New York Society Library

JANUARY 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Barr, Cyrilla - Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
  • Bayley, John - Elegy for Iris (Iris Murdoch)
  • Bedford, Steven - John Russell Pope
  • Blackman, Ann - Seasons of her life: biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright
  • Davis, Margaret - The dark side of fortune: triumph and scandal in the life of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny
  • Debre, Patrice - Louis Pasteur
  • Doonan, Simon - Confessions of a window dresser: tales from a life in fashion
  • Ferguson, Niall - The house of Rothschild
  • Gilbert, W. Stephen - The life and work of Dennis Potter
  • Gill, Gillian - Mary Baker Eddy
  • Hoby, Margaret - The private life of an Elizabethan lady: the diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1566-1605
  • Ignatieff, Michael - Isaiah Berlin
  • Johnston, Kenneth - The hidden Wordsworth: poet, lover, rebel, spy
  • Kirsch, Jonathan - Moses: a life
  • Leaming, Barbara - Marilyn Monroe
  • Lipking, Lawrence - Samuel Johnson: the life of an author
  • Lovell, Mary - A rage to live (Richard & Isabel Burton)
  • Marnham, Patrick - Dreaming with his eyes open (Diego Rivera)
  • Mate, Ferenc - The hills of Tuscany: a new life in an old land
  • Mayer, Henry - All on fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the abolition of slavery
  • McDougal, Dennis - The last mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the hidden history of Hollywood
  • Neville-Sington, Pamela - Fanny Trollope: the life and adventures of a clever woman
  • Pernoud, Regine - Hildegard of Bingen
  • Rabe, John - The good man of Nanking: the diaries of John Rabe
  • Redlich, Fritz - Hitler: diagnosis of a destructive prophet
  • Renehan, Edward - The lion's pride: Theodore Roosevelt and his family in peace and war
  • Rogers, Mary Beth - Barbara Jordan: American hero
  • Seward, Desmond - Caravaggio
  • Strawson, John - Churchill and Hitler: in victory and defeat
  • Waldron, Ann - Eudora Welty: a writer's life

FICTION

  • Appelfeld, Aron - The conversion
  • Bainbridge, Beryl - Master Georgie
  • Blakeslee, Mermer - In dark water
  • Bram, Christopher - Father of Frankenstein
  • Buechner, Frederick - The storm
  • Bull, Bartle - A café on the Nile
  • Donleavy, J.P. - Wrong information is being given out at Princeton
  • Foden, Giles - The last king of Scotland
  • Hood, Ann - Ruby
  • Hooper, Kay - Haunting Rachel
  • Lehrer, Jim - Purple dots
  • Lindsey, Johanna - The present
  • McEwan, Ian - Amsterdam
  • Nadas, Peter - The end of a family story
  • Neil, Barbara - A history of silence
  • O'Donnell, Mark - Let nothing you dismay
  • Petsinis, Tom - The French mathematician
  • Stirling, Jessica - The island wife
  • Woodiwiss, Kathleen - The elusive flame

SHORT STORIES / NOVELLAS

  • Croft, Barbara - Necessary fictions
  • Walpert, Kate - Where she went

MYSTERIES

  • Atkins, Ace - Crossroad blues
  • Barre, Richard - Bearing secrets
  • Benjamin, Carol - A hell of a dog
  • Block, Lawrence - The burglar who painted like Mondiran
  • Day, Diane - Emperor Norton's ghost
  • Fowler, Earlene - Dove in the window
  • George, Anne - Murder gets a life
  • Hall, Oakley - Ambrose Bierce and the queen of spades
  • Jennings, Maureen - Under the dragon's tail
  • Kahn, Sharon - Fax me a bagel
  • Keady, Walter - Mary McGreevy
  • MacLeod, Charlotte - The balloon man
  • Maron, Margaret - Home fires
  • Muller, Marcia and Bill Pronzini - Duo (stories)
  • O'Marie, Carol Anne - Death takes up a collection
  • Page, Katherine Hall - The body in the bookcase
  • Rowland, Laura - The concubine's tattoo
  • *Stacey, Susannah - Hunter's quarry
  • Stevenson, Richard - Strachey's folly
  • *Turnbull, Peter - The man with no face
*Indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

A selection of new Poetry, Travel and Large Print books is now shelved in the Circulation Lobby area for your convenience.

BIOGRAPHY

  • Ambrose, Stephen - Crazy Horse and Custer: the parallel lives of two American warriors (1996) 970.2C
  • Fleming, Maureen - A caged bird: the romantic biography of Empress Elizabeth of Austria (1939) 92 E433F
  • Leacock, Stephen - Mark Twain (1932) 92 T9694L
  • McCrum, Robert - My year off (Cerebrovascular disease) 362.1M
  • Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar - Cabeza de Vaca's adventures in the unknown interior of America (1983) 92 N972B
  • O'Meally, Robert - Lady Day: the many faces of Billie Holiday (1991) 92 H7321O
  • Sullivan, Thomas
  • - From redcoat to rebel: the Thomas Sullivan journal 92 S9522S
  • Vansittart, Peter - In the fifties (1995) 92 V2796V

BELLES LETTRES

  • Acker, Kathy - Bodies of work: essays 824A
  • Augenbraum, Harold - The Latino reader: an American literary tradition from 1542 to the present 820.8L
  • Binion, Rudolph - Sounding the classics: from Sophocles to Thomas Mann 809.3B
  • Bloom, Harold - Shakespeare: the invention of the human 822.33C
  • Busch, Frederick - A dangerous profession: a book about the writing life 808B
  • Connor, Steven - Postmodernist culture: an introduction to the theories of the contemporary (1989) 306C
  • Craig, Gordon - The politics of the unpolitical: German writers and the problem of power, 1770-1871 (1995) 830.9C
  • Disch, Thomas - The dreams our stuff is made of: how science fiction conquered the world 809.8D
  • Fadiman, Anne - Ex libris: confessions of a common reader 824F
  • Kitteredge, William - The portable Western reader 820.8P
  • Lucas, E.V. - The second post: a companion to "The gentlest art" (Letter writing) (1930) 826.08S
  • Mullen, Richard - The Penguin companion to Trollope (1996) 823T
  • Price, Kenneth - Whitman and tradition: the poet in his century (1990) 821.09W
  • Richetti, John - The Columbia history of the British novel (1994) 823C
  • Sutherland, John - Is Heathcliff a murderer?: great puzzles in nineteenth-century literature (1996) 823S
  • Zwerdling, Alex - Improvised Europeans: American literary expatriates and the siege of London 820.9Z

ARTS

  • Mordden, Ethan - Coming up roses: the Broadway musical in the 1950s 782M
  • Beck, James - Jacopo della Querica. 2 vols. (1991) 730.92J
  • Bokina, John - Opera and politics: from Monteverdi to Henze 782B
  • Gowing, Lawrence - Vermeer (1970) 759.9V
  • Hilmes, Michele - Radio voices: American broadcasting, 1922-1952 384H
  • Lincoln, W. Bruce - Between heaven and hell: the story of a thousand years of artistic life in Russia 709.47L
  • Rich, Frank - Hot seat: theater criticism for the New York Times, 1980-1993 792.9R
  • Thornton, Dora - The scholar in his study: ownership and experience in Renaissance Italy 747T
  • Willett, John - Expressionism (1970) 709.04W
  • Wojtowicz, Robert - Sidewalk critic: Lewis Mumford's writings on New York 720.973M

POETRY

  • Ashbery, John - The mooring of starting out: the first five books of poetry 821A
  • Hughes, Frieda - Wooroloo 821H
  • Montale, Eugenio - Collected poems, 1920-1954 851M
  • Muldoon, Paul - Hay 821M
  • Parini, Jay - The Columbia anthology of American poetry (1995) 821.08C
  • Strand, Mark - Blizzard of one 821S
  • Szymborska, Wistawa - Poems, new and collected, 1957-1997 891.85S
  • Wright, Charles - Appalachia 821W

NEW YORK CITY

  • Gottesman, Rita - The arts and crafts in New York, 1726-1776: advertisements and news items from New York City newspapers (1970) 659.1G
  • Hemphill, Clara - The parent's guide to New York City's best public schools 371.2H
  • Wallace, Mike and Edwin Burrows - Gotham: a history of New York City to 1898 974.71B -

MYTHS and SYMBOLS

  • Mooney, James - Myths of the Cherokee (1995) 398.2M
  • Walker, Barbara - The woman's dictionary of symbols and sacred objects (1988) 291.37W
  • Walker, Barbara - The woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets (1983) 291W

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Barondes, Samuel - Mood genes: hunting for origins of mania and depression 616.8B
  • Guttman, Allen - The erotic in sports (1996) 796G
  • Miller, Alice - Paths of life: seven scenarios 306.8M
  • Roth, Michael - Freud: conflict and culture 150F
  • Valian, Virginia - Why so slow?: the advancement of women 305.4V

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Ambrose, Stephen - Americans at war 355.0973A
  • Aronowitz, Stanley - From the ashes of the old: American labor and America's future 331.88A
  • Asher, Michael - The last of the Bedu: in search of the myth (1996) 953A
  • Blakely, Edward - Fortress America: gated communities in the United States 307.76B
  • Bono, Chastity - Family outing 306.7B
  • Carter, Jimmy - The virtues of aging 305.2C
  • Cohen, Mark - Culture of intolerance: chauvinism, class, and racism in the United States 305.8C
  • Loughery, John - The other side of silence: men's lives and gay identities: a twentieth century history 305.3L
  • Moe, Richard - Changing places: rebuilding community in the age of sprawl 307.76M
  • Pitt, Leonard - The decline of the Californios: a social history of the Spanish speaking Californians, 1846-1890 (1966) 979.4P
  • Sewall, Gilbert - The eighties: a reader 306E
  • Urrea, Luis Alberto - By the lake of sleeping children: the secret life of the Mexican border (1996) 306U
  • Wetherell, W.D. - North of now: a celebration of country and the soon to be gone 974W

PHILOSOPHY

  • Jonas, Hans - Mortality and morality: a search for the good after Auschwitz (1996) 170J
  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice - In praise of philosophy and other essays (1988) 100M
  • Ricoeur, Paul
  • - Critique and conviction: conversations with Francois Azouvi and Marc de Launay 194R
  • Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy 10 vols. Ref. 100R

RELIGION

  • Gauchet, Marcel - The disenchantment of the world: a political history of religion 201G
  • Hengel, Martin - Paul between Damascus and Antioch: the unknown years 225.92P
  • Scheindlin, Raymond (transl) - The book of Job 223B
  • Schwartz, Tony - What really matters: searching for wisdom in America (1995) 128S
  • Zaleski, Jeffrey - The soul of cyberspace: how new technology is changing our spiritual lives 201Z

HISTORY

  • Bacon, Francis - The history of the reign of King Henry VII and selected works. Edited by Brian Vickers 942.05B
  • Bonfil, Roberto - Jewish life in Renaissance Italy (1994) 945B
  • Cannadine, David - History in our time 942.08C
  • Eliach, Yaffa - There once was a world: a nine-hundred-year chronicle of the shtetl of Eishyshok 947.9E
  • Ellet, E.F. - Domestic history of the American Revolution 973.3E
  • Fitch, Anthony - The burning of Washington: the British invasion of 1814 973.5P
  • Foner, Eric - The story of American freedom 323.4F
  • Gairdner, James - Lollardy and the Reformation in England: an historical survey. 4 vols. (1968) 270.6C
  • Gould, John - Herodotus (1989) 888.1G
  • Kammen, Michael - In the past lane: historical perspectives on American culture 973K
  • Le Goff, Jacques - History and memory (1992) 901L
  • MacMullen, Ramsay - Corruption and the decline of Rome (1988) 937.06M
  • Martin, Marie Alexandrine - Cambodia: a shattered society (1994) 959M
  • Mullan, Don - Bloody Sunday: massacre in Northern Ireland: the eyewitness accounts 941.5B
  • Weart, Spencer - Never at war: why democracies will not fight one another 327.2W
  • Young, Alfred - Beyond the American Revolution: explorations in the history of American radicalism (1993) 973.3B

SCIENCE

  • Daston, Lorraine - Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750 306.4D Oversize
  • Dawkins, Richard - Unweaving the rainbow: science, delusion and the appetite for wonder 501D
  • Goldsmith, Donald - The hunt for life on Mars 576G

HEALTH and HOME

  • Bennett, Amanda - In memoriam: a practical guide to planning a memorial service 393B
  • Grant, Julia - Raising baby by the book: the education of American mothers 649G
  • Landro, Laura - Survivor: taking control of your fight against cancer 362.1L

BUSINESS and ECONOMICS

  • Gardner, David - The Motley Fool investment guide: how the fool beats Wall Street's wise men and how you can t too 332.6G
  • Longworth, Richard - Global squeeze: the coming crisis for first-world nations 330.9L
  • Miller, J. Innes - The spice trade of the Roman Empire, 29BC to AD641 338.1
  • O'Boyle, Thomas - At any cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the pursuit of profit 338.7O

NARCOTICS

  • Gray, Mike - Drug crazy: how we got into this mess and how we can get out 363.45G
  • Massing, Michael - The fix 363.45M

LAW

  • Bugliosi, Vincent - No island of sanity: Paula Jones v. Bill Clinton: the Supreme Court on trial 342.73B
  • Carville, James - And the horse he rode in on: the people vs. Kenneth Starr 345.4C
  • Formisano, Ronald - The great lobster war 338.8F
  • Hudson, John - The history of English law: centenary essays on "Pollock and Maitland" (1996) 347H
  • Mollenkamp, Carrick - The people vs. big tobacco: the states took on the cigarette giants 347P

HUMOR

  • Barry, Dave - Dave Barry turns 50 827B
  • Martin, Steve - Pure drivel 827M
  • Sorel, Edward - Unauthorized portraits 741.5S

TRAVEL

  • Cantor, George - Historic Black landmarks: a traveler's guide (1991) 917.3C
  • Davies, John - A history of Wales (1994) 942.9D
  • Levenstein, Harvey - Seductive journey: American tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age 306L
  • Preston, Diana - A first rate tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the race to the South Pole 919.8P
  • Pyne, Stephen - How the Canyon became Grand 979.1P
  • Ronda, James - Lewis and Clark among the Indians (1984) 917.8R
  • Savage, Beth - African American historic places (1994) 973A
  • Stambaugh, John - The ancient Roman city (1988) 307.76S

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Bergner, Daniel - God of the rodeo: the search for hope, faith, and a six-second ride in Louisiana's Angola Prison 365B
  • Rogers, Katharine - The cat and the human imagination: feline images from Bast to Garfield 809.9R
  • Lewis, Martin - The myth of continents: a critique of metageography 301.2L
  • Morris, Willie - The ghosts of Medgar Evers: a tale of race, murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood 791.4M

LARGE PRINT

  • Baldacci, David - The winner F B
  • Bryson, Bill - A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 917.4B
  • Evans, Nicholas - The loop F E
  • Fielding, Helen - Bridget Jones's diary F F
  • Harr, Jonathan - A civil action 347.5H
  • Kinder, Gary - Ship of gold in the deep blue sea 910.9K
  • Norris, Kathleen - Amazing grace: a vocabulary of faith 242N
  • Reich, Christopher - Numbered account F R
  • Sheehy, Gail - Understanding men's passages: discovering the new map of men's lives 305.3S
  • Siddons, Anne - Low country F S

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