New York Society Library

OCTOBER 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bedell-Smith, Sally - Diana in search of herself
  • Callow, Simon - Love is where it falls
  • Campo, Rafael - The poetry of healing: a doctor's education in empathy, identity, and desire
  • Cesarani, David - Arthur Koestler: the homeless mind
  • Cohen, Bernard - Howard Aiken: portrait of a computer pioneer
  • De Santis, Solange - Life on the line: one woman's tale of work, sweat, and survival
  • Diliberto, Gioia - A useful woman: early life of Jane Adams
  • Draper, Lyman - The life of Daniel Boone
  • Fleming, G.H. - John Everett Millais
  • Kenneson, Claude - Musical prodigies
  • Lamont, Lansing - No twilight about me: a life in letters
  • McCourt, Frank - 'Tis
  • Opdyke, Irene - In my hands: memories of a Holocaust rescuer
  • Phelps, Daphne - A house in Sicily
  • Said, Edward - Out of place
  • Sampson, Anthony - Mandela
  • Sarton, May - Dear Juliette: letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley (edited by Susan Sherman)
  • Skakun, Michael - On burning ground (Holocaust)
  • Sobel, Dava - Galileo's daughter
  • Tift, Susan - The trust: private and powerful family behind the New York Times
  • Voss, Frederick - Picturing Hemingway: a writer in his time
  • Wesker, Arnold - The birth of Shylock and the death of Zero Mostel
  • Williams, Esther - The million dollar mermaid

FICTION

  • Ball, David - Empires of sand
  • Brenda, Joyce - The third heiress
  • Briscoe, Connie - A long way from home
  • Brown, Sandra - Alibi
  • Danvers, Dennis - The end of days
  • Davis, Kathryn - Somewhere lies the moon
  • Dershowitz, Alan - Just revenge
  • Frayn, Michael - Headlong
  • Friedman, Kinky - Spanking Watson
  • Garrett, Annie - After you
  • Gemmell, Nikki - Alice Springs
  • Goudge, Eileen - One last dance
  • Greeley, Andrew - Younger than springtime
  • Griner, Paul - The collectors
  • Hansen, Ron - Hitler's niece
  • Kelly, Mary Anne - Jenny Rose
  • Keyes, Marian - Lucy Sullivan is getting married
  • King, Lily - The pleasing hour
  • King, Stephen - Hearts in Atlantis
  • Lappin, Elena - Foreign brides
  • Lee, Chang Rae - A gesture life
  • L'Heureux, John - Having everything
  • Livia, Anna - Bruised fruit
  • Logue, Antonia - Shadow box
  • Makine, Andrei - The crime of Olga Arbyelina
  • Rizzuto, Rahna - Why she left us
  • Rufin, Jean - The Abyssinian
  • Shapiro, Jane - The dangerous husband
  • Sides, Marilyn - The genius of affection
  • St. John, Madeleine - Stairway to paradise
  • Swanson, Eric - The boy in the lake
  • Trollope, Joanna - The brass dolphin
  • White, Michael - Blind side of the heart
  • Wolper, Carol - The cigarette girl

SHORT STORIES

  • Doenges, Judy - What she left me
  • Foster, Ken - The kind I'm likely to get
  • Davis, Amanda - Circling the drain
  • Slavin, Julia - The woman who cut off her leg at the Maidstone Club

MYSTERIES

  • *Arnott, Jake - The long firm
  • Barnes, Linda - Flashpoint
  • Cannell, Stephen - The devil's workshop
  • Dorsey, Tim - Florida roadkill
  • Doss, James - The night visitor
  • Fairstein, Linda - Cold hit
  • Forrest, Katherine - Sleeping bones
  • Frommer, Sara - The vanishing violinist
  • *George, Elizabeth - In pursuit of the proper sinner
  • Gerritsen, Tess - Gravity
  • Grafton, Sue - "O" is for outlaw
  • *Graham, Caroline - A place of safety
  • Harris, Charlaine - A fool and his honey
  • Hart, Carolyn - White elephant dead
  • Hart, Ellen - Hunting the witch
  • Hegwood, Martin - Big easy backroad
  • *Hill, Reginald - Arms and the women
  • Iles, Greg - The quiet game
  • Johansen, Iris - The killing game
  • Kaminsky, Stuart M. - Vengeance
  • *Keating, H.R.F. - The bad detective
  • Lansdale, Joe R. - Freezer burn
  • Mathews, Adrian - Vienna blood
  • McCall, Wendall - Concerto in dead flat
  • Miles, Keith - Saint's rest
  • Paretsky, Sara - Hard time
  • Parker, Robert B. - Family honor
  • Ridley, John - Everybody smokes in hell
  • Rozan, S.J. - Stone quarry
  • *Spencer, Sally - Murder at Swann's Lake
  • Thayer, Steve - Silent snow
  • *White, Gillian - Unhallowed ground
  • Wolf, Joan - No dark place
  • Zimmerman, R.D. - Outburst
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Brittain, Vera - Letters from a lost generation: the First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends 940.48B
  • DuPlessis, Rachel - The feminist memoir project 305.4F
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The English notebooks, 2 vols. 828H
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The letters, 4 vols. (1987) 92 H3993H
  • Hewitt, Leah - Autobiographical tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Conde (1990) 840.9H
  • Hilden, Patricia - When nickels where Indians: an urban, mixed-blood story (1995) 92 H643H
  • Hopkins, John - The Tangier diaries, 1962-1979 92 H 79395
  • Johnson, Mahlon - Working on a miracle (AIDS) (1997) 92 J6778J
  • Kapr, Albert - Johann Gutenberg (1996) 92G983K
  • Liftin, Hilary - Dear exile: the true story of two friends separated (for a year) by an ocean 916.7L
  • Pilling, John - Autobiography and imagination (1981) 808P
  • Shannon, Richard - Gladstone, 2 vols. 92 G 543S
  • Wilson, Robert - Character above all: ten presidents from FDR to George Bush (1995) 973.9C
  • Wroe, Ann - Pilate: the biography of an invented man 225.92P

BELLES LETTRES

  • Auster, Paul - Translations (1997) 840T
  • Brombert, Victor - Stendhal: a collection of critical essays (1962) 843S
  • Burroughs, William - Word virus 820.8B
  • Epstein, Joseph - Narcissus leaves the pool: familiar essays 824E
  • Ermath, Elizabeth - Realism and consensus in the English novel: time, space and narrative 823E
  • Herbert, Zbigniew - The king of the ants: mythological essays 891.85H
  • Lee, A Robert - The Beat generation writers (1996) 820.9B
  • Mamet, David - Jafsie and John Henry: essays 824M
  • Oz, Amos - The story begins: essays on literature 808.3O
  • Rushdie, Salman - Mirrorwork: 50 years of Indian writing, 1947-1997 820.8V
  • Spacks, Patricia - Late Augustan prose (1971) 820.9L
  • Stout, Janis - Strategies of reticence: silence and meaning in the works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion (1990) 823S
  • Walker, Alice - Anything we love can be saved: a writer's activism (1997) 828W

ARTS

  • Barrier, Michael - Hollywood cartoons 741.5B
  • Boime, Albert - Art in an age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815 (1990) 709B
  • Decker-Phillips, Edith - Paik video 709.2P
  • Foster, Susan - Choreography & narrative 792.8F
  • Ingarden, Roman - Ontology of the work of art (1989) 700I
  • Larson, Gary - American canvas: an arts legacy for our communities (1997) 709.73L
  • Lopate, Phillip - Totally, tenderly, tragically: essays and criticism from a lifelong love affair with the movies 791.43L
  • McBride, Henry - The flow of art: essays and criticisms (1997) 704M
  • Olalquiaga, Celeste - The artificial kingdom: a treasury of the kitsch experience 709.73O
  • Podro, Michael - Depiction 701P
  • Tinterow, Gary - Portraits by Ingres: image of an epoch 759.4I

COSTUME AND DESIGN

  • Helfand, Jessica - Six (+2) essays on design and new media 745H
  • Jackson, Lesley - The sixties: decade of design revolution 709.04J
  • Walker, Richard - Savile Row: an illustrated history (1989) 646W
  • Wilson, Verity - Chinese dress (1996) 391W

MUSIC

  • Bergeron, Katherine - Decadent enchantments: the revival of Gregorian chant at Solesmes 783B
  • Brightman, Carol - Sweet chaos (Grateful Dead) 782B
  • Larsen, Jens Peter - Handel's Messiah (1989) 783L
  • Perle, George - The listening composer (1990) 781P
  • Plantinga, Leon - Beethoven's concertos 785P
  • Sullivan, Jack - New World symphonies: how American culture changed European music 780.94S

DRAMA

  • Edson, Margaret - Wit 822E
  • Hare, David - Via Dolorosa: & When shall we live? 822H
  • Marber, Patrick - Closer 822M
  • Williams, Tennessee - Not about nightingales 822W

POETRY

  • Bloom, Harold - The best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997 821.08B
  • Brendel, Alfred - One finger too many 831B
  • Galvin, James - Resurrection update: collected poems, 1975-1997 821G
  • Hollander, John - Figurehead and other poems 821H
  • Levine, Philip - The mercy 821L
  • Saba, Umberto - Songbook: selected poems 851S
  • Sisson, C.H. - Collected poems 821S
  • Williams, C.K. - Repair 821W

LIBRARIES & BOOK COLLECTIONS

  • Fox, Peter - Cambridge University Library 027C
  • Lerner, Fred - The story of libraries 027L
  • Myers, Robin - Property of a gentleman: the formation, organisation, and dispersal of the private library, 1620-1920 (1996) 027P Oversize
  • Searle, Ronald - Slightly foxed - but still desirable (1989) 741.5S

FOLKTALES AND MYTHOLOGY

  • Baldwin, Neil - Legends of the plumed serpent: biography of a Mexican god 299.7B
  • Cashdan, Sheldon - The witch must die 398C
  • Green, Thomas - Folklore: an encyclopedia of beliefs, customs, tales, music, and art 2 vols. 398F
  • Nagy, Gregory - Greek mythology and poetics (1990) 881.09N
  • Nequatewa, Edmund - Truth of a Hopi: stories relating to the origin, myths, and clan histories of the Hopi (1973) 970.6N
  • Peck, Catherine - A treasury of North American folktales 398.2Q

HISTORY

  • Cobb, Richard - The French and their revolution 944.04C
  • Connolly, S.J. - Kingdoms united?: Great Britain and Ireland since 1500: integration and diversity 942K
  • Martel, Gordon - Modern Germany reconsidered, 1870-1945 (1992) 943.08M
  • Merrell, James - Into the American woods: negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier 974.8M
  • Tapie, Victor - The rise and fall of the Habsburg monarchy (1971) 943.6T
  • Vansittart, Peter - In memory of England 942V

ARCHAEOLOGY

  • Squier, Ephraim G. - Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley 913.73S Oversize
  • Thompson, Thomas - The mythic past: biblical archaeology and the myth of Israel 221.6T
  • Weeks, Kent - The lost tomb (Ramesses II) 932W

CIVILIZATION

  • Burstein, Andrew - Sentimental democracy: the evolution of America's romantic self-image 973B
  • Dery, Mark - The pyrotechnic insanitarium: American culture on the brink 306D

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • Boyce, D.G. - The Irish question and British politics (1996) 941.5B
  • Cockburn, Andrew - Out of the ashes (Saddam Hussein) 956C
  • Falcoff, Mark - Panama's Canal 327.73F
  • Humphreys, R. Stephen - Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled age 956H
  • Jacoby, Russell - The end of utopia: politics and culture in an age of apathy 973.9J
  • Margalit, Avishai - Views in review: politics and culture in the state of the Jews 956.94M
  • Roosevelt, Eleanor - Courage in a dangerous world 973.917R
  • Sachar, Howard - Israel and Europe 327.56S

RELIGION

  • Jenkins, Thomas - The character of God: recovering the lost literary power of American Protestantism (1997) 284J
  • Lewis, C.S. - The case for Christianity (1996) 230L
  • Nadell, Pamela - Women who would be rabbis 296.6N
  • Nouwen, Henri - The wounded healer: ministry in contemporary society (1990) 250N
  • Smith, Jane - Islam in America 297S

SOCIAL SCIENCE

  • Chudacoff, Howard - The age of the bachelor 305.3C
  • Cox, Jeffrey - Contesting the master narrative: essays in social history 306C
  • De Bary, William - Asian values and human rights 323.4D
  • Duby, Georges - Rural economy and country life in the medieval West (1976) 338.1D
  • Epstein, Richard - Mortal peril: our inalienable right to health care? (1997) 362E
  • Fagan, Brian - Floods, famines, and emperors: El Niņo and the fate of civilizations 363.7GF
  • Friedman, Lawrence - The horizontal society (Ethnicity) 306F
  • Keen, Lisa - Strangers to the law: gay people on trial 323.4K
  • Leach, William - Country of exiles: the destruction of place in American life 973.92L
  • Mackaman, Douglas - Leisure settings: bourgeois culture, medicine, and the spa in modern France 613.1M
  • Thomas, G. Scott - The United States of Suburbia 307.74T
  • Wolfe, Alan - One nation, after all: what middle class Americans really think about 305.5W

SCIENCE

  • Blackmore, Susan - The meme machine 302B
  • Grmek, Mirko - Western medical thought from antiquity to the Middle Ages 610.9S
  • Toulmin, Stephen - Foresight and understanding 501T
  • Weinberg, Robert - One renegade cell 616.9W

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Ackerman, Diane - Deep play 128A
  • Black, Donald - Bad boys, bad men 616.8B
  • Ramachandran, V.S. - Phantoms in the brain 612.8R
  • Rank, Otto - Psychology and the soul 128R
  • Sternberg, Robert - Cupid's arrow 157S
  • Wright, Lawrence - Twins (1997) 155.4W

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

  • Barro, Robert - Getting it right: markets and choices in a free society (1997) 338.9B
  • Dixit, Avinash - Thinking strategically (1993) 658D
  • Easton, Jaclyn - StrikingItRich.com 338.7E
  • Pendergrast, Mark - Uncommon grounds (coffee) 641.3P
  • Steinfeld, Edward - Forging reform in China 330.951S

JOURNALISM

  • Allen, Michael - Poe & British magazine tradition (1969) 823P
  • Corey, Mary - The world through a monocle: the New Yorker at mid-century 050N
  • Dicken-Garcia, Hazel - Journalistic standards in 19th century America (1989) 070.1D
  • Moeller, Susan - Compassion fatigue 070.4M
  • Sorel, Nancy - The women who wrote the war 940.53S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Dolkart, Andrew - Morningside Heights 720.973D
  • Dolkart, Andrew - Touring historic Harlem (1997) 917.471D
  • Gray, Christopher - Sutton Place (1997) 917.471G
  • Leff, Jim - The eclectic gourmet guide to greater NYC 647.9L
  • Schneider, Eric - Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: youth gangs in postwar New York 364.1S

TRAVEL

  • Allen, Charles - A glimpse of the burning plain: leaves from the Indian journals of Charlotte Canning (1986) 915.4A
  • Bay, Jane - Precious jewels of Tibet 294B
  • Dampier, William - A new voyage around the world 910.4D
  • Delaney, Frank - A walk to the Western Isles: after Boswell & Johnson (1993) 914.11D
  • Lawrence, Karen - Penelope voyages: women and travel in the British literary tradition (1994) 828.09L
  • Marsden, Philip - The spirit-wrestlers: a Russian journey 914.7M

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Carson, Anne - Eros the bittersweet 880.9C
  • Coetzee, J.M. - The lives of animals 179C
  • Rivlin, Gary - The plot to get Bill Gates 338.7R
  • Wechsberg, Joseph - Trifles make perfection 940W

UNABRIDGED AUDIO CASSETTES

  • Cornwell, Patricia - Black notice (9 tapes) #837
  • Eliot, T.S. - Four quartets (1 tape) #836
  • James, P.D. - Devices and desires (12 tapes) #815
  • Kafka, Franz - The trial (6 tapes) #833
  • Maupin, Armistead - Tales of the city (2 tapes) #830
  • Shaw, Bernard - Mrs. Warren's profession (1 tape) #784
  • Wilde, Oscar - An ideal husband (1 tape) #785
  • Winchester, Simon - The professor & the madman (5 tapes) #806


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