New Books - June 2017
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Bartholomew, Rafe - Two and two: McSorley's, my dad, and me
- Bloomberg, Michael - Climate of hope: how cities, businesses, and citizens can save the planet
- Calhoun, Ada - Wedding toasts I'll never give
- Cannadine, David - Margaret Thatcher: a life and legacy
- Cott, Jonathan - There's a mystery there: the primal vision of Maurice Sendak
- Dromgoole, Dominic - Hamlet, Globe to globe: two years, 190,000 miles, 197 countries, one play
- Felzenberg, Alvin S. - A man and his presidents: the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- Ford, Richard - Between them: remembering my parents (ebook)
- Gethers, Peter - My mother's kitchen: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the meaning of life
- Goldstein, Amy - Janesville: an American story
- Haynes, Bruce D. - Down the up staircase: three generations of a Harlem family
- Hemming, Henry - Agent M: the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Hofler, Robert - Money, murder, and Dominick Dunne: a life in several acts
- Kean, Hilda - The great cat and dog massacre: the real story of World War Two's unknown tragedy
- Krukowski, Damon - The new analog: listening and reconnecting in a digital world
- Linder, Joselin - The family gene: a mission to turn my deadly inheritance into a hopeful future
- Liptrot, Amy - The outrun
- Lockwood, Patricia - Priestdaddy
- McCarthy, Tom - Typewriters, bombs, jellyfish: essays
- McCourt, Malachy - Death need not be fatal
- Miéville, China - October: the story of the Russian Revolution
- Morduch, Jonathan - The financial diaries: how American families cope in a world of uncertainty
- Mortimer, Ian - The time traveler's guide to Restoration Britain: a handbook for visitors to the seventeenth century: 1660-1700
- Nevins, Sheila - You don't look your age ... and other fairy tales
- Offit, Paul A. - Pandora's lab: seven stories of science gone wrong
- Oliphant, Thomas - The road to Camelot: inside JFK's five-year campaign
- Olson, Lynne - Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war
- Paul, Pamela - My life with Bob: flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues
- Positano, Rock G. - Dinner with Dimaggio: memories of an American hero/
- Prum, Richard O. - The evolution of beauty: how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the natural world—and us
- Rice, Condoleezza - Democracy: stories from the long road to freedom
- Riggs, Nina - The bright hour: a memoir of living and dying
- Samer - The Raqqa diaries: escape from 'Islamic State'
- Sandberg, Sheryl - Option B: facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy
- Sapolsky, Robert M. - Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst
- Sidibe, Gabourey - This is just my face: try not to stare
- Soufan, Ali H. - Anatomy of terror: from the death of bin Laden to the rise of the Islamic State
- Stroud, Rick - Lonely courage: the true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France
- Warren, Elizabeth - This fight is our fight: the battle to save America's middle class
FICTION
- Backman, Fredrik - Beartown (translated from the Swedish)
- Baume, Sara - A line made by walking
- Brenner, Jamie - The forever summer: a novel
- Chevalier, Tracy - New boy
- Crichton, Michael - Dragon teeth
- Duberman, Martin B. - Jews, queers, Germans: a novel/history
- Dunmore, Helen, - Birdcage walk/
- Frank, Dorothea Benton - Same beach, next year
- Gill, John Freeman - The gargoyle hunters
- Gordon, Mary - There your heart lies
- Hill, Susan - From the heart
- Honeyman, Gail - Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
- Jacobsen, Roy - The unseen (translated from the Norwegian)
- Kent, Hannah - The good people
- King, Stephen - Gwendy's button box
- Louis, Édouard - The end of Eddy (translated from the French)
- McGregor, Jon - Reservoir 13
- McInerney, Lisa - The blood miracles
- Magariel, Daniel - One of the boys
- Rabinyan, Dorit - All the rivers (translated from the Hebrew)
- Ratner, Vaddey - Music of the ghosts
- Roberts, Nora - From this day
- Segal, Francesca - The awkward age
- Simsion, Graeme C. - The best of Adam Sharp
- Strout, Elizabeth - Anything is possible (ebook)
- Sullivan, J. Courtney - Saints for all occasions
- Sullivan, Mark T. - Beneath a scarlet sky: a novel
- Sykes, Plum - Party girls die in pearls: an Oxford girl mystery
- Thayer, Nancy - Secrets in summer
- Theroux, Paul - Mother Land
- Tóibín, Colm - House of names (ebook)
- Trollope, Joanna - City of friends
- Yuknavitch, Lidia - The book of Joan
MYSTERIES
- Armstrong, Ross - The watcher*
- Atkins, Ace - Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies
- Blauner, Peter - Proving ground
- Child, Lee - No middle name: the complete collected Jack Reacher short stories
- Freeman, Brian - Marathon
- Friis, Agnete - What my body remembers
- Giordano, Mario - Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian lions (translated from the German)
- Hamilton, Steve - Exit strategy: a Nick Mason novel
- Heffernan, William - The Scientology murders: a dead detective novel
- Heley, Veronica - False fire: a Bea Abbot Agency mystery*
- Hunter, Stephen - G-man
- Jewell, Lisa - I found you: a novel*
- Lehane, Dennis - Since we fell
- Longworth, M. L. - The curse of La Fontaine: a Verlaque and Bonnet mystery
- McCarthy, Rob - A handful of ashes*
- McMahon, Jennifer - Burntown
- Mina, Denise - The long drop
- Nesbø, Jo - The thirst (translated from the Norwegian)
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Dis mem ber: and other stories of mystery and suspense
- Quick, Amanda - The girl who knew too much
- Rolls, Anthony - Family matters*
- Runcie, James - Sidney Chambers and the persistence of love*
- Salvalaggio, Karin - Silent rain
- Stabenow, Dana - Less than a treason
- Swinson, David - Crime song
- Thompson, Victoria - Murder in the Bowery
- Turow, Scott - Testimony
- Vichi, Marco - Death in the Tuscan hills
- Williams, Timothy - The second day of the renaissance
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Ferris, Joshua. - The dinner party and other stories/
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - I'd die for you: and other lost stories/
- Hadley, Tessa. - Bad dreams and other stories/
- Murakami, Haruki, - Men without women: stories/
POETRY
- Dunmore, Helen - Inside the wave
- Graham, Jorie - Fast
- Houellebecq, Michel - Unreconciled: poems 1991-2013 (translated from the French)
- Kleinzahler, August - Before dawn on bluff road: selected New Jersey poems; Hollyhocks in the fog: selected San Francisco poems
- Schwartz, Lynne Sharon - No way out but through
- St. John, David - The last troubadour: new and selected poems
More recent poetry arrivals below.
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Alter, Adam L. - Irresistible: the rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked
- Anderson, Bonnie S. - The Rabbi's atheist daughter: Ernestine Rose, international feminist pioneer
- Boser, Ulrich - Learn better: mastering the skills for success in life, business, school, or, how to become an expert in just about anything
- Florida, Richard L. - The new urban crisis: how our cities are increasing inequality, deepening segregation, and failing the middle class—and what we can do about it
- French, Howard W. - Everything under the heavens: how the past helps shape China's push for global power
- Martin, Anthony J. - The evolution underground: burrows, bunkers, and the marvelous subterranean world beneath our feet
- Rochberg, Francesca, - Before nature: cuneiform knowledge and the history of science
- Seymour, Michael - Babylon: legend, history and the ancient city
- Shulman, David Dean - Tamil: a biography
- Stewart, Jules - Gotham rising: New York in the 1930s
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Berman, Marshall - Modernism in the streets: a life and times in essays 824 B
- Beukes, Lauren - Slipping: stories, essays & other writings 828 B
- Bleikasten, André - William Faulkner: a life through novels 823 F
- A country of refuge: an anthology of writing on asylum seekers (Lucy Popescu, ed.) 808.8 C
- Davis, Philip - The transferred life of George Eliot: the biography of a novelist 92 E425 D
- Franklin, Wayne - James Fenimore Cooper: the later years 92 C7772 F
- Grothe, Mardy - Metaphors be with you: an a-to-z dictionary of history's greatest metaphorical quotations HBR 808.8 G
- The Shirley Jackson project: comics inspired by her life and work (Robert Kirby, ed.) 741.5 S
- Welch, Robert - The cold of May Day Monday: an approach to Irish literary history 820.9 W
FICTION
- Halldór Laxness - Wayward heroes (translated from the Icelandic by Phillip Roughton) F H
- Krasznahorkai, László - The last wolf / Herman: the game warden & the death of a craft (translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes and John Batki) F K
- Ruge, Eugen - Cabo de Gata (translated from the German by Anthea Bell) F R
- Saba, Umberto - Ernesto (New York Review Books Classics; translated from the Italian) F S
- Vian, Boris - I spit on your graves (first published, 1946; translated from the French; noir set in American south) F V
POETRY
- Carson, Anne - Float 821 C CS
- Cohen, Esther - Breakfast with Allen Ginsberg 821 C
- Farid ud-Din Attar - The conference of the birds (Sufi poetry, 13th century) 891.5 A
- Meillassoux, Quentin - The number and the siren: a decipherment of Mallarmé's Coup de dés 841.09 M
- Moss, Stanley - Almost complete poems 821 M
- Phillips, Louis - The domain of small mercies: new & selected poems, 1963-2016 821 P
- Tsvetaeva, Marina - A captive spirit: selected prose (introduction by Susan Sontag; translated from the Russian) 891.7 T
LANGUAGE
- Dizionari Sansoni: English-Italian, Italian-English HBR 453 E
- McWhorter, John H. - Talking back, talking Black: truths about America's lingua franca 427 M
MYTHS & LEGENDS
- Beauty and the beast: classic tales about animal brides and grooms from around the world (Penguin Classics; Maria Tatar, ed.) 398.2 B
- Doniger, Wendy - The ring of truth: and other myths of sex and jewelry 391.7 D
ART
- Aberth, Susan L. - Leonora Carrington: surrealism, alchemy and art 759.2 C
- Gauguin, Paul - Ramblings of a wannabe painter 701 G
- Hodge, Susie - Eric Ravilious: masterpieces of art 759.2 R
- Locke, Adrian - Mexico: a revolution in art, 1910-1940 709.72 L
- Proust, Marcel - Chardin and Rembrandt 844 P
- Stettheimer, Florine - Painting poetry 759.1 S
- Treasure palaces: great writers visit great museums (columns from The Economist; Maggie Fergusson, ed.) 708 T
- Zuffi, Stefano - Caravaggio in detail 759.5 C
PERFORMING ARTS
- Cartwright, Angela - Styling the stars: lost treasures from the Twentieth Century Fox archive 791.4 C
- Deren, Maya. - Essential Deren: collected writings on film 791.4 D
- Du Mont, Mary - The Mozart-Da Ponte operas: an annotated bibliography 016.78 D
- Flores, Juan - Salsa rising: New York Latin music of the sixties generation 780.973 F
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Evidence (reprint of photo classic compiled by Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel) 770 E
- Julia Margaret Cameron (by herself, Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry; introduction by Tristram Powell) 770 C
- Meister, Sarah Hermanson - Arbus, Friedlander, Winogrand New documents, 1967 770 M
GARDENS
- Fell, Derek - The gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright 712 F
- Felus, Kate - The secret life of the Georgian garden: beautiful objects and agreeable retreats 712 F
- Mariage, Thierry - The world of André Le Nôtre 712 M
BIOGRAPHY
- Benner, Erica - Be like the fox: Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom 92 M1494 B
- Garrow, David J. - Rising star: the making of Barack Obama 92 O1223 G
- Hayes, Kevin J. - George Washington: a life in books 92 W318 H
- Keay, John. - The tartan turban: in search of Alexander Gardner 92 G2257 K
- Masters, Alexander - A life discarded: 148 diaries found in the trash 92 F8181 M
- Roach, Levi - Æthelred the unready 92 E841 R
- Rosenberg, Rosalind - Jane Crow: the life of Pauli Murray 92 M9839 R
- Szerlip, Barbara - The man who designed the future: Norman Bel Geddes and the invention of twentieth-century America 92 G2953 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Perrett, Roy W. - An introduction to Indian philosophy 181 P
- Schultz, Bart - The happiness philosophers: the lives and works of the great utilitarians 140 S
- Scruton, Roger - On human nature 190 S
HISTORY
- Ayres, Philip - Classical culture and the idea of Rome in eighteenth-century England 942.07 A
- Berkin, Carol - A sovereign people: the crises of the 1790s and the birth of American nationalism 973.4 B
- Brown, Jonathan C. - Cuba's revolutionary world 972.91 B
- Dixon, John M. - The enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden: empire, science, and intellectual culture in British New York 92 C6883 D
- Englund, Will - March 1917: on the brink of war and revolution 940.3 E
- Hoock, Holger - Scars of independence: America's violent birth 973.3 H
- The invasion of Canada by the Americans 1775-1776: as told through Jean-Baptiste Badeaux's Three Rivers journal and New York Captain William Goforth's letters (Mark R. Anderson, ed.) 973.33 I
- McMeekin, Sean - The Russian Revolution: a new history 947.08 M
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
- Collins, Paul - Mountains and lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia 935 C
- Romer, John - A history of ancient Egypt,;from the Great Pyramid to the fall of the Middle Kingdom 932 R
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce - The spoils of war: greed, power, and the conflicts that made our greatest presidents 973 B
- Hall, Stuart - Selected political writings: the great moving right show and other essays 320.9 H
- Shipman, Tim - All out war: the full story of how Brexit sank Britain's political class 942.085 S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Blackwill, Robert D. - War by other means: geoeconomics and statecraft 327 B
- Green, Michael J. - By more than providence: grand strategy and American power in the Asia Pacific since 1783 327.73 G
CHINA
- Ball, Philip - The water kingdom: a secret history of China 951 B
- Brown, Kerry - CEO, China: the rise of Xi Jinping 951 B
- Gewirtz, Julian B. - Unlikely partners: Chinese reformers, Western economists, and the making of global China 951 G
CRIME
- Selzer, Adam. - H.H. Holmes: the true history of the White City Devil 364.1 S
- Slater, Dan - Wolf boys: two American teenagers and Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel 363.45 S
- Tucker, Holly - City of light, city of poison: murder, magic, and the first police chief of Paris 364.1 T
LAW
- Pfaff, John F. - Locked in: the true causes of mass incarceration—and how to achieve real reform 365 P
- Rothstein, Richard - The color of law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America 305.8 R
- Stone, Geoffrey R. - Sex and the constitution: sex, religion, and law from America's origins to the twenty-first century 345 S
HEALTH & MEDICINE
- Rosen, William - Miracle cure: the creation of antibiotics and the birth of modern medicine 615.7 R
- Wadman, Meredith. - The vaccine race: science, politics, and the human costs of defeating disease 614.4 W
- Whitman, Walt - Walt Whitman's guide to manly health & training (1858 newspaper columns) 613 W
SCIENCE & MATH
- Dvorak, John - Mask of the sun: the science, history, and forgotten lore of eclipses 523.7 D
- Eiseley, Loren C. - Collected essays on evolution, nature, and the cosmos (2 volumes, Library of America) 824 E
- Lemons, Don S. - Drawing physics: 2,600 years of discovery from Thales to Higgs 530.9 L
- Mazur, Joseph - Euclid in the rainforest: discovering the universal truth in logic and math 510 M
RELIGION
- Barzilai, Maya - Golem: modern wars and their monsters 296 B
- Bowersock, G. W. - The crucible of Islam 297 B
- Jamieson, A. G. - Faith and sword: a short history of Christian-Muslim conflict 290 J
- Jensen, Robin Margaret - The cross: history, art, and controversy 247 J
- Noll, Mark A. - In the beginning was the word: the Bible in American public life, 1492-1783 277.3 N
NEW YORK
- Harris, LaShawn - Sex workers, psychics, and numbers runners: black women in New York City's underground economy 331.4 H
- Starecheski, Amy - Ours to lose: when squatters became homeowners in New York City 333 S
- Zoned out!: race, displacement, and city planning in New York City (Tom Angotti, ed.) 307.76 Z
AUDIOBOOKS
- Anderson, Sherwood, - Winesburg, Ohio Audio-CD A
- Saunders, George - Lincoln in the bardo: a novel Lobby Audio-CD S
- Whitehead, Colson - The underground railroad Lobby Audio-CD W