New Books - June 2024
New Books – June 2024
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Alexander, Caroline - Skies of thunder: the deadly World War II mission over the roof of the world
- Arsenault, Raymond - John Lewis: in search of the beloved community
- Baker, Nicholson - Finding a likeness: how I got somewhat better at art
- Bale, Anthony - A travel guide to the Middle Ages: the world through medieval eyes
- Barker, Elspeth - Notes from the henhouse: on marrying a poet, raising children and chickens, and writing
- Bell, Jason - Cracking the Nazi code: the untold story of Agent A12 and the solving of the Holocaust code
- Brownrigg, Sylvia - The whole staggering mystery: a story of fathers lost and found
- Bruni, Frank - The age of grievance
- Cane, Clay - The grift: the downward spiral of Black Republicans from the party of Lincoln to the cult of Trump
- Crampton, Caroline - A body made of glass: a history of hypochondria
- Davis, Angela Y - Abolition: politics, practices, promises.
- De León, Jason - Soldiers and kings: survival and hope in the world of human smuggling
- Dench, Judi - Shakespeare: the man who pays the rent
- Dolin, Eric Jay - Left for dead: shipwreck, treachery, and survival at the edge of the world
- DuVal, Kathleen - Native nations: a millennium in North America
- Elliott, Carl - The occasional human sacrifice: medical experimentation and the price of saying no
- Epstein, Joseph - Never say you've had a lucky life: especially if you've had a lucky life
- Gleason, Steve - A life impossible: living with ALS: finding peace and wisdom within a fragile existence
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns - An unfinished love story: a personal history of the 1960s
- Gopnik, Adam - All that happiness is: some words on what matters
- Gorrindo, Simone - The wives: a memoir
- Handler, Daniel - And then? And then? What else?
- Hanson, Victor Davis - The end of everything: how wars descend into annihilation
- Hendrickson, Paul - Fighting the night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a flyer's life
- Higginbotham, Adam - Challenger: a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space
- Higonnet, Anne - Liberty equality fashion: the women who styled the French Revolution
- Jacobs, A. J. - The year of living constitutionally: one man's humble quest to follow the Constitution's original meaning
- Junger, Sebastian - In my time of dying: how I came face-to-face with the idea of an afterlife
- Kaag, John - American Bloods: the untamed dynasty that shaped a nation
- Korda, Michael - Muse of fire: World War I as seen through the lives of the soldier poets
- Larson, Erik - The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War
- McMahon, Darrin M. - Equality: the history of an elusive idea
- Millet, Lydia - We loved it all: a memory of life
- Newport, Cal - Slow productivity: the lost art of accomplishment without burnout
- Nuttall, Jenni - Mother tongue: the surprising history of women's words
- O'Keefe, Edward F. - The loves of Theodore Roosevelt: the women who created a president
- O'Rawe, Richard - Stakeknife's dirty war: the inside story of Scappaticci, the IRA's nutting squad and the British spooks who ran the war
- Owens, Jay - Dust: the modern world in a trillion particles
- Page, Susan - The rulebreaker: the life and times of Barbara Walters
- Parker, Morgan - You get what you pay for: essays
- Petraeus, David Howell - Conflict: the evolution of warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
- Psaki, Jen - Say more: lessons from work, the White House, and the world
- Puleo, Stephen - The great abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the fight for a more perfect union
- Randall, Alice - My Black country: a journey through country music's Black past, present and future
- Reid, Joy-Ann - Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America
- Roberts, Jason - Every living thing: the great and deadly race to know all life
- Roman, Joe - Eat, poop, die: how animals make our world
- Rothfeld, Becca - All things are too small: essays in praise of excess
- Rushdie, Salman - Knife: meditations after an attempted murder
- Scheyder, Ernest - The war below: lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives
- Seiler, Lutz - In case of loss
- Sinha, Manisha - The rise and fall of the second American republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
- Spencer, Charles Spencer - A very private school: a memoir
- Stephanopoulos, George - The Situation Room: the inside story of presidents in crisis
- Tan, Amy - The backyard bird chronicles
- Thornton, Sarah - Tits up: what sex workers, milk bankers, plastic surgeons, bra designers, and witches tell us about breasts
- Trethewey, Natasha D. - The house of being
- Valby, Karen - The swans of Harlem: five Black ballerinas, fifty years of sisterhood, and their reclamation of a groundbreaking history
- Xinran - The book of secrets: a personal history of betrayal in Red China
FICTION
- Alvarez, Julia - The cemetery of untold stories: a novel
- Boryga, Andrew - Victim: a novel
- Carr, Flora - The tower: a novel
- Cela, Camilo José - The hive
- Davies, Carys - Clear: a novel
- Gombrowicz, Witold - The possessed
- Greer, Sierra - Annie bot: a novel
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - The mistress of Ashmore Castle
- Henry, Emily - Funny story
- Hood, Ann - The stolen child: a novel
- Hughes, Caoilinn - The alternatives
- Hwang Sok-yong - Mater 2-10
- July, Miranda - All fours
- Khong, Rachel - Real Americans: a novel
- Ko, Lisa - Memory piece
- Kwan, Kevin - Lies and weddings: a novel
- Langley, Patrick - The variations
- Liebrecht, Savyon - The bridesman
- Lloyd, Toby - Fervor: a novel
- Messud, Claire - This strange eventful history: a novel
- O'Connor, Elizabeth - Whale fall
- Pataki, Allison - Finding Margaret Fuller: a novel
- Pelecanos, George P. - Buster: a dog
- Posthuma, Jente - What I'd rather not think about
- Rapp, Adam - Wolf at the table: a novel
- Reichl, Ruth - The Paris novel
- Richards, Diane - Ella: a novel
- Roberts, Nora - Mind games
- Rosenblum, Emma - Very bad company
- Ryan, Jennifer - The underground library: a novel
- Sahota, Sunjeev - The spoiled heart
- Shriver, Lionel - Mania: a novel
- Skeslien Charles, Janet - Miss Morgan's book brigade: a novel
- Smiley, Jane - Lucky
- Tang, Jiaming - Cinema love: a novel
- Thayer, Nancy - The summer we started over: a novel
- Thomas, Scarlett - The sleepwalkers
- Tóibín, Colm - Long Island: a novel
- Yagisawa, Satoshi - Days at the Morisaki bookshop: a novel
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Andrews, Mary Kay - Summers at the Saint
- Baldacci, David - A calamity of souls
- Bannalec, Jean-Luc - Death of a master chef: a Brittany mystery
- Brett, Simon - Blotto, Twinks and the phantom skiers
- Brown, Rita Mae - Feline fatale
- Casey, Jane - A stranger in the family
- Cavanagh, Steve - Kill for me, kill for you
- Clark, Mary Higgins - It had to be you
- Coben, Harlan - Think twice
- Connolly, John - The instruments of darkness
- Constantine, K. C. - Another day's pain: a Rocksburg novel
- Dean, Abigail - Day One
- Flaherty, Brendan - The dredge: a novel
- Griffiths, Elly - The last word
- Horowitz, Anthony - Close to death: a novel
- Ignatius, David - Phantom orbit: a thriller
- Jacobs, Nova - The stars turned inside out: a novel
- Kubica, Mary - She's not sorry
- Mack, Catherine - Every time I go on vacation, someone dies: a novel
- MacNeal, Susan Elia - The last hope
- Miller, Philip - The hollow tree
- Miranda, Megan - Daughter of mine: a novel
- Nagendra, Harini - A nest of vipers
- Nichols, Peter - Granite Harbor
- Panowich, Brian - Nothing but the bones
- Paretsky, Sara - Pay dirt
- Perrin, Kristen - How to solve your own murder: a novel
- Sandford, John - Toxic prey
- Turton, Stuart - The last murder at the end of the world
POETRY
- Alyan, Hala - The moon that turns you back
- Gonzalez, Elisa - Grand tour: poems
- Howe, Marie - New and selected poems
IN THE STACKS
FICTION
- Adnan, Etel - Paris, when it's nakedF A
- Baker, Chandler - Cutting teethF B
- Eliot, George - The lifted veil ; Brother JacobF E
- Endō, Shūsaku - The sea and poison: a novelF E
- Jain, Saskya Iris - Fire under ashF J
- Jain, Saskya Iris - Geeta Rahman at championship point: a novelF J
- Krivak, Andrew - The bearF K
- Williams, Tennessee - The caterpillar dogs and other early storiesF W
LITERATURE
- Gates, Henry Louis - The black box: writing the race305.88 G
- Gutkind, Lee - The fine art of literary fist-fighting: how a bunch of rabble-rousers, outsiders, and ne'er-do-wells concocted creative nonfiction808 G
POETRY
- Paeth, Amy - The American poet laureate: a history of U.S. poetry and the state821.09 P
- Parini, Jay - Robert Frost: sixteen poems to learn by heart821.09 F
- Rankine, Claudia - Plot821 R
- Schwartz, Delmore - The collected poems of Delmore Schwartz821 S
WORLD HISTORY
- Milanović, Branko - Visions of inequality: from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War 339.2 M
- Philps, Alan - The red hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the untold story of Stalin's propaganda war 940.5347 P
- Poser, Norman S. - From the battlefield to the stage: the many lives of General John Burgoyne 92 B9576 P
- Sanghera, Sathnam - Empireworld: how British imperialism shaped the globe 325.3 S
- Wheeler, William - The letters of Private Wheeler: an eyewitness in action at the Battle of Waterloo 1809-1828 940.27 W
U.S. HISTORY
- Edwards, Richard - The first migrants: how Black homesteaders' quest for land and freedom heralded America's Great Migration 978 E
- Johnson, David K - The lavender scare: the Cold War persecution of gays and lesbians in the federal government 353 J
ANTIQUITY
- Elliott, Colin P. - Pox Romana: the plague that shook the Roman world 614.4 E
- Kaldellis, Anthony - The new Roman empire: a history of Byzantium 949.5 K
SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Burke, Peter - A social history of knowledge 001 B
- Wooldridge, Adrian - The aristocracy of talent: how meritocracy made the modern world 320.1 W
- Young, Robert - Postcolonialism: a very short introduction 325.3 Y
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Heilbrunn, Jacob - America last: the Right's century-long romance with foreign dictators 320.1 H
- Sanger, David E - New cold wars: China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West 327.73 S
RUSSIA
- Graham, Thomas E. - Getting Russia right 327.73 G
- Herszenhorn, David - The dissident: Alexey Navalny: profile of a political prisoner 92 N3191 H
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- Ahmari, Sohrab - Tyranny, Inc.: how private power crushed American liberty--and what to do about it 322.3 A
- Deaton, Angus - Economics in America: an immigrant economist explores the land of inequality 330.9 D
- Nader, Ralph - The rebellious CEO: 12 leaders who did it right 658.3 N
ART & MUSEUMS
- Holzer, Jenny - Jenny Holzer: protect protect 709.73 H
- Kienholz, Edward - Kienholz: a retrospective 730.92 K
- Kuper, Adam - The museum of other people: from colonial acquisitions to cosmopolitan exhibitions 069 K
- Nuku, Maia - Oceania: the shape of time 709.9 N
- Post, Tina - Deadpan: the aesthetics of Black inexpression 701 P
- Turrell, James - James Turrell: a retrospective 709.73 T
- - Leo Lionni: storyteller, artist, designer 709.2 L
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
- Carmontelle - Garden at Monceau 712 C
- Guimard, Hector - Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism 720.92 G
- Neuhart, John - Eames design: the work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames 745.4 E
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Kwon, Sue - Rap is risen: New York photographs, 1988-2008 780.973 K
- Posnick, Phyllis - Stoppers: photographs from my life at Vogue 779 P
FILM & THEATER
- Cowie, Peter - God and the Devil: the life and work of Ingmar Bergman 92 B4982 C
- Morgan, Peter - Patriots 822 M
- Peele, Jordan - Get out 822.9 P
HIP HOP
- Questlove - Mo' meta blues: the world according to Questlove 780.921 Q
- Ro, Ronin - Have gun will travel: the spectacular rise and violent fall of Death Row Records 780.973 R
- RZA - The Tao of Wu 780.921 R
DIARIES
- Scanlan, Kathryn - Aug 9-fog 828 S
- - Secret voices 920 G872 S
PERSONAL HISTORY
- Charrière, Henri - Papillon 92 C4852 C
- Joyce, Patrick - Going to my father's house: a history of my times 942.085 J
- Schwartz, Lynne Sharon - My life at the wheel: new and selected essays 92 S39986 S
SCIENCE
- Haskell, David George - Sounds wild and broken: sonic marvels, evolution's creativity, and the crisis of sensory extinction 575
- Munroe, Randall - How to: absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems 500 M
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Roberts, David - Into the great emptiness: peril and survival on the Greenland ice cap 919.8 R
- Rush, Elizabeth A. - The quickening: creation and community at the ends of the earth 919.9 R
DISASTERS
- Brown, Daniel James - Under a flaming sky: the great Hinckley firestorm of 1894 363.3 B
- Funabashi, Yōichi - Meltdown: inside the Fukushima nuclear crisis 363.17 F
FOOD & DRINK
- Nathan, Joan - My life in recipes: food, family, and memories 641.5 N
- Ruhlman, Michael - The book of cocktail ratios: the surprising simplicity of classic cocktails 641.87 R