February 2013 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Aaronson, Trevor - The terror factory: inside the FBI's manufactured war on terrorism
- Abbate, Carolyn - A history of opera
- Aikman, Becky - Saturday night widows: the adventures of six friends remaking their lives
- Art of the epigraph: how great books begin
- Audubon, John James - John James Audubon's journal of 1826: the voyage to the Birds of America
- Beckett, I. F. W - The making of the First World War
- Bloom, Joshua - Black against empire: the history and politics of the Black Panther Party
- Blower, Brooke Lindy - Becoming Americans in Paris: transatlantic politics and culture between the world wars
- Branch, Taylor - The King years: historic moments in the civil rights movement
- Buchan, James - Days of God: the Revolution in Iran and its consequences
- Cahalan, Susannah - Brain on fire: my month of madness
- Clarke, Roger - A natural history of ghosts: 500 years of hunting for proof
- Colt, George Howe - Brothers: George Howe Colt on his brothers and brothers in history
- Cott, Jonathan - Dinner with Lenny: the last long interview with Leonard Bernstein
- De Botton, Alain - How to think more about sex
- Deadline artists--scandals, tragedies, and triumphs: more of America's greatest newspaper columns
- Diamond, Jared M - The world until yesterday: what can we learn from traditional societies?
- Esterly, David - The lost carving: a journey to the heart of making
- Fakes: an anthology of pseudo-interviews, faux-lectures, quasi-letters, "found" texts, and other fraudulent artifacts
- Ferguson, Charles H - Predator nation: corporate criminals, political corruption, and the hijacking of America
- Ferguson, Robert A - Alone in America: the stories that matter
- Fu, Ping - Bend, not break: a life in two worlds
- Garfield, Simon - On the map: a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks
- Gillette, Michael L - Lady Bird Johnson: an oral history
- Glassie, John - A man of misconceptions: the life of an eccentric in an age of change
- Gorton, Gary - Misunderstanding financial crises: why we don't see them coming
- Greenberg, Andy - This machine kills secrets: how WikiLeakers, cypherpunks, and hacktivists aim to free the world's information
- Grimes, Sandra - Circle of treason: a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed
- Grogan, Jessica - Encountering America: humanistic psychology, sixties culture, & the shaping of the modern self
- Hall, James W - Hit lit: cracking the code of the twentieth century's best sellers
- Heat Moon, William Least - Here, there, elsewhere: stories from the road
- Hicks, Pamela - Daughter of empire: life as a Mountbatten
- Holroyd, Michael - On wheels: five easy pieces
- Hughes, Psiche - Beryl Bainbridge: artist, writer, friend
- I still believe Anita Hill: three generations discuss the legacies of speaking truth to power
- Jones, Ted - Florence and Tuscany: a literary guide for travellers
- Kaplan, Matt - Medusa's gaze and vampire's bite: the science of monsters
- Kidder, Tracy - Good prose: the art of nonfiction
- King, Martin Luther - In a single garment of destiny: a global vision of justice
- Klarman, Michael J - From the closet to the altar: courts, backlash, and the struggle for same-sex marriage
- Knoedelseder, William - Bitter brew: the rise and fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's kings of beer
- Lee, Erika - Angel Island: immigrant gateway to America
- Letters to the editor: a miscellany : from the pages of Country Life
- Levine, Bruce C - The fall of the house of Dixie: the Civil War and the social revolution that transformed the South
- MacGregor, Neil - Shakespeare's restless world
- Makos, Adam - A higher call: an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
- Malan, Rian - The lion sleeps tonight: and other stories of Africa
- Maloney, Alison - Life below stairs: true lives of Edwardian servants
- Malouf, David - The happy life: the search for contentment in the modern world
- Marriott, James - The oil road: journeys from the Caspian Sea to the city of London
- McChrystal, Stanley A - My share of the task: a memoir
- McKay, Sinclair - The secret listeners: how the Y Service intercepted German codes for Bletchley Park
- My bookstore: writers celebrate their favorite places to browse, read, and shop
- Nelson, James Carl - Five lieutenants: the heartbreaking story of five Harvard men who led America to victory in World War I
- O'Brien, James F - The scientific Sherlock Holmes: cracking the case with science and forensics
- Phillips, Adam - Missing out: in praise of the unlived life
- Powell, Margaret - Servants' hall: a real life Upstairs, downstairs romance
- Ransby, Barbara - Eslanda: the large and unconventional life of Mrs. Paul Robeson
- Raphael, Frederic - A Jew among Romans: the life and legacy of Flavius Josephus
- Robb, John - Punk rock: an oral history
- Roberts, Sam - Grand Central: how a train station transformed America
- Ruefle, Mary - Madness, rack, and honey: collected lectures
- Schoenbaum, David - The violin: a social history of the world's most versatile instrument
- Sepinwall, Alan - The revolution was televised: the cops, crooks, slingers and slayers who changed TV drama forever
- Shore, Marci - The taste of ashes: the afterlife of totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
- Shubin, Neil - The universe within: discovering the common history of rocks, planets, and people
- Smith, Greg - Why I left Goldman Sachs: a Wall Street story
- Sonnenberg, Susanna - She matters: a life in friendships
- Stelzer, Cita - Dinner with Churchill: policy-making at the dinner table
- Stone, Norman - World War Two: a short history
- Stuart, Andrea - Sugar in the blood: a family's story of slavery and empire
- Taylor, Yuval - Darkest America: black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop
- Uglow, Jennifer S - The pinecone: the story of Sarah Losh, forgotten romantic heroine--antiquarian, architect, and visionary
- Weatherall, James Owen - The physics of Wall Street: a brief history of predicting the unpredictable
- Wilentz, Amy - Farewell, Fred Voodoo: a letter from Haiti
- Wright, Lawrence - Going clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief
- Zickefoose, Julie - The bluebird effect: uncommon bonds with common birds
FICTION
- Abrams, David - Fobbit
- Aira, César - The miracle cures of Dr. Aira
- Anthony, Piers - Luck of the draw
- Bender, Karen E - A town of empty rooms
- Best European fiction 2013
- Brunt, Carol Rifka - Tell the wolves I'm home: a novel
- Buchanan, Cathy Marie - The painted girls
- Carr, Caleb - The legend of Broken
- Celona, Marjorie - Y: a novel
- Chevalier, Tracy - The last runaway
- Chiaverini, Jennifer - Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker: a novel
- Cornwell, Bernard - 1356: a novel
- Dahlie, Michael - The best of youth: a novel
- Dau, Stephen - The book of Jonas
- Evanovich, Janet - The husband list
- Frankel, Laurie - Goodbye for now: a novel
- Grafton, Sue - Kinsey and me: stories
- Grémillon, Hélène - The confidant
- Gunn, Kirsty - The big music: (selected papers)
- Haasse, Hella S - The black lake
- Harrison, Jim - The river swimmer: novellas
- Hill, Susan - Dolly: a ghost story
- Horváth, Ödön von - Youth without God
- Knott, Robert - Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse
- Lennon, J. Robert - Familiar: a novel
- Leyshon, Nell - The colour of milk
- Mansbach, Adam - Rage is back
- McCall Smith, Alexander - Unusual uses for olive oil: a Professor Dr von Igelfeld entertainment novel
- Moyes, Jojo - Me before you
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Daddy Love
- Roberts, Nora - The perfect hope
- Rubenhold, Hallie - Mistress of my fate
- Schrank, Ben - Love is a canoe
- Vickers, Salley - The cleaner of Chartres
- Walrond, Eric - Tropic death
- Weldon, Fay - Habits of the house
- White, Patrick - Happy Valley
- Wilhide, Elizabeth - Ashenden
- Wilson, Antoine - Panorama City
MYSTERIES
- Brett, Simon - The corpse on the court: a Fethering mystery*
- Clark, Mary Jane Behrends - Footprints in the sand
- Connolly, John - The wrath of angels
- Crais, Robert - Suspect
- Ellis, Warren - Gun machine
- Fusilli, Jim - Road to nowhere
- Fyfield, Frances - Gold digger*
- Gordon-Smith, Dolores - Frankie's letter*
- Griffin, W. E. B - Empire and honor
- Grippando, James - Blood money
- Hall, Parnell - Stakeout
- Harris, Tessa - The dead shall not rest*
- Howard, Linda - Shadow Woman: a novel
- Hunter, Stephen - The third bullet: a Bob Lee Swagger novel
- Jennings, Maureen - Beware this boy: a Detective Inspector Tom Tyler mystery*
- Kelly, Jim - Nightrise*
- Klavan, Andrew - A killer in the wind
- Knight, Bernard - Crowner's crusade*
- Marston, Edward - Instrument of slaughter*
- Martin, Andrew - The Baghdad Railway Club
- McGee, James - Resurrectionist*
- McNab, Andy - Dead centre
- Meltzer, Brad - The fifth assassin
- Memminger, Charles - Aloha, lady blue
- Milchman, Jenny - Cover of snow: a novel*
- Muller, Marcia - The Bughouse affair
- Nesbø, Jo - The Bat
- Neuhaus, Nele - Snow White must die
- Neville, Stuart - Ratlines
- Palmer, Michael - Political suicide
- Pryor, Mark - The bookseller: the first Hugo Marston novel
- Royal, Priscilla - The sanctity of hate: a medieval mystery
- Sharp, Zoë - Die easy: a Charlie Fox thriller
- Sheehan, James - The lawyer's lawyer
- Shields, Kieran - A study in revenge: [a novel]
- Somer, Mehmet Murat - The serenity murders
- Wolf, Dick - The intercept
- Woods, Stuart - Collateral damage: a Stone Barrington novel
* indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Constantine, David - Tea at the Midland
- Goodison, Lorna - By love possessed: stories
- Saunders, George - Tenth of December: stories
POETRY
- Codrescu, Andrei - So recently rent a world: new and selected poems, 1968-2012
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Time of useful consciousness: Americus, Book II
- James, Clive - Nefertiti in the Flak Tower: collected verse 2008-2011
- Lasdun, James - Water sessions
- Motion, Andrew - The customs house
- Redel, Victoria - Woman without umbrella
- Williams, C. K - Writers writing dying
CHILDREN'S LIBRARY
- Agee, Jon - The Other Side of Town
- Beil, Michael D. - Summer at Forsaken Lake
- Branford, Anna - Violet Mackerel’s BrilliantPplot
- Burn, Doris - Andrew Henry’s Meadow
- Dyer, Hadley - Potatoes on the Rooftop
- Fleming, Candace - Oh No!
- Jenkins, Steve - The Beetle Book
- Kelly, Jacqueline - Return to the Willows
- Markle, Sandra - Octopuses
- McKizzack, Patricia - Never Forgotten
- Murray, Alison - One Two That's My Shoe!
- Sandler, Martin W. - The Impossible Rescue
- Umansky, Kaye - Clover Twig and the Magical Cottage
- Sutton, Sally - Demolition
- Zappa, Marcia - Caves
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Auerbach, Erich - Mimesis: the representation of reality in Western literature, 809 A
- Bradford, Richard - The odd couple: the curious friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, 920 B7996 O
- Brave new words: the Oxford dictionary of science fiction, 809.3 B
- Camus, Albert - The outsider (new translation), F C
- Carr, Helen - Jean Rhys, 823 R
- Critical pulse: thirty-six credos by contemporary critics, 801 C
- Diederich, Bernard - Seeds of fiction: Graham Greene's adventures in Haiti and Central America, 1954-1963, 917.28 D
- Milder, Robert - Hawthorne's habitations: a literary life, 823 H
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich - The annotated Lolita, 823 N
- Sanders, Andrew - Anthony Trollope, 823 T
- White, Edmund - Sacred monsters, 920 W583 S
- Whitt, Margaret Earley - Understanding Flannery O'Connor, 823 O
POETRY
- Beckett, Samuel - The collected poems of Samuel Beckett: a critical edition, 821 B
- Gill, Jo - The Cambridge introduction to Sylvia Plath, 821.09 P
- Koethe, John - R.O.T.C. kills: poems, 821 K
- Levertov, Denise - Tesserae: memories & suppositions, 92 L66618 L
- Mexican poetry: an anthology (compiled by Octavio Paz ; translated by Samuel Beckett ; preface by C.M. Bowra), 861.08 M
- Spivack, Kathleen - With Robert Lowell and his circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, and others, 92 S76155 S
TALES & LEGENDS
- Kingshill, Sophia - The fabled coast: legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland, 398.2 K
- Llewelyn Davies, Peter - The fairies return: or, new tales for old, 398.2 L
ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
- Allen, Edward - How buildings work: the natural order of architecture, 721 A
- Barringer, T. J - Reading the Pre-Raphaelites, 759.2 B
- Bolton, Andrew - Schiaparelli & Prada: impossible conversations, 746.92 K
- Coldstream, Nicola - Medieval architecture, 723 C
- Cult of beauty: the Victorian avant-garde 1860-1900, 709.42 C
- Daverio, Philippe - The ideal museum: an art lover's dream collection, 709 D
- Finger, Brad - Modern art: the groundbreaking moments, 709.04 F
- Kandinsky, Wassily - Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter: letters and reminiscences, 1902-1914, 759.7 K
- Lamp, Frederick - Accumulating histories: African art from the Charles B. Benenson collection at the Yale University Art Gallery, 709.6 L
- Norman Bel Geddes designs America, 745 N
- Russia!: nine hundred years of masterpieces and master collections., 709.47 R
- Shirane, Haruo - Japan and the culture of the four seasons: nature, literature, and the arts, 895.6 S
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MUSIC
- HaCohen, Ruth - The music libel against the Jews, 780.9 H
- Janácek and his world, 780.92 J
- Lomax, Alan - The southern journey of Alan Lomax: words, photographs, and music, 784.4 L
- Pollack, Howard - Marc Blitzstein: his life, his work, his world, 780.92 B
FILM
- Maltin, Leonard - The great movie comedians: from Charlie Chaplin to Woody Allen, 791.4 M
- Murphy, Robert - Sixties British cinema, 791.4 M
- Shaheen, Jack G - Reel bad Arabs: how Hollywood vilifies a people, 791.4 S
DRAMA & THEATER
- Bennett, Alan - People, 822 B
- Cummings, E. E - The theatre of E.E. Cummings, 822 C
- Roudané, Matthew Charles - Understanding Edward Albee, 822.09 A
PHILOSOPHY
- Epicurus - The Epicurus reader: selected writings and testimonia, 187 E
- Mumford, Stephen - Metaphysics: a very short introduction, 110 M
- Nagel, Thomas - Mind and cosmos: why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false, 113 N
- Sublime: from antiquity to the present, 111 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Ambrose, Tom - Godfather of the revolution: the life of Philippe Égalité, Duc d'Orléans, 92 O7175 A
- Anthony, Barry - Chaplin's music hall: the Chaplins and their circle in the limelight, 92 C464 A
- Bugan, Carmen - Burying the typewriter: a memoir, 92 B9312 B
- Dallek, Robert - Democrat and diplomat: the life of William E. Dodd, 92 D6397 D
- Gray, Jeremy - Henri Poincaré: a scientific biography, 92 P749 G
- Hecht, Anthony - The selected letters of Anthony Hecht, 92 H4473 H
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- James, Harold - Making the European monetary union: the role of the Committee of Central Bank Governors and the origins of the European Central Bank, 332.4 J
- Scheer, Robert - The great American stick-up: how Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats enriched Wall street while mugging main Street, 332.1 S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Hanhimäki, Jussi M - The United Nations: a very short introduction, 341.1 H
- Tolan, John Victor - Europe and the Islamic world: a history, 303.4 T
SYRIA
- Dam, Nikolaos van - The struggle for power in Syria: politics and society under Asad and the Ba'th Party, 956.9 D
- Yazbik, Samar - A woman in the crossfire: diaries of the Syrian revolution, 956.9 Y
RELIGION
- Elias, Jamal J - Aisha's cushion: religious art, perception, and practice in Islam, 297 E
- Mernissi, Fatima - The veil and the male elite: a feminist interpretation of women's rights in Islam, 297 M
- O'Malley, John W - Trent: what happened at the council, 262 O
- Philokalia: a classic text of Orthodox spirituality, 248 P
PSYCHOLOGY
- After Freud left: a century of psychoanalysis in America, 616.8 A
- Homayounpour, Gohar - Doing psychoanalysis in Tehran, 616.8 H
- Horowitz, Alexandra - On looking: eleven walks with expert eyes, 153.7 H
PARANORMAL
- Ackroyd, Peter - The English ghost, 133.1 A
- Hohman, Johann Georg - The long-lost friend: a 19th century American grimoire, 615.53 H
- Hutton, Ronald - The triumph of the moon: a history of modern pagan witchcraft, 133.4 H
NEW YORK
- Dawoud Bey: Harlem, U.S.A., 779 B
- Lederman, Larry - Magnificent trees of the New York Botanical Garden, 582 L OVERSIZE
- Murray, James T - New York nights, 974.71 M OVERSIZE
- Still the same hawk: reflections on nature and New York, 304.2 S
HISTORY
- Allen, Charles - Ashoka: the search for India's lost emperor, 934 A
- Atlas of the great Irish famine, 941.5 A OVERSIZE
- Byzantium and Islam: age of transition, 7th-9th century, 949.5 B OVERSIZE
- Cunliffe, Barry W - Britain begins, 936 C
- Foot, Sarah - Æthelstan: the first King of England, 942.01 F
- King, Casey - Ambition, a history: from vice to virtue, 973 K
- Rayfield, Donald - Edge of empires: a history of Georgia, 947.086 R
- Saikal, Amin - Modern Afghanistan: a history of struggle and survival, 958 S
- Shaw, Garry J - The pharaoh: life at court and on campaign, 932 S OVERSIZE
- St. John, Rachel - Line in the sand: a history of the Western U.S.-Mexico border, 972 S
- Tismaneanu, Vladimir - The devil in history: communism, fascism, and some lessons of the twentieth century, 335.4 T
- White, Deborah G - Freedom on my mind: a history of African Americans, with documents., 973 W
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WAR
- Allison, William Thomas - My Lai: an American atrocity in the Vietnam War, 959 A
- Bell, Christopher M - Churchill and sea power, 359.0942 B
- Boot, Max - Invisible armies: an epic history of guerrilla warfare from ancient times to the present, 355.4 B
- Martines, Lauro - Furies: war in Europe, 1450-1700, 355 M
- Night of broken glass: eyewitness accounts of Kristallnacht, 940.5318 N
TRAVEL
- Paris: the collected traveler, 914.436 P
- Travel narratives from the age of discovery: an anthology, 910.9 T
AUDIO
- Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey, Audio-CD A
- Dickens, Charles - Charles Dickens;a portrait in letters, Audio-CD 92 D5484 D
- James, P. D - Cover her face, Audio-CD J
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