New Books Winter 2010
History & Social Sciences | Biography | Art & Architecture | Fiction & Literature | Mystery & Thriller | Religion
Andress, David. 1789: the threshold of the modern age
Andrew, Christopher M. Defend the realm : the authorized history of MI5
Baker, Russ. Family of secrets: the Bush dynasty, America's invisible government, and the hidden history of the last fifty years
Balz, Daniel J. Battle for America 2008 : the story of an extraordinary election
Beattie, Alan. False economy: a surprising economic history of the world
Beevor, Antony. D-day: the Battle for Normandy
Begley, Louis. Why the Dreyfus Affair matters
Bell, C. Gordon. Total recall: how the E-memory revolution will change everything
Birmingham, Stephen. Real lace: America's Irish rich
Bradley, Elizabeth L. Knickerbocker: the myth behind New York
Bradley, Patricia. Making American culture: a social history, 1900-1920
Branch, Taylor. Clinton tapes: wrestling history with the president
Brown, David S. Beyond the frontier: the midwestern voice in American historical writing
Caldwell, Christopher. Reflections on the revolution in Europe: immigration, Islam, and the West
Cobb, Matthew. Resistance: the French fight against the Nazis
Cohen, Rich. Israel is real
Diamond, John (John M.) CIA and the culture of failure: U.S. intelligence from the end of the Cold War to the invasion of Iraq
Diski, Jenny. Sixties
Drabble, Margaret. Pattern in the carpet: a personal history with jigsaws
Edsel, Robert M. Monuments men: Allied heroes, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history
Epstein, Daniel Mark. Lincoln's men: the president and his private secretaries
Eubanks, W. Ralph. House at the end of the road: the story of three generations of an interracial family in the American South
Everitt, Anthony. Hadrian and the triumph of Rome
Faber, David. And then the roof caved in: how Wall Street's greed and stupidity brought capitalism to its knees
Faber, David. Munich, 1938: appeasement and World War II
Finkel, David. Good soldiers
Freeland, David. Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville: excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure
Friedman, Barry. Will of the people: how public opinion has influenced the Supreme Court and shaped the meaning of the Consitution
Frost, Mark. Game six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series : the triumph of America's pastime
Galeano, Eduardo H. Mirrors: stories of almost everyone
Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith. Fall of the west: the slow death of the Roman superpower
Grippo, Robert M. Macy's: the store, the star, the story
Hancock, David. Oceans of wine: Madeira and the emergence of American trade and taste
Hartigan-O'Connor, Ellen. Ties that buy: women and commerce in revolutionary America
Hunter, Doug. Half moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World
Hunwick, John O. Hidden treasures of Timbuktu: rediscovering Africa's literary culture
Jaksic, Ivan. Hispanic world and American intellectual life, 1820-1880
Jenkins, Sally. State of Jones: the small southern county that seceded from the Confederacy
Kaplan, Fred M. 1959: the year everything changed
Keefe, Patrick Radden. Snakehead: an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream
Keegan, John. American Civil War: a military history
Kidder, Tracy. Strength in what remains
Kurlander, Eric. Living with Hitler: liberal Democrats in the Third Reich
Lacey, Robert. Inside the Kingdom: kings, clerics, modernists, terrorists, and the struggle for Saudi Arabia
Lawrence, Mark Atwood. Vietnam War: a concise international history
Lemire, Elise Virginia. Black Walden: slavery and its aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts
Lester, Toby. Fourth part of the world: the race to the ends of the Earth, and the epic story of the map that gave America its name
Levy, Barry. Town born: the political economy of New England from its founding to the Revolution
Loyn, David. In Afghanistan: two hundred years of British, Russian and American occupation
Lyons, Jonathan. House of wisdom: how the Arabs transformed Western civilization
Maass, Peter. Crude world : the violent twilight of oil
Martin, Morag. Selling beauty: cosmetics, commerce, and French society, 1750-1830
McGlone, Robert E. John Brown's war against slavery
McGregor, James H. Paris from the ground up
Mueller, Andrew. I wouldn't start from here: the 21st century and where it all went wrong
Panchasi, Roxanne. Future tense: the culture of anticipation in France between the wars
Patenaude, Bertrand M. Stalin's nemesis: the exile and murder of Leon Trotsky
Poole, Robert M. On hallowed ground: the story of Arlington National Cemetery
Prose, Francine. Anne Frank: the book, the life, the afterlife
Roberts, Timothy Mason. Distant revolutions: 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism
Roux, Simone. Paris in the Middle Ages
Schiffrin, André. Dr. Seuss & Co. go to war: the World War II editorial cartoons of America's leading comic artists
Schoen, Brian. Fragile fabric of Union: cotton, federal politics, and the global origins of the Civil War
Scott, James. Attack on the Liberty: the untold story of Israel's deadly 1967 assault on a U.S. spy ship
Sebestyen, Victor. Revolution 1989: the fall of the Soviet empire
Smith, Stephen. Underground England: travels beneath our cities and countryside
Talty, Stephan. Illustrious dead: the terrifying story of how typhus killed Napoleon's greatest army
Tindall, Gillian. Footprints in Paris: a few streets, a few lives
Van der Vat, Dan. Dardanelles disaster: Winston Churchill's greatest failure
Vollmann, William T. Imperial
Wessel, David. In Fed we trust: Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic
Wheatcroft, Andrew. Enemy at the gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe
Wickham, Chris. Inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000
Wood, Gordon S. Empire of liberty: a history of the early Republic, 1789-1815
Zuelow, Eric. Making Ireland Irish: tourism and national identity since the Irish Civil War
Benson, Jackson J. Under the big sky: a biography of A.B. Guthrie Jr
Bloch, Michael. James Lees-Milne: the life
Brent, Frances Padorr. Lost cellos of Lev Aronson
Brinkley, Douglas. Wilderness warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the crusade for America
Brown, Clive. Portrait of Mendelssohn
Bruni, Frank. Born round: the secret history of a full-time eater
Buckley, Veronica. Secret wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon
Byrne, Paula. Mad world: Evelyn Waugh and the secrets of Brideshead
Cambor, Kate. Gilded youth: three lives in France's Belle Époque
Carroll, Stuart. Martyrs and murderers: the Guise family and the making of Europe
Crawford, Alan Pell. Twilight at Monticello: the final years of Thomas Jefferson
Crisp, Quentin. How to become a virgin
De Lisle, Leanda. Sisters who would be queen: Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: a Tudor tragedy
Denton, Sally. Pink lady: the many lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas
Farmelo, Graham. Strangest man: the hidden life of Paul Dirac, mystic of the atom
Fenster, J. M. FDR's shadow: Louis Howe, the force that shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Forcellino, Antonio. Michelangelo: a tormented life
Franck, Peggy Miller. Prides crossing: the unbridled life and impatient times of Eleonora Sears
Friend, Tad. Cheerful money: me, my family, and the last days of Wasp splendor
Gavin, James. Stormy weather: the life of Lena Horne
Gayford, Martin. Constable in love: love, landscape, money and the making of a great painter
Ginzberg, Lori D. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: an American
Graebner, William. Patty's got a gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s
Graham, Bradley. By his own rules: the ambitions, successes, and ultimate failures of Donald Rumsfeld
Graham, Roderick. Life of Mary, Queen of Scots: an accidental tragedy
Greene, Bob. Late edition: a love story
Greenwald, Marilyn S. Cleveland Amory: media curmudgeon & animal rights crusader Teachout, Terry. Pops: a life of Louis
Harrison, Jim. Off to the side: a memoir
Hastings, Selina. Secret lives of Somerset Maugham
Hayes, Kevin J. Edgar Allan Poe
Heller, Anne Conover. Ayn Rand and the world she made
Hendrix, John. John Brown : his fight for freedom
Holton, Woody. Abigail Adams
Hunt, Tristram. Frock-coated communist: the revolutionary life of Friedrich Engels
Hutchinson, Robert. Thomas Cromwell: the rise and fall of Henry VIII's most notorious minister
Inglis, Fred. History man: the life of R. G. Collingwood
Jones, Judith. Tenth muse: my life in food
Kelley, Robin D. G. Thelonious Monk: the life and times of an American original
Kennedy, Edward M. True compass: a memoir
King, Francis Henry. E.M. Forster and his world: with 122 illustrations
Kuhn, William M. Politics of pleasure: a portrait of Benjamin Disraeli
Lever, Maurice. Beaumarchais: a biography
Linklater, Andro. Artist in treason: the extraordinary double life of General James
Maddox, Brenda. George Eliot: novelist, lover, wife
Martin, Steve. Born standing up: a comic's life
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld: voice of the enlightenment
Myers, John L. Henry Wilson and the era of Reconstruction
Paquet-Nesson, Marie. Ballet to the corps: a memoir
Purnick, Joyce. Mike Bloomberg
Reid-Henry, Simon. Fidel and Che: a revolutionary friendship
Rimler, Walter. George Gershwin: an intimate portrait
Romagnoli, G. Franco. Bicycle runner: a memoir of love, loyalty, and the Italian resistance
Roosevelt, Eleanor. Volume of friendship: the letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway, 1904-1953
Rubenhold, Hallie. Lady in red: an eighteenth-century tale of sex, scandal, and divorce
Sensibar, Judith L. Faulkner and love: the women who shaped his art
Shawcross, William. Queen Mother: the official biography
Sitiki,. Odyssey of an African
Sklenicka, Carol. Raymond Carver: a writer's life
Stephens, Philip. Tony Blair: the making of a world leader
Thomson, Keith Stewart. Young Charles Darwin
Unger, Harlow G. Last founding father: James Monroe and a nation's call to greatness
Urofsky, Melvin I. Louis D. Brandeis: a life
Waller, David. Magnificent Mrs. Tennant: the adventurous life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian grande-dame
Williams, Charles. Harold Macmillan
Wolffe, Richard. Renegade: the making of a president
Architecture: celebrating the past, designing the future
Art deco jewelry: modernist masterworks and their makers
Benton, Tim. Rhetoric of modernism: Le Corbusier as a lecturer
Brandt, Beverly Kay. Craftsman and the critic: defining usefulness and beauty in arts and crafts-era Boston
Brey, Ilaria Dagnini. Venus fixers: the remarkable story of the Allied soldiers who saved Italy's art during World War II
Chinese whispers: chinoiserie in Britain, 1650-1930
Church, Frederic Edwin. Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church's views from Olana
Designing the modern interior: from the Victorians to today
Dunlop, Anne. Painted palaces: the rise of secular art in early Renaissance Italy
Fitzpatrick, Tracy. Art and the subway: New York underground
Gayford, Martin. Constable portraits: the painter & his circle
Green, Christopher. Life and death in Picasso: still life/figure, c. 1907-1933
Gross, Michael. Rogues' gallery: the secret history of the moguls and the money that made the Metropolitan Museum
Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the making of the modern museum.
Hemus, Ruth. Dada's women
Kopp, Édouard. Capturing nature's beauty: three centuries of French landscapes
Lane, Barbara G. Hans Memling: master painter in fifteenth-century Bruges
Lawrence, Richard Russell. Book of the Edwardian & interwar house
Martindale, Meredith. John Singer Sargent a Mallorca
Master paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago
Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Prendergast in Italy
Millais, Malcolm. Exploding the myths of modern architecture
Murase, Miyeko. Through the seasons: Japanese art in nature
Naginski, Erika. Sculpture and enlightenment
National Gallery (Great Britain). Corot to Monet: French landscape painting
Sharp, Kevin. Bold, cautious, true: Walt Whitman and American art of the Civil War era
Thomas Andrew. Call of the coast: art colonies of New England
Venice: from Canaletto and Turner to Monet
Alexander, Patrick. Marcel Proust's search for lost time: a reader's guide to Remembrance of things past
Reisner, Noam. Milton and the ineffable
Tolkien, J. R. R. Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
Hornby, Nick. Shakespeare wrote for money
Lineup: the world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives
Hemingway, Ernest. Moveable feast: the restored edition
Estes, Angie. Tryst
Glück, Louise. Village life
Leavitt, David. Arkansas: three novellas
Wright, Franz. Wheeling motel: poems
Atwood, Margaret. Year of the flood
Auster, Paul. Invisible
Baker, Nicholson. Anthologist
Barbery, Muriel. Gourmet rhapsody
Cave, Nick. Death of Bunny Munro
Chaudhuri, Amit. Immortals
Dai, Sijie. Once on a moonless night
Eggers, Dave. Wild things
Foden, Giles. Turbulence: a novel of the atmosphere
Hemon, Aleksandar. Love and obstacles: stories
Hough, John. Seen the glory: a novel of the Battle of Gettysburg
Huyler, Frank. Right of thirst
Irving, John. Last night in Twisted River
Kingsolver, Barbara. Lacuna
Lethem, Jonathan. Chronic city
McDonell, Nick. Expensive education
Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall
Martin, Valerie. Confessions of Edward Day
Mawer, Simon. Glass room
Mayle, Peter. Vintage caper
Moore, Lorrie. Gate at the stairs
Müller, Herta. Passport
Niffenegger, Audrey. Her fearful symmetry
Oates, Joyce Carol. Little bird of heaven
Pamuk, Orhan. Museum of innocence
Pynchon, Thomas. Inherent vice
Rosnay, Tatiana de. Sarah's key
Roth, Philip. Humbling
Shaara, Jeff. No less than victory : a novel of World War II
Sheck, Laurie. Monster's notes
Stockett, Kathryn. Help
Trevor, William. Love and summer
Vámos, Miklós. Book of fathers
Vonnegut, Kurt. Look at the birdie: unpublished short fiction
Yglesias, Rafael. Happy marriage
Airth, Rennie. Dead of winter
Berry, Steve. Paris vendetta: a novel
Carver, Raymond. Collected stories
Doctorow, E. L. Homer & Langley: a novel
Downie, Ruth. Persona non grata: a novel of the Roman empire
Glass, Matthew. Ultimatum
Grossman, Lev. Magicians: a novel
Hamilton, Barbara. Ninth daughter
Hill, Reginald. Midnight fugue
Kanon, Joseph. Stardust: a novel
Mayle, Peter. Vintage caper
Mayor, Archer. Price of malice: a Joe Gunther novel
McCall Smith, Alexander. Lost art of gratitude
Poyer, David. Crisis
Rendell, Ruth. Monster in the box: an Inspector Wexford novel
Swarup, Vikas. Six suspects
Tapply, William G. Dark tiger
Todd, Charles. Duty to the dead
White, Stephen. Siege
Winkowski, Mary Ann. Book of illumination: a novel from the ghost files
Anderson, Gary A. Sin: a history
Armstrong, Karen. Case for God
Bremer, Francis J. Puritanism: a very short introduction
Cox, Harvey Gallagher. Future of faith
Crisp, Quentin. Manners from heaven: a divine guide to good behaviour
Duffy, Eamon. Fires of faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
Farley, David. Irreverent curiosity: in search of the church's strangest relic in Italy's oddest town
Freeman, Charles. New history of early Christianity
Miller, Steven P. Billy Graham and the rise of the republican south
Moorhouse, Geoffrey. Last office: 1539 and the dissolution of a monastery
Mullins, Edwin B. Popes of Avignon: a century in exile
Paterwic, Stephen. Historical dictionary of the Shakers
Robbins, Keith. England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales: the Christian Church, 1900-2000
Wright, Robert. Evolution of God
Printer-friendly version
RSS: