New Books - February 2018
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Baatz, Simon - The girl on the velvet swing:sex, murder, and madness at the dawn of the twentieth century
- Boot, Max - The road not taken:Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam
- Brandeis, Gayle - The art of misdiagnosis:a memoir
- Carrión, Jorge - Bookshops:a reader's history
- Chadwick, Whitney - Farewell to the muse:love, war and the women of surrealism
- Chute, Hillary L. - Why comics?:from underground to everywhere
- Coetzee, J. M. - Late essays, 2006-2017
- Dauber, Jeremy Asher - Jewish comedy:a serious history
- Dylan, Bob - The Nobel lecture
- Ernaux, Annie - The years (translated from the French)
- Fager, Jeffrey - Fifty years of 60 minutes:the inside story of television's most influential news broadcast
- Ferguson, Niall - The square and the tower:networks and power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
- Gauld, Tom - Baking with Kafka
- Griffith, R. Marie - Moral combat:how sex divided American Christians and fractured American politics
- Guo, Xiaolu - Nine continents:a memoir in and out of China
- Han Kang - The white book (translated from the Korean)
- Henderson, Caspar - A new map of wonders:a journey in search of modern marvels
- Higashida, Naoki - Fall down 7 times get up 8:a young man's voice from the silence of autism (translated from the Japanese)
- It occurs to me that I am America:new stories and art (Jonathan Santlofer, ed.)
- Jacobs, A. J. - It's all relative:adventures up and down the world's family tree
- Klagsbrun, Francine - Lioness:Golda Meir and the nation of Israel/
- Knausgård, Karl Ove - Winter (translated from the Norwegian)
- Kneale, Matthew - Rome:a history in seven sackings
- Krefft, Vanda - The man who made the movies:the meteoric rise and tragic fall of William Fox
- Langlands, Alex - Cræft:an inquiry into the origins and true meaning of traditional crafts
- Levitsky, Steven - How democracies die
- Lively, Penelope - Life in the garden
- Markham, Lauren - The far away brothers:two young migrants and the making of an American life
- Mickenberg, Julia L. - American girls in red Russia:chasing the Soviet dream
- Minutaglio, Bill - The most dangerous man in America:Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the hunt for the fugitive king of LSD
- Murad, Nadia - The last girl:my story of captivity, and my fight against the Islamic State
- Murphy, Cullen - Cartoon county:my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Nussbaum, Martha Craven - Aging thoughtfully:conversations about retirement, romance, wrinkles, and regret
- Rachlin, Benjamin - Ghost of the innocent man:a true story of trial and redemption
- Schoenberger, Nancy - Wayne and Ford:the films, the friendship, and the forging of an American hero
- Schwartz, David N. - The last man who knew everything:the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age
- Sherman, Rachel - Uneasy street:the anxieties of affluence
- St. Clair, Kassia - The secret lives of color
- Stevenson, D. - 1917:war, peace, and revolution
- Tirole, Jean - Economics for the common good
- Wayne, George - Anyone who's anyone:the astonishing celebrity interviews, 1987-2017
- Wills, Garry - What the Qur'an meant and why it matters
- Wolff, Michael - Fire and fury:inside the Trump White House (ebook available)
FICTION
- Babst, C. Morgan - The floating world:a novel
- Benjamin, Chloe - The immortalists
- Benjamin, Melanie - The girls in the picture
- Berg, Elizabeth - The story of Arthur Truluv:a novel
- Block, Stefan Merrill - Oliver Loving
- Chiaverini, Jennifer - Enchantress of numbers:a novel of Ada Lovelace
- Cornwell, Bernard - Fools and mortals:a novel
- Eisenstadt, Jill - Swell
- Flanagan, Richard - First person
- Glover, Dennis - The last man in Europe:a novel
- Gray, Amelia - Isadora
- Greg, Wioletta - Swallowing mercury (translated from the Polish)
- Han, Yujoo - The impossible fairy tale (translated from the Korean)
- Hoby, Hermione - Neon in daylight
- Horn, Dara, - Eternal life:a novel/
- Hurley, Andrew Michael - Devil's day
- Joyce, Rachel - The music shop:a novel
- Kawabata, Yasunari - Dandelions (translated from the Japanese)
- Medoff, Jillian - This could hurt:a novel
- Moggach, Deborah. - Final demand/
- Montemarano, Nicholas - The senator's children
- Oksanen, Sofi - Norma (translated from the Finnish)
- Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson - One station away
- Plante, David - American stranger:a novel
- Quatro, Jamie - Fire sermon:a novel
- Rich, Nathaniel - King Zeno
- Sebag Montefiore, Simon - Red sky at noon
- Shafak, Elif - Three daughters of Eve
- Slimani, Leïla - The perfect nanny:a novel (ebook available)
- Smith, Ali - Winter (ebook available)
- Statovci, Pajtim. - My cat Yugoslavia:a novel (translated from the Finnish)
- Stevens, Chevy - Never let you go
- Torres, Fernanda - The end (translated from the Portugese)
- Walters, Minette - The last hours
MYSTERIES
- In the shadow of Agatha Christie:classic crime fiction by forgotten female writers:1850-1917
- Brookes, Adam - The spy's daughter*
- Burnet, Graeme Macrae - The accident on the A35*
- Camilleri, Andrea - The pyramid of mud
- Cross, A. J. - Something evil comes*
- Disher, Garry - Signal loss
- Fellowes, Jessica - The Mitford murders*
- Finn, A. J. - The woman in the window (ebook available)
- Hambly, Barbara - Murder in July
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Shadow play*
- Hendricks, Greer - The wife between us
- Henshaw, Mark - The last man in Tehran:a novel
- Housewright, David - Darkness, sing me a song
- Jardine, Quintin - State secrets*
- Knopf, Chris - Tango down
- Luna, Louisa - Two girls down:a novel
- MacRae, Molly - Scones and Scoundrels
- Massey, Sujata - The widows of Malabar Hill
- Page, Katherine Hall - The body in the casket:a Faith Fairchild mystery
- Post, Steph - Walk in the fire
- Preston, Douglas J. - City of endless night:a Pendergast novel
- Rendell, Ruth - A spot of folly:ten and a quarter new tales of murder and mayhem
- Rosenberg, Joel C. - Without warning:a J.B. Collins novel
- Roslund, Anders - Pen 33
- Spencer, Sally- Dry bones*
- Tursten, Helene - Protected by the shadows
- Vaughan, Sarah - Anatomy of a scandal:a novel*
- Wilson, Laura - The other woman*
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Best European fiction 2018
- Diski, Jenny - The vanishing princess:stories
- Hall, Sarah - Madame Zero:9 stories
- Johnson, Denis - The largesse of the sea maiden:stories (ebook available)
- Quin, Ann - The unmapped country:stories and fragments
POETRY
- Poets of the Bible:from Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Book of Revelation (translated from the Hebrew)
- Adunis - Concerto al-Quds (translated from the Arabic)
- Batiushkov, K. N. - Writings from the Golden Age of Russian poetry
- Crase, Douglas - The astropastorals
- James, Clive - Injury time
- Kinnell, Galway - Collected poems
- Lavant, Christine - Shatter the bell in my ear (translated from the German)
- Long Soldier, Layli - Whereas
- Morrissey, Sinéad - On balance
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - When I go:selected French poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Goodbye Europe: writers and artists say farewell
- Tales of two Americas: stories of inequality in a divided nation (John Freeman, ed. w/ Solnit, Doerr, Patchett, Dillard, more)
- Who runs the artworld: money, power and ethics (Brad Buckley and John Conomos, ed.)
- Betts, Alexander - Refuge:rethinking refugee policy in a changing world
- Eichengreen, Barry J. - How global currencies work: past, present, and future
- Feffer, John - Aftershock: a journey into Eastern Europe's broken dreams
- Fellion, Matthew - Censored: a literary history of subversion and control
- Ferguson, Andrew G. - The rise of big data policing: surveillance, race, and the future of law enforcement
- Groskop, Viv - The Anna Karenina fix: life lessons from Russian literature
- Harcourt, Felix - Ku Klux kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s
- Harvey, David - Marx, capital and the madness of economic reason
- MacNeal, David - Bugged: the insects who rule the world and the people obsessed with them
- Martinez-Conde, S. - Champions of illusion: the science behind mind-boggling images and mystifying brain puzzles
- Orren, Karen. - The policy state: an American predicament
- Peterson, Brenda, - Wolf nation: the life, death, and return of wild American wolves
- Sunstein, Cass R. - #Republic: divided democracy in the age of social media
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- George Eliot in context (Margaret Harris, ed.) 823 E
- Cohen, Walter - A history of European literature: the West and the world from antiquity to the present 809 C
- Frayling, Christopher - Frankenstein: the first two hundred years 823 F OVERSIZE
- Welch, Denton - The journals of Denton Welch 92 W4392 W
- Yothers, Brian - Melville's mirrors: literary criticism and America's most elusive author 823 M
FICTION
- Red spectres: Russian gothic tales from the twentieth century (selecteed and translated by Muireann Maguire) 891.7 R
- Bourdouxhe, Madeleine - La femme de gilles (Neversink Library; originally published, 1937) F B
- Cercas, Javier - The impostor (translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne) F C
- Hallas, Richard - You play the black and the red comes up (1938 L.A. noir) F H
- Slade, Caroline - Sterile sun (interesting obscurity, read about it here; 1936) F S
BOOKS & READING
- Before the public library: reading, community, and identity in the Atlantic world, 1650-1850 (Mark Towsey, ed.) 027 B
- Preston, Alex - As kingfishers catch fire: birds & books 598.2 P
LANGUAGE
- Everett, Daniel Leonard - How language began: the story of humanity's greatest invention 401 E
- Favilla, Emmy - A world without "whom": the essential guide to language in the BuzzFeed age 808 F
- Gansel, Mireille - Translation as transhumance 418 G
ART
- Michelangelo: divine draftsman & designer (Carmen C. Bambach, Metropolitan exhibition) 709.2 M
- Philip Guston & the poets (Kosme de Baranano, ed.) 759.1 G
- Self-taught genius: treasures from the American Folk Art Museum (Stacy C. Hollander, et al., eds.) 745 S
- Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932: the luxury of beauty (Neue Galerie) 745 W
- Boardman, John - Greek art 709.38 B
- Dunham, Carroll - Into words: the selected writings of Carroll Dunham 709.04 D
PERFORMING ARTS
- Cook, Nicholas - Beyond the score: music as performance 780.1 C
- Goodman, Alice - History is our mother: three libretti: Nixon in China, The death of Klinghoffer, The magic flute 782.12 G
- Layton, James - The dawn of Technicolor, 1915-1935 778 L OVERSIZE
- Rode, Alan K. - Michael Curtiz: a life in film 791.4 R
BIOGRAPHY
- Darling Pol: the letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann, 1944-1967 (Patrick Marnham, ed.) 92 W5143 D
- Dale, Gareth - Karl Polanyi: a life on the left 92 P7628 D
- Davies, Hunter - A life in the day: memories of sixties London, lots of writing, the Beatles and my beloved wife 92 D2559 D
- Forster, Margaret - Hidden lives: a family memoir 920 F75 H
- Saunders, Hetty - My house of sky: the life and work of J.A. Baker (author of The Peregrine) 92 B1675 S
INTERVIEWS
- Derrida, Jacques - Learning to live finally: the last interview 194 D
- Dick, Philip K. - Philip K. Dick: the last interview and other conversations 823 D
- Hitchens, Christopher - Christopher Hitchens: the last interview and other conversations 828.09 H
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov 823 N
- Sacks, Oliver - Oliver Sacks: the last interview and other conversations 616.8 S
HISTORY
- Baime, A. J. - The accidental president: Harry S. Truman and the four months that changed the world 973.918 B
- Blincoe, Nicholas - Bethlehem: biography of a town 956.94 B
- Brooks, Lisa Tanya - Our beloved kin: a new history of King Philip's war 973.2 B
- Burleigh, Michael - The best of times, the worst of times: the history of now 909.83 B
- Engelstein, Laura - Russia in flames: war, revolution, civil war, 1914-1921 947.084 E
- Evans, J. R. - Emigrants: why the English sailed to the New World 325.73 E
- Field, Kendra Taira - Growing up with the country: family, race, and nation after the civil war 976.6 F
- Grummitt, David - A short history of the Wars of the Roses 942.04 G
- Kumar, Krishan - Visions of empire: how five imperial regimes shaped the world 909 K
- Tackett, Timothy - The coming of the terror in the French Revolution 944.04 T
ANTIQUITY
- Brill's companion to Hesiod (Franco Montanari, ed.) 883.2 B
- The seventy great inventions of the ancient world (Brian M. Fagan, ed.) 609 S
- Frere, Sheppard - Britannia: a history of Roman Britain 942.01 F
SCIENCE & MATH
- Cheng, Eugenia - Beyond infinity: an expedition to the outer limits of mathematics 510 C
- Doudna, Jennifer A. - A crack in creation: gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution 660 D
- Mann, Charles C. - The wizard and the prophet: two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow's world 363.7 M
- Wignall, P. B. - The worst of times: how life on earth survived eighty million years of extinctions 575.7 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Magee, Bryan - The philosophy of Schopenhauer 193 M
- Zhang, Dainian - Key concepts in Chinese philosophy 181 Z
CHINA
- Bickers, Robert A. - Out of China: how the Chinese ended the era of Western domination 951 B
- McGuire, Elizabeth - Red at heart: how Chinese communists fell in love with the Russian Revolution 327.51 M
- Munroe, Alexandra - Art and China after 1989: theater of the world 709.51 M
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Irwin, Douglas A.- Clashing over commerce: a history of US trade policy 382 I
- Scheve, Kenneth F. - Taxing the rich: a history of fiscal fairness in the United States and Europe 336.2 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Bourke, Richard - Empire and revolution: the political life of Edmund Burke 92 B9593 B
- Edwards, Lee - Just right: a life in pursuit of liberty, 320.9 E
- McAdams, A. James. - Vanguard of the revolution: the global idea of the Communist Party 335.4 M
RACE & CIVIL RIGHTS
- Horsman, Reginald - Race and manifest destiny: the origins of American racial Anglo-Saxonism 305.8 H
- Ikard, David - Lovable racists, magical Negroes, and White messiahs 305.8 I
- Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta - From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation 305.88 T
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. - The light of truth: writings of an anti-lynching crusader 364.1 W
NEW YORK
- Bernardo, Mark P. - Lichtenstein in New York: a pop art life 709.2 L
- Fitzpatrick, Kevin C. - World War I New York: a guide to the city's enduring ties to the Great War 940.373 F
- Oudolf, Piet - Gardens of the High Line: elevating the nature of modern landscapes 712 O
- Webb, Todd- I see a city: Todd Webb's New York 779 W
RELIGION
- Biale, David - Hasidism: a new history 296 B
- Kronman, Anthony T. - Confessions of a born-again pagan 211 K
- Niehoff, Maren - Philo of Alexandria: an intellectual biography (Anchor Bible Library) 181.3 N
- Nixey, Catherine - The darkening age: the Christian destruction of the classical world 270.1 N
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Rome as described by great writers 914.56 R
- Fidler, Richard - Ghost empire: a journey to the legendary Constantinople 949.61 F
- Kassabova, Kapka - Border: a journey to the edge of Europe 914.97 K
AUDIO
- Egan, Jennifer - Manhattan Beach: a novel Lobby Audio-CD E
- Isaacson, Walter - Leonardo da Vinci Lobby Audio-CD 92 L5819 I
- Le Carré, John - A legacy of spies: a novel Lobby Audio-CD L
- Roth, Philip - The ghost writer Lobby Audio-CD R
- Trollope, Anthony - Phineas finn Lobby Audio-CD T