Just a few of our new books, just in time for your summer reading.
Alan Lomax : The Man Who Recorded the World / John Szwed. ML423.L6347S98 2010
American Eden : From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards : What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are / Wade Graham SB451.3.G718 2011
Armed Humanitarians : The Rise of the Nation Builders / Nathan Hodge. JZ6369.H63 2011
Battle of Britain : Five Months that Changed History, May-October 1940 / James Holland. D756.5.B7H66 2011
Beirut / Samir Kassir ; foreword by Robert Fisk ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise. DS89.B4K3813 2010
Branch Rickey / Jimmy Breslin. GV865.R45B74 2011
Every Man in This Village is a Liar : An Education in War / Megan K. Stack. DS63.1.S696 2010
For All the Tea in China : How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History / Sarah Rose. HD9198.G72R67 2010
In the Shadow of the Buddha : Secret Journeys, Sacred Histories, and Spiritual Discovery in Tibet / Matteo Pistono. BQ978.I88A3 2011
The Invisible Line : Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White / Daniel J. Sharfstein. E184.A1S5724 2011
Jerusalem, Jerusalem : How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World / James Carroll DS109.9.C367 2011
Joseph Brodsky : A Literary Life / Lev Loseff ; translated by Jane Ann Miller. PG3479.4.R64Z76513 2011
Livia, Empress of Rome : ABbiography / Matthew Dennison. DG291.7.L5D45 2010
The hemlock cup : Socrates, Athens, and the search for the good life / by Bettany Hughes. B316.H84 2011
The Memory Palace / by Mira Bartok. RC464.H67 2011
The Most Human Human : What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means To Be Alive / Brian Christian. BD450.C5356 2011
The Neoconservative Persuasion : Selected Essays, 1942-2009 / Irving Kristol ; edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb ; foreword by William Kristol. JC573.K6658 2011
A Promise at Sobibór : A Jewish Boy’s Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-occupied Poland / Philip “Fiszel” Bialowitz, with Joseph Bialowitz. DS134.72.B527A3 2010
The 100 Best African American Poems : (*but I cheated) / edited by Nikki Giovanni. PS591.N4A15 2010 Book and DVD
The Philosophical Breakfast Club : Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World / Laura J. Snyder. Q141.S5635 2011
Queer (in)justice : The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States / Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock. KF4754.5.M64 2011
The Return : Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev / Daniel Treisman. JN6695.T74 2011
Storey’s Guide to Keeping Honey Bees / by Malcolm T. Sanford and Richard E. Bonney. SF523.S36 2010
21st-Century Gothic : Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 / edited by Danel Olson. PN3435.A16 2011
Will Eisner : A Dreamer’s Life in Comics / Michael Schumacher. PN6727.E4Z78 2010
The Return : Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev / Daniel Treisman. Russia’s history during the past century has been mostly horrific. Stalin’s crimes were staggering, and many years passed before later governments somewhat loosened the grip of repression. Countries under Soviet control led miserable existences. At home, the failures of communism have left many Russians living in poverty even while a new and venal capitalism enriches a relative few. Meanwhile, the rest of the world must remain watchful because Russia’s nuclear arsenal makes it too powerful to ignore.