NEW BOOKS LIST
OCTOBER 2008
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
Alter, Cathy – Up for renewal:
what magazines taught me
about love, sex, and starting
over
Baker, Stephen – The numerati
Basten, Fred E. – Max Factor:
the man who changed the
faces of the world
Buk-Swienty, Tom – The other
half: the life of Jacob Riis and
the world of immigrant
America (translated by
Annette Buk-Swient)
Carlin, John – Playing the
enemy: Nelson Mandela and
the game that made a nation
Conant, Jennet –
The irregulars: Roald Dahl
and the British spy ring in
wartime Washington
Cooper, Helene – The house at
Sugar Beach: in search of a
lost African childhood
Corsi, Jerome R. – The Obama
nation: leftist politics and the
cult of personality
Crystal, David –
Txtng: the Gr8 Db8
Cunliffe, Barry W. –
Europe between the oceans:
themes and variations:
9000 BC to AD 1000
Downey, Patrick –
Bad seeds in the Big Apple:
bandits, killers, and chaos in
New York City, 1920 – 1940
Fassihi, Farnaz –
Waiting for an ordinary day:
the unraveling of life in Iraq
Friedman, Thomas L. –
Hot, flat, and crowded: why
we need a green revolution —
and how it can renew America
Geist, Mary Ellen –
Measure of the heart:
a father’s Alzheimer’s,
a daughter’s return
(foreword by Oliver Sacks)
Gordon-Reed, Annette –
The Hemingses of Monticello:
an American family
Graboys, Thomas B. – Life in
the balance: a physician’s
memoir of life, love, and
loss with Parkinson’s disease
and dementia
Greenberg, Michael –
Hurry down sunshine
Heller, Michael –
The gridlock economy: how
too much ownership wrecks
markets, stops innovation,
and costs lives
Herman, Eleanor – Mistress of
the Vatican: the true story
of Olimpia Maidalchini, the
secret female pope
Jain, Anita –
Marrying Anita: a quest for
love in the new India
Jardine, Lisa – Going Dutch:
how England plundered
Holland’s glory
Jones, Howard –
The Bay of Pigs
Kimmel, Michael S. –
Guyland: the perilous world
where boys become men
Kunin, Madeleine –
Pearls, politics, & power:
how women can win and lead
Levitin, Daniel J. – The world
in six songs: how the musical
brain created human nature
Like breath on glass:
Whistler, Inness, and the
art of painting softly
(edited by Marc Simpson)
Loh, Sandra Tsing –
Mother on fire
Lopez, Jonathan – The man
who made Vermeers: unvarnishing the legend of master
forger Han van Meegeren
Lyall, Sarah – The Anglo files:
a field guide to the British
Meier, Andrew – The lost spy:
an American in Stalin’s secret
service
Nadkarni, Nalini –
Between earth and sky: our
intimate connections to trees
Page, Max – The city’s end:
two centuries of fantasies,
fears, and premonitions of
New York’s destruction
Pollack, Kenneth M. –
A path out of the desert:
a grand strategy for America
in the Middle East
Roiphe, Anne –
Epilogue: a memoir
Schieffer, Bob –
Bob Schieffer’s America
Seierstad, Asne –
The angel of Grozny: orphans
of a forgotten war (translated
by Nadia Christensen)
Silverman, Al – The time of
their lives: the golden age of
great American book publishers, their editors and authors
Suskind, Ron – The way of the
world: a story of truth and
hope in an age of extremism
Woodward, Bob – The war
within: a secret White House
history, 2006 – 2008
FICTION
Aslam, Nadeem –
The wasted vigil
Asner, Jules – Whacked
Auster, Paul – Man in the dark
Barbery, Muriel –
The elegance of the
hedgehog (translated by
Alison Anderson)
Berger, John – From A to X:
a story in letters
Bly, Carol – Shelter half
Buckley, Christopher –
Supreme courtship
Bushnell, Candace –
One Fifth Avenue
Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien –
Ms. Hempel chronicles
Capella, Anthony – The various flavors of coffee
Clarke, Breena –
Stand the storm
Colford, Ian – Evidence
Cook, Robin – Foreign body
Donoghue, Emma –
The sealed letter
Drayson, Nicholas – A guide
to the birds of East Africa
Edgerton, Clyde –
The Bible salesman
Gregory, Philippa –
The other queen
Guo, Xiaolu – Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth
Hijuelos, Oscar – Dark dude
Keillor, Garrison – Liberty:
a Lake Wobegon novel
Kent, Kathleen –
The heretic’s daughter
Lehane, Dennis –
The given day
Lodge, David – Deaf sentence
Lustbader, Eric –
First daughter
Makine, Andrei –
Human love (translated by
Geoffrey Strachan)
Mattison, Alice – Nothing is
quite forgotten in Brooklyn
McCleary, Kathleen –
House and home
Perez-Reverte, Arturo –
The king’s gold (translated
by Margaret Jull Costa)
Piazza, Tom – City of refuge
Prose, Francine – Goldengrove
Reyn, Irina – What happened
to Anna K.
Robinson, Marilynne – Home
Roth, Philip – Indignation
Self, Will –
The butt: an exit strategy
Sittenfeld, Curtis –
American wife
Stephenson, Neal – Anathem
Tei, Chiew-Siah – Little hut of
leaping fishes
Tinti, Hannah – The good thief
Viswanathan, Padma –
The toss of a lemon
Walker, Kathryn – A stopover
in Venice
Winger, Anna – This must be
the place
Wittenborn, Dirk – Pharmakon
SHORT STORIES
Adrian, Chris – A better angel
Brown, Danit –
Ask for a convertible
Enright, Anne –
Yesterday’s weather
Fuentes, Carlos –
Happy families (translated
by Edith Grossman)
Krasikov, Sana –
One more year
Proulx, Annie – Fine just the
way it is: Wyoming stories 3
Gardner, John –
No human enemy *
Gaus, Paul L. –
Separate from the world:
an Ohio Amish mystery
Gerritsen, Tess –
The keepsake
Goodman, Carol –
MYSTERIES
The night villa
Granger, Ann –
Atkinson, Kate – When will
A mortal curiosity *
there be good news? *
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia –
Bayard, Louis –
Game over: a Bill Slider
The black tower
mystery *
Bebris, Carrie –
Harvey, Michael T. –
The matters at Mansfield,
The fifth floor
or, The Crawford affairy *
Higgins, Jack – Rough justice
Bell, Ted – Tsar
Hunter, Stephen –
Benn, James R. –
Night of thunder
Blood alone: a Billy Boyle
Krueger, William Kent –
World War II mystery
Red Knife: a Cork O’Connor
Berenson, Laurien –
mystery
Doggie day care murder
Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney – Loehfelm, Bill – Fresh kills
Manhattan noir 2:
Oscar Wilde and a game
the classics (edited by
called murder *
Lawrence Block)
Brett, Simon –
Mankell, Henning –
Blood at the bookies:
The pyramid: and four other
a Fethering mystery *
Kurt Wallander mysteries
Cain, Chelsea – Sweetheart
(translated by Ebba
Cleeves, Ann – White nights *
Segerberg with Laurie
Coel, Margaret –
Thompson)
Blood memory
Massey, Sujata –
Corbett, David –
Shimura trouble:
Blood of paradise
a Rei Shimura mystery
Coyle, Cleo – Espresso shot
Doogan, Mike – Skeleton Lake McCall Smith, Alexander –
The comforts of a muddy
Dunn, Carola – Black ship:
Saturday
a Daisy Dalrymple mystery *
McDermid, Val –
Francis, Dick – Silks
A darker domain *
McGilloway, Brian –
Borderlands: an Inspector
Devlin mystery
McInerny, Ralph M. –
The green revolution
Meltzer, Brad –
The book of lies
Montanari, Richard –
Badlands
Oldham, Nick – Screen of
deceit: A DCI Henry Christie
mystery *
Peacock, Justin –
A cure for night
Peters, Elizabeth –
The laughter of dead kings
Pyper, Andrew –
The killing circle
Robbins, Harold –
The deceivers
Welsh, Irvine – Crime
* indicates a British mystery
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
Parker, Hershel –
Flawed texts and verbal
icons: literary authority in
American fiction · 823.09P
Sepich, John – Notes on
Blood meridian · 823M
Wertheim, Stanley –
The Crane log: a documentary life of Stephen Crane,
1871 – 1900 · 92 C8915W
POETRY
Adam, Helen – A Helen Adam
reader · 821A OVERSIZE
Crane, Hart –
The letters of Hart Crane,
1916 – 1932 · 92 C8913C
The first poems in English
(translated and edited by
Michael Alexander) · 829F
Mao, Zedong – The poems of
Mao Zedong · 895.1M
Sa’di – The Gulistan: bilingual
English and Persian edition
(translated by Wheeler M.
Thackston) · 891.5S
Sammons, Jeffrey L. –
Heinrich Heine, the elusive
poet · 831.09H
Stern, Gerald – Save the last
dance: poems · 821S
Büchner, Georg – Lenz · 830.8B
Byrne, Sandie –
The unbearable Saki: the
work of H. H. Munro · 823S
Forster, E. M. – The BBC talks
of E. M. Forster, 1929 – 1960:
ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
a selected edition · 828F
Jurca, Catherine –
Garrison, James B. –
White diaspora: the suburb
Mastering tradition: the
and the twentieth-century
residential architecture of
American novel · 823.09 J
John Russell Pope · 728G
MacDonald, Donald – Golden
Gate Bridge: history and
design of an icon · 624M
Rudolph, William Keyse –
Julian Onderdonk: American
impressionist · 759.1 O
Rykwert, Joseph – The
judicious eye: architecture
against the other arts · 720R
Saint, Andrew – Architect and
engineer: a study in sibling
rivalry · 720S
Schulz, Bruno –
Bruno Schulz · 741.3S
Stewart, Garrett –
The look of reading: book,
painting, text · 758S
Wright, Frank Lloyd – Modern
architecture: being the Kahn
lectures for 1930 · 720.973W
Waxman, Sharon – Rebels on
the backlot: six maverick
directors and how they
conquered the Hollywood
studio system · 791.4W
THEATER & DRAMA
Bennett, Alan – Me, I’m afraid
of Virginia Woolf · 822.9B
Corneille, Pierre – The theatre
of illusion (translated by
Richard Wilbur) · 842C
Harshav, Benjamin –
The Moscow Yiddish theater:
art on stage in the time of
revolution · 792.094H
MUSIC
PHILOSOPHY & ETHICS
Faulkner, Robert K. –
The case for greatness:
honorable ambition and
its critics · 179F
Feng, Youlan – The spirit
of Chinese philosophy · 181F
Mahowald, Mary Briody –
Bioethics and women:
across the life span · 174M
Rowland, Ingrid D. –
Giordano Bruno: philosopher/heretic · 92 B898R
Shevelow, Kathryn –
For the love of animals: the
rise of the animal protection
movement · 179S
FILM
Sturges, Preston. – Four
more screenplays · 822.9S
Born in the Bronx: a visual
record of the early days
of hip hop (edited by Johan
Kugelberg) · 780.973B
Hill, Peter – Messiaen ·
780.92M
Lockwood, Lewis –
Inside Beethoven’s quartets:
history, interpretation,
performance · 785.7L
The New Grove dictionary
of opera (4 vols., edited by
Stanley Sadie) · REF. 782.1N
BIOGRAPHY
Courtney, Steve – Joseph
Hopkins Twichell: the life
and times of Mark Twain’s
closest friend · 92 T9725C
Severn, John Kenneth –
Architects of empire: the
Duke of Wellington and his
brothers · 920 W4523S
Shlaim, Avi. – Lion of Jordan:
the life of King Hussein in
war and peace · 92 H9722S
Skloot, Floyd – The wink of
the zenith: the shaping of a
writer’s life · 92 S6286S
Wheelan, Joseph –
Mr. Adams’s last crusade:
John Quincy Adams’s extraordinary post-presidential life
in Congress · 92 A215W
O’Malley, John W. – What
happened at Vatican II · 262 O
Witham, Larry – The proof of
God: the debate that shaped
modern belief · 211W
SCIENCE
Fox, Cynthia – Cell of cells:
the global race to capture and
control the stem cell · 660F
Gunn, Moira Anne –
Welcome to BioTech nation:
my unexpected odyssey into
the land of small molecules,
lean genes, and big ideas ·
660G
SOCIAL STUDIES
Muller, R. – Physics for future
Debord, Guy – The society of
presidents: the science
the spectacle · 302D
behind the headlines · 530M
Fletcher, Anthony –
Orsenna, Erik –
Growing up in England:
Portrait of the Gulf Stream:
the experience of childhood, in praise of currents · 551.4 O
1600 – 1914 · 305.23F
NEUROSCIENCE
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth –
Marriage: the dream that
Feinberg, Todd E. –
refuses to die · 306.8F
Altered egos: how the brain
Tilly, Charles –
creates the self · 612.8F
Credit and blame · 302T
Karinthy, Frigyes – A journey
Z̆iz̆ek, Slavoj – Violence: six
round my skull · 92 1813K
sideways reflections · 303.6Z Marcus, Gary F. – Kluge:
the haphazard construction
RELIGION
of the human mind · 153M
Atlas of the world’s religions
HISTORY
· REF. 200A
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher –
Capozzola, Christopher –
American priestess: the
Uncle Sam wants you:
extraordinary story of Anna
World War I and the making
Spafford and the American
of the modern American
Colony in Jerusalem · 266G
citizen · 973.91C
Crowley, Roger – Empires of
the sea: the siege of Malta,
the battle of Lepanto, and
the contest for the center of
the world · 940.2C
Dray, Philip – Capitol men:
the epic story of
Reconstruction through the
lives of the first Black
congressmen · 973.8D
Hamerow, Theodore S. –
Why we watched: Europe,
America, and the Holocaust
· 940.5318H
Hayes, Kevin J. – The road to
Monticello: the life and
mind of Thomas Jefferson ·
973.4H
Levy, Buddy – Conquistador:
Hernán Cortés, King
Montezuma, and the last
stand of the Aztecs · 972L
Purcell, Hugh – After The Raj:
the last stayers-on and the
legacy of British India · 954P
Paice, Edward – World War I:
the African front · 940.4P
MIDDLE EAST
Avishai, Bernard –
The Hebrew republic: how
secular democracy and
global enterprise will bring
Israel peace at last · 956.94A
Freedman, Lawrence –
A choice of enemies:
America confronts the
Middle East · 327.73F
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Gellman, Barton –
Angler: the Cheney vice
presidency · 973.931G
Lévy, Bernard Henri –
Left in dark times · 320.9L
Safire, William – Safire’s
political dictionary · 320.3S
Williams, Roger –
On religious liberty · 323.4W
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
WAR
Bailey, Roderick – Forgotten
voices of the secret war:
an inside history of special
operations during the
Second World War · 940.548B
Humbert, Agnès –
Résistance: a woman’s journal of struggle and defiance
in occupied France · 940.548H
Mansoor, Peter R. –
Baghdad at sunrise:
a Brigade Commander’s war
in Iraq · 956.704M
Hirschman, Albert O. –
The passions and the
interests: political arguments
for capitalism before its
triumph · 330.1H
Shiller, Robert J. –
The subprime solution ·
332.7S
EDUCATION
Fish, Stanley Eugene –
Save the world on your own
time · 378F
Hemphill, Clara –
New York city’s best public
high schools: a parents’
guide · REF. 373H
Martin, Roger H. –
Racing Odysseus: a college
president becomes a
freshman again · 92 M382M
MEDICINE & HEALTH
Greene, Gayle –
Insomniac · 616.8G
Perry, Arthur W. –
Straight talk about cosmetic
surgery · 617P
Wilson, Daniel J. –
Living with polio · 616.8W
CRIME
LAW
Drennan, William R. –
Death in a prairie house:
Frank Lloyd Wright and the
Taliesin murders · 364.1D
MacKellar, Landis –
The “double indemnity”
murder: Ruth Snyder, Judd
Gray, and New York’s crime
of the century · 364.1M
Pomeroy, Sarah B. –
The murder of Regilla:
a case of domestic violence
in antiquity · 364.1P
Kertzer, David I. –
Amalia’s tale: an impoverished peasant woman,
an ambitious attorney, and
a fight for justice · 343.1K
Spitzer, Robert J. –
Saving the Constitution
from lawyers · 342.73S
Teles, Steven Michael –
The rise of the conservative
legal movement · 340T
Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett
– Hidden in plain sight:
the tragedy of children’s
rights from Ben Franklin to
Lionel Tate · 342.73W
FOOD & DRINK
Ettlinger, Steve –
Twinkie, deconstructed:
my journey to discover the
ingredients found in
processed foods · 641.3E
Gately, Iain – Drink: a cultural
history of alcohol · 641.2G
Wallace, Benjamin –
The billionaire’s vinegar:
the mystery of the world’s
most expensive bottle
of wine · 641.22W
Zagat New York City restaurants 2008 · REF. 647.9N
NEW YORK
Agovino, Michael J. –
The bookmaker: a memoir
of money, luck and family
from the utopian outskirts
of New York City · 92 A2765A
Eliot, Marc –
Song of Brooklyn: an oral
history · 974.71E
Podell-Raber, Mickey –
The Copa · 792.7P
Sharman, Russell Leigh –
Nightshift NYC · 331.25S
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
Bembo, Ambrosio –
The travels and journal of
Ambrosio Bembo · 915.6B
Berman, Eleanor –
Traveling solo: advice
and ideas for more than
250 great vacations · 910B
Howgego, Raymond John –
Encyclopedia of exploration
(4 vols.) · REF. 910.9H
Robinson, Tim – Stones of
Aran: pilgrimage · 914.15R
Shackleton, Ernest Henry –
Escape from the Antarctic ·
919S
HUMOR
Lewis, Ben – Hammer &
tickle: the history of
communism told through
communist jokes · 335.4L
Swift, Jonathan –
Polite conversation · 827S
Zoglin, Richard –
Comedy at the edge:
how stand-up in the 1970s
changed America · 792.2Z
AUDIO BOOKS
Flaubert, Gustave –
Madame Bovary (10 CDs) ·
LOBBY AUDIO-CD F
Watson, Nicola J. –
The literary tourist: readers
and places in romantic &
Victorian Britain · 914.2W
Pollan, Michael – The omnivore’s dilemma (13 CDs) ·
LOBBY AUDIO-CD 394.1P
Tolstoy, Leo –
The death of Ivan Ilyich
(3 CDs) · LOBBY AUDIO-CD T
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