New Books - June 2016
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Ackerman, Jennifer - The genius of birds
- Alexander, Stephon - The jazz of physics: the secret link between music and the structure of the universe
- Bernstein, Robert L. - Speaking freely: my life in publishing and human rights (with Doug Merlino)
- Blumenthal, Sidney - A self-made man: the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- Brier, Bob - Cleopatra's needles: the lost obelisks of Egypt
- Brower, Kate Andersen - First women: the grace and power of America's modern First Ladies
- Czitrom, Daniel J. - New York exposed: the Gilded Age police scandal that launched the progressive era
- Dirix, Emmanuelle - Dressing the decades: twentieth-century vintage style
- Diski, Jenny - In gratitude
- Dyer, Geoff - White sands: experiences from the outside world
- Frank, Thomas - Listen, liberal, or, What ever happened to the party of the people?
- Friedman, Matti - Pumpkinflowers: a soldier's story
- Galchen, Rivka - Little labors
- Gerges, Fawaz A. - ISIS: a history
- Hewitt, Catherine - The mistress of Paris: the 19th-century courtesan who built an empire on a secret
- Howard, Hugh - Architecture's odd couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
- Humes, Edward - Door to door: the magnificent, maddening, mysterious world of transportation
- Kinsley, Michael E. - Old age: a beginner's guide
- Kurlansky, Mark - Paper: paging through history
- Landler, Mark - Alter egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the twilight struggle over American power
- Leinwand, Theodore B. - The great William: writers reading Shakespeare
- Lepore, Jill - Joe Gould's teeth
- Levin, Janna - Black hole blues: and other songs from outer space
- Means, Howard B. - 67 shots: Kent State and the end of American innocence
- Norman, Philip - Paul McCartney: the life
- Philbrick, Nathaniel - Valiant ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- Phillips, Adam - Unforbidden pleasures
- Pierpont, Claudia Roth - American rhapsody: writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building
- Rappleye, Charles - Herbert Hoover in the White House: the ordeal of the presidency
- Ripert, Eric - 32 yolks: from my mother's table to working the line (with Veronica Chambers)
- Salter, James - The art of fiction
- Schulman, Michael - Her again: becoming Meryl Streep
- Sebag Montefiore, Simon - The Romanovs: 1613-1918
- Stratmann, Linda - The secret poisoner: a century of murder
- Tigay, Chanan - The lost book of Moses: the hunt for the world's oldest bible
- Tinniswood, Adrian - The long weekend: life in the English country house, 1918-1939
- Varoufakis, Yanis - And the weak suffer what they must?: Europe's crisis and America's economic future
- Wex, Michael - Rhapsody in schmaltz: Yiddish food and why we can't stop eating it
- Wilson, Frances - Guilty thing: a life of Thomas de Quincey
- Woods, Gregory - Homintern: how gay culture liberated the modern world
- Worth, Robert Forsyth - A rage for order: the Middle East in turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
FICTION
- Amend, Allison - Enchanted Islands
- Anderson, Alison - The summer guest
- Andrews, Mary Kay - The weekenders
- Barnett, Laura - The versions of us
- Barrett, A. Igoni - Blackass
- Beitong - Beijing comrades (translated from the Chinese)
- Belfer, Lauren - And after the fire
- Brock, Amber - A fine imitation
- Cleave, Chris - Everyone brave is forgiven
- Cussler, Clive - The Emperor's revenge: an Oregon Files adventure
- DeLillo, Don. - Zero K (ebook available)
- DiSclafani, Anton - The after party
- Dyer, David - The midnight watch: a novel of the Titanic and the Californian
- Erdrich, Louise - LaRose
- Erens, Pamela - Eleven hours
- Grissom, Kathleen - Glory over everything: beyond The kitchen house
- Haddad, Saleem - Guapa
- Hart, John - Redemption road
- Haslett, Adam - Imagine me gone: a novel
- Hay, Ashley - The railwayman's wife
- Hill, Joe - The Fireman
- Hurley, Andrew Michael - The Loney
- Leary, Ann - The children
- Levi, Jonathan - Septimania.
- Loigman, Lynda Cohen - The two-family house
- Mackintosh, Clare - I let you go (ebook available)
- Miéville, China - This census-taker: a novella
- Millet, Lydia - Sweet lamb of heaven
- Modiano, Patrick - In the café of lost youth (New York Review books; translated from the French by Chris Clarke)
- Modiano, Patrick - Young once (New York Review Books; translated from the French by Damion Searls)
- Morgan, C. E. - The sport of kings
- Müller, Herta - The fox was ever the hunter (translated from the German by Philip Boehm)
- Myerson, Julie - The stopped heart
- NDiaye, Marie - Ladivine (translated from the French by Jordan Stump)
- O'Nan, Stewart - City of secrets
- Parker, Harry - Anatomy of a soldier
- Perri, Camille - The assistants
- Quinn, Anthony - Freya
- Russo, Richard - Everybody's fool
- Sanghera, Sathnam - Marriage material
- Smith, Dinitia - The honeymoon
- Stillman, Whit - Love & friendship: in which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon is entirely vindicated: concerning the beautiful Lady Susan Vernon, her cunning daughter & the strange antagonism of the DeCourcy family
- Szalay, David - All that man is
- Tempest, Kate - The bricks that built the houses
- Winter, Ariel S. - Barren Cove
MYSTERIES
- Armstrong, Kelley - City of the lost
- Atkins, Ace - Robert B. Parker's Slow burn
- Barr, Nevada - Boar Island
- Ben-David, Mishkah - Forbidden love in St. Petersburg (translated from the Hebrew by Dan Gillon)
- Boyle, Gerry - Straw Man: a Jack McMorrow mystery
- Brookmyre, Christopher Black widow*
- Brown, Rita Mae - Tall tail: a Mrs. Murphy mystery
- Casey, Jane - After the fire*
- Cavanagh, Steve - The defense
- Clark, Marcia - Blood defense
- Cleverly, Barbara - Diana's altar*
- Fowler, Christopher - Strange tide*
- Furst, Alan - A hero of France
- Gray, Alex - Keep the midnight out
- Gutcheon, Beth Richardson - Death at breakfast
- Hamilton, Steve - The second life of Nick Mason (ebook available)
- Honda, Tetsuya - The silent dead (translated from the Japanese by Giles Murray)
- Johnson, Craig - The highwayman
- Jordan, Neil - The drowned detective
- Lehane, Cornelius - Murder at the 42nd Street library
- Lippman, Laura - Wilde Lake
- MacBride, Stuart - In the cold dark ground*
- MacDonald, Patricia J. - Don't believe a word
- Martini, Steve - Blood flag: a Paul Madriani novel
- McGowan, Claire - The fall*
- Page, Katherine Hall - The body in the wardrobe
- Quartey, Kwei - Gold of our fathers
- Rowland, John - Murder in the museum* (British Library Crime Classics, 1938; introduction by Martin Edwards)
- Salvalaggio, Karin - Walleye Junction
- Taylor, David C. - Night life
- Thompson, Victoria - Murder in Morningside Heights: a gaslight mystery
- Vidich, Paul - An honorable man
- Viets, Elaine - The art of murder: a dead-end job mystery
- White, Randy Wayne - Deep blue
* Indicates a British mystery
POETRY
- Balakian, Peter - Ozone journal
- Dove, Rita - Collected poems: 1974--2004
- Load poems like guns: women's poetry from Herat, Afghanistan (compiled, translated, introduced by Farzana Marie)
- Neruda, Pablo - Then come back: the lost Neruda poems (translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander)
- Seuss, Diane - Four-legged girl: poems
- Smith, Stevie - All the poems of Stevie Smith
- Vuong, Ocean - Night sky with exit wounds
SHORT STORIES
- McFarlane, Fiona - The high places
- Oates, Joyce Carol - The doll-master and other tales of terror
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Birkhead, Tim - The most perfect thing: inside (and outside) a bird's egg
- Iyer, Deepa - We too sing America: South Asian, Muslim, and Sikh immigrants shape our multi-racial future
- Lewis, Alun - Morlais
- Oldstone-Moore, Christopher - Of beards and men: the revealing history of facial hair
- Robinson, Andrew - The Indus: Lost civilization
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Anderson, George Kumler - The legend of the Wandering Jew 809.9 A
- Benjamin, Walter - One-way street (translated from the German; short prose 1920s Weimar culture) 838 B
- The Cambridge history of Jewish American literature (Hana Wirth-Nesher, ed.) 820.9 C
- Carter, Angela - Expletives deleted: selected writings 824 C
- Epstein, Joseph - Wind sprints: shorter essays 824 E
- Field, Douglas - All those strangers: the art and lives of James Baldwin 828.09 B
- Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. - Track changes: a literary history of word processing 001.6 K
- Schwartz, Delmore - Once and for all: the best of Delmore Schwartz 828 S
FICTION
- Appel, Benjamin - Brain guy & Plunder (two vintage noir novels) F A
- Arpino, Giovanni - Scent of a woman (first published in Italy, 1969) F A
- Early fiction in England: from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer (Laura Ashe, ed.) F E
- Fernández, Macedonio - The museum of eterna's novel: the first good novel (first published in Argentina, 1967; foreword by Adam Thirlwell) F F
- Kavan, Anna - I am Lazarus (stories originally published in England, 1945) F K
- Sábato, Ernesto R. - The tunnel (first published in Argentina, 1948; introduction by Colm Toibin) F S
- Woolson, Constance Fenimore - Miss Grief and other stories (19th c. American writer; foreword by Colm Toibin) F W
POETRY
- An invisible rope: portraits of Czeslaw Milosz (Cynthia Haven, ed.) 891.85 I
- Charyn, Jerome - A loaded gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st century 821.09 D
- English Renaissance poetry: a collection of shorter poems from Skelton to Jonson (selected by John Williams, author of Stoner) 821 E
- Sylvia Plath: the critical heritage (Linda Wagner-Martin, ed.) 821.09 P
- Weinberger, Eliot - Nineteen ways of looking at Wang Wei: how a Chinese poem is translated 895.1 W
- Wright, Charles - Zone journals 821 W
SHAKESPEARE
- Josipovici, Gabriel - Hamlet: fold on fold 822.33 C
- On Shakespeare's sonnets: a poets' celebration (Hannah Crawforth & Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, eds.) 822.33 S
- Shakespeare, William - Shakespeare's book of insults, insights and infinite jests 822.33 M
JOURNALISM
- Guttenplan, D. D. - The nation: a biography : the first 150 years 050 G
- Harris, Roy J. - Pulitzer's gold: a century of public service journalism 070 H
MUSIC
- Beer, Anna R. - Sounds and sweet airs: the forgotten women of classical music 780.92 B
- Dusinberre, Edward - Beethoven for a later age: living with the string quartets 785.7 D
- Gleason, Ralph J. - Music in the air: the selected writings of Ralph J. Gleason 780.8 G
- Potter, Caroline - Erik Satie: a Parisian composer and his world 780.92 S
ART
- Court and cosmos: the great age of the Seljuqs (Sheila R. Canby, et al., eds.; Metropolitan Museum of Art) 709.395 C
- Ilsink, Matthijs - Hieronymus Bosch: visions of genius 759.9 B
- Munch and expressionism (Jill Lloyd & Reinhold Heller, eds.; Neue Galerie) 759.8 M
- Peter Fischli, David Weiss: how to work better (Nancy Spector & Nat Trotman, eds.; Guggenheim Museum) 709.43 P
- Thompson, Erin L. - Possession: the curious history of private collectors from antiquity to the present , 708 T
- Unfinished: thoughts left visible (Kelly Baum, et al., eds.; Metropolitan Museum) 708 U
ARCHITECTURE
- Bradley, Simon - Churches: an architectural guide 726 B
- Loyer, François - Architecture of the industrial age, 1789-1914 720.9 L
- O'Brien, Charles - Houses: an architectural guide 728 O
- Stern, Robert A. M. - Tradition and invention in architecture: conversations and essays 724 S
FASHION
- Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly - Fashion victims: dress at the court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette 391.0944 C OVERSIZE
- Takeda, Sharon Sadako - Reigning men: fashion in menswear, 1715-2015 646 T OVERSIZE
PHILOSOPHY
- Bruno, Giordano - Cause, principle, and unity 195 B
- Gorz, André. - The traitor (foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre; translated from the French by Richard Howard) 140 G
- Medieval Jewish philosophical writings 181.3 M
- Strauss, Leo - Spinoza's critique of religion 199 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Adorno, Theodor W. - Correspondence, 1943-1955 92 A241 A
- Fanning, Ronan - Éamon de Valera: a will to power 92 D488 F
- Gueniffey, Patrice - Bonaparte: 1769-1802 92 N216 G
- Harris, James A. - Hume: an intellectual biography 92 H9212 H
- Jablonka, Ivan - A history of the grandparents I never had 920 J118 J
- Perényi, Eleanor - More was lost 92 P4377 P
- Trent, James W. - The manliest man: Samuel G. Howe and the contours of nineteenth-century American reform 92 H858 T
HISTORY
- Dikötter, Frank - The cultural revolution: a people's history, 1962-1976 951 D
- Feigel, Lara - The bitter taste of victory: life, love, and art in the ruins of the Reich 940.5314 F
- Fenster, Julie M. - Jefferson's America: the President, the purchase, and the explorers who transformed a nation 973.4 F
- Haas, Lawrence J. - Harry & Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the partnership that created the free world 327.73 H
- Jaurès, Jean - A socialist history of the French Revolution 944.04 J
- Leonard, Devin - Neither snow nor rain: a history of the United States Postal Service 383 L
- Wayland-Smith, Ellen - Oneida: from free love Utopia to the well-set table 335.9 W
- Wilson, Ben - Heyday: the 1850s and the dawn of the global age 909.81 W
- Zahra, Tara - The great departure: mass migration from Eastern Europe and the making of the free world 304.8 Z
ANCIENT CULTURE & CIVILIZATION
- Grant, Michael - Atlas of classical history 911 G
- Holt, Frank Lee - The treasures of Alexander the Great: how one man's wealth shaped the world 938 H
- Pergamon and the Hellenistic kingdoms of the ancient world (Carlos A. Picon & Sean Hemingway, eds.; Metropolitan Museum of Art) 709.39 P
- Riley, Bronwen - The edge of the Empire: a journey to Britannia: from the heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall 942.01 R
- Vandenbeusch, Marie - Pharaoh: king of ancient Egypt 932 V
AFRICA
- Collins, Robert O. - A history of Sub-Saharan Africa 967 C
- Gomez, Michael Angelo - Reversing sail: a history of the African diaspora 909.4 G
- Mabanckou, Alain - The lights of Pointe-Noire 966 M
- Rawlence, Ben - City of thorns: nine lives in the world's largest refugee camp 967 R
MIDDLE EAST
- Di Giovanni, Janine - The morning they came for us: dispatches from Syria 956.9 D
- Ebadi, Shirin - Until we are free: my fight for human rights in Iran 955 I
- Valeri, Marc - Oman: politics and society in the Qaboos State 953 V
RELIGION
- Haag, Michael - The quest for Mary Magdalene 226 H
- Marty, Martin E. - October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the day that changed the world 284.1 M
- Wickham, Carrie Rosefsky - Mobilizing Islam: religion, activism, and political change in Egypt 962 W
WAR
- The Civil War in art and memory (Kirk Savage, ed.; National Gallery of Art) 973.79 C OVERSIZE
- MacLeod, D. Peter - Northern Armageddon: the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the making of the American Revolution 971.01 M
- Pauwels, Jacques R. - The myth of the good war: America in the Second World War 940.5373 P
- Raghavan, Srinath - India's war: World War II and the making of modern South Asia 940.5354 R
- Toler, Pamela D. - Heroines of Mercy Street: the real nurses of the Civil War 973.77 T
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Cohen, Marty - The party decides: presidential nominations before and after reform 324.273 C
- Lukács, György - Lenin: a study on the unity of his thought 335.4 L
- Wilentz, Sean - The politicians & the egalitarians: the hidden history of American politics 320.9 W
ECONOMICS
- Gorz, André - Capitalism, socialism, ecology 330.944 G
- Lynch, Frederick R. - One nation under AARP: the fight over medicare, social security, and America's future 305.26 L
- Yueh, Linda Y. - China's growth: the making of an economic superpower 330.951 Y
PSYCHOLOGY
- Bures, Frank - The geography of madness: penis thieves, voodoo death, and the search for the meaning of the world's strangest syndromes 306.4 B
- Duckworth, Angela - Grit: the power of passion and perseverance 155 D
- Freud, Anna - Selected writings 155.4 F
- Herman, Amy E. - Visual intelligence: sharpen your perception, change your life 152 H
- Kessler, David A. - Capture: unraveling the mystery of mental suffering 616.8 K
TECHNOLOGY
- Kaplan, Fred M. - Dark territory: the secret history of cyber war 005.8 K
- Sales, Nancy Jo. - American girls: social media and the secret lives of teenagers 301.2 S
- Smith Rumsey, Abby. - When we are no more: how digital memory is shaping our future 020 S
SCIENCE
- Carroll, Sean M. - The big picture: on the origins of life, meaning, and the universe itself 577 C
- Fine lines: Vladimir Nabokov's scientific art (Stephen Blackwell and Kurt Johnson, eds.) 595.78 F
- Galfard, Christophe - The universe in your hand: a journey through space, time, and beyond 523.1 G
- Jones, Steve - No need for geniuses: revolutionary science in the age of the guillotine 509 J
NEW YORK
- Foster, George G. - New York by gas-light: and other urban sketches 974.71 F
- Gerlach, Don R. - Philip Schuyler and the growth of New York, 1733-1804 92 S3979 G
- McCurdy, Charles W. - The anti-rent era in New York law and politics, 1839-1865 347.7 M
- Murphy, Brian Phillips - Building the Empire State: Political economy in the early republic 974.7 M
- Rosenthal, Bob - Cleaning up New York: in which our hero coffees up with a pill, fortifies himself with some (pocketed) weed, and mops and waxes his way through weird vibes, domestic dramas... and seduction (republication of '70s cult classic) 828 R
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Crispin, Jessa - The dead ladies project: exiles, expats, and ex-countries 92 C9329 C
- Marquis, Sarah - Wild by nature: from Siberia to Australia, three years alone in the wilderness on foot 910.4 M
- McNeil, Jean - Ice diaries: an Antarctic memoir 919.8 M
- Murray, Elizabeth - Sixteen years of an artist's life in Morocco, Spain, and the Canary Islands 916.49 M
AUDIO
- Brown, Daniel - The boys in the boat: nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Lobby Audio-CD 797.1 B
- Eliot, T. S. - Essential Eliot Audio-CD 821 E
- O'Brien, Edna. - The little red chairs: a novel Lobby Audio-CD O
- Prose, Francine, - Peggy Guggenheim: the shock of the modern , Lobby Audio-CD 92 G9421 P