New Books - January 2024
IN THE LOBBYNONFICTION
- Adams, Jad - Decadent women: Yellow book lives
- Cahan, Richard - Lost in America: photographing the last days of our architectural treasures
- Cheney, Liz - Oath and honor: a memoir and a warning
- Copeland, Rob - The fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the unraveling of a Wall Street legend
- Dorment, Richard - Warhol after Warhol: secrets, lies, & corruption in the art world
- Frere-Jones, Sasha - Earlier
- Grindle, Merilee Serrill - In the shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the search for Mexico's ancient civilizations
- Hankir, Zahra - Eyeliner: a cultural history
- Holland, James - The savage storm : the battle for Italy 1943
- Karl, Jonathan - Tired of winning: Donald Trump and the end of the Grand Old Party
- Kurlansky, Mark - The core of an onion: peeling the rarest common food--featuring more than 100 historical recipes
- Langley, Philippa - The princes in the tower: solving history's greatest cold case
- Lipsky, David - The parrot and the igloo: climate and the science of denial
- Lochery, Neill - Cashing out: the flight of Nazi treasure, 1945-1948
- Mamet, David - Everywhere an oink oink: an embittered, dyspeptic, and accurate report of forty years in Hollywood
- Muhlstein, Anka - Camille Pissarro: the audacity of impressionism
- Murphy, Paul Thomas - Falling rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the battle for modern art
- Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G. - America's Black capital: how African Americans remade Atlanta in the shadow of the Confederacy
- A republic of scoundrels: the schemers, intriguers & adventurers who created a new American nation
- Ryckman, Pamela - Candace Pert: genius, greed, and madness in the world of science
- Scobie, Omid - Endgame: inside the royal family and the monarchy's fight for survival
- Snow, Richard - Sailing the graveyard sea: the deathly voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's only mutiny, and the trial that gripped the nation
- So, Anthony Veasna - Songs on endless repeat: essays and outtakes
- Stelter, Brian - Network of lies: the epic saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the battle for American democracy
- Stowe, Hannah - Move like water: my story of the sea
- Wiman, Christian - Zero at the bone: fifty entries against despair
FICTION
- Athill, Diana - Don't look at me like that
- Bradford, Barbara Taylor - The wonder of it all
- Christensen, Kate - Welcome home, stranger
- Faulks, Sebastian - The seventh son
- Grodstein, Lauren - We must not think of ourselves
- Harvey, Samantha - Orbital
- Jin, Ha - The woman back from Moscow: in pursuit of beauty
- Kennedy, Louis - The end of the world is a cul de sac
- Lawhon, Ariel - The frozen river
- Lemaître, Pierre - The wide world
- Mars-Jones, Adam - Caret
- Martínez Daniell, Sebastián - Two Sherpas
- McDermott, Alice - Absolution
- Meyer, Clemens - While we were dreaming
- Norton, Graham - Forever home
- Park, Ed - Same bed different dreams
- Quinn, Spencer - Mrs. Plansky's revenge
- Segal, Lore Groszmann - Ladies' lunch: and other stories
- Sin, Kyŏng-suk - I went to see my father
- Taylor, Clementine - Something about her
- Thomas, James Frankie - Idlewild
- Tuttle, Lisa - My death
- Ward, Jesmyn - Let us descend
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Andrews, Donna - Birder, she wrote
- Carpenter, Callie - Death by demo
- Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - Unnatural death
- Deaver, Jeffery - The watchmaker's hand
- Estleman, Loren D. - Vamp
- Farr, Sebastian - Death on the down beat: an orchestral fantasy of detection
- Frear, Caz - Five bad deeds
- Harrison, Cora - Murder in the mist
- Higashino, Keigo - The final curtain
- Kayode, Fem - Gaslight
- Khan, Vaseem - Death of a lesser god
- Lillie, Vanessa - Blood sisters
- McDermid, Val - Past lying
- The Penguin book of murder mysteries
- Pitoniak, Anna - The Helsinki affair
- Prose, Nita - The mystery guest
- Rozan, S. J. - The mayors of New York
- Spotswood, Stephen - Murder crossed her mind
- Swanson, Peter - The Christmas guest: a novella
- Tuti, Ilaria - Daughter of ashes
- Vassell, Charlotte - The other half
- Wegert, Tessa - Devils at the door
POETRY
- Laird, Nick - Up late: poems
IN THE STACKSFICTION
- Benjamin, Melanie - California golden F B
- Beukes, Lauren - Zoo city F B
- Dane, Clemence - Regiment of women F D
- Edwards, Martin - First cut is the deepest F E
- Edwards, Martin - The devil in disguise F E
- Freiman, Lexi - Inappropriation F F
- González, Tomás - In the beginning was the sea F G
- Greenberg, Joanne - High crimes and misdemeanors F G
- Hooper, Elise - Fast girls: a novel of the 1936 women's Olympic team F H
- Johnson, James Weldon - The autobiography of an ex-colored man F J
- Kraf, Elaine - The princess of 72nd Street F K
- Lynch, Paul - Red sky in morning F L
- MacDonald, Ann-Marie - Fayne F M
- Mark, David John - Past life F M
- Morrison, Robbie - Cast a cold eye F M
- Morrison, Robbie - Edge of the grave F M
- Nussbaum, Susan - Good kings bad kings F N
- Oberbeck, Elizabeth Birkelund - The runaway wife F O
- Perry, Anne - A Christmas vanishing F P
- Silverman, Jen - We play ourselves F S
- Soomro, Taymour - Other names for love F S
- Vodolazkin, E. G. - The aviator F V
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Cofer, Judith Ortiz - The Latin deli: prose and poetry 820.81 C
- Guriel, Jason - On browsing 824 G
- Johnston, Jill - Jill Johnston: the disintegration of a critic 824 J
- Meyers, Bert - Bert Meyers: on the life and work of an American master 821.09 M
- Shapland, Jenn - Thin skin: essays 824 S
- Smith, Rachel Greenwald - On compromise: art, politics, and the fate of an American ideal 179 S
- Vonnegut, Kurt - If this isn't nice, what is?: the graduation speeches and other words to live by825 V
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Dochartaigh, Kerri ní - Thin places: a natural history of healing and home 941.5 D
- Perry, Matthew - Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing: a memoir92 P463 P
- Roberts, Andrew - The chief: the life of Lord Northcliffe 92 N8734 R
- Slimani, Leïla - The scent of flowers at night 92 S6337 S
- Ward, Nathan - Son of the Old West: the odyssey of Charlie Siringo : cowboy, detective, writer of the wild frontier 92 S62 W
- Wark, McKenzie - Love and money, sex and death: a memoir 92 W2771 W
U.S. HISTORY
- Keenan, Cody - Grace: President Obama and ten days in the battle for America 973.932 K
- May, Gregory - A madman's will: John Randolph, 400 slaves, and the mirage of freedom 347.6 M
- Morgan, Rache - Sins of the shovel: looting, murder, and the evolution of American archaeology 913 M
- Turning the world upside down: the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, held in New York City, May 9-12, 1837 326 A CS
RUSSIA
- Gaynor, Elizabeth - Russian houses 728 G
- Hess, Maximilian - Economic war: Ukraine and the global conflict between Russia and the West 330.94 H
- Snow, Philip - China and Russia: four centuries of conflict and concord 327.47 S
- Greene, Samuel A. - Putin v. the people: the perilous politics of a divided Russia 947.086 G
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach - The daughters of Kobani: a story of rebellion, courage, and justice 956.9 L
- Rashid, Ahmed - Taliban: the power of militant Islam in Afghanistan and beyond 958 R
- Tishby, Noa - Israel: a simple guide to the most misunderstood country on earth 956.94 T
EAST ASIA
- Branigan, Tania - Red memory: the afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution 951 B
- Lee, Sung-Yoon - The sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the most dangerous woman in the world 951.9 L
- Osborne, Milton E. - The Mekong: turbulent past, uncertain future 959 O
WORLD WAR II
- Aldrich, Edward Farley - The partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the extraordinary collaboration that won World War II 920 A3651 P
- Englund, Peter - November 1942: an intimate history of the turning point of World War II 940.53 E
- Manning, Molly Guptill - The war of words: how America's GI journalists battled censorship and propaganda to help win World War II 070.13 M
VISUAL ARTS
- Alteveer, Ian - Cecily Brown: death and the maid 759.2 B
- Chase-Riboud, Barbara - Barbara Chase-Riboud, Monumentale: the bronzes 730.92 C
- Douglas, Emory - Black Panther: the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas 741.2 D
- Foster, Hal - Art since 1900: modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism 709.04 F
- Freundlich, August L. - The sculpture of James Earle Fraser 730.92 F
- Gaines, Charles - Kerry James Marshall 759.1 M
- Heller, Steven - Milton Glaser: pop 741.2 G
- Randall, Lilian M. C. - Images in the margins of Gothic manuscripts 757.1 R
- Steinberg, Leo - Modern art: selected essays 709.04 S
- Stevens, Mary Anne - After impressionism: inventing modern art 709.4 S
- - Age of chivalry: art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400 709.395 A
- - An Indigenous present 709.7 I
- - Franz Marc and August Ma >- Lives of the gods: divinity in Maya art 709.39 L
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Austin, Mary - Taos pueblo 917.89 A CS Flat
- Fárová, Anna - Josef Sudek, poet of Prague: a photographer's life 770 S
- Shabazz, Jamel - Jamel Shabazz: albums 779 S
- Smith, Joel - The life and death of buildings: on photography and time 779 S
- Soth, Alec - From here to there: Alec Soth's America 779 S
ARCHITECTURE
- Broeck, Charlotte Van den - Bold ventures: thirteen tales of architectural tragedy 720 B
- Szarkowski, John - The idea of Louis Sullivan 720.92 S CS OVERSIZE
- White, Samuel G. - Nice house 728 W
FILM & POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT
- Rudnick, Allison - Art for the millions: American culture and politics in the 1930s 709.73 R
- Simon, Linda - The greatest shows on earth: a history of the circus 791.3 S
- Wasson, Sam - The path to paradise: a Francis Ford Coppola story 92 C7856 W
GOVERNMENT
- Keane, John - The shortest history of democracy 321.4 K
- Rothkopf, David J. - American resistance: the inside story of how the deep state saved the nation 973.933 R
CRIME & JUSTICE
- Bell, Malcolm - The Attica turkey shoot: carnage, cover-up, and the pursuit of justice 364 B
- Caruana Galizia, Paul - A death in Malta: an assassination and a family's quest for justice 364.1 C
- Poor, Nigel - This is Ear hustle: unflinching stories of everyday prison life 365 P
- Pringle, Paul - Bad city: peril and power in the City of Angels 364 P
MIGRATION
- Crawford, Jame - The edge of the plain: how borders make and break our world 320.1 C
- Walia, Harsha - Border & rule: global migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist nationalism 304.8 W
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Ehrlich, Paul R. - Life: a journey through science and politics 92 E337 E
- Hein, Till - The curious world of seahorses: the life and lore of a marine marvel 597 H
- Henderson, Caspar - A book of noises: notes on the auraculous 534 H
- Jones, Tom - Space shuttle stories: firsthand astronaut accounts from all 135 missions 629.4 J
- Peebles, P. J. E. - The whole truth: a cosmologist's reflections on the search for objective reality 530.1 P
- Rothman, Julia - Wildlife anatomy: the curious lives & features of wild animals around the world 590 R
ANTIQUITY & CLASSICS
- Freeman, Philip - Julian: Rome's last pagan emperor 92 J943 F
- Southon, Emma - A Rome of one's own: the forgotten women of the Roman Empire 937 S
PUBLISHING & PRINTING
- Scribner, Charles - Scribners: five generations in publishing 070.5 S
- Tichenor, Irene - No art without craft: the life of Theodore Low De Vinne, printer 655.1 T
THE INTERNET
- Faux, Zeke - Number go up: inside crypto's wild rise and staggering fall 332.4 F
- Lorenz, Taylor - Extremely online: the untold story of fame, influence, and power on the internet 302 L
SPORTS
- Dubois, Laurent - Soccer empire: the World Cup and the future of France 796.3 D
- Goldblatt, David - The age of football: soccer and the 21st century 796.3 G
- McDougall, Christopher - Born to run 2: the ultimate training guide 796.4 M
COUNTERCULTURE
- Rudnick, Lois Palken - Utopian vistas: the Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American counterculture 978.9 R
- Watts, Pete - Altered states: the library of Julio Santo Domingo 708 W
FASHION
- Prasad, Aarathi - Silk: a history in three metamorphoses 677.4 P
- Schlögel, Karl - The scent of empire: Chanel no. 5 and Red Moscow 668.5 S
- Strasdin, Kate - The dress diary: secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe 391.0942 S