JUNE 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

SELECTED NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

• Albers, Patricia - Shadows, fire, snow (Tina Modotti)
• Aldiss, Brian - The twinkling of an eye: my life as an Englishman
• Baxter, Freddie Mae - The seventh child: a lucky life
• Carpenter, Humphrey - Dennis Potter
• Chang, Leslie - Beyond the narrow gate: the journey of four Chinese women from the Middle Kingdom to Middle America
• De Klerk, F.W. - The last trek: a new beginning
• Diehl, Margaret - The boy on the green bicycle: a memoir
• Erickson, Carolly - Josephine: a life of the empress
• Feinstein, Elaine - Pushkin
• Galbraith, John Kenneth - Name-dropping
• Garland, Patrick - The incomparable Rex [Harrison]
• Ginzburg, Natalia - The things we used to say
• Glendinning, Victoria - Jonathan Swift
• Gordon, Lyndall - A private life of Henry James
• Greer, Germaine - The whole woman
• Guinness, Alec - A positively final appearance
• Harris, John - No voice from the hall: early memories of a country house snooper
• Jurgensen, Genevieve - The disappearance: a memoir of loss
• Korda, Michael - Another life
• MacDonogh, Giles - Frederick the Great
• Milton, Joyce - The first partner (Hillary Rodham Clinton)
• Nadler, Steven - Spinoza
• Powers, Ron - Dangerous water (Mark Twain)
• Roiphe, Ann - 1185 Park Avenue
• Rossant, Colette - Memories of a lost Egypt
• Schaeffer, Neil - The Marquis de Sade
• Schiff, Stacy - Vera [Nabokov]
• Souhami, Diana - The trials of Radclyffe Hall
• Szpilman, Wladsylaw - Pianist: the extraordinary story of one man's survival in Warsaw
• Thomas, Helen - Front row at the White House
• Toer, Pramoedya Ananta - The mute's soliloquy
• Wagner, Gottfried - Twilight of the Wagners
• Williams, John R. - The life of Goethe
• Wilson, Jean M. - Siegfried Sassoon
• Zelnick, Bob - Gore: a political life

FICTION

• Andersen, Kurt - Turn of the century
• Anthony, Piers - Muse of art
• Bailey, Paul - Kitty & Virgil
• Barker, Pat - Another world
• Barnes, Julian - England, England
• Belfer, Lauren - City of light
• Berberova, Nina - The book of happiness
• Busch, Frederick - The night inspector
• Dyer, Geoff - Paris trance
• Finnamore, Suzanne - Otherwise engaged
• Fitch, Janet - White oleander
• Fitzgerald, Penelope - Human voices
• Frederickson, Michael - Cinderella affidavit
• Gray, Pat - The cat
• Grayson, Emily - The gazebo
• Harries, Ann - Manly pursuits
• Homes, A.M. - Music for torching
• Hrabal, Bohumil - Dancing lessons for the advanced in age
• Just, Ward - A dangerous friend
• Krentz, Jayne Ann - The eye of the beholder
• Lazar, Zachary - Aaron, approximately
• Lindsey, Joanna - Joining
• Lippi, Rosina - Homestead
• Mason, Richard - The drowning people
• Nye, Robert - The late Mr. Shakespeare
• Okri, Ben - Infinite riches
• Picoult, Jodi - Keeping faith
• Plain, Belva - Fortune's hand
• Prager, Emily - Roger Fishbite
• Rushdie, Salman - The ground beneath her feet
• Saylor, Steven - Rubicon
• Seth, Vikram - An equal music
• Sheepshanks, Mary - Picking up the pieces
• Thackara, James - The book of kings

SHORT STORIES

• Clyde, Mary - Survival rates
• Demarinis, Rick - Borrowed hearts: new and selected stories
• Proulx, Annie - Close range: Wyoming stories
• Tilghman, Christopher - The way people run

MYSTERIES

• *Beaton, M.C. - Death of an addict
• *Bowen, Rhys - Evanly choirs
• Bradley, James - Wrack
• *Cannell, Dorothy - The trouble with Harriet
• Chute, Carolyn - Snow man
• Connolly, John - Every dead thing
• *Crombie, Deborah - Kissed a sad goodbye
• D'Amato, Barbara - Hard evidence
• Deere, Dicey - The Irish cottage murder
• Farrow, John - City of ice
• Fowler, Earlene - Mariner's compass
• *Granger, Ann - Call the dead again
• Harvey, John - Last rites
• Higgins, Jack - The White House connection
• *Hill, Reginald - Singing the sadness
• *Holt, Hazel - Fatal legacy
• *James, Bill - Lovely mover
• Johansen, Roy - The answer man
• Jones, Stan - White sky, black ice
• Krueger, William - Boundary waters
• Martel, John - The alternate
• *Mina, Denise - Garnethill
• Muller, Marcia - A walk through the fire
• Nadelson, Reggie - Bloody London
• *Neel, Janet - To die for
• Parker, T. Jefferson - The blue hour
• Perez-Reverte, Arturo - The fencing master
• *Robinson, Peter - In a dry season
• *Roome, Annette - Deceptive relations
• Sandford, John - Certain prey
• Smith, Martin Cruz - Havana Bay
• Stabenow, Dana - Hunter's moon
• Vachss, Andrew - Choice of evil
• Walker, Blair S - Hidden in plain view
• *Walters, Minette - The breaker

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

• Brassai - Henry Miller, the Paris years (1995) 92 M6483B
• Bryant, Keith - William Merritt Chase: a genteel bohemian (1991) 709.2C
• Hotchner, A.E. - Blown away: the Rolling Stones and the death of the sixties (1990) 784.6H
• Saunders, Max - Ford Madox Ford: a dual life 2v. (1996) 92 F699S
• Stephanopoulos, George - All too human: a political education 92 S827S

BELLES LETTRES

FRENCH CLASSICS

• (Bibliothèque de la Pleiade)
• Baudelaire, Charles - Correspondance 2v. Fr.92 B
• Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de - Oeuvres Fr.842 B
• Gide, André - Journal 2v. Fr.92 G
• La Bruyère, Jean de - Oeuvres complètes Fr.194 L
• Malebranche, Nicolas - Oeuvres 2v. Fr.194 M
• Malherbe, Francois de - Oeuvres Fr.840.81 M
• Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat - Ouevres complètes 2v. Fr.840.81 M
• Rabelais, Francois - Oeuvres complètes Fr.840.81 R
• Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal - Correspondance 3v. Fr.846 S
• Stendhal - Romans et nouvelles 2v. Fr. S

POETRY

• Euripides - The Trojan women, adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre (1967) 882.3R
• Glück, Louise - The first four books of poems (1995) 821G
• Leithauser, Brad - The odd last thing she did 821L
• Ondaatje, Michael - Handwriting 821O
• Piercy, Marge - The art of blessing the day: poems with a Jewish theme 821P
• Simic, Charles - Jackstraws 821S

ARTS

• Bätzner, Nike - Andrea Mantegna, 1430/31-1506 759.5M
• Cropper, Elizabeth - Nicolas Poussin: friendship and the love of painting (1996) 759.4C
• Kenny, Peter - Honoré Lannuier: cabinet maker from Paris 749.2K
• Kilmurray, Elaine - John Singer Sargent 759.1S
• Morgan, Robert - The end of the art world 709.04M
• Rather, Susan - Archaism, modernism, and the art of Paul Manship (1993) 730.92M
• Reynolds, Simon - Generation ecstasy: into the world of techno and rave culture 781.6R
• Sutton Peter - Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684 759.9H
• Watkins, S. Craig - Representing: hip hop culture and the production of Black cinema 791.4W

DRAMA/THEATRE

• Adler, Stella - Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov 809.2A
• FitzSimon, Christopher - The Irish theatre (1983) 792.09415F
• Wilmeth, Don (ed) - Cambridge history of American theatre 792.0973C

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Berger, Maurice - White lies: race and the myths of whiteness 305.8B
• Etcoff, Nancy - Survival of the prettiest: the science of beauty 391.6E
• Goody, Jack - The logic of writing and the organization of society (1986) 301.2G
• Ignatieff, Michael - The warrior's honor: ethnic war and the modern conscience 305.8I
• Marx, Leo (ed) - Progress: fact or illusion? (1996) 303.4P
• Papert, Seymour - The connected family: bridging the digital generation gap (1996) 305.23P
• Shlain, Leonard - The alphabet versus the goddess: the conflict between word and image 302S
• Thomas, Donald - The Victorian underworld 364T

RELIGION

• Bogle, Emory - Islam: origin and belief 297B
• Coles, Robert - The secular mind 291.4C
• Gallagher, Winifred - Working on God 201G
• Jacobs, Louis - The Jewish religion (1995) 296J

PSYCHOLOGY

• Angier, Natalie - Woman: an intimate geography 613A
• Cameron, Julia - The artist's way: a spiritual path to higher creativity (1995) 155C
• Crittenden, Danielle - What our mothers didn't tell us: why happiness eludes the modern woman 396C
• Kramer, Peter D. - Moments of engagement: intimate psychotherapy in a technological age (1989) 616.8K
• Pipher, Mary - Another country: navigating the emotional terrain of our elders 306.8P

PHILOSOPHY

• Berlin, Isaiah - The proper study of mankind: an anthology of essays 192B
• McClure, George - Sorrow and consolation in Italian humanism (1991) 155.9M
• Piaget, Jean - Insights and illusions of philosophy (1971) 100P

HUMOR

• Allais, Alphonse - The world of Alphonse Allais (1976) 847A Closed Stack
• Franken, Al - Why not me?: the inside story of the making and unmaking of the Franken presidency F/F

CRIME

• Orth, Maureen - Vulgar favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the largest failed manhunt in U.S. history 364.1O
• Schiller, Lawrence - Perfect murder, perfect town: JonBenet and the city of Boulder 364.1S
• Stowers, Carlton - To the last breath: three women fight for the truth behind a child's tragic murder 343S

SCIENCE

• Budiansky, Stephen - If a lion could talk: animal intelligence and the evolution of consciousness 591.5B
• Burrows, William E. - This new ocean: the story of the first space age 629.4B
• Dick, Steven - The biological universe: the twentieth-century extraterrestrial life debate and the limits of science (1996) 574D
• Schechner Genuth, Sara - Comets, popular culture, and the birth of modern cosmology (1997) 523.6S
• Schwartz, Jeffrey - Sudden origin: fossils, genes, and the emergence of species 576S
• Seibold, Eugen - The sea floor: an introduction to marine geology (1996) 551.4S

ECONOMICS and BUSINESS

• Levine, Joshua - The rise and fall of the house of Barneys: a family tale of chutzpah, glory, and greed 381L
• Marshall, Dorothy - Industrial England, 1776-1851 (1973) 330.942M
• O'Grada, Cormac - Ireland: a new economic history, 1780-1939 (1995) 330.9415O

POLITICAL SCIENCE

• Bush, George - A world transformed 327.73B
• Kull, Steven - Misreading the public: the myth of new isolationism 327.73K
• Tully, Alan - Forming American politics: ideals, interests, and institutions in colonial New York and Pennsylvania (1994) 306T

HISTORY

• Bowden, Mark - Black Hawk down: a story of modern war 967B
• Cruickshank, Charles - Henry VIII and the invasion of France (1991) 944.02C
• Cunliffe, Barry - The ancient Celts (1997) 936C
• Hughes, Lindsey - Russia in the age of Peter the Great 947.05H
• Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen - The Bastille: a history of a symbol of despotism and freedom (1997) 944.04L
• McCullough, David (ed) - Chronicles of the barbarians: firsthand accounts of pillage and conquest, from the ancient world to the fall of Constantinople 930C
• Oman, Charles - The sixteenth century (1937) 940.2O
• Ortega y Gasset, José - History as a system: and other essays toward a philosophy of history (1961) 901O
• The Oxford history of the British Empire, vols. 1 & 2 909O
• Schultz, Duane - The Dahlgren affair: terror and conspiracy in the Civil War 973.73S
• Shacochis, Bob - The immaculate invasion (Haiti) 972.94S
• Weinberg, Robert - Stalin's forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the making of a Soviet Jewish homeland 957W
• Williams, Derek - Romans and barbarians: four views from the empire's edge, 1st century A.D. 937W
• Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim - Zakhor: Jewish history and Jewish memory (1996) 909.4Y

PLANTS

• Orlean, Susan - The orchid thief 635O
• Pavord, Anna - The tulip 635P

TRAVEL

• Mayes, Frances - Bella Tuscany: the sweet life in Italy 92 M6488M
• Ridgeway, Rick - The shadow of Kilimanjaro: on foot across East Africa 916.7R
• Sabloff, Jeremy - The cities of ancient Mexico: reconstructing a lost world (1989) 917.2S
• Spurr, Daniel - River of forgotten days: a journey down the Mississippi in search of La Salle 917.7S
• Wright, Sarah Bird - Edith Wharton's travel writing: the making of a connoisseur (1997) 828.09W

NEW YORK CITY

• E. Belcher Hyde, Inc. - Atlas of the borough of Queens, city of New York. Volume 2, Upper part of 2nd Ward (North of Queens Boulevard), Newton (1927) 912E Closed Stack
• G.W. Bromley & Co. - Atlas of the city of New York. Borough of Manhattan, v. 1-4 of 5 vols. (1922-1931) 912G Closed Stack
• G.W. Bromely & Co. - Bronx land book of the city of New York, v. 1-2 of 4 vols. (1960-65) 912G Closed Stack
• Leahy, Michael J. - If you're thinking of living in...: all about 115 great neighborhoods in and around New York 974.7I

UNABRIDGED AUDIO CASSETTES

• Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre (14 cassettes) #789
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the night (10 cassettes) #791
• Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Ubervilles (12 cassettes) #796
• Moore, Brian - Temptation of Eileen Hughes (6 cassettes) #794

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

• Brimner, Larry - Being different: lambda youths speak out Juv. 305.23B
• Florian, Douglas - Insectlopedia: poems and paintings Juv. 821F
• Grant, Neil - The Vikings Juv. 948G
• Haseley, Dennis - Crosby Juv-E H
• Kamish, Daniel - The night the scary beasties popped out of my head Juv-E K
• Krull, Kathleen - Lives of the athletes: thrills, spills (and what the neighbors thought) Juv. 796K
• Most, Bernard - Catch me if you can Juv-YR M
• Paulsen, Gary - My life in dog years Juv. 92-P P
• Paulsen, Gary - The river Juv-F P

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