New York Society Library

DECEMBER 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Anker, Conrad - The lost explorer: finding Mallory on Mount Everest
  • Armstrong, Louis - Louis Armstrong, in his own words
  • Asher, Michael - Lawrence: the uncrowned king of Arabia
  • Bliss, Michael - William Osler: a life in medicine
  • Clooney, Rosemary - Girl singer
  • Cooke, Alistair - Memories of the great and the good
  • Dalos, Gyorgy - The guest from the future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin
  • Epstein, Daniel - Nat King Cole
  • Ford, Michael - Wounded prophet (Henri J.M. Nouwen)
  • Fussell, Betty Harper - My kitchen wars
  • Glenn, John - John Glenn
  • Goodall, Jane - Reason for hope: a spiritual journey
  • Holroyd, Michael - Basil Street blues: a family story
  • Irving, John - My movie business
  • Jenkins, Roy - The Chancellors
  • Kaplan, Fred - Gore Vidal
  • Kauffmann, Jean-Paul - The black room at Longwood: Napoleon's exile on St. Helena
  • Kerouac, Jack - Selected letters, 1957-1969
  • Leeming, David - Stephen Spender
  • McMurtry, Larry - Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
  • O'Brien, Edna - James Joyce
  • Roberts, Andrew - Salisbury: Victorian titan
  • Smith, Dean - A coach's life: 40 years in college basketball
  • Stern, Isaac - My first 79 years
  • Walsh, John E. - Darkling I listen (John Keats)
  • Wright, Adrian - John Lehmann

FICTION

  • Barry, Dave - Big trouble
  • Brookner, Anita - Undue influence
  • Caputo, Philip - The voyage
  • Crichton, Michael - Timeline
  • Davis, Kathryn - The walking tour
  • Deveraux, Jude - High tide
  • Epstein, Leslie - Ice, fire, water
  • Fleming, Thomas - Hours of gladness
  • Forsyth, Frederick - Phantom of Manhattan
  • Gardiner, John - Somewhere in France
  • Gee, Maggie - Ice people
  • Gibson, William - All tomorrow's parties
  • Gould, Judith - Rhapsody
  • Henley, Patricia - Hummingbird house
  • Holland, Cecelia - Lily Nevada
  • Lanigan, Catherine - Wings of destiny
  • Millhauser, Steven - Enchanted night
  • O'Brian, Patrick - Blue at the mizzen
  • Schwartz, Lynne Sharon - In the family way
  • Shreve, Anita - Fortune's rock
  • Unsworth, Barry - Losing Nelson
  • Ustinov, Peter - Monsieur Rene
  • Vreeland, Susan - Girl in hyacinth blue

MYSTERIES

  • Baldacci, David - Saving faith
  • *Beaton, M.C. - A highland Christmas
  • Berenson, Laurie - Hush puppy
  • *Binding, Tim - Lying with the enemy
  • Churchill, Jill - A groom with a view
  • Corn, David - Deep background
  • Cousin, Elizabeth - Zen and the city of angels
  • *Gregson, J.M. - To kill a wife
  • Gur, Batya - Murder duet
  • Hall, Parnell - Clue for the puzzle lady
  • Hillerman, Tony - Hunting badger
  • Hunter, Fred - Ransom unpaid
  • Logue, Mary - Blood country
  • Mayor, Archer - Occam's razor
  • Page, Katherine - The body in the big apple
  • *Palliser, Chris - The unburied
  • Pearson, Ryne Douglas - Top ten
  • Reilly, Matthew - Ice station
  • Saulnier, Beth - Reliable sources
  • *Smith, Carol - The neighbours
  • Stewart, Mike - Sins of the brother
  • Truman, Margaret - Murder at the Library of Congress
  • Weld, William - Big ugly
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Canetti, Elias - The memoirs of Elias Canetti 92 C2217C
  • Doyle, William - Inside the Oval Office: the White House tapes from FDR to Clinton 973.918D
  • Galatopoulos, Stelios - Maria Callas: sacred monster 780.92C
  • Gordon, W. Terrence - Marshall McLuhan: escape into understanding (1997) 92 M1664G
  • Larson, Robert - Red Cloud: warrior-statesman of the Lakota Sioux (1997) 970.2R
  • Tillman, Lynne - Bookstore: the life and times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co. 92 W3393T
  • Weller, Jac - On Wellington: the Duke and his art of war 92 W452W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Birkerts, Sven - Readings 809B
  • Borges, Jorge Luis - Selected nonfictions 864B
  • Brody, Elaine - The German lied and its poetry (1971) 784.3B
  • Calvino, Italo - Why read the classics? 809C
  • Columbia anthology of gay literature 808.8C
  • Hartman, Geoffrey - A critic's journey 809H
  • Hooks, Bell - Remembered rapture: the writer at work 820.9H
  • Kendrick, Stephen - Holy clues: investigating life's mysteries with Sherlock Holmes 823K
  • Oxford reader's companion to Dickens 823D
  • Poirier, Richard - Trying it out in America: literary and other performances 820.9P Oversize
  • Shattuck, Roger - Candor and perversion: literature, education, and the arts 809S
  • Sutherland, John - Where was Rebecca shot?: curiosities, puzzles, and conundrums in modern fiction 823S
  • Tuttleton, James - The primate's dream: literature, race, and ethnicity in America 820.9T
  • Updike, John - More matter: essays and criticism 824U
  • Warner, William - Licensing entertainment: the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-1750 823W
  • Yue, Gang - The mouth that begs: hunger, cannibalism, and the politics of eating in modern China 895.1Y
  • Zipes, Jack - When dreams came true: classical fairy tales and their tradition 398.2Z

NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Garcia Lorca, Federico - A season in Granada: uncollected poems & prose, translated by Christopher Maurer 860.81G
  • Kugel, James - The great poems of the Bible: a reader's companion with new translations 892.4K
  • Stendhal - The charterhouse of Parma, translated by Richard Howard F S

BOOKS & WRITING

  • O'Conner, Patricia - Words fail me: what everyone who writes should know about writing 808O
  • Petroski, Henry - The book on the bookshelf 025.8P
  • Shwartz, Ronald - For the love of books: 115 celebrated writers on the books they love most 028F
  • Spitz, Ellen - Inside picture books 028.5S
  • Winokur, John - Advice to writers: a compendium of quotes, anecdotes and writerly wisdom from a dazzling array of literary lights 808.8A

CIVILIZATION

  • Delbanco, Andrew - The real American dream: a meditation on hope 973D
  • Freeman, Charles - The Greek achievement: the foundation of the western world 938F
  • Kammen, Michael - American culture, American tastes: social change and the 20th century 306K
  • Keneally, Thomas - The great shame: and the triumph of the Irish in the English-speaking world 325.2K
  • Rudgley, Richard - The lost civilizations of the Stone Age 930.1R
  • Waley-Cohen, Joanna - The sextants of Beijing: global currents in Chinese history 951W

NEW YORK CITY

  • Adickes, Sandra - To be young was very heaven: women in New York before the First World War (1997) 305.4A
  • Groce, Nancy - New York: songs of the city 780.973G
  • Jacobs, James - Gotham unbound: how New York City was liberated from the grip of organized crime 364J
  • Opdycke, Sandra - No one was turned away: the role of public hospitals in New York City since 1900 362.1O
  • Tchen, John Kuo Wei - New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the shaping of American culture, 1776-1882 301.15T

THEATRE

  • Dunn, Kate - Exit through the fireplace: the great days of rep 792.0942D
  • Green, J.R. - Theatre in ancient Greek society (1994) 972G
  • Mordden, Ethan - Beautiful mornin': the Broadway musical in the 1940s 782.6M

LANGUAGE

  • Hughes, Geoffrey - Swearing: a social history of foul language, oaths, and profanity in English (1991) 427H
  • Metcalf, Allan - The world in so many words: a country-by-country tour of words that have shaped our language 422M
  • Searle, John - Mind, language and society: doing philosophy in the real world 100S

TRAVEL

  • Else, David - West Africa (Lonely Planet Travel Guide) 916.6W
  • Finlay, Hugh - East Africa (Lonely Planet Travel Guide) (1997) 916.7F
  • Lippard, Lucy - On the beaten track: tourism, art and place 338.4L
  • Ronda, James - Voyages of discovery: essays on the Lewis and Clark Expedition 917.8V
  • Wagenbach, Klaus - Kafka's Prague: a travel reader (1996) 92K114W

HEALTH & HOME

  • Carson, Ben - The big picture: getting perspective on what's really important in life 248C
  • Hillman, James - The force of character: and the lasting life305.26H
  • Iovine, Vicki - The girlfriends' guide to toddlers: a survival manual to the "terrible twos" 649I
  • Smith, Jeffery - Where the roots reach for water: a personal and natural history of melancholia 616.8S

PERSONAL FINANCE

  • Belsky, Gary - Why smart people make big money mistakes, and how to correct them 332B
  • Ellis, Charles - Winning the loser's game: timeless strategies for successful investing 332.6E

ECONOMICS

  • Cameron, Rondo - A concise economic history of the world (1997) 330.9C
  • Luttwak, Edward - Turbo-capitalism: winners and losers in the global economy 330.9L
  • Sen, Amartya - Development as freedom 330S

HISTORY

  • de Vries, Leonard - Panorama 1842-1865: the world of the early Victorians as seen through the eyes of the Illustrated London News (1967) 901P Oversize
  • Langford, Paul - A polite and commercial people: England, 1727-1783 (1992) 942.07L
  • McNeill, William - A world history 09M
  • Mintz, Steven - The boisterous sea of liberty: a documentary history of America 973B
  • Morris, Benny - Righteous victims: a history of the Zionist-Arab conflict 956.9M
  • Novick, Peter - The Holocaust in American life 940.5315N
  • Russ, Martin - Breakout: the Chosin Reservoir campaign, Korea 1950 951.9R
  • Watkins, T.H. - The hungry years: a narrative history of the Great Depression in America 973.91W
  • Williams, Penry - The later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 942.05W

CRIME

  • Rule, Ann - A rose for her grave: and other true cases (1993) 364.1R
  • Stewart, James - Blind eye: how the medical establishment let a doctor get away with murder 92 S9723S

EDUCATION

  • Kohn, Alfie - The schools our children deserve 370.973K
  • Lemann, Nicholas - The big test: the secret history of the American meritocracy 371.2L
  • Wise, Jessie - The well-trained mind: a guide to classical education at home 371W

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Faludi, Susan - Stiffed: the betrayal of the American man 155.6F
  • Horgan, John - The undiscovered mind: how the human brain defies replication, medication, and explanation 612.8H
  • Kaminer, Wendy - Sleeping with extra-terrestrials: the rise of irrationalism and perils of piety 121K
  • McGinn, Colin - The mysterious flame: conscious minds in a material world 153.7M
  • Pollack, Robert - The missing moment: how the unconscious shapes modern science 610P
  • Solotaroff, Paul - Group: six people in search of a life 616.8S

SPORTS

  • LaFeber, Walter - Michael Jordan and the new global capitalism 92 J825L
  • Phillips, Caryl - The right set: Faber book of tennis 796.3R
  • Shubert, Adrian - Death and money in the afternoon: a history of the Spanish bullfight 791.8S
  • Solomon, Burt - Where they ain't: the fabled life and untimely death of the original Baltimore Orioles 796.3S

MUSIC

  • Melnick, Jeffrey - A right to sing the blues: African Americans, Jews, and American popular song 784.4M
  • Miller, Jim - Flowers in the dustbin: the rise of rock and roll, 1947-1977 784.6M
  • Perkins, Leeman - Music in the age of the Renaissance 780.9P
  • Schiff, David - The music of Elliott Carter 780S
  • Shipton, Alyn - Groovin' high (Dizzy Gillespie) 92 G4778S

POETRY

  • Dove, Rita - On the bus with Rosa Parks 821D
  • Leopardi, Giacomo - Canto (1996) 851L
  • Pinsky, Robert - Sadness and happiness 821P
  • Sonzoghi, Marco - Or volge l'anno = At the year's turning: an anthology of Irish poets responding to Leopardi 821.08O
  • Verlaine, Paul - One hundred and one poems 841V

NATURAL SCIENCE

  • Carson, Rachel - Lost woods: discovered writings 574C
  • Lutz, Tom - Crying: the natural and cultural history of tears 52L
  • Marshall, Peter - Nature's web: an exploration of ecological thinking (1992) 333.7M
  • McGuane, Thomas - Some horses 636.1M
  • Young, Louise - Islands: portraits of miniature worlds 575.3Y

RELIGION

  • Aitken, Robert - Original dwelling place: Zen Buddhist essays (1997) 294A
  • Fraser, Caroline - God's perfect child: living and dying in the Christian Science Church 289.5F
  • Holt, P.M. - Cambridge history of Islam. 4 vols. (1970) 297C
  • Kugel, James - In Potiphar's house: interpretive life of biblical texts (1994) 220.6K
  • Kugel, James - Traditions of the Bible 222K
  • Rubenstein, Richard - When Jesus became God: the epic fight over Christ's divinity in the last days of Rome 232R
  • Shrady, Nicholas - Sacred roads: adventures from the pilgrimage trail 291.4S

PHILOSOPHY

  • Ayer, A.J. - A dictionary of philosophical quotations (1992) 103D
  • Cioran, E.M. - All gall is divided: gnomes & apothegms 194C
  • Martin, Calvin - The way of the human being 191M

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Fenby, Jonathan - France on the brink 944F
  • Mitchell, George - Making peace 941.5M
  • Monod, Paul - The power of kings: monarchy and religion in Europe, 1589-1715 321.6M
  • Morris, Dick - The new prince: Machiavelli updated for the twenty-first century 329M
  • Thomas, Robert - Serbia under Miloševic 949.7T
  • Timperlake, Edward - Year of the rat: how Bill Clinton compromised U.S. security for Chinese cash 324.27T
  • Tyler, Patrick - A great wall: six presidents and China 327.73T
  • Wucker, Michele - Why the cocks fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the struggle for Hispaniola 327.729W

SOCIAL SCIENCE

  • Berry, Mary Frances - The pig farmer's daughter and other tales of American justice 342.73B
  • Clendinen, Dudley - Out for good: the struggle to build a gay rights movement in America 306.7C
  • Escohotado, Antonio - A brief history of drugs 363.45E
  • Furet, Francois - The passing of an illusion: the idea of communism in the twentieth century 335.4F
  • Hrdy, Sarah - Mother nature: a history of mothers, infants, and natural selection 306H
  • Krech, Shepard - The ecological Indian 333.7K
  • Uys, Errol - Riding the rails: teenagers on the move during the Great Depression 338.5U
  • Weiner, Jonathan - Time, love, memory: a great biologist and his quest for the origins of behavior 591.5W

ART

  • Bersani, Leo - Caravaggio's secrets 759.5B
  • Brandon, Ruth - Surreal lives: the surrealists, 1917-1945 759B
  • Clark, T.J. - Farewell to an idea: episodes from a history of modernism 709.04C
  • Diderot, Denis - Diderot on art. 2 vols. (1995) 759.4D

REFERENCE

  • Margolis, Simeon - Johns Hopkins symptoms and remedies Ref. 616J
  • Mutchler, John - The American directory of writer's guidelines Ref. 070.5M
  • Ragazzini, Giuseppe - Il Ragazzini: dizionario inglese italiano, italiano inglese 3rd ed. (1995) Ref. 453R

SCIENCE

  • Clark, William - A means to and end: the biological basis of aging and death 612.6C
  • Clawson, Calvin - Mathematical sorcery: revealing the secrets of numbers 510C
  • Eldredge, Niles - Life in the balance: humanity and the biodiversity crisis 575.3E
  • Greene, John - Debating Darwin 575G
  • Larson, Erik - Issac's storm: a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history 976.4L
  • Weidensaul, Scott - Living on the wind: across the hemisphere with migratory birds 598.2W

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

  • Bemelmans, Ludwig - Madeline in America and other holiday tales Juv-F B
  • Carlson, Lori - Hurray for Three Kings' Day! Juv-E C
  • Horvath, Polly - The trolls Juv-F H
  • Johnson, Crockett - Harold at the North Pole Juv-E J
  • Modesitt, Jeanne - It's Hanukkah! Juv-E M
  • Myers, Walter Dean - The monster Juv-F M


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