New Books - September 2021
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Ackerman, Spencer - Reign of terror: how the 9/11 era destabilized America and produced Trump
- Aldridge, Mark - Agatha Christie's Poirot: the greatest detective in the world
- Armstrong, Leslie - Girl intrepid: a New York story of privilege and perseverance
- Attlee, Helena - Lev's violin: a story of music, culture, and Italian adventure
- Barkan, Ross - The prince: Andrew Cuomo, coronavirus, and the fall of New York
- Bergen, Peter - The rise and fall of Osama bin Laden
- Burkeman, Oliver - Four thousand weeks: time management for mortals
- Burlingame, Michael - An American marriage: the untold story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd
- Chicago, Judy - The flowering: the autobiography of Judy Chicago
- D'Aguiar, Fred - Year of plagues: a memoir of 2020
- Donner, Rebecca - All the frequent troubles of our days: the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler (ebook available)
- Frenkel, Sheera - An ugly truth: inside Facebook's battle for domination
- García, Rodrigo - A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: a son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha (ebook available)
- Grue, Jan - I live a life like yours: a memoir
- Hagedorn, Ann - Sleeper agent: the atomic spy in America who got away
- Higgins, Tim - Power play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the bet of the century
- Hooven, Carole - T: the story of testosterone, the hormone that dominates and divides us
- Howell, Elizabeth - The search for life on Mars: the greatest scientific detective story of all time
- Ireland, Josh - Churchill & son
- Jackson, Jeffrey H. - Paper bullets: two artists who risked their lives to defy the Nazis
- Kapur, Akash - Better to have gone: love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville (ebook available)
- Kavanagh, Julie - The Irish assassins: conspiracy, revenge, and the Phoenix Park murders that stunned Victorian England
- Levy, Deborah - Real estate
- Manaugh, Geoff - Until proven safe: the history and future of quarantine
- Mann, Michael E. - The new climate war: the fight to take back the planet
- Matthews, Chris - This country: my life in politics and history
- McDermott, Alice - What about the baby?: some thoughts on the art of fiction (ebook available)
- Pazcoguin, Georgina - Swan dive: the making of a rogue ballerina
- Rogers, Adam - Full spectrum: how the science of color made us modern
- Ronald, Susan - The ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
- Schmidle, Nicholas - Test gods: Virgin Galactic and the making of a modern astronaut
- Stern, Ellen - Hirschfeld: the biography (ebook available)
- Trump, Mary L. - The reckoning: our nation's trauma and finding a way to heal
- Tumarkin, Maria M. - Axiomatic
- Vindman, Alexander S. - Here, right matters: an American story
- Wells, Lisa - Believers: making a life at the end of the world
- Wilson, Frances - Burning man: the trials of D.H. Lawrence (ebook available)
- Long players: writers on the albums that shaped them (Tom Gatti, editor)
- The contemporary American essay (Phillip Lopate, editor)
FICTION
- Adams, Sara Nisha - The reading list: a novel
- Ahmed, Nawaaz - Radiant fugitives: a novel
- Al Aswani, Alaa - The republic of false truths (translated from the Arabic)
- Austin, Emily R. - Everyone in this room will someday be dead: a novel
- Brown, Sandra - Blind tiger
- Calligarich, Gianfranco - Last summer in the city (translated from the Italian)
- Chidgey, Catherine - Remote sympathy
- Davidson, Ash - Damnation spring: a novel (ebook availbable)
- De Robertis, Carolina - The president and the frog
- Dorey-Stein, Beck - Rock the boat: a novel
- Edwards, Louis - Ramadan Ramsey: a novel
- El Akkad, Omar - What strange paradise
- Faye, Lyndsay - The king of infinite space
- Fielding, Joy - Cul-de-sac
- Friedland, Elyssa - Last summer at the Golden Hotel
- Guillory, Jasmine - While we were dating
- Harmel, Kristin - The forest of vanishing stars
- Hoby, Hermione - Virtue
- Jin, Ha - A song everlasting
- Jones, Cherie - How the one-armed sister sweeps her house: a novel
- King, Stephen - Billy Summers: a novel (ebook available)
- Kleeman, Alexandra - Something new under the sun: a novel
- Kushner, Rachel - The mayor of Leipzig
- Lalwani, Nikita - You people: a novel
- Laymon, Kiese - Long division: a novel
- Lefteri, Christy - Songbirds: a novel
- Levy, E. J. - The Cape doctor: a novel
- Luchette, Claire - Agatha of Little Neon
- Mairal, Pedro - The woman from Uruguay
- Miller, Derek B. - How to find your way in the dark (ebook available)
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Breathe: a novel (ebook available)
- Ohlin, Alix - We want what we want: stories
- Piñeiro, Claudia - Elena knows (translated from the Spanish) (ebook available)
- Rich, Simon - New teeth: stories (ebook available)
- Riley, Gwendoline - My phantoms
- Scurati, Antonio - M: son of the century (translated from the Italian)
- Slimani, Leïla - In the country of others (ebook available)
- So, Anthony Veasna - Afterparties: stories (ebook available)
- Spencer, Elizabeth - Elizabeth Spencer: novels & stories (Library of America collection)
- Vásquez, Juan Gabriel - Songs for the flames: stories (translated from the Spanish)
- Yoder, Rachel - Nightbitch
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Abbott, Megan E. - The turnout: a novel
- Billingham, Mark - Rabbit hole*
- Bolton, S. J. - The pact*
- Brett, Simon - An untidy death*
- Cameron, Lindsay - Just one look: a novel (ebook available)
- Davis, Lindsey - A comedy of terrors: a Flavia Albia novel*
- Díaz, Eloísa - Repentance
- Fitzek, Sebastian - Seat 7a (translated from the German)
- Lapeña, Shari - Not a happy family (ebook available)
- Leonard, Niall - M, king's bodyguard: a novel *
- Mahmood, Imran - I know what I saw *
- Maitland, Barry - The promised land *
- Methos, Victor - Crimson Lake Road
- Montclair, Allison - A royal affair*
- Moore, Taylor - Down range: a novel
- Muller, Marcia - Ice and stone
- Peace, David - Tokyo redux
- Penny, Louise - The madness of crowds
- Santlofer, Jonathan - The last Mona Lisa: a novel (ebook available)
- Sedira, Samira - People like them: a novel (translated from the French)
- Thor, Brad - Black ice: a thriller
- Trinchieri, Camilla - The bitter taste of murder
- Walker, Martin - The coldest case (ebook available)
POETRY
- Akbar, Kaveh - Pilgrim bell: poems
- Dove, Rita - Playlist for the Apocalypse: poems (ebook available)
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Cézanne drawing (Jodi Hauptman and Samantha Friedman, eds., published to accompany exhibition at MoMA)
- McCausland, Shane - The Mongol century: visual cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Achebe, Chinua - Conversations with Chinua Achebe 828.09 A
- Bové, Paul A. - Love's shadow 801 B
- Colbert, Soyica Diggs - Radical vision: a biography of Lorraine Hansberry 92 H2492 C
- Frankel, Nicholas - The invention of Oscar Wilde 92 W6722 F
- Gabbert, Elisa - The unreality of memory: and other essays 824 G
- Gilbert, Sandra M. - Still mad: American women writers and the feminist imagination, 1950-2020 820.9 G
- Musil, Robert - Thought flights 830.81 M
- Shafak, Elif - How to stay sane in an age of division 824 S
- Zenith, Richard - Pessoa: a biography 92 P4755 Z
- A history of twentieth-century African literatures 896 H (Oyekan Owomoyela, ed.)
FICTION
- Andreas-Salomé, Lou - Anneliese's house (1921 novel, translated from the German) 833 A
- Barthelme, Donald - Collected stories (Library of America) F B
- Carnac, Carol - Crossed skis: an alpine mystery (British Library Crime Classics) F C
- Endō, Shūsaku - Sachiko (recent translation of acclaimed Japanese author) F E
- Henry, O. - O. Henry: 101 stories (Library of America) F H
- Reid, Taylor Jenkins - The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo: a novel F R
LANGUAGE
- Cock-Starkey, Claire - Hyphens & hashtags 411 C
- Costa, Albert - The bilingual brain: and what it tells us about the science of language 401 C
- Montell, Amanda - Cultish: the language of fanaticism 302.3 M
POETRY
- Collins, Sophie - Who is Mary Sue? 821 C
- Corso, Gregory - An accidental autobiography: the selected letters of Gregory Corso 92 C8261 C
- Nammāḻvār - Endless song (Penguin Classics; 9th-c. mystic poetry 894.8 N
- Pearson, Roger - Stéphane Mallarmé (Reaktion Books Critical Lives) 92 M252 P
CRITICAL THEORY
- Benhabib, Seyla - Critique, norm, and utopia: a study of the foundations of critical theory 149 B
- The meaninglessness of meaning: writing about the theory wars from the London review of books 801 M
ART
- Boults, Elizabeth - Illustrated history of landscape design 710 B
- English, Charlie - The gallery of miracles and madness: insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art 943.085 E
- Gowing, Lawrence - Selected writings on art 704 G
- Iacono, Margaret - Vermeer's Mistress and maid (Frick Diptych series) 759.9 V
- Prettejohn, Elizabeth - Interpreting Sargent 759.1 S
- Raicovich, Laura - Culture strike: art and museums in an age of protest 708 R
- Stiles, Gary L. - William Hart: catalogue raisonné and artistic biography 759.1 H
- Impressionism in Russia: dawn of the avant-garde 759.7 I (Ortrud Westheider, et al.)
PERFORMING ARTS
- Gaines, Caseen - Footnotes: the Black artists who rewrote the rules of the Great White Way 792.0973 G
- Lapine, James - Putting it together: how Stephen Sondheim and I created "Sunday in the park with George" 792.6 L
- McLaughlin, Robert L. - Broadway goes to war: American theater during World War II 822.09 M
COMICS
- Barry, Lynda - One hundred demons 741.5 B
- Hirsch, Paul S. - Pulp empire: a secret history of comic book imperialism 741.5 H
- Panter, Gary - Jimbo: adventures in paradise 741.5 P
HISTORY
- Amar, Akhil Reed - The words that made us: America's constitutional conversation, 1760-1840 342.73 A
- Gerwarth, Robert - November 1918: the German revolution 943.085 G
- Halter, Marek - Why the Jews?: the need to scapegoat 306.86 H
- Hawes, J. M. - The shortest history of England 942 H
- Hill, Rosemary - Time's witness: history in the age of romanticism 940.28 H
- Mackay, Jamie - The invention of Sicily: a Mediterranean history 945.8 M
- Taylor, Miles - Empress: Queen Victoria and India 954 T
- Van der Kiste, John - The end of the Habsburgs: the decline and fall of the Austrian monarchy 943.6 V
INTELLIGENCE & ESPIONAGE
- Price, David A. - Geniuses at war: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the dawn of the digital age 940.5486 P
- Vigurs, Kate - Mission France: the true history of the women of SOE 940.5485 V
WAR
- Bevins, Vincent - The Jakarta method: Washington's anticommunist crusade and the mass murder program that shaped our world 327.73 B
- Gregory, Adrian - The last Great War: British society and the First World War 940.342 G
- Hodgson, Vere - Few eggs and no oranges: a diary showing how unimportant people in London and Birmingham lived throughout the war years 1940-1945 940.548 H
BIOGRAPHY
- Ezenwa-Ohaeto - Chinua Achebe: a biography 92 A1773 E
- Frankel, Sandor - The accidental philanthropist: from a Bronx stickball lot to Manhattan courtrooms and steering Leona Helmsley's billions 92 F8286 F
- Garner, Helen - Yellow notebook: diaries. 92 G2344 G
- McGrath, Tim - James Monroe: a life 92 M753 M
- Metz, Julie - Eva and Eve: a search for my mother's lost childhood and what a war left behind 92 M5965 M
- Storey, David - A stinging delight: a memoir 92 S8841 S
NEW YORK
- Deutsch, Nathaniel - A fortress in Brooklyn: race, real estate, and the making of Hasidic Williamsburg 974.71 D
- Garodnick, Daniel R. - Saving Stuyvesant Town: how one community defeated the worst real estate deal in history 333 G
- Kaplan, Paul M. - New York's original Penn Station: the rise and tragic fall of an American landmark 385 K
SCIENCE
- Johnson, Sarah Stewart - The sirens of Mars: searching for life on another world 523.4 J
- Kaku, Michio - The future of humanity: our destiny in the universe 523.4 K
- Kleeman, Jenny - Sex robots and vegan meat: adventures at the frontier of birth, food, sex, and death 303.4 K
- Olson, Steve - The apocalypse factory: plutonium and the making of the atomic age 623.4 O
SOCIOLOGY
- Alexander, Brian - The hospital: life, death, and dollars in a small American town 362 A
- Bernstein, William J. - The delusions of crowds: why people go mad in groups 302.3 B
- Hamby, Chris - Soul full of coal dust: a fight for breath and justice in Appalachia 362.1 H
SPORTS
- Blomberg, Ron - The captain & me: on and off the field with Thurman Munson 92 M9696 B
- Phillips, Christopher J. - Scouting and scoring: how we know what we know about baseball 796.3 P
- Ware, Susan - Game, set, match: Billie Jean King and the revolution in women's sports 796.3 W
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Garten, Jeffrey E. - Three days at Camp David: how a secret meeting in 1971 transformed the global economy 973.294 G
- Karabell, Zachary - Inside money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American way of power 332.1 K
- Stone, Brad - Amazon unbound: Jeff Bezos and the invention of a global empire 381 S
- Williams, Eric Eustace - Capitalism & slavery 380.14 W
FOOD & DRINK
- Grant, Phyllis - Everything is under control: a memoir with recipes 92 G76295 G
- Lawson, Nigella - Cook, eat, repeat: ingredients, recipes and stories 641.5 L
- McAlpine, Skye - A table for friends: the art of cooking for two or twenty 641.5 M