New Books - March 2017
NON-FICTION
- Bergen, Benjamin K. - What the f: what swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves
- Bosworth, Patricia - The men in my life: a memoir of love and art in 1950s Manhattan (ebook avaiable)
- Czerski, Helen - Storm in a teacup: the physics of everyday life
- Dyson, Michael Eric - Tears we cannot stop: a sermon to white America
- Epstein, Edward Jay - How America lost its secrets: Edward Snowden, the man and the theft
- Frankel, Glenn - High noon: the Hollywood blacklist and the making of an American classic
- Fuller, Randall - The book that changed America: how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation
- Gerson, Stéphane - Disaster Falls: a family story
- Jasper, Willi - Lusitania: the cultural history of a catastrophe (translated from the German)
- Kohler, Sheila - Once we were sisters: a memoir
- Kolhatkar, Sheelah - Black edge: inside information, dirty money, and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on Wall Street
- Li, Yiyun - Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life
- Marshall, Megan - Elizabeth Bishop: a miracle for breakfast
- Merkin, Daphne - This close to happy: a reckoning with depression
- Mishra, Pankaj - Age of anger: a history of the present (ebook available)
- Ofri, Danielle - What patients say, what doctors hear
- Pasternak, Anna - Lara: the untold love story that inspired Doctor Zhivago
- Pryor, Elizabeth Brown - Six encounters with Lincoln: a president confronts democracy and its demons
- Rappaport, Helen - Caught in the revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917—a world on the edge
- Rovelli, Carlo - Reality is not what it seems: the journey to quantum gravity (translated from the Italian)
- Rydell, Anders - The book thieves: the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance
- Schuman, Rebecca - Schadenfreude, a love story: me, the Germans, and 20 years of attempted transformations, unfortunate miscommunications, and humiliating situations that only they have words for
- Searls, Damion - The inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, his iconic test, and the power of seeing
- Sims, Michael - Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Stubbs, John - Jonathan Swift: the reluctant rebel
- Talese, Gay - High notes: selected writings of Gay Talese
- Tyson, Timothy B. - The blood of Emmett Till
- Wood, Graeme - The way of the strangers: encounters with the Islamic State
FICTION
- Ackerman, Elliot - Dark at the crossing
- Apelfeld, Aharon - The man who never stopped sleeping (translated from the Hebrew)
- Arden, Katherine - The bear and the nightingale: a novel
- Auster, Paul - 4 3 2 1 (ebook available)
- Barolini, Helen - Visits
- Battersby, Eileen - Teethmarks on my tongue
- Crouch, Blake - Dark matter: a novel
- D'Agostino, Kris - The antiques: a novel
- Ferencik, Erica - The river at night
- Geary, Karl - Montpelier Parade
- Grossman, David - A horse walks into a bar (translated from the Hebrew)
- Kinsella, Sophie - My not so perfect life
- Kitamura, Katie M. - A separation
- Krasikov, Sana - The patriots: a novel
- Krivak, Andrew - The signal flame: a novel
- Lee, Min Jin - Pachinko
- Lipman, Elinor - On Turpentine Lane
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The Bertie project
- O'Neill, Heather - The Lonely Hearts Hotel
- Oates, Joyce Carol - A book of American martyrs
- Oloixarac, Pola - Savage theories (translated from the Spanish)
- Rivers, Susan - The second Mrs. Hockaday
- Robbins, Emily - A word for love
- Rooney, Kathleen - Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
- Saunders, George - Lincoln in the bardo (ebook available)
- Tolkien, Simon - No man's land: a novel
- Whitaker, Kayla Rae - The animators
- Yishai-Levi, Sarit - The beauty queen of Jerusalem (translated from the Hebrew)
MYSTERIES
- Berenson, Alex - The prisoner
- Blædel, Sara - The lost woman (translated from the Danish)
- Boyce, Trudy Nan - Old bones
- Buckley, Fiona - The heretic's creed*
- Coleman, Reed Farrel - What you break
- Crombie, Deborah - Garden of lamentations
- Dazieri, Sandrone - Kill the father: a novel (translated from the Italian)
- De Hahn, Tracee - Swiss vendetta
- Dunn, Carola - Buried in the country
- Freeman, Brian - The night bird
- Grippando, James - Most dangerous place
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Old bones*
- Hart, Elsa - The white mirror
- Herron, Mick - Spook street*
- Howe, K. J. - The freedom broker
- Karst, Leslie - A measure of murder
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Heartbreak Hotel
- Lansdale, Joe R. - Rusty puppy
- Liebman, Ronald S. - Big law
- Mackintosh, Clare - I see you*
- Patterson, James - Never never
- Persson Giolito, Malin - Quicksand (translated from the Swedish)
- Pinborough, Sarah - Behind her eyes*
- Robb, J. D. - Echoes in death
- Rosenstiel, Tom - Shining city
- Silvis, Randall - Two days gone
- Swanson, Peter - Her every fear
- Todd, Charles - Racing the devil (ebook available)
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The undesired
- Zander, Joakim - The believer
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Barkan, Joshua - Mexico: stories
- Doyle, Rob - This is the ritual
- Gautreaux, Tim - Signals: new and selected stories
- Holland, Noy - I was trying to describe what it feels like: new and selected stories
- Miller, Mary - Always happy hour: stories
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh - The refugees (ebook available)
POETRY
- Dunn, Stephen - Whereas: poems
- Jess, Tyehimba - Olio
- Lerner, Ben - No art: poems
- Motion, Andrew - Coming in to land: selected poems 1975-2015
- Ruefle, Mary - My private property
- Stewart, Susan - Cinder: new and selected poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Albert, Nicole G. - Lesbian decadence: representations in art and literature of fin-de-siècle France
- Marra, Peter P. - Cat wars: the devastating consequences of a cuddly killer
- Moser, David - A billion voices: China's search for a common language
- Streeck, Wolfgang - How will capitalism end?: essays on a failing system
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Cockburn, Claud - Bestseller: the books that everyone read, 1900-1939 823.09 C
- Ellis, Samantha - Take courage: Anne Brontë and the art of life 823 B
- Fell, Jill - Alfred Jarry (Critical Lives, Reaktion) 92 J379 F
- Gunn, Kirsty - My Katherine Mansfield project 823 M
- Horta, Paulo Lemos - Marvellous thieves: secret authors of the Arabian nights 398.2 H
- Literary awakenings: personal essays from the Hudson review (Rondald Koury) 828.08 L
- Moran, Daniel - Creating Flannery O'Connor: her critics, her publishers, her readers 823 O
- Muhlstein, Anka - The pen and the brush: how passion for art shaped nineteenth-century French novels 843.09 M
- Rosen, Michael - The disappearance of Zola: love, literature and the Dreyfus case 843 Z
FICTION
- Baricco, Alessandro - The young bride (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein) F B
- Ge, Fei - The invisibility cloak (translated from the Chinese; New York Review Books) F G
- Jerrold, Ianthe - Dead man's quarry: a golden age mystery (originally published in 1930) F J
- Oe, Kenzaburo - Seventeen & J: two novels (translated from the Japanese) F O
- Sapho (Leon Genonceaux) - The tutu: morals of the fin de siècle (translated from the French; Atlas Anti-Classics of Dada) F S
POETRY
- Ackland, Valentine - Journey from winter: selected poems 821 A
- Allen, Michael - Close readings: essays on Irish poetry 821.09 A
- Barnes, Djuna - The book of repulsive women and other poems 821 B
- Duban, Jeffrey M. - The lesbian lyre: reclaiming Sappho for the 21st century 884.2 D
- Ritvo, Max - Four reincarnations: poems 821 R
BOOKS & READING
- A history of modern librarianship: constructing the heritage of western cultures (Pamela Spence Richards, et al., eds.) 020 H
- Loveman, Kate - Samuel Pepys and his books: reading, newsgathering, and sociability, 1660-1703 828.09 L
- Rubery, Matthew - The untold story of the talking book 002 R
- City squares: eighteen writers on the spirit and significance of squares around the world 307.76 C
ART & ARCHITECTURE
- Bailey, Gauvin A. - Art of colonial Latin America (Phaidon Art & Ideas series) 709.8 B
- Cros, Caroline. - Marcel Duchamp (Reaktion Critical Lives) 709.2 D
- Dupré, Judith, - One World Trade Center: biography of the building 720.973 D
- Godfrey, Tony. - Conceptual art (Phaidon Art & Ideas series) 709.04 G
- Jenkins, Simon. - England's cathedrals 726.6 J
- Munari, Bruno. - Design as art 745.4 M
- Seaman, Donna. - Identity unknown: rediscovering seven American women artists 709.2 S
- Wood, Christopher, - Christopher Wood (published to concide with the exhibition "Christopher Wood: Sophisticated Primitive") 759.2 W
PERFORMING ARTS
- Heller, Michael C. - Loft jazz: improvising New York in the 1970s 780.973 H
- Moisala, Pirkko. - Kaija Saariaho 780.92 S
- Talking about Pauline Kael: critics, filmmakers, and scholars remember an icon (Wayne Stengel, ed.) 791.4 T
- Torgoff, Martin - Bop apocalypse: jazz, race, the beats, and drugs 780.973 T
COMICS
- Schiffrin, André - Dr. Seuss & Co. go to war: the World War II editorial cartoons of America's leading comic artists 940.549 S
- Strömberg, Fredrik - Black images in the comics: a visual history 741.5 S
HUMOR
- Errett, Benjamin - Elements of wit: mastering the art of being interesting 395 E
- Marx, Groucho - The essential Groucho: writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx 828 M
BIOGRAPHY
- Hennessy, Kate - Dorothy Day: the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother 92 D2732 H
- Marnell, Cat. - How to murder your life: a memoir 92 M354 M
- Petrushevskaya, Ludmila - The girl from the Metropol Hotel: growing up in communist Russia 92 P498 P
- Shaw, Mark - The reporter who knew too much: the mysterious death of What's my line TV star and media icon Dorothy Kilgallen 92 K484 S
- Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall - Dreaming of lions: my life in the wild places 92 T4556 T
CULTURAL STUDIES
- Conrad, Peter - Mythomania: tales of our times, from Apple to ISIS 306.4 C
- Eichhorn, Kate - Adjusted margin: xerography, art, and activism in the late twentieth century 686 E
- Luckhurst, Roger - Zombies: a cultural history 398.2 L
HISTORY
- Armitage, David - Civil wars: a history in ideas 355 A
- Balleisen, Edward J. - Fraud: an American history from Barnum to Madoff 364 B
- Barkan, Leonard - Berlin for Jews: a twenty-first-century companion 943.1 B
- Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund - Beyond the Northlands: Viking voyages and the Old Norse sagas 948 B
- Berry, Daina Ramey - The price for their pound of flesh: the value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation 326 B
- Briant, Pierre - The first European: a history of Alexander in the age of empire 938 B
- Kaplan, Robert D. - Earning the Rockies: how geography shapes America's role in the world 973 K
- Parrish, Susan Scott - The flood year 1927: a cultural history 977 P
- Tan, Hecheng - The killing wind: a Chinese county's descent into madness during the Cultural Revolution 951 T
- Vaughan, Richard - Charles the Bold: the last Valois Duke of Burgundy 944.4 V
- Wideman, John Edgar - Writing to save a life: the Louis Till file 364.1 W
CARTOGRAPHY
- Baynton-Williams, Ashley - The curious map book 912 B OVERSIZE
- Brooke-Hitching, Edward - The phantom atlas: the greatest myths, lies and blunders on maps 912 B
WAR
- The color of war: Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Jordi Carulla, ed.) 741.7 C OVERSIZE
- Moseley, Ray - Reporting war: how foreign correspondents risked capture, torture and death to cover World War II 070.4 M
- Oller, John - The Swamp Fox: how Francis Marion saved the American Revolution 973.33 O
- Peri, Alexis - The war within: diaries from the Siege of Leningrad 940.5347 P
- Potter, E. B. - Nimitz 92 N713 P
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Hughes-Wilson, John - The secret state: a history of intelligence and espionage 327.12 H
- Meier, Barry - Missing man: the American spy who vanished in Iran 327.12 M
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Black, Conrad - Backward glances: people and events from inside and out 824 B
- Lakoff, George - Moral politics: how liberals and conservatives think 320.1 L
- Müller, Jan-Werner - What is populism? 320.1 M
- Sanders, Bernard - Our revolution: a future to believe in 92 S2147 S
AFRICA
- Burgis, Tom - The looting machine: warlords, oligarchs, corporations, smugglers, and the theft of Africa's wealth 330.96 B
- Green, Matthew - The wizard of the Nile: the hunt for Africa's most wanted 967 G
- Mamdani, Mahmood - Saviors and survivors: Darfur, politics, and the War on terror 962 M
- Shenker, Jack - The Egyptians: a radical history of Egypt's unfinished revolution 962 S
LATIN AMERICA
- The Colombia reader: history, culture, politics (Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, ed., Duke U. Latin America Readers) 986 C
- The Rio de Janeiro reader: history, culture, politics (Daryle Williams, ed.; Duke U. Latin America Readers) 981 R
TURKEY
- Eligür, Banu - The mobilization of political Islam in Turkey 949.62 E
- Finkel, Andrew - Turkey: what everyone needs to know 949.6 F
- Temelkuran, Ece - Turkey: the insane and the melancholy 949.62 T
SCIENCE
- Darwin, Charles - Darwin and women: a selection of letters (compiled by Samantha Evans) 92 D2284 D
- Dennett, D. C. - From bacteria to Bach and back: the evolution of minds 128 D
- Laurent, Anna - Botanical art from the golden age of scientific discovery 580 L
- Secord, James A. - Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age 507 S
- Taylor, Paul D. - A history of life in 100 fossils 560 T
RELIGION
- Hanson, R. Scott - City of gods: religious freedom, immigration, and pluralism in Flushing, Queens 200 H
- Lehmann, Chris - The money cult: capitalism, Christianity, and the unmaking of the American dream 261.8 L
- Rice, Eugene F. - Saint Jerome in the Renaissance 270.5 R
- Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher - A house full of females: plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 289.3 U
NEW YORK
- Campisi, Charles - Blue on blue: an insider's story of good cops catching bad cops (former chief, NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau) 363 C
- Douglass, Frederick - Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn 973.8 D
- Hymowitz, Kay S. - The new Brooklyn: what it takes to bring a city back 307.76 H
- Main, Thomas J. - Homelessness in New York City: policymaking from Koch to de Blasio 362.5 M
- McCoy, Alfred W. - Beer of Broadway fame: the Piel family and their Brooklyn brewery 920 P613 M
- Nonstop metropolis: a New York City atlas (Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, eds.) 974.71 N OVERSIZE
SPORTS
- Drape, Joe - American Pharoah: the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise 798 D
- Isserman, Maurice - Continental divide: a history of American mountaineering 796.52 I
- Wilson, Elizabeth - Love game: a history of tennis, from Victorian pastime to global phenomenon 796.3 W
AUDIOBOOKS
- Neruda, Pablo - Love poems Lobby Audio-CD 861 N
- Patchett, Ann - Commonwealth Lobby Audio-CD P
- Smith, Zadie - Swing time Lobby Audio-CD S
- Trollope, Anthony - The way we live now Lobby, Audio-CD T