, Peter M. F. - The secrets of my life: vintner, prisoner, soldier, spy 92 S565 S
HISTORY
- Anderson, Terry H. - The pursuit of fairness: a history of affirmative action 323.1 A
- Baumer, Christoph - The history of Central Asia (Vol. 1: The age of the Steppe Warriors & Vol. 2: The age of the Silk Roads) 958 B OVERSIZE
- Coss, Stephen - The fever of 1721: the epidemic that revolutionized medicine and American politics 973.2 C
- Leonard, Thomas C. - Illiberal reformers: race, eugenics, and American economics in the Progressive era 330.973 L
- Magoffin, Susan Shelby - Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: the diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 92 M211 M
- McGirr, Lisa - The war on alcohol: Prohibition and the rise of the American state 363.4 M
- O'Donnell, Patrick K. - Washington's immortals: the untold story of an elite regiment who changed the course of the revolution 973.33 O
- Smele, Jon - The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926: ten years that shook the world 947.084 S
- Wilson, Peter H. - Heart of Europe: a history of the Holy Roman Empire 943 W
WORLD WAR ll
- Barr, Niall - Eisenhower's armies: the American-British alliance during World War II 940.532 B
- Best, S. Payne - The Venlo incident: a true story of double-dealing, captivity, and a murderous Nazi plot 940.5485 B
- Dimbleby, Jonathan - The Battle of the Atlantic: how the allies won the war 940.542 D
- Jones, Michael K. - After Hitler: the last ten days of World War II in Europe 940.53 J
- Ocker, Christa Holder - Auf wiedersehen: World War II through the eyes of a German girl 92 O168 O
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Ansari, Ali M. - Iran: a very short introduction 955 A
- Osman, Tarek - Islamism: what it means for the Middle East and the world 297.272 O
NATURE & CONSERVATION
- Brinkley, Douglas - Rightful heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the land of America 973.917 B
- Fry, Carolyn - The plant hunters: the adventures of the world's greatest botanical explorers 580 F OVERSIZE
- Oates, M. R. - In pursuit of butterflies: a fifty-year affair 595.78 O
- Sellars, Richard West - Preserving nature in the national parks: a history 333.7 S
NEW YORK
- Anderson, Alexander - Alexander Anderson's New York City diary, 1793 to 1799 (2 volumes) 92 A5451 A OVERSIZE
- Butterworth, Bill - The forty deuce: the Times Square photographs of Bill Butterworth, 1983-1984 779 B
- New York, a literary companion 974.71 N
- Sultan, Tim - Sunny's nights: lost and found at a bar on the edge of the world 917.471 S
AUDIO
- Forster, E. M. - Howards End Lobby Audio-CD F
- Sayers, Dorothy L. - Unnatural death Audio-CD S
- Stead, Christina - The man who loved children Lobby Audio-CD S
- Twain, Mark - Mark Twain collected stories, Audio-CD T