New York Society Library

SEPTEMBER 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Alexander, Adele - Homelands and waterways: the American journey of the Bond family, 1846-1926
  • Anderson, Christopher - Bill and Hillary: the marriage
  • Belton, Neil - The good listener: Helen Bamber, a life against cruelty
  • Breytenbach, Breyten - Dog heart: a memoir
  • Chancellor, Alexander - Some times in America
  • Conley, Frances K. - Walking out on the boys
  • Gellman, Irwin - The contender: Richard Nixon: the congress years, 1946-1952
  • Grundy, Isobel - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: comet of the enlightenment
  • Gussow, Mel - Edward Albee: a singular journey
  • Hughes, Kathryn - George Eliot: the last Victorian
  • Keen, Sam - Learning to fly: trapeze-reflections on fear, trust, and the joy of letting go
  • Keillor, Garrison - Me, by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente
  • Kroeger, Brooke - Fannie: the talent for success of writer Fannie Hurst
  • Levi, Peter - Horace: a life
  • Lowman, Margaret - A life in the treetops: adventures of a woman in field biology
  • McKeon, Jim - Frank O'Connor
  • Moore, Tim - Frost on my moustache: the Arctic exploits of a lord and loafer
  • Ogden, Christopher - Legacy: a biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg
  • Perry, John C - The flight of the Romanovs: a family saga
  • Reich, William - American odyssey: letters and journals, 1940-47
  • Russell, Jan - Lady Bird: a biography of Mrs. Johnson
  • Sebold, Alice - Lucky
  • Tindall, Gillian - The journey of Martin Nadaud: a life and turbulent times

FICTION

  • Bogner, Norman - Honor thy wife
  • Brooks, Peter - World elsewhere
  • Bruckheimer, Linda - Dreaming southern
  • Chace, Rebecca - Capture the flag
  • Dailey, Janet - Calder pride
  • Darrieussecq, Marie - My phantom husband
  • Desai, Anita - Fasting, feasting
  • Disch, Thomas - The sub: a study in witchcraft
  • Doig, Ivan - Mountain time
  • Evans, Elizabeth - Carter Clay
  • Gold, Jerome - Sergeant Dickinson
  • Hansen, Brooks - Perlman's ordeal
  • Howard, Linda - All the Queen's men
  • Jaffe, Michele - Stargazer
  • Janowitz, Tama - A certain age
  • Lee, Helen Elaine - Water marked
  • Long, Jeff - The descent
  • Lourie, Richard - The autobiography of Joseph Stalin
  • Mapson, Jo-Ann - The Wilder sisters
  • Messud, Claire - The last life
  • Myerson, Julie - Me and the fat man
  • O'Carroll, Brendan - The mammy
  • Roberts, Nora - Carnal innocence
  • Selvadurai, Shyam - Cinnamon gardens
  • Sohn, Amy - Run catch kiss
  • Steward, Fred Mustard - The naked savages
  • Straub, Peter - Mr. X
  • Sukenick, Ronald - Mosaic man
  • Theroux, Marcel - A stranger in the earth
  • Tryzna, Tomek - Girl nobody
  • Vandenburgh, Jane - The physics of sunset

SHORT STORIES

  • Anderson, Barbara - Glorious things
  • Bausch, Richard - Someone to watch over me
  • Broyard, Bliss - My father, dancing
  • Lahiri, Jhumpa - Interpreter of maladies
  • Self, Will - Tough, tough toys for tough, tough boys
  • Skillings, R.D. - Where the time goes
  • Thompson, Jean - Who do you love?

MYSTERIES

  • Blanchard, Anne - Darkness peering
  • Burke, James Lee - Heartwood
  • Burke, Jan - Bones
  • Child, Lee - Tripwire
  • Clark, Mary Jane - Do you promise not to tell?
  • Coonts, Stephen - Cuba
  • *Cooper, Natasha - Creeping ivy
  • Cornwell, Patricia - Black notice
  • Coulter, Catherine - The edge
  • Darnton, John - The experiment
  • Davis, Lindsey - One virgin too many
  • Deaver, Jeffrey - The devil's teardrop
  • *Dunn, Carola - Styx and stones
  • *Ellis, Kate - The merchant's house
  • *Emerson, Kathy Lynn - Face down among the Winchester geese
  • Estleman, Loren D. - Hours of the virgin
  • Farris, John - Solar eclipse
  • Garcia, Eric - Anonymous Rex
  • Hambly, Barbara - Graveyard dust
  • Harrington, Jonathan - The second sorrowful mystery
  • *Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Shallow grave
  • Harstad, Donald - Known dead
  • Healy, Jeremiah - The spiral
  • Hewson, David - Solstice
  • *Hill, Reginald - Singing the sadness
  • Janes, J. Robert - Mayhem
  • Kaminsky, Howard - The twelve
  • Kean, Rob - The pledge
  • MacDougal, Bonnie - Out of order
  • *McGown, Jill - Plots and errors
  • O'Connell, Carol - The shell game
  • *Pawson, Stuart - Some by fire
  • Pronzini, Bill - Nothing but the night
  • Roberts, Les - The best kept secret
  • *Smith, Frank - Candles for the dead
  • *Strong, Tony - The death pit
  • Woods, Stuart - Worst fears realized
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Auster, Paul - The invention of solitude (1982) 92 A934A
  • Delacroix, Eugène - The journal of Eugène Delacroix: a selection (1995) 92 D3326D
  • Greenlaw, Linda - The hungry ocean: a swordboat captain's journey 799.1G
  • Gurock, Jeffrey - A modern heretic and a traditional community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, orthodoxy, and American Judaism (1997) 92 K174K
  • Horn, Miriam - Rebels in white gloves: coming of age with Hillary's class, Wellesley '69 378H
  • Huntford, Roland - Nansen: the explorer as hero 92 N1884H
  • Jablonski, Edward - Irving Berlin: American troubadour 780.92B
  • Karlinsky, Simon - Anton Chekhov's life and thought: selected letters and commentary (1997) 92 C5157C
  • Kent, Arthur - Risk and redemption: surviving the network news wars (1997) 92 K373K
  • Lees-Milne, James - Through wood and dale: diaries, 1975-1978 720.92L
  • Limón, José - An unfinished memoir 92 L7345L
  • Marks, Leo - Between silk and cyanide: a codemaker's war, 1941- 1945 92 M3468M
  • Nicolson, Adam - Perch Hill: a new (farm) life 630.1N
  • Spalding, Frances - Duncan Grant 92 G7618S
  • Stainton, Leslie - Lorca: a dream of life 92 G217S

BELLES LETTRES

  • Busch, Frederick - Letters to a fiction writer 808.3L
  • Carter, Angela - Shaking a leg: collected writings 824C
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - On language, edited by A.C. Goodson 820.81C
  • Dubus, Andre - Meditations from a movable chair: essays 824D
  • Harman, Barbara - The feminine political novel in Victorian England 823H
  • Mahaffey, Vicki - States of desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish experiment 820.9M
  • McQuade, Molly - Stealing glimpses: of poetry, poets, and things in between 821.09M
  • Mendelson, Edward - Later Auden 821.09A
  • Perry, Ben - The ancient romances: a literary-historical account of their origins (1967) 880.9P
  • Roos, Jane Mayo - A painter's poet: Stéphane Mallarmé and his impressionist circle 841.09M
  • Wood, James - The broken estate: essays on literature and belief 809W

ARTS

  • Bahn, Paul - Journey through the ice age (1997) 930.1B Oversize
  • Berlin, Isaiah - The roots of romanticism 709.4B
  • Connor, Russell - Masters in pieces (1997) 759.1C
  • Haskell, Barbara - The American century: art & culture, 1900- 1950 709.73H
  • Hickey, Dave - Air guitar: essays on art & democracy (1997) 306H
  • Kopelson, Kevin - Beethoven's kiss: pianism, perversion, and the mastery of desire (1996) 786.2K
  • Polcari, Stephen - Abstract expressionism and the modern experience 709.04P
  • Spuhler, Friedrich - Oriental carpets in the museum of Islamic Art, Berlin (1987) 746S
  • Wirtz, Rolf - Donatello, 1386-1466 730.92D Oversize

ARCHITECTURE

  • Botta, Mario - Mario Botta, public buildings, 1900-1998 725B
  • Denby, Elaine - Grand hotels: reality and illusion: an architectural and social history 728D
  • Jones, Edward - A guide to the architecture of London (1992) 720.942J
  • Siza, Alvaro - Writings on architecture (1997) 720S
  • Taniguchi, Yoshio - The architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi 720.952T CS

PHILOSOPHY

  • Guyer, Paul - The Cambridge companion to Kant (1992) 193C
  • Kripke, Saul - Wittgenstein on rules and private language: an elementary exposition (1982) 193K
  • Nehamas, Alexander - The art of living: Socratic reflections from Plato to Foucault 190N

ETHICS

  • Ryle, Gilbert - Dilemmas: the Tarner lectures, 1953 (1960) 160R
  • Scanlon, Thomas - What we owe to each other 170S

SCIENCE

  • Dyson, Freeman J. - The sun, the genome & the internet: tools of scientific revolutions 501D
  • Gould, Stephen Jay - Rocks of ages: science and religion in the fullness of life 291G
  • Grattan-Guinness, Ivor - The Norton history of the mathematical sciences: the rainbow of mathematics 510.9G
  • Hubbell, Sue - Waiting for Aphrodite: journeys into the time before bones 592H
  • Powell, James - Night comes to the Cretaceous: dinosaur extinction and the transformation of modern geology 576P

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Braver, Sanford - Divorced dads: shattering the myths 306.8B
  • Burton-Rose, Daniel - The celling of America: an inside look at the U.S. prison industry 365C
  • Freeman, Derek - The fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead: a historical analysis of her Samoan research 305.8F
  • Kramer, Lloyd - Nationalism: political cultures in Europe and America, 1775-1865 323.1K
  • Lapham, Lewis - Lapham's rules of influence: a careerist's guide to success, status, and self-congratulation 332L
  • Lippard, Lucy - The lure of the local: senses of place in a multicentered society (1997) 301.2L
  • Pipher, Mary - The shelter of each other: rebuilding our families (1996) 306.8P
  • Royko, Mike - One more time: the best of Mike Royko (Chicago) 977.3R
  • Rushby, Kevin - Eating the flowers of paradise: a journey through the drug fields of Ethiopia and Yemen 362.293R
  • Smil, Vaclav - Energies: an illustrated guide to the biosphere and civilization 531S

EDUCATION

  • Bethell, John - Harvard observed: an illustrated history of the University in the twentieth century 378H
  • Gardner, Howard - The disciplined mind: what all students should understand 370.1G
  • Winn, James Anderson - The pale of words: reflections on the humanities and performance 001W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Alterman, Eric - Who speaks for America?: why democracy matters in foreign policy 327.73A
  • Fromkin, David - Kosovo crossing: American ideals meet reality on the Balkan battlefields 949.6F
  • Holt, Michael - The rise and fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian politics and the onset of the Civil War 329H
  • Mann, Jim - About face: a history of America's curious relationship with China from Nixon to Clinton 327.73M
  • Thompson, C. Bradley - John Adams and the spirit of liberty 323.4T

LAW

  • Barrett, Paul - The good Black: a true story of race in America 344B
  • Sunstein, Cass - One case at a time: judicial minimalism on the Supreme Court 347.99S

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

  • Calder, Lendol - Financing the American dream: a cultural history of consumer credit 332.7C
  • Gray, John - False dawn: the delusions of global capitalism 337G
  • Hayes, Christopher - Money makeovers: how women can control their financial destiny 332H
  • Levy, Frank - The new dollars and dreams: American incomes and economic change 339.2L
  • Thurow, Lester - Building wealth: the new rules for individuals, companies, and nations in a knowledge-based economy 332T
  • Twitchell, James - Lead us into temptation: the triumph of American materialism 339.4T

COMPUTER INDUSTRY

  • Amelio, Gil - On the firing line: my 500 days at Apple 92 A4988A
  • Bronson, Po - The nudist on the late shift 338.7B
  • Gates, Bill - Business @ the speed of thought: using a digital nervous system 338.7G
  • McCartney, Scott - ENIAC: the triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computer 338.4M
  • Malone, Michael - Infinite loop: how the world's most insanely great computer company went insane 338.7M
  • Rosenoer, Jonathan - Cyberlaw: the law of the Internet (1997) 345R

HISTORY

  • Bew, Paul - Ideology and the Irish question: Ulster unionism and Irish nationalism, 1912-1916 941.5B
  • Fausto, Boris - A concise history of Brazil 981F
  • Gutiérrez, Ramón - Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush 979.4C
  • Herlihy, David - The black death and the transformation of the West (1997) 940.1H
  • Hoppen, K. Theodore - The mid-Victorian generation, 1846-1886 942.08H
  • Kort, Michael - The Columbia guide to the Cold War 973.9K
  • Plumb, J.H. - The collected essays. 2 vols. (1989) 907P
  • Ponting, Clive - The twentieth century: a world history 909.82P
  • Rhodehamel, John - The great experiment: George Washington and the American Republic 973.4R
  • Skidmore, Thomas - Brazil: five centuries of change 981S
  • Young, Hugo - This blessed plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair 942.085Y

CIVILIZATION

  • Falcoff, Mark - A culture of its own: taking Latin America seriously 980F
  • Garland, Robert - Daily life of the ancient Greeks 938G

WARFARE

  • Endicott, Stephen - The United States and biological warfare: secrets from the early Cold War and Korea 358.3E
  • Napoleon I - How to make war (transl. by Keith Sanborn) 355N
  • Oxford illustrated history of the First World War 940.3O

TRAVEL

  • Dalzell, Robert - George Washington's Mount Vernon: at home in Revolutionary America 975.5D
  • Dickinson, Matt - The other side of Everest: climbing the North Face through the killer storm 796.52D
  • Ehrlich, Gretel - Questions of heaven: the Chinese journeys of an American Buddhist 915.1E
  • Keeley, Edmund - Inventing paradise: the Greek journey, 1937- 1947 914.95K
  • Meloy, Ellen - The last cheater's waltz: beauty and violence in the desert Southwest 917.9M
  • Starkey, Paul - Travellers in Egypt 916.2T

RAILROADS

  • Gamst, Frederick - Early American railroads: Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner's Die innern Communicationen (1842-1843) (1997) 385G
  • Niemann, Linda - Railroad voices 331.7N

NEW YORK CITY

  • Ginzburg, Ralph - I shot New York 770G
  • Gronowicz, Anthony - Race and class in New York City before the Civil War 324.273G
  • Halberstam, David - Sports on New York radio: a play-by-play history 792.9H
  • Hendrickson, Robert - New Yawk tawk: a dictionary of New York City expressions 427H
  • Lankevich, George - American metropolis: a history of New York City 974.71L
  • Pool, Mary Jane - Gardens in the city: New York in bloom 712P
  • Scott, William - New York modern: arts and the city 709.7471S

CITY LIFE

  • Lehan, Richard - The city in literature: an intellectual and cultural history 820.9L
  • Marcus, Sharon - Apartment stories: city and home in nineteenth- century Paris and London 307.76M

HEALTH & HOME

  • Boss, Pauline - Ambiguous loss: learning to live with unresolved grief 155.9B
  • Rosenfeld, Isadore - Live now, age later: proven ways to slow down the clock 612.67R
  • De Becker, Gavin - Protecting the gift: keeping children and teenagers safe (and parents sane) 649D

SPORTS

  • McGinnis, Joe - The miracle of Castel di Sangro (soccer) 796.3M
  • Herzog, Whitey - You're missin' a great game: from Casey to Ozzie, the magic of baseball and how to get it back 796.3H
  • Leeuwen, Thomas - The springboard in the pond: an intimate history of the swimming pool 725.8L
  • Smith, Lissa - Nike is a goddess: history of women in sports 796N

HUMOR

  • Bryson, Bill - I'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to America after twenty years away 917.3B
  • Dole, Bob - Great political wit: laughing (almost) all the way to the White House 320.9G
  • Garofalo, Janeane - Feel this book 827.08G
  • Vidal, Gore - The American presidency 973V
  • Whedbee, J. William - The Bible and the comic vision 220.6W

UNABRIDGED AUDIO CASSETTES

  • Bennett, Alan - Alan Bennett at the BBC (2 tapes) #770
  • Cunningham, Michael - The hours (4 tapes) #823
  • Gates, Bill - Business @ the speed of thought (9 tapes) #827
  • Mortimer, John - Rumpole on trial (8 tapes) #811
  • Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago (16 tapes) #813
  • Szulc, Tad - Chopin in Paris (12 tapes) #828


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