New Books - April 2015
Nonfiction
- Adams, Mark - Meet me in Atlantis: my obsessive quest to find the sunken city
- Addario, Lynsey - It's what I do: a photographer's life of love and war
- Alterman, Eric - Inequality and one city: Bill de Blasio and the New York experiment, year one
- Baird, Mimi - He wanted the moon: the madness and medical genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and his daughter's quest to know him
- Ball, Philip - Serving the Reich: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler
- Baron, Naomi S. - Words onscreen: the fate of reading in a digital world
- Booth, Michael - The almost nearly perfect people: behind the myth of the Scandinavian utopia
- Brookhiser, Richard - Founders' son: a life of Abraham Lincoln
- Bunjevac, Nina - Fatherland: a family history
- Butler, Susan - Roosevelt and Stalin: portrait of a partnership
- Ceplair, Larry - Dalton Trumbo: blacklisted Hollywood radical
- Chayes, Sarah - Thieves of state: why corruption threatens global security
- Christgau, Robert - Going into the city: portrait of a critic as a young manu
- Cockburn, Patrick - The rise of Islamic state: ISIS and the new Sunni revolution
- Crawford, Robert - Young Eliot: from St. Louis to The waste land
- Davies, N. B. - Cuckoo: cheating by nature
- Dickstein, Morris - Why not say what happened: a sentimental education
- Dreger, Alice Domurat - Galileo's middle finger: heretics, activists, and the search for justice in science
- Ellis, Samantha - How to be a heroine, or, What I've learned from reading too much
- Fairey, Wendy W. - Bookmarked: reading my way from Hollywood to Brooklyn
- Fischer, Paul - A Kim Jong-Il production: the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power
- Fox, Richard Wightman - Lincoln's body: a cultural history
- Frank, Barney - Frank: a life in politics from the Great Society to same-sex marriage
- Fraser, Steve - The age of acquiescence: the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power
- Gioia, Ted - Love songs: the hidden history
- Goldstein, Richard - Another little piece of my heart: my life of rock and revolution in the '60s
- Gordon, Kim - Girl in a band
- Green, James R. - The devil is here in these hills: West Virginia's coal miners and their battle for freedom
- Grissom, James - Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog
- Hamid, Mohsin - Discontent and its civilizations: dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
- Heinz, W. C. - The top of his game: the best sportswriting of W.C. Heinz / edited and with an introduction by Bill Littlefield
- Hodes, Martha Elizabeth - Mourning Lincoln
- Hodgman, George - Bettyville: a memoir
- Hoffman, Bruce - Anonymous soldiers: the struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
- Hughes, Langston - Selected letters of Langston Hughes / edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel; with Christa Fratantoro
- Larson, Erik - Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania
- Lodge, David - Quite a good time to be born: a memoir: 1935-1975
- Macfarlane, Robert - Landmarks
- Manguso, Sarah - Ongoingness: the end of a diary
- Mantel, Hilary - Wolf Hall; and, Bring up the bodies: the stage adaptation (adapted by Mike Poulton from the novels; introduction by Mike Poulton and character notes by Hilary Mantel)
- McPherson, James M. - The war that forged a nation: why the Civil War still matters
- Mendelson, Edward - Moral agents: eight twentieth-century American writers
- Meyer, Karl E. & Shareen Brysac - The China collectors: America's century-long hunt for Asian art treasures
- Meyer, Michael J. - In Manchuria: a village called Wasteland and the transformation of rural China
- Morris, Roy, Jr. - American vandal: Mark Twain abroad
- Morton, Andrew - 17 carnations: the royals, the Nazis and the biggest cover-up in history
- Nordhaus, Hannah - American ghost: a family's haunted past in the desert southwests
- Norris, Mary - Between you & me: confessions of a Comma Queen
- O'Donnell, James Joseph - Pagans: the end of traditional religion and the rise of Christianity
- Oswalt, Patton - Silver screen fiend: learning about life from an addiction to film
- Pilon, Mary - The Monopolists: obsession, fury, and the scandal behind the world's favorite board game
- Posner, Gerald L. - God's bankers: a history of money and power at the Vatican
- Putnam, Robert D. - Our kids: the American Dream in crisis
- Rahn, B. J. - The real world of Sherlock
- Rosen, Michael - Alphabetical: how every letter tells a story
- Rosenblatt, Roger - The book of love: improvisations on a crazy little thing
- Rubin, Gretchen Craft - Better than before: mastering the habits of our everyday lives
- Snyder, Laura J. - Eye of the beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing
- Spang, Rebecca L. - Stuff and money in the time of the French Revolution
- Stern, Jessica & J.M. Berger - ISIS: the state of terror
- Stewart, David O. - Madison's gift: five partnerships that built America
- Strauss, Barry S. - The death of Caesar: the story of history's most famous assassination
- Thomas, Abigail - What comes next and how to like it: a memoir
- Thomas, Dana - Gods and kings: the rise and fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
- Thompson, Evan - Waking, dreaming, being: self and consciousness in neuroscience, meditation, and philosophy (foreword by Stephen Batchelor)
- Waldman, Jonathan - Rust: the longest war
- White, Roger - The contemporaries: travels in the 21st-century art world
FICTION
- Ackerman, Elliot - Green on blue: a novel
- Allen, Sarah Addison - First frost
- Arditti, Michael - Widows and orphans: a novel
- Bauer, Ann - Forgiveness 4 you: a novel
- Beatty, Paul - The sellout
- Bertino, Marie-Helene - 2 a.m. at The Cat's Pajamas: a novel
- Block, Sandra - Little black lies
- Bonert, Kenneth - The lion seeker: a novel
- Burke, Shannon - Into the savage country
- Chiaverini, Jennifer - Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule: a novel
- Christie, Alix - Gutenberg's apprentice: a novel
- Ciment, Jill - Act of God
- De los Santos, Marisa - The precious one
- Déon, Michel - The foundling's war; translated from the French by Julian Evans
- Essbaum, Jill Alexander - Hausfrau: a novel
- Greenland, Seth - I regret everything: a love story
- Griffin, W. E. B. - The assassination option: a clandestine operations novel / W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV
- Haffner, Ernst - Blood brothers (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann)
- Handler, Daniel - We are pirates: a novel
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - The buried giant
- Israel, Steve - The global war on Morris
- James, Tania - The tusk that did the damage
- Joyce, Rachel - The love song of Miss Queenie Hennessy: a novel
- Kelly, Mary Louise - The bullet
- Kelly, Mary Pat - Of Irish blood
- Kureishi, Hanif - The last word: a novel
- Landau, Alexis - The empire of the senses
- Lehane, Dennis - World gone by
- Levy, Andrea - Six stories & an essay
- Marr, Andrew - Head of state: a political entertainment
- McCarthy, Tom - Satin Island: a novel
- Nicholson, William - Amherst
- Oksanen, Sofi - When the doves disappeared; translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers
- Reardon, Bryan - Finding Jake
- Rubin, Jacob - The poser: a novel
- Russell, Mary Doria - Epitaph: a novel of the O.K. Corral
- Soli, Tatjana - The last good paradise
- Sykes, S. D. - Plague land
- Torday, Daniel - The last flight of Poxl West
- Truss, Lynne - Cat out of hell
- Van den Berg, Laura - Find me
- Vann, David - Aquarium
- Vargas Llosa, Mario - The discreet hero (translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman)
- Vieta, Frances - Love in the land of barefoot soldiers: a novel
- Walsh, M. O. - My sunshine away
- Weir, Alison - The marriage game: a novel of Queen Elizabeth I
- Yanagihara, Hanya - A little life: a novel
MYSTERIES
- Adler-Olsen, Jussi - The alphabet house (translated by Steve Schein)
- Anderson, James - The Never-Open Desert Diner: novel
- Anolik, Lili - Dark rooms
- Bauer, Belinda - The shut eye*
- Beaton, M. C. - Death of a liar*
- Berney, Louis - The long and faraway gone
- Black, Cara - Murder on the Champ de Mars
- Blædel, Sara - The forgotten girls (translated from the Danish by Signe Rød Golly)
- Blake, James Carlos - The House of Wolfe: a border noir
- Blake, Robin - The hidden man*
- Bowen, Rhys - The edge of dreams*
- Box, C. J. - Endangered
- Brett, Simon - The tomb in Turkey
- Brody, Frances - A woman unknown: a Kate Shackleton mystery*
- Burley, John - The forgetting place
- Caldwell, Ian - The fifth gospel: a novel
- Cooper, Thomas - The marauders: a novel
- Cussler, Clive - The assassin
- de Beauvoir, Jeannette - Asylum
- De Giovanni, Maurizio - Viper: no resurrection for Commissario Ricciardi (translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar)
- Delaney, Luke - The Jackdaw*
- Ellis, Kate - The death season*
- Ephron, Hallie - Night night, sleep tight
- Fielding, Joy - Someone is watching: a novel
- Flanders, Judith - A murder of magpies*
- Fluke, Joanne - Double fudge brownie murder
- Franklin, Ariana - The siege winter / Ariana Franklin and Samantha Norman
- Freeman, Brian - Season of fear
- Harris, C. S. - Who buries the dead: a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Star fall: a Bill Slider mystery*
- Jance, Judith A. - Cold betrayal: an Ali Reynolds novel
- Kaaberbøl, Lene - Doctor Death: a Madeleine Karno mystery; translated by Elisabeth Dyssegaard
- Kanon, Joseph - Leaving Berlin: a novel
- Lake, Deryn - The moonlit door: a Nick Lawrence mystery*
- Lawson, M. A. - Viking Bay: a Kay Hamilton novel
- Lippman, Laura - Hush hush
- Mathews, Francine - Too bad to die
- McKinty, Adrian - Gun street girl: a Detective Sean Duffy novel*
- McLean, Russel D - Cry uncle: a J. McNee mystery*
- Nykänen, Harri - Behind God's back (translated by Kristian London)
- Oswald, James - Prayer for the dead: a Detective Inspector McLean mystery
- Patterson, James - Private Vegas
- Pearce, Michael - The mouth of the crocodile
- Perry, Anne - The angel court affair: a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel*
- Quinn, Anthony - Curtain call, or, The distinguished thing: a novel*
- Shaw, William - The kings of London*
- Steinhauer, Olen - All the old knives
- Unger, Lisa - Crazy love you
- White, Randy Wayne - Cuba straits
- Winspear, Jacqueline - A dangerous place: a novel*
- Wisniewski, Mark S. - Watch me go
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - Someone to watch over me (translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton)
- Zander, Joakim - The swimmer (translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Clark Wessel)
POETRY
- Baraka, Amiri - S O S: poems 1961-2013 (selected by Paul Vangelisti)
- Mahon, Derek - Red sails
- Shapiro, Harvey - A momentary glory: last poems (edited by Norman Finkelstein)
SHORT STORIES
- Barrett, Colin - Young skins
- Baxter, Charles - There's something I want you to do: stories
- Bender, Karen E. - Refund
- Gaiman, Neil - Trigger warning: short fictions and disturbances
- Heiny, Katherine - Single, carefree, mellow: stories
- Kurlansky, Mark - City beasts: fourteen stories of uninvited wildlife
- Lethem, Jonathan - Lucky Alan: and other stories
- Link, Kelly - Get in trouble
- McGuane, Thomas - Crow fair
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Bristow, Joseph - Oscar Wilde's Chatterton: literary history, romanticism, and the art of forgery 828 W
- Bromwich, David - Moral imagination 824 B
- Du Bouchet, André - Openwork: poetry and prose 840.81 D
- Jackson, H. J. - Those who write for immortality: romantic reputations and the dream of lasting fame 820.9 J
- Manguel, Alberto - Curiosity 824 M
- Safranski, Rüdiger - Romanticism: a German affair 830.9 S
- Spurling, Hilary - Invitation to the dance: a guide to Anthony Powell's Dance to the music of time 823 P
POETRY
- Chinese rhyme-prose: poems in the fu form from the Han and Six Dynasties periods 895.1 C
- Pardlo, Gregory - Digest 821 P
- Revell, Donald - The art of attention: a poet's eye 809.1 R
- Reynard the Fox: a new translation (a new translation by James Simpson) 841 R
FICTION
- Brewer, Gil - Wild to possess; A taste for sin (two classic noir reprints) F B
- Krasznahorkai, László - Seiobo there below (translated from the Hungarian) F K
- McMurtry, Larry - Somebody's darling (1978) F M
- Nievo, Ippolito - Confessions of an Italian (1867; translated from the Italian) F N
- Robertson, Don - The ideal, genuine man (1987) F R
- Ullmann, Regina - The country road: stories (1921; translated from the German) F U
WRITING
- The world split open: great authors on how and why we write (Tin House Books) 808 W
- Yorke, John - Into the woods: a five-act journey into story 808.2 Y
BOOKS & READING
- Connolly, Joseph - Faber and Faber: eighty years of book cover design 655.5 C OVERSIZE
- Picano, Felice - Nights at Rizzoli 92 P586 P
- Sullivan, Margaret C. - Jane Austen cover to cover: 200 years of classic covers 741.64 S
ART & DESIGN
- Cohen-Solal, Annie - Mark Rothko: toward the light in the chapel 92 R8468 C
- Denny, Walter B. - How to read Islamic carpets 746.7 D
- Feaver, William - The art of John Martin 759.2 F
- Hamilton, James - A strange business: making art and money in nineteenth-century Britain James Hamilton 942.08 H
- Hickey, Dave - Pirates and farmers 701 H
- Livingston, Alan - The Thames & Hudson dictionary of graphic design and designers 740 L
- Turner, J. M. W. - J.M.W. Turner: painting set free 759.2 T
PERFORMING ARTS
- Ross, Janice - Like a bomb going off: Leonid Yakobson and ballet as resistance in Soviet Russia 792.8 R
- Thomson, David - Why acting matters 792 T
- Wood, Michael - Alfred Hitchcock: the man who knew too much 92 H6741 W
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Alinder, Mary Street - Group f.64: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the community of artists who revolutionized American photography 770 A
- Davison, David - Frank Browne: a life through the lens 770 B
- Morey, Ann-Janine - Picturing dogs, seeing ourselves: vintage American photographs 779 M
ANTIQUITY
- Konstan, David - Beauty: the fortunes of an ancient Greek idea 182 K
- Preziosi, Donald - Aegean art and architecture 709.38 P
- Spivey, Nigel Jonathan - Etruscan art 709.37 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Celenza, Christopher S. - Machiavelli: a portrait 92 M1494 C
- Davis, James C. - Eric Walrond: a life in the Harlem Renaissance and the transatlantic Caribbean 92 W221 D
- Eyre, Richard - What do I know?: people, politics and the arts 92 E9845 E
- MacDonald, Eve - Hannibal: a Hellenistic life 92 H245 M
- Zaretsky, Robert - Boswell's Enlightenment 828.09 B
HISTORY
- Appy, Christian G. - American reckoning: the Vietnam War and our national identity 959.704 A
- Bailey, Catherine - Black diamonds: the rise and fall of an English dynasty 920 F564 B
- Cacciari, Massimo - Posthumous people: Vienna at the turning point 943.6 C
- Evans, Richard J. - The Third Reich in history and memory 943.086 E
- Exploring Lincoln: great historians reappraise our greatest president (Harold Holzer, et al., eds.) 973.7 E
- Moe, Richard - Roosevelt's second act: the election of 1940 and the politics of war 973.917 M
- Paget, Karen M. - Patriotic betrayal: the inside story of the CIA's secret campaign to enroll American students in the crusade against communism 327.12 P
- Van der Kiste, John - The Prussian princesses: the sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II 943.08 V
CULTURAL STUDIES
- Denery, Dallas G. - The devil wins: a history of lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment 177 D
- Graeber, David - The Utopia of rules: on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy 302.3 G
- Steele, Shelby - Shame: how America's past sins have polarized our country 305.8 S
- Whitlock, Kay - Considering hate: violence, goodness, and justice in American culture and politics 303.6 W
RELIGION
- Curran, Robert Emmett - Papist devils: Catholics in British America, 1574-1783 282.73 C
- Offit, Paul A - Bad faith: when religious belief undermines modern medicine 201 O
- The Oxford illustrated history of the Reformation (Peter Marshall, ed.) 270.6 O
- Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb - Bewilderments: reflections on the Book of Numbers 222 Z
SCIENCE
- Al-Khalili, Jim - Life on the edge: the coming of age of quantum biology 570 A
- Gleiser, Marcelo - The island of knowledge: the limits of science and the search for meaning 113 G
- Wilson, David Sloan - Does altruism exist?: culture, genes, and the welfare of others 171 W
PSYCHOLOGY
- Morris, David J. - The evil hours: a biography of posttraumatic stress disorder 92 M8758 M
- Yalom, Irvin D. - Creatures of a day: and other tales of psychotherapy 616.8 Y
FEMINIST STUDIES
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - We should all be feminists 305.4 A
- Beauvoir, Simone de - Simone de Beauvoir: feminist writings 844 B
- Eichhorn, Kate - The archival turn in feminism: outrage in order 026 E
- Hawksley, Lucinda - March, women, march: voices of the women's movement from the first feminist to the suffragettes 396 H
ECONOMICS
- Conway, Edmund - The Summit: Bretton Woods, 1944 : J. M. Keynes and the reshaping of the global economy 330.9 C
- Ezrati, Milton - Thirty tomorrows: the next three decades of globalization, demographics, and how we will live 332.6 E
- Shiller, Robert J. - Irrational exuberance (new edition) 332.6 S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Sestanovich, Stephen - Maximalist: America in the world from Truman to Obama 327.73 S
- Sparrow, Bartholomew H. - The strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the call of national security 92 S4329 S
- Steinberg, James - Strategic reassurance and resolve: U.S - China relations in the twenty-first century 327.51 S
WAR
- Carr, Matthew - Sherman's ghosts: soldiers, civilians, and the American way of war 973.73 C
- Grose, Peter - A good place to hide: how one French village saved thousands of lives in World War II 940.5344 G
- Rogan, Eugene L. - The fall of the Ottomans: the Great War in the Middle East 940.3569 R
NEW YORK
- Alda, Arlene - Just kids from the Bronx: telling it the way it was: an oral history 974.71 A
- Fitzpatrick, Kevin C. - The Algonquin Round Table New York: a historical guide 820.9 F
- Kishik, David - The Manhattan project: a theory of a city 974.7 K
- Tales of two cities: the best and worst of times in today's New York (John Freeman, ed.) 824.08 T
AUDIO
- Barnes, Julian - Flaubert's parrot Audio-CD B
- Plath, Sylvia - The bell jar Audio-CD P
- Thomas, Dylan - The essential Dylan Thomas;including Under milk wood Audio-CD 820.81 T
- Trollope, Anthony - Phineas Finn;the Irish member Lobby Audio-CD T
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