New York Society Library

NOVEMBER 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bayley, John - Iris [Murdoch] and her friends
  • Bering, Henrik - Helmut Kohl
  • Briggs, Raymond - Ethel and Ernest
  • Browne, Sylvia - Adventures of a psychic
  • Bush, George - All the best, George Bush
  • Chadwick, Bruce - Two American presidents: a dual biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
  • Davidson, Keay - Carl Sagan
  • Doty, Mark - Firebird
  • Dunne, Dominic - The way we lived then
  • Fisher, Eddie - Been there, done that
  • Fleming, Thomas - Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the future of America
  • Geniesse, Jane - Passionate nomad: the life of Freya Stark
  • Gordon, Lyndall - T.S. Eliot: an imperfect life
  • Gray, Spalding - Morning, noon, and night
  • Heiskell, Andrew - Outsider, insider: an unlikely success story
  • Hewitt, Nicholas - The life of Celine
  • Jackson, Blair - Garcia: an American life
  • Maddox, Brenda - George's ghosts: a new life of W.B. Yeats
  • Maraniss, David - When pride still mattered (Vince Lombardi)
  • McCain, John - Faith of my fathers
  • McCullers, Carson - Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers
  • Morris, Edmund - Dutch: a memoir of Ronald Reagan
  • Powell, Violet - The departure platform
  • Rich, Katherine Ross - Red devil: to hell with cancer - and back
  • Shakespeare, Nicholas - Bruce Chatwin
  • Simon, Neil - The play goes on
  • Snyder, Don J. - Of time and memory: a mother's story
  • Thurman, Judith - Secrets of the flesh: a life of Colette
  • Weisgall, Deborah - A joyful noise: claiming the songs of my fathers
  • Wilson, Barbara - Blue windows: a Christian Science childhood
  • Young, Michael - Charles I

FICTION

  • Allende, Isabel - Daughter of fortune
  • Booth, Martin - The industry of souls
  • Bova, Ben - Return to Mars
  • Buchan, Elizabeth - Perfect love
  • Cameron, Stella - Key West
  • Castillo, Anna - Peel my love like an onion
  • Coetzee, J.M. - Disgrace
  • Cornwell, Bernard - Sharpe's triumph
  • Cosse, Laurence - A corner of the veil
  • Daley, Robert - Innocents within
  • Davis, Richard - Yours, D3
  • Ducornet, Rikki - The fan-maker's inquisition
  • Ellis, Alice Thomas - The 27th kingdom
  • Evans, Richard - The looking glass
  • Fforde, Katie - Life skills
  • Haruf, Kent - Plainsong
  • Heffernan, William - Cityside
  • Huddle, David - The story of a million years
  • Huston, Nancy - The mark of the angel
  • Ignatius, David - The sun king
  • Jin, Ha - Waiting
  • Kalpakian, Laura - Steps and exes
  • Kohler, Sheila - Cracks
  • Kowalski, William - Eddie's bastard
  • Kumin, Maxine - Quit monks or die!
  • Lethem, Jonathan - Motherless Brooklyn
  • Lette, Kathy - Altar ego
  • Mattison, Alice - The book borrower
  • McGregor, H.R. - Schrodinger's baby
  • Michaels, Fern - Yesterday
  • O'Hagan, Andrew - Our fathers
  • Perry, Anne - Tathea
  • Piercy, Marge - Three women
  • Rayfiel, Thomas - Colony girl
  • Richardson, Doug - True believers
  • Robinson, Kim Stanley - The Martians
  • Russell, Josh - Yellow Jack
  • Ryan, Mary - Promise
  • Seymour, Miranda - Summer of '39
  • Soueif, Adhaf - The map of love
  • Sparks, Nicholas - A walk to remember
  • Tóibin, Colm - The Blackwater lightship
  • Weaver, William - A tent in this world

SHORT STORIES

  • Codrescu, Andrei - A bar in Brooklyn: novellas and stories
  • Estep, Maggie - Soft maniacs
  • Gasco, Elyse - Can you wave bye bye, baby?
  • Kalfus, Ken - PU239
  • Kalman, Judith - The county of birches
  • Kaplan, Hester - The edge of a marriage
  • Klima, Ivan - Lovers for a day
  • Richter, Stacey - My date with Satan
  • Vonnegut, Kurt - Bagombo snuff box

MYSTERIES

  • Ablow, Keith - Projection
  • *Alexander, Bruce - Death of a colonial
  • *Atherton, Nancy - Aunt Dimity's christmas
  • Bartholomew, Nancy - Drag strip
  • Benjamin, Carol - Lady vanishes
  • Blake, Michelle - Tentmaker
  • Bowen, Michael - Collateral damage
  • *Brett, Simon - Mrs. Pargeter's point of honour
  • Cameron, Kate - Under the wolf's head
  • *Carlon, Patricia - The price of an orphan
  • Caunitz, William - Chains of command
  • Coel, Margaret - The lost bird
  • *Cutler, Judith - Dying to score
  • D'Amato, Barbara - Help me please
  • *Dams, Jeanne - The victim in Victoria Station
  • Day, Diane - Death train to Boston
  • Dee, Edward - Nightbird
  • *Dexter, Colin - The remorseful day
  • *Egleton, Clive - Dead reckoning
  • Estleman, Loren D. - Thunder city
  • Flander, Scott - Sons of the city
  • *Francis, Dick - Second wind
  • Garcia-Guilera, Carolina - Miracle in paradise
  • Green, Tim - Double reverse
  • *Grimes, Martha - The Lamorna wink
  • Hammett, Dashiell - Nightmare town (stories)
  • Havill, Steven - Out of season
  • Holt, A.J. - Catch me
  • Housewright, David - Dearly departed
  • Izzi, Eugene - Safe harbor
  • Jones, Neely - The medusa pool
  • *Keating, H.R.F. - Bribery, corruption also
  • Latt, Mimi - Ultimate justice
  • *Lewin, Michael - Family planning
  • McClister, Michael - Victim's choice
  • *Martin, Julia - The bird yard
  • Meyers, Annette - Free love
  • Millhiser, Marlys - Nobody dies in a casino
  • Mosley, Walter - Walkin' the dog
  • *Newman, Sharon - The difficult saint
  • Pastor, Ben - Lumen
  • Patterson, James - Pop! Goes the weasel
  • *Perry, Anne - The twisted root
  • *Puckett, Andrew - Shadows behind a screen
  • *Rankin, Ian - Dead souls
  • *Redmond, Patrick - Something dangerous
  • *Rendell, Ruth - Harm done
  • Robinson, Leah - Unnatural causes
  • Roosevelt, Elliot - Murder in Georgetown
  • Rucka, Greg - Shooting at midnight
  • See, Lisa - The interior
  • Sloan, Bob - Bliss jumps the gun
  • Smith, Martin Cruz - Death by espionage (stories)
  • Stabenow, Diana - So sure of death
  • Turow, Scott - Personal injuries
  • Waterhouse, Jane - Dead letter
  • Williams, Billy Dee - PSI/Net
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Kinney, Harrison - James Thurber: his life and letters (1999) 92 T5363K
  • Partridge, Frances - Hanging on: diaries, December 1960-August 1963 92 P2756P
  • Vircondelet, Alain - Duras: a biography (1994) 92 D9257V

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bayer-Berenbaum, Linda - The Gothic imagination: expansion in Gothic literature (1982) 823B
  • Daldry, Graham - Charles Dickens and the form of the novel: fiction and narrative in Dickens' work (1987) 823D
  • Handley, Graham - Jane Austen (1992) 823H
  • Jay, Gregory - America the scrivener: deconstruction and the subject of literary history (1990) 820.9J
  • Maggio, Rosalie - How to say it: choice words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs for every situation (1990) 808.6M
  • Peltonen, Markku - The Cambridge companion to Bacon 192C
  • Pessoa, Fernando - Always astonished: selected prose (1988) 869P
  • Rexroth, Kenneth - Classics revisited (1986) 809R
  • Synge, J.M. - Collected plays, poems and the Aran Islands (1997) 820.81S

POETRY

  • Ashbery, John - Girls on the run 821A
  • Deane, John - Christ, urban fox (1997) 821D
  • Durcan, Paul - Greetings to our friends in Brazil 821D
  • Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - A Far Rockaway of the heart 821F
  • Pease, Deborah - Another ghost in the doorway 821P
  • Sherman, Joan - African-American poetry of the nineteenth century: an anthology (1992) 821.08A
  • Warren, Robert Penn - Fifty years of American poetry: anniversary volume for the Academy of American Poets (1995) 821.08F

SHAKESPEARE

  • Cunningham, James - Shakespeare's tragedies and modern critical theory (1997) 822.33C
  • Howard, Jean E. - Engendering a nation: a feminist account of Shakespeare's English histories (1997) 822.33C
  • Proser, Matthew - The heroic image in five Shakespearean tragedies (1978) 822.33P
  • Wilson, R. Rawdon - Shakespearean narrative (1995) 822.33C

ARTS

  • Beck, James - Leonardo's rules of painting: an unconventional approach to modern art (1979) 759.5V
  • Greenberg, Clement - Homemade esthetics: observations on art and taste 701G
  • Maxwell, Robert - James Stirling: writings on architecture 720J
  • Nouvel, Jean - Architecture and design, 1976-1995: a lecture in Italy (1997) 724N
  • Peterson, Christian - Alfred Stieglitz's 'Camera notes' (1996) 770A
  • Selz, Peter - German expressionist painting (1974) 759.3S

FASHION

  • Ewing, Elizabeth - History of twentieth century fashion. 2nd ed. (1978) 391E
  • Olian, JoAnne - Victorian and Edwardian fashions from "La Mode illustree" 391.094V Oversize

NEW YORK CITY

  • Corbett, William - New York literary lights 820.9C
  • Jaker, Bill - The airwaves of New York: illustrated histories of 156 AM stations in the Metropolitan Area, 1921-1996 384J Oversize
  • The University Club: an architectural celebration 367U Oversize

CIVILIZATION

  • Littlewood, Ian - The idea of Japan: western images, western myths (1996) 952L
  • Reed, Michael - The age of exuberance, 1550-1700 (1986) 942.05R

BOOKS & PRINTING

  • Burke, Christopher - Paul Renner: the art of typography 655.2B
  • Goldstone, Lawrence - Slightly chipped: footnotes in booklore 010G
  • Kilgour, Frederick - The evolution of the book 655.1K
  • Morison, Stanley - Four centuries of fine printing: one hundred and ninety-two facsimiles of pages from books printed at presses established between 1465 and 1924 (1960) 655.2M
  • Myers, Robin - Fakes and frauds: varieties of deception in print & manuscript (1996) 098F

HISTORY

  • Curtin, Nancy - The United Irishmen: popular politics in Ulster and Dublin, 1791-1798 941.5C
  • Cust, Richard - The English Civil War (1997) 942.06E
  • Goodrich, Thomas - Bloody dawn: the story of the Lawrence [Kansas] massacre (1991) 978.1G
  • Green, Peter - Hellenistic history and culture (1993) 938H
  • Hughes, Ann - The causes of the English Civil War 942.06H
  • McNamara, Robert - Argument without end: in search of answers to the Vietnam tragedy 959M
  • Rosenberg, Arthur - The birth of the German republic, 1871-1918 (1931) 943.08R
  • Sked, Alan - The decline and fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815-1918 (1991) 943.6S
  • Wilson, James - The earth shall weep: a history of Native America 970.1W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Bender, Thomas - The Antislavery debate: capitalism and abolitionism as a problem in historical interpretation (1992) 306.3A
  • Cohen, Warren - The Cambridge history of American foreign relations. 4 vols. (1993) 327.73c
  • Downie, Richard - Learning from conflict: the U.S. military in Vietnam, El Salvador, and the drug war 355.03D
  • Fackre, Gabriel - Judgement day at the White House 973.929J
  • Kenyon, Cecelia M. - The Antifederalists (1985)
  • Ramsden, John - The age of Churchill and Eden, 1940-1957 (1995) 320.9R
  • Richelson, Jeffrey - A century of spies: intelligence in the twentieth century (1995) 327.12R

ECONOMICS

  • Robbins, Lionel - A history of economic thought: the LSE lectures 330.1R
  • Rosenblatt, Roger - Consuming desires: consumption, culture, and the pursuit of happiness 339.4C

LAW

  • Farnsworth, E. Allan - Changing your mind: the law of regretted decisions 347.4F
  • Fishman, Stephen - Software development: a legal guide 347.4F

PHILOSOPHY

  • Croce, Benedetto - Philosophy of the practical (1969) 195C
  • Dalai Lama - Ethics for the new millennium 294B
  • Dann, Kevin - Bright colors falsely seen: synaesthesia and the search for transcendental knowledge 152D
  • Gerson, Lloyd P. - The Cambridge companion to Plotinus (1996) 186C
  • Hausman, Carl - Charles S. Peirce's evolutionary philosophy (1997) 191H
  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice - Sense and non-sense (1991) 194M
  • Popkin, Richard - Columbia history of Western philosophy 109C
  • Smith, David - David Smith: to and from the figure (1995) 709.2S

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Elliott, Anthony - Freud 2000 150F
  • Gilman, Sander - Reading Freud's reading (1994) 150R
  • Harrower, Molly - The inside story: self-evaluations reflecting basic Rorschach types (1987) 137.8H
  • Lacan, Jacques - The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 (1988) 131.34L
  • Slipp, Samuel - The Freudian mystique: Freud, women and feminism (1993) 150S

SCIENCE

  • Fagan, Brian - From black land to fifth sun: the science of sacred sites 291F
  • Gold, Thomas - The deep hot biosphere 576G
  • Houppert, Karen - The curse: confronting the last unmentionable taboo - menstruation 612.6H
  • Kaku, Michio - Beyond Einstein: the cosmic quest for the theory of the universe (1995) 530.1K
  • Kluger, Jeffrey - Journey beyond Selene: remarkable expeditions past our moon and to the ends of the solar system 629.4K
  • Morange, Michel - A history of molecular biology 574M

NATURE & THE ENVIRONMENT

  • Coates, Peter - Nature 113C
  • Dean, Cornelia - Against the tide: the battle for America's beaches 333.9D
  • Hoagland, Edward - Tigers & ice 081H
  • Price, Jennifer - Flight maps: adventures with nature in modern America 301P
  • Stein, Sara - Planting Noah's garden: further adventures in backyard ecology (1997) 712S
  • Vileisis, Ann - Discovering the unknown landscape: a history of America's wetlands (1997) 574.5V
  • Warner, William - Into the porcupine cave and other odysseys: adventures of an occasional naturalist 574W
  • Western, David - In the dust of Kilimanjaro (1997) 591.9W

TRAVEL

  • Barber, Robin - Greece (1995) 914.95B
  • Kay, Robert - Fiji: a travel survival kit (1993) 919.6K
  • Lord, Nancy - Green Alaska: dreams of the far coast 917.98L
  • Michelin Green Guide - California (1997) 979.4C
  • Riegert, Ray - Hidden coast of California 917.94R

SPORTS & GAMES

  • Brasch, R. - How did sports begin? (1970) 796B
  • Herne, Brian - White hunters: the golden age of African safaris 799H
  • Lyons, Nick - A flyfisher's world (1996) 799.1L
  • Opie, Iona - Children's games with things (1997) 793O
  • Taylor, Michael - Cave passages: roaming the underground wilderness (1996) 796.52T
  • Wanless, Mary - For the good of the rider 798W

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

  • Carle, Eric - Hello, red fox Juv-E C
  • Carle, Eric - The very clumsy click beetle Juv-E C
  • Carlson, Lori - Barrio streets, carnival dreams: three generations of Latino artistry Juv 820.8B
  • Carlson, Lori - Cool salsa: bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States Juv 821C
  • Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban Juv-F R


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