New Books - August 2017
- Aleksievich, Svetlana - The unwomanly face of war: an oral history of women in World War II (translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
- Begley, Adam - The great Nadar: the man behind the camera
- Bohrer, John R. - The revolution of Robert Kennedy: from power to protest after JFK
- Danticat, Edwidge - The art of death: writing the final story
- Engel, Matthew - That's the way it crumbles: the American conquest of English
- Gay, Roxane - Hunger: a memoir of (my) body
- Gidla, Sujatha - Ants among elephants: an untouchable family and the making of modern India
- Green, Joshua - Devil's bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the storming of the presidency
- Hayes, Elaine M. - Queen of bebop: the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan
- In their lives: great writers on great Beatles songs (Andrew Blaumer, ed.; with a note from Paul McCartney)
- Kalka, Joachim - Gaslight: lantern slides from the nineteenth century (translated from the German)
- Kean, Sam - Caesar's last breath: decoding the secrets of the air around us
- Lewis, Jon - Hard-boiled Hollywood: crime and punishment in postwar Los Angeles
- Livio, Mario - Why?: what makes us curious
- Mackrell, Judith - The unfinished palazzo: life, love and art in Venice: the stories of Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim
- Marzano-Lesnevich, Alexandria - The fact of a body: a murder and a memoir
- Patten, Chris - First confession: a sort of memoir
- Pfordresher, John - The secret history of Jane Eyre: how Charlotte Brontë wrote her masterpiece
- Reid, T. R. - A fine mess: a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system
- Sachs, Harvey - Toscanini: musician of conscience
- Saunders, Gerda - Memory's last breath: field notes on my dementia
- Shapiro, Laura - What she ate: six remarkable women and the food that tells their stories
- Shopsin, Tamara - Arbitrary stupid goal
- Stapinski, Helene - Murder in Matera: a true story of passion, family, and forgiveness in Southern Italy
- Stott, Rebecca - In the days of rain: a daughter, a father, a cult
- Taylor, Stephen - Defiance: the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Thorp, Mary - An English governess in the Great War: the secret Brussels diary of Mary Thorp
- Wagner, Erica - Chief engineer: Washington Roebling, the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge
- Walls, Laura Dassow - Henry David Thoreau: a life
- Wolff, Daniel J. - Grown-up anger: the connected mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet massacre of 1913
- Worsley, Lucy - Jane Austen at home: a biography
FICTION
- Basu, Diksha - The windfall: a novel
- Bollen, Christopher - The destroyers: a novel
- Clemmons, Zinzi - What we lose: a novel
- Cocozza, Paula - How to be human: a novel
- Cohen, Joshua - Moving kings: a novel
- Craig, Amanda, - The lie of the land/
- Freed, Lynn - The last laugh: a novel
- Fuller, Alexandra - Quiet until the thaw
- Greer, Andrew Sean - Less: a novel
- Khadivi, Laleh - A good country
- Khong, Rachel - Goodbye, vitamin: a novel
- Klam, Matthew - Who is Rich?: a novel
- Laird, Nick - Modern gods
- Marais, Bianca - Hum if you don't know the words
- Osborne, Lawrence - Beautiful animals: a novel
- Phillips, Gin - Fierce kingdom: a novel
- Redel, Victoria - Before everything
- Ryan, Donal - All we shall know
- Scott, Joanna - Careers for women: a novel
- Spencer, Scott - River under the road
- Tiller, Carl Frode - Encircling: a novel (translated from the Norwegian)
- Watts, Stephanie Powell - No one is coming to save us: a novel
- Yi, Mun-yol,- Meeting with my brother: a novella (translated from the Korean)
MYSTERIES
- Akunin, B. - The state counsellor: a Fandorin mystery (translated from the Russian)
- Atkins, Ace - The fallen
- Barton, Fiona - The child*
- Bilal, Parker - Dark water
- Box, C. J. - Paradise valley
- Casey, Jane - Let the dead speak*
- Connelly, Michael - The late show (ebook available)
- De Giovanni, Maurizio - Glass souls: moths for commissario Ricciardi (translated from the Italian)
- Fairstein, Linda A. - Deadfall
- French, Nicci - Sunday morning coming down*
- Gardiner, Meg - Unsub: a novel
- Grimwood, Jack - Moskva
- Hammer, Lotte - The lake (translated from the Danish)
- Hart, Carolyn G. - Walking on my grave
- Hart, Rob - The woman from Prague: an Ash McKenna novel
- Healy, Sarah - The sisters Chase
- Honda, Tetsuya,- Soul cage (translated from the Japanese)
- Jacobsen, Steffen, - Trophy (translated from the Danish)
- James, Peter - Need you dead*
- Levine, Laura - Death of a bachelorette
- McCall Smith, Alexander - A distant view of everything
- Maden, Mike. - Tom Clancy point of contact
- Paris, B. A. - The breakdown
- Reichs, Kathy - Two nights: a novel
- Robotham, Michael, - The secrets she keeps: a novel
- Rowson, Pauline - Lethal waves
- Silva, Daniel - House of spies
- Spencer, Sally - The hidden: a Monika Paniatowski mystery*
- Steiner, Susie - Persons unknown: a novel*
- Sykes, S. D. - City of masks
- Ware, Ruth - The lying game*
- White, Kate - The secrets you keep: a novel
- Wilson, Andrew - A talent for murder: a novel*
*indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Dawkins, Curtis - The Graybar Hotel: stories
- Gabaldon, Diana - Seven stones to stand or fall: a collection of Outlander fiction
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION
- Aydin, Cemil - The idea of the Muslim world: a global intellectual history
- Breglio, John - I wanna be a producer: how to make a killing on Broadway ... or get killed
- Deschamps, David - LGBTQ stats: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people by the numbers
- Jackson, Angela - A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun: the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Khosrokhavar, Farhad - Radicalization: why some people choose the path of violence
- The music of Central Asia (Theodore Levin, et al., eds.)
- Newhouse, Victoria - Chaos and culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens
- Nordgren, Tyler E. - Sun, Moon, Earth: the history of solar eclipses, from omens of doom to Einstein and exoplanets
- Ruskin, Marc - The pretender: my life undercover for the FBI
- Williams, Joan - White working class: overcoming class cluelessness in America
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- The Cambridge companion to Victorian women's writing (Linda H. Peterson, ed.) 820.9 C
- Cortázar, Julio. - Literature class, Berkeley 1980 860.9 C
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - The best read naturalist: nature writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson 824 E
- Ginsberg, Allen - The best minds of my generation: a literary history of the Beats 820.9 G
- Handbook of the Irish Revival: an anthology of Irish cultural and political writings 1891-1922 (Declan Kiberd and P.J. Mathews, ed.) 828.08 H
- Irby, Samantha - We are never meeting in real life: essays 824 I
- Jackson, Lawrence Patrick - Chester B. Himes: a biography 92 H6575 J
- Lounsberry, Barbara - Becoming Virginia Woolf: her early diaries & the diaries she read 828.09 L
- Ludlow, Fitz Hugh - The hasheesh eater: being passages from the life of a Pythagorean 828 L
- A new literary history of modern China (David Der-Wei Wang, ed.) 895.1 N
- Winock, Michel - Flaubert 92 F587 W
FICTION
- Butts, Mary - The Taverner novels (two modernist novels originally published in 1928 and 1932) F B
- Ferguson, Rachel - Evenfield (first published 1942) F F
- Ginzburg, Natalia - Family lexicon (translated from the Italian; New York Review Books) F G
- Rulfo, Juan - The golden cockerel & other writings (translated from the Spanish; stories from the 1950s) F R
- Simenon, Georges - Maigret and the tall woman (translated from the French by David Watson) F S
POETRY
- Boruch, Marianne - Eventually one dreams the real thing 821 B
- Coolidge, Clark - Selected poems 1962-1985, 821 C
- Moore, Marianne - New collected poems 821 M
- Tighe, Mary - The collected poetry of Mary Tighe 821 T
BOOKS & READING
- The book in history, the book as history: new intersections of the material text : essays in honor of David Scott Kastan (Heidi Brayman, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser, eds.) 028 B
- Shakespeare and Company, Paris: a history of the rag & bone shop of the heart (Krista Halverson, eds. ; foreword by Jeanette Winterson) 655.5 S
ART
- Boorsch, Suzanne. - Meant to be shared: the Arthur Ross collection of European prints 769 B
- Cambareri, Marietta. - Della Robbia: sculpting with color in Renaissance Florence 730.92 R
- Clottes, Jean. - What is paleolithic art?: cave paintings and the dawn of human creativity 709.3 C
- Herbert Boeckl (Agnes Husslein-Arco, ed.) 759.36 B
- John Lockwood Kipling: arts and crafts in the Punjab and London (Julius Bryant and Susan Weber, eds.) 709.54 J
PERFORMING ARTS
- Steffens, Roger - So much things to say: the oral history of Bob Marley 780.921 M
- Wilson, John C. - Noel, Tallulah, Cole, and me: a memoir of Broadway's golden age 792.0973 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Boles, John B. - Jefferson: architect of American liberty 92 J455 B
- Brewster, Gurdon - No turning back: my summer with Daddy King (Martin Luther King) 92 B8483 B
- Herdan-Zuckmayer, Alice - The farm in the Green Mountains (New York Review Books; translated from the German) 92 H541 H
- Kukla, Jon - Patrick Henry: champion of liberty 92 H523 K
ECONOMICS
- Backhouse, Roger - Founder of modern economics: Paul A. Samuelson 330.973 B
- Galbraith, John Kenneth - The selected letters of John Kenneth Galbraith 92 G1485 G
AMERICA & CHINA
- Allison, Graham T. - Destined for war: can America and China escape Thucydides's trap? 327.73 A
- Etzioni, Amitai - Avoiding war with China: two nations, one world 327.51 E
HISTORY
- Adler, H. G. - Theresienstadt, 1941-1945: the face of a coerced community 940.5315 A
- Ashton, Rosemary - One hot summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the great stink of 1858 942.08 A
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne - All the real Indians died off: and 20 other myths about Native Americans 970.1 D
- Fisher, Michael Herbert - A short history of the Mughal Empire 954 F
- Kaplan, Fred - Lincoln and the abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, slavery, and the Civil War 973.7 K
- Norton, Elizabeth - The hidden lives of Tudor women: a social history 942.05 N
- Smith, S. A. - Russia in revolution: an empire in crisis, 1890 to 1928 947.08 S
- Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling - The original Black elite: Daniel Murray and the story of a forgotten era 973.8 T
- Unwritten history of slavery: autobiographical accounts of Negro ex-slaves (Interviews conducted 1929-30, Fisk University) 326 U
ANTIQUITY
- The atlas of Ancient Rome: biography and portraits of the city (Andrea Carandini with Paolo Carafa, eds.) 937 A (Hornblower Room)
- The Oxford handbook of ancient Iran (D.T. Potts, ed.) 935 O
- Parker, Geoffrey - The Persians: lost civilizations 935 P
RELIGION
- Lombard, Jay - The mind of God: neuroscience, faith, and a search for the soul 201 L
- Müller, F. Max - The essential Max Müller: on language, mythology, and religion 201 M
- Schilling, Heinz - Martin Luther: rebel in an age of upheaval 92 L9735 S
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Murphy, Finn - The long haul: a trucker's tales of life on the road 388 M
- Oxenreider, Tsh - At home in the world: reflections on belonging while wandering the globe : an adventure across 4 continents with 3 kids, 1 husband, and 5 backpacks 910.4 O
- Spanish exploration in the Southwest, 1542-1706 (Original Narratives of Early American History) 973.1 S
FOOD
- Edge, John T. - The potlikker papers: a food history of the modern South 641 E
- Nosrat, Samin - Salt, fat, acid, heat: mastering the elements of good cooking 641.5 N
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Clarke, Harold D. - Brexit: why Britain voted to leave the European Union 942.085 C
- Goodhart, David - The road to Somewhere: the populist revolt and the future of politics 320.9 G
- Smith, Tony - Why Wilson matters: the origin of American liberal internationalism and its crisis today 327.73 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Annas, Julia - Plato: a very short introduction 184 A
- Davis, Evan - Post-truth: why we have reached peak bullshit and what we can do about it 177 D
- Kierkegaard, Søren - Without authority 242 K
- Pigliucci, Massimo - How to be a stoic: using ancient philosophy to live a modern life 188 P
LAW
- Abrams, Floyd - The soul of the First Amendment 342.73 A
- Eisinger, Jesse - The chickenshit club: why the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives 364 E
- Lee, Mike - Our lost Constitution: the willful subversion of America's founding document 342.73 L
CRIME
- Bilton, Nick - American kingpin: the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road 364.1 B
- Burton, Susan. - Becoming Ms. Burton: from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women 365 B
- Trillin, Calvin - Killings (new, expanded ed.) 364.1 T