New Books - November 2016
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Akers, Beth - Game of loans: the rhetoric and reality of student debt (with Matthew M. Chingos)
- Altman, Elissa - Treyf: my life as an orthodox outlaw
- Anbinder, Tyler - City of dreams: the 400-year epic history of immigrant New York
- Archer, Jodie - The bestseller code: anatomy of the blockbuster novel
- Bergner, Daniel - Sing for your life: a story of race, music, and family
- The bitch is back: older, wiser, and (getting) happier (edited by Cathi Hanauer)
- Cliff, Nigel - Moscow nights: the Van Cliburn story: how one man and his piano transformed the Cold War
- Conason, Joe - Man of the world: the further endeavors of Bill Clinton
- Cooper, Artemis - Elizabeth Jane Howard: a dangerous innocence
- De Hamel, Christopher - Meetings with remarkable manuscripts
- Dowd, Maureen - The year of voting dangerously / Maureen Dowd
- Eade, Philip - Evelyn Waugh: a life revisited
- Foer, Joshua - Atlas obscura: an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - My own words (with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams)
- Gleick, James - Time travel: a history
- Gordis, Daniel - Israel: a concise history of a nation reborn
- Hall, Simon - 1956: the world in revolt
- Harari, Yuval N. - Homo deus: a brief history of tomorrow
- Hendershot, Heather - Open to debate: how William F. Buckley put liberal America on the Firing line
- Hochschild, Arlie Russell - Strangers in their own land: anger and mourning on the American right
- Horowitz, Alexandra - Being a dog: following the dog into a world of smell
- Judah, Tim - In wartime: stories from Ukraine
- Kaminsky, Sarah - Adolfo Kaminsky: a forger's life (photographs by Adolfo Kaminsky)
- Kendi, Ibram X - Stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America
- Kirsch, Adam - The people and the books: 18 classics of Jewish literature
- Kranish, Michael - Trump revealed: an American journey of ambition, ego, money, and power (w/Marc Fisher, The Washington Post)
- Macintyre, Ben - Rogue heroes: the history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of the war
- Macy, Beth - Truevine: two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest: a true story of the Jim Crow South
- McAuliffe, Mary Sperling - When Paris sizzled: the 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and their friends
- Millard, Candice - Hero of the empire: the Boer War, a daring escape and the making of Winston Churchill
- Moore, Kate - The radium girls: they paid with their lives, their final fight was for justice
- O'Neil, Cathy - Weapons of math destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy
- Palm, Angela - Riverine: a memoir from anywhere but here
- Phillips, Patrick - Blood at the root: a racial cleansing in America
- Preston, John - A very English scandal: sex, lies and a murder plot in the Houses of Parliament
- Riley, Russell L. - Inside the Clinton White House: an oral history
- Sebba, Anne - Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Solomon, Jay - The Iran wars: spy games, bank battles, and the secret deals that reshaped the Middle East
- Sorel, Edward - Mary Astor's Purple diary: the great American sex scandal of 1936
- Springsteen, Bruce - Born to run (ebook available)
- Tucker, Abigail - The lion in the living room: how house cats tamed us and took over the world
- Tyson, Neil deGrasse - Welcome to the universe: an astrophysical tour
- Weiner, Jennifer - Hungry heart: adventures in life, love, and writing
- White, Michael D. - Stop and frisk: the use and abuse of a controversial policing tactic
- White, Ronald C. - American Ulysses: a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- Wilson, Brian - I am Brian Wilson: a memoir
- Wohlleben, Peter - The hidden life of trees: what they feel, how they communicate: discoveries from a secret world
FICTION
- Alameddine, Rabih - The angel of history
- Arudpragasam, Anuk - The story of a brief marriage
- Atwood, Margaret - Hag-seed: The tempest retold
- Birch, Carol - Orphans of the carnival
- Brandes, Yokhi - The secret book of kings (translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan)
- Brown, Rita Mae - Cakewalk
- Bullough, Tom - Addlands
- Chang, Jade - The Wangs vs. the world
- Coetzee, J. M. - The schooldays of Jesus
- Domet, Sarah - The Guineveres
- Finn, Melanie - The gloaming
- Groom, Winston - El Paso
- Hansen, Ron - The Kid
- Jiles, Paulette - News of the world (ebook available)
- Just, Ward S. - The Eastern Shore
- Keller, Julia - Sorrow road
- Kennedy, A. L - Serious sweet
- Larsen, Craig - The second winter
- Lethem, Jonathan - A gambler's anatomy (ebook available)
- Liu, Cixin - The three-body problem (translated from the Chineseby Ken Liu)
- Livesey, Margot - Mercury
- Maksik, Alexander - Shelter in place
- Modiano, Patrick - Villa triste (translated from the French)
- Moore, Liz - The unseen world
- Moss, Sarah - The tidal zone
- Picoult, Jodi - Small great things
- Prose, Francine - Mister Monkey
- Rabb, Jonathan - Among the living
- Semple, Maria - Today will be different (ebook available)
- Silver, Marisa - Little nothing
- Stratford, Sarah Jane - Radio girls
- Thien, Madeleine - Do not say we have nothing
- Trojanow, Ilija - The lamentations of Zeno (translated by Philip Boehm)
- Vasquez, Juan Gabriel - Reputations (translated from the Spanish)
- Wayne, Teddy - Loner
- Willis, Connie - Crosstalk
- Yan, Lianke - The Explosion chronicles (translated from the Chinese)
- Yuknavitch, Lidia - The small backs of children
- Zink, Nell - Nicotine
MYSTERIES
- Bolton, S. J. - Daisy in chains*
- Brody, Frances - Death of an avid reader *
- Burnet, Graeme Macrae - His bloody project: documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae: a historical thriller (ebook available)*
- Callaghan, Tom - A spring betrayal
- Carver, Tania - The lost girl*
- Dams, Jeanne M - Smile and be a villain: a Dorothy Martin mystery *
- Fedarcyk, Jan - Fidelity
- Fluke, Joanne - Christmas caramel murder
- Francis, Felix - Triple crown *
- French, Tana - The trespasser (ebook available)
- Gallagher, Stephen - The authentic William James: a Sebastian Becker novel*
- Grisham, John - The whistler
- James, Peter - Love you dead *
- Kahn, Michael A. - The dead hand
- Lemaitre, Pierre - Blood wedding (translated from the French)
- MacNeal, Susan Elia - The queen's accomplice*
- Manzini, Antonio - Adam's rib: a Rocco Schiavone mystery (translated from the Italian)
- Marchetta, Melina - Tell the truth, shame the devil*
- Mayor, Archer - Presumption of guilt
- McCall Smith, Alexander - Precious and Grace
- Meier, Leslie - British manor murder: a Lucy Stone mystery
- Preston, Douglas J. - The Obsidian chamber: a Pendergast novel (w/ Lincoln Child)
- Rhodes, Kate - Blood symmetry*
- Sandford, John - Escape clause
- Smith, Martin Cruz - The girl from Venice
- Turnbull, Peter - A dreadful past *
- Vine, Richard - SoHo sins
- Ward, Sarah - A deadly thaw *
- White, Randy Wayne - Seduced
- Woods, Stuart - Sex, lies & serious money
- Yrsa Sigurdardottir - Why did you lie? (translated from the Icelandic)
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Core, Leopoldine - When watched
- Moyes, Jojo - Paris for one and other stories
- Schwartz, Steven - Madagascar: new & selected stories
- Weinstein, Alexander - Children of the new world: stories
POETRY
- Collins, Billy - The rain in Portugal
- Dickinson, Emily - The envelope poems
- Mayer, Bernadette - Works and days
- Notley, Alice - Certain magical acts
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Amar, Akhil Reed - The constitution today: timeless lessons for the issues of our era
- Baker, Annie - John
- Baker, Kenneth - On the burning of books
- Balcombe, Jonathan P. - What a fish knows: the inner lives of our underwater cousins
- Cook, Eleanor - Elizabeth Bishop at work
- Farber, Jules B. - James Baldwin: escape from America, exile in Provence
- Fraser, Steve - The limousine liberal: how an incendiary image united the right and fractured America
- Ilic, Mirko - Presenting Shakespeare: 1,100 posters from around the world
- O'Hara, S. Paul - Inventing the Pinkertons or, Spies, sleuths, mercenaries, and thugs: being a story of the nation's most famous (and infamous) detective agency
- Sagalyn, Lynne B. - Power at ground zero: politics, money, and the remaking of lower Manhattan
- Sattouf, Riad - The Arab of the future 2: a graphic memoir: a childhood in the Middle East (1984-1985)
- Splendours & miseries: images of prostitution in France, 1850-1910 (Nienke Bakker, et al.)
- Trubek, Anne - The history and uncertain future of handwriting
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- James, Henry - The complete writings of Henry James on art and drama (2 vols.) 824 J
- Konstantinou, Lee - Cool characters: irony and American fiction 809.9 K
- Melville, Herman - The divine magnet: Herman Melville's letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne 92 M531 M
- Mount, Ferdinand - English voices: lives, landscapes, laments 1985-2015 823.09 M
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Soul at the white heat: inspiration, obsession, and the writing life 824 O
- Oliver, Mary - Upstream: selected essays 824 O
- Steinberg, Neil - Out of the wreck I rise: a literary companion to recovery 362.292 S
FICTION
- Beard, Richard - Acts of the assassins F B
- McMurtry, Larry - Horseman, pass by (McMurtry's first novel, filmed as Hud) F M
- Skelton, Barbara - A young girl's touch (originally published 1955) F S
- Szalay, David - Spring (2011 novel by author of All That Man Is) F S
- Wieringa, Tommy - Little Caesar F W
ART
- Cooper, Harry - Stuart Davis: in full swing 759.1 D
- Crimp, Douglas - Before pictures 709.2 C
- Curran, Kathleen - The invention of the American art museum: from craft to Kulturgeschichte, 1870-1930 708.1 C
- Jerusalem, 1000-1400: every people under heaven (Barbara Drake Boehm & Melanie Holcomb, eds. Metropolitan Museum of Art) 704.948 J
- Langmuir, Erika - The National Gallery companion guide 708.2 L
- Wilton-Ely, John - Piranesi, Paestum & Soane 706.9 W
ARCHITECTURE
- Brooks, Michael W. - John Ruskin and Victorian architecture 720.942 B
- Curtis, William J. R. - Modern architecture since 1900 724 C
- Hearn, M. F. - Ideas that shaped buildings 720 H
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
- Bagnall, Polly - Ferguson's gang 363.6 B
- Page, Max - Why preservation matters 363.6 P
GARDENS
- Richardson, Tim - Oxford college gardens 712 R
- Rutherford, Sarah - Capability Brown and his landscape gardens 712 R
- Whitaker, Alicia - Sidewalk gardens of New York 712 W
PHOTOGRAPHY
- The altering eye: photographs from the National Gallery of Art 770 N
- Borhan, Pierre - Dorothea Lange: the heart and mind of a photographer 770 L
- Parks, Gordon - Half past autumn: a retrospective 779 P
PERFORMING ARTS
- Arnaud, Claude - Jean Cocteau: a life 92 C6685 A
- Preston-Dunlop, Valerie - Rudolf Laban: man of theatre 792.8 P
- Scruton, Roger - The ring of truth: the wisdom of Wagner's ring of the nibelung 782.1 S
WRITING
- Bukowski, Charles - On writing 826 B
- McKee, Robert - Dialogue: the art of verbal action for page, stage, screen 808.2 M
- Friedlander, Joel - The self publisher's ultimate resource guide: every indie author's essential directory to help you prepare, publish, and promote professional looking books 070.5 F
BIOGRAPHY
- Buckley, William F. - A torch kept lit: great lives of the twentieth century 920 B924 B
- Cooper, Lisa - In search of kings and conquerors: Gertrude Bell and the archaeology of the Middle East 92 B4337 C
- Doyle, Sady - Trainwreck: the women we love to hate, mock, and fear ... and why 305.4 D
- Kamensky, Jane - A revolution in color: the world of John Singleton Copley 92 C7845 K
- Pryce-Jones, Alan - Devoid of shyness: from the journal, 1926-39 92 P9733 P
ANTIQUITY
- Ancient Egypt transformed: the Middle Kingdom (Adela Oppenheim, et al., eds) 709.32 A
- Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith - Pax Romana: war, peace and conquest in the Roman world 937.06 G
- Spurling, John - Arcadian nights: the Greek myths reimagined 292 S
HISTORY
- Brotton, Jerry - The Sultan and the Queen: the untold story of Elizabeth and Islam 327.42 B
- Goscha, Christopher E. - Vietnam: a new history 959.7 G
- Haywood, John - Northmen: the Viking saga, AD 793-1241 948 H
- Mazzeo, Tilar J. - Irena's children: the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto 940.5315 M
- Phillips, Christopher - The rivers ran backward: the Civil War and the remaking of the American middle border 973.71 P
- Ther, Philipp - Europe since 1989: a history 940.56 T
WAR
- Blum, Howard - The last goodnight: a World War II story of espionage, adventure, and betrayal 940.5486 B
- Hanna, David - Rendezvous with death: the Americans who joined the Foreign Legion in 1914 to fight for France and for civilization 940.412 H
- Nelson, Craig - Pearl Harbor: from infamy to greatness 940.542 N
- Shepherd, Ben - Hitler's soldiers: the German army in the Third Reich 940.542 S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Dreyer, June Teufel - Middle kingdom and empire of the rising sun: Sino-Japanese relations, past and present 327.51 D
- Mandelbaum, Michael - Mission failure: America and the world in the post-Cold War era 327.73 M
- McDonald-Gibson, Charlotte - Cast away: true stories of survival from Europe's refugee crisis 325.2 M
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Barron, David J. - Waging war: the clash between presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS 353.03 B
- Schroeder, Alan - Presidential debates: risky business on the campaign trail 324 S
INDIA
- Khilnani, Sunil - Incarnations: a history of India in fifty lives 954 K
- Sen, Amartya - The country of first boys and other essays 954 S
- Trautmann, Thomas R. - India: brief history of a civilization 954 T
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Nairn, Ian - Nairn's London (originally published 1966; 2014 Penguin Classics reissue) 914.21 N
- Sullivan, Paul - Berlin: a literary guide for travellers 914.315 S
- Sumner-Boyd, Hilary - Strolling through Istanbul: the classic guide to the city 914.961 S
SCIENCE
- Green, Lucie - 15 million degrees: a journey to the centre of the sun 523.7 G
- Lloyd, Christopher - What on Earth evolved?: 100 species that changed the world 575 L
- Montgomery, Sy - The soul of an octopus: a surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness 594 M
RELIGION
- Gessen, Masha - Where the Jews aren't: the sad and absurd story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish autonomous region 957 G
- Gordon, Bruce - John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian religion: a biography 230 G
- Holloway, Richard - A little history of religion 200 H
- Woodward, Kenneth L. - Getting religion: faith, culture, and politics, from the age of Eisenhower to the era of Obama 200 W
NEW YORK
- Albrecht, Donald - Gay Gotham: art and underground culture in New York 709.7471 A
- Baics, Gergely - Feeding Gotham: the political economy and geography of food in New York, 1790-1860 394.1 B
- Crain, Esther - The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910 974.71 C OVERSIZE
- Naison, Mark - Before the fires: an oral history of African American life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s 974.71 N
AUDIO
- Carr, Caleb - Surrender, New York Lobby Audio-CD C
- Hoffman, Alice - The marriage of opposites: a novel Lobby Audio-CD H
- Mailer, Norman - The naked and the dead Lobby Audio-CD M