New Books April 2023
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Achorn, Edward - The Lincoln miracle: inside the Republican convention that changed history
- Ayers, Nabil - My life in the sunshine: searching for my father and discovering my family
- Bagniewska, Joanna - The modern bestiary: a curated collection of wondrous wildlife
- Banine - Parisian days (translated from the French)
- Beattie, Ann - More to say: essays & appreciations
- Brookes, Ada - Fragile cargo: the World War II race to save the treasures of China's Forbidden City
- Buruma, Ian - The collaborators: three stories of deception and survival in World War II (ebook available)
- Cohen, Roger - An affirming flame: meditations on life and politics
- Desmond, Matthew - Poverty, by America (ebook available)
- Eccentric lives: the Daily Telegraph book of 21st century obituaries (Andrew M. Brown, ed.)
- Glenconner, Anne - Whatever next?: lessons from an unexpected life
- Gopnik, Adam - The real work: on the mystery of mastery
- Imbler, Sabrina - How far the light reaches: a life in ten sea creatures
- Jarre, Marina - Return to Latvia (translated from the Italian)
- Lieberman, Jeffrey A. - Malady of the mind: schizophrenia and the path to prevention
- Loftis, Larry - The watchmaker's daughter: the true story of World War II heroine Corrie ten Boom
- Middleton, William - Paradise now: the extraordinary life of Karl Lagerfeld
- Mitenbuler, Reid - Wanderlust: an eccentric explorer, an epic journey, a lost age
- Odell, Jenn - Saving time: discovering a life beyond the clock (ebook available)
- Olson, Lynne - Empress of the Nile: the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction
- Osipov, Maksim - Kilometer 101(translated from the Russian; New York Review Books)
- Pomerantz, Mark F - People vs. Donald Trump: an inside account (ebook available)
- Roberts, Rebecca Boggs - Untold power: the fascinating rise and complex legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
- Schulman, Michael - Oscar wars: a history of Hollywood in gold, sweat, and tears
- Schwarcz, Luiz - The absent moon: a memoir of a short childhood and a long depression
- Sharlet, Jeff - The undertow: scenes from a slow civil war (ebook available)
- Siegal, Nina - The diary keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it
- Sommer, Will - Trust the plan: the rise of QAnon and the conspiracy that unhinged America
- Thomas, Joseph Earl - Sink: a memoir
- Worth, Jennifer - Toffee apples and quail feathers: the best of Call the midwife
- Wright, Jennifer - Madame Restell: the life, death, and resurrection of old New York's most fabulous, fearless, and infamous abortionist
- Zernike, Kate - The exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science
FICTION
- Adjapon, Bisi - Daughter in exile: a novel
- Alpert Florin, Daisy - My last innocent year: a novel
- Altan, Ahmet - Dying is easier than loving: book three of the Ottoman quartet (translated from the Turkish)
- Altan, Ahmet - Lady life (translated from the Turkish)
- Atwood, Margaret - Old babes in the wood: stories (ebook available)
- Barry, Sebastian - Old God's time (ebook available)
- Bell, Terena Elizabeth - Tell me what you see
- Berg, Elizabeth - Earth's the right place for love: a novel
- Bollen, Christopher - The lost Americans: a novel
- Catton, Eleanor - Birnam Wood (ebook available)
- Couto, Mia - The drinker of horizons: a novel (translated from the Portuguese)
- Dev, Sonali - The vibrant years
- Drnaso, Nick - Acting class
- Enriquez, Mariana - Our share of night: a novel (translated from the Spanish)
- George, Jessica - Maame (ebook available)
- Goldsworthy, Vesna - Iron curtain: a love story: a novel
- Jackson, Jenn - Pineapple Street: a novel (ebook available)
- Jha, Sonora - The laughter: a novel
- Jones, Dan - Essex dogs
- Kelly, Julia - The lost English girl
- Lacey, Catherine - Biography of X: a novel (ebook available)
- Loigman, Lynda Cohen - The matchmaker's gift: a novel
- Lucas, Madelaine - Thirst for salt: a novel
- Makkai, Rebecca - I have some questions for you (ebook & audiobook available)
- Mann, Thomas - Thomas Mann: new selected stories (new translated from the German by Damion Searls) (ebook available)
- McDaniel, Tiffany - On the savage side: a novel
- Napolitano, Ann - Hello beautiful: a novel (ebook available)
- Novey, Idra - Take what you need (ebook available)
- Okri, Ben - Dangerous love
- Pylväinen, Hanna - The end of drum-time: a novel
- Romano, Lalla - A silence shared (translated from the Italian)
- Ryan, Donal - The queen of Dirt Island (ebook available)
- Santopolo, Jill - Stars in an Italian sky
- Schine, Cathleen - Künstlers in paradise (ebook available)
- Simpson, Mona - Commitment (ebook available)
- Spence-Ash, Laura - Beyond that, the sea
- Stories of books and libraries (Everyman's Pocket Classics; Jane Holloway, ed.)
- Tate, Dizz - Brutes: a novel
- Wilson, Jonathan - The red balcony
- Winn, Alic - In memoriam (ebook available)
- Yan, Lianke - Heart sutra: a novel (translated from the Chinese)
- Zigman, Laura - Small world: a novel
more fiction (older titles newly acquired) are below
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Black, Cara - Night flight to Paris (ebook available)
- Bowen, Rhys - All that is hidden (ebook available)
- Box, C. J. - Storm watch (ebook available)
- Brody, Frances - A mansion for murder*
- Brown, Rita Mae - Hiss & tell
- Coben, Harlan - I will find you (ebook available)
- Douaihy, Margot - Scorched grace (ebook available)
- Handler, David - The girl who took what she wanted
- Holmes, Rupert - Murder your employer: the McMasters guide to homicide: from the chronicles of Dean Harbinger Harrow, the McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, Dean of Admissions and Confessions, Professor Emeritus, Department of Arts and Blackmail Letters, Senior Fellow, International Guild of Murderists
- Jance, Judith A. - Collateral damage
- Laestadius, Ann-Helén - Stolen: a novel (translated from the Swedish) (ebook available)
- Landay, William - All that is mine I carry with me: a novel
- Leon, Donna - So shall you reap (ebook available)
- Lloyd, Chris - Paris requiem*
- Lloyd, Robert J. - The poison machine*
- North, Alex - The angel maker: a novel
- Penner, Sarah - The London Séance Society*
- Raybourn, Deanna - A sinister revenge: a Veronica Speedwell mystery
- Swanson, Peter - The kind worth saving: a novel (ebook available)
- Todd, Charles - The cliff's edge
- Winspear, Jacqueline - The white lady: a novel* (ebook available)
*indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Helle, Sophus - Enheduana: the complete poems of the world's first author
- Longley, Michael - The slain birds
- Okri, Ben - A fire in my head: poems for the dawn
- Youn, Monica - From from: poems
- Zagajewski, Adam - True life
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & POETRY
- Banville, John - Conversations with John Banville (Earl G. Ingersoll & John Cusatis, eds.) 823 B
- Epstein, Joseph - Gallimaufry: a collection of essays, reviews, bits 824 E
- Guillory, John - Professing criticism: essays on the organization of literary study 807 G
- Luce, Dianne C. - Embracing vocation: Cormac McCarthy's writing life, 1959-1974 823 M
- McCarthy, Thomas - Poetry, memory and the party: journals 1974-2014 821.09 M
- Moezzi, Melody - The Rumi prescription: how an ancient mystic poet changed my modern manic life 92 M694 M
- Sartre, Jean-Paul - The family idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857 (translated from the French; 2023 abridged edition; five-volume edition also availabe on stack 7) 92 F587 S
- Spiegelman, Willard - Nothing stays put: the life and poetry of Amy Clampitt 92 C5865 S
- Warner, Joel - The curse of the Marquis de Sade: a notorious scoundrel, a mythical manuscript, and the biggest scandal in literary history 010 W
BOOKS & READING
- Darkshire, Oliver - Once upon a tome: the misadventures of a rare bookseller: wherein the theory of the profession is partially explained, with a variety of insufficient examples 92 D2193 D
- Garfield, Simon - All the knowledge in the world: the extraordinary history of the encyclopedia 030 G
- Heritage, Barbara - Building the book from the ancient world to the present day: how manuscript, printed, and digital texts are made 002 H
- Holsinger, Bruce W. - On parchment: animals, archives, and the making of culture from Herodotus to the digital age 676 H
FICTION
- Block, Lawrence - The night and the music: the Matthew Scudder stories F B
- Bodelsen, Anders - Think of a number (1968 crime novel; translated from the Danish; filmed as "The Silent Partner") F B
- Cochrane, Ian - A streak of madness (1973 debut by Irish author) F C
- Couto, Mia - The sword and the spear (author of Woman of the Ashes translated from the Portuguese) F C
- Jaeggy, Fleur - The water statues (translated from the Italian; New Directions) F J
- Pressburger, Emeric - The glass pearls (1966 novel by half of Powell Pressburger filmmaking team) F P
- Stacton, David - A fox inside (Faber Finds) F S
WRITING
- Black women writers at work (Claudia Tate, ed.; interviews with Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison & more) 820.9 B
- Hart, Jack - Wordcraft: the complete guide to clear, powerful writing 808 H
- Marche, Stephen - On writing and failure: or, on the peculiar perseverance required to endure the life of a writer 808 M
- Pushman, Erin - How to read like a writer: 10 lessons to elevate your reading and writing practice 808 P
FOLKLORE & MYTHOLOGY
- Bierhorst, John - Mythology of the Lenape: guide and texts 398.2 B
- Liu, Tao Tao - The Chinese myths: a guide to the gods and legends 299.51 L
JOURNALISM
- Morrow, Lance - The noise of typewriters: remembering journalism 070 M
- Journalism and Jim Crow: white supremacy and the Black struggle for a new America (Kathy Roberts Forde & Sid Bedingfield, eds.) 070.1 J
ART
- Boyle-Turner, Caroline - Paul Gauguin & the Marquesas: paradise found? 759.4 G
- Converging cultures: art & identity in Spanish America (Diana Fane, ed.) 709.8 C
- Fried, Michael - French suite: a book of essays 750.4 F
- Kaphar, Titus - Redaction 709.73 K
- Kim, David Young - Groundwork: a history of the Renaissance picture 759.5 K
- Mansfield, Elizabeth - The perfect foil: Franois-Andr Vincent and the Revolution in French painting 759.4 V
- The unforgettables: expanding the history of American art (Charles C. Edlredge, ed.) 709.73 U
- Ware, Zaria - Blk art: the audacious legacy of Black artists and models in Western art 704 W
- William Hunter: and the anatomy of the modern museum (Mungo Campbell & Nathan Fils, ed.) 708 A
PERFORMING ARTS
- Antek, Samuel - This was Toscanini: the maestro, my father, and me (2021 expanded edition) 780.92 T
- McEwen, Todd - Cary Grant's suit: nine movies that made me the wreck I am today 791.4 M
- Robb, Alice - Don't think, dear: on loving & leaving ballet 92 R6311 R
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Dionne, Evette - Weightless: making space for my resilient body and soul 92 D5915 D
- Dirar, Hamid A. - The amulet: my childhood and youth as a nomad in Sudan 92 D5973 D
- Gorham, Christopher C. - The confidante: the untold story of the woman who helped win WWII and shape modern America 92 R81325 G
- Teachout, Terry - City limits: memories of a small-town boy 92 T25343 T
- Young, Daniella Mestyanek - Uncultured: a memoir 92 Y696 Y
- Yousefzada, Osman - The go-between: a portrait of growing up between different worlds 92 Y888 Y
HISTORY
- Bowring, Philip - The making of the modern Philippines: pieces of a jigsaw state 959.9 B
- Cobb, James C. - C. Vann Woodward: America's historian 92 W8992 C
- Hendershot, Heather - When the news broke: Chicago 1968 and the polarizing of America 977.31 H
- Henderson, Bruce - Bridge to the sun: the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II 940.54 H
- Hernández, Kelly Lytle - Bad Mexicans: race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands 972 H
- Paul, Joanne - The house of Dudley: a new history of Tudor England 942.05 P
- Pittock, Murray - Scotland: the global history, 1603 to the present 941 P
- Raja, Rubina - Pearl of the desert: a history of Palmyra 939.4 R
- Smil, Vaclav - Invention and innovation: a brief history of hype and failure 608 S
- Wels, Susan - An assassin in utopia: the true story of a nineteenth-century sex cult and a president's murder 335.9 W
ANTIQUITY & CLASSICS
- Bernal, Ignacio - A history of Mexican archaeology: the vanished civilizations of Middle America 913.72 B
- Lomas, Kathryn - The rise of Rome: from the Iron Age to the Punic Wars 937 L
- Williams, Gareth D. - On Ovid's Metamorphoses 871.2 W
RELIGION
- Bellah, Robert N. - Tokugawa religion: the values of pre-industrial Japan 299.56 B
- Matt, Daniel Chanan - Becoming Elijah: prophet of transformation 221.92 E
- McGreevy, John T. - Catholicism: a global history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis 282 M
- Pardes, Ilana - Ruth: a migrant's tale 221.92 R
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Bound, Mensun - The ship beneath the ice: the discovery of Shackleton's Endurance 919.9 B
- Hawksley, Lucinda - Dickens and travel: the start of modern travel writing 92 D5484 H
- Zanglein, Jayne - The girl explorers: the untold story of the globetrotting women who trekked, flew, and fought their way around the world 910.9 Z
PSYCHOLOGY
- Grandin, Temple - Visual thinking: the hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns, and abstractions 152 G
- Lear, Jonathan - Imagining the end: mourning and ethical life 155.9 L
- Loewald, Hans W. - Papers on psychoanalysis 150 L
- Shermer, Michael - Conspiracy: why the rational believe the irrational 001.9 S
- Small, Scott A - Forgetting: the benefits of not remembering 154 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Gorski, Philip S. - The flag and the cross: white Christian nationalism and the threat to American democracy 261.7 G
- Hogan, Michael J. - A cross of iron: Harry S. Truman and the origins of the national security state, 1945-1954 327.73 H
- Suri, Jeremi - Civil War by other means: America's long and unfinished fight for democracy 973.8 S
CRIME
- Crabtree, Mari N. - My soul is a witness: the traumatic afterlife of lynching 364.1 C
- Greenberg, Andy - Tracers in the dark: the global hunt for the crime lords of cryptocurrency 364 G
- Pepper, William F. - The plot to kill King: the truth behind the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (update of author's earlier book) 364.1 P
- Rayman, Graham A. - Rikers: an oral history 365 R
INTELLIGENCE & ESPIONAGE
- Connelly, Matthew James - The declassification engine: what history reveals about America's top secrets 323.4 C
- Holt, Nathalia - Wise gals: the spies who built the CIA and changed the future of espionage 327.12 H
SOCIOLOGY
- Ditmore, Melissa Hope - Prostitution and sex work 306.7 D
- Hartman, Susan - City of refugees: the story of three newcomers who breathed life into a dying American town 325.2 H
- Singaravélou, Pierre - Decolonization: unsung heroes of the resistance 325.3 S
- Taiwo, Olufemi - Against decolonisation: taking African agency seriously 325.3 T
SCIENCE
- Ashby, Jack - Platypus matters: the extraordinary story of Australian mammals 599 A
- Budson, Andrew E. - Why we forget and how to remember better: the science behind memory 612.8 B
- Cunningham, Clifford J. - Asteroids 523.5 C
- Darlington, Miriam - The wise hours: a journey into the wild and secret world of owls 598.2 D
- Kennett, Carolyn - Uranus and Neptune 523.4 K
- Sheehan, William - Venus 523.4 S
- Suri, Manil - The big bang of numbers: how to build the universe using only math 523.1 S
FOOD & DRINK
- Hersh, June - Iconic New York Jewish food: a history and guide with recipes 641 H
- MacAllen, Ian - Red sauce: how Italian food became American 641 M
- Mintz, Corey - The next supper: the end of restaurants as we knew them, and what comes after 647.9 M