New Books - December 2023
IN THE LOBBYNONFICTION
- Agrawal, Roma - Nuts & bolts: seven small inventions that changed the world (in a big way)
- Biskind, Peter - Pandora's box: how guts, guile, and greed upended TV
- Bradbury, Ray - Remembrance: selected correspondence of Ray Bradbury
- Brands, H. W. - Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
- Brooks, David - How to know a person: the art of seeing others deeply and being deeply seen (ebook available)
- Chast, Roz - I must be dreaming
- Conant, Jennet - Fierce ambition: the life and legend of war correspondent Maggie Higgins
- Coppins, McKay - Romney: a reckoning
- Darnton, Robert - The revolutionary temper: Paris, 1748-1789
- Elkin, Lauren - Art monsters: unruly bodies in feminist art
- Evangelista, Patricia - Some people need killing: a memoir of murder in my country
- Eyman, Scott - Charlie Chaplin vs. America: when art, sex, and politics collided
- Garner, Dwight - The upstairs delicatessen: on eating, reading, reading about eating, and eating while reading (ebook available)
- Gross, Michael - Flight of the WASP: the rise, fall, and future of America's original ruling class (ebook available)
- Guy, John - Hunting the falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the marriage that shook Europe (ebook available)
- Harriot, Michael - Black AF history: the un-whitewashed story of America
- Heather, Peter - Why empires fall: Rome, America, and the future of the West
- Hutchinson, Cassidy - Enough
- Jackson, Maggie - Uncertain: the wisdom and wonder of being unsure
- Karim-Cooper, Farah - The great white bard: how to love Shakespeare while talking about race
- Land, Stephanie - Class: a memoir (ebook available)
- Leonhardt, David - Ours was the shining future: the story of the American dream
- Levitsky, Steven - Tyranny of the minority: why American democracy reached the breaking point
- McNeur, Catherine - Mischievous creatures: the forgotten sisters who transformed early American science
- Mezrich, Ben - Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the most controversial corporate takeover in history
- Moser, Benjamin - The upside-down world: meetings with the Dutch masters
- Raban, Jonathan - Father and son: a memoir (ebook available)
- Safina, Carl - Alfie & me: what owls know, what humans believe
- Sapolsky, Robert M. - Determined: a science of life without free will
- Schulman, Daniel - The money kings: the epic story of the Jewish immigrants who transformed Wall Street and shaped modern America
- Senor, Dan - The genius of Israel: the surprising resilience of a divided nation in a turbulent world
- Shakespeare, Nicholas - Ian Fleming: the complete man
- Shehadeh, Raja - We could have been friends, my father and I: a Palestinian memoir
- Smith, Tracy K. - To free the captives: a plea for the American soul
- Stewart, Patrick - Making it so: a memoir
- Streisand, Barbra - My name is Barbra (ebook available)
- Taylor, Benjamin - Chasing bright medusas: a life of Willa Cather (ebook and audiobook available)
- Wallace, Jennifer Breheny - Never enough: when achievement culture becomes toxic--and what we can do about it
- Yezzi, David - Late romance: Anthony Hecht, a poet's life
FICTION
- Abreu, Andrea - Dogs of summer: a novel (translated from the Spanish)
- Adegoke, Yomi - The list: a novel
- Alderman, Naomi - The future: a novel
- Andrews, Mary Kay - Bright lights, big Christmas: a novel
- Auster, Paul - Baumgartner: a novel (ebook available)
- Blakemore, A. K. - The glutton: a novel
- Broder, Melissa - Death Valley: a novel
- Carey, Edward - Edith Holler: being her story: and containing numerous illustrations drawn from the life, private albums, and extensive card theatre collection of Edith Holler, authoress
- Cunningham, Michael - Day: a novel (ebook available)
- Dey, Claudia - Daughter
- Due, Tananarive - The reformatory: a novel
- Eggers, Dave - The honor of your presence
- Epstein, Allison - Let the dead bury the dead: a novel
- Evison, Jonathan - Again and again: a novel
- Fosse, Jon - A shining (translated from the Norwegian) (ebook available)
- Gallardo, Sara - January (translated from the Spanish)
- Gardel, Stênio - The words that remain: a novel (translated from the Portuguese)
- Griffith, Nicola - Menewood
- Helprin, Mark - The oceans and the stars: the seven battles and mutiny of Athena, Patrol Coastal Ship 15
- Jackson, Greg - The dimensions of a cave: a novel
- Kim, Nancy Jooyoun - What we kept to ourselves: a novel
- Mosley, Walter - Touched: a novel
- Newman, Sandra - Julia: a novel
- Nunez, Sigrid - The vulnerables (ebook available)
- O'Brien, Tim - America fantastica: a novel (ebook available)
- Ravn, Olga - My work (translated from the Danish)
- Roemer, Astrid - On a woman's madness (translated from the Dutch)
- Thomson, Rupert - Dartmouth Park
- Tremain, Rose - Absolutely and forever
- Winterson, Jeanette - Night side of the river: ghost stories (ebook available)
- Ye, Chun - Straw dogs of the universe: a novel
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Baldacci, David - The edge (ebook available)
- Barron, Stephanie - Jane and the final mystery
- Brett, Simon - Blotto, Twinks and the conquistadors' gold*
- Brown, Rita Mae - Lost & hound: a novel
- Child, Lee - The secret (ebook available)
- Connelly, Michael - Resurrection walk (ebook available)
- Cumming, Charles - Kennedy 35 (ebook available)
- De Castrique, Mark - Dangerous women
- Dean, Wil - The last one: a novel
- Evanovich, Janet - Dirty thirty
- Gates, Eva - Death knells and wedding bells
- Gerritsen, Tess - The spy coast: a thriller
- Grisham, John - The exchange: after The firm (ebook available)
- Hannah, Sophie - Hercule Poirot's silent night*
- James, Peter - Stop them dead
- Jones, Stephen Mack - Deus X
- Kelly, Julia - A traitor in Whitehall
- Khan, Ausma Zehanat - Blood betrayal
- Macmillan, Gilly - The manor house: a novel
- Margolin, Phillip - Betrayal
- McCall Smith, Alexander - From a far and lovely country
- McDorman, Dann - West Heart kill (ebook available)
- Morrissey, Hannah - When I'm dead
- Swinson, Davi - Sweet thing: a novel
- Unger, Lisa - Christmas presents: a novella
- Upson, Nicola - Shot with crimson *
- Vidich, Paul - Beirut Station: two lives of a spy
POETRY
- Chaudhuri, Amit - Sweet shop: new and selected poems, 1985 - 2023
- Clark, John Lee - How to communicate: poems
- Santos Perez, Craig - From unincorporated territory [åmot]
- Shockley, Evie - Suddenly we
- Som, Brandon - Tripas: poems
IN THE STACKSFICTION
- Beyda, Emily - The body double F B
- Feeney, Alice - Rock paper scissors F F
- Greenberg, Joanne - High crimes and misdemeanors F G
- Jászberényi, Sándor - The devil is a black dog: stories from the Middle East and beyond F J (translated from the Hungarian)
- Jászberényi, Sándor - The most beautiful night of the soul: more stories from the Middle East and beyond F J (translated from the Hungarian)
- Kempowski, Walter - An ordinary youth F K (translated from the German)
- Kim, Angie - Miracle Creek F K
- Mark, David John - Cold bones F M
- Myers, Benjamin - The gallows pole F M
- Rosenstiel, Tom - Oppo: a novel F R
- Tevis, Walter S. - The king is dead: stories F T
- Tevis, Walter S. - The man who fell to Earth F T
- Waugh, Harriet - The chaplet of pearls F W
BOOKS & WRITERS
- Boyers, Robert - Maestros & monsters: days & nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner 92 B7917 B
- Guo, Xiaolu - Radical: a life of my own 92 G9775 G
- Ranasinha, Ruvani - Hanif Kureishi: writing the self: a biography 92 K9692 R
- Raphael, Frederic - Last post 828 R
- Sisman, Adam - The secret life of John le Carré 92 L457 S
- Thorsson, Courtney - The sisterhood: how a network of Black women writers changed American culture 820.9 T
- Wroe, Ann - Lifescapes: a biographer's search for the soul 808 W
LITERATURE & POETRY
- Bucknell, Clare - The treasuries: poetry anthologies and the making of British culture 821.09 B
- Hecimovich, Gregg A. - The life and times of Hannah Crafts: the true story of The bondwoman's narrative 92 C8854 H
- Pitol, Sergio - The journey 868 P
- Pitol, Sergio - The magician of Vienna 868 P
THE ARTS
- Soden, Oliver - Masquerade: the lives of Noël Coward 92 C874 S
- Wullschläger, Jackie - Monet: the restless vision 92 M7423 W
- Hirsch, Foster - Hollywood and the movies of the Fifties: the collapse of the studio system, the thrill of Cinerama, and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher--television 791.4 H
- Nelson, Andre - The new woman behind the camera 779 N
BIOGRPAHIES & MEMOIRS
- Burns, Jennifer - Milton Friedman: the last conservative 92 F8997 B
- Luijten, Hans - Jo van Gogh-Bonger: the woman who made Vincent famous 92 G61352 L
- Schreiber, Daniel - Alone 302 S
- Sinclair, Safiya - How to say Babylon: a memoir 92 S6165 S
WORLD HISTORY
- Eichner, Carolyn Jeanne - The Paris Commune: a brief history 944.08 E
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila - The shortest history of the Soviet Union 947.084 F
- Fry, Helen - Women in intelligence: the hidden history of two world wars 355.34 F
- Gerzina, Gretchen - Black England: a forgotten Georgian history 942.07 G
- Heffer, Simon - Sing as we go: Britain between the wars 942.083 H
- Kynaston, David - A northern wind: Britain, 1962-65 942.085 K
- Morton, Nichola - The Mongol storm: making and breaking empires in the medieval Near East 956 M
- Şahin, Kaya - Peerless among princes: the life and times of Sultan Süleyman 92 S9484 S
- Starr, S. Frederick - The genius of their age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the lost enlightenment 920 S7961 G
- Zimmerman, Joshua D. - Jozef Pilsudski: founding father of modern Poland 92 P6437 Z
U.S. HISTORY
- Blackett, R. J. M. - Samuel Ringgold Ward: a life of struggle 92 W2631 B
- Bunker, Nick - In the shadow of fear: America and the world in 1950 973.918 B
- Darman, Jonathan - Becoming FDR: the personal crisis that made a president 92 R7813 D
- Eisenberg, Carolyn Woods - Fire and rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the wars in Southeast Asia 327.73 E
- Henriques, Diana B. - Taming the Street: the old guard, the New Deal, and FDR's fight to regulate American capitalism 973.917 H
- Willrich, Michael - American anarchy: the epic struggle between immigrant radicals and the US government at the dawn of the twentieth century 335.8 W
ANTIQUITY & CLASSICS
- Lane Fox, Robin - Homer and his Iliad 883.109 L
- Nicolson, Adam - How to be: life lessons from the early Greeks 182 N
- Ruden, Sarah - Vergil: the poet's life 92 V8165 R
- Sarris, Peter - Justinian: emperor, soldier, saint 92 J963 S
- Wilkinson, Toby - Ramesses the Great: Egypt's king of kings 92 R1791 W
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Harvey, Katherin - A self-fulfilling prophecy: the Saudi struggle for Iraq 327.56 H
- Julius, Lyn - Uprooted: how 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight 305.86 J
- Shindler, Colin - The rise of the Israeli right: from Odessa to Hebron 956.94 S
- Teller, Matthew - Nine quarters of Jerusalem: a new biography of the Old City 956.94 T
- - Light in Gaza: writings born of fire 956.94 L
SCIENCE & NATURE
- DeFries, Ruth S. - What would nature do?: a guide for our uncertain times 333.7 D
- Duncan, Dayton - Blood memory: the tragic decline and improbable resurrection of the American Buffalo 599 D
- King, Dean - Guardians of the valley: John Muir and the friendship that saved Yosemite 333.7 K
HEALTH & MEDICINE
- Apple, Sam - Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the search for the cancer-diet connection 616.9 A
- Conant, Jennet - The great secret: the classified World War II disaster that launched the war on cancer 615 C
- Kissinger, Meg - While you were out: an intimate family portrait of mental illness in an era of silence 92 K619 K
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Gilmore, Leigh - The #MeToo effect: what happens when we believe women 305.4 G
- Kornbluh, Felicia - A woman's life is a human life: my mother, our neighbor, and the journey from reproductive rights to reproductive justice 363.4 K
- Syrett, Nicholas L. - The trials of Madame Restell: nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime 363.4 S
- - Speaking while female: 75 extraordinary speeches by American women 825.08 S
LESBIAN & GAY
- Aldrich, Robert - Gay lives 306.76 A
- Baker, Paul - Camp!: the story of the attitude that conquered the world 306.4 B
- Foster, Jeannette H. - Sex variant women in literature 809 F
RELIGION
- Almond, Philip C. - Mary Magdalene: a cultural history 225.92 M
- Hamori, Esther J. - God's monsters: vengeful spirits, deadly angels, hybrid creatures, and divine hitmen of the Bible 220.7 H
- Perkins, Natalie R. - In trembling boldness: wisdom for today from ancient Jesus people (bought for library event) 261.8 P
POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS
- Dunn, Harr - Standing my ground: a Capitol police officer's fight for accountability and good trouble after January 6th 973.933 D
- Walzer, Michael - The struggle for a decent politics: on "liberal" as an adjective 320.1 W
WRITING
- Greene, Robert Lane - Writing with style: The Economist guide 428.3 G
- McKee, Robert - Action: the art of excitement for screen, page, and game 808.2 M
- McKee, Robert - Character: the art of role and cast design for page, stage, and screen 808.22 M
PHILOSPOPHY
- Lewis, John - Carry on: reflections for a new generation 170 L
- Strawson, P. F. - Individuals: an essay in descriptive metaphysics 110 S