New York Society Library

AUGUST 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

  • Blumenfeld, Erwin- Eye to I: autobiography of a photographer
  • Brock, Pope- Indiana gothic: a story of adultery and murder in an American family
  • Codell, Esme- Educating Esme: diary of a first year of teaching
  • Foote, Horton- Farewell: memoir of a Texas childhood
  • Hampl, Patricia- I could tell you stories: sojourns in the land of memory
  • Hennessee, Judith- Betty Friedan
  • Hiss, Tony- The view from Alger's window: a son's memoir
  • Jarrell, Mary- Remembering Randall
  • Karesh, William- Appointment at the ends of the world: memoirs of a wildlife veterinarian
  • Kiyosawa, Kiyoshi- A diary of darkness: the wartime diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi
  • Norton, Rictor- Mistress of Udolpho: the life of Ann Radcliffe
  • Palmer, Arnold- A golfer's life
  • Reynolds, Michael- Hemingway: the final years
  • Russell, John- Matisse: father and son
  • Sheridan, Peter- 44: Dublin made me
  • Tyng, Charles- Before the wind: memoir of an American sea captain, 1808-1833
  • von Weizsacker, Richard- From Weimar to the Wall: my life in German politics

FICTION

  • Ansay, A. Manette- Midnight champagne
  • Berg, Elizabeth- Until the real thing comes along
  • Brown, Rita Mae- Loose lips
  • Brownrigg, Sylvia- The metaphysical touch
  • Bryers, Paul- The prayer of the bone
  • Carlile, Clancy- Paris pilgrims
  • Christensen, Kate- In the drink
  • Craze, Galaxy- By the shore
  • Dorfman, Ariel- The nanny and the iceberg
  • Draper, Robert- Hadrian's wall
  • Dunnett, Dorothy- Scales of gold
  • Fast, Howard- Redemption
  • French, Nicci- Killing me softly
  • Gitlin, Todd- Sacrifice
  • Graver, Elizabeth- The honey thief
  • Griffin, W.E.B.- Soldier spies
  • Haynes, Melinda- Mother of pearl
  • Hemingway, Ernest- True at first light: a fictional memoir
  • Hickman, Homer- Back to the moon
  • Johnson, Wayne- Don't think twice
  • Johnston, Wayne- The colony of unrequited dreams
  • Lipman, Elinor- Ladies' man
  • McNamer, Deirdre- My Russian
  • Middleton, Stanley- Necessary ends
  • Munves, James- Andes rising
  • Oates, Joyce Carol- Broke heart blues
  • Offill, Jenny- Last things
  • Preston, Douglas- Thunderhead
  • Priest, Christopher- The extremes
  • Schneider, Bart- Bluebossa
  • Smith, Diane- Letters from Yellowstone
  • Smith, Wilbur- Monsoon
  • St. Aubin de Teran, Lisa- The palace
  • Stark, Elizabeth- Shy girl
  • Steel, Danielle- Granny Dan
  • Van Wormer, Laura- Expose
  • Zeidner, Lisa- Layover

SHORT STORIES

  • Auchincloss, Louis- The anniversary and other stories
  • Gates, David- The wonders of the invisible world
  • Gunn, Kirsty- This place you return to is home
  • L'Amour, Louis- Beyond the great snow mountains
  • Westlake, Donald- A good story

MYSTERIES

  • *Airth, Rennie- River of darkness
  • Andrews, Maxwell- Gideon
  • Black, Cara- Murder in the Marais
  • Block, Lawrence- Burglar in the rye
  • Buffa, D.W.- The prosecution
  • *Butler, Gwendoline- Coffin's game
  • Craig, Philip- A fatal vineyard season
  • Cussler, Clive- Serpent
  • Dams, Jeanne- Death in lacquer red
  • Douglas, Carole Nelson- Cat on a hyacinth hunt
  • Evanovich, Janet- High five
  • Flynn, Vince- Transfer of power
  • Goddard, Ken- First evidence
  • Henrick, Richard- Nightwatch
  • Henry, Sue- Murder on the Yukon Quest
  • Jance, J.A.- Outlaw mountain
  • Kellerman, Faye- Jupiter's bones
  • Klavan, Andrew- Hunting down Amanda
  • Langton, Jane- Thief of Venice
  • Lanier, Virginia- Ten little bloodhounds
  • Lee, Barbara- Dead man's fingers
  • *Maitland, Barry- The Marx sisters
  • Mankell, Henning- Sidetracked
  • Marshall, Evan- Missing Marlene
  • *Marston, Edward- Wanton angel
  • Martin, Valerie- Italian fever
  • Mathes, Charles- The girl at the end of the line
  • *McCrery, Nigel- Spider's web
  • *McDermid, Val- A place of execution
  • McNab, Andy- Remote control
  • Minichino, Camille- Lithium murder
  • Olden, Marc- The ghost
  • O'Shaugnessy, Peri- Acts of malice
  • Pearson, Ridley- First victim
  • Redmann, J.M.- Lost daughters
  • Roberts, Gillian- Adam and evil
  • Saer, Juan Jose- The investigation
  • Sanders, Lawrence- McNally's dilemma
  • Stone, Jonathan- The cold truth
  • Tapply, William- Muscle memory
  • Wilson, John Morgan- Justice at risk
  • Winslow, Don- California fire and life
  • Wishnia, K.J.- Soft money
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Breashears, David- High exposure: an enduring passion for Everest and unforgiving places 92 B8283B
  • Brier, Bob- The murder of Tutankhamen 92 T966B
  • Brownlow, Kevin- Mary Pickford rediscovered: rare pictures of a Hollywood legend 791.4B
  • Condivi, Ascanio- The life of Michelangelo (1976) 709.2M
  • Du Pre, Hilary- Hilary and Jackie 780.92D
  • Edelman, Hope- Mother of my mother 920 E22M
  • Geoghegan, Thomas- The secret lives of citizens: pursuing the promise of American life 92 G345G
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong- Hawaii one summer 92 K5568K
  • Lamb, Brian- Booknotes: notable biographers on the people who shaped America 920 B72L
  • Lapierre, Dominique- A thousand suns 92 L313L
  • Liebowitz, Daniel- The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions and the crusade against slavery in East Africa 92 K589L
  • Lloyd, Christopher- Lord Cochrane: seaman, radical liberator 92 D9155L
  • Southern, Pat- Augustus 92 A923S
  • Warner, Sylvia Townsend- I'll stand by you: selected letters (Warner and Valentine Ackland) 92 W2853W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Anderson, Amanda- Tainted souls and painted faces: the rhetoric of fallenness in Victorian culture (1993) 820.9A
  • Bowie, Malcolm- Proust among the stars 843P
  • Brodkey, Harold- Sea battles on dry land: essays 820.81B
  • Brombert, Victor- In praise of antiheroes: figures and themes in modern European literature, 1830-1980 809B
  • Brook, Stephen- Penguin book of infidelities (1994) 820.8P
  • Brophy, Elizabeth- Women's lives and the 18th century English novel (1991) 823B
  • Cox, Roger- Between earth and heaven: Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, and the meaning of Christian tragedy (1969) 809.3C
  • Craughwell, Thomas- Great books for every book lover 028C
  • Hirsch, Edward- How to read a poem 808.1H
  • Jarrell, Randall- No other book: selected essays 824J
  • Justice, Donald- Oblivion: on writers & writing 808.1J
  • MacCarthy, B.G.- The female pen: women writers and novelists, 1621-1818 (1994) 820.9M
  • Mebane, John- Renaissance magic and the return of the Golden Age: the occult tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare (1989) 822.09M
  • Miller, J. Hillis- Topographies (1995) 809.9M
  • Parks, Tim- Adult-ery and other diversions 824P
  • Rossetti, Christina- Selected prose of Christina Rossetti 828R

ARTS

  • Block, Adrienne- Amy Beach, passionate Victorian: the life and work of an American composer, 1867-1944 780.92B
  • Booth, Wayne C.- For the love of it: amateuring and its rivals 780.92B
  • Furio, Joanne - The Limoges porcelain box: from snuff to sentiments 738F
  • Gartner, Peter- Filippo Brunelleschi, 1377-1446 720.92B
  • Havelock, Christine M.- Hellenistic art (1970) 709.38H
  • Hersey, George- The lost meaning of classical architecture: speculations on ornament from Vitrubius to Venturi (1988) 720H
  • Kossak, Steven- Indian court painting, 16th- 19th century (1997) 757.1K
  • Langdon, Helen- Carvaggio 709.2C
  • Stevens, Garry- The favored circle: the social foundations of architectural distinction 720S

POETRY

  • Harrison, Jim- The shape of the journey: new and collected poems 821H
  • Herbert, Zbigniew- Elegy for the departure and other poems 891.85H
  • Hoagland, Tony- Donkey gospel 821H
  • Motion, Andrew- Selected poems, 1976-1997 821M
  • Schwartz, Delmore- Last & lost poems. Rev. ed. (1989) 821S
  • Shapiro, Karl- The wild card: selected poems 821S
  • Warren, Robert Penn- The collected poems 821W

SHAKESPEARE

  • Berryman, John- Berryman's Shakespeare 822.33B
  • Hortmann, Wilhelm- Shakespeare on the German stage: the twentieth century 792.0943H
  • Kennedy, Dennis- Looking at Shakespeare: a visual history of twentieth century performance (1996) 822.33H
  • Levin, Richard- Love and society in Shakespearean comedy: a study of dramatic form and content (1985) 822.33c

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Armstrong, Carol- Scenes in a library: reading the photograph in the book, 1843-1875 770A
  • Proll, Astrid- Baader-Meinhof: pictures on the run, 67-77 364B
  • Spirit capture: photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian 770S

JOURNALISM & MEDIA

  • Bok, Sissela- Mayhem: violence as public entertainment 302B
  • Dary, David- Red blood & black ink: journalism in the Old West 070D
  • Dunning, John- On the air: the encyclopedia of old-time radio 791.4D
  • Reeves, Richard- What the people know: freedom and the press 070.1R

HISTORY

  • Bradbury, Jim- The Battle of Hastings 942.02B
  • Burg, Steven- The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina: ethnic conflict and international intervention 949.7B
  • Clancy, Tom- Every man a tiger (Gulf War) 956C
  • Ghani, Sirus- Iran and the rise of Reza Shah: from Qajar collapse to Pahlavi rule 955G
  • Goodwin, Jason- Lords of the horizons: a history of the Ottoman Empire 949.6G
  • Keegan, John- The First World War 940.3K
  • Kempe, Frederick- Father/land: a personal search for the new Germany 943K
  • Kennedy, David- Freedom from fear: the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 973K
  • Smith, Bonnie- The gender of history: men, women, and historical practice 907S

PRESIDENTS

  • Davis, Lanny- Truth to tell: tell it early, tell it all, tell it yourself: notes from my White House education 070.1D
  • Hitchens, Christopher- No one left to lie to: the triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton 92 C6398H
  • Isikoff, Michael- Uncovering Clinton: a reporter's story 92 C6398I
  • Olasky, Marvin- The American leadership tradition: moral vision from Washington to Clinton 920 O42A
  • Woodward, Bob- Shadow: five presidents and the legacy of Watergate 364.13W

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • Boutros-Ghali, Boutros- Unvanquished: a U.S.-U.N. saga 341.1B
  • Knaus, John Kenneth- Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan struggle for survival 951.5K
  • Kramer, Hilton- The twilight of the intellectuals: culture and politics in the era of the Cold War 305.5K
  • Marcuse, Herbert- Technology, war, and fascism 301.2M
  • Van Creveld, Martin- The sword and the olive: a critical history of the Israeli defense force 355V
  • Whitcomb, Roger- The American approach to foreign affairs: an uncertain tradition 327.73W

ECONOMICS

  • Friedman, Thomas- The Lexus and the olive tree: understanding globalization 337F
  • Galeano, Eduardo- Open veins of Latin America: five centuries of the pillage of a continent (1997) 330.98G
  • Holmes, Stephen- The cost of rights: why liberty depends on taxes 323.4H
  • Krugman, Paul- The return of depression economics 338.5K
  • Wolf, Michael- The entertainment economy: how mega-media forces are transforming our lives 302W

SCIENCE

  • Conniff, Richard- Every creeping thing: true tales of faintly repulsive wildlife 596C
  • Davies, Paul- The fifth miracle: the search for the origin and meaning of life 576D
  • Jacob, Francois- Of flies, mice, and men 574J
  • Loewenstein, Werner- The touchstone of life: molecular information, cell communication, and the foundations of life 570L
  • Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty- Unifying biology: the evolutionary synthesis and evolutionary biology (1996) 575S
  • Suplee, Curt- Physics in the 20th century 530 S Oversize
  • Taquet, Philippe- Dinosaur impressions: postcards from a paleontologist 568T

SOCIAL SCIENCE

  • Berger, Maurice- White lies: race and the myths of whiteness 305.8B
  • Bunge, Mario- Social science under debate: a philosophical perspective 301B
  • Etzioni, Amitai- The limits of privacy 323.4E
  • Fukuyama, Francis- The great disruption: human nature and the reconstitution of social order 303.4F
  • Hyman, Paula- The Jews of modern France 944H
  • Kenan, Randall- Walking on water: Black American lives at the turn of the century 325.26K
  • Kerber, Linda- No constitutional right to be ladies: women and the obligations of citizenship 323.6K
  • Kidder, Tracy- Home town (Northampton, MA) 974.4K
  • Nussbaum, Martha- Sex & social justice 305.4N
  • Patterson, Orlando- The ordeal of integration: progress and resentment in America's "racial" crisis 305.8P
  • Reid, T.R.- Confucius lives next door: what living in the East teaches us about living in the West 952R
  • Salinger, Adrienne- Living solo 305.5L
  • Watkins, Elizabeth- On the pill: a social history of oral contraceptives, 1950-1970 613.9W
  • Wolf, Eric- Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisis 303.3W

CRIME

  • Douglas, John- The anatomy of motive: the FBI's legendary mindhunter explores the key to understanding and catching violent criminals 364.1D
  • Humes, Edward- Mean justice: a town's terror, a prosecutor's power, a betrayal of innocence 364.1H
  • Kalven, Jamie- Working with available light: a family's world after violence 92 E928K
  • Rule, Ann- The end of the dream: the golden boy who never grew up and other true cases 364.1R

RELIGION

  • Akenson, Donald- Surpassing wonder: the invention of the Bible and the Talmuds 220.6A
  • Price, Reynolds- Letter to a man in the fire: does God exist and does He care? 231P
  • Schlessinger, Laura- The ten commandments: the significance of God's laws in everyday life 222S
  • Wilson, A.N.- God's funeral 215W

HEALTH & HOME

  • Ascher, Barbara Lazear- Dancing in the dark: romance, yearning, and the search for the sublime 140A
  • Diamant, Anita- Saying Kaddish: how to comfort the dying, bury the dead, and mourn as a Jew 296D
  • Handler, Evan- Time on fire (leukemia) (1997) 616.9H
  • Szinovacz, Maximiliane- Handbook on grandparenting 306.8H

CIVILIZATION

  • Buruma, Ian- Anglomania: a European love affair 942B
  • Cotterell, Arthur- From Aristotle to Zoroaster 930F
  • Malia, Martin- Russia under western eyes: from the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum 947M
  • Milton, Giles- Nathaniel's nutmeg, or, the true and incredible adventures of the spice trader who changed the course of history 338.1M
  • Rowland, Ingrid- The culture of High Renaissance 945.06R
  • Tafuri, Manfredo- Venice and the Renaissance (1989) 945.3T

TRAVEL

  • Harris, John- No voice from the hall: early memories of a country house snooper 728H
  • Inwood, Stephen- A history of London 942.1I
  • MacLean, Rory- Under the dragon (Burma) 915.9M
  • Mayes, Frances- Bella Tuscany 914.55M
  • Mayle, Peter- Encore Provence 944M
  • Williams, Ellen- Picasso's Paris 914.436W

FOOD

  • Beranbaum, Rose- The pie and pastry bible 641.86B
  • Brenner, Leslie- American appetite 394.1B
  • Kafka, Barbara- Soup, a way of life 641.5K
  • LeCoze, Maguy- Le Bernardin cookbook 641.5L
  • Simonds, Nina- A spoonful of ginger (Asian cookery) 641.5S


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