New Books - January 2022
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Aldrich, Richard J. - The secret royals: spying and the crown, from Victoria to Diana
- Andersen, Christopher P. - Brothers and wives: inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan (ebook available)
- Bloom, Paul - The sweet spot: the pleasures of suffering and the search for meaning
- Brooks, Mel - All about me!: my remarkable life in show business (ebook available)
- Catani, Damian - Louis-Ferdinand Céline: journeys to the extreme
- Christie, Chris - Republican rescue: saving the party from truth deniers, conspiracy theorists, and the dangerous policies of Joe Biden
- Cole, Teju - Black paper: writing in a dark time
- Dauber, Jeremy Asher - American comics: a history
- Davis, Lydia - Essays two: on Proust, translation, foreign languages, and the city of Arles (ebook available)
- Frick Madison: the Frick Collection at the Breuer building
- Gottlieb, Robert – Garbo (ebook available)
- Hare, David - We travelled: essays and poems
- Hustvedt, Siri - Mothers, fathers, and others: essays
- Imperioli, Michael - Woke up this morning: the definitive oral history of The Sopranos
- Moshenska, Joe - Making darkness light: a life of John Milton
- Patchett, Ann - These precious days: essays (ebook and audiobook available)
- Pettegree, Andrew - The library: a fragile history
- Powell, Padgett - Indigo: arm wrestling, snake saving, and some things in between
- Schloss, Edith - The loft generation: from the de Koonings to Twombly: portraits and sketches, 1942-2011 (ebook available)
- Sen, Mayukh - Taste makers: seven immigrant women who revolutionized food in America
- Simms, Brendan - Hitler's American gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's march to global war
- Sorel, Edward - Profusely illustrated: a memoir
- Spencer, Charles Spencer - The White Ship: conquest, anarchy and the wrecking of Henry I's dream
- Staley, Peter - Never silent: ACT UP and my life in activism
FICTION
- Akpan, Uwem - New York, my village
- American Christmas stories (Connie Willis, ed.; Library of America)
- Berberova, Nina - The last and the first (translated from the Russian)
- Burnet, Graeme Macrae - Case study
- Byatt, A.S. - Medusa's ankles: selected stories (ebook available)
- Clayton, Meg Waite - The postmistress of Paris
- Daas, Fatima - The last one (translated from the French) (ebook available)
- DeCapite, Michael - Jacket weather
- Feito, Virginia - Mrs. March (ebook available)
- Gabaldon, Diana - Go tell the bees that I am gone
- Joella, Ethan - A little hope
- Kapelke-Dale, Rachel - The ballerinas (ebook available)
- Keegan, Claire - Small things like these (ebook available)
- Krasznahorkai, László - Chasing Homer: good luck, and nothing else: Odysseus's cave (translated from the Hungarian)
- Le Tellier, Hervé - The anomaly (translated from the French) (ebook available)
- Lively, Penelope - Metamorphosis: selected stories
- Lyon, Annabel - Consent
- Manchette, Jean-Patrick - The N'Gustro affair (translated from the French) (ebook available)
- Mohebali, Mahsa - In case of emergency
- Navarro, Elvira - Rabbit Island: stories
- Ó Cadhain, Máirtín - The quick and the dead: selected stories (translated from the Irish)
- Ørstavik, Hanne - The pastor (translated from the Norwegian)
- Oshetsky, Claire - Chouette
- Peters, Torrey - Detransition, baby
- Picoult, Jodi - Wish you were here (ebook available)
- Ruiz Zafón, Carlos - The city of mist: stories (translated from the Spanish)
- Sestanovich, Clare - Objects of desire: stories
- Snijders, A. L. - Night train (translated from the Dutch)
- Sparks, Nicholas - The wish
- Vargas Llosa, Mario - Harsh times (translated from the Spanish) (ebook available)
- Wideman, John Edgar - Look for me and I'll be gone: stories
- Yazbik, Samar - Planet of clay (translated from the Arabic)
- Zhadan, Serhiy - The orphanage (translated from the Ukranian)
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
Boyle, William - Shoot the moonlight out
Deaver, Jeffery - The midnight lock
Eskens, Allen - The stolen hours
Everett, Percival - The trees (ebook available)
Fowler, Christopher - Bryant & May: London bridge is falling down: a Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery*
Griffiths, Elly - The midnight hour: a Brighton mystery*
Herron, Mick - Dolphin junction: stories (ebook available)
Knox, Joseph - True crime story*
Levine, Laura - Murder gets a makeover
Meyer, Nicholas - The return of the pharaoh: from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.*
Mukherjee, Abir - The shadows of men
Reuland, Rob - Brooklyn Supreme
Rosenstiel, Tom - The days to come
Spotswood, Stephen - Murder under her skin
*indicates a UK mystery
POETRY
- Bidart, Frank - Against silence
- Books and libraries: poems (Andrew D. Scrimgeour, ed.)
- Gorman, Amanda - Call us what we carry: poems
- Rahon, Alice - Shapeshifter
- Reid, Christopher - The late sun
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Miyamoto, Nobuko - Not yo' butterfly: my long song of relocation, race, love, and revolution
- Wigglesworth, Robin - Trillions: how a band of Wall Street renegades invented the index fund and changed finance forever
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Copus, Julia - This rare spirit: a life of Charlotte Mew 92 M6112 C
- Davidzon, Vladislav - From Odessa with love: political and literary essays from post-Soviet Ukraine 947.7 D
- Gaitskill, Mary - Oppositions: selected essays 824 G
- Greenlaw, Lavinia - Some answers without questions 824 G
- Gross, Robert A. - The transcendentalists and their world 974.4 G
- Harap, Louis - The image of the Jew in American literature: from early Republic to mass immigration 809 H
- Hohl, Ludwig - The notes: or on non-premature reconciliation (notebooks, aphorisms by acclaimed Swiss modernist) 838 H
- Miller, Kei - Things I have withheld: essays 824 M
- Montás, Roosevelt - Rescuing Socrates: how the great books changed my life and why they matter for a new generation 370.1 M
- Orlin, Lena Cowen - The private life of William Shakespeare 822.33 92 O
FICTION
- Bernhard, Thomas - The cheap-eaters (first translation of 1980 novel) F B
- Middleton, Stanley - An after dinner's sleep (acclaimed 1986 novel by Booker Prize winner) F M
- Millar, Margaret - A stranger in my grave (classic mystery, 1960) F M
- White, Lionel - The killing (classic noir, basis for Kubrick film) F W
FOLKLORE & FAIRY TALES
- Hauff, Wilhelm - Fairy tales of Wilhelm Hauff (Anthea Bell, translator) 398.2 H
- Outfoxing fear: folktales from around the world (Kathleen Ragan, Jack Zipes) 398 O
- The pomegranates: and other modern Italian fairy tales (Cristina Mazzoni, ed. & translator) 398.2 P
WRITING
- How to write a mystery: a handbook from Mystery Writers of America 808.3 H
- Szymborska, Wisława - How to start writing (and when to stop): advice for authors 808 S
ART & DESIGN
- Balken, Debra Bricker - Harold Rosenberg: a critic's life (biography of New Yorker art critic, 1962-1978) 92 R81347 B
- Danchev, Alex - Magritte: a life 759.93 M
- Ekserdjian, David - The Italian Renaissance altarpiece: between icon and narrative 704.948 E
- Kohler, Eric - In the groove: vintage record graphics, 1940-1960 740 K
- Luckhurst, Roger - Gothic: an illustrated history 704 L
- Postrel, Virginia - The fabric of civilization: how textiles made the world 677 P
- Schleuning, Sarah - Electrifying design: a century of lighting 745.4 S
- Vincent van Gogh: a life in letters (Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen and Hans Luijten, eds.) 92 G6135 G
PERFORMING ARTS
- Duchin, Peter - Face the music: a memoir 92 D831 D
- Muller, Eddie - Dark city: the lost world of film noir (new edition) 791.4 M
- Smith, Steven C - Music by Max Steiner: the epic life of Hollywood's most influential composer 780.921 S
- Thurman, Kira - Singing like Germans: Black musicians in the land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms 780.943 T
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Anderson, Darran - Inventory: a memoir 92 A5457 A
- Campbell, John - Haldane: the forgotten statesman who shaped Britain and Canada 92 H1587 C
- Coleman, Laura - The puma years: a memoir (animal conservation) 92 C69215 C
- Fang, Fang - Wuhan diary: dispatches from a quarantined city 92 F2115 F
- Hill, James Tate - Blind man's bluff: a memoir 92 H6464 H
- Lownie, Andrew - Traitor king: the scandalous exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor 920 W766 L
- Roberts, Andrew - The last king of America: the misunderstood reign of George III 92 G3474 R
- Smillie, Dirk - The business of tomorrow: the visionary life of Harry Guggenheim-- from aviation and rocketry to the creation of an art dynasty 92 G9418 S
HISTORY
- Chard, Daniel S - Nixon's war at home: the FBI, leftist guerillas, and the origins of counterterrorism 973.924 C
- Daughton, J. P. - In the forest of no joy: the Congo-Océan railroad and the tragedy of French colonialism 385 D
- Eustace, Nicole - Covered with night: a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America 973.2 E
- Holton, Woody - Liberty is sweet: the hidden history of the American Revolution 973.3 H
- Horn, James P. P. - A brave and cunning prince: the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America 970.2 O
- Macintyre, Stuart - A concise history of Australia 994 M
- Pearl, Matthew - The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America 976.9 P
- Quilligan, Maureen - When women ruled the world: making the Renaissance in Europe 940.22 Q
- Schwarz, Geraldine - Those who forget: my family's story in Nazi Europe--a memoir, a history, a warning 940.5343 S
- Smith, Edmond - Merchants: the community that shaped England's trade and empire, 1550-1650 382 S
- Yaffe, Helen - We are Cuba!: how a revolutionary people have survived in a post-Soviet world 972.91 Y
INTELLIGENCE & ESPIONAGE
- Brady, Tim - Three ordinary girls: the remarkable story of three Dutch teenagers who became spies, saboteurs, Nazi assassins--and WWII heroes 940.53492 B
- Fry, Helen - Spymaster: the man who saved MI6 92 K3385 F
- London, Douglas - The recruiter: spying and the lost art of American intelligence 327.12 L
MIDDLE EAST
- Indyk, Martin - Master of the game: Henry Kissinger and the art of Middle East diplomacy 327.73 I
- Rundell, David H. - Vision or mirage: Saudi Arabia at the crossroads 953 R
- Turki bin Faisal Al Saud - The Afghanistan file (former head of Saudi Arabian Intelligence) 327.56 T
LAW
- Burgis, Tom - Kleptopia: how dirty money is conquering the world 364.13 B
- From Nuremberg to the Hague: the future of international criminal justice (Philippe Sands, ed.) 341.1 F
- Steel, Lewis M. - The butler's child: an autobiography 92 S8138 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- African American political thought: a collected history (Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner, eds.) 320.8 A
- Hiruta, Kei - Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: freedom, politics and humanity 320.1 H
- Hongoltz-Hetling, Matthew - A libertarian walks into a bear: the utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears) 974.2 H
- Lewis, John - John Lewis: the last interview and other conversations 323.4 L
TRAVEL
- McConkey, Kenneth - Towards the sun: the artist-traveller at the turn of the twentieth century 704 M
- Sayers, John G. - Secrets of the great ocean liners 387 S
- Thubron, Colin - The Amur River: between Russia and China 915.7 T
NEW YORK CITY
- Barthel, Thomas - Opening the East River: John Newton and the blasting of Hell Gate 627.1 B
- McGruder, Kevin - Philip Payton: the father of Black Harlem 92 P3477 M
- Morris, John E. - Subway: the curiosities, secrets, and unofficial history of the New York City transit system 338 M
- Upton, Simon - New York interiors 747 U
RELIGION
- Calasso, Roberto - The book of all books 221.6 C
- Carlisle, Clare - Spinoza's religion: a new reading of the Ethics 171 C
- Essential Zen (Kazuaki Tanahashi and Tensho David Schneider, eds.) 294 E
- Ogren, Brian - Kabbalah and the founding of America: the early influence of Jewish thought in the New World 261 O
- Schmid, Konrad - The making of the Bible: from the first fragments to sacred scripture 220.1 S
SCIENCE
- Gilbert, Sarah - Vaxxers: the inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and the race against the virus 614.4 G
- Jorgensen, Timothy J - Spark: the life of electricity and the electricity of life 537 J
- Miller, Lulu - Why fish don't exist: a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life 92 J82165 M
- Offit, Paul A. - You bet your life: from blood transfusions to mass vaccination, the long and risky history of medical innovation 615 O
- Sheppard, Charles - Coral reefs: a natural history 593 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Antrim, Donald - One Friday in April: a story of suicide and survival 362.2 A
- How to innovate: an ancient guide to creative thinking (Armand D'Angour, ed. & translator) 155 H
- Lembke, Anna - Dopamine nation: finding balance in the age of indulgence 152 L
- Stern, Adam - Committed: dispatches from a psychiatrist in training 92 S8388 S