November 2012 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Achebe, Chinua - There was a country: a personal history of Biafra
- Amidon, Stephen - Something like the gods: a cultural history of the athlete from Achilles to LeBron
- Anasi, Robert - The last bohemia: scenes from the life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
- Avrich, Paul - Sasha and Emma: the anarchist odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
- Barash, David P - Homo mysterious: evolutionary puzzles of human nature
- Barrow, John D - Mathletics: a scientist explains 100 amazing things about the world of sports
- Beye, Charles Rowan - My husband and my wives: a gay man's odyssey
- Brands, H. W - The man who saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in war and peace
- Burton, Richard - The Richard Burton diaries
- Bynum, W. F - A little history of science
- Carvajal, Doreen - The forgetting river: a modern tale of survival, identity, and the Inquisition
- Chamovitz, Daniel - What a plant knows: a field guide to the senses
- Clements, Jeffrey D - Corporations are not people: why they have more rights than you do and what you can do about it
- Coleman, David G - The fourteenth day: JFK and the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Craig, William - Yankee come home: on the road from San Juan Hill to Guantánamo
- Darlington, Miriam - Otter country: in search of the wild otter
- Dobbs, Michael - Six months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, Truman, from World War to Cold War
- Dobson, William J - The dictator's learning curve: inside the global battle for democracy
- Dolin, Eric Jay - When America first met China: an exotic history of tea, drugs, and money in the age of sail
- Echols, Damien - Life after death
- Eck, Diana L - India: a sacred geography
- Edwards, Mickey - The parties versus the people: how to turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans
- Elie, Paul - Reinventing Bach
- Epstein, Joseph - Essays in biography
- Fernyhough, Charles - Pieces of light: the new science of memory
- Freeland, Chrystia - Plutocrats: the rise of the new global super-rich and the fall of everyone else
- Gross, Miriam T - An almost English life
- Iversen, Kristen - Full body burden: growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats
- Janzen, Rhoda - Does this church make me look fat?: a Mennonite finds faith, meets Mr. Right, and solves her lady problems
- Kanter, Trudi - Some girls, some hats and Hitler: a true love story rediscovered
- Kaplan, Robert D - The revenge of geography: what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
- Klare, Michael T - The race for what's left: the global scramble for the world's last resources
- Kunstler, James Howard - Too much magic: wishful thinking, technology, and the fate of the nation
- Lepore, Jill - The story of America: essays on origins
- Listening in: the secret White House recordings of John F. Kennedy
- Man, John - Ninja: 1,000 years of the shadow warriors
- Mann, William J - Hello, gorgeous: becoming Barbra Streisand
- Marshall, Penny - My mother was nuts: a memoir
- McCarthy, Andrew - The longest way home: one man's quest for the courage to settle down
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam - Waiting for the barbarians: essays from the classics to pop culture
- Mulley, Clare - The spy who loved: the secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of the Second World War
- Our harsh logic: Israeli soldiers' testimonies from the occupied territories, 2000-2010
- Paglia, Camille - Glittering images: a journey through art from Egypt to Star Wars
- Portis, Charles - Escape velocity: a Charles Portis miscellany
- Quammen, David - Spillover: animal infections and the next human pandemic
- Ramadan, Tariq - Islam and the Arab awakening
- Ridley, Jane - Bertie: a life of Edward VII
- Rollyson, Carl E - Hollywood enigma: Dana Andrews
- Root, Alan - Ivory, apes & peacocks: animals, adventure and discovery in the wild places of Africa
- Rosen, Gary A - Unfair to genius: the strange and litigious career of Ira B. Arnstein
- Rosin, Hanna - The end of men: and the rise of women
- Roth, Marco - The scientists: a family romance
- Rubin, Gretchen Craft - Happier at home: kiss more, jump more, abandon a project, read Samuel Johnson, and my other experiments in the practice of everyday life
- Sehat, David - The myth of American religious freedom
- Shulman, Robin - Eat the city: a tale of the fishers, trappers, hunters, foragers, slaughterers, butchers, farmers, poultry minders, sugar refiners, cane cutters, beekeepers, winemakers, and brewers who built New York
- Simmons, Sylvie - I'm your man: the life of Leonard Cohen
- Sinclair, Iain - Ghost milk: recent adventures among the future ruins of London on the eve of the Olympics
- Smith, Douglas - Former people: the final days of the Russian aristocracy
- Smith, Janna Malamud - An absorbing errand : how artists and craftsmen make their way to mastery
- Staggs, Sam - Inventing Elsa Maxwell: how an irrepressible nobody conquered high society, Hollywood, the press, and the world
- Strogatz, Steven H - The joy of X: a guided tour of math, from one to infinity
- Tobolowsky, Stephen - The dangerous animals club
- Tononi, Giulio - Phi: a voyage from the brain to the soul
- Toobin, Jeffrey - The oath: the Obama White House and the Supreme Court
- Townshend, Pete - Who I am: a memoir
- Unger, Craig - Boss Rove: inside Karl Rove's secret kingdom of power
- Wallach, Janet - The richest woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
- Wasik, Bill - Rabid: a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus
- Williams, Florence - Breasts: a natural and unnatural history
- Wilson, Bee - Consider the fork: a history of how we cook and eat
- Witchel, Alex - All gone: a memoir of my mother's dementia : with refreshments
- Witt, John Fabian - Lincoln's code: the laws of war in American history
- Young, Neil - Waging heavy peace: a hippie dream
FICTION
- Arnold, Gaynor - After such kindness
- Attenberg, Jami - The Middlesteins
- Banville, John - Ancient light
- Barker, Pat - Toby's room: a novel
- Boianjiu, Shani - The people of forever are not afraid: a novel
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - San Miguel
- Brink, André P - Philida: a novel
- Clark, Clare - Beautiful lies
- Cristofano, David - The exceptions
- Cronin, Justin - The twelve: a novel
- Ennis, Michael - The malice of fortune
- Erdrich, Louise - The round house
- Erickson, Carolly - The unfaithful queen: a novel of Henry VIII's fifth wife
- Frazier, Ian - The cursing mommy's book of days
- Harris, Joanne - Peaches for Father Francis
- Helprin, Mark - In sunlight and in shadow
- Higashino, Keigo - Salvation of a saint
- Homes, A. M - May we be forgiven
- Hruska, Bronwen - Accelerated
- Isaacs, Susan - Goldberg variations: a novel
- Jacobson, Howard - Zoo time: a novel
- Kuhn, William M - Mrs. Queen takes the train: a novel
- Lehane, Dennis - Live by night
- Mankell, Henning - The shadow girls
- Manrique, Jaime - Cervantes street
- McKay, Ami - The virgin cure: a novel
- Meek, James - The heart broke in
- Minot, George - Om love: a novel
- Moehringer, J. R - Sutton
- Moore, Susanna - The life of objects
- Morton, Kate - The secret keeper: a novel
- Osborne, Lawrence - The forgiven: a novel
- Rowling, J. K - The casual vacancy
- Sloan, Robin - Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore
- Straub, Emma - Laura Lamont's life in pictures
- Taylor, Patrick - An Irish country wedding
- Tremain, Rose - Merivel: a man of his time
- Whitehouse, David - Bed: a novel
- Wiles, Will - Care of wooden floors: a novel
- Wilson, A. N - The potter's hand
- Winterson, Jeanette - The Daylight Gate
- Woodruff, Lee - Those we love most
- Yu, Charles - Sorry please thank you
MYSTERIES
- Arnaldur Indriðason - Outrage: an Inspector Erlendur novel
- Billingham, Mark - Rush of blood
- Bingham, Harry - Talking to the dead: a novel
- Carnoy, David - The big exit
- Coleman, Reed Farrel - Gun church
- Cornwell, Patricia Daniels - The bone bed
- Coyle, Cleo - A brew to a kill
- DeMille, Nelson - The panther
- Dymott, Elanor - Every contact leaves a trace
- Eccles, Marjorie - After Clare*
- Fforde, Jasper - Thursday Next in the woman who died a lot: now with 50% added subplot
- Fiffer, Sharon Sloan - Lucky stuff
- Francis, Felix - Dick Francis's bloodline
- Giuttari, Michele - A death in Calabria
- Giuttari, Michele - The black rose of Florence
- Grisham, John - The racketeer
- Handler, David - The snow white Christmas cookie: a Berger and Mitry mystery
- Ison, Graham - Hardcastle's frustration*
- James, Bill - Undercover: a Harpur & Iles mystery*
- Johansen, Iris - Sleep no more
- Kaaberbol, Lene - Invisible murder
- Kane, Andrea - The line between here and gone
- Knopf, Chris - Dead anyway
- Leon, Donna - The jewels of paradise
- Locke, Attica - The cutting season: a novel
- Longworth, M. L - Murder in the Rue Dumas: a Verlaque and Bonnet provençal mystery
- MacNeal, Susan Elia - Princess Elizabeth's spy: a Maggie Hope mystery*
- Maitland, Karen - The falcons of fire and ice
- Malliet, G. M - A fatal winter : a Max Tudor novel*
- Martin, Nancy - No way to kill a lady: a Blackbird Sisters mystery
- Mayor, Archer - Paradise city: a Joe Gunther novel
- Mina, Denise - Gods and beasts
- Patterson, James - NYPD red
- Perissinotto, Alessandro - Blood sisters
- Petrucha, Stefan - Ripper
- Rimington, Stella - The Geneva trap: a Liz Carlyle novel
- Roberts, Les - Whiskey island: a Milan Jacovich mystery
- Robotham, Michael - Say you're sorry*
- Ryan, Hank Phillippi - The other woman
- Sandford, John - Mad River
- Sears, Michael - Black Fridays
- Spencer, Sally - Lambs to the slaughter : a DCI Monika Paniatowski mystery
- Walker, Martin - The devil's cave : an investigation by Bruno, Chief of Police
- Welsh, Louise - The girl on the stairs
- Winter, Ariel S - The twenty-year death
* indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Jackson, Sarah - Pelt
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich - Selected poems
SHORT STORIES
- Simpson, Helen - A bunch of fives: selected stories
- Stern, Steve - The book of mischief: new and selected stories
- Thompson, Peter Samuel Wentworth, - Communion town: a city in ten chapters
CHILDREN'S LIBRARY
YOUNGER READERS
- Berger, Lou - The elephant wish
- Chin, Jason - Island
- Codell, Esme Raji - Seed by seed: The legend and legacy of John "Appleseed" Chapman
- Creech, Sharon - The great unexpected
- de Brunhoff, Laurent - Babar’s ABC
- Ferris, Jeri - Noah Webster and his words
- Henkes, Kevin - Penny and her doll
- Hopkinson, Deborah - Annie and Helen
- Tafuri, Nancy - All kinds of kisses
- Willems, Mo - Let’s go for a drive
OLDER READERS
- Christopher, Lucy - Flyaway
- Evans, Lissa - Horten's miraculous mechanisms
- Grimm, Jacob - The complete Grimm's fairy tales
- Hiaasen, Carl - Chomp
- Lowry, Lois - Son
- Riordan, Rick - Mark of Athena
- Saunders, Kate - Beswitched
- Smith, William Jay - Laughing time
- Stephens, John - The fire chronicle
- Weeks, Sarah - Pie
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Austen, Jane - Emma: an annotated edition , 823 A
- Cambridge companion to European novelists , 809.3 C
- Cambridge history of the English novel , 823.09 C
- Carroll, Lewis - Lewis Carroll's diaries: the private journals of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll): the first complete version of the nine surviving volumes with notes and annotations , cs
- Historical guide to James Baldwin , 828.09 B
- Object lessons: the Paris Review presents the art of the short story , 808.3 O
- Orlando, Emily J - Edith Wharton and the visual arts , 823 W
- Quignard, Pascal - The roving shadows , 848 Q
- Ronell, Avital - The ÜberReader: selected works of Avital Ronell , 809 R
- Wald, Alan M - American night: the literary left in the era of the Cold War , 820.9 W
POETRY
- Imagination and logos: essays on C.P. Cavafy , 889 I
- Bäcker, Heimrad - Transcript , 831 B
- Clifton, Lucille - The collected poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 , 821 C
- Harrison, Keith - The complete Basho poems , 895.6 H
- Hollander, John - The head of the bed , 821 H
- Jarnot, Lisa - Robert Duncan: the Ambassador from Venus: a biography , 92 D9125 J
- Sappho - Sappho , 884.2 S
- Trethewey, Natasha D - Bellocq's Ophelia: poems , 821 T
ART
- Bonnefoy, Yves - The arrière-pays , 701 B
- Desdemaines-Hugon, Christine - Stepping-stones: a journey through the Ice Age caves of the Dordogne , 709.011 D
- Pearlman, Ellen - Nothing and everything: the influence of Buddhism on the American avant-garde, 1942-1962 , 701 P
- Saatchi, Charles Nathan - My name is Charles Saatchi and I am an artoholic: answers to questions from journalists and readers., 709.04 S
- Staley, Allen - The Pre-Raphaelite landscape , 759.2 S OVERSIZE
- Todorov, Tzvetan - The limits of art: two essays , 701 T
ARCHITECTURE
- Holliday, Kathryn E - Ralph Walker: architect of the century , 720.92 W
- Hopkins, Owen - Reading architecture: a visual lexicon , 720 H
- Powell, Ken - New London architecture /, 720.942 P
MUSIC
- Barker, Hugh - Faking it: the quest for authenticity in popular music, 780.973 B
- Taylor, Timothy Dean - The sounds of capitalism: advertising, music, and the conquest of culture , 306.4 T
- Wade, Stephen - The beautiful music all around us: field recordings and the American experience , 784.4 W
- Wolff, Christoph - Mozart at the gateway to his fortune: serving the Emperor, 1788-1791, 780.92 M
FILM
- Bandy, Mary Lea - Ride, boldly ride: the evolution of the American western , 791.4 B
- Fowkes, Katherine A - The fantasy film /, 791.4 F
- Mars-Jones, Adam - Noriko smiling , 791.4 M
PHILOSOPHY
- First philosophers: the pre-Socratics and Sophists , 182 F
- Hume, David - An enquiry concerning human understanding and other writings , 121 H
- Ramos, Alice - Dynamic transcendentals: truth, goodness, and beauty from a Thomistic perspective , 111 R
- Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen - Morality: an introduction to ethics, 170 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Bew, John - Castlereagh: enlightenment, war and tyranny , 92 C3538 B
- Hutchison, Hazel - Henry James , 92 J28 H
- Leonard, Elizabeth D - Lincoln's forgotten ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky , 92 H7583 L
- McLellan, David - Utopian pessimist: the life and thought of Simone Weil , 92 W4224 M
- Rothenberg, David - Fortune in my eyes: a memoir of Broadway glamour, social justice, and political passion , 92 R84585 R
- Shalev, Meir - My Russian grandmother and her American vacuum cleaner: a memoir , 92 S5283 S
AFRICA
- Jagielski, Wojciech - The night wanderers: Uganda's children and the Lord's Resistance Army , 967 J
- Mahama, John Dramani - My first coup d'etat: and other true stories from the lost decades of Africa , 966 M
- Pargeter, Alison - Libya: the rise and fall of Qaddafi , 961 P
CRIME
- Reppetto, Thomas A - American police: the blue parade, 1845-1945: a history , 363 R
- Sugden, Philip - The complete history of Jack the Ripper , 364.1 S
LAW
- Balkin, J. M - Living originalism , 342.73 B
- Scalia, Antonin - Reading law: the interpretation of legal texts, 342.73 S
ECONOMICS
- McCraw, Thomas K - The founders and finance: how Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants forged a new economy , 330.973 M
- Silber, William L - Volcker: the triumph of persistence, 92 V9114 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Hoxie, Frederick E - This Indian country: American Indian political activists and the place they made , 323.1 H
- Laursen, Eric - The people's pension: the struggle to defend Social Security since Reagan , 331.25 L
- Neier, Aryeh - The international human rights movement: a history , 323.4 N
SOCIAL HISTORY
- Abu-Lughod, Janet L - Race, space, and riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles , 305.8 A
- Kealing, Bob - Tupperware, unsealed: Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the home party pioneers , 338.7 K
ANIMALS
- Aelian - {Aelian's} on the nature of animals , 590 A
- French, Thomas - Zoo story: life in the garden of captives , 590.7 F
- Kirby, David - Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the dark side of killer whales in captivity , 599 K
- Potts, Annie - Chicken , 636.5 P
GARDENS
- Hunt, John Dixon - A world of gardens , 712 H
- Robinson, Barbara Paul - Rosemary Verey: the life & lessons of a legendary gardener , 92 V49285 R
SCIENCE
- Baggott, J. E - Higgs: the invention and discovery of the 'God particle' , 530.1 B
- Glynn, Jenifer - My sister Rosalind Franklin , 92 F8336 G
- Rees, Martin J - From here to infinity: a vision for the future of science , 501 R
- Thomson, Keith Stewart - Jefferson's shadow: the story of his science , 973.4 T
- Winchester, Simon - Skulls: an exploration of Alan Dudley's curious collection , 611 W OVERSIZE
RELIGION
- Bays, Daniel H - A new history of Christianity in China , 275 B
- Brown, Peter - Through the eye of a needle: wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD , 270.1 B
- Earle, Alice Morse - The Sabbath in Puritan New England , 263 E
- Marshall, Paul A - Silenced: how apostasy and blasphemy codes are choking freedom worldwide, 364.1 M
NEW YORK
- Alternative histories: New York art spaces, 1960 to 2010 , 709.7471 A
- Carlebach, Michael L - Bain's New York: the city in news pictures, 1900-1925, 974.71 OVERSIZE
- MacLean, Alex S - Up on the roof: New York's hidden skyline spaces , 974.71 M OVERSIZE
HISTORY
- Barber, Malcolm - The crusader states , 956.94 B
- Bickham, Troy O - The weight of vengeance: the United States, the British empire, and the War of 1812 , 973.52 B
- Cooper, William J - We have the war upon us: the onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861 , 973.71 C
- Elliott, John Huxtable - History in the making , 946 E
- Moynahan, Brian - The French century: an illustrated history of modern France , 944.082 M
- Phillips, William D - A concise history of Spain , 946 P
- Purs, Aldis - Baltic facades: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1945 , 947 P
- Reynolds, Michael A - Shattering empires: the clash and collapse of the Ottoman and Russian empires, 1908-1918 , 940.3 R
- Stern, Sheldon M - The Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory: myths versus reality , 972.91 S
- Weart, Spencer R - The rise of nuclear fear , 621.48 W
- Weiss, Gordon - The cage: the fight for Sri Lanka and the last days of the Tamil Tigers , 954.9 W
- Wilson, A. N - The Elizabethans , 942.05 W
- Wolmar, Christian - The great railroad revolution: the history of trains in America , 385 W
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TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Doyle, Arthur Conan - Dangerous work: the diary of an Arctic adventure , 92 D754 D
- McClintock, James B - Lost Antarctica: adventures in a disappearing land , 919.9 M
- Moncada, Luisa - Reading on location: great books set in top travel destinations , 016.91 M
- Thesiger, Wilfred - Three views of Oman: society and religion 1945-2006 , 915.3 T OVERSIZE
AUDIO
- Christie, Agatha - Death on the Nile;a Hercule Poirot mystery Audio-CD C
- Fleming, Thomas J - The intimate lives of the founding fathers Audio-CD 920 F5988 I
- Kafka, Franz - The metamorphosis Audio-CD K
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