October 2013 Books
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Abramsky, Sasha - The American way of poverty: how the other half still lives
- Adkins, Roy - Jane Austen's England
- Bacevich, Andrew J - Breach of trust: how Americans failed their soldiers and their country
- Beam, Cris - To the end of June: the intimate life of American foster care
- Beard, Mary - Confronting the classics: traditions, adventures, and innovations
- Burleigh, Michael - Small wars, faraway places: global insurrection and the making of the modern world, 1945-1965
- Butler, Katy - Knocking on heaven's door: the path to a better way of death
- Chaudhuri, Amit - Calcutta: two years in the city
- Cockburn, Alexander - A colossal wreck: a road trip through scandal, political corruption, and American culture
- Crystal, Billy - Still foolin' 'em: where I've been, where I'm going, and where the hell are my keys?
- Dawkins, Richard - An appetite for wonder: the making of a scientist : a memoir
- Dedman, Bill - Empty mansions: the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
- Di Bonaventura, Allegra - For Adam's sake: a family saga in colonial New England
- Dinkins, David N - A mayor's life: governing New York's gorgeous mosaic
- Doonan, Simon - The asylum: a collage of couture reminiscences ...and hysteria
- Fink, Sheri - Five days at Memorial: life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital
- Fontanel, Sophie - The art of sleeping alone: why one French woman suddenly gave up sex
- Fontanella-Khan, Amana - Pink sari revolution: a tale of women and power in India
- Gekoski, R. A - Lost, stolen or shredded: stories of missing works of art and literature
- Gezari, Vanessa M - The tender soldier: a true story of war and sacrifice
- Glaser, Paul - Dancing with the enemy: my family's Holocaust secret
- Greenspan, Elizabeth - Battle for ground zero: inside the political struggle to rebuild the World Trade Center
- Harding, Thomas - Hanns and Rudolf: the true story of the German Jew who tracked down and caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
- Harman, Neil - Court confidential: inside the world of tennis
- Haskell, Molly - My brother my sister: story of a transformation
- Hastings, Max - Catastrophe 1914: Europe goes to war
- Hawking, Stephen - My brief history
- Johnson, George - The cancer chronicles: unlocking medicine's deepest mystery
- Jones, Brian Jay - Jim Henson: the biography
- Jones, William Powell - The March on Washington: jobs, freedom, and the forgotten history of civil rights
- Kaplan, Carla - Miss Anne in Harlem: the white women of the Black Renaissance
- Kendall, Joshua C - America's obsessives: the compulsive energy that built a nation
- King, Greg - The assassination of the archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the romance that changed the world
- Kizzia, Tom - Pilgrim's wilderness: a true story of faith and madness on the Alaska frontier
- Klaidman, Stephen - Sydney and Violet: their life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the excruciatingly irascible Wyndham Lewis
- Klosterman, Chuck - I wear the black hat: grappling with villains (real and imagined)
- Lindhout, Amanda - A house in the sky: a memoir
- MacCulloch, Diarmaid - Silence: a Christian history
- McCall Smith, Alexander - What W.H. Auden can do for you Alexander McCall Smith.
- Mordden, Ethan - Anything goes: a history of American musical theatre
- Oppenheimer, Jerry - Crazy rich: power, scandal, and tragedy inside the Johnson & Johnson dynasty
- Orwell, George - A life in letters
- Perry, Barbara A - Rose Kennedy: the life and times of a political matriarch
- Petras, Ross - Wretched writing: a compendium of crimes against the English language
- Phillips, Nicola - The profligate son ;or, A true story of family conflict, fashionable vice, and financial ruin in Regency Britain
- Posner, Richard A - Reflections on judging
- Rayman, Graham - The NYPD tapes: a shocking story of cops, cover-ups, and courage
- Ripley, Amanda - The smartest kids in the world: and how they got that way
- Said, Najla - Looking for Palestine: growing up confused in an Arab-American family
- Sandlin, Lee - The distancers: an American memoir
- Schlosser, Eric - Command and control: nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety
- Seymour-Jones, Carole - She landed by moonlight: the story of secret agent Pearl Witherington
- Shearer, Stephen Michael - Gloria Swanson: the ultimate star
- Shields, David - Salinger
- Sicha, Choire - Very recent history: an entirely factual account of a year (c. AD 2009) in a large city
- Steiner-Adair, Catherine - The big disconnect: protecting childhood and family relationships in the digital age
- Stothard, Peter - Alexandria: the last nights of Cleopatra
- Tec, Nechama - Resistance: Jews and Christians who defied the Nazi Terror
- Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi - Floating city: a rogue sociologist lost and found in New York's underground economy
- Von Bremzen, Anya - Mastering the art of Soviet cooking: a memoir of food and longing
- Walker, Jesse - The United States of paranoia: a conspiracy theory
- Ward, Jesmyn - Men we reaped: a memoir
- Winkle, Kenneth J - Lincoln's citadel: the Civil War in Washington, DC
- Wolffe, Richard - The message: the reselling of President Obama
- Yaffe, Deborah - Among the Janeites: a journey through the world of Jane Austen fandom
FICTION
- Ammaniti, Niccolò - Let the games begin
- Aridjis, Chloe - Asunder
- Atwood, Margaret - MaddAddam: a novel
- Baker, Kevin - The big crowd
- Baker, Nicholson - Traveling sprinkler: a novel
- Barnhardt, Wilton - Lookaway, lookaway
- Bass, Rick - All the land to hold us
- Bauer, Carlene - Frances and Bernard
- Bell, Matt - In the house upon the dirt between the lake and the woods
- Bock, Dennis - Going home again
- Brett, Lily - Lola Bensky
- Collins, Ciarán - The gamal: a novel
- Conley, Susan - Paris was the place
- Daniel, Susanna - Sea creatures
- Davis, Kathryn - Duplex: a novel
- DeMille, Nelson - The quest
- Doig, Ivan - Sweet thunder
- Doyle, Roddy - The guts
- Engel, Patricia - It's not love, it's just Paris
- Enger, Thomas - Pierced: a novel
- Flanery, Patrick - Fallen land
- Ford, Jamie - Songs of Willow Frost: a novel
- Fremantle, Elizabeth - Queen's gambit
- Garwood, Julie - Hotshot
- Gee, Sue - Coming home
- Grodstein, Lauren - The explanation for everything: a novel
- Gurganus, Allan - Local souls: novellas
- Hage, Rawi - Carnival
- Haig, Matt - The humans
- Hildyard, Daisy - Hunters in the snow
- Hoagland, Edward - Children are diamonds: an African apocalypse : a novel
- Horn, Dara - A guide for the perplexed: a novel
- Hornby, Gill - The hive
- House, Richard - The kills
- Howard, Linda - All that glitters
- Jackson, Mitchell S - The residue years: a novel
- Joyce, Rachel - Perfect
- Keller, Julia - Bitter River
- Keneally, Thomas - The daughters of Mars: a novel
- Kent, Hannah - Burial rites: a novel
- King, Stephen - Doctor Sleep: a novel
- Kline, Christina Baker - Orphan train
- Krasznahorkai, László - Satantango
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - The lowland: a novel
- Lalwani, Nikita - The village: a novel
- Le Tellier, Hervé - Eléctrico W
- Leavitt, David - The two Hotel Francforts: a novel
- Lethem, Jonathan - Dissident gardens: a novel
- Loyd, Amy Grace - The affairs of others
- MacLeod, Alison - Unexploded
- Macomber, Debbie - Rose Harbor in bloom: a novel
- Marwood, Alex - The wicked girls
- Maynard, Joyce - After her
- McBride, James - The good lord bird
- McDermott, Alice - Someone
- Mendelson, Charlotte - Almost English
- Meyler, Deborah - The bookstore
- Michaka, Stéphane - Scissors: a novel
- Morgan, Robert - The road from Gap Creek: a novel
- Moriarty, Liane - The husband's secret
- Moyes, Jojo - The girl you left behind
- Nâzim Hikmet - Life's good, brother: a novel
- Niederhoffer, Galt - Love and happiness
- Oz, Amos - Between friends
- Pessl, Marisha - Night film: a novel
- Pynchon, Thomas - Bleeding edge
- Ratner, Austin - In the land of the living: a novel
- Ruge, Eugen - In times of fading light: the story of a family
- Rush, Norman - Subtle bodies
- Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd - Brief encounters with the enemy: fiction
- Scudamore, James - Wreaking
- Searles, John - Help for the haunted
- Shacochis, Bob - The woman who lost her soul
- Shannon, Samantha - The bone season
- Sparks, Nicholas - The longest ride
- Tessaro, Kathleen - The perfume collector: a novel
- Toperoff, Sam - Lillian & Dash: a novel
- Turnbull, Sarah - All good things: from Paris to Tahiti, life and longing
- Vyleta, Dan - The crooked maid: a novel
- Watson, Larry - Let him go: a novel
- Weyer, Hannah - On the come up: a novel, based on a true story
- Woodrell, Daniel - The maid's version: a novel
- Worsley, Kate - She rises: a novel
- Yoon, Paul - Snow hunters
MYSTERIES
- Albert, Susan Wittig - The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star
- Andrews, Donna - The hen of the Baskervilles: a Meg Langslow mystery
- Beaton, M. C - Something borrowed, someone dead: an Agatha Raisin mystery*
- Black, Benjamin - Holy orders: a Quirke novel
- Blake, Robin - Dark waters*
- Brandman, Michael - Robert B. Parker's Damned if you do: a Jesse Stone novel
- Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney - Oscar Wilde and the murders at Reading Gaol: a mystery*
- Brown, Sandra - Deadline
- Burke, Zoe - Jump the gun: an Annabelle Starkey mystery
- Cain, Chelsea - Let me go
- Cameron, Kenneth M - Winter at death's hotel: a novel
- Camilleri, Andrea - Treasure hunt
- Castle, Richard - Deadly heat
- Child, Lee - Never go back: a Jack Reacher novel
- Cleverly, Barbara - A spider in the cup
- Coulter, Catherine - The final cut
- Cussler, Clive - The Mayan secrets: a Fargo adventure
- Daly, Paula - Just what kind of mother are you?
- Davidson, Diane Mott - The whole enchilada
- Downing, David - Jack of spies*
- Faye, Lyndsay - Seven for a secret
- Francis, Felix - Dick Francis's Refusal
- Grafton, Sue - W is for wasted
- Gruber, Michael - The return: a novel
- Guttridge, Peter - The devil's moon: the fourth Brighton mystery*
- Haddam, Jane - Hearts of sand
- Handler, David - Runaway man: a mystery
- Hayes, Terry - I am Pilgrim
- Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew - Tell no lies
- Izner, Claude - Strangled in Paris
- Jance, Judith A - Second watch
- Jardine, Quintin - Pray for the dying
- Kent, Christobel - A darkness descending: a mystery in Florence
- King, Laurie R - The bones of Paris: a novel of suspense
- Krueger, William Kent - Tamarack County: a novel
- La Plante, Lynda - Wrongful death*
- Lansdale, Joe R - The thicket
- Lawton, John - Then we take Berlin
- Lemaître, Pierre - Alex
- Martin, Nancy - Little black book of murder: a Blackbird sisters mystery
- Masters, Priscilla - The final curtain: a Joanna Piercy mystery*
- Mills, Mark - The long shadow*
- Norton, Carla - The edge of normal
- O'Connell, Carol - It happens in the dark
- Oldham, Nick - Bad tidings*
- Patterson, James - Mistress
- Penny, Louise - How the light gets in
- Perry, Anne - Blind justice*
- Phillips, Clyde - Unthinkable
- Reichs, Kathy - Bones of the lost: a novel
- Robards, Karen - The last kiss goodbye: a novel
- Robb, J. D - Thankless in death
- Robotham, Michael - Watching you
- Rosen, Leonard J - The tenth witness
- Ryan, Hank Phillippi - The wrong girl
- Sansom, Ian - The Norfolk mystery*
- Shoham, Liad - Lineup
- Siger, Jeffrey - Mykonos after midnight
- Todd, Charles - A question of honor
- Troubled daughters, twisted wives: stories from the trailblazers of domestic suspense
- Walker, Walter - Crime of privilege: a novel
- White, Randy Wayne - Deceived
- White, Stephen - Compound fractures
- Wilson, Laura - The riot*
* indicates a British mystery.
SHORT STORIES
- Cooke, Carolyn - Amor and Psycho: stories
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Evil eye: four novellas of love gone wrong
- Orner, Peter - Last car over the Sagamore Bridge: stories
- Perrotta, Tom - Nine inches: stories
- Smith, Ali - Shire
- Walser, Robert - A schoolboy's diary and other stories
POETRY
- Fitzgerald, Adam - The late parade: poems
- Haiku in English: the first hundred years
- Lamantia, Philip - The collected poems of Philip Lamantia
- Pinsky, Robert - Singing school: learning to write (and read) poetry by studying with the masters
- Young, Dean - Bender: new & selected poems
IN THE STACKS
BELLES LETTRES
- Beidler, Philip D - American literature and the experience of Vietnam with a new afterword [by the author] , 820.9 B
- Charters, Ann - OlsonMelville: a study in affinity , 821.09 C
- Hägglund, Martin - Dying for time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov , 809.9 H
- Leys, Simon - The hall of uselessness: collected essays , 844 L
- Michie, Elsie B - The vulgar question of money: heiresses, materialism, and the novel of manners from Jane Austen to Henry James , 823.09 M
ART
- Matisse, Henri - Chatting with Henri Matisse: the lost 1941 interview , 759.4 M
- Varnedoe, Kirk - Cy Twombly: a retrospective , 759.1 T
- Vaughan, William - British painting: the golden age from Hogarth to Turner , 759.2 V
- Wye, Deborah - Artists & prints: masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art , 769 M
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MUSIC
- Broven, John - Record makers and breakers: voices of the independent rock 'n' roll pioneers , 784.6 B
- MacDonald, Malcolm - Schoenberg , 780.92 S
- Rudel, Julius - First and lasting impressions: Julius Rudel looks back on a life in music , 782.1 R
FILM
- Beumers, Birgit - A history of Russian cinema , 791.4 B
- Roeg, Nicolas - The world is ever changing , 791.4 R
- Urwand, Ben - The collaboration: Hollywood's pact with Hitler , 791.4 U
JOURNALISM
- Goodale, James C - Fighting for the press: the inside story of the Pentagon papers and other battles , 323.4 G
- Nord, David Paul - Communities of journalism: a history of American newspapers and their readers , 072 N
LANGUAGE
- Dickson, Paul - War slang: American fighting words & phrases since the Civil War , 427 D
- Houston, Keith - Shady characters: the secret life of punctuation, symbols, & other typographical marks , 411 H
- Ware, J. Redding - Ware's Victorian dictionary of slang and phrase , 427 W
PHILOSOPHY
- The Jewish philosophy reader (Daniel Frank, et al., eds.), 181.3 J
- Natali, Carlo - Aristotle: his life and school , 185 N
BIOGRAPHY
- Powers, J. F - Suitable accommodations: an autobiographical story of family life : the letters of J.F. Powers, 1942-1963 , 92 P8883 P
- Smith, Emma - As green as grass: growing up before, during and after the Second World War , 92 S6465 S
- Starkie, Enid - Petrus Borel: the lycanthrope: his life and times , 92 B7315 S
- Waldegrave, Katie - The poets' daughters: Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge , 920 W158 P
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Farber, David R - Everybody ought to be rich: the life and times of John J. Raskob, capitalist , 92 R2249 F
- Mullainathan, Sendhil - Scarcity: why having too little means so much , 330.1 M
RELIGION
- Goodman, James E - But where is the lamb?: imagining the story of Abraham and Isaac , 221.92 G
- Stavans, Ilan - Singer's typewriter and mine: reflections on Jewish culture , 809.9 S
- Ventresca, Robert - Soldier of Christ: the life of Pope Pius XII , 92 P693 V
SOCIOLOGY
- Bernstein, William J - Masters of the word: how media shaped history, from the alphabet to the Internet , 302 B
- Gallagher, Leigh - The end of the suburbs: where the American dream is moving , 307.74 G
- Mosse, George L - Toward the final solution: a history of European racism , 305.8 M
LAW
- Healy, Thomas - The great dissent: how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind-- and changed the history of free speech in America , 342.73 H
- Mandery, Evan J - A wild justice: the death and resurrection of capital punishment in America , 364.6 M
PSYCHOLOGY
- Epstein, Mark - The trauma of everyday life , 616.8 E
- Higashida, Naoki - The reason I jump: the inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with autism , 616.8 H
HISTORY
- Flamm, Michael W - Law and order: street crime, civil unrest, and the crisis of liberalism in the 1960s , 973.923 F
- Leonard, R. L - The great rivalry: Gladstone and Disraeli , 942.08 L
- Milton, Giles - Paradise lost: Smyrna 1922: the destruction of Islam's city of tolerance , 949.62 M
- Schneider, Paul - Old Man River: the Mississippi River in North American history , 977 S
- Treasure, G. R. R - The Huguenots , 284.5 T
- Upchurch, Charles - Before Wilde: sex between men in Britain's age of reform., 306.76 U
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POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Ritchie, Donald A - The U.S. Congress: a very short introduction , 328.73 R
- Shishkin, Philip - Restless valley: revolution, murder, and intrigue in the heart of Central Asia , 958 S
NEW YORK
- Apuzzo, Matt - Enemies within: inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and Bin Laden's final plot against America , 355.34 A
- Campo, Daniel - The accidental playground: Brooklyn waterfront narratives of the undesigned and unplanned , 307.76 C
- Griffin, Farah Jasmine - Harlem nocturne: women artists & progressive politics during World War II , 974.71 G
- Meet Miss Subways: New York's beauty queens 1941-1976 (Amy Zimmer, et al.), 974.71 M OVERSIZE
- Varga, Joseph J - Hell's Kitchen and the battle for urban space: class struggle and progressive reform in New York City 1894-1914 , 974.71 V
AUDIO
- Camilleri, Andrea - The dance of the seagull, Audio-CD C
- Thackeray, William Makepeace - Barry Lyndon, Audio-CD T
- Yeats, W. B - W.B. Yeats;selected poems , Audio-CD Y
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