September 2013 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Andersen, Christopher P - These few precious days: the final year of Jack with Jackie
- Anderson, Scott - Lawrence in Arabia: war, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East
- Balding, Clare - My animals and other family
- Balz, Daniel J - Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the future of elections in America
- Berg, A. Scott - Wilson
- Churchland, Patricia Smith - Touching a nerve: the self as brain
- Ephron, Delia - Sister mother husband dog, etc.
- Guinn, Jeff - Manson: the life and times of Charles Manson
- Haygood, Wil - The butler: a witness to history
- Henderson, Caspar - The book of barely imagined beings: a 21st century bestiary
- Hoare, Philip - The sea inside
- James, Lawrence - Churchill and empire
- Kachka, Boris - Hothouse: the art of survival and the survival of art at America's most celebrated publishing house, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- LeBor, Adam - Tower of Basel: the shadowy history of the secret bank that runs the world
- Lewis, Penelope A - The secret world of sleep: the surprising science of the mind at rest
- Lin-Liu, Jen - On the noodle road: from Beijing to Rome, with love and pasta
- Nesi, Edoardo - Story of my people
- Osborne, Lawrence - The wet and the dry: a drinker's journey
- Paterniti, Michael - The telling room : a story of love, betrayal, revenge, and the world's greatest piece of cheese
- Phillips, Nicola - The profligate son ;"or, A true story of family conflict, fashionable vice, and financial ruin in Regency Britain
- Quart, Alissa - Republic of outsiders: the power of amateurs, dreamers, and rebels
- Sitwell, William - A history of food in 100 recipes
- St. Germain, Justin - Son of a gun: a memoir
- Stothard, Peter - Alexandria: the last nights of Cleopatra
- Tammet, Daniel - Thinking in numbers: on life, love, meaning, and math
- Walker, Jesse - The United States of paranoia: a conspiracy theory
- Wilson, Robert - Mathew Brady: portraits of a nation
- Wineapple, Brenda - Ecstatic nation: confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848-1877
FICTION
- Barrett, Andrea - Archangel: fiction
- Bell, Matt - In the house upon the dirt between the lake and the woods
- Butler, Sarah - Ten things I've learnt about love
- Choi, Susan - My education
- Crain, Caleb - Necessary errors: a novel
- Deutermann, Peter T - Ghosts of Bungo Suido: a novel
- Engel, Patricia - It's not love, it's just Paris
- Erens, Pamela - The virgins: a novel
- Fagan, Jenni - The panopticon: a novel
- Gilbert, David - & sons: a novel
- Gregory, Philippa - The white princess
- Handey, Jack - The stench of Honolulu: a tropical adventure
- Harrison, A. S. A - The silent wife: a novel
- Hill, Katherine - The violet hour: a novel
- Kirino, Natsuo - The goddess chronicle
- Mack, Karen - Freud's mistress
- Madden, Deirdre - Time present and time past
- MarÃas, Javier - The infatuations
- Mendelson, Charlotte - Almost English
- Pessl, Marisha - Night film: a novel
- Roth, Gabriel - The unknowns: a novel
- Sapienza, Goliarda - The art of joy
- Slouka, Mark - Brewster: a novel
- Steel, Danielle - First sight: a novel
- Szado, Ania - Studio saint-ex: a novel
MYSTERIES
- Arditti, Michael - The breath of night
- Barclay, Linwood - A tap on the window
- Billingham, Mark - The dying hours*
- Bowen, Rhys - Heirs and graces*
- Box, C. J - The highway
- Cook, Thomas H - Sandrine's case
- Dahl, Arne - Bad Blood
- Doherty, P. C - The Straw Men: being the twelfth of the sorrowful mysteries of Brother Athelstan*
- Doiron, Paul - Massacre pond
- Downie, Ruth - Semper fidelis: a novel of the Roman Empire
- Dufresne, John - No regrets, Coyote
- Dunnett, Kaitlyn - Vampires, bones, and treacle scones
- Ewan, Chris - The good thief's guide to Berlin
- Fitzgerald, Conor - The memory key: a Commissario Alec Blume novel
- Forsyth, Frederick - The kill list
- Fossum, Karin - Eva's eye
- Fraser, Anthea - The unburied past*
- Frimansson, Inger - The cat did not die
- Helton, Peter - Worthless remains: a Chris Honeysett mystery*
- Kellerman, Faye - The beast
- Mina, Denise - The red road
- O'Brien, Charles - Death of a robber baron: a Gilded Age mystery
- Pearce, Michael - The bride box
- Rhodes, Kate - A killing of angels*
- Robotham, Michael - Watching you
- Rogan, Barbara - A dangerous fiction: a novel
- Rotstein, Robert - Corrupt practices: a Parker Stern novel
- Salzberg, Charles - Devil in the hole
- Walker, Martin - The resistance man
SHORT STORIES
- Bender, Aimee - The color master: stories
- Moore, Alison - The pre-war house: and other stories
- Purdy, James - The complete short stories of James Purdy
- Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe - Childhood memories and other stories
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Alcott, Louisa May - Little women: an annotated edition , 823 A
- America-- meet modernism!: women of the little magazine movement , 920 A5121 A
- Borges, Jorge Luis - Professor Borges: a course on English literature , 820.9 B
- Ernest Hemingway in context , 823 H
- Eudora Welty: the contemporary reviews , 823 W
- Fallowell, Duncan - How to disappear: a memoir for misfits , 910.4 F
- Ferris, William R - The storied South: voices of writers and artists , 917.5 F
- Fried, Michael - Flaubert's "gueuloir": on Madame Bovary and Salammbô , 843 F
- In translation: translators on their work and what it means , 418 I
- Miller, J. Hillis - Reading for our time: Adam Bede and Middlemarch revisited , 823 E
- Moretti, Franco - Distant reading , 809.3 M
- Roskies, David G - Holocaust literature: a history and guide , 809.9 R
- Varisco, Daniel Martin - Reading Orientalism: said and the unsaid , 950 V
POETRY
- Berry, Wendell - Given: new poems , 821 B
- Dylan Thomas: the legend and the poet : a collection of biographical and critical essays , 821.09 T
- Hennen, Tom - Darkness sticks to everything: collected and new poems , 821 H
ANTIQUITY
- Beard, Mary - Classics: a very short introduction , 930 B
- McKeown, J. C - A cabinet of Greek curiosities: strange tales and surprising facts from the cradle of western civilization , 938 M
- Oxford readings in Homer's Iliad , 883.109 O
- Ross, W. D - Aristotle , 185 R
BOOKS & READING
- Books and readers in early modern England: material studies , 028 B
- McKitterick, David - Print, manuscript, and the search for order, 1450-1830 , 655.1 M
- Wiegand, Wayne A - Main Street public library: community places and reading spaces in the rural heartland, 1876-1956 , 027 W
ARCHITECTURE
- Frampton, Kenneth - Modern architecture: a critical history , 724 F
- Lambert, Phyllis - Building seagram , 720.973 L
ART
- Balken, Debra Bricker - Debating American modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York avant-garde , 709.73 B
- Bennett, Shelley M - The art of wealth: the Huntingtons in the Gilded Age , 706.9 B
- Cook, J - Ice Age art: the arrival of the modern mind , 709.011 C
- Pachner, Joan - David Smith , 730.92 S
- Radycki, J. Diane - Paula Modersohn-Becker: the first modern woman artist , 759.3 M
- Wilson, Michael - How to read contemporary art: experiencing the art of the 21st century , 709.04 W
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PHOTOGRAPHY
- Bedford, Francis - Cairo to Constantinople: Francis Bedford's Photographs of the Middle East , 770 B
- Williams, Val - Martin Parr , 770 P
- Willis, Deborah - Reflections in Black: a history of Black photographers, 1840 to the present , 770 W
FILM
- Field, Syd - Screenplay: the foundations of screenwriting , 808.22 F
- Neupert, Richard John - A history of the French new wave cinema , 791.4 N
THEATER & DRAMA
- Garebian, Keith - The making of Cabaret , 792.7 G
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich - The tragedy of Mr. Morn , 891.72 N
- O'Brien, Jack - Jack be nimble: the accidental education of an unintentional director , 92 O135 O
- Sova, Dawn B - Banned plays: censorship histories of 125 stage dramas , 792.09 S
MUSIC & DANCE
- Bomberger, E. Douglas - MacDowell , 780.92 M
- Burrows, Donald - Handel , 780.92 H
- Kendall, Elizabeth - Balanchine and the lost muse: revolution and the making of a choreographer , 792.8 K
PHILOSOPHY
- Althusser, Louis - Philosophy and the spontaneous philosophy of the scientists & other essays , 194 A
- Sorell, Tom - Descartes: a very short introduction , 194 S
- Uleman, Jennifer K - An introduction to Kant's moral philosophy , 170 U
BIOGRAPHY
- Calof, Rachel - Rachel Calof's story: Jewish homesteader on the Northern Plains , 92 C164 C
- Éluard, Paul - Letters to Gala , 92 E5175 E
- Felder, Raoul Lionel - Reflections in a mirror: of love, loss, death, and divorce , 92 F311 F
- Gould, Lewis L - Edith Kermit Roosevelt: creating the modern first lady , 92 R781 G
- Hurd, Douglas - Disraeli, or, the two lives , 92 D613 H
- McGrath, Alister E - C.S. Lewis: a life : eccentric genius, reluctant prophet , 92 L6734 M
- Schiaparelli, Elsa - Shocking life: the autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli., 92 S3292 S
- Sharma, Arvind - Gandhi: a spiritual biography , 92 G196 S
- Teitelboim, Volodia - Neruda: an intimate biography , 92 N454 T
NEW YORK
- Joseph, May - Fluid New York: cosmopolitan urbanism and the green imagination , 974.71 J
- Lynn, Robin - Guide to New York City urban landscapes , 917.471 L
- Napoli, Philip F - Bringing it all back home: an oral history of New York City's Vietnam Veterans , 959 N
- Seitz, Sharon - The other islands of New York City: a history and guide , 974.71 S
URBAN STUDIES
- Harvey, David - Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution , 307.76 H
- Katz, Bruce - The metropolitan revolution: how cities and metros are fixing our broken politics and fragile economy , 307.76 K
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Barilla, James - My backyard jungle: the adventures of an urban wildlife lover who turned his yard into habitat and learned to live with it , 591.9 B
- Gillis, John R - The human shore: seacoasts in history , 551.4 G
- Irmscher, Christoph - Louis Agassiz: creator of American science , 92 A262 I
- Milner, Richard - Darwin's universe: evolution from A to Z , 575 M
DISASTERS
- Coen, Deborah R - The earthquake observers: disaster science from Lisbon to Richter , 551.2 C
- Global weirdness: severe storms, deadly heat waves, relentless drought, rising seas, and the weather of the future, 551.6 G
- March was made of yarn: reflections on the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown /, 895.6 M
MEDICINE
- Belofsky, Nathan - Strange medicine: a shocking history of real medical practices through the ages , 610.9 B
- Hornblum, Allen M - Against their will: the secret history of medical experimentation on children in cold war America , 174 H
- McWilliams, Stephen - Fiction & physicians: medicine through the eyes of writers , 809.9 M
INDIA
- Drèze, Jean - An uncertain glory: India and its contradictions , 338.9 D
- Koller, John M - The Indian way: an introduction to the philosophies and religions of India , 181 K
- Metcalf, Barbara Daly - A concise history of modern India /, 954 M
RELIGION
- Brumm, Ursula - American thought and religious typology , 201 B
- Freund, Richard A - Digging through history: archaeology and religion from Atlantis to the Holocaust , 200 F
- Kaplan, Jeffrey - Radical religion in America: millenarian movements from the far right to the children of Noah , 291 K
- Troy, Gil - Moynihan's moment: America's fight against Zionism as racism , 320 T
THE OCCULT
- Monod, Paul Kléber - Solomon's secret arts: the occult in the Age of Enlightenment , 133 M
- Records of the Salem witch-hunt , 133.4 R OVERSIZE
LEGENDS & TALES
- Loxton, Daniel - Abominable science!: origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids , 398.2 L
- Shaykh, Hanan - One thousand and one nights: a retelling , 398.2 S
HISTORY
- Beeman, Richard R - Our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor: the forging of American independence, 1774-1776 , 973.3 B
- Europe's 1968: voices of revolt , 303.4 E
- Guy, J. A - The children of Henry VIII , 920 G9864 C
- Herzog, Rudolph - A short history of nuclear folly: mad scientists, dithering Nazis, lost nukes, and catastrophic cover-ups , 621.48 H
- Jackson, Sophie - Churchill's white rabbit: the true story of a real-life James Bond , 940.5485 J
- Lewis, Penny - Hardhats, hippies, and hawks: the Vietnam antiwar movement as myth and memory , 959 L
- Marten, James Alan - Sing not war: the lives of Union and Confederate veterans in Gilded Age America , 973.74 M
- Mein Smith, Philippa - A concise history of New Zealand , 993.1 M
- Meinander, Henrik - A history of Finland , 947.1 M
- Rubin, Barnett R - Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror , 958 R
- Treglown, Jeremy - Franco's crypt: Spanish culture and memory since 1936 , 946 T
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LAW
- Abrams, Floyd - Friend of the court: on the front lines with the First Amendment , 342.7 A
- Epps, Garrett - American epic: reading the U.S. Constitution , 342.73 E
- Reducing gun violence in America: informing policy with evidence and analysis , 344 R
WAR
- Anderson, Nels - Nels Anderson's World War I diary , 940.48 A
- Buckley, Henry - The life and death of the Spanish Republic: a witness to the Spanish Civil War , 946.081 B
- Cook, Robert - Secession winter: when the Union fell apart , 973.71 C
- Duffy, Christopher - The military experience in the age of reason , 355 D
- Klein, Maury - A call to arms: mobilizing America for World War II , 940.537 K
INTELLIGENCE & ESPIONAGE
- Allen, Susan Heuck - Classical spies: American archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece /, 940.5485 A
- Bruce, Gary - The firm: the inside story of the Stasi , 943.1 B
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Bradford, William - The arctic regions: illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland , 919.8 B
- Cordingly, David - Seafaring women: adventures of pirate queens, female stowaways, and sailors' wives , 910.9 C
- Grant, Richard - Crazy river: exploration and folly in East Africa , 916.7 G
- Macfarlane, Robert - Holloway , 914.23 M
AUDIO
- Hammett, Dashiell - The thin man & The Maltese falcon, Audio-CD H
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - The remains of the day, Audio-CD I
- James, Henry - An international episode, Audio-CD J
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