New York Society Library

FEBRUARY 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Adler, Jacob - A life on the stage
  • Barber, Stephen - Edmund White
  • Baxter, John - Woody Allen
  • Black, Stephen - Eugene O'Neill: beyond mourning & tragedy
  • Botting, Douglas - Gerald Durrell
  • Bush, George W. - A charge to keep
  • Carr, Rosamond - Land of a thousand hills: my life in Rwanda
  • Caveney, Graham - Screaming with joy (Allen Ginsburg)
  • Clarke, Nick - Alistair Cooke
  • Donaldson, Scott - Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: the rise and fall of a literary friendship
  • Dyson, Michael - I may not get there with you: the true Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Gordon, Mary - Seeing through places: reflections on geography and identity
  • Greenwald, Marilyn - A woman of the Times: journalism, feminism & the career of Charlotte Curtis
  • Hertog, Susan - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Jacobson, Dan - Heshel's kingdom
  • Marciano, John Bemelmans - Bemelmans: the life and art of Madeline's creator
  • O'Connor, Garry - William Shakespeare: a popular life
  • Perry, Maria - The sisters of Henry VIII
  • Remnick, David - Life stories: profiles from the New Yorker
  • Richardson, John - The sorcerer's apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper
  • Robinson, Jill - Past forgetting: my memory lost and found
  • Sheehy, Gail - Hillary's choice
  • Short, Philip - Mao
  • Steel, Ronald - In love with night: the American romance with Robert Kennedy
  • Stewart-Gordon, Faith - The Russian Tea Room: a love story
  • Walsh, Stephen - Stravinsky: a creative spring...1882-1934
  • Warren, Dorothy - The world of Ruth Draper: a portrait of an actress
  • Wiesel, Elie - And the sea is never full
  • Wykes, David - Evelyn Waugh
  • Zeigler, Philip - Osbert Sitwell

MYSTERIES

  • Adler, Elizabeth - All or nothing
  • Allen, Conrad - Murder on the Lusitania
  • Atkins, Charles - Risk factor
  • Boyle, Gerry - Cover story
  • Braun, Lillian Jackson - The cat who robbed a bank
  • Buchanan, Edna - Garden of evil
  • Burnell, Mark - Rhythm section
  • Chittendon, Margaret - Don't forget to die
  • Douglas, Carole Nelson - Cat in a jeweled jumpsuit
  • Eccles, Marjorie - Killing me softly*
  • Eidson, Bill - Frames per second
  • Frazer, Margaret - The Reeve's tale*
  • Hathaway, Robin - The doctor makes a dollhouse
  • Hayder, Mo - Birdman*
  • Hess, Joan - Murder @ Maggody.com
  • Hiaasen, Carl - Sick puppy
  • Janes, Robert James - Carousel
  • Koontz, Dean - False memory
  • Lescroart, John - Nothing but the truth
  • Leuci, Bob - Blaze
  • MacDonald, Marianne - Smoke screen*
  • Martini, Steve - The attorney
  • McBain, Ed - The last dance
  • McInerny, Ralph - Grave undertakings
  • Perry, Thomas - Blood money
  • Riordan, Rick - Last king of Texas
  • Siegel, Barry - Actual innocence
  • Stuart, Sebastian - The mentor
  • Swan, Thomas - The final Faberge*
  • Van de Wetering, Janwillem - The Amsterdam cops
  • White, Stephen - Cold case
  • Zimmerman, R.D. - Innuendo
* indicates a British mystery

NEW TO US - CLASSICS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED!

  • Allingham, Margery - The case of the late pig F/A
  • Charteris, Leslie - Saint errant F/C
  • Curtiss, Ursula - The iron cobweb F/C
  • Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Deadfall F/H
  • Kelly, Mary - Due to a death F/K
  • Mann, Jessica - The only security F/M

FICTION

  • Aksyonov, Vassily - The new sweet style
  • Berberova, Nina - Cape of storms
  • Brown, Rita Mae - Outfoxed
  • Chernoff, Maxine - A boy in winter
  • Chevalier, Tracy - Girl with a pearl earring
  • Daugharty, Janice - Like a sister
  • Dubus, Andre - House of sand and fog
  • Gay, William - The long home
  • Gebler, Carlo - How to murder a man
  • Harayda, Janice - The accidental bride
  • Harris, William - Delirium of the brave
  • Harrison, Colin - Afterburn
  • Hegi, Ursula - The vision of Emma Blau
  • Jewell, Lisa - Ralph's party
  • Kennedy, A.L. - So I am glad
  • Krentz, Jayne Ann - Soft focus
  • McCafferty, Jane - One heart
  • Picano, Felice - The book of lies
  • Reidenbach, J.M. - Legacy and destiny
  • Roth, Joseph - Rebellion
  • Roy, Lucinda - The Hotel Alleluia
  • Safire, William - Scandalmonger
  • Scribner, Keith - The good life
  • Sebald, W.G. - Vertigo
  • Shea, Christina - Moira's crossing
  • Stirling, Jessica - The wind from the hills
  • Treichel, Hans Ulrich - Lost
  • Tuck, Lily - Siam, or the woman who shot a man
  • Ugresic, Dubravka - The museum of unconditional surrender
  • Valdes, Zoe - I gave you all I had
  • Willis, Mary - Papa's cord

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Allende, Isabel - Conversations with Isabel Allende 92 A4336A
  • Bathurst, Bella - The lighthouse Stevensons: the extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson 920 S8486B
  • Cahill, Thomas - Desire of the everlasting hills: the world before and after Jesus 232C
  • Darley, Gillian - John Soane: an accidental romantic 720.92S
  • Finney, Gail - Christa Wolf 92 W853F
  • Germond, Jack - Fat man in a middle seat: forty years of covering politics 92 G3755G
  • Israel, Kali - Names and stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian culture 92 D5775I
  • Kammen, Michael - Robert Gwathmey: the life and art of a passionate observer 759.1G
  • Kropp, Goran - Ultimate high: my Everest odyssey 92 K9395K
  • Maitland, Alexander - A tower in the wall (1982) 92 S7956M
  • McCloskey, Deirdre - Crossing: a memoir 92 M1276M
  • Milnick, Ralph - The life and work of Ludwig Lewisohn 92 L6776M
  • Muhlstein, Anka - A taste for freedom: the life of Astolphe de Custine 92 C9873M
  • Sabbagh, Karl - A rum affair (Piltdown Man) 92 H3193S
  • Sutherland, Robert - Maria Callas 780.92C

BELLES LETTRES

    Evdokimova, Svetlana - Pushkin's historical imagination 891.7P
  • Kaplan, Amy - The social construction of American realism (1988) 823K
  • Mandelbaum, Allen - Lectura Dantis: Inferno 851.09D
  • Moyers, Bill - Fooling with words: a celebration of poets and their craft 808.1F
  • Oates, Joyce Carol - Where I've been, and where I'm going: essays, reviews, and prose 824O
  • Paterson, John - The novel as faith: the gospel according to James, Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence and Virginia Woolf (1973) 823P
  • Smith, Angela - Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: a public of two 823S

MUSIC

  • Parakilas, James - Piano roles: three hundred years of life with the piano 786.2P
  • Schroeder, David - Mozart in revolt: strategies of resistance, mischief, and deception 780.92M

COSTUME

  • Agins, Teri - The end of fashion: the mass marketing of the clothing business 687A
  • Hart, Avril - Fashion in detail: from the 17th and 18th centuries 391H Oversize
  • Hollander, Anne - Feeding the eye: essays 391H
  • Ribeiro, Aileen - Ingres in fashion: representations of dress and appearance in Ingres's images of women 759.4I

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Irmscher, Christoph - The poetics of natural history: from John Bartram to William James 574I
  • Masson, J. Moussaieff - The emperor's embrace: reflections on animal families and fatherhood 591.5M
  • Pyle, Robert Michael - Chasing monarchs: migrating with the butterflies of passage 595.78P
  • Simpson, John W. - Visions of paradise: glimpses of our landscape's legacy 333.7S
  • Thomson, Keith - The common but less frequent loon: and other essays (1993) 508T

HISTORY

  • Ambrose, Stephen - Witness to America: an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today 973W Oversize
  • Anderson, Jack - Peace, war, and politics: an eyewitness account 973.92A
  • Bain, David - Empire express: building the first transcontinental railroad 385B
  • Conquest, Robert - Reflections on a ravaged century 909.82C
  • Crozier, Brian - The rise and fall of the Soviet Empire 947.084C
  • Gates, Henry Louis - Wonders of the African world 960G
  • Kurlansky, Mark - The Basque history of the world 946K
  • Lind, Michael - Vietnam, the necessary war: a reinterpretation of America's most disastrous military conflict 959L
  • Marsden, Christopher - Palmyra of the north: the first days of St. Petersburg (1942) 947M
  • The new encyclopedia of the American West Ref. 978N
  • Remini, Robert - The Battle of New Orleans 973.52R
  • Robbins, William - Colony and empire: the capitalist transformation of the American West (1994) 330.973R
  • Romm, James - Herodotus 888.1R

WORLD WAR II

  • Chadwick, Owen - Britain and the Vatican during the Second World War (1988) 327C
  • Clendinnen, Inga - Reading the Holocaust 940.5318C
  • Frank, Richard - Downfall: the end of the Imperial Japanese empire 940.54F

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • Herzog, Don - Poisoning the minds of the lower orders (19th century Great Britain) 320.9H
  • Redwood, John - The death of Britain?: the UK's constitutional crisis 320.9R
  • Smyser, W.R. - From Yalta to Berlin: the Cold War struggle over Germany 943.087S
  • Witcover, Jules - No way to pick a president 324W

CIA

  • Saunders, Frances - Who paid the piper?: the CIA and the cultural Cold War 327.12S
  • Snepp, Frank - Irreparable harm: a firsthand account of how one agent took on the CIA in an epic battle over secrecy and free speech 342.73S

CITIES

  • Anderson, Elijah - Code of the street: decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city (Philadelphia) 325.26A
  • Thorold, Peter - The London rich: the creation of a great city, from 1666 to the present 942.1T

INDUSTRY & ECONOMICS

  • Bass, Thomas - The predictors 332.6B
  • Drucker, Peter - Management challenges for the 21st century 658D
  • Garr, Doug - IBM redux: Lou Gerstner and the business turnaround of the decade 338.7G
  • Korten, David - The post-corporate world 338.7K
  • Levy, Jonah - Tocqueville's revenge: state, society, and economy in contemporary France 338.9L
  • Sanders, Michael - The yard: building a destroyer at the Bath Iron Works 623.8S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Burns, Ric - New York: an illustrated history 974.71N Oversize
  • Day, Jared - Urban castles: tenement housing and landlord activism in New York City, 1890-1943 331.83D
  • Delany, Samuel - Times Square red, Times Square blue 306D
  • Mitang, Herbert - Once upon a time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the last great battle of the Jazz Age 974.7M

ARTS

  • Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art (Las Vegas) - Impressionist and modern masters 708.1B
  • Gordon, Robert - Rodin: plasters and bronzes 730.92R
  • Herrmann, Luke - Ruskin and Turner: a study of Ruskin as a collector of Turner, based on his gifts to the University of Oxford (1969) 759.2H
  • Hildebrand, Grant - Origins of architectural pleasure 720H
  • Lightbown, R.W. - Sandro Botticelli: life and work (1989) 759.5B
  • Macaulay, David - Building the book Cathedral 726.6M Oversize
  • Rottgen, Steffi - Italian frescoes: the flowering of the Renaissance, 1470-1510 (1997) 751.7R Oversize
  • Schama, Simon - Rembrandt's eyes 759.9R
  • Snow, Edward - Inside Bruegel: the play of images in Children's games (1997) 759.9B
  • Vargish, Thomas - Inside modernism: relativity theory, cubism, narrative 701V
  • Yount, Sylvia - Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966 759.1P

FILM

  • Jarman, Derek - Dancing ledge (1993) 92 J374J
  • Schickel, Richard - Matinee idylls: reflections on the movies 791.4S
  • Vieira, Mark - Sin in soft focus: pre-code Hollywood 791.4V

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Chaloupka, William - Everybody knows: cynicism in America 303.3C
  • Denning, Michael - The cultural front: the laboring of American culture in the twentieth century 306.4D
  • Duncan, Cynthia - Worlds apart: why poverty persists in rural America 339.1D
  • Himmelfarb, Gertrude - One nation, two cultures 306H
  • Ingold, Tim - Key debates in anthropology (1996) 306K
  • Lane, Joan - Apprenticeship in England, 1600-1914 (1996) 331.2L
  • Wilson, Lisa - Ye heart of a man: the domestic life of men in colonial New England 305.3W

RELIGION

  • Beard, Mary - Religions of Rome 2 vols. 201B
  • Hall, David - Witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England: a documentary history, 1683-1693 133.4W
  • Hirschfelder, Arlene - The encyclopedia of Native American religions: an introduction (1992) LSR 299.7H
  • Jammer, Max - Einstein and religion: physics and theology 215J
  • Orsi, Robert - Gods of the city: religion and the American urban landscape 201G

SCIENCE

  • Gribbin, John - Almost everyone's guide to science 500G
  • Heilbron, J.L. - The sun in the church: cathedrals as solar observatories 520.9H
  • Jardine, Lisa - Ingenious pursuits: building the scientific revolution 509J
  • Kolata, Gina - Flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it 614.4K
  • Maynard Smith, John - The origins of life: from the birth of life to the origin of language 575M
  • Sigurdsson, Haraldur - Melting the earth: the history of ideas on volcanic eruptions 551.2S

COMPUTERS

  • Berners Lee, Tim - Weaving the web: the original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web 001.6B
  • Mitchell, William - E-topia 303.4M

MURDER

  • Hanson, Neil - The custom of the sea (19th century trial) 910.4H
  • Rule, Ann - And never let her go: Thomas Capano 364.1R

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Bruer, John - The myth of the first three years: a new understanding of early brain development and lifelong learning 155.4B
  • Caine, Donald - Within reason: rationality and human behavior 153C
  • Caplan, Eric - Mind games: American culture and the birth of psychotherapy 616.8C
  • Horney, Karen - Final lectures (1987) 616.8H

HEALTH & HOME

  • Bach, David - Smart women finish rich 332B
  • Busch, Akiko - Geography of home: writings on where we live 728B
  • Kirkwood, Tom - Time of our lives: the science of human aging 612.67K
  • Mendelson, Cheryl - Home comforts: the art and science of keeping home 640M
  • Rowley, Cynthia - Swell: a girl's guide to the good life 305.4R

TRAVEL

  • Firstbrook, Peter - Lost on Everest: the search for Mallory & Irvine 796.52F
  • Giono, Jean - An Italian journey 914.5G
  • Heat Moon, William Least - River-horse: the logbook of a boat across America 917.3H
  • Martinez, Andres - 24/7: living it up and doubling down in the new Las Vegas 917.73M
  • Raban, Jonathan - Passage to Juneau 917.98R

UNABRIDGED AUDIO CASSETTES

  • Albom, Mitch - Tuesdays with Morrie (3tapes) #855
  • DeMille, Nelson - The general's daughter (10 tapes) #879
  • Durant, Will - The Renaissance (2 parts, 24 tapes) #880
  • Hoare, Philip - Noel Coward (17 tapes) #871
  • Keats, John - Realms of gold: letters & poems (2 tapes) #854
  • Leon, Donna - Acqua alta (6 tapes) #875


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