New Books - January 2021
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth - Strongmen: Mussolini to the present
- Bennett, Alan - Two besides: a pair of talking heads
- Betts, Paul - Ruin and renewal: civilizing Europe after the World War II
- Black futures (Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham, eds.)
- Cho, Catherine - Inferno: a memoir of motherhood and madness
- Cobain, Ian - Anatomy of a killing: life and death on a divided island
- Cooper, Becky - We keep the dead close: a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence (ebook available)
- Davey, Moyra - Index cards
- Evans, Richard J. - The Hitler conspiracies
- Evans, Sian - Maiden voyages: women and the golden age of transatlantic travel
- Everett, Rupert - To the end of the world: travels with Oscar Wilde
- Falk, Seb - The light ages: the surprising story of medieval science
- Friedlander, Saul - Proustian uncertainties: on reading and rereading In search of lost time
- Garner, Dwight - Garner's quotations: a modern miscellany
- Gooch, John - Mussolini's war: fascist Italy from triumph to collapse 1935-1943
- Hastings, Selina - Sybille Bedford: an appetite for life
- Hill, David - The vapors: a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice
- Holland, James - Sicily '43: the first assault on fortress Europe
- Krasnow, Iris - Camp girls: fireside lessons on friendship, courage, and loyalty
- Lane Fox, Robin - The invention of medicine: from Homer to Hippocrates
- Letters of note: music (Shaun Usher, ed.)
- Maddow, Rachel - Bag man: the wild crimes, audacious cover-up, & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Malm, Andreas - Corona, climate, chronic emergency: war communism in the twenty-first century
- Minoui, Delphine - The book collectors: a band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war
- Mount, Ferdinand - Kiss myself goodbye: the many lives of Aunt Munca
- Murdoch, Sierra Crane - Yellow Bird: oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country
- Nestor, James - Breath: the new science of a lost art
- O'Neill, Connor Towne - Down along with that devil's bones: a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Osnos, Evan - Joe Biden: the life, the run, and what matters now
- Parton, Dolly - Dolly Parton: songteller, my life in lyrics
- Petersen, Anne Helen - Can't even: how millennials became the burnout generation
- Quinn, William - Boom and bust: a global history of financial bubbles
- Schalansky, Judith - An inventory of losses
- Sisson, Frank - I marched with Patton: a firsthand account of World War II alongside one of the U.S. Army's greatest generals
- Summerscale, Kate - The haunting of Alma Fielding: a true ghost story
- Svensson, Patrik - The book of eels: our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world
- Wilson, Ben - Metropolis: a history of the city, humankind's greatest invention
- Woolf, Virginia - How should one read a book?
- Zweig, Stefan - Encounters and destinies: a farewell to Europe
FICTION
- Bump, Gabriel - Everywhere you don't belong
- Clements, Oliver - The eyes of the Queen
- Coe, Jonathan - Mr. Wilder and me
- Cornwell, Bernard - War lord: a novel
- Delgado Lopera, Juliana - Fiebre tropical: a novel
- Finch, Tim - Peace talks
- Gallen, Michelle - Big girl, small town: a novel
- Gregory, Philippa - Dark tides: a novel
- Guo, Xiaolu - A lover's discourse
- Jacobsen, Roy - Eyes of the Rigel
- Joshi, Alka - The henna artist
- Katz, Erica - The boys' club: a novel
- Medie, Peace A. - His only wife: a novel
- Mustafah, Sahar - The beauty of your face: a novel
- Sarid, Yishay - The memory monster: a novel
- Smiley, Jane - Perestroika in Paris (ebook available)
- Sparks, Nicholas - The return
- Stein, Leigh - Self care: a novel
- Strauss, Darin - The queen of Tuesday: a novel
- Vilas, Manuel - Ordesa
- The Penguin book of Christmas stories: from Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter (Jessica Harrison, ed.)
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Burton, Jeffrey B. - The finders
- Finkielman, Siobhan - Starving men: an Irish psychiatrist, a professional killer, and a twisted revenge for history
- Grafton, C. W. - The rat began to gnaw the rope
- Kent, Kathleen - The burn
- Kepler, Lars - Lazarus
- Lindsay, Jeffry P. - Fool me twice: a novel
- McCafferty, Keith - The bangtail ghost
- McCall Smith, Alexander - How to raise an elephant
- McCall Smith, Alexander - A promise of ankles
- Ottolengui, Rodrigues - Final proof: or, the value of evidence
- Perry, Thomas - Eddie's boy: a novel (ebook available)
- Racanelli, Vito - The man in Milan
- Rozan, S. J. - The art of violence
POETRY
- Carr, Angela - Without ceremony
- Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne - The age of Phillis
- Pico, Tommy - Feed
- Robertson, Robin - Grimoire: new Scottish folk tales
- Together in a sudden strangeness: America's poets respond to the pandemic (Alice Quinn ed.)
- Poems from Greek antiquity (Paul Quarrie, ed.)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE, ESSAYS, BELLES LETTRES
- Bloom, Harold - The bright book of life: novels to read and reread 809.3 B
- Bruce, Dickson D. - The origins of African American literature, 1680-1865 820.9 B
- Gallagher, Dorothy - Stories I forgot to tell you 828 G
- Hamlin, William M. - Montaigne: a very short introduction 844.09 H
- Hunt, Peter - The making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the invention of Wonderland 823 C
- Koestenbaum, Wayne - Figure it out: essays 824 K
- Milne, A. A. - Happy half-hours: selected writings of A. A. Milne 828 M
- Mullan, John - The artful Dickens: the tricks and ploys of the great novelist 823 D
- Tillman, Katherine Davis Chapman - The works of Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman 820.81 T
- Mexican literature: a history (David William Foster, ed.)860.9 M
- The glorious American essay: one hundred essays from colonial times to the present (Phillip Lopate, ed.) (ebook available) 824.08 G
POETRY
- Gigantic cinema: a weather anthology (Alice Oswald & Paul Keegan, eds.) 808.8 G
- Ginsberg, Allen - The fall of America journals, 1965-1971 821.09 G
- Hetherington, Paul - Prose poetry: an introduction 808.1 H
- Jacob, Max - The selected poems of Max Jacob 841 J
- McDowell, Nicholas - Poet of revolution: the making of John Milton 92 M662 M
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - Letters to a young poet: with the letters to Rilke from the "young poet" 92 R5735 R
- Rosenblitt, J. Alison - The beauty of living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War 92 C9714 R
- Sandler, Matt - The Black romantic revolution: abolitionist poets at the end of slavery 821.09 S
FICTION
- British weird (James Machin, ed.; late 19th-early 20th century supernatural, horror, Gothic stories) F B
- Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela - Slum virgin (2017 Booker International shortlist; translated from the Spanish) F C
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi - The book of not: a novel (2006 sequel to Nervous Conditions, prequel to 2020 Booker listed This Mournable Body) F D
- Fuchs, Daniel - The apathetic bookie joint (short stories by author of The Williamsburg trilogy)F F
- Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma - Daughters of the stone F L
- Oy, caramba!: an anthology of Jewish stories from Latin America(Ilan Stavans, editor) F O
- Selvon, Samuel - The lonely Londoners (classic 1956 novel by Trinidadian author about West Indians in London)F S
- Women's weird 2: more strange stories by women, 1891-1937 (Melissa Edmundson, ed.)F W
NATURE & LANDSCAPE
- Aalto, Kathryn - Writing wild: women poets, ramblers, and mavericks who shape how we see the natural world 809 A
- Owens, Susan - Spirit of place: artists, writers and the British landscape 823.08 O
- Rebanks, James - English pastoral: an inheritance 630.1 R
MYTHS, LEGENDS & FOLKLORE
- Gébler, Carlo - Aesop's fables: the cruelty of the gods 398 G
- Haynes, Natalie - Pandora's jar: women in the Greek myths 292 H
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Go gator and muddy the water (writings from The Federal Writers Project)398 H
- Menon, Ramesh - Siva: the Siva Purana retold 294.5 M
ART
- Bresc-Bautier, Genevieve - The Louvre: the history, the collections, the architecture 708.4 B OVERSIZE
- Hitchmough, Wendy - The Bloomsbury look 709.42 H
- Karmel, Pepe - Abstract art: a global history 709.04 K
- Penrose, Antony - Surrealist: Lee Miller 779 M
- Storr, Robert - Philip Guston: a life spent painting 759.1 G OVERSIZE
- Vikan, Gary - Sacred and stolen: confessions of a museum director 706.9 V
- Weber, Nicholas Fox - Anni & Josef Albers: equal and unequal 709.2 A
- Artists' letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney (Michael Bird, ed.)709.2 A
ARCHITECTURE
- Baker, Jean H. - Building America: the life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe 720.92 L
- Darke, Diana - Stealing from the Saracens: how Islamic architecture shaped Europe 720.94 D
- Pattison, Harriet - Our days are like full years: a memoir with letters from Louis Kahn 720.92 P
NEW YORK
- Cannell, Michael - A brotherhood betrayed: the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. 92 R383 C
- Gieseking, Jen Jack - A queer New York: geographies of lesbians, dykes, and queers 306.76 G
- Helmreich, William B. - The Queens nobody knows: an urban walking guide 917.471 H
- Vega, Bernardo - Memoirs of Bernardo Vega: a contribution to the history of the Puerto Rican community in New York 92 V421 V
- The encyclopedia of New York (by the editors of New York Magazine)974.71 E
- Snyder-Grenier, Ellen M. - The house on Henry Street: the enduring life of a Lower East Side settlement 331.85 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Bonds, Mark Evan - Beethoven: variations on a life 780.92 B
- Cheshire, Godfrey - The press gang: writings on cinema from the New York Press, 1991-2011 791.4 C
- Griffin, Farah Jasmine - If you can't be free, be a mystery: in search of Billie Holiday 92 H7321 G
- Grupenhoff, Richard - The Black Valentino: the stage and screen career of Lorenzo Tucker 92 T8927 G
- Kennicott, Philip - Counterpoint: a memoir of Bach and mourning 780.92 B
- Mason, Clifford - Macbeth in Harlem: Black theater in America from the beginning to Raisin in the sun 792.0973 M
- Patoski, Joe Nick - Willie Nelson: an epic life 92 N4325 P
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Kassabova, Kapka - To the lake: a Balkan journey of war and peace 914.97 K
- Moss, John - A history of English place names and where they came from 914.2 M
- Nooteboom, Cees - Venice: the lion, the city, and the water 914.53 N
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Abramsky, Sasha - Little wonder: the fabulous story of Lottie Dod, the world's first female sports superstar 92 D6385 A
- Brown, David S. - The last American aristocrat: the brilliant life and improbable education of Henry Adams 92 A213 B
- Cherington, Gretchen - Poetic license: a memoir 92 C5211 C
- Foer, Esther Safran - I want you to know we're still here: a post-Holocaust memoir 92 F654 F
- Johnson, James Weldon - Along this way 92 J6736 J
- Mrazek, Robert J. - The indomitable Florence Finch: the untold story of a war widow turned resistance fighter and savior of American POWs 92 F4921 M
- Nichter, Luke - The last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the making of the Cold War 92 L8224 N
- Schwartz, Thomas Alan - Henry Kissinger and American power: a political biography 92 K618 S
- Yan, Lianke - Three brothers: memories of my family 92 Y233 Y
HISTORY
- Allinson, Gary D. - Japan's postwar history 952 A
- Craveri, Benedetta - The last libertines 944.03 C
- Frykman, Niklas - The bloody flag: mutiny in the age of Atlantic revolution 303.6 F
- Gonzales, Michael J. - The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 972 G
- Herbert, Ulrich - A history of twentieth-century Germany 943.087 H
- McWilliam, Rohan - London's West End: creating the pleasure district, 1800-1914 942.1 M
- Mikhail, Alan - God's shadow: Sultan Selim, his Ottoman empire, and the making of the modern world 949.6 M
- Preston, Paul - A people betrayed: a history of corruption, political incompetence and social division in modern Spain 946 P
- Scarborough, Joe - Saving freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the fight for western civilization 973.918 S
- Smith, Carl S. - Chicago's great fire: the destruction and resurrection of an iconic American city 977.31 S
- Till-Mobley, Mamie - Death of innocence: the story of the hate crime that changed America (account by Emmett Till's mother) 364.1 T
- Vuillard, Eric - The war of the poor (German Peasants' War, 1524-25) 943.03 V
- Walvin, James - Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic slave trade 306.3 W
ANTIQUITY
- Markoe, Glenn - Phoenicians 939.4 M
- Morgan, Llewelyn - Ovid: a very short introduction 871.2 M
- Naunton, Chris - Egyptologists' notebooks: the golden age of Nile exploration in words, pictures, plans, and letters 932 N
- A wonder to behold: craftsmanship and the creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate (Anastasia Amrhein, et al., eds.)935 W
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Early, Bryan R. - Busted sanctions: explaining why economic sanctions fail 327.73 E
- Kimmage, Michael - The abandonment of the West: the history of an idea in American foreign policy 327.73 K
- Kupchan, Charles - Isolationism: a history of America's efforts to shield itself from the world 327.73 K
WAR
- Draper, Robert - To start a war: how the Bush Administration took America into Iraq 973.931 D
- Harris, Sheldon H. - Factories of death: Japanese biological warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover-up 940.5405 H
- Tremlett, Giles - The International Brigades: fascism, freedom and the Spanish Civil War 946.08 T
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
- Camic, Charles - Veblen: the making of an economist who unmade economics 330.1 C
- Griffin, Emma - Bread winner: an intimate history of the Victorian economy 942.08 G
- Marcal, Katrine - Who cooked Adam Smith's dinner?: a story about women and economics 306.3 M
- Wiedeman, Reeves - Billion dollar loser: the epic rise and spectacular fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork 333 W
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Dadzie, Stella - A kick in the belly: women, slavery and resistance 306.3 D
- Randall, Margaret - I never left home: poet, feminist, revolutionary: a memoir of time & place 92 R1885 R
- All the women are white, all the Blacks are men, but some of us are brave: Black women's studies (Akasha Hull, et al., eds.)305.4 A
ACTIVISM & PROTEST
- Carson, Clayborne - In struggle: SNCC and the Black awakening of the 1960s 323.1 C
- Lopez Bunyasi, Tehama - Stay woke: a people's guide to making all Black lives matter 305.88 L
- Weiner, Lee - Conspiracy to riot: the life and times of one of the Chicago 7 92 W42353 W
- Van Meter, Matthew - Deep delta justice: a Black teen, his lawyer, and their groundbreaking battle for civil rights in the South 323.4 V
PHILOSOPHY
- Bregman, Rutger - Humankind: a hopeful history 128 B
- Clark, Stephen R. L. - Plotinus: myth, metaphor, and philosophical practice 186 C
- Gaita, Raimond - The philosopher's dog 128 G
- Hankins, James - Virtue politics: soulcraft and statecraft in Renaissance Italy 170 H
SCIENCE
- Catania, Kenneth - Great adaptations: star-nosed moles, electric eels, and other tales of evolution's mysteries solved 591 C
- Crawford, Dorothy H. - Viruses: a very short introduction 616.01 C
- Farrell, John - The clock and the camshaft: and other medieval inventions we still can't live without 608 F
- Lyman, Monty - The remarkable life of the skin: an intimate journey across our largest organ 612 L
- Pierotti, Raymond John - The first domestication: how wolves and humans coevolved 636.7 P
- Wood, Bernard A. - Human evolution: a very short introduction 575 W
- Zaman, Muhammad H. - Biography of resistance: the epic battle between people and pathogens 616.9 Z