IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Bell, Julian - Van Gogh: a power seething
• Borman, Tracy - Thomas Cromwell: the untold story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant
• Brackett, Charles - "It's the pictures that got small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's golden age (Anthony Slide, ed.)
• Cohen, Roger - The girl from Human Street: ghosts of memory in a Jewish family
• Coutts, Marion - The iceberg
• Crease, Robert P. - The quantum moment: how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty
• D'Ambrosio, Charles - Loitering: new & collected essays
• Davis, William C. - Crucible of commmand: Ulysses S. Grant and Rober E. Lee-- the war they fought, the peace they forged
• De Courcy, Anne - Margot at war: love and betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-16
• Doyle, Don Harrison - The cause of all nations: an international history of the American Civil War
• Eichengreen, Barry J. - Hall of mirrors: the Great Depression, the great recession, and the uses—and misuses—of history
• Foner, Eric - Gateway to freedom: the hidden history of the Underground Railroad
• Gavin, James - Is that all there is?: the strange life of Peggy Lee
• Godwin, Gail - Publishing: a writer's memoir
• Gorokhova, Elena - Russian tattoo: a memoir
• Hadlow, Janice - A royal experiment: the private life of King George III
• Ivereigh, Austen - The great reformer: Francis and the making of a radical pope
• Judt, Tony - When the facts change: essays, 1995-2010 (edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans)
• Katz, Pamela - The partnership: Brecht, Weill, three women, and Germany on the brink
• Kurtz, Glenn - Three minutes in Poland: discovering a lost world in a 1938 family film
• Levy, Andrew - Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the era that shaped his masterpiece
• Maier, Thomas - When lions roar: the Churchills and the Kennedys
• Mak, Geert - In America: travels with John Steinbeck (translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters)
• Miller, Aaron David - The end of greatness: why America can't have (and doesn't want) another great president
• Night and day (edited and with an introduction by Christopher Hawtree; preface by Graham Greene)
• Nordberg, Jenny - The underground girls of Kabul: in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan
• Rathbone, Belinda - The Boston Raphael: a mysterious painting, an embattled museum in an era of change & a daughter's search for the truth
• Ritz, David - Respect: the life of Aretha Franklin
• Rudenstine, Neil L. - Ideas of order: a close reading of Shakespeare's sonnets
• Spencer, Charles  - Killers of the king: the men who dared to execute Charles I
• Trevor-Roper, Hugh - The secret world: behind the curtain of British intelligence in World War II and the Cold War (edited by Edward Harrison; foreword by Sir Michael Howard)
• Wolf, Hubert - The nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: the true story of a convent in scandal (translated from the German by Ruth Martin)
• Yagoda, Ben - The B side: the death of Tin Pan Alley and the rebirth of the great American song

FICTION

• Buwalda, Peter - Bonita Avenue: a novel (translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Reeder)
• Can Xue - The last lover (translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen)
• Carey, Peter - Amnesia
• Cornwell, Bernard. - The empty throne: a novel
• Cusk, Rachel - Outline
• Evans, Lissa - Crooked heart
• Ferrari, Jerome - The Sermon on the Fall of Rome (translated from the French; winner of the 2012 Prix Goncourt)
• Freud, Esther - Mr. Mac and me
• Green, Jane - Saving Grace
• Gudenkauf, Heather - Little mercies
• Hogan, Phil - A pleasure and a calling
• Hooper, Emma - Etta and Otto and Russell and James
• July, Miranda - The first bad man
• Khakpour, Porochista - The last illusion 
• Kulin, Ayse - Last train to Istanbul (translated from the Tuskish by John W. Baker)
• Lane, Harrie - Her
• McGuire, Richard - Here
• Morrow, James - Galapagos regained
• O'Nan, Stewart - West of sunset
• Palahniuk, Chuck - Beautiful you
• Robson, Jennifer - After the war is over
• Sansal, Boualem - Harraga (translated from the French by Frank Wynne)
• Simsion, Graeme C. - The Rosie effect
• Weir, Andy - The Martian
• Yu, Hua - The seventh day (translated from the Chinese by Allan H. Barr)

MYSTERIES

• The Best American mystery stories of the 19th century (edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler)
• Bradley, C. Alan - As chimney sweepers come to dust: a Flavia de Luce novel
• Camilleri, Andrea - The Brewer of Preston: a novel (translated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli) 
• Collett, Chris - Dead of night*
• Fredrickson, Jack - Silence the dead
• Gerritsen, Tess - Rizzoli & Isles: die again
• Graves, Sarah - Winter at the door: a novel
• Gray, Alex - The bird that did not sing
• Harrison, Mette Ivie - The bishop's wife
• Hawkins, Paula - The girl on the train*
• Higgins, Jack - Rain on the dead
• Hill, Susan - Soul of discretion: a Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler mystery*
• Hoag, Tami - Cold cold heart
• Jerkins, Grant - Done in one (w/Jan Thomas)
• Kasasian, M. R. C.  - The curse of the house of Foskett*
• Khan, Ausma Zehanat - The unquiet dead
• Krentz, Jayne Ann - Trust no one
• Loehfelm, Bill - Doing the devil's work
• Neuhaus, Nele - The ice queen (translated from the German by Steven T. Murray)
• Tafoya, Dennis - The poor boy's game
• Thilliez, Franck - Bred to kill (translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti)
• Woods, Stuart - Insatiable appetites

POETRY

• Davis, Olena Kalytiak - The poem she didn't write and other poems
• Fulton, Alice - Barely composed: poems
• Heaney, Seamus - New selected poems, 1988-2013

SHORT STORIES

• Bergman, Megan Mayhew. - Almost famous women: stories/ Megan Mayhew Bergman.
• Pearlman, Edith, 1936- - Honeydew
• Vienna tales (selected and translated by Deborah Holmes; edited by Helen Constantine)

AUDIO

• Greene, Graham - The end of the affair Audio-CD G
• Percy, Walker - The moviegoer Audio-CD P
• Tóibín, Colm - The master Audio-CD T

LITERATURE

• Blunden, Edmund - Fall in, ghosts: selected war prose 828 B
• Callow, Simon - Oscar Wilde and his circle 920 C1634 O
• Flannery O'Connor: the contemporary reviews (R. Neil Scott, Irwin H. Streight, eds.) 828 O
• Genet, Jean - The declared enemy: texts and interviews  828.08 G
• Marsh, Jan - The Pre-Raphaelite circle  920 M366 P
• Pearce, Joseph - Catholic literary giants: a field guide to the Catholic literary landscape  820.9 P
• Spain in mind: an anthology (Vintage Departures; Alice Leccese Powers, ed.) 820.8 S
• Spalding, Frances - The Bloomsbury group 920 S734 B
• Trollope, Anthony - An autobiography and other writings  92 T8474 T

POETRY

• Belieu, Erin - Slant Six , 821 B
• Holmes, Richard - The romantic poets and their circle 920 H7526 R
• Hugo, Victor - God; and, The end of Satan: selections in a bilingual edition 841 H
• Jeffers, Robinson - The collected poetry of Robinson Jeffers: volume four: poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings 821 J
• Mahon, Derek - An autumn wind , 821 M

FICTION

• Carpenter, Don - Turnaround: a novel (1981) F C
• Gallant, Mavis - Paris stories (selected and with an introduction by Michael Ondaatje) F G
• Harrower, Elizabeth, - Down in the city (1957) F H
• Mitchell, Julian - As far as you can go (1963, Faber Finds) F M
• Pearlman, Edith - How to fall: stories (2005) F P
• Shishkin, Mikhail - Maidenhair (translated from the Russian; 1994) F S
• Williams, Charles - Dead calm (1963) F W

FILM

• Eliot, Marc - American titan: searching for John Wayne 92 W3595 E
• Phillips, Brent - Charles Walters: the director who made Hollywood dance 92 W235 P

MUSIC

• Bockris, Victor - Transformer: the complete Lou Reed story 92 R3248 B
• Cohen, Ronald D. - Roots of the revival: American and British folk music in the 1950s 784.4 C
• Kelly, Thomas Forrest - Capturing music: the story of notation 781.2 K
• Paul, David C. - Charles Ives in the mirror: American histories of an iconic composer 780.92 I

BOOKS & READING

• Cave, Roderick - The history of the book in 100 books: the complete story, from Egypt to e-book 002 C
• Mendelsund, Peter - Cover 741.64 M

ART

• Borchert, Till - Masterpieces in detail: early Netherlandish art from van Eyck to Bosch 759.9 B OVERSIZE
• Cubism: the Leonard A. Lauder Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art; Emily Braun, et al., eds.) 709.04 C
• Fried, Michael - Another light: Jacques-Louis David to Thomas Demand 704 F
• Gay, Peter - Why the romantics matter 709.4 G
• Gombrich, E. H. - Shadows: the depiction of cast shadows in western art 704.94 G
• Grant, Patrick - The letters of Vincent van Gogh: a critical study 759.9 G
• Mundy, Jennifer - Lost art: missing artworks of the twentieth century 709.04 M
• Petropoulos, Jonathan - Artists under Hitler: collaboration and survival in Nazi Germany 943.085 P

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

• D'Arcy Hughes, Ann - The printmaking bible: the complete guide to materials and techniques 760 D
• Dillon, Patrick - The story of buildings: from the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and beyond 720.9 D
• Fernie, Eric - Romanesque architecture: the first style of the European age 723.4 F
• Scheips, Charlie - Elsie de Wolfe's Paris: frivolity before the storm  92 D5244 S OVERSIZE

CLASSICS & ANTIQUITY

• Apollonius - Jason and the Argonauts (new translation by Aaron Poochigian) 883.3 A
• Cameron, Averil - Dialoguing in late antiquity 270.1 C
• Euripides - Bacchae (new translation by Robin Robertson) 882.3 E
• Middlebrook, Diane Wood - Young Ovid: an unfinished biography 92 O966 M
• Urbainczyk, Theresa - Slave revolts in antiquity 326 U

BIOGRAPHY

• Anand, Anita - Sophia: princess, suffragette, revolutionary  92 D881 A
• Fallada, Hans - A stranger in my own country: the 1944 prison diary (translated from the German by Allan Blunden) 92 F1942 W
• Fitoussi, Michèle - Helena Rubinstein: the woman who invented beauty 92 R8967 F
• Greenspan, Ezra - William Wells Brown: an African American life 92 B8818 G
• Jangfeldt, Bengt - Mayakovsky: a biography  92 M4674 J
• López, Alfred J. - José Martí: a revolutionary life 92 M378 L
• Mesrine, Jacques - The death instinct (criminal memoir translated from the French by Catherine Texier and Robert Greene) 92 M581 M

HISTORY

• Bailyn, Bernard - Sometimes an art: nine essays on history  907 B
• Cameron, Averil. - Byzantine matters 949.5 C
• Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne - An indigenous peoples' history of the United States 970.5 D
• Freely, John - Istanbul: the imperial city 949.61 F
• Gaskill, Malcolm - Between two worlds: how the English became Americans 973.2 G
• Haley, James L. - Captive paradise: a history of Hawai'i 996.9 H
• Hooper, John - The Italians 945.09 H
• Jackson, Lee - Dirty old London: the Victorian fight against filth 363.7 J
• Jordan, Brian Matthew - Marching home: Union veterans and their unending Civil War 973.74 J
• Russell, Jan Jarboe - The train to Crystal City: FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II 940.53 R
• White, Hayden V. - Metahistory: the historical imagination in nineteenth-century Europe 901 W
• Wickham, Chris - Medieval Rome: stability and crisis of a city, 900-1150  945.6 W

PHILOSOPHY

• Bergson, Henri - An introduction to metaphysics (translated from the French by T. E. Hulme) 110 B
• Jankélévitch, Vladimir - The bad conscience (translated from the French by Andrew Kelley) 194 J
• Maritain, Jacques - Being in the world: a quotable Maritain reader 194 M

PSYCHOLOGY

• Pfaff, Donald W. - The altruistic brain: how we are naturally good 171 P
• Toohey, Peter - Jealousy 157 T
• Walsh, Chris - Cowardice: a brief history 157 W

CIVIL RIGHTS & RACE RELATIONS

• King, Martin Luther - The radical King (Cornel West, ed.) 308 K
• McPherson, James M. - The struggle for equality: abolitionists and the negro in the Civil War and reconstruction 973.8 M
• Muhammad, Khalil Gibran - The condemnation of blackness: race, crime, and the making of modern urban America 325.26 M
• Sokol, Jason - All eyes are upon us: race and politics from Boston to Brooklyn 323.1 S

RELIGION

• Diner, Hasia R. - Roads taken: the great Jewish migratiofeb 2015ns to the new world and the peddlers who forged the way 325.2 D
• Gingerich, Owen - God's planet  215 G
• Rooney, Francis - The global Vatican: an inside look at the Catholic church, world politics, and the extraordinary relationship between the United States and the Holy See 262.13 R
• Zuckerman, Phil - Living the secular life: new answers to old questions 291.4 Z

TORTURE

• The Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture: committee study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program , 323.4 U
• McCoy, Alfred W. - Torture and impunity: the U.S. doctrine of coercive interrogation , 323.4 M

MIDDLE EAST

• The Arab uprisings explained: new contentious politics in the Middle East (Mark Lynch, ed.) 956 A
• MacDonald, Michael - Overreach: delusions of regime change in Iraq 956.704 M
• Sahner, Christian C. - Among the ruins: Syria past and present 956.9 C

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

• Hecht, Susanna B. - The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha 981 H
• Surville, Jean François de - The expedition of the St. Jean-Baptiste to the Pacific, 1769-1770: from journals of Jean de Surville and Guillaume Labé 910.9 S
• Walker, Gabrielle - Antarctica: an intimate portrait of a mysterious continent 919.9 W

SOCIOLOGY

• Iceland, John - A portrait of America: the demographic perspective 301.2 I
• N., José Ángel - Illegal: reflections of an undocumented immigrant 325.73 N
• Roberts, Paul - The impulse society: America in the age of instant gratification 309.1 R

SCIENCE

• Kenneally, Christine - The invisible history of the human race: how DNA and history shape our identities and our futures 575.1 K
• Scharf, Caleb A. - The Copernicus complex: our cosmic significance in a universe of planets and probabilities 523.1 S

GARDENS

• Flora illustrata: great works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden 016.5 F OVERSIZE
• Bennett, Jackie - The writer's garden: how gardens inspired our best-loved authors 712 B
• Marder, Michael - The philosopher's plant: an intellectual herbarium 580 M
• Stewart, Amy - The drunken botanist: the plants that create the world's great drinks 641.2 S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu - Intimate strangers: Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, and Said in American political discourse 320.9 R
• Scruton, Roger - How to be a conservative 320.9 S
• Weil, Simone - On the abolition of all political parties (translated from the French by Simon Leys; essay by Czeslaw Milosz) 324.2 W

WAR

• Antiwar dissent and peace activism in World War I America: a documentary reader 940.312 A
• Caddick-Adams, Peter - Snow & steel: the Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45 940.542 C
• Gutiérrez, Edward A. - Doughboys on the Great War: how American soldiers viewed their military service 940.48 G
• Singer, P. W. - Cybersecurity and cyberwar: what everyone needs to know 005.8 S
• Smith, Graeme - The dogs are eating them now: our war in Afghanistan 958 S

NEW YORK

• Cohen, Paul E. - Manhattan in maps, 1527-2014 912 C
• Rezny, Aaron - Eating Delancey: a celebration of Jewish food  641.5 R
• Snyder, Robert W. - Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the promise of New York City  974.71 S
• Stanford, Peter - A dream of tall ships: how New Yorkers came together to save the city's sailing-ship waterfront  387.1 S

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