New Books - April 2022
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Aikins, Matthieu - The naked don't fear the water: an underground journey with Afghan refugees (ebook available)
- Atwood, Margaret - Burning questions: essays and occasional pieces 2004-2021
- Avlon, John P. - Lincoln and the fight for peace
- Barr, William Pelham - One damn thing after another: memoirs of an attorney general
- Beckerman, Gal - The quiet before: on the unexpected origins of radical ideas
- Bloom, Amy - In love: a memoir of love and loss (ebook available)
- Borman, Tracy - Crown & sceptre: a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- Brandon, Ruth - Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, love, and art (ebook available)
- Bruni, Frank - The beauty of dusk: on vision lost and found (ebook available)
- Cohen, Deborah - Last call at the Hotel Imperial: reporters who took on a world at war
- Davis, Kathryn - Aurelia, Aurélia: a memoir
- De Stefano, Cristina - The child is the teacher: a life of Maria Montessori
- Ferrante, Elena - In the margins: on the pleasures of reading and writing (translated from the Italian) (ebook available)
- Fierstein, Harvey - I was better last night: a memoir (ebook available)
- Frank, Jeffrey - The trials of Harry S. Truman: the extraordinary presidency of an ordinary man, 1945-1953
- Galloway, Stephen - Truly, madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the romance of the century (ebook available)
- Gottlieb, Scott - Uncontrolled spread: why COVID-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic
- Levy, Daniel S. - Manhattan phoenix: the great fire of 1835 and the emergence of modern New York
- Maloney, Emily - Cost of living: essays
- Nicolson, Adam - Life between the tides
- Peters, Jeremy - Insurgency: how Republicans lost their party and got everything they ever wanted
- Polley, Sarah - Run towards the danger: confrontations with a body of memory (ebook available)
- Pritchett, Georgia - My mess is a bit of a life: adventures in anxiety
- Raff, Jennifer - Origin: a genetic history of the Americas
- Rappaport, Helen - After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris from the Belle époque through revolution and war (ebook available)
- Richardson, Peter, - Savage journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the weird road to Gonzo
- Sipress, David - What's so funny?: a cartoonist's memoir
- Soni, Jimmy - The founders: the story of PayPal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley
- Williams, Florence, - Heartbreak: a personal and scientific journey
- Yovanovitch, Maria L. - Lessons from the edge: a memoir (ebook available)
Don't miss our recent arrivals lists for Black History Month and Women's History Month, and books on Ukraine & Russia.
FICTION
- Au, Jessica - Cold enough for snow
- Barry, Quan - When I'm gone, look for me in the East (ebook available)
- Bennett, Claire-Louise - Checkout 19 (ebook available)
- Bulawayo, NoViolet - Glory: a novel (ebook available)
- Chang, Lan Samantha - The family Chao: a novel
- Cole, Lee - Groundskeeping (ebook available)
- Fowler, Karen Joy - Booth: a novel (ebook available)
- Mishra, Pankaj - Run and hide (ebook available)
- Moss, Sarah - The fell (ebook available)
- Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō - Longing and other stories (translated from the Japanese)
- Tawada, Yōko - Scattered all over the earth (translated from the Japanese) (ebook available)
- Theotokēs, Kōnstantinos - Condemned (translated from the Greek)
- Tyler, Anne - French braid (ebook available)
- Wheelwright, Peter M. - The door-man: a novel (ebook available)
- Wilkerson, Charmaine - Black cake: a novel
- See fiction recently added to the stacks below.
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Black, Cara - Murder at the Porte de Versailles
- Bowen, Rhys - Wild Irish rose
- Box, C.J. - Shadows reel (ebook available)
- Coben, Harlan - The match
- Collins, Max Allan - Quarry's blood
- Cranor, Eli - Don't know tough (ebook available)
- Downing, Samantha - For your own good
- Engberg, Katrine - The harbor (ebook available)
- Ferencik, Erica - Girl in ice
- Finlay, Alex - The night shift
- Gilman, David - Betrayal *
- Hallett, Janice - The appeal: a novel *
- Handler, David - The lady in the silver cloud (ebook available)
- Jance, Judith A. - Nothing to lose
- Kanon, Joseph - The Berlin exchange: a novel (ebook available)
- Leon, Donna - Give unto others (ebook available)
- Lorac, E.C.R. - Checkmate to murder: a Second World War mystery *
- Luna, Louisa - Hideout: an Alice Vega novel
- Mann, Peter - The torqued man: a novel
- Margolin, Phillip - The darkest place
- Meltzer, Brad - The lightning rod
- Palmer, Marina - The Russian doll *
- Segura, Alex - Secret identity: a novel
- Swanson, Peter - Nine lives: a novel
- Walker, Martin - Bruno's challenge: and other stories of the French countryside
- Wesley, Valerie Wilson - A fatal glow
- Westlake, Donald E. - Call me a cab (1st time posthumous publication, Hard Case Crime)
- Winspear, Jacqueline - A sunlit weapon: a novel * (ebook available)
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Matios, Marii︠a︡ - Sweet Darusya: a tale of two villages
- O'Toole, Fintan - We don't know ourselves: a personal history of modern Ireland
- Riley, Alex - A cure for darkness: the story of depression and how we treat it
POETRY
- The FSG poetry anthology (Jonathan Galassi and Robyn Creswell, eds.)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Any, Carol Joyce - The Soviet Writers' Union and its leaders: identity and authority under Stalin
- McLoughlin, Tim - Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms: stories and essays
- Millay, Edna St Vincent - Rapture and melancholy: the diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo - Decolonising the mind: the politics of language in African literature
- Paul, Steve - Literary alchemist: the writing life of Evan S. Connell
- Scruton, Roger - Against the tide: the best of Roger Scruton's columns, commentaries and criticism
- Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway: authoritative text, contexts, criticism
FICTION
- Cabezon Camara, Gabriela - The adventures of China Iron (translated from the Spanish)
- Chambers, Clare - In a good light
- Gladman, Renee - The ravickians
- Hughes, Rupert - Souls for sale (Los Angeles Review of Books reprint of 1922 Hollywood novel)
- Jacobsen, Roy - White shadow (translated from the Norwegian)
- Leunens, Christine - Caging skies
- Manzini, Antonio - Out of season (2018 Schiavone mystery; translated from the Italian)
- Parry, Ambrose - The art of dying (medical mystery set in Victorian era Edinburgh)
- Pavese, Cesare - The beautiful summer
- Salten, Felix - The original Bambi: the story of a life in the forest
LANGUAGE
- Aslanyan, Anna - Dancing on ropes: translators and the balance of history
- Ferrara, Silvia - The greatest invention: a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts
PARANORMAL
- Besant, Annie - Thought-forms (reprint of 1905 occult book; influence on Kandinsky, af Klint, etc.)
- Broom, broom: writing about witches from the London review of books
ART
- D'Alessandro, Stephanie - Surrealism beyond borders
- Dürer, Albrecht - Dürer's journeys: travels of a Renaissance artist
- Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney - Gifts from the fire: American ceramics, 1880-1950: from the collection of Martin Eidelberg
- Hamilton, George Heard - Painting and sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940 (6th ed., Pelican History of Art)
- Leithe-Jasper, Manfred - Vienna: the Kunsthistorische Museum: the treasury and the collection of sculpture and decorative arts, the paintings collection
- Ringgold, Faith - Faith Ringgold: American people
- Thomas, Alma - Alma W. Thomas: everything is beautiful
ARCHITECTURE
- Frampton, Kenneth - The other Modern movement: architecture, 1920-1970
- Hudson, Karen E. - Paul R. Williams: classic Hollywood style
- Pückler-Muskau, Hermann - Hints on landscape gardening: together with a description of their practical application in Muskau
- A field measure survey of American architecture (Jeffrey Lad, ed. Photographs from Historic American Buildings Survey)
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Godlis, David - Godlis streets (classic NYC street photography)
- Haas, Ernst - Ernst Haas: New York in color, 1952-1962
- Leibovitz, Annie - Wonderland
- Volpe, Lisa - Georgia O'Keeffe, photographer
PERFORMING ARTS
- Mills, Hayley - Forever young: a memoir
- Bailey, Jason - Fun city cinema: New York City and the movies that made it
- Hopkins, Karen Brooks - BAM ...and then it hit me: a memoir
FASHION
- Fury, Alexander - Vivienne Westwood catwalk: the complete collections
- Kaiser, Alfons - Karl Lagerfeld: a life in fashion
- Mauriès, Patrick - Androgyne: fashion + gender
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Allason, James - Ringside seat: the political and wartime memoirs of James Allason
- Burns, Ursula - Where you are is not who you are: a memoir (CEO of Xerox, the first among black women to be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company)
- Cerrotti, Rachael - We share the same sky: a memoir of memory & migration
- Gilroy, Beryl - Black teacher
- Powers, Gleah - Million dollar red
- Preston, John - Fall: the mysterious life and death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's most notorious media baron
HISTORY
- Bull, John - The Peak District: a cultural history
- A city in flames (accounts of the destroyed Jewish Community of Yampol, Ukraine)
- Corfield, P.J. - The Georgians: the deeds and misdeeds of 18th-century Britain
- Egremont, Max - The glass wall: lives on the Baltic frontier
- Gallagher, Charles R. - Nazis of Copley Square: the forgotten story of the Christian Front
- Hyde, Anne Farrar - Born of lakes and plains: mixed-descent peoples and the making of the American West
- Lowenstein, Roger - Ways and means: Lincoln and his cabinet and the financing of the Civil War
- Sassoon, Joseph - The global merchants: the enterprise and extravagance of the Sassoon dynasty
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Andrew, Christopher M. - Stars and spies: intelligence operations and the entertainment business
- Soldatov, Andreĭ - The compatriots: the brutal and chaotic history of Russia's exiles, emigrés, and agents abroad
- Price, David H. - Threatening anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's surveillance of activist anthropologists
RUSSIA
- Kasparov, G.K. - Winter is coming: why Vladimir Putin and the enemies of the free world must be stopped
- Medvedev, Sergei - The return of the Russian leviathan
- Reddaway, Peter - The dissidents: a memoir of working with the resistance in Russia, 1960-1990
NEW YORK
- Bird, Christiane - A block in time: a New York City history at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street
- Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth - Antiquity in Gotham: the ancient architecture of New York City
- Stolzenberg, Nomi M. - American shtetl: the making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic village in upstate New York
- Scenes of New York City: the Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld collection (Roberta J.M. Olson, ed. w/ Wendy N.E. Ikemoto, Kenneth T. Jackson, Marilyn Satin Kushner)
SOCIOLOGY
- Dougherty, Conor - Golden gates: fighting for housing in America
- Gerber, David A. - American immigration: a very short introduction
- Neima, Anna - The utopians: six attempts to build the perfect society
- Quinones, Sam - The least of us: true tales of America and hope in the time of fentanyl and meth
- Instituting reform: the Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903-1931 (Deborah Martin Kao and Michelle Lamunière, eds.)
RACE IN AMERICA
- Allan, Hawa - Insurrection: rebellion, civil rights, and the paradoxical state of Black citizenship
- Clair, Matthew K. - Privilege and punishment: how race and class matter in criminal court
- Du Bois, W.E.B. - Black reconstruction: an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880, & other writings (Library of America collection)
- Mystal, Elie - Allow me to retort: a black guy's guide to the Constitution
- Purnell, Derecka - Becoming abolitionists: police, protests, and the pursuit of freedom
- Who's Black and why?: a hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew S. Curran, eds.)
LABOR
- Jaffe, Sarah - Work won't love you back: how devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited, exhausted, and alone
- McKenzie, Rob - El Golpe: U.S. labor, the CIA, and the coup at Ford in Mexico
- Rath, Tom - How full is your bucket?: positive strategies for work and life
EXPLORATION
- Byron, John - The narrative of the honourable John Byron, commodore in a late expedition round the world: containing an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coast of Patagonia, from the year 1740, till their arrival in England, 1746
- Fernández-Armesto, Felipe - Straits: beyond the myth of Magellan
SCIENCE & MATH
- Bhattacharya, Ananyo - The man from the future: the visionary life of John von Neumann
- Davis, Jack E. - The bald eagle: the improbable journey of America's bird
- Halliday, Thomas - Otherlands: a journey through Earth's extinct worlds
- Johnson, Katherine G. - My remarkable journey: a memoir
- Rose, Alexander - Empires of the sky: zeppelins, airplanes, and two men's epic duel to rule the world