New Books August 2023
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Bilal, Aaliyah - Temple folk
- Chung, Nicole - A living remedy: a memoir
- DiGregorio, Sarah - Taking care: the story of nursing and its power to change our world
- Giovan, Tria - Loisaida: New York street work 1984-1990
- Glass, Charles - Soldiers don't go mad: a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War
- Green, Jaime - The possibility of life: science, imagination, and our quest for kinship in the cosmos
- Hamer, Marc - Spring rain: a life lived in gardens
- Julavits, Heidi - Directions to myself: a memoir of four years (ebook available)
- Kara, Siddharth - Cobalt red: how the blood of the Congo powers our lives
- Krishnan, Nikhil - A terribly serious adventure: philosophy and war at Oxford, 1900-1960
- Leach, Samantha - The Elissas: three girls, one fate, and the deadly secrets of suburbia
- Lears, T. J. Jackson - Animal spirits: the American pursuit of vitality from camp meeting to Wall Street
- Mann, William J. - Bogie & Bacall: the surprising true story of Hollywood's greatest love affair (ebook available)
- McPhee, John - Tabula rasa
- Nguyen, Bich Minh - Owner of a lonely heart: a memoir
- O'Connell, Mark - A thread of violence: a story of truth, invention, and murder
- Schama, Simon - Foreign bodies: pandemics, vaccines and the health of nations
- Sevigny, Melissa L. - Brave the wild river: the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon
- Storey, Kate - White House by the sea: a century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port
- Taraborrelli, J. Randy - Jackie: public, private, secret
- Toynbee, Polly - An uneasy inheritance: my family and other radicals
- Turner, Guinevere - When the world didn't end: a memoir
- Vaillant, John - Fire weather: a true story from a hotter world
- Vickers, Michael G. - By all means available: memoirs of a life in intelligence, special operations, and strategy
- Vlahos, Hadley - The in-between: unforgettable encounters during life's final moments (ebook available)
FICTION
- Apelfeld, Aharon - Poland, a green land (translated from the Hebrew)
- Baltasar, Eva - Boulder (translated from the Catalan)
- Benedict, Marie - The first ladies
- Bowring, Shannon - The road to Dalton (ebook available)
- Brodeur, Adrienne - Little monsters: a novel (ebook available)
- Ch'ŏn, Myŏng-gwan - Whale (translated from the Korean)
- Crooks, Jacqueline - Fire rush
- Deb, Siddhartha - The light at the end of the world
- deWitt, Patrick - The librarianist: a novel (ebook available)
- Fischer, Bronwyn - The adult
- Ford, Richard - Be mine (ebook available)
- García, Cristina - Vanishing maps: a novel
- Grant, Linda - The story of the forest
- Hadley, Tessa - After the funeral and other stories (ebook available)
- Hansen, Martin Alfred - The liar
- Henry, Emily - Happy place
- Jakobson, Haley - Old enough: a novel
- James, Tania - Loot
- Khalīfah, Khālid - No one prayed over their graves
- Lynch, Lindsay - Do tell: a novel
- McBride, James - The heaven & earth grocery store
- Nelson, Caleb Azumah - Small worlds
- Nolan, Megan - Ordinary human failings: a novel
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Zero-sum: stories (ebook available)
- Patrick, K. - Mrs. S
- Perumāḷmurukaṉ - Pyre (translated from the Tamil)
- Rachman, Tom - The imposters: a novel (ebook available)
- Rehman, Bushra - Roses, in the mouth of a lion
- Reimann, Brigitte - Siblings (translated from the German)
- Ridker, Andrew - Hope: a novel (ebook available)
- Russo, Richard - Somebody's fool (ebook available)
- Shaffer, Meg - The wishing game: a novel (ebook available)
- Sigrún Pálsdóttir - History. A mess. (translated from the Icelandic)
- Slimani, Leïla - Watch us dance (translated from the French)
- Tan, Twan Eng - The house of doors
- Verble, Margaret - Stealing: a novel
- Weir, Keziah - The mythmakers: a novel
- Whitehead, Colson - Crook manifesto: a novel (ebook available)
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Berry, Steve - The 9th man
- Billingham, Mark - The last dance* (ebook available)
- Block, Lawrence - The autobiography of Matthew Scudder
- Burke, James Lee - Flags on the bayou: a novel
- Crawley, Harriet - The translator*
- Davis, Lindsey - Fatal legacy
- Doiron, Paul - Dead man's wake (ebook available)
- Gaylin, Alison - Robert B. Parker's Bad influence
- Gómez-Jurado, Juan - Red queen* (translated from the Spanish)
- Harris, Joanne - Broken light
- Heaberlin, Julia - Night will find you
- Housewright, David - In a hard wind
- Marlow, Natalie - Needless alley*
- Massey, Sujata - The mistress of Bhatia House
- McGarrity, Michael - The long ago: a novel
- Michallon, Clémence - The quiet tenant
- Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Silver nitrate
- Murphy, Dwyer - The stolen coast
- Newman, T. J. - Drowning: the rescue of Flight 1421: a novel
- Patterson, Richard North - Trial
- Quirk, Matthew - Inside threat: a novel
- Silva, Daniel - The collector: a novel (ebook available)
- Tapper, Jake - All the demons are here: a novel
- Thorogood, Robert - Death comes to Marlow: a novel*
- Ware, Ruth - Zero days (ebook available)
- Weaver, Ashley - Playing it safe
- Williams, Beatriz - The Beach at Summerly: a novel (ebook available)
- Yamashita, Iris - City under one roof (ebook available)
POETRY
- Davidson, Peter - Arctic elegies
- Phillips, Carl - Then the war: and selected poems, 2007-2020
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Bernthal, J. C. - Agatha Christie: a companion to the mystery fiction 823 C
- Douglass, Frederick - Speeches & writings 820.81 D
- Garner, Helen - How to end a story: diaries. 92 G2344 G
- Hahn, Daniel - Catching Fire: a translation diary 418 H
- Palmer, William - In love with hell: drink in the lives and work of eleven writers 809 P
- Wainaina, Binyavanga - How to write about Africa: collected works 896 W
DRAMA
- Hare, David - Straight line crazy 822 H
- Joyce, James - Exiles 822 J
- Phillips, Louis - Plays 822 P
- Walcott, Derek - The Odyssey: a play 822 W
FINE & PERFORMING ARTS
- Cobain, Kurt - Kurt Cobain: the last interview and other conversations 780.921 C
- Eyre, Makana - Sing, memory: the remarkable story of the man who saved the music of the Nazi camps 780.921 K
- Finkel, Michael - The art thief: a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession 708 F
- Leteux, Christine - Continental Films: French cinema under German control 791.4 L
- Maddocks, Fion - Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in exile 780.92 R
- George IV: art & spectacle 708 G
- Vermeer 759.9 V
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Berger, Joseph - Elie Wiesel: confronting the silence 92 W648 B
- Edward - A royal life 92 E2586 E
- Ferguson, Jane - No ordinary assignment: a memoir 92 F3521 F
- Hamer, Marc - Seed to dust: life, nature, and a country garden 92 H2146 H
- Page, Elliot - Pageboy: a memoir 92 P1326 P
- Steinberg, Jonny - Winnie and Nelson: portrait of a marriage 920 M2715 S
HISTORY
- Masters, Nathan - Crooked: the roaring twenties tale of a corrupt attorney general, a crusading senator, and the birth of the American political scandal 973.91 M
- Nelson, Craig - V is for victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American revolution and the triumph of World War II 973.917 N
- Parker, Wheeler - A few days full of trouble: revelations on the journey to justice for my cousin and best friend, Emmett Till 364.1 P
- Roosevelt, Kermit - The nation that never was: reconstructing America's story 342.73 R
- Wijk, Joop van - The last secret of the secret annex: the untold story of Anne Frank, her silent protector, and a family betrayal 940.53492 W
TRAVEL
- Bullough, Tom - Sarn Helen: a journey through Wales, past, present and future 914.29 B
- Bunting, Madeleine - The seaside: England's love affair 914.2 B
ANTIQUITY
- Aristotle - How to flourish: an ancient guide to living well: selections from the Nicomachean ethics 171 A
- Draycott, Jan - Cleopatra's daughter: from Roman prisoner to African queen 92 C6286 D
MILITARY
- Hwang, Su-kyoung - Korea's Grievous War 951.9 H
- Loewenstein, Antony - The Palestine laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world 355.26 L
- Solomon, Norman - War made invisible: how America hides the human toll of its military machine 355.0973 S
SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Bevan, Rober - Monumental lies: culture wars and the truth about the past 306.4 B
- Brooks, Justin - You might go to prison, even though you're innocent 345 B
- Enrich, David - Servants of the damned: giant law firms, Donald Trump, and the corruption of justice 340 E
- Fry, Macon - They called us river rats: the last batture settlement of New Orleans 976.31 F
- Higham, Scott - American cartel: inside the battle to bring down the opioid industry 362.293 H
- Littlejohn, Krystale E. - Just get on the pill: the uneven burden of reproductive politics 363.96 L
- Morgenson, Gretchen - These are the plunderers: how private equity runs--and wrecks--America 332.6 M
- Neiwert, David A. - The age of insurrection: the radical right's assault on American democracy 322.4 N
- Taylor, Mile - Blowback: a warning to save democracy from the next Trump 973.933 T
- Walton, Calder - Spies: the epic intelligence war between East and West 327.12 W
- Watson, Katie - Scarlet A: the ethics, law, and politics of ordinary abortion 363.4 W
FOOD & DRINK
- Baraghani, And - The cook you want to be: everyday recipes to impress 641.5 B
- Matsumoto, Nancy - Exploring the world of Japanese craft saké 641.22 M
- Thompson, Wright - Pappyland: a story of family, fine bourbon, and the things that last 338.7 T
- Williams, Jody - Via Carota: a celebration of seasonal cooking from the beloved Greenwich Village restaurant 641.5 W
NEW YORK CITY
- Clarke, Katherin - Billionaires' row: tycoons, high rollers, and the epic race to build the world's most exclusive skyscrapers 974.71 C
- Rifkin, Jesse - This must be the place: music, community and vanished spaces in New York City 792.7 R
ENVIRONMENT
- Goodell, Jeff - The heat will kill you first: life and death on a scorched planet 363.7 G
- O'Brien, Keith - Paradise falls: the true story of an environmental catastrophe 363.7 O
SCIENCE
- McKnight, Karl B. - Peterson field guide to mushrooms of North America 589.2 M
- Ackerman, Jennifer - What an owl knows: the new science of the world's most enigmatic birds 598.2 A
- Gascoigne, John - Science and the state: from the scientific revolution to World War II 509 G
WRITING
- Brandeis, Gayle - Drawing breath: essays on writing, the body, and loss 824 B
- Phillips, Carl - My trade is mystery: seven meditations from a life in writing 808 P
- Shalev, Meir - My wild garden: notes from a writer's eden 892.4 S
- VandeHei, Jim - Smart Brevity: the power of saying more with less 302 V