New Books - November 2023
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Alter, Robert - Amos Oz: writer, activist, icon Robert Alter.
- Baron, Martin - Collision of power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington post
- Beard, Mary - Emperor of Rome: ruling the ancient Roman world (ebook available)
- Burton, Tara Isabella - Self-made: creating our identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians
- Carlson, Hannah - Pockets: an intimate history of how we keep things close
- Chang, Leah Redmond - Young queens: three Renaissance women and the price of power
- Gay, Ross - The book of (more) delights
- Gay, Roxane - Opinions: a decade of arguments, criticism, and minding other people's business
- Herzog, Werner - Every man for himself and God against all: a memoir
- Holland, Tom - Pax: war and peace in Rome's golden age
- Homer - The Iliad (Emily Wilson, translator) (ebook available)
- Inskeep, Steve - Differ we must: how Lincoln succeeded in a divided America
- Karikó, Katalin - Breaking through: my life in science
- Kowsky, Francis R. - Hell on color, sweet on song: Jacob Wrey Mould and the artful beauty of Central Park
- Leamer, Laurence - Hitchcock's blondes: the unforgettable women behind the legendary director's dark obsession
- Lewis, Michael - Going infinite: the rise and fall of a new tycoon (ebook available)
- Lopate, Phillip - A year and a day: an experiment in essays
- Maddow, Rachel - Prequel: an American fight against fascism (ebook available)
- Mantel, Hilary - A memoir of my former self: a life in writing (ebook available)
- Martin, Rachel Louise - A most tolerant little town: the explosive beginning of school desegregation
- McDonnell, Evelyn - The world according to Joan Didion
- McWhirter, Cameron - American gun: the true story of the AR-15
- Meltzer, Marisa - Glossy: ambition, beauty, and the inside story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
- Merchant, Brian - Blood in the machine: the origins of the rebellion against big tech
- Mounk, Yascha - The identity trap: a story of ideas and power in our time
- Nagourney, Adam - The Times: how the newspaper of record survived scandal, scorn, and the transformation of journalism (ebook available)
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh - A man of two faces: a memoir, a history, a memorial
- Rakowsky, Judy - Jews in the garden: a Holocaust survivor, the fate of his family, and the secret history of Poland in World War II
- Renkl, Margaret - The comfort of crows: a backyard year
- Richardson, Heather Cox - Democracy awakening: notes on the state of America
- Rivera Garza, Cristina - Liliana's invincible summer: a sister's search for justice
- Talese, Gay - Bartleby and me: reflections of an old scrivener (ebook available)
- Thrall, Nathan - A day in the life of Abed Salama: anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy
- Ullrich, Volker - Germany 1923: hyperinflation, Hitler's putsch, and democracy in crisis
- Walker, Tamara J. - Beyond the shores: a history of African Americans abroad
- Welz, Adam - The end of Eden: wild nature in the age of climate breakdown
- Wolff, Michael - The fall: the end of Fox News and the Murdoch dynasty
- Zygar, Mikhail - War and punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the path to Russia's invasion of Ukraine
FICTION
- Awad, Mona - Rouge: a novel (ebook available)
- Bosco, Henri - The child and the river (translated from the French)
- Brooke, Dinah - Lord Jim at home
- Cárdenas, Juan Sebastián - The devil of the provinces
- Chang, Alexandra - Tomb sweeping: stories
- Chua, Amy - The Golden Gate
- Chung, Bora - Cursed bunny (translated from the Korean)
- Cole, Teju - Tremor: a novel
- Connolly, John - The land of lost things
- Connolly, Rachel - Lazy city: a novel
- Diop, David - Beyond the door of no return (translated from the French)
- Duncan, Eliot - Ponyboy: a novel
- Flash fiction America: 73 very short stories (James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne, eds.)
- Fountain, Ben - Devil makes three
- Hantover, Jeffrey - The forenoon bride
- Hein, Priya N - Riambel
- Hill, Nathan - Wellness: a novel (ebook available)
- Kadare, Ismail - A dictator calls: a novel (translated from the Albanian)
- Kanai, Mieko - Mild vertigo (translated from the Japanese)
- Kim, Angie - Happiness falls: a novel (ebook available)
- Kinsella, Sophie - The burnout: a novel
- Labatut, Benjamín - The MANIAC
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - Roman stories (translated from the Italian) (ebook available)
- Lee, Victoria - A shot in the dark: a novel
- Leichter, Hilary - Terrace story: a novel
- Lethem, Jonathan - Brooklyn crime novel (ebook available)
- Littlewood, Fran - Amazing Grace Adams
- Makine, Andreï - My Armenian friend: a novel (translated from the French)
- Mathis, Ayana - The unsettled
- McElroy, Isle - People collide: a novel
- Melchor, Fernanda - This is not Miami (translated from the Spanish)
- NDiaye, Marie - Vengeance is mine: a novel (translated from the French)
- Nettel, Guadalupe - Still born (translated from the Spanish)
- Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila - Kidnapped: a story in crimes (translated from the Russian)
- Phillips, Jayne Anne - Night watch (ebook available)
- Proust, Marcel - Swann's way (new translation by James Grieve)
- Quintana, Pilar - Abyss (translated from the Spanish)
- Rash, Ron - The caretaker: a novel
- Sarr, Mohamed Mbougar - The most secret memory of men (translated from the French)
- Shalash - Shalash the Iraqi (translated from the Arabic)
- Shukrī, Muḥammad - Tales of Tangier: the complete short stories of Mohamed Choukri (translated from the Arabic)
- Story, Jim - The condor's shadow: a novel
- Thirlwell, Adam - The future future
- Torres, Justin - Blackouts: a novel (ebook available)
- Washington, Bryan - Family meal: a novel (ebook available)
- Watkins, LaToya - Holler, child: stories
- Wright, Lawrence - Mr. Texas (ebook available)
- Yakhina, Guzel - A Volga tale (translated from the Russian)
- Yoon, Paul - The hive and the honey: stories
- Yoshimoto, Banana - The premonition: a novel (translated from the Japanese)
- Zhang, C Pam - Land of milk and honey (ebook available)
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Alexander, Tasha - A cold highland wind
- Arceneaux, Danielle - Glory be
- Archer, Jeffrey - Traitors gate
- Beaton, M. C. - Dead on target
- Bowen, Rhys - The proof of the pudding
- Brett, Simon - Mrs Pargeter's patio
- Carr, Jack - Only the dead: a thriller
- Clark, Martin - The Plinko bounce (ebook available)
- DeMille, Nelson - Blood lines: a novel
- Fellowes, Jessica - The Mitford secret (ebook available)
- Galbraith, Robert - The running grave (ebook available)
- Glass, Ava - The traitor: a novel
- Hand, Elizabeth - A haunting on the hill
- Jance, Judith A. - Blessing of the lost girls
- Kwok, Jean - The leftover woman: a novel
- Lagioia, Nicola - The city of the living
- Manansala, Mia P - Murder and mamon (ebook available)
- Manazir Siddiqi, Ayesha - The Centre
- Marren, Susannah - Maribelle's shadow
- Nesbø, Jo - The night house (ebook available)
- Osman, Richard - The last devil to die
- Schneider, Hansjörg - The murder of Anton Livius (translated from the German)
- Woods, Stuart - Obsession
POETRY
- Anedda, Antonella - Historiae (translated from the Italian and the Sardinian)
- Balakian, Peter - No sign
- Hayes, Terrance - So to speak
- Hirshfield, Jane - The asking: new and selected poems
- Riley, Denise - Say something back ; time lived, without its flow
- Sax, Sam - Pig: poems
- Schiff, Robyn - Information desk: an epic
IN THE STACKS
FICTION
- Aidoo, Ama Ata - Our sister killjoy: or, reflections from a black-eyed squint F A
- Aykol, Esmahan - Divorce Turkish style F A
- Branch, Pamela - Lion in the cellar (reprint of 1951 classic mystery) F B
- Dray, Stephanie - The women of Chateau Lafayette F D
- Edwards, Martin - Blackstone Fell F E
- Edwards, Martin - Yesterday's papers F E
- Elkin, Stanley - Criers & kibitzers, kibitzers & criers F E
- Herron, Mick - Standing by the wall: the collected Slough House novellas F H
- Serle, Rebecca - The dinner list F S
- Shi, Yukun - Tales of Magistrate Bao and his valiant lieutenants: selections from Sanxia wuyi F S
- Wolff, James - Beside the Syrian sea F W
- Wolff, James - How to betray your country F W
BOOKS & WRITERS
- Butler, Octavia E. - Octavia E. Butler: the last interview and other conversations 823 B
- hooks, bell - bell hooks: the last interview and other conversations 304 H
- Mewshaw, Michael - My man in Antibes: getting to know Graham Greene: a memoir 92 G7995 M
- Ogilvie, Sarah - The dictionary people: the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English dictionary 423 O
- Sargent, John - Turning pages: the adventures and misadventures of a publisher 92 S2458 S
- - Caribbeana: an anthology of English literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 808.89 C
VISUAL ARTS
- Barringer, T. J. - Art and emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his worlds 709.7 B
- Cherix, Christophe - Ed Ruscha now then: a retrospective 759.1 R
- Guy, John - Tree & serpent: early Buddhist art in India 709.39 G
- North, Alice - Listening to clay: conversations with contemporary Japanese ceramic artists 738 N
- Szarkowski, John - John Szarkowski: photographs 779 S
- Temkin, Ann - Abstract expressionism at the Museum of Modern Art: selections from the collection 708.1 T
- Varnedoe, Kirk - High & low: modern art, popular culture 709.04 V
- Wolohojian, Stephan - Manet/Degas 759.4 M
- Wye, Deborah - Louise Bourgeois: an unfolding portrait: prints, books, and the creative process 709.2 B
- - A dark, a light, a bright: the designs of Dorothy Liebes 745.4 L
PERFORMING ARTS
- Gabriel, Mary - Madonna: a rebel life 92 M1837 G
- Harss, Marina - The boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's life in ballet 92 R2367 H
- Hermes, Will - Lou Reed: the king of New York 92 R3248 H
- Huang, Yunte - Daughter of the dragon: Anna May Wong's rendezvous with American history 92 W8722 H
- Isralowitz, Jason - Nothing to fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the wrong men 791.4 I
- Schlatter, George - Still laughing: a life in comedy, from the creator of Laugh-in 92 S3384 S
- Silverman, Stephen M. - Sondheim: his life, his shows, his legacy 780.921 S
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Bashir, Yousef Khalil - The words of my father 92 B2998 B
- Belorusets, Yevgenia - War diary (Ukraine) 947.7 B
- Bricklin, Julia - Red sapphire: the woman who beat the blacklist 92 W42452 B
- Dennett, D. C. - I've been thinking 92 D3991 D
- Gray, Charlotte - Passionate mothers, powerful sons: the lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt 920 G7781 P
- Karr, Robert - At sea with Patrick Dennis: my madcap Mexican adventure with the author of Auntie Mame 917.2 K
- Manning, Chelsea - README.txt: a memoir 92 M2833 M
- Newman, Melissa - Head over heels: Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman: a love affair in words and pictures 791.4 N
- Ricard, Matthieu - Notebooks of a wandering monk 92 R488 R
- Stewart, Rory - How not to be a politician: a memoir 92 S85165 S
- Wallace, Daniel - This isn't going to end well: the true story of a man I thought I knew 920 W188 W
HISTORY
- Bass, Gary Jonathan - Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on trial and the making of modern Asia 341.3 B
- Bordewich, Fergus M. - Klan war: Ulysses S. Grant and the battle to save Reconstruction 973.8 B
- Dring, Thomas - Recollections of life on the prison ship Jersey in 1782: a revolutionary war-era manuscript 973.37 D
- Hoyer, Katja - Blood and iron: the rise and fall of the German Empire, 1871-1918 943.08 H
- Joskowicz, Ari - Rain of ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust 940.5315 J
- Jurdem, Laurence - The rough rider and the professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the friendship that changed American history 920 J958 R
- Mattson, Kevin - Just plain Dick: Richard Nixon's Checkers speech and the "rocking, socking" election of 1952 324 M
- Mufti, Shahan - American caliph: the true story of a Muslim mystic, a Hollywood epic, and the 1977 siege of Washington, DC 303.6 M
- Parker, Matthew - One fine day: Britain's empire on the brink, September 29, 1923 942.082 P
- Reid, Stuart A. - The Lumumba plot: the secret history of the CIA and a Cold War assassination 967 R
- Shane, Scott - Flee north: a forgotten hero and the fight for freedom in slavery's borderland 326 S
- Striner, Richard - Ike in love and war: how Dwight D. Eisenhower sacrificed himself to keep the peace 92 E365 S
ANTIQUITY & CLASSICS
- Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith - Rome and Persia: the seven hundred year rivalry 930 G
- Houseman, Victoria - American classicist: the life and loves of Edith Hamilton 92 H21753 H
- Stothard, Peter - Palatine: an alternative history of the Caesars 937.06 S
ECONOMICS
- Farrell, Henry - Underground empire: how America weaponized the world economy 337 F
- Ness, Immanuel - Migration as economic imperialism: how international labour mobility undermines economic development in poor countries 331.6 N
- O'Dwyer, Rachel - Tokens: the future of money in the age of the platform 332.4 O
JUSTICE & THE LAW
- Garner, Helen - This house of grief: the story of a murder trial 364.1 G
- Raskin, Jamin B. - Overruling democracy: the Supreme Court vs. the American people 342.73 R
- Vladeck, Stephen I. - The shadow docket: how the Supreme Court uses stealth rulings to amass power and undermine the republic 347.99 V
RACE IN AMERICA
- Jones, Robert P. - The hidden roots of White supremacy: and the path to a shared American future 305.8 J
- Kelley, Blair Murphy - Black folk: the roots of the Black working class 325.26 K
- Manjapra, Kris - Black ghost of empire: the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation 326 M
CHINA
- Bell, Daniel - The dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university 378 B
- Chen, Yuan-tsung - The secret listener: an ingenue in Mao's court 92 C51845 C
- Johnson, Ian - Sparks: China's underground historians and their battle for the future 951 J
- Rossabi, Morris - China and the Uyghurs: a concise introduction 305.87 R
- Tohti, Ilham - We Uyghurs have no say: an imprisoned writer speaks 323.1 T
WOMEN’S STUDIES
- Bohannon, Cat - Eve: how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution 573 B
- Miles, Tiya - Wild girls: how the outdoors shaped the women who challenged a nation 304.2 M
- Sontag, Susan - On women 824 S
- - The Black woman: an anthology 820.8 B
NEW YORK CITY
- Elcock, Chris - Psychedelic New York: a history of LSD in the city 362.293 E
- Goodman, Elyssa - Glitter and concrete: a cultural history of drag in New York City 792.2 G
- Moore, Deborah Dash - Walkers in the city: Jewish street photographers of midcentury New York 779 M
SCIENCE
- Goldfarb, Ben - Crossings: how road ecology is shaping the future of our planet 574.5 G
- Losos, Jonathan B. - The cat's meow: how cats evolved from the savanna to your sofa 636.8 L