New Books - November 2017
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Aldous, Richard - Schlesinger:the imperial historian
- Applebaum, Anne - Red famine:Stalin's war on Ukraine
- Brown, Craig - Ma'am darling:99 glimpses of Princess Margaret
- Busà, Alessandro - The creative destruction of New York City:engineering the city for the elite
- Campbell, Deborah - A disappearance in Damascus:friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- Chast, Roz - Going into town:a love letter to New York
- Chernow, Ron - Grant (ebook available)
- Childers, Thomas - The Third Reich:a history of Nazi Germany
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi - We were eight years in power:an American tragedy (ebook available)
- Dawson, Kate Winkler - Death in the air:the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city
- Dionne, E. J. - One nation after Trump:a guide for the perplexed, the disillusioned, the desperate, and the not-yet deported
- Doctoroff, Daniel L. - Greater than ever:New York's big comeback
- Eger, Edith Eva - The choice:embrace the possible
- Federman, Adam - Fasting and feasting:the life of visionary food writer Patience Gray
- Fishman, David E. - The book smugglers:partisans, poets, and the race to save Jewish treasures from the Nazis
- Hawley, George - Making sense of the alt-right
- Hughes, Bettany. - Istanbul:a tale of three cities
- Isaacson, Walter - Leonardo da Vinci (ebook available)
- Kiernan, Denise - The last castle:the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home
- Koul, Scaachi - One day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter
- Litt, David - Thanks, Obama:my hopey, changey White House years
- Maupin, Armistead - Logical family:a memoir
- McKeon, Kathy - Jackie's girl:my life with the Kennedy family
- Moorehead, Caroline - A bold and dangerous family:the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- Myles, Eileen - Afterglow:a dog memoir
- O'Hagan, Andrew - The secret life:three true stories of the digital age
- Perl, Jed - Calder:the conquest of time:the early years, 1898-1940 (ebook available)
- Raphael, Frederic - Antiquity matters
- Reston, James - A rift in the Earth:art, memory, and the fight for a Vietnam War memorial
- Sacks, Oliver - The river of consciousness
- Shorto, Russell - Revolution song:a story of American freedom
- Spring, Justin - The gourmands' way:six Americans in Paris and the birth of a new gastronomy
- Tan, Amy - Where the past begins:a writer's memoir
- Uglow, Jennifer S. - Mr Lear:a life of art and nonsense
- Wainwright, Loudon - Liner notes:on parents & children, exes & excess, death & decay, & a few of my other favorite things
- Watson, Jeannette - It's my party:a memoir
- Weir, Alison - Queens of the conquest:England's medieval queens
- Yaffe, David - Reckless daughter:a portrait of Joni Mitchell
FICTION
- Balson, Ronald H. - The trust
- Boltanski, Christophe - The safe house:a novel
- Brown, Dan - Origin:a novel
- Camerota, Alisyn - Amanda wakes up
- Cash, Wiley - The last ballad
- Chaudhuri, Amit - Friend of my youth
- Culliton, Emily - The misfortune of Marion Palm:a novel (ebook available)
- Egan, Jennifer - Manhattan Beach:a novel (ebook available)
- Ford, Jamie - Love and other consolation prizes:a novel
- García, Cristina - Here in Berlin:a novel
- Harris, Robert - Munich
- Helprin, Mark - Paris in the present tense
- Hoffman, Alice - The rules of magic
- Hollinghurst, Alan - The sparsholt affair
- Hughes, Katherine Nouri - The mapmaker's daughter:the confessions of Nurbanu Sultan, 1525-1583
- Keneally, Thomas - Crimes of the father:a novel
- Kent, Hannah - The good people
- Land, Ali - Good me, bad me:a novel
- Lynch, Paul - Grace:a novel
- Mabanckou, Alain - Black Moses (translated from the French)
- Miller, Kei - Augustown
- Pulley, Natasha - The Bedlam stacks
- Rowe, Josephine - A loving, faithful animal
- Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson - A kind of freedom:a novel
- St. Aubyn, Edward - Dunbar
- Thien, Madeleine - Dogs at the perimeter
- Wingate, Lisa - Before we were yours:a novel
- Zoref, Carol - Barren Island:a novel
MYSTERIES
- Bailey, Sarah - The dark lake
- Beaton, M. C. - The witches' tree:an Agatha Raisin mystery*
- Bellairs, George - Death of a busybody* (British Library Crime Classics; originally published 1943)
- Bolton, S. J. - Dead woman walking
- Booth, Stephen - Dead in the dark*
- Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney - Jack the Ripper:case closed*
- Brodrick, William - A whispered name:a Father Anselm thriller
- Brody, Frances - Death at the seaside*
- Chan, Ho-Kei - The borrowed (translated from the Chinese)
- Charyn, Jerome - Winter warning:an Isaac Sidel novel
- Connelly, Michael - Two kinds of truth
- Francis, Felix - Pulse
- Grisham, John - The rooster bar (ebook available)
- Gulvin, Jeff - The long count
- Ide, Joe - Righteous:an IQ novel (ebook available)
- Kellerman, Faye - Killing season:a thriller
- Kutscher, Volker - The silent death (translated from the German)
- Lawton, John - Friends and traitors
- Lemaître, Pierre - Three days and a life (translated from the French)
- Limón, Martin - The nine-tailed fox
- May, Peter - Cast iron
- McCrumb, Sharyn - The unquiet grave:a novel
- McPherson, Catriona - House. Tree. Person:a novel of suspense
- Meier, Leslie - Turkey trot murder
- Mullen, Thomas - Lightning men:a novel
- Sandford, John - Deep freeze (ebook available)
- Smith, Lachlan - Wolf's revenge
- Todd, Charles - A casualty of war*
- Upson, Nicola - Nine lessons:some wounds never heal*
- Woods, Stuart - Quick & dirty
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - The relive box and other stories
- Eugenides, Jeffrey - Fresh complaint:stories
- Fridlund, Emily - Catapult:stories
- Machado, Carmen Maria - Her body and other parties:stories
- Puchner, Eric - Last day on earth:stories
- Rachman, Tom - Basket of deplorables
POETRY
- Bernhard, Thomas - Collected poems (translated from the German)
- Howe, Marie - Magdalene:poems
- Loynaz, Dulce María - Absolute solitude:selected prose poems
- Merwin, W. S. - The essential W.S. Merwin
- Oliver, Mary - Devotions:the selected poems of Mary Oliver
- Peacock, Molly - The analyst:poems
- Salter, Mary Jo - The surveyors:poems
- Santos, Sherod - Square inch hours:poems
- Smith, Danez - Don't call us dead:poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- The artist as culture producer: living and sustaining a creative life (Sharon Louden, ed.)
- Barnett, Richard - The smile stealers: the fine + foul art of dentistry
- Couzens, Dominic - Songs of love and war: the dark heart of bird behaviour
- Desai, Mihir A. - The wisdom of finance: discovering humanity in the world of risk and return
- King, Robert Arthur - Figures in stone: architectural sculpture in New York City
- McGregor, Richard - Asia's reckoning: China, Japan, and the fate of U.S. power in the Pacific century
- Owen, David - Where the water goes: life and death along the Colorado River
- Portnoy, Eddy - Bad rabbi: and other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press
- Rosenblum, Nancy L. - Good neighbors: the democracy of everyday life in America
- Schrupp, Antje - A brief history of feminism
- Scott, James C. - Against the grain: a deep history of the earliest states
- Thackara, John - How to thrive in the next economy: designing tomorrow's world today
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Bloom, Harold - Cleopatra: I am fire and air 822.33 C
- Bowen, Elizabeth - The weight of a world of feeling: reviews and essays 824 B
- Cather, Willa - Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters 823 C
- Frisch, Max - From the Berlin journal (translated from the German) 838 F
- Heflin, Wilson L. - Herman Melville's whaling years 823 M
- Jensen, Morten Høi - A difficult death: the life and work of Jens Peter Jacobsen 839.81 J
- Kraus, Chris - After Kathy Acker: a literary biography 828.09 K
- North, Joseph - Literary criticism: a concise political history 801 N
- Russian émigré short stories from Bunin to Yanovsky (Bryan Karetnyk) 891.7 R
- Spufford, Francis - True stories: and other essays 824 S
- Wells, Juliette - Reading Austen in America 823 A
FICTION
- Andersen, H. C. - The ice virgin: a novella (translated from the Danish) F A
- Deledda, Grazia - Reeds in the wind (originally published 1913; translated from the Italian) F D
- Djian, Philippe - Elle (translated from the French) F D
- Mozley, Fiona. - Elmet (Man Booker shortlist) F M
- Rukeyser, Muriel - Savage coast (first time publication of this Spanish Civil War novel, written in 1937) F R
- Wittlin, Józef - Salt of the earth (1935 WWI novel translated from the Polish) F W
POETRY
- Blunk, Jonathan - James Wright: a life in poetry 92 W9512 W
- Lorde, Audre - A burst of light: and other essays 92 L8673 L
- Plath, Sylvia. - The letters of Sylvia Plath 92 P7168 P
- Poole, William - Milton and the making of Paradise lost 821.09 M
- Stevenson, Anne, - About poems and how poems are not about 821.09 S
- Who reads poetry: 50 views from Poetry magazine (Fred Sasaki and Don Share, eds.) 808.1 W
ART
- Curtis, Cathy - A generous vision: the creative life of Elaine de Kooning 759.1 D
- Jackall, Yuriko - Fragonard: the fantasy figures, 759.4 F
- Modernism: designing a new world, 1914-1939 (Christopher Wilk, ed.) 709.04 M
- Rowland, Ingrid D. - The collector of lives: Giorgio Vasari and the invention of art 709.2 V
- Seidenstein, Joanna Sheers - Divine encounter: Rembrandt's Abraham and the angels 759.9 R
- Slayton, Robert A. - Beauty in the city: the Ashcan school 759.1 S
CURATORS & COLLECTIONS
- The philosophy chamber: art and science in Harvard's teaching cabinet, 1766-1820 (Ethan w. Lasser, ed.) 069 P OVERSIZE
- Delbourgo, James - Collecting the world: Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum 069 D
PERFORMING ARTS
- Brocken, Michael - Bacharach: maestro! The life of a pop genius 780.921 B
- Cohen, Mitchell - The politics of opera: a history from Monteverdi to Mozart 782 C
- Conversations with classic film stars: interviews from Hollywood's golden era 791.4 C
- Roud, Stephen - Folk song in England 784.4 R
- Wen, Shawn - A twenty minute silence followed by applause (Marcel Marceau) 792.3 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Bannos, Pamela - Vivian Maier: a photographer's life and afterlife 92 M2189 B
- Eig, Jonathan - Ali: a life (Muhammad Ali) 92 A3979 E
- Greenberger, Scott S. - The unexpected president: the life and times of Chester A. Arthur 92 A788 G
- Phipps, Sally - Molly Keane: a life 92 K2415 P
- Schuster, Lynda - Dirty wars and polished silver: the life and times of a war correspondent turned ambassatrix 92 S395 S
DEATH & DYING
- McCrum, Robert - Every third thought: on life, death and the endgame 155.9 M
- Warraich, Haider - Modern death: how medicine changed the end of life 616 W
MEDICINE
- Barnett, Richard - The sick rose, or, Disease and the art of medical illustration 610.9 B
- Fitzharris, Lindsey, - The butchering art: Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine 617 F
- Lees, Andrew - Mentored by a madman: the William Burroughs experiment 616.8 L
- Spinney, Laura - Pale rider: the Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world 614.4 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Sigman, Mariano - The secret life of the mind: how your brain thinks, feels, and decides 612.8 S
- Storr, Will - Selfie: how we became so self-obsessed and what it's doing to us 155.2 S
- Walker, Matthew P. - Why we sleep: unlocking the power of sleep and dreams 612.8 W
HISTORY
- Amanat, Abbas - Iran: a modern history 955 A
- Chin, Rita - The crisis of multiculturalism in Europe: a history 940.5 C
- Heffer, Simon - The age of decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 942.08 H
- Lewis, James E. - The Burr Conspiracy: uncovering the story of an early American crisis 973.4 L
- Russell, Peter H. - Canada's odyssey: a country based on incomplete conquests 971 R
- Westad, Odd Arne - The Cold War: a world history 909.82 W
- Wills, Clair - Lovers and strangers: an immigrant history of post-war Britain 942.085 W
ANTIQUITY
- The horse in ancient Greek art (Peter Schertz and Nicole Stribling, eds.) 704.94 H
- McDowell, A. G. - Village life in ancient Egypt: laundry lists and love songs 932 M
- Romilly, Jacqueline de - The mind of Thucydides 938 R
- Virgil - The Aeneid (new translation by David Ferry) 873.1 V
NEW YORK
- Goldstein, Brian D. - The roots of urban renaissance: gentrification and the struggle over Harlem 307.76 G
- Tochterman, Brian - The dying city: postwar New York and the ideology of fear 974.71 T
- Underwood, Richard H. - Gaslight lawyers: criminal trials & exploits in gilded age New York 342.747 U
- Wallace, Mike, - Greater Gotham: a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919 974.71 W
- Wertz, Julia - Tenements, towers & trash: an unconventional illustrated history of New York City 974.71 W OVERSIZE
WAR
- Chapman, James - The British at war: cinema, state and propaganda, 1939-1945940.5488 C
- Hanson, Victor Davis - The second world wars: how the first global conflict was fought and won 940.54 H
- Jones, Howard - My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the descent into darkness 959.704 J
- Pitzer, Andrea - One long night: a global history of concentration camps 365 P
- Ward, Geoffrey C. - The Vietnam War: an intimate history 959.704 W OVERSIZE
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Harden, Blaine - King of spies: the dark reign of America's spymaster in Korea 327.12 H
- Mundy, Liza - Code girls: the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II 940.5486 M
LAW
- Cottrol, Robert J. - The long, lingering shadow: slavery, race, and law in the American hemisphere 305.88 C
- Wallenstein, Peter - Race, sex, and the freedom to marry: Loving v. Virginia 347.6 W
- White, G. Edward - American legal history: a very short introduction 340 W
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Ernst von - From New York to San Francisco: travel sketches from the year 1869 917.3 M
- Twigger, Robert - White mountain: a cultural adventure through the Himalayas 954.96 T
- Wied, Maximilian - Travels in North America, 1832-1834: a concise edition of the journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied 917.3 W
FOOD
- Gray, Patience - Honey from a weed: fasting and feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades, and Apulia 641.5 G
- Matar, Marlene - The Aleppo cookbook: celebrating the legendary cuisine of Syria 641.5 M
- Robbins, Missy - Breakfast, lunch, dinner, life...: recipes and adventures from my home kitchen 641.5 R
RELIGION
- Baum, Devorah - Feeling Jewish: (a book for just about anyone), 305.86 B
- Rex, Richard - The making of Martin Luther 92 L9735 R
- Schama, Simon - The story of the Jews (volume 2): Belonging 1492-1900 909.4 S
- Schmidt, Leigh Eric - Village atheists: how America's unbelievers made their way in a Godly nation 211 S
SCIENCE & NATURE
- The book of caterpillars: a life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world (David G. James, ed.) 595.78 B
- Fine, Cordelia - Testosterone rex: myths of sex, science, and society 155.3 F
- Iliffe, Rob - Priest of nature: the religious worlds of Isaac Newton 92 N5638 I
- Lewis, Sara Margery - Silent sparks: the wondrous world of fireflies 595.7 L