New Books – June 2024

IN THE LOBBY

NONFICTION

• Alexander, Caroline - Skies of thunder: the deadly World War II mission over the roof of the world
• Arsenault, Raymond - John Lewis: in search of the beloved community
• Baker, Nicholson - Finding a likeness: how I got somewhat better at art
• Bale, Anthony - A travel guide to the Middle Ages: the world through medieval eyes
• Barker, Elspeth - Notes from the henhouse: on marrying a poet, raising children and chickens, and writing
• Bell, Jason - Cracking the Nazi code: the untold story of Agent A12 and the solving of the Holocaust code
• Brownrigg, Sylvia - The whole staggering mystery: a story of fathers lost and found
• Bruni, Frank - The age of grievance
• Cane, Clay - The grift: the downward spiral of Black Republicans from the party of Lincoln to the cult of Trump
• Crampton, Caroline - A body made of glass: a history of hypochondria
• Davis, Angela Y - Abolition: politics, practices, promises.
• De León, Jason - Soldiers and kings: survival and hope in the world of human smuggling
• Dench, Judi - Shakespeare: the man who pays the rent
• Dolin, Eric Jay - Left for dead: shipwreck, treachery, and survival at the edge of the world
• DuVal, Kathleen - Native nations: a millennium in North America
• Elliott, Carl - The occasional human sacrifice: medical experimentation and the price of saying no
• Epstein, Joseph - Never say you've had a lucky life: especially if you've had a lucky life
• Gleason, Steve - A life impossible: living with ALS: finding peace and wisdom within a fragile existence
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns - An unfinished love story: a personal history of the 1960s
• Gopnik, Adam - All that happiness is: some words on what matters
• Gorrindo, Simone - The wives: a memoir
• Handler, Daniel - And then? And then? What else?
• Hanson, Victor Davis - The end of everything: how wars descend into annihilation
• Hendrickson, Paul - Fighting the night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a flyer's life
• Higginbotham, Adam - Challenger: a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space
• Higonnet, Anne - Liberty equality fashion: the women who styled the French Revolution
• Jacobs, A. J. - The year of living constitutionally: one man's humble quest to follow the Constitution's original meaning
• Junger, Sebastian - In my time of dying: how I came face-to-face with the idea of an afterlife
• Kaag, John - American Bloods: the untamed dynasty that shaped a nation
• Korda, Michael - Muse of fire: World War I as seen through the lives of the soldier poets
• Larson, Erik - The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War
• McMahon, Darrin M. - Equality: the history of an elusive idea
• Millet, Lydia - We loved it all: a memory of life
• Newport, Cal - Slow productivity: the lost art of accomplishment without burnout
• Nuttall, Jenni - Mother tongue: the surprising history of women's words
• O'Keefe, Edward F. - The loves of Theodore Roosevelt: the women who created a president
• O'Rawe, Richard - Stakeknife's dirty war: the inside story of Scappaticci, the IRA's nutting squad and the British spooks who ran the war
• Owens, Jay - Dust: the modern world in a trillion particles
• Page, Susan - The rulebreaker: the life and times of Barbara Walters
• Parker, Morgan - You get what you pay for: essays
• Petraeus, David Howell - Conflict: the evolution of warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
• Psaki, Jen - Say more: lessons from work, the White House, and the world
• Puleo, Stephen - The great abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the fight for a more perfect union
• Randall, Alice - My Black country: a journey through country music's Black past, present and future
• Reid, Joy-Ann - Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America
• Roberts, Jason - Every living thing: the great and deadly race to know all life
• Roman, Joe - Eat, poop, die: how animals make our world
• Rothfeld, Becca - All things are too small: essays in praise of excess
• Rushdie, Salman - Knife: meditations after an attempted murder
• Scheyder, Ernest - The war below: lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives
• Seiler, Lutz - In case of loss
• Sinha, Manisha - The rise and fall of the second American republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
• Spencer, Charles Spencer - A very private school: a memoir
• Stephanopoulos, George - The Situation Room: the inside story of presidents in crisis
• Tan, Amy - The backyard bird chronicles
• Thornton, Sarah - Tits up: what sex workers, milk bankers, plastic surgeons, bra designers, and witches tell us about breasts
• Trethewey, Natasha D. - The house of being
• Valby, Karen - The swans of Harlem: five Black ballerinas, fifty years of sisterhood, and their reclamation of a groundbreaking history
• Xinran - The book of secrets: a personal history of betrayal in Red China

FICTION

• Alvarez, Julia - The cemetery of untold stories: a novel
• Boryga, Andrew - Victim: a novel
• Carr, Flora - The tower: a novel
• Cela, Camilo José - The hive
• Davies, Carys - Clear: a novel
• Gombrowicz, Witold - The possessed
• Greer, Sierra - Annie bot: a novel
• Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - The mistress of Ashmore Castle
• Henry, Emily - Funny story
• Hood, Ann - The stolen child: a novel
• Hughes, Caoilinn - The alternatives
• Hwang Sok-yong - Mater 2-10
• July, Miranda - All fours
• Khong, Rachel - Real Americans: a novel
• Ko, Lisa - Memory piece
• Kwan, Kevin - Lies and weddings: a novel
• Langley, Patrick - The variations
• Liebrecht, Savyon - The bridesman
• Lloyd, Toby - Fervor: a novel
• Messud, Claire - This strange eventful history: a novel
• O'Connor, Elizabeth - Whale fall
• Pataki, Allison - Finding Margaret Fuller: a novel
• Pelecanos, George P. - Buster: a dog
• Posthuma, Jente - What I'd rather not think about
• Rapp, Adam - Wolf at the table: a novel
• Reichl, Ruth - The Paris novel
• Richards, Diane - Ella: a novel
• Roberts, Nora - Mind games
• Rosenblum, Emma - Very bad company
• Ryan, Jennifer - The underground library: a novel
• Sahota, Sunjeev - The spoiled heart
• Shriver, Lionel - Mania: a novel
• Skeslien Charles, Janet - Miss Morgan's book brigade: a novel
• Smiley, Jane - Lucky
• Tang, Jiaming - Cinema love: a novel
• Thayer, Nancy - The summer we started over: a novel
• Thomas, Scarlett - The sleepwalkers
• Tóibín, Colm - Long Island: a novel
• Yagisawa, Satoshi - Days at the Morisaki bookshop: a novel

MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION

• Andrews, Mary Kay - Summers at the Saint
• Baldacci, David - A calamity of souls
• Bannalec, Jean-Luc - Death of a master chef: a Brittany mystery
• Brett, Simon - Blotto, Twinks and the phantom skiers
• Brown, Rita Mae - Feline fatale
• Casey, Jane - A stranger in the family
• Cavanagh, Steve - Kill for me, kill for you
• Clark, Mary Higgins - It had to be you
• Coben, Harlan - Think twice
• Connolly, John - The instruments of darkness
• Constantine, K. C. - Another day's pain: a Rocksburg novel
• Dean, Abigail - Day One
• Flaherty, Brendan - The dredge: a novel
• Griffiths, Elly - The last word
• Horowitz, Anthony - Close to death: a novel
• Ignatius, David - Phantom orbit: a thriller
• Jacobs, Nova - The stars turned inside out: a novel
• Kubica, Mary - She's not sorry
• Mack, Catherine - Every time I go on vacation, someone dies: a novel
• MacNeal, Susan Elia - The last hope
• Miller, Philip - The hollow tree
• Miranda, Megan - Daughter of mine: a novel
• Nagendra, Harini - A nest of vipers
• Nichols, Peter - Granite Harbor
• Panowich, Brian - Nothing but the bones
• Paretsky, Sara - Pay dirt
• Perrin, Kristen - How to solve your own murder: a novel
• Sandford, John - Toxic prey
• Turton, Stuart - The last murder at the end of the world

POETRY

• Alyan, Hala - The moon that turns you back
• Gonzalez, Elisa - Grand tour: poems
• Howe, Marie - New and selected poems

IN THE STACKS

FICTION

• Adnan, Etel - Paris, when it's nakedF A
• Baker, Chandler - Cutting teethF B
• Eliot, George - The lifted veil ; Brother JacobF E
• Endō, Shūsaku - The sea and poison: a novelF E
• Jain, Saskya Iris - Fire under ashF J
• Jain, Saskya Iris - Geeta Rahman at championship point: a novelF J
• Krivak, Andrew - The bearF K
• Williams, Tennessee - The caterpillar dogs and other early storiesF W

LITERATURE

• Gates, Henry Louis - The black box: writing the race305.88 G
• Gutkind, Lee - The fine art of literary fist-fighting: how a bunch of rabble-rousers, outsiders, and ne'er-do-wells concocted creative nonfiction808 G

POETRY

• Paeth, Amy - The American poet laureate: a history of U.S. poetry and the state821.09 P
• Parini, Jay - Robert Frost: sixteen poems to learn by heart821.09 F
• Rankine, Claudia - Plot821 R
• Schwartz, Delmore - The collected poems of Delmore Schwartz821 S

WORLD HISTORY

• Milanović, Branko - Visions of inequality: from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War 339.2 M
• Philps, Alan - The red hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the untold story of Stalin's propaganda war 940.5347 P
• Poser, Norman S. - From the battlefield to the stage: the many lives of General John Burgoyne 92 B9576 P
• Sanghera, Sathnam - Empireworld: how British imperialism shaped the globe 325.3 S
• Wheeler, William - The letters of Private Wheeler: an eyewitness in action at the Battle of Waterloo 1809-1828 940.27 W

U.S. HISTORY

• Edwards, Richard - The first migrants: how Black homesteaders' quest for land and freedom heralded America's Great Migration 978 E
• Johnson, David K - The lavender scare: the Cold War persecution of gays and lesbians in the federal government 353 J

ANTIQUITY

• Elliott, Colin P. - Pox Romana: the plague that shook the Roman world 614.4 E
• Kaldellis, Anthony - The new Roman empire: a history of Byzantium 949.5 K

SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Burke, Peter - A social history of knowledge 001 B
• Wooldridge, Adrian - The aristocracy of talent: how meritocracy made the modern world 320.1 W
• Young, Robert - Postcolonialism: a very short introduction 325.3 Y

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

• Heilbrunn, Jacob - America last: the Right's century-long romance with foreign dictators 320.1 H
• Sanger, David E - New cold wars: China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West 327.73 S

RUSSIA

• Graham, Thomas E. - Getting Russia right 327.73 G
• Herszenhorn, David - The dissident: Alexey Navalny: profile of a political prisoner 92 N3191 H

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

• Ahmari, Sohrab - Tyranny, Inc.: how private power crushed American liberty--and what to do about it 322.3 A
• Deaton, Angus - Economics in America: an immigrant economist explores the land of inequality 330.9 D
• Nader, Ralph - The rebellious CEO: 12 leaders who did it right 658.3 N

ART & MUSEUMS

• Holzer, Jenny - Jenny Holzer: protect protect 709.73 H
• Kienholz, Edward - Kienholz: a retrospective 730.92 K
• Kuper, Adam - The museum of other people: from colonial acquisitions to cosmopolitan exhibitions 069 K
• Nuku, Maia - Oceania: the shape of time 709.9 N
• Post, Tina - Deadpan: the aesthetics of Black inexpression 701 P
• Turrell, James - James Turrell: a retrospective 709.73 T
• - Leo Lionni: storyteller, artist, designer 709.2 L

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

• Carmontelle - Garden at Monceau 712 C
• Guimard, Hector - Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism 720.92 G
• Neuhart, John - Eames design: the work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames 745.4 E

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Kwon, Sue - Rap is risen: New York photographs, 1988-2008 780.973 K
• Posnick, Phyllis - Stoppers: photographs from my life at Vogue 779 P

FILM & THEATER

• Cowie, Peter - God and the Devil: the life and work of Ingmar Bergman 92 B4982 C
• Morgan, Peter - Patriots 822 M
• Peele, Jordan - Get out 822.9 P

HIP HOP

• Questlove - Mo' meta blues: the world according to Questlove 780.921 Q
• Ro, Ronin - Have gun will travel: the spectacular rise and violent fall of Death Row Records 780.973 R
• RZA - The Tao of Wu 780.921 R

DIARIES

• Scanlan, Kathryn - Aug 9-fog 828 S
• - Secret voices 920 G872 S

PERSONAL HISTORY

• Charrière, Henri - Papillon 92 C4852 C
• Joyce, Patrick - Going to my father's house: a history of my times 942.085 J
• Schwartz, Lynne Sharon - My life at the wheel: new and selected essays 92 S39986 S

SCIENCE

• Haskell, David George - Sounds wild and broken: sonic marvels, evolution's creativity, and the crisis of sensory extinction 575
• Munroe, Randall - How to: absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems 500 M

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

• Roberts, David - Into the great emptiness: peril and survival on the Greenland ice cap 919.8 R
• Rush, Elizabeth A. - The quickening: creation and community at the ends of the earth 919.9 R

DISASTERS

• Brown, Daniel James - Under a flaming sky: the great Hinckley firestorm of 1894 363.3 B
• Funabashi, Yōichi - Meltdown: inside the Fukushima nuclear crisis 363.17 F

FOOD & DRINK

• Nathan, Joan - My life in recipes: food, family, and memories 641.5 N
• Ruhlman, Michael - The book of cocktail ratios: the surprising simplicity of classic cocktails 641.87 R