New Books - February 2024
New Books – February 2024
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Alberta, Tim - The kingdom, the power, and the glory: American evangelicals in an age of extremism
- Attenberg, Jami - 1000 words: a writer's guide to staying creative, focused, and productive all year round
- Burke, Jill - How to be a Renaissance woman: the untold history of beauty & female creativity
- Conway, Ed - Material world: the six raw materials that shape modern civilization
- Gray, John - The new Leviathans: thoughts after liberalism
- Green, Joshua - The rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the struggle for a new American politics
- Habib, Shahnaz - Airplane mode: an irreverent history of travel
- Haverstick, Mary - A woman I know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination
- Haynes, Natalie - Divine might: goddesses in Greek myth
- MacLean, Harry N. - Starkweather: the untold story of the killing spree that changed America
- Maxwell, William - The writer as illusionist: uncollected & unpublished work
- McDowell, Marta - Gardening can be murder: how poisonous poppies, sinister shovels, and grim gardens have inspired mystery writers
- Morimoto, Shoji - Rental person who does nothing: a memoir (translated from the Japanese)
- Nesteroff, Kliph - Outrageous: a history of showbiz and the culture wars
- Oppenheimer, Clive - Mountains of fire: the menace, meaning, and magic of volcanoes
- Pettegree, Andrew - The book at war: how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading
- Preston, Douglas J. - The lost tomb: and other real-life stories of bones, burials, and murder
- Reeves, John - Soldier of destiny: slavery, secession, and the redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
- Reilly, Ryan J - Sedition hunters: how January 6th broke the justice system
- Roden Winter, Molly - More: a memoir of open marriage
- Sagalyn, Lynne B. - Times Square remade: dynamics of urban change
- Singer, Matt - Opposable thumbs: how Siskel & Ebert changed movies forever
- White, Elizabeth B. - The counterfeit countess: the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust
FICTION
- Akbar, Kaveh - Martyr! (ebook available)
- Akinmade-Akerström, Lol - Everything is not enough
- Albom, Mitch - The little liar: a novel
- Bertino, Marie-Helene - Beautyland (ebook available)
- Burke, James Lee - Harbor lights: stories
- Campbell, Bonnie Jo - The waters: a novel
- Carpenter, Lea - Ilium
- Chandrasekera, Vajra - The saint of bright doors
- Elkins, James - Weak in comparison to dreams: a novel
- Enrigue, Alvaro - You dreamed of empires (ebook available)
- Finkelstein, Frederika Amalia - Forgetting
- Fosse, Jon - Aliss at the fire
- Hummel, Maria - Goldenseal: a novel
- Keegan, Claire - So late in the day: stories of women and men (ebook available)
- Lefteri, Christy - The book of fire: a novel
- Marshall, Heathe - Looking for Jane
- Matar, Hisham - My friends: a novel (ebook available)
- McCauley, Stephen - You only call when you're in trouble: a novel (ebook available)
- McCorkle, Jill - Old crimes: and other stories
- Miller, Derek B. - The curse of Pietro Houdini: a novel (ebook available)
- Morante, Elsa - Lies and sorcery (ebook available)
- Oshetsky, Claire - Poor deer: a novel (ebook available)
- Peters, Amanda - The berry pickers: a novel
- Zarin, Cynthia - Inverno (ebook available)
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Abell, Stig - Death under a little sky (ebook available)
- Ailes, Kat - The expectant detectives: a mystery
- Bolton, Sharon - The fake wife
- Edwards, Martin - Sepulchre Street
- Fluke, Joanne - Pink lemonade cake murder
- Griffin, M. A. - The second stranger: a novel (ebook available)
- Hall, Araminta - One of the good guys
- Hill, Edwin - Who to believe (ebook available)
- Hunt, Margo - The guests
- Hunter, Stephen - Front sight: three Swagger novellas
- Kahler, Abbott - Where you end: a novel
- Marrs, Joh - The vacation: a novel
- McCloskey, David - Moscow X: a novel
- Michaelides, Alex - The fury (ebook available)
- Perry, Thomas - Hero (ebook available)
- Robb, J. D. - Random in death
- Santlofer, Jonathan - The lost Van Gogh: a novel (ebook available)
- Valentine, Danielle - Delicate condition
- Walker, Wendy - American girl: a novel
POETRY
- Francis, Vievee - The shared world: poems
- Gelman, Annelyse - Vexations
- Mansour, Joyce - Emerald wounds: selected poems of Joyce Mansour
- Pessoa, Fernando - The complete works of Álvaro de Campos
- Wikkramasinha, Lakdhas - Lakdhas Wikkramasinha
IN THE STACKS
FICTION
- Adnan, Etel - Sitt Marie-Rose: a novel F A
- Aidoo, Ama Ata - Changes: a love story F A
- Alexis, Andr - Fifteen dogs: an apologue F A
- Avner, Yehuda - The ambassador F A
- Bowers, Dorothy - The bells of Old Bailey F B
- Chan, Ho-Kei - Second sister F C
- Gekoski, R. A. - Darke: a novel F G
- Ghosh, Amitav - The Calcutta chromosome: a novel of fevers, delirium & discovery F G
- Good, Michelle - Five little Indians F G
- The Granta book of the African short story F G
- Grin, A. - Fandango & other stories F G
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - The secrets of Ashmore Castle F H
- Herbert, A. P - The voluble Topsy F H
- Joel, Alexandra - The Paris model F J
- Mahmoud, Ahmad - The neighbors F M
- McDaniel, Tiffany - Betty (set in Appalachian foothills) F M
- Navarro Aquino, Xavier - Velorio: a novel F N
- O'Brian, Patrick - The complete short stories F O
- Rivera Garza, Cristina - The taiga syndrome F R
- Sorkin, Teresa - The woman in the park F S
- Themerson, Stefan - Hobson's Island F T
- Wegert, Tessa - The dead season F W
- Williams, Niall - John: a novel F W
- Williams, Tia - Seven days in June: a novel F W
LITERATURE & CRITICISM
- Bond, Edward - The hidden plot: notes on theatre and the state 809.2 B
- Cotton, Jess - John Ashbery 92 A8195 C
- Daughters of Latin America: an international anthology of writing by Latine women 808.89 D
- Guthke, Karl Siegfried - Last words: variations on a theme in cultural history 809 G
- Jackson, Virginia - Before modernism: inventing American lyric 821.09 J
- Pastures of the empty page: fellow writers on the life and legacy of Larry McMurtry 92 M1681 P
- Saunders, Max - Ford Madox Ford 92 F699 S
POETRY
- Elson, Rebecca - A responsibility to awe 821 E
- Kenny, Maurice - Only as far as Brooklyn 821 K
- Smith, Patricia - Blood dazzler: poems 821 S
- Verdaguer, Jacint - Mount Canigó: a tale of Catalonia (1886) 861 V
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of grass and other writings: authoritative texts, other poetry and prose, criticism 821.09 W
- - The poetry pharmacy: tried-and-true prescriptions for the heart, mind and soul 821.08 P
ESSAYS
- De Waal, Edmund - Poor Crisp: some shards and fragments 828 D CS
- Dean, William J. - Letter from New York: collection of columns: published in Indian economy & market 824 D
- Poe, Edgar Allan - Eureka: a prose poem 824 P
- Ratajkowski, Emily - My body 305.4 R
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Alderton, Dolly - Everything I know about love: a memoir 92 A358 A
- Barrera Velázquez, Jazmina - Linea nigra: an essay on pregnancy and earthquakes 92 B272 B
- Corrigan, Kelly - Glitter and glue: a memoir 92 C8252 C
- Corrigan, Kelly - The middle place 92 C8252 C
- Davidson, Robyn - Unfinished woman: a memoir 92 D2534 D
- Dederer, Claire - Love and trouble: a midlife reckoning 92 D2994 D
- Muir, Helen - Frost in Florida: a memoir 92 F9393 M
- Parsell, Diana - Eliza Scidmore: the trailblazing journalist behind Washington's cherry trees 92 S4174 P
- Peacock, Francesca - Pure wit: the revolutionary life of Margaret Cavendish 92 N5364 P
- Rohter, Larry - Into the Amazon: the life of Cândido Rondon, trailblazing explorer, scientist, statesman, and conservationist 92 R773 R
SHAKESPEARE
- Garber, Marjorie B. - Shakespeare in Bloomsbury 820.9 G
- Higgins, Benjamin David Robert - Shakespeare's syndicate: the first folio, its publishers, and the early modern book trade 822.33 Bibl.
- Shakespeare, William - The first folio of Shakespeare: based on folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library collection 822.33 P1H CS Flat
ANTIQUITY & CLASSICS
- Lendon, J. E. - That tyrant, persuasion: how rhetoric shaped the Roman world 937 L
- Simonides - Simonides: epigrams and elegies 884.08 S
- Stone, Damien - The Hittites 939.2 S
- Wiemer, Hans-Ulrich - Theoderic the Great: king of Goths, ruler of Romans 92 T3885 W
BOOKS & PUBLISHING
- Derolez, Albert - The palaeography of Gothic manuscript books: from the twelfth to the early sixteenth century 471 D
- Gaskell, Philip - A new introduction to bibliography 655.1 G
- Pearson, David - Speaking volumes: books with histories 002 P
- Sinykin, Dan - Big fiction: how conglomeration changed the publishing industry and American literature 070.5 S
- Witham, Nick - Popularizing the past: historians, publishers, and readers in postwar America 907 W
WORLD HISTORY
- The age of William III & Mary II: power, politics and patronage, 1688-1702: a reference encyclopedia and exhibition catalogue 942.06 A OVERSIZE
- Bew, Paul - Ireland: the politics of enmity, 1789-2006 941.5 B
- Chatterji, Joya - Shadows at noon: the South Asian twentieth century 954 C
- Cockett, Richard - Vienna: how the city of ideas created the modern world 943.6 C
- Crampton, R. J. - Bulgaria 949.7 C
- Kwan, Kevin - I was Cuba: treasures from the Ramiro Fernández collection 972.91 K
- Owens, Robert M. - Red dreams, white nightmares: pan-Indian alliances in the Anglo-American mind, 1763-1815 970.5 O
- Pegg, Mark Gregory - Beatrice's last smile: a new history of the Middle Ages 940.1 P
- Williams, Martin - The King is dead, long live the King!: majesty, mourning and modernity in Edwardian Britain 942.083 W
U.S. HISTORY
- Good, Cassandra A. - First family: George Washington's heirs and the making of America 920 C987 G
- Goodyear, C. W. - President Garfield: from radical to unifier 92 G2314 L
- Schram, Margaret B. - Hudson's merchants and whalers: the rise and fall of a river port, 1783-1850 974.7 S
WOMEN’S HISTORY
- Andrews, Lena S. - Valiant women: the extraordinary American servicewomen who helped win World War II 940.5373 A
- Cooper, Kate - Queens of a fallen world: the lost women of Augustine's Confessions 937.06 C
- Percy, Sarah - Forgotten warriors: the long history of women in combat 305.4 P
- Shelley, Martha - We set the night on fire: igniting the gay revolution 92 S54475 S
- Whalen, Lottie - Radicals and rogues: the women who made New York modern 305.4 W
WORLD WAR II & THE HOLOCAUST
- Beck, Hermann - Before the Holocaust: antisemitic violence and the reaction of German elites and institutions during the Nazi takeover 943.085 B
- Boyd, Julia - A village in the Third Reich: how ordinary lives were transformed by the rise of fascism 943.085 B
- Gradowski, Zalmen - The last consolation vanished: the testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz 940.5318 G
- McManus, John C. - To the end of the earth: the US Army and the downfall of Japan, 1945 940.542 M
- Spicer, Charles - Coffee with Hitler: the untold story of the amateur spies who tried to civilize the Nazis 942.083 S
- Vincent, Isabel - Overture of hope: two sisters' daring plan that saved opera's Jewish stars from the Third Reich 940.5315 V
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Kershner, Isabel - The land of hope and fear: Israel's battle for its inner soul 956.94 K
- Reilly, James A. - Fragile nation, shattered land: the modern history of Syria 956.9 R
- Tugendhaft, Aaron - The idols of ISIS: from Assyria to the internet 704 T
ART
- Botticelli drawings 759.5 B
- Charney, Noah - Brushed aside: the untold story of women in art 709 C
- Maze, Daniel Wallace - Young Bellini 759.5 B
- Molesworth, Helen - Open questions: thirty years of writing about art 704 M
FILM
- John Waters: pope of trash 791.4 W
- Mekas, Jonas - I seem to live: the New York diaries, 791.4 M
- Mekas, Jonas - I seem to live: the New York diaries, vol. 2, 1969-2011 791.4 M
- Thomson, David - The fatal alliance: a century of war on film 791.4 T
PSYCHOLOGY
- Brooks, Arthur C. - Build the life you want: the art and science of getting happier 158 B
- Jones, Daniel - Love illuminated: exploring life's most mystifying subject (with the help of 50,000 strangers) 152 J
- Nord, Camilla - The balanced brain: the science of mental health 616.8 N
RACE & IDENTITY
- Bogdal, Klaus-Michael - Europe and the Roma: a history of fascination and fear 305.87 B
- Briggs, Laura - Somebody's children: the politics of transracial and transnational adoption 362.7 B
- Hong, Christine - A violent peace: race, U.S. militarism, and cultures of democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific 809 H
- Norris, Michele - Our hidden conversations: what Americans really think about race and identity 305.8 N
- Webster, Crystal Lynn - Beyond the boundaries of childhood: African American children in the antebellum North 371.97 W
CRIME & JUSTICE
- Adayfi, Mansoor - Don't forget us here: lost and found at Guantánamo 92 A2218 A
- Dellinger, David T. - The trial of the Chicago 7: the official transcript 343.1 D
- Raymond, Edwin - An inconvenient cop: my fight to change policing in America 363.2 R
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
- Arkes, Hadley - Mere natural law: originalism and the anchoring truths of the Constitution 342.73 A
- Barnett, Randy E. - The original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: its letter and spirit 342.73 B
- Sunstein, Cass R. - How to interpret the Constitution 342.73 S
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Hathaway, Michael J. - What a mushroom lives for: matsutake and the worlds they make 589.2 H
- Montgomery, Sy - Of time and turtles: mending the world, shell by shattered shell 598.1 M
- O'Malley, Michael - Keeping watch: a history of American time 529 O
- Parisi, Giorgio - In a flight of starlings: the wonders of complex systems 530 P
COVID-19
- Brenner, Mari - The desperate hours: one hospital's fight to save a city on the pandemic's front lines 362.1 B
- McCallum, Jamie K. - Essential: how the pandemic transformed the long fight for worker justice 331 M
- The pandemic divide: how COVID increased inequality in America 362.1 P
- Smith, Michael - Cabin fever: the harrowing journey of a cruise ship at the dawn of a pandemic 614 S
FOOD & DRINK
- Anastopoulo, Rossi - Sweet land of liberty: a history of America in 11 pies 641 A
- Babine, Karen - All the wild hungers: a season of cooking and cancer 92 B1138 B
- El-Waylly, Sohla - Start here: instructions for becoming a better cook 641.5 E
- Wilson, Bee - The secret of cooking: recipes for an easier life in the kitchen 641.5 W
