NEW BOOKS - JULY 2024
Archived Lists
New Books – July 2024
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Beller, Elizabeth - Once upon a time: the captivating life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
- Bellows, Amanda Brickell - The explorers: a new history of America in ten expeditions
- Bishop, Claire - Disordered attention: how we look at art and performance today
- Brackett, Donald - Double solitaire: the films of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
- Burton, Tim - The world of Tim Burton
- Carr, Caleb - My beloved monster: Masha, the half-wild rescue cat who rescued me
- Connelly, Mark - The Group Theatre: an enduring legacy
- Courogen, Carrie - Miss May does not exist: the life and work of Elaine May, Hollywood's hidden genius
- Dias, Elizabeth - The fall of Roe: the rise of a new America
- Fauci, Anthony S. - On call: a doctor's journey in public service
- Fink, Jesse - The eagle in the mirror: the greatest spy story never told
- Firnhaber-Baker, Justine - House of lilies: the dynasty that made medieval France
- Franklin, Sara B. - The editor: how publishing legend Judith Jones shaped culture in America
- God made my face: a collective portrait of James Baldwin
- Godwin, Gail - Getting to know death: a meditation
- Goodman, Peter S. - How the world ran out of everything: inside the global supply chain
- Grayling, A. C. - Who owns the moon?: in defence of humanity's common interests in space
- Hampton, Dan - Vanishing act: the enduring mystery behind the legendary Doolittle raid over Tokyo
- Hanna, Kathleen - Rebel girl: my life as a feminist punk
- Hazzard, Shirley - Hazzard and Harrower: the letters
- Holland, James - Burma '44: the battle that turned World War II in the east
- Hughes, Kathryn - Catland: Louis Wain and the great cat mania
- Jonas, Raymond - Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: the rise and fall of the Second Mexican Empire
- Kincaid, Jamaica - An encyclopedia of gardening for colored children
- Kingston, Genevieve - Did I ever tell you?: a memoir
- Lance, Rachel - Chamber divers: the untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever
- Leary, Ann - I've tried being nice: essays
- Lieu, Susan - The manicurist's daughter: a memoir
- Markel, Howard - Origin story: the trials of Charles Darwin
- McMillan, Tracie - The white bonus: five families and the cash value of racism in America
- O'Donnell, Patrick K. - The unvanquished: the untold story of Lincoln's special forces, the manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the shadow war that forged America's special operations
- Olson, Roberta J. M. - Audubon as artist: a new look at The birds of America
- Questlove - Hip-hop is history
- Rigg, Bryan Mark - Japan's holocaust: history of imperial Japan's mass murder and rape during World War II
- Satow, Julie - When women ran Fifth Avenue: glamour and power at the dawn of American fashion
- Shapiro, James - The playbook: a story of theater, democracy, and the making of a culture war
- Silver, Alain - From the moment they met it was murder: Double indemnity and the rise of film noir
- St. Clair, Kassia - The race to the future: 8,000 miles to Paris--the adventure that accelerated the twentieth century
- Sullivan, Randall - The Devil's best trick: how the face of evil disappeared
- Taylor, Alan - American civil wars: a continental history, 1850-1873
- Tomlinson, Tommy - Dogland: passion, glory, and lots of slobber at the Westminster Dog Show
- Tye, Larry - The jazzmen: how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America
- Wasik, Bill - Our kindred creatures: how Americans came to feel the way they do about animals
- Waters, Michael - The other Olympians: fascism, queerness, and the making of modern sports
- Whitlock, Craig - Fat Leonard: how one man bribed, bilked, and seduced the U.S. Navy
- Yang, Kao Kalia - Where rivers part: a story of my mother's life
- Young, Jos - The fixer: moguls, mobsters, movie stars, and Marilyn
FICTION
- Birkelund, Elizabeth - A northern light in Provence: a novel
- Bradley, Kaliane - The ministry of time
- Enger, Leif - I cheerfully refuse: a novel
- Grattan, Thomas - In tongues
- Grunwald, Lisa - The evolution of Annabel Craig: a novel
- King, Stephen - You like it darker: stories
- Kwon, R. O. - Exhibit
- Landau, Alexis - The mother of all things
- Lombardo, Claire - Same as it ever was
- Mackin, Jeanne - Picasso's lovers
- Marshall, Jessie Ren - Women! In! Peril!: stories
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The stellar debut of Galactica MacFee
- Min, Juli - Shanghailanders
- Murrin, Alan - The coast road: a novel
- Newman, Catherine - Sandwich: a novel
- Nicholls, David - You are here: a novel
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Butcher: [father of modern gyno-psychiatry]
- O'Hagan, Andrew - Caledonian Road: a novel
- Owens, Zibby - Blank: a novel
- Perry, Sarah - Enlightenment: a novel
- Pritchard, Melissa - Flight of the wild swan
- Roemer, Astrid - Off-white
- Simonson, Helen - The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club: a novel
- Skenandore, Amanda - The medicine woman of Galveston
- Sloan, Robin - Moonbound: the last book of the Anth
- Sykes, Plum - Wives like us: a novel
- Talty, Morgan - Fire exit: a novel
- Tanner, Alexandra - Worry: a novel
- Wayne, Teddy - The winner: a novel
- Wood, Monica - How to read a book: a novel
- Wouden, Yael van der - The safekeep: a novel
- Wright, Alexis - Praiseworthy
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Barclay, Linwood - I will ruin you: a novel
- Burke, James Lee - Clete
- Carcaterra, Lorenzo - Nonna Maria and the case of the lost treasure: a novel
- Chilton, L. M. - Swiped: a novel
- Comey, James - Westport
- Connelly, Lucy - An American in Scotland
- Foley, Luc - The midnight feast: a novel
- Gates, Eva - The stranger in the library
- Grisham, John - Camino ghosts
- Hart, Matthew - The Lucifer Cut: a novel
- Hart, Ro - Assassins anonymous
- Iles, Greg - Southern man: a novel
- Johnson, Craig - First frost
- Mosley, Walter - Farewell, Amethystine
- Muller, Marcia - Circle in the water
- Preston, Douglas J. - Extinction: a novel
- Reay, Katherine - The Berlin letters: a Cold War novel
- Swanson, Peter - A talent for murder: a novel
- Thorogood, Robert - The queen of poisons: a novel
- Ware, Ruth - One perfect couple
- Winspear, Jacqueline - The comfort of ghosts
IN THE STACKS
FICTION
- Adjmi, Corie - The marriage box: a novel F A
- Antoon, Sinan - The Baghdad Eucharist F A
- Bailey, Tessa - It happened one summer: a novel F B
- Birch, Tony - The white girl: a novel F B
- Coover, Robert - Open house F C
- DeLillo, Don - Don DeLillo: Mao II ; Underworld F D
- Drndić, Daša - Battle songs = Canzone di guerra F D
- Fiske, Dorsey - Bound to murder F F
- Richardson, Matthew - The Scarlet papers F R
LITERATURE
- Barry, Rebecca Rego - The vanishing of Carolyn Wells: investigations into a forgotten mystery author 92 W453 B
- - Black writers of the founding era 1760-1800 820.8 B
- Kennedy, Adrienne - Adrienne Kennedy: collected plays & other writings 820.81 K
- One hundred years after Proust 843 P
U.S. HISTORY
- Anbinder, Tyler - Plentiful country: the great potato famine and the making of Irish New York 974.71 A
- Houghton, Vince - Covert city: the Cold War and the making of Miami 975.9 H
- LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer - Free Black communities and the Underground Railroad: the geography of resistance 326 L
- Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti - The vice president's Black wife: the untold life of Julia Chinn 92 C5398 M
- Parkinson, Robert G. - Heart of American darkness: bewilderment and horror on the early frontier 973.2 P
ANTIQUITY & EARLY HISTORY
- Geroulanos, Stefanos - The invention of prehistory: empire, violence, and our obsession with human origins 901 G
- Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd - The Cleopatras: the forgotten queens of Egypt 932 L
PHILOSOPHY
- Douglass, Robin - Mandeville's Fable: pride, hypocrisy, and sociability 171 D
- Ovid - How to get over a breakup: an ancient guide to moving on 177 O
VISUAL ART
- Blier, Suzanne Preston - Picasso's Demoiselles: the untold origins of a modern masterpiece 759.6 P
- Bonafoux, Pascal - Picasso: the self-portraits 759.6 P
- Gates, Theaster - Young Lords and their traces 709.73 G
- Gego - Gego: measuring infinity 709.8 G
- Walker, Kara Elizabeth - Kara Walker: my complement, my enemy, my oppressor, my love 709.73 W
FILM
- Dargis, Manohla - L.A. confidential 791.4 D
- Frayling, Christopher - Vampire cinema: the first one hundred years 791.4 F
- Helgeland, Brian - L.A. confidential: the screenplay 822.9 H
- Kenny, Glenn - The world is yours: the story of Scarface 791.4 K
- Vogel, Amos - Film as a subversive art 791.4 V
MUSIC
- Charnas, Dan - The big payback: the history of the business of hip-hop 780.973 C
- Wald, Elijah - Jelly Roll blues: censored songs & hidden histories 781.5 W
AFRICAN AMERICAN ART
- Gates, Henry Louis - The black box: writing the race 305.88 G
- Post, Tina - Deadpan: the aesthetics of Black inexpression 701 P
CRIME & JUSTICE
- Bernstein, Robin - Freeman's challenge: the murder that shook America's original prison for profit 365 B
- Hemming, Henry - Four shots in the night: a true story of spies, murder, and justice in Northern Ireland 941.5 H
- Johnson, Steven - The infernal machine: a true story of dynamite, terror, and the rise of the modern detective 363.2 J
SOCIAL CLASS
- Fraser, Ma - Hillbilly highway: the Transappalachian migration and the making of a white working class 331.6 F
- Wooldridge, Adrian - The aristocracy of talent: how meritocracy made the modern world 320.1 W
WRITING
- George, Elizabeth - Write away: one novelist's approach to fiction and the writing life 808.3 G
- - Bending genre: essays on creative nonfiction 808 B
THE BIBLE
- Edwards, Michael - The Bible and poetry 220.7 E
- Moss, Candida R. - God's ghostwriters: enslaved Christians and the making of the Bible 270.1 M
TRAVEL
- Andrade, Mário de - The apprentice tourist: travels along the Amazon to Peru, along the Madeira to Bolivia, and around Marajó before saying enough already 918.1 A
- Stewart, Michael - Walking the invisible: following in the Brontës' footsteps 914.27 S
THE DIGITAL AGE
- Auerbach, David B. - Meganets: how digital forces beyond our control commandeer our daily lives and inner realities 004.678 A
- Eichhorn, Kate - Content 302 E
- Horwitz, Jeff - Broken code: inside Facebook and the fight to expose its harmful secrets 338.7 H
- Vallor, Shannon - The AI mirror: how to reclaim our humanity in the age of machine thinking 001.6 V
SCOUNDRELS
- Donaldson, William - Brewer's rogues, villains & eccentrics: an A-Z of roguish Britons through the ages 920 D6763 B
- Dunn, Lily - Sins of my father: a daughter, a cult, a wild unravelling 92 D9233 D