September 2014
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Allen, Arthur - The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl: how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis
- Asquith, Margot - Margot Asquith's Great War diary 1914-1916: the view from Downing Street selected and edited by Michael and Elanor Brock ; with the assistance of Mark Pottle.
- Beard, Mary - Laughter in ancient Rome: on joking, tickling, and cracking up
- Blanding, Michael - The map thief: the gripping story of an esteemed rare-map dealer who made millions stealing priceless maps
- Croke, Vicki - Elephant Company: the inspiring story of an unlikely hero and the animals who helped him save lives in World War II
- Devine, Jack - Good hunting: an American spymaster's story
- Dolnick, Edward - The rush: America's fevered quest for fortune, 1848-1853
- Duffy, Peter - Double agent: the first hero of World War II and how the FBI outwitted and destroyed a Nazi spy ring
- Franks, Lucinda - Timeless: love, Morgenthau, and me Lucinda Franks.
- Halper, Daniel - Clinton, Inc.: the audacious rebuilding of a political machine
- Ham, Paul - Hiroshima, Nagasaki: the real story of the atomic bombings and their aftermath
- Levitin, Daniel J. - The organized mind: thinking straight in the age of information overload
- Lewis, Charles - 935 lies: the future of truth and the decline of America's moral integrity
- Macintyre, Ben - A spy among friends: Kim Philby and the great betrayal
- Mendelsund, Peter - What we see when we read: a phenomenology (with illustrations Peter Mendelsund)
- Meredith, Andrew - The removers: a memoir
- Perlstein, Rick - The invisible bridge: the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan
- Shiffman, John - Operation Shakespeare: the true story of an elite international sting
- Sides, Hampton - In the kingdom of ice: the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS
- Skyhorse, Brando - Take this man: a memoir
- Stanley, Bob - Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: the story of pop music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
- Swafford, Jan - Beethoven : anguish and triumph: a biography
- Thorpe, Helen - Soldier girls: the battles of three women at home and at war
- Windrow, Martin - The owl who liked sitting on Caesar: living with a tawny owl Martin Windrow; illustrations by Christa Hook
FICTION
- Akhtiorskaya, Yelena - Panic in a suitcase: a novel
- Barker, Nicola - In the approaches
- Bausch, Richard - Before, during, after
- Beauman, Sally - The visitors
- Bennett, Vanora - The White Russian
- Bitov, Andrei - The symmetry teacher Andrei Bitov (translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon)
- Bloom, Amy - Lucky us
- Bohjalian, Chris - Close your eyes, hold hands
- Canobbio, Andrea - Three light-years Andrea Canobbio (translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel)
- Carter, Stephen L. - Back channel
- Fesperman, Dan - Unmanned
- Flanagan, Richard - The narrow road to the deep north
- Fremantle, Elizabeth - Sisters of treason
- Gabaldon, Diana - Written in my own heart's blood
- Gaffney, Elizabeth - When the world was young
- Galgut, Damon - Arctic summer
- Garwood, Julie - Fast track
- Gee, Maggie - Virginia Woolf in Manhattan
- Goodwin, Daisy - The fortune hunter
- Grossman, Lev - The magician's land
- Gwyn, Aaron - Wynne's war
- Hellenga, Robert - The confessions of Frances Godwin
- Johnston, Bret Anthony - Remember me like this
- Lacey, Catherine - Nobody is ever missing
- Lawson, Mary - Road ends
- Lerner, Ben - 10:04
- Ma, Kathryn - The year she left us
- MacVeagh, Lincoln - Paisley mischief
- Maum, Courtney - I am having so much fun here without you
- Moriarty, Liane - Big little lies
- Murakami, Haruki - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage (translated by Philip Gabriel)
- Row, Jess - Your face in mine
- Rowell, Rainbow - Landline
- Seiffert, Rachel - The walk home
- Steel, Danielle - A perfect life
- Weil, Josh - The great glass sea
- Williams, Beatriz - The secret life of Violet Grant
- Williams, Niall - History of the rain
MYSTERIES
- Airth, Rennie - The reckoning
- Andrews, Donna - The good, the bad, and the emus: a Meg Langslow mystery
- Arsenault, Emily - What strange creatures
- Atkins, Ace - The forsaken
- Börjlind, Cecilia - Spring tide (translated by Rod Bradbury)
- Bowen, Rhys - Queen of hearts
- Cain, Chelsea - One Kick
- Carcaterra, Lorenzo - The wolf
- Cleeland, Anne - Murder in retribution
- Cumming, Charles - A colder war*
- Davis, Lindsey - Enemies at home
- De Giovanni, Maurizio - By my hand: the Christmas of Commissario Ricciardi (translated from the Italian by Anthony Shugaar)
- Downie, Ruth - Tabula rasa : a crime novel of the Roman Empire*
- Fossum, Karin - I can see in the dark (translated from the Norwegian by James Anderson)
- Fuller, Samuel - Brainquake
- Greaney, Mark - [Tom Clancy] Support and defend: a Campus novel
- Griffin, W. E. B. - Top secret (with William E. Butterworth IV)
- Harkaway, Nick - Tigerman
- Jance, Judith A. - Remains of innocence
- Johansen, Iris - Sight unseen
- Krueger, William Kent - Windigo Island
- Lashner, William - Bagmen: a Victor Carl novel
- Lin, Ed - Ghost month
- Mark, David John - Sorrow bound: a Detective Sergeant McAvoy novel*
- Maron, Margaret - Designated daughters
- McCall Smith, Alexander - Sunshine on Scotland Street: a 44 Scotland Street novel
- McGrath, M. J. - The bone seeker
- McIlvanney, William - Laidlaw
- Mishani, Dror - A possibility of violence (translated from the Hebrew by Todd Hasak-Lowy)
- Murphy, Yannick - This is the water
- Penny, Louise - The long way home
- Preston, Douglas J. - The lost island
- Rader-Day, Lori - The black hour
- Rimington, Stella - Close call : a Liz Carlyle novel*
- Ripley, Mike - Mr Campion's farewell *
- Rooney, Jennie - Red Joan
- Tanenbaum, Robert - Fatal conceit
- Thor, Brad - Act of war
- Ulfelder, Steve - Wolverine Bros. freight & storage: a Conway Sax mystery
- Villiers, Gérard de - The madmen of Benghazi (translated from the French by William Rodarmor)
- Yates, Christopher J. - Black chalk*
* Indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Fairchild, B. H. - The blue buick : new and selected poems
- Hillman, Brenda - Seasonal works with letters on fire
- McLane, Maureen N. - This blue
- Williams, C. K. - All at once
- Young, Kevin - Book of hours
SHORT STORIES
- Grand Central: original stories of postwar love and reunion with an introduction by Kristin Hannah.
- Dybek, Stuart - Ecstatic cahoots : fifty short stories
- Gordon, Mary - The liar's wife
- Livings, Jack - The dog
- Piercy, Marge - The cost of lunch, etc.
- Swift, Graham - England and other stories
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Abbott, H. Porter - The Cambridge introduction to narrative 808.3 A
- Franz Kafka: narration, rhetoric, and reading (ed. by Jakob Lothe, et. al) 833 K
- Johnson, Barbara - A life with Mary Shelley 823.09 J
- Le Faye, Deirdre - Jane Austen's country life: uncovering the rural backdrop to her life, her letters and her novels 823 A
- MD: Marguerite Duras world premiere: The dogs of Prague, the Jewish Theatre, Stockholm 2007 (Pia Forsgren and Barbro Schultz Lundestam, eds.) 843 D
- Smart, John - Tarantula's web: John Hayward, T.S. Eliot and their circle 92 H4275 S
- Steinbeck, John - Conversations with John Steinbeck 823 S
- Watt, Adam A. - Marcel Proust 92 P9686 W
- Willis, Ellen - The essential Ellen Willis 824 W
POETRY
- Levertov, Denise - Collected poems 821 L
- Mayakovsky, Vladimir - Vladimir Mayakovsky: selected poems 891.71 M
- Olson, Charles - Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: a modern correspondence92 O526 O
- Villon, François - The testament and other poems 841 V
ART
- Léger: modern art and the metropolis 759.4 L
- Allen, Christopher - French painting in the Golden Age (17th century) 759.4 A
- Hammer, Martin - Francis Bacon 709.2 B
- Johnson, Ray - Not nothing: selected writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994 92 J686 R
- Nuttall, Paula - Face to face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance painting 759.9 N
- Troy, Nancy J. - The afterlife of Piet Mondrian 759.9 M
- Unger, Miles - Michelangelo: a life in six masterpieces 709.2 M
- Williams, R. John - The Buddha in the machine: art, technology, and the meeting of East and West 327.5 W
DRAMA
- The Methuen drama guide to contemporary American playwrights (Martin Middeke, et. al) 822.09 M
- Rutter, Tom - The Cambridge introduction to Christopher Marlowe 822.09 M
- Sweet, Jeffrey - The O'Neill: transformation of modern American theater 792.0973 S
FILM
- Killer images: documentary film, memory and the performance of violence (Joram Ten Brink & Joshua Oppenheimer, eds.) 302 K
- Mizruchi, Susan L. - Brando's smile: his life, thought, and work , 92 B819 M
- Prinzler, Hans Helmut. - Sirens & sinners: a visual history of Weimar film, 1918-1933 , 791.4 P
MUSIC
- Lambert, Philip - Alec Wilder 780.921 L
- Osborne, Charles - The complete operas of Puccini: a critical guide 782.1 O
- Selvin, Joel - Here comes the night: the dark soul of Bert Berns and the dirty business of rhythm & blues 784.6 S
FICTION
- Carpenter, Don - The true life story of Jody McKeegan F C
- Chevallier, Gabriel - Fear: a novel of World War I (translated from the French by Malcolm Imrie) F C
- Fallada, Hans - Tales from the underworld: selected shorter fiction (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann) F F
- Giono, Jean - To the slaughterhouse ( translated from the French by Norman Glass) F G
BOOKS & READING
- The humanities and public life (Peter Brooks, ed.) 001 H
- The library as an agency of culture (Thomas Augst, ed.) 021 L
- Hebron, Stephen - Marks of genius: masterpieces from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries 708 H
BIOGRAPHY
- Conrad, Joseph - A personal record: some reminiscences 92 C754 C
- Lewis, David L. - The pleasures of being out of step: Nat Hentoff on journalism, jazz and the First Amendment: an oral history 92 H5277 L
- Röhl, John C. G. - Wilhelm II: into the abyss of war and exile, 1900-1941 92 W6782 R
- Scharnhorst, Gary - Julian Hawthorne: the life of a prodigal son 92 H3991 S
- Toussaint Louverture - The memoir of general Toussaint Louverture 92 T7345 T
- Wyndham, Joan - Love lessons: a wartime diary 92 W9859 W
- Zahniser, Jill Diane - Alice Paul: claiming power 92 P3241 Z
HISTORY
- Benjamin, Vernon - The history of the Hudson River Valley: from wilderness to the Civil War 974.7 B
- Confino, Alon. - A world without Jews: the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide 940.5318 C
- Early American abolitionists: a collection of anti-slavery writings, 1760-1820 326 E
- Furstenberg, François - When the United States spoke French: five refugees who shaped a nation 973.4 F
- Hansen, Randall - Disobeying Hitler: German resistance after Valkyrie 943.086 H
- Horne, Gerald - The counter-revolution of 1776: slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America 973.31 G
- Huret, Romain - American tax resisters 336.2 H
- Hutchinson, Robert - The Spanish Armada 942.05 H
- The Nixon tapes, 1971-1972 (Douglas Brinkley, ed.) 973.924 N
ANTIQUITY
- Freeman, Charles - Egypt, Greece, and Rome: civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean 930 F
- Smith, Christopher John - The Etruscans: a very short introduction 937 S
PHILOSOPHY
- Downing, Lisa - The Cambridge introduction to Michel Foucault 194 D
- Irvine, William Braxton - A guide to the good life: the ancient art of Stoic joy 188 I
- Lachman, Gary - Swedenborg: an introduction to his life and ideas 92 S974 L
- White, David Gordon - The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: a biography 181 W
SPORTS & RECREATION
- Hoffer, Richard - Bouts of mania: Ali, Frazier, and Foreman and an America on the ropes 796.8 H
- Will, George F. - A nice little place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at one hundred 796.3 W
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Mulloy, D. J. - The world of the John Birch Society: conspiracy, conservatism, and the Cold War 322.4 M
- Ryan, Alan - On Marx: revolutionary and utopian 335.4 R
MIDDLE EAST
- Marozzi, Justin - Baghdad: city of peace, city of blood 956.7 M
- Mousavian, Seyyed Hossein - Iran and the United States: an insider's view on the failed past and the road to peace 327.73 M
- Shapira, Anita - Israel: a history 956.94 S
RELIGION
- Harline, Paula Kelly - The polygamous wives writing club: from the diaries of Mormon pioneer women 289.3 H
- Koudounaris, Paul - Heavenly bodies: cult treasures & spectacular saints from the catacombs 235 K
- Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca - Simone Weil and theology 210 R
- Satlow, Michael L. - How the Bible became holy 220.1 S
- Spencer, Nick - Atheists: the origin of the species 211 S
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Pisani, Elizabeth - Indonesia etc.: exploring the improbable nation 959.8 P
- Rogers, John - This other London: adventures in the overlooked city 914.21 R
- Szczygiel, Mariusz - Gottland: mostly true stories from half of Czechoslovakia 943.7 S
- Youngs, Tim - The Cambridge introduction to travel writing 808 Y
FOOD & DRINK
- Frankel, Charles - Land and wine: the French terroir 634.8 F
- Teicholz, Nina - The big fat surprise: why butter, meat, and cheese belong in a healthy diet 394.1 T
WAR
- Adams, Michael C. C. - Living hell: the dark side of the Civil War 973.74 A
- Jenkins, Philip - The great and holy war: how World War I became a religious crusade 940.3 J
- Knight, R. J. B. - Britain against Napoleon: the organization of victory, 1793-1815 940.27 K
- Porch, Douglas - Counterinsurgency: exposing the myths of the new way of war 355 P
- Rosbottom, Ronald C. - When Paris went dark: the City of Light under German occupation, 1940-1944 944.081 R
- Smith, Lorenzo N. - Lingo of no man's land: a World War I slang dictionary 355.1 S
MYTHOLOGY & LEGEND
- The classic of mountains and seas (translated from the Chinese by Anne Birrell) 398.2 S
- Kroonenberg, Salomon Bernard - Why hell stinks of sulfur: mythology and geology of the underworld 551 K
VINTAGE NOIR
- Braly, Malcolm - Shake him till he rattles & It's cold out there (two novels in one volume) F B
- Chaze, Elliott - Black wings has my angel F C
- Curtis, James - They drive by night F C
- Ritt, Brian - Paperback confidential: crime writers of the paperback era 820.3 R
- Simenon, Georges - The carter of La Providence (David Coward, transl.) & The hanged man of Saint-Pholien (Linda Coverdale, transl.) F S
- Williams, Charles - Nothing in her way & River Girl (two novels in one volume) & The hot spot F W
SCIENCE
- Humboldt, Alexander von - Views of nature 574 H
- Nestor, James - Deep: freediving, renegade science, and what the ocean tells us about ourselves 797.2 N
NEW YORK
- Fuller, Samuel - New York in the 1930s 917.471 F
- Payne, Christopher - North Brother Island: the last unknown place in New York City 974.71 P
- Susser, Ida - Norman street: poverty and politics in an urban neighborhood (Greenpoint, Brooklyn) 307.76 S
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