NEW BOOKS - MAY 2024
Archived Lists
New Books – May 2024
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Abdurraqib, Hanif - There's always this year: on basketball and ascension
- Breyer, Stephen G. - Reading the Constitution: why I chose pragmatism, not textualism
- Butler, Blake - Molly
- Carroll, Lewis - Lewis Carroll's guide for insomniacs
- Duhigg, Charles - Supercommunicators: how to unlock the secret language of connection
- Dykstra, Natalie - Chasing beauty: the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner (ebook available)
- Eder, Mari K. - The girls who fought crime: the untold true story of the country's first female investigator and crime-fighting squads
- Fuller, Alexandra - Fi: a memoir
- Grinberg, Ronnie A - Write like a man: Jewish masculinity and the New York intellectuals
- Hahn, Steven - Illiberal America: a history
- Haidt, Jonathan - The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
- Heinzerling, Larry - Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany
- Hulls, Tessa - Feeding ghosts: a graphic memoir
- Humphries, Patrick - Cleopatra and the undoing of Hollywood: how one film almost sunk the studios
- Jacobsen, Annie - Nuclear war: a scenario
- Kino, Carol - Double click: twin photographers in the golden age of magazines
- Kolbert, Elizabeth - H is for hope: climate change from A to Z
- Kovic, Ron - A dangerous country: an American elegy
- Lal, Ruby - Vagabond princess: the great adventures of Gulbadan
- Lamott, Anne - Somehow: thoughts on love (ebook available)
- Liu, Cixin - A view from the stars (translated from the Chinese)
- Lyford, Amy - Exquisite dreams: the art and life of Dorothea Tanning
- McCann, Colum - American mother
- Montgomery, Sy - Secrets of the octopus
- Nelson, Maggie - Like love: essays and conversations
- Ohler, Norman - Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the dawn of the psychedelic age
- Olivelle, Patrick - Ashoka: portrait of a philosopher king
- Oyler, Lauren - No judgment: essays
- Patterson, James - The secret lives of booksellers and librarians: true stories of the magic of reading
- Phillips, Adam - On giving up
- Prickett, Pamela - The unclaimed: abandonment and hope in the City of Angels
- Ryback, Timothy W - Takeover: Hitler's final rise to power
- Salisbury, Katie Gee - Not your China doll: the wild and shimmering life of Anna May Wong
- Sides, Hampton - The wide wide sea: imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook (ebook available)
- Sun, Carrie - Private equity: a memoir
- Tallis, Frank - Mortal secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the discovery of the modern mind
- Zakaria, Fareed - Age of revolutions: progress and backlash from 1600 to the present
FICTION
- Bardugo, Leigh - The familiar
- Brashears, Monica - House of cotton
- Cleeton, Chanel - The house on Biscayne Bay
- Cornwell, Bernard - Sharpe's command: Richard Sharpe and the bridge at Almaraz, May 1812
- Fourteen days: a literary project of the Authors Guild of America (Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, eds, featuring contributions by Meg Wolitzer, Dave Eggers, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, and more)
- Freudenberger, Nell - The limits
- García Márquez, Gabriel - Until August (translated from the Spanish) (ebook available)
- Gramazio, Holly - The husbands: a novel
- Hazell, Lottie - Piglet: a novel (ebook available)
- Jelinek, Elfriede - The children of the dead (translated from the German)
- Lovering, Carola - Bye, baby: a novel
- Mukherjee, Neel - Choice: a novel
- Raimo, Veronica - Lost on me
- Read, Shelley - Go as a river
- Ruffin, Maurice Carlos - The American daughters: a novel
- Schaffert, Timothy - The Titanic Survivors Book Club: a novel
- Serle, Rebecca - Expiration dates: a novel
- Towles, Amor - Table for two: fictions (ebook and audiobook available)
- Yablon, Hillary - Sylvia's second act
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Bennett, Sophia - A death in diamonds
- Bohjalian, Chris - The princess of Las Vegas: a novel (ebook available)
- Bowen, Rhys - In sunshine or in shadow
- Coughlan, Claire - Where they lie: a novel
- Dolan, Harry - Don't turn around: a thriller (ebook available)
- French, Nicci - Has anyone seen Charlotte Salter?: a novel
- Frick, Kit - The split: a novel
- Gentill, Sulari - The mystery writer: a novel (ebook available)
- Mackintosh, Clare - A game of lies
- McTiernan, Dervla - What happened to Nina?: a thriller (ebook available)
- Mullen, Thomas - The rumor game: a novel
- O'Connor, Carlene - Some of us are looking
- Piazza, Jo - The Sicilian inheritance: a novel
- Scarrow, Simon - Dead of night
- Scottoline, Lisa - The truth about the Devlins
- Siger, Jeffrey - At any cost
- Stuart, Amy - A death at the party: a novel
- Toyne, Simon - The clearing: a novel
- Winslow, Don - City in ruins: a novel (ebook available)
POETRY
- Ondaatje, Michael - A year of last things: poems
IN THE STACKS
FICTION
- Berkeley, Anthony - The Wychford poisoning case F B
- Caught in a story: contemporary fairytales and fables F C
- Clark, Eliza - Boy parts F C
- Restrepo, Laura - The angel of Galilea F R
LITERATURE & CRITICISM
- Ellis, David - Blasted with antiquity: old age and the consolations of literature 809 E
- Horner, Avril - Barbara Comyns: a savage innocence 92 C7424 H
- Lethem, Jonathan - The collapsing frontier: plus Calvino's "Lightness" and the feral child of history, plus In mugwump four and much more 820.81 L
BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS
- Cockerell, Rachel - Melting point 325.2 C
- Elmhirst, Sophie - Maurice and Maralyn: a whale, a shipwreck, a love story 910.4 E
- Finkel, David - An American dreamer: life in a divided country 92 C9712 F
- Nordland, Rod - Waiting for the monsoon 92 N8334 N
- Vellekoop, Maurice - I'm so glad we had this time together: a memoir 92 V438 V
WORLD HISTORY
- Brunt, Douglas - The mysterious case of Rudolf Diesel: genius, power, and deception on the eve of World War I 943.08 B
- Romano, Dennis - Venice: the remarkable history of the lagoon city 945.3 R
- Rubenstein, Joshua - The last days of Stalin 947.084 R
- Turner, Alwyn W. - Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian era 942.082 T
- Van Reybrouck, David - Revolusi: Indonesia and the birth of the modern world 959.8 V
U.S. HISTORY
- Slotkin, Richard - A great disorder: national myth and the battle for America 973 S
- West, Elliott - Continental reckoning: the American West in the age of expansion 978 W
RUSSIA
- Harding, Luke - Invasion: the inside story of Russia's bloody war and Ukraine's fight for survival 947.086 H
- Wallance, Gregory - Into Siberia: George Kennan's epic journey through the brutal, frozen heart of Russia 915.7 W
ART & ARTISTS
- Jowitt, Deborah - Errand into the maze: the life and works of Martha Graham 92 G7411 J
- Marisol - Marisol: a retrospective 730.92 M
- O'Meara, Mallory - The lady from the black lagoon: Hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of Milicent Patrick 791.4 O
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Penrose, Antony - Lee Miller: photographs 779 M
- Winogrand, Garry - Winogrand color 779 W
CRIME & JUSTICE
- Allen, Danielle S. - Justice by means of democracy 320.1 A
- Ferrante, Louis - Borgata: rise of empire: a history of the American Mafia 364.1 F
- Lockhart, Chris - Walking the bowl: a true story of murder and survival among the street children of Lusaka 362.5 L
- Ramsey, Donovan X - When crack was king: a people's history of a misunderstood era 362.293 R
THE DIGITAL AGE
- Li, Fei Fei - The worlds I see: curiosity, exploration, and discovery at the dawn of AI 001.6 L
- McCourt, Frank H. - Our biggest fight: reclaiming liberty, humanity, and dignity in the digital age 303.4 M
- Scheirer, Walter J. - A history of fake things on the Internet 302 S
LOVE & MARRIAGE
- Choksi, Mansi - The newlyweds: rearranging marriage in modern India 306.8 C
- Lunn, Natasha - Conversations on love: lovers, strangers, parents, friends, endings, beginnings 177 L
HOMES & GARDENS
- McDowell, Marta - Du Pont gardens of the Brandywine Valley 712 M
- Plumley, Gavin - A home for all seasons 914.214 P
CEMETERIES
- Daniels, Anthony - Buried but not quite dead: forgotten writers of Père Lachaise 809 D
- Melville, Greg - Over my dead body: unearthing the hidden history of America's cemeteries 306.9 M
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
- Charlotte Perriand: inventing a new world 720.92 P
- Denise Scott Brown: in other eyes: portraits of an architect 720.92 S
CLOTHES & FASHION
- Davidson, Hilary - Jane Austen's wardrobe 391.0942 D
- Grose, Anouchka - Fashion: a manifesto 391 G
ANIMALS
- Burroughs, John - John James Audubon 92 A916 B
- On dogs: an anthology 636.7 O
THE MIND
- Bloom, Paul - Psych: the story of the human mind 150 B
- Farley, Audrey Clare - Girls and their monsters: the Genain quadruplets and the making of madness in America 305.23 F
- Ranganath, Charan - Why we remember: unlocking memory's power to hold on to what matters 154 R
